HBO's True Blood -- the most preposterous sounding show since...

ya this looks totally weird

carnivale 2 lol

I forgot anna paquin still was around. are they trying to capture the buffy set w/ this?

that buffy fan community is probably actually a pretty valuable commodity, i know a LOOOOOT of people who loooooooved that stuff.

And most of them post here.

HBO is really grasping at straws these days. i cancelled my subscription and don't miss it. they shouldn't have passed on Mad Men when they did

Anyone read these books upon which this is based? Anything to say?

Ha ha yes. They're the type of mystery paperbacks you can read in an hour, so I don't remember much except vampire feuds, and werewolves, and vampire sex.

so this is like stephenie meyer for grown-ups?

Frank Sobotka and E.B. Farnum are not going to be enough to get me to watch this. And I watched (and even sorta liked) all of John From Cincinnati!

so this is like stephenie meyer for grown-ups?

Laurell K. Hamilton cries somewhere.

i went to college in magnolia, ark., home of the author. met her a few times. she attends (attended?) church where my then-gf's parents did. i remember her kids running absolutely wild. she was moderately successful back then (mid-90s) but i never had a notion to read her stuff. still don't. more power to her.

http://trubeverage.com/

I usually give a promising show 3 episodes before I call it quits, so I'll give this show one more try. I know the comparisons to Buffy are probably tired, but this show has not yet been as funny as Buffy nor as heartbreaking. The concept is good and I might give the books a try one of these days, but the dialogue is utter shit most of the time. Oh well.

i usually hate the vampire genre, but i'm still watching this.

I think I have come to the point where I will specifically avoid anything that Alan Ball had anything to do with.

V juice!

I quit in the middle of the third ep. Coincidentally, I quit reading the Twilight series in the middle of the third book too.

Last Sunday's ep was the best so far...it's taken a while for everyone to stop acting like exposition robots. My only complaint: not enough Erik the Viking vampire. Aside from that, wee! Hooray for vamp porn.

I'm actually quite enjoying this show. I know it's very often overthe top and silly and everything but it is fun anyways. And this thing still hasnt reached full silly mode until they finally really acknowledge that there are werewolves (Sam I'm looking at you) and other completely batchit creatures.

Yeah, how long are they going to drag out the Sam thing? I want to see him go full Manimal ASAP.

I can't deal with Anna Paquin's accent.

It really picks up in the 4th (?) episode. The writing is still pretty bad, but it is fun. The vampire bar was really good, and I like how they're (hopefully) laying the groundwork for more exploration of the vampire hierarchy. The flashback in last week's was really poorly handled, though.

i like this show!

Me too! I cant wait to get back home and watch it!

ohman this show gets better and better
even if it does make me feel like a goth in denial
which i am not, neither a goth nor in denial

i can totally deal with anna paquin's accent

LOL at the heroes shout out last night.

I like how they're (hopefully) laying the groundwork for more exploration of the vampire hierarchy. The flashback in last week's was really poorly handled, though.

― Gukbe, Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:53 PM

otm. also those sped-up shots where it's like "vampires can move really fast!!" suck ass.

How are the accents in this "small Louisiana town"?

i bet they're as "fictional" as the vampires

To someone who's never heard a person speak with a Louisiana accent, they sound exactly like you'd expect TV to portray people speaking with a Louisiana accent :D

straight out of central casting's hayseed department (except for the mumbling cajun guy, cherie).

we stopped watching after the 4th episode. it's not quite over-the-top enough to be good camp, so it's just sort of silly, and the acting is truly dreadful.

kind of like real life

i still like it
i srsly don't care if their accents aren't accurate or the acting is kinda bad - tho yeah, it wld be better if more over the top or campy. i am into its fantasy world even if its not really weird enough.
(i haven't watched heroes in weeks though! the sound-image sync has been weird and so, i fell behind)

I watched the first episode tonight and enjoyed it!

Ah do say, well ah say, well ah SAY, good suh

first staking!

sam is a... weredog

just dled the first episode and watched it. (and also started twlight this evening hahah) i rreeeeaaaalllllly like this. anna paquin is AWESOME. rowrlicious

don't feel ANY connection to buffy btw. i mean wtf this is so not buffy. well not yet anyway.

Lots of campy goodness in the show, even if it hinted at things (like the Vampire hierarchy/underground society) that it didn't really follow through on. Good fun though.

I quite like it. Already downloaded the entire season (one). Woohoo! Twilight on the other hand... God almighty. What trite. hah

Watched a couple episodes last year while in New Orleans. Very sexy!

I think this show is hilarious.

<a href=";>Vampire Bill likes to say Sookie... alot</a>

Vampire Bill likes to say Sookie... alot

aww sookie sookie

wr2 true blood, i feel like the ILXor who said he had a hard time watching the venture brothers b/c a friend of his w/ shitty taste loved it. in that everyone i know IRL who likes this show is insufferable in some major way.

also, like Ned I never had any interest in Buffy or any of its offshoots.

Buffy is my litmus test: if someone doesn't like it, I'll honestly question their taste. (That's not to say I have friends who have no clue who/what Buffy is and I'm sure my bestest friend would die if she knew I used this as a test. But if someone has an extensive knowledge of pop culture and doesn't like it, I'll definitely go all o0 when they dislike it. Yes, that includes you, Ned. I just don't get it.) But to compare TB with Buffy is hilarious. The only thing they share is the vampire element and that's where it ends. That said, I watched three eps back to back last night and I'll probably watch another three tonight. It's really trashy and good dirty sexeee fun. The whole point is that it's over the top and sleazy and pervy. The brother (and his eggplant erection) is also fantastic. I even love the silly name for the vamp bar. Twilight, which I'm trying to plough through, is just so exceptionally mediocre. But I'm on a trashy trip lately so what the hell I'll probably finsih this as well.

Buffty is my litmus test too

i don't hate buffy, it just doesn't do anything for me one way or the other.

i just started watching this, it's fine, I watch loads of terrible fucking TV and this is no worse that fucking Tool Academy or Daisy in Love, which were my other options at the moment.

My uncles and I had a ritual going for a few weeks where we'd download and watch this show. Total catty fun, made more so by the fact that my uncle would usually download the version with the fan-made french subtitles. At the end of every episode, the subtitles always read "Enjoy! ;)" superimposed over a dead body or a woman about to be bitten.

This show is total fun.

Tool Academy >>>> True Blood

watch em both tho

i was really surprised to find im excited this is coming back

I decided to give the show another try and I'm glad that I did. It picked up a lot after the 4th ep or so during the first season.

YAY! I'm downloading it again as my husband wants to watch it. I am also reading the books. As quickly as possible as I just purchaded the Let The Right... book. :-) I wonder how the series will evolve as the story line is quite different compared to the first (and second) book.

last night i binged on the last 5 episodes of the first season, definitely looking forward to the new season

i am so excited about the new season. i hope some of the illegal streaming sites work.

what a fantastic show

need to d/l the newest episode asap, was so happy that SPOILER SPOILER lafayette wasn't the body in the car, luv him

this show is kind of like a luke smalley exhibit w/ magic

SPOiLER SPOiLER SPOiLER
i can't decide whether i want jessica and bill to murder her dad or not

SPOiLER SPOiLER SPOiLER (ESPECIALLY YOU ELMO IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE NEW ONE YET)
I know for SURE that I badly want Lafayette to be the most badass vampire ever. I love him so much and would hate for him to leave the show.

Has anybody else read the books, too?

panqin's face look weirder and more grotesque to me each episode, i dunno if it's the hairdo but somethin ain't working

I saw the new ep and I'm pretty sure Lafayette is locked in for the season, otherwise I guess they would have had no reason to bring him back for only 2 episodes

I hope you're right! Because seriously, he is going to be an awesome vampire.

I think Sookie's supposed to still be recovering from the beating that she got last season, so her black eye/bruised face is still fading. They are keeping it real by giving her a hideously discolored face.

I'm looking forward to finding out what happens with Admiral Cain Maryann. Also this show probably has more per-capital Stunning Pectoral Displays than any other show currently on TV. Shirtless Eggs. Wowie.

i can't say i dislike any of the major plot lines going but the bill & sookie romance is a bit watery so i'm grateful jessica is there to mix it up a bit. jason needs to keep being mostly naked imho, i don't think we'll see any less because alan ball seems to know his audience here -- which is just as much a reason to keep lafayette in the mix as any

curious as to jason's impending conversion experience and whether it will involve any gayness -- though it may be the wholesome christian fellowship i'm misreading / projecting onto

Not only mostly naked by mostly naked and playing slow motion football!

xp - No, totally! I got a v. suppressed homoerotic vibe from Jason and the dumb jock on the bus together, to the point that I was basically expecting Dumb Jock to put his hand on Jason's knee or feel his pecs or something. If Alan Ball knows his audience as you say he does, perhaps there is hope.

honestly, I couldn't get past the first episode. I fucking hate alan ball's crash/stuff-white-people-like/dancing plastic bag bullshit; the dialogue is horrendous and the direction is club to the head hamhanded.

maybe it gets drastically drastically better? or is the first episode indicative?

it's pretty unapologetic about being a melodrama campfest if that's what you mean

No, the first 3-4 episodes are terrible then it seems to get better with each one. I thought I couldn't keep watching and now I kind of love it.

I'm not sure it's actually "good" but I like watching it

It does get a lot better, I mentioned upthread last year that I gave up after 2 and a half eps, but I decided to give the rest of it a go earlier this month and it gets a whole lot more engaging. It still remains campy and all but vastly improves.

Still though, I think if you are looking for more than a gory* melodramatic campfest, go in peace, child, this is not the show for you. If you can kind of embrace the melodrama and the camp, I think it's totally fun. It's one of the few shows that I am always shocked and disappointed when the episode ends.

*spoiler - I had to look away when L. was 1digging through the man's severed leg. Yarg.

i have no issues with melodrama and camp of either the Sirk or Troma variety (and it sounds like this is a hash of those); what i have issue with is Alan Ball's goddamn eye and pen. Does he continue to write and direct episodes past the first one?

I want to turn into a dog

Also classic: "Is there blood in my hair?" Oh Eric. Never change.

forks let me be real w/ u: the whole 1st season is terrible and my reasons for watching it are pretty inexplicable except 4 that like 90% of the scenes are written so that one of the male characters is welding shirtless @ the start of it - it gets better once lizzie caplan shows up but its still pretty retarded

2nd season all two episodes of it have been totally rad tho

yah pls throw me naked into a pit with all the male principal chars, not ashamed

hm, a show where the main draw is shirtless male vampires is a major no for me.
thank you for http://www.explorefaith.org/holiness/images/heading.jpg, probably saved me a lot of lost time.

SPOILER SPOILER lafayette wasn't the body in the car, luv him

SPOILER!

I think he was in one of the books? The books all sort of blur together in my memory...

^ yes, that was him in the books. So glad they deviated from the books on that front, and w/r/t Tara, who is about 1000000000000000000x more excellent in the show. She's boring as hell in the books, and kind of an asshole, too, IIRC.

shes kind of an annoying asshole in the show too tbh

biggest reason that the 2nd season is shaping up to be ridic enjoyable is that she and sookie have waaaaay less scrn time

jessica >> sookie really

I hope the show deviates from book Sookie's horrible fashion taste.

who wears short shorts

panqin's face look weirder and more grotesque to me each episode, i dunno if it's the hairdo but somethin ain't working

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yeah, i was thinking the same thing but my gf wasn't seeing it

her lips kinda freak me tbh

i haven't read the books (though we have the first one) but a friend of mine pointed out that in the books, Bill likes Kenny G. So I'm grateful we've deviated there.

this show is totally fun. I really like Michelle Forbes (in everything)

I hope the show deviates from book Sookie's horrible fashion taste.

haha I kind of hope not! I'm anxiously awaiting the entrance of the low rise, stretch, acid wash, side-lacing jeans that she starts sporting somewhere around book four. I always kind of thought Charlane Harris dressed Sookie in the way that Charlane Harris would have liked to dress in the 80s but could not because she was too heavy/too old/too mom.

Bummed about the Tara hate, but totally agree about the benefits of reduced screen time for the Sookster.

Tara is well hot, though, at least in the show.

She could definitely beat me at arm wrestling.

i am not reading your spoilers tho i did notice sth about lafayette not being the body. urgh shldnt have seen that

my husband knew who the killer in s1 was by ep six or was it five. anyaway yeah he knew just from the way the killer was positioned in a scene. sheeeeeit

i kind of like that the whole thing is aggressively non-goth which is why the vampire bar stuff is really hokey. I liked seeing Bill and Eric in Macy's or whatever.

in the books fangtasia is actually more a touristy vamp bar. club dead is where it is really at.

Yeah, the vampires make the bar goth to attract tourists and make money. That's why I like Pam the Preppy Vampire so much.

I always kind of thought Charlane Harris dressed Sookie in the way that Charlane Harris would have liked to dress in the 80s but could not because she was too heavy/too old/too mom.

That was the general consensus on another message board.

I gave in and bought the DVD, but dunno when I'll get around to watching it.

watched the whole first series and was really let down by the finale. there aren't many likable characters on this show. sam might be the only one.

otm s1 finale is awful

i like whatever his name is, the iraq ptsd vet, but i have a fondness for that sort of simple character (eg cyril on oz)

eric is a likable character also

eric is great. i felt pretty silly watching the season 2 episodes though, i was like "why does he have metal on his head?" in the dungeon. "is something wrong with him?" my friend had to tell me "no, he's getting his hair dyed."

i like his sidekick to - the chick in purple velour - she gets some good lines

ok this is just a guess but I think maryann's manservant dude is also the pig we keep seeing her with

my other guess is that she is Circe or something

She's definitely some kind of witch.

u dont say

a hungry vibrating witch to be sure

michael white has given us some valuable insight

the hungry thing was pretty amusing, sam didn't seem phased

i actually like jason in this episode too. but i hate sookie even more.

i don't like maryann at all, i think she's pretty boring so far. just some beautiful woman who's clearly creepy and magic and always seems to be annoyingly pleased with herself, what's the hook here?

i like whatever his name is, the iraq ptsd vet, but i have a fondness for that sort of simple character (eg cyril on oz)

Yes! He's the cousin of detective Bellefleur, right? Christ, can't remember his name even though I already saw the S1 about 1,5 times and I am up to book four now.

terry, iirc

and your username is a TB reference

I don't know if this will be as insightful as my last post but I believe the Iraq vet's name is Terry.

Oops, too late...

srsly i dislike sookie so much that even the gratuitous titty shots are doing nothing for me

not sure if that is what charlaine harris intended. i mean, i dont think she is meant to be a likeable character. the books are very similar in mood in the sense that it is all very one dimensional and cartoony. still i rrrreally like it. obviously.

i don't like maryann at all, i think she's pretty boring so far. just some beautiful woman who's clearly creepy and magic and always seems to be annoyingly pleased with herself, what's the hook here?

I think the hook is supposed to be that you are scared for Tara/Sam because Tara at least is only just own copping to the fact that something is amiss. I'm assuming a typical fairy tale reveal where we find out that Maryann's house is a House of Illusion and Tara has been living in a dumpster behind Wal-Mart and making out with a stray dog.

i dunno, i'm guessing that maryann's lush life is very much material -- assuming that the cash young sam stole from her provided the initial investment for merlotte's? but this is tv so who knows. also lol @ "cape cod" -- villians be yankees

i turned into a dog and am posting with my paws

My wife likes Eric, in that way she also likes Jermaine from the Conchords

I'm cancelling HBO

Yeah, I'm sure Maryann has something bad in mind for Tara (of the "you ate of my magic food and now you must be my slave forever" variety, maybe), but her plot arc is dragging on too long and starting to bore me. I really just want more hot male vampires doing ridiculous things.

"you ate of my magic food and now you must be my slave forever"

Exactly. The flashback with Young Sam's Naked Buttocks had him breaking into Maryann's apartment only to find a table laden with a delicious feast, which he of course immediately started eating, and I'm like HELLO have you never read a fairy or folk tale in your life, you ridiculous dog boy????

I really just want more hot male vampires doing ridiculous things.

I would also accept more ridiculous shirtless football games. I'm kind of tired of the Bill & Sookie Fucking Musical Theme, though.

this show is great, any haters are just retarded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PRV5JsTJg

ok this show

<3 hoyt & jessica

I love the "don't tell her about the guy in the basement...don't tell her about the gun behind the bar"

lizzie kaplan!

i just started this show in may and am slowly working my way through the first season... it is pretty bad, but also like those weird things you watch even though they're bad like american gothic or something.

btw the girl who plays tara: possibly the worst actor ever????

i'm the same as you, my gf + i are half way thru the first season - lizzie kaplan + her boobs just showed up. yeah that girl who plays tara is pretty bad, but then again a lot of the actors on this show are pretty bad.

You guys are crazy. This show is great!

haha i'm still enjoying it! there is something that is keeping me watching

in my case: unemployment

I have to admit that a lot of my obsession with the show is the horny 15 yo hiding somewhere in this old and wasted body. It is just all that I like (or liked as a 15 yo): vampires, sucking, crazy ass sex, murder mystery, America,... So there you go, that's why I like it.

Season 2 made me drop Bill and opt for Eric. Bring it on! ROWR

I loved Stephen Root as the sad gay vampire.

I just watched Sunday's ep, so SPOILER ALERT IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP WITH THE SHOWS, the following things are bugging me:

1. Get on with the Mariann storyline, already! We get it. She's a monster who makes everybody horny and, um, want to eat dirt? Now get the big reveal going so we can see the huge Supernatural Creature fight that is sure to result.

2. Sookie is a lousy best friend to Tara. I mean, Tara always cries on her birthday and Sookie is like, "Here is your gift! It is an old picture that I didn't even bother to buy a not tacky frame for, I'm going to Dallas BRB!" I just really wanted Sookie to ask Tara how she was doing, but nooooo it's just all about Sookie. Sookie, is Bill using you? Sookie, are you going to be safe in Dallas? Sookie, considering that you read minds are you really so dumb and naive???

3. Sam. Seriously, are you not going to ask this woman with the horrible, barely healing, infected looking, abuse-signalling massive injuries to her back what happened? Or maybe suggest she not jump into that fetid swimming hole with you? Or maybe not be so distracted by your own dick that you never think about checking in with her even in the most superficial, "Hey, did somebody WHIP you???" kind of way about whether her own personal physical and emotional health and well being is in okay shape?

In the interest of fairness, things that I like include: Lafayette, Eric, Jason and the Crazy Religious Cult, potential for Mad Dallas Vampire Battle Showdown.

I loved Stephen Root as the sad gay vampire.

oh snap I knew I recognized him from somewhere.

The Mariann storyline isn't bad, it's Mariann (both as character and as actress) that are sucking the life out of the last few episodes. I like eroticism as much as the next guy but if we have to keep seeing slowed down footage of how she turns every party into an orgy, I'm going to fall asleep. Maybe it's just that she sucks at glamouring me. She has to be the most transparent flirt ever.

Sookie isn't just a lousy fried to Tara, she's a stupid, solipsistic, annoying parody of a girl. I've just about lost patience with her character. Also, as hot as I think Tara is, I'm also fed up with her tempestuous emotional trainwreck of a personality. It's childish and doesn't seem to be maturing at all. Irl, I would avoid both of these girls like the plague.

Season 2 made me drop Bill and opt for Eric.

I don't know any women watching this who haven't said the same thing.

I still like Tara, maybe just out of stubborness, but I totally agree with everything else you've said, Michael White, especially the slowed-down dirty party orgy footage. I like the idea of the Mariann storyline, but the execution is sloooooooow.

The Eric-is-better-than-Bill-now dynamic is straight out of the books, btw, so I think it's purposeful. Also they are giving Bill the worst and most ridic looking ashen complexion in the history of all Vampires, while making Eric look... better.

Also, is anybody else a little squicked out about the Lafayette/Eric relationship? The white guy keeping the black guy chained in the basement in what is for all intents and purposes a slave collar and then letting him go only to magnaminously "heal him" with his blood, but really only to keep him on a hypothetical short leash? It's doubly bothersome to me because we are all clearly supposed to be attracted to Eric. This has been nagging at me since the beginning of the season.

I still like Tara, too and I am still sympathizing with her, but she, like almost all these characters, is written perilously shallow and I am frustrated at times.

After all their many vampire years, it's odd to see Bill and Eric behave like teenagers. Eric with his 'respect mah authoritah' shtick and Bill as the well-meaning though naif rebel against it. I guess the message is that death and many, many years of experience do not keep people from being essentially thick-headed.

I think Eric/Lafayette is supposed to squick you out, though, Jenny and it lends Eric another layer of bad-boy glamour.

Lafayette is essentially why I'm still watching this show.

Speaking of being repulsed, does anybody else find Sarah absolutely off-putting?

bad-boy glamour

See, the fact that what I am perceiving as a slave ownership narrative is supposed to increase the appeal of the slave owner in the equation is like really unpleasant.

Is Sarah the Teenaged Vamp? She doesn't bother me too much yet.

I hear you wrt to Eric but vampires are above such mundane human concerns. ;)

I find the teenaged vamp story line amusing but it's the reverend's wife that I'm referring to. Ugggh.

OH HER yes she is AWFUL. The "I dress like a Christian tramp, make BBQ ribs, serve beers, and dance because I'm A WOMAN" scene was so absurd, but fully redeemed by Jason's strip tease fantasy (b/c the writers were acknowledging that they were trucking it totally ridic stereotypes).

Jason is a complete and utter fool but not only is that character repulsive but, alas, she is physically repuslive to me as well - the awful hair and that dreadful smile.

I loved how the rev mentions that she used to be a vegetarian.

I did spend some time during the episode trying to decide whether I would find her IRL attractive outside of the TV milieu and determined that I probably would not. Disconcertingly, I find the rev pretty cute.

He reminds me vaguely of Alby in Big Love.

*spoilspoilspoil* pretty sure that daphne's scars mark her out as one of marianne's victims since her injury is the same as those rec'd by sookie and ms. jeanette, and we get to see marianne's claws come out at the end of this last ep. my first guess was that daphne was in league with marianne but now i'd predict she's looking to stop marianne, possibly with sam's help.

He reminds me vaguely of Alby in Big Love.

Noooooooooooooo Alby is so creepy! I mean, the Rev is creepy, too, but in a cute, campy way, not in a nightmare, Alby way.

Re Elmo's comment - this is where having read the books kind of blows because absent any M. Night Shamalalalan-style twists I know where that particular plot line is headed. So far, the pattern has been for the show to take its own path to the same destination as the books. My beef about Sam's non-reaction to Daphne's scars is just a beef with Sam as a person/dog/manimal. Like, if you were about to get cuddly with someone and noticed fresh wounds/recent scars of that magnitude, wouldn't you show some concern? Even if you did turn into a dog sometimes and so therefore were familiar with the world's weirdness?

Plus, she basically showed them to him (albeit passively) when they were swimming.

guys please stop calling him the rev bc you are making me associate rodney with crepey things :(

ok so i am all caught up now. season 2 is DEFINITELY like a thousand times better than season 1. and i have a super soft spot for jessica.

and yeah, i kept waiting for a moment during swimming where he'd be like '¡¿WAHT!?!?

Although the story line veers away from the books, it does help a lot if you have read the books. For example it makes sense that the orgy scenes drag on and on (as people here but elsewhere tend to say, when they haven't read the books). What is a little confusing is how they used Tara: in the books she is only introduced in the third book (and more in book 4).

Jason is a complete and utter fool but not only is that character repulsive but, alas, she is physically repuslive to me as well - the awful hair and that dreadful smile.

That is the whole point! To show how awful she is.

Speaking of being repulsed, does anybody else find Sarah absolutely off-putting?

No, I find her very endearing and in a way an interesting phenomenon. She's turned in a time when vampires are accepted and can also live on synthetic blood. They have to grapple with their new state in a very different way than the old vampires. I find it interesting. Only sad thing is that it is not really explored that much. This differs from Buffy for example, there's not really that much depth to the whole show (nor the books for that matter). They hint at it, but never really explore it that much.
See, the fact that what I am perceiving as a slave ownership narrative is supposed to increase the appeal of the slave owner in the equation is like really unpleasant.

I never looked at it that way (because the whole sucking blood is about healing 'n' eroticism). I mean, shit, Lafayette is "kept" because he abused a vampire (drained him and sold the blood). He'll never be turned (as some assume) because as a human he's much more useful. Lafayette owes Eric big time.

Sookie isn't just a lousy fried to Tara, she's a stupid, solipsistic, annoying parody of a girl. I've just about lost patience with her character. Also, as hot as I think Tara is, I'm also fed up with her tempestuous emotional trainwreck of a personality. It's childish and doesn't seem to be maturing at all. Irl, I would avoid both of these girls like the plague.

Tara is an abused woman. She's battling emotionally. She has no way of connecting with anyone, aside from Sookie (who's like her sister). She's obviously trying (see the exorcism, Eggs, MaryAnn) but gets fucked over every time (same people). How would you deal? She has little going for her really. And now, thanks to MaryAnn, she obviously fucked up a lot by doing these orgies at Sookie's house. I doubt the latter will be happy with it. But that's the whole poin for Maryanne: she's trying to win Tara back.

Sookie? I like her. She's snappy, she's girlie,... I would probably avoid her like the plague as well but onscreen I kinda like her. She seems a bit of a slut in the books though. Christ she's got it on with several guys in the space of about two years? Yeah, I guess so. But then she has some catching up to do, I guess. :-)

last night was good but the stuff with the vampires in dallas almost seems like an afterthought or secondary story right now, it's so rushed.

Speaking of being repulsed, does anybody else find Sarah absolutely off-putting?

No, I find her very endearing and in a way an interesting phenomenon.

sarah is the preacher's wife, you're talking about jessica.

I love Sookie's wardrobe in Dallas. She's trying so very hard...

is sookie like, officially retarded or is it just so far undiagnosed?????

eric was made a vampyre by that dude from the jungle book!?!??!!

there are only two vampires in dallas and they both have bad accents????? also really w/ that charlies angels shit. no one could come up a better plan????

for some reason even tho it looks to be getting pretty retarded again im still into this - maybe because i havent figured out a way to copy that a+ move of giving my bff a framed picture of myself i had lying around for her birthday

she is pretty much retarded yes

u r a doggie but it's ok because i am deer

hi :)

Lamp you are trying so hard to hate this show. GIVE IT UP.

Sookie isn't retarded. She's just wide-eyed wonderfully silly. Personally I think she's a bit of a slut (based on the books I have read, not from the show.)

i dont h8 it - i kind of love it? - but its pretty ridiculous i mean cmon the whole thing w/ the other telepath was just i mean and then she finds out hes coincidentally disappeared after he found out about her and is like sadface for a min and then shes just like w/e fuck vampires peace.

sookie & tara are competing for the top award in the dumbest bitch in a supernatural predicament category obv

like uh tara that bitch is wearing the clothes of your friend's dead grandma gtfo plz

tara is a moran imo

also why has no one mentioned daphne's scars/injuries yet? still?

god i am fucking sick of hearing about vampires

seriously, they're not even real

shows wut u know

Personally I think she's a bit of a slut

A slut in denial, I think.

sookie & tara are competing for the top award in the dumbest bitch in a supernatural predicament category obv

Ha! I know! The "Mariann in Gran's clothing" was a pretty huge hint. Have none of these people ever read fairy tales??? HELLO LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD? Also, the j/o in the bathtub scene was so awkward I could barely watch it.

Also, this show is going to have to get way worse before I ever stop watching it because it is still hilarious and I think there's going to be a big payoff.

Also, Lafayette is really pretty!

Personally I think she's a bit of a slut (based on the books I have read, not from the show.)

I got the impression that she started out pretty chaste (I remember reading about how she had a tough time making out with ppl while reading their minds (kind of OTM, really)) until vampires came along and then she really got her slut on. And good for her, since hot sex seems to be a special vampire skill. Does it seem to you that the plot line is starting to follow more closely to the books now?

It does! I like how they veer off but then go back to it.

I am reading book five. Awesome books, all of'em. Planning to read the rest. Another four to go.

God Bill is a whiny bore. I hope she dimps his sorry ass soon.

late to the party with this show.. but has the bill/crutis similarity been established yet?

loooooooooooooooooool!!!!!

damn yall these are some stupid ppl

If I see one more naked orgy with a vibrating woman and a sacrifice, I'm just going to cower in the corner until Terry gives me a warm hug.

LOL

Yeah, the orgies get a bit tiresome. They didn't seem as numerous in the books.

Bill's maker was a bit weak, in my opinion. She didn't seem too devious. The chick who got sucked to death (in the flasbacks) seemed like a washed up Tori Spelling.

Saw the second episode on Sunday night, it is preposterous, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Characterization and settings remind me of Russ Meyer, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all.

Tonight's show was great. We subscribed to HBO just so we can keep watching this ridiculous show.

Last week's episode was pretty flat but tonight's episode was absolutely insane, loved it.

So many cliffhangers!

addicted to this show now

In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.[1] In this state, they would lose all self control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear animals (and sometimes men and children) to pieces, devouring the raw flesh.

rip daphne too bad u couldnt shift into someone that wasnt retarded because i kind of liked u

dope episode tho even if not much really happened

nothing really happened? were we watching the same episode?

wow that episode was probably the best of the season! but yeah it was a little slow...

I like it when the vampires run real fast.

Also I hope that Jason is not dead because he is so dumb and hilarious.

Still waiting for Tara to catch on, but slowly, slowly, I optimistic that she's almost ready to start thinking about getting ready to put two and two together.

wtf was up w/godric showing up like that

uh yeah woah did eric somehow channel him since he is his maker?

was thinking godric could read erics mind since he his maker - but the real question is wheres that guy been - isnt he supposed to be missing

i was like damn godric u wite now?

i guess a lot did happen altho a bunch of the episode seemed like "hey so u no how uve been like 'whats the deal with mariann' well... heres the deal with mariann. blah blah wikipedia". but lol @ frank sobotka u drunk. frank sobotka u cray. frank sobotka all ur friends had a naked orgy and they didnt even invite u

also lol @ sookie being this really gr8 telepath ~ didnt u share a car w/ that dude for a couple of hours?

he was supposed to be held prisoner down there somewhere... so yeah i don't know how he 'escaped' and got in to save sookie, unless that dude who was the mole helped him out (but why?).

i guess im @ that stage where i post to msg boards like the characters on this show are posting to the same msg boards.

i thought godric was in the basement of the fellowship church waiting to get bbq'd or w/e ~~ i kind of thought it was the vamp version of suicide by cop and my theory is that eric wanted sookie to get captured so that godric would have a reason to escape or w/e

Also I hope that Jason is not dead because he is so dumb and hilarious.

Definitely not. You may have noticed the gun she was holding looked a little... unusual.

he was maybe pretending to be held captive for whatever reason - like the army of light thought they had him but really he could get out anytime - maybe in order to smoke out traitors in his own organization

o shit she shot him w/paintball totally duh xp

yeah i thought it was a tranq gun or something

it was the paintball gun they were doing target practice w/from the same vehicle she was driving

military grade golf cart iirc

lol i was trying to remember like dunebuggy? tiny jeep?

equally lol: "Bleeding Love"

hahahahaha i forgot about that but yess!!!

OMG Bill's maker in the 30s was insanely fugly. Those eyebrows! I know it was the thing but god almight she didn't pull it off. Well, she pulled'em off but not pulled it off very well.

also lol @ sookie being this really gr8 telepath ~ didnt u share a car w/ that dude for a couple of hours?

She doesn't read minds all the time because it's extremely tiresome. I love how she tested him (at the start) and he was all the time going "oh I love her" times a million. Like you KNEW it had to be fake.

If you've read the books and still like Godrich, you have one sick mind. I keep picturing him to belt out an emo anthem. Yuck.

I did like Lafayette's lines when it came to describing Eggs. "Nothing good can come out of something so pretty."

What did he say? Satan in a pretty hat? Lafayette seems to be getting some of his vim and vigor back, which is nice to see.

I didn't notice the unusual gun because I'm gun-dumb, but I kind of figured Jason wasn't dead, but I'm happy with the confirmation.

I think that Eric ran to the FotS and then opened Godrich's cage and let him at Gabe. Although Godrich definitely looked way less white in the scene where he turned Eric, to the point that I'm still not entirely convinced that is Godrich. But I guess it is? That's just some weird white washing.

Haha Frank Sobatka

o jeez godric is hott

Vampire love blossoms:

It's true love for True Blood couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. The two are engaged to be married, reps for both actors on the HBO vampire series confirm to PEOPLE exclusively.

I think it's funny how the sillier and more preposterous this show gets, the more I'm into it.

I dunno last night was pretty wack all around.

Great episode. I found it a pity that they didn't sacrifice Godrich, but whatevs.

I was mentally drawing a parallel between True Blood and Herschell Gordon Lewis-style gore last night, sort of a "so bad it's good over-the-top camp-gore horror" kind of parallel, and then lo! It was a regular Blood Feast right there in Sookie's dining room.

Random: There was an awful lot of dudes throwing/pushing/punching women in this episode. Tara is so damn dumb as hell I can barely even stand it and I am really looking forward to the day that Sookie and the Vampires come back to Bon Temps and kick some ass. I'm halfway through season two of The Wire (first viewing, so pls no spoilers, although I think I know what happens to Frank :() and I can't dis-equate Andy and Frank Sobotka which is a little LOL and also a little *sob*. Regenerating hymens = o_O. Eric's tank top = >_<

the hymen thing was a great touch.

ummm so when that whole hymen thing started i thought she was gonna say she was a hermaphrodite and i was like O_O SRSLY GUYS?!?!!?

also srsly daphne heart soufflé? grooooaaaaannnnnn

first season was so bad I haven't bothered picking up sn2

did it get better?

i think s2 is mostly a lot beter

and better

Totally. But then I also think a certain amount of badness gives it its charm. I thought the first series was just pretty bad too mind, but then found I was quite enjoying nearer the end (tho last ep wasnt the best)

S2 is both worse and better

^^^

I absolutely LOVE the Sookie Stackhouse books and True Blood. It's all about tackiness, trashiness and sexxeeeeness. I do think that Bill is a major turnoff in True Blood. He seems so... lame. The way he was chatting with Jason outside. Urgh. I really wish Sookie would dump the loser and get it ON with Eric. The way he can make a wifebeater actually nice proves what a studmuffin he is. hah. The hymen thing was bit silly - come on, women lose their hymen a lot earlier than their first time - but it was in a way a nice touch. Maybe she was faking it so Hoyt would prep her with some oral sex? hehehe

women lose their hymen a lot earlier than their first time

Not necessarily and remember, she was raised in a very pious household.

Oh come on, Michael, you seriously believe this? If she used a tampon, she probably lost it already. But yeah suspension of disbelief (and reality).

I recently read somewhere that there is no universal hymen standard for women. Some time way back when, the hymen got moralized/fetishized as the ultimate signifier of maidenhood, which is absurd because of all the naturally occurring hymen variation. (Am working on my epic song cycle for the ukulele called The Hymen Variations, btw.)

Maybe she was faking it so Hoyt would prep her with some oral sex?

Heh, I think I even said out loud to the TV, "You know, there's a lot of other things you can do in the sack..."

Eric is superfly, but I'm not sure I can agree with you on the tank top though, Nath... haha. Also, don't you think they are setting things up nicely with Bill and Lorena???

Oh god, it's so obvious. Also I have been wondering how the Bombdiggity Luke thing will play out. I'm saying, judging from the books, that Godrich will sacrifice himself?

The lines were all pretty cute. "what did judus do to you?" hahah Oh Jason. "Grow a BRAINCELL" and shoots paintbomb on his nuts.

She only said what the rest of us have been thinking all season.

damn i was practically crying when godric got turned into fairy dust by the rising texas sun pretty powerful stuff

lol

good riddance. i mean srsly that dude's whole look was so off.

eric and sookie sitting in a tree.

lol Eric, basically

(I also enjoy Lafayette kicking ass, doesnt matter who)

ps. Why would you not be mistrustful of somebody called Eggs? Come on. Can all the vampires hurry up and get back to Bon Temps now?

Godric was a bit silly in general but a 2000 year old vampire asking "do you believe in God?" IS strangely poignant.

yah im pretty sick of that stupid witch and her antics

didn't we only meet Godric like two episodes ago? am I really supposed to care that he burned himself? Eric saving this show imo.

fuk u - hoyt and jessica save this show

fuk u this show is shit

how do u spell the opposite of a challop

who about spell it s-u-g-g-e-s-t b-a-n

I've tried to watch this episode twice and have fallen asleep both times...too much talky talky!

hoyt's momma is lol

"u hate black ppl"
"that's supposed to be secret"

i'm a totally wrong but the first time we see Godric in an Eric flashback isn't he like some aboriginal looking brown dude?

kinda pointless to wonder abt this I guess but I wonder if marianne was somehow drawn to bon temps when lettie mae's drunky demon got cast out by ms jeanette? marianne storyline has taken way too long to develop but i enjoy her character the more blatantly wacko evil she gets

no the connection is sam: they had a thing going on in the past and he stole some money. now she's looking for revenge. but she's a maenad, so basically feeding off people who party/drink/do drugs. in the books she just settled there and had some crazy ass fun. not sure if she had a thing with sam (in the books). think so, but i don't think there was some really complex revenge plot.

xpost no, he didn't. looked a bit like it, but definitely wasn't. still, though, he looked ASS. and that burn scene was god damn awful. i can understand they didn't wanna spend a lot of money on just ten seconds, but what the FUCKIO. then again maybe, like me, they thought godrich wasn't worth spending money on. hah

i have also given up my conviction that blonde guys can never be cute. eric, you showed me the error of my twisted thoughts. now can you please drop sookie and shack up with me?

not sure if she had a thing with sam (in the books)

She did; the kind of ran around in the woods together, with the manaed in pig form, IIRC. Daphne in the show is kind of a conflation of the manaed and another passing Merlot's waitress. Or two. They were hard to keep track of.

Last ep was waaaaaaaaay too emo. Get with the VAMPIRE v. MANAED WAR, plz. Also it was totally uncool of Eric to trick Sookie into drinking some of his blood using some bullshit junior high "but if you don't at least jerk me off, I'll get blue balls"-esque ruse. Between that and the "keeping a black man in a slave collar chained in my basement" thing, I'm kind of not feeling Eric, even though I know I'm supposed to.

That scene with them two nekkid when Sookie put her tiny little head on Eric's thick, massive neck made Eric look like a total freakish giant.

Oh, I did like Lafayette as the avenging hero and the redemptive possibility of Tara's mom being the one to take on Mariann. Also Sam showing up naked on Andy's doorstep had a lot of unexplored LOL potential, I thought. I could have done with less emoness, and more Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka/Lafayette Kung Fu Fighting.

Whereas all the girls I've talked to about it were all, "HAWT!"

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Thought I had a new screen name. Then, I found another. Thanks!

i think eric looked more freakish giant when he was towering over godrich but also being all emo! so weird! but uhhhhh yeah i suddenly found him really attractive this episode... and it seemed they were making bill up to look paler/less attractive for contrast, too.

I've really avoided any talk about the books with anyone. I'm enjoying staying current with the show, and will go back and let it fill in later. I should be TOTALLY geeking out about this stuff, but its been a little busy at work.

kinda lol thing i forgot: godrick bein all heavy and sincere "i will make amends for all the mistakes ive made, the ppl who have been hurt" and then instead burning up on a heli pad ~helpful~

not really feeling this whole eric& sookie& bill& that ugly chick scene btw

You're welcome, Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka.

Oh, so I think the thing that is frustrating me is that the writers are taking SO LONG to line up the pieces - Tara and Eggs keep having occasional flashes of insight into the WTFery in which they are soaking, and now Lafayette and Tara's mom teaming up, and then now also Sam and Andy teaming up, and every time another piece slides into place but then NOTHING HAPPENS I just kind of grab my head and start yelling, "WHY? WHY?" at the TV.

Still, there is enough in the show to make me continue to watch/enjoy it, like Sarah and Steve's TV meltdown, and Hoyt declaring that he is a GROWN ASS MAN right before grabbing half of the toasted cheese and potato chip sandwich that his lolracist mother made him, while he was berating her for being a career hater. Good stuff.

Oh the makeup on Bill was definitely done to make him look less attractive. It's just not done that well. I am really digging Eric: his whole plotting and scheming is just very cute. The breakdown in front of Godrich was also endearing even though beyond silly: I'll stay with you. Yeah right. As if.

Okay, I gotta admit that I forgot who Andre is. Is the cowboy vamp? He died, I know, but I couldn't recall if that was indeed him (or not).

Re the books: I am reading the second to last book. It's been consistently good (fun to read). Apparently the author has just signed a contract for another three books.

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ROWR

so things are sort of happening now.

loved that drunken exchange between sam and andy in the freezer

"i don't know what you're talking about."

(pause)

"me neither."

I fucking love this show. Haters to the left. It's pure camp brilliance.

I'm getting tired of Sookeh/Biell, though. Bill is such a derp. Can he move aside finally to make way for Eric? If someone doesn't fuck Eric soon I am gonna explode.

Eric popping a fang is the hottest thing ever.

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any theories on the queen/bloody foot at the end of the ep? i guess book readers will know.

Evan Rachel Wood, right?

The manaed plot is so divergent from the books that it's a whole different ball game, and I can't remember the circumstances in which the Queen gets introduced in the books, although I know it isn't like this. My theory about the bloody foot is that the Queen is having a snack or maybe having an Elizabeth Bathory spa treatment.

I was really excited that so many things happened!

my first thought was also snack but then i thought 'oh it can't be that easy, can it?' or are they trying to trick us by thinking the obvious trick is too obvious?

Pretty sure she's snacking. But I am not looking forward to Wood portraying the queen as the character is about 15 yrs old in the books. She was introduced much furter on though, when she was going to marry a king from another state and Sookie needed to use her ability to secure her position or sth. (Sorry daughter kept me awake this week so I can't think straight anymore.) I can't remember which state. Kentucky? No, not that one, I think. In the books it was quite interesting: when Harris finished the book, Katrina happened so she wasn't sure whether she needed to rewrite it or not. In the end she kept it (and used Katrina as part of the story in the following book).
I would hate they will give away what Sookie is through that touching scene (with MaryAnn).

It's so obvious that Bill will be dumped or set aside: through dialogue, makeup,... I'm betting that'll be in the next season when Eric....

Apparently they will also introduce Hadley much earlier as well.

I do like the series a LOT even though I was a bit let down by this episode. It was all a bit wish washy with the Maenad orgies. I did like Jason and Sookie into town seeing all the devastation.

Also Sam already telling Andy about the Supe world: so different from the books in which the weres and supes do NOT tell the humans they exist.

I think it could be that easy - that it's a snack. I've noticed that's a pattern with TB that they will end an episode on a cliff hanger that it turns out is not really as big a deal as it looks.

I loved the Queen's house. I need the number of her interior decorator.

iirc sam did not tell andy about being a shifter -- andy & jason were equally confused when sam got "smote"

Sam hinted about there being more to his nudist adventures but that's as far as it went.

Pantless Sam in a cook's apron....

i thought sam told andy but andy didn't remember cause he was wasted so then he was like 'ok guess he doesn't have to know after all'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Rf7UWqW-c

luv terry: "bullshit. god's got horns."

Terry was such a joy this ep

i thought sam told andy but andy didn't remember cause he was wasted so then he was like 'ok guess he doesn't have to know after all'

Yeah, that's true.

Y'know, I wish this episode was more Dawn of the Dead, more humour, except it dragged on and it was a bit ridiculous. I mean, Sam going to the fucking bar? Give me a break. And Terry suddenly backing off? Uh, that just didn't make sense. At all. (I am not talking "realism" cause we're talking about True Blood here, but y'know what I mean..) Still I did really like Terry and Jason in this episode.

Bill should just drop off and let Eric have his way with Soooooookeh. Let's face it, that's what we're all waiting for. ;-)

i just recently got into this show
so hi

man i was on the fence the first season but this year shit is good TV son

The woman cutting off her own finger (and the accompanying sound effects) was some good, solid Herschel Gordon Lewis-style horror. I was pleased.

yeah amongst all the over the top goofiness there have been some genuinely creepy moments in the last couple episodes

i always hated sobotka on this show and thought he was embarrassing himself with that boss hogg voice, but now that he's teamed up w/ jason as the moron twins shit is popping

Evan Rachel Wood is a massive, charisma-less fail.

Tera really is a dumb bitch

I'm much happier with this episode (compared with the lacklustre previous one). Jason and Andy are a great couple. The Tara breakout was a bit silly and improbable but then uh this is not realistic. Bill seemed a lot more attractive but that's probably because there were no scenes for him with Sookie. The romantic scenes wit him and Sookie are so obvious a setup: paving the way to a breakup. The Queen is interesting but not worked out how I want her to be: she's too old (compared to the books, in which she's 15, making her a really intrigueing character). But you can tell Evan Rachel Wood is enjoying herself. Hadley's a nice addition and an obvious setup for the next season (together with the Queen's fascination with her). Eric is just ROWR. All in all quite a fun ep.

wtf an egg?

What was that guy, located in the sink, actually holding? Bowels? Icky.

Evan Rachel Wood is a massive, charisma-less fail.

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ugh yeah, really felt like they were going for something they couldn't pull off. still, her scenes got a little more entertaining the more they went on. Yahtzee!

i feel like the "really old powerful vampire that was made as a teenager and looks really young forever" device is nice, but they got a lot of mileage out of it w/ Godric, fine w/ me if they don't do it w/ the queen too

them playing yahtzee was the awesomest

I thought ERW was okay, actually. I liked her chipper delivery and the fact that she was a big lez.

ERW got better as the episode progressed, but in her first scene I was cringing.

Is it wrong I thought eric was hot in lettie mae's clothing while he pointed a shotgun at lafayette? and when he said "goodbye, sweetheart" - ROWR

and of course he was major hotness when he had to straighten up his hair after flying to the queen's lair

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it's not wrong. eric is always hot.

It was all a bit wish washy with the Maenad orgies.

how funny is it that this sentence is true?

i feel like the "really old powerful vampire that was made as a teenager and looks really young forever" device is nice, but they got a lot of mileage out of it w/ Godric, fine w/ me if they don't do it w/ the queen too

See in the books they never portray Godric that way. He's just a big ole pervy Vamp who regrets his cruel actions so goes on a suicide mission. I do like Wood as the Queen even though it's not really the same/as interesting as in the books. But god damn she's HOTTTT. I love her whole style and find her VERY attractive.

Eric is soooo HOTTT. Yum yum.

she grew up pretty hot (i like the darker hair color) but man, she can NOT act.
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yeah she was terrible! thankfully the show's already campy and ridiculous (awesomely so, imo) so it's not a big deal.

how frequently does she pop up in the books? it felt like a very 'movie star with a brief guest role arc' kind of role but i guess if there's a lot of plots about her already written she'll come back in the future.

She only pops up in the next book.Or the second one after this? Not sure. I think it's the latter. But she willl play a rather big role later on in the series, rest assured.

disappointed by the finale, very unsatisfying. they could have killed maryann in the last ep and gone more into the eric/queen and sam's parents plots. they really drew out the maryann plot far too much.

DO NOT SPOIL THE FUN. gonna watch it tonite after my knitting class. CAN NOT WAIT.

BTW reading the last book. Awesomely fantastique phun!

how underwhelming

NOT ENOUGH ERIC.

i rate each episode by eric-factor.

^^^

Ha ha! I was the only guy in a room of women watching this and the consensus was unanimous on this.

SPOILSPOIL

i totally predicted sam wd appear as a gigantic bull since the end of the last ep -- marianne's death was the best part of the finale tbh, the rest was meh

I liked that they allowed everyone to have a breather. Ludicrous show all around though.

I am quite glad that Marianne is dead, though.

I love the death scene. Totally awesome. "Sacrifice myself?" haha But the rest was all a bit meh, wasn't it? In hindsight I do still have to admit I totally love this show. But not for the story line - Ball made a mistake with making the MaryAnne storyline central - but for the atmosphere. The whole Southern Gothic thing is so freaking awesome.

i rate each episode by eric-factor.

Totally. I squirmed when I saw him with the queen. When is he gonna give up the queen, move to Belgium and shack up with me? Answer: nevah. Ah well. I do like Hadley though even though different from the book.

But the rest was all a bit meh, wasn't it? In hindsight I do still have to admit I totally love this show. But not for the story line - Ball made a mistake with making the MaryAnne storyline central - but for the atmosphere. The whole Southern Gothic thing is so freaking awesome.

^^^Totally, Nathalie. I even said to Jeff last night that Ball picked the wrong story line to focus on for this season, and that he should have done more vamp drama in Dallas.

I got some LOLs out of last night's ep, especially, "You may have your faults Andy, but at least you got pants on." I was shocked and then bummed when Jason capped Eggs. :( Loved and, much to my shame, did not foresee, Sam as a white bull killing Marianne (GOOD RIDDANCE SHEESH). But yeah, overall, pretty meh. And yet... I am totally looking forward to next season, especially if they're going where I think they're going with Bill's disappearance.

Alan Ball promises "prominent" Eric next season: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32843969/ns/entertainment-television/

He also uses the phrase "blow your wad" more than is probably necessary.

I read that interview yesterday - I srsly hope he is kidding when he says that Eric is just a villain and nothing else. I have to believe he's fucking with us all, because clearly in S2 Eric has shown more than just one side. I also was so pissed at that answer that I commented on that interview (something I'd never done).

I said "ALAN BALL: KNOW THIS NOW - IF YOU MAKE S3 FULL OF ERIC FAIL, I WILL QUIT YOU."

I am such a dumb fangirl. But I know it at least.

I liked the way they handled the Maryann thing in the first half of the episode, let there be some denouement, and then set up a few plots for next season -- so many shows screw up attaining that kind of balance in season finales

I think they did the same thing for last season's finale too.

plz more vampire queen next season

signed,
heterosexual male

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i really wanted that purple dress to be from eric. and then when they were at dinner, i wanted her to say 'no i can't marry you bc i am in love with eric.'

sigh.

heterosexual female would also like more vampire queen just bc it was awesome aesthetically even if she can't act for shit.

I NEED MY ERIC FIX,so mr Ball YOU BETTAH GIMME SOME SKARSGARD HUMPTY DUMPY SEXEEENESS. I am serious yall, I want to see him go horizontal every way with Sookeh.Since he didn't give us Eric in pink spandex, he OWES us the shower scene. YUM YUM.

we should set some thing up so that every post on this thread automatically ends with ERIC IS HAWT

haha

I did have a problem with the Queen Eric scenes.I kept wanting to run to the screen and scratch her eyes out shouting "YOU BITCH! He's MINE I tell ya."

I mostly got wrapped up in the logistics of kissing around those fangs.

What about oral sex.. with hawt eric. heehee

Late to the party, but have to say that imo season 2 was *vastly* better than S1 and I liked that well enough as it was - better made, more fun, and the whole expansion into the wider world of vampires was great. I'd agree that the Maryann arc ran out of steam towards the end, but the final ep was fine by me and the middle stretch of episodes this time out (esp the crazy church stuff) were all superbly entertaining. Really looking fwd to season 3.

i hope they have a better story arc for season 3. I thought the church stuff was really good and they squandered it too soon.

only 9 months to go!

That's so LONG! I could have a baby by then!

it feels like it just started! i can't wait that long :( i even watched season 1 over in between seasons...i NEVER do that.

also i am kind of getting sick of bill AND sookie, so i don't really want to see her and eric together. just eric, please. i would be happy with the eric show.

yeah there's no chance of getting sookie killed off, right?

That's so LONG! I could have a baby by then!

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I find that highly unlikely.

Lets not make any wagers we regret, folks.

I will probably hang on to the grotesquely bad Vamp Diaries just to keep me going

peak of this season was jessica walking into a bar with marcy's playground playing on the sdtrk

also jason is hotter than eric fuk if u disagree

Jason is pretty cute, but he has that jock thing going which doesn't seem entirely attractive.

I've known a lot of real-life Jasons. As goofy as he is he's in some ways the most true-to-life character on the show IMO.

well i mean hes like one of two ppl w/o magic powers so... yeah

Just hold on.

BTW I love how MaryAnne was also setting up the whole Sookie thing.

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Hahahaha no I mean he's really got the whole "southern jock who peaked in high school" thing pretty much down. It's a pretty universal archetype but he nails a particular southern variant on it.

Also, he's one of the few actors on the show whose southern accent sounds fairly authentic. (Hollywood almost never gets that shit right.)

I was really shocked to learn the dude playing him was Australian!

Funny, since he's Australian, isn't he?

Universal? We don't have this Jock type here at all. But I do like your take on it. So yeah.

Oh fek, didn't notice that last sentence. Sorry

oh shit he's australian? lb i know what you mean, he is spot on like half the dudes at my hs.

haha yea i know him from a daily soap that he used to be on in australia (his character was pretty similar)

I love the way you have all fingered Eric (poor choice of words, sorry) as the real hunk of this show. You're bang on the money. He's like Nocturno Culto.

Bill, on the other hand, is comically square - he reminds me of the vegetarian sharks in Finding Nemo. But I love this show, it's kitchen sink sensationalism. It's got it all. It veers chaotically from Mad Max to Roots to Cheers and beyond. For me the highlights - comic and erotic - invariably occur around those vampires who are unabashed vampires.

OK my girlfriend completely disagrees with me. She reckons it's Bill over Eric any day (her way of putting it was a little spicier). So there you go. She says 'He cares, yet he eats'. Ow she's biting me!

Apparently it won't be as in the books, she'll be staying with B for a while longer. I can only say BOOOOO.

Apparently Anna's doing a movie with Katie Holmes now. I can only say: STOP and GET BACK TO TRUE BLOOD. :-)

Oh yeah I bought the other Harris book on Kindle. The Shakespeare something or other. Hope it's as entertaining as TB (read: nookie)

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looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

I downloaded all the Harris books. YEEHA

Also, Eric's gonna be NAKED in the next season. again YEEEEHAAAAA

i saw maryann on an old episode of lost!

Yeah, I saw some thread on True Blood on Rav and they mentioned on what other shows she was. WTF, she's been in lots of shows !

SO. WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN REVIVED? WHAT'D YA THINK OF THE SERIES PREMIERE? KINDA BORING, I THOUGHT. Oh and I hate Evan Rachel Wood.

I'M WATCHING IT TONIGHT BRB

show should just be retitled ERIC NORTHMAN'S ABS featuring some crap about vampires and werewolves and also a fair amount of just random boobs

I think there should be a spinoff for Sam Merlotte's sexual dreams about Bill. Because that really entertained me a lot.

I think there should be a spinoff for Sam Merlotte's sexual dreams about Bill. Because that really entertained me a lot.

I know!

I am a sucker (urgh) for all things vamp. Esp this show. I fucking loved it. Cant wait for the next ep.

i like this show, but sorry i'm only just getting started on s2. I'm wondering why the OG poster finds it so preposterous - it's a show about vampires, what's so preposterous about that?

I think it has more to do w/ the "telepathic waitress" tidbit they threw in there.

I will only ever watch this if I get incredibly bored, 'cause I'm still pissed at Ball for American Beauty and 6FU.

Still holding out for a return to the glory days of Grace Under Fire?

let's rephrase that: no reason at all to like Ball or trust him with a large block of my time.

never seen this show but am intrigued by LIZZY CAPLAN'S BEWBS

“I hear the water in Arkansas is very...hard"

can Tara just die already? GAH!!!

I hate Evan Rachel Wood.

seriously, she's woefully miscast. to be fair tho she didn't annoy me too much in this episode.

Through ep 7 of the first season - Sookie+vamps is far and away the worst of the storylines. I just tuned out with all the diner drama about her fucking Bill this ep.

anyone know what the deal is with the gay dream? did i miss something?

remember when sookie had her sexxay eric dream? welp, sam's got bill's blood in him. so.

Oh yes! Duh. Didn't think of that.

I am so fed up with Tara. She should have stayed a minor character like in the books. It def feels like they don't know what to do with her anymore.

Less Tara more Eric's behind. Front would be good too.

Um, thank you True Blood writers for making all my slash fic fantasies come true. WHY DID THAT FUCKING BITCH HAVE TO CALL SAM SO EARLY IN THE GODDAMN MORNING.

hopeful for more on that Bill / Sam storyline.

also: Eric's ass vs. Jason's ass

Jason obv, is that even a question? I don't get what the bfd about Eric is.

Jason obv, is that even a question? I don't get what the bfd about Eric is.

His faster than lightning fucking. Rowr!

Sounds painful imo!! Would rather have big dumb hot strong brute than weird cold manipulative lightningbolt dead dude.

I DEFINTELY get the Eric appeal. I wish Sookie would wise up and fuck him already.

Stevie, did you see how enamoured (?) Estonian hottie was? I wish I was her - body and all - hanging from chains being fucked out of my non-existant brane. lol

(How sad that I only know where Estonia is from my knitting interests. lol)

I tried to read Guilty Pleasure (Anita Blake) but it didn't appeal to me as the Sookie series does. :-(

Me, too, Nath! I hated Guilty Pleasures! I have a high tolerance for trashy novels but holy damn, that was terribly written.

The Bill/Sam slash fiction was kind of awesome. I'm not mad at Tara because she's been through a lot. I'd probably try to kill myself, too, if I spent most of the summer possessed by a murderous manead, eating people's hearts and boxing with my boyfriend, only to wake up and find said boyfriend shot through the head, and then having to sit with my head on my awful, horrible mother's lap while some idiot preacher babbled at me. I do hope the writers don't make her too pitiful this season, because I think she really deserves to rise up and be badass again.

yep this show is still total trash, but such guilty entertaining trash (with lots of wonderful titties). i think the show did get a lot better in season 2, though i preferred the godric arc to maryanne, and the stephen root story to most everything in season 1

i actually like Tara but am worried they're going to put her through the same wringer they did for the first two seasons, which i am kind of tired of already, if that makes any sense

evan rachel wood IS kind of terrible here but i think just the right kind of terrible for this show; she's certainly no worse than Pam ("lesbian weirdness" line was fantastic)

ahh man did i ever miss this show

agree w/ everything nhex said btw, pam and ERW are great

Jenny: *high five* I just didn't like it. My husband however loves it. I think in essence it's just not trashy enough for me? I like the Sookie novels cause they are also seeped in sex. lol Just ordered the last book. YEEHAA

so Snoop's putting the moves on Sookie and oh so generously offering to feed Tara some real eggs
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/06/snoop_dogg_professes_his_unlik.html

ok what?

haha! lol & o_O @ that last scene the other night

is ryan kwanten's ass going to be featured in every episode?

because I would be okay with that.

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Hahaaaaaaa

this really seemed like a "what can we get away with" scene to me. it was kind of funny, not nearly as shocking and disturbing as, say, that rape scene in Weeds a few years ago.

i love that there was literally twisted vampire hate sex in this episode

omg that werewolf dude its like i cant even tell, if this show is good, or even why things are happening, but i look forward to it all week, pretty much

So I guess this was the "brutal violence against women" episode? Blech. Consideringbthat what I like about this show is it's campy, gore flick style excess, this was too much for me.

Even considering that, I mean.

the thing with tara where it was like "lets have this vamp mindrape her & then beat her up & kidnap her so we can get her to where she needs to be, physically, for the story" is p terrible

Yeah, I mean can the writers not give her one break? She's like their plot advancement punching bag.

just feels like they kinda dont know what to do w/her? i thought the stuff with stripper was nicely judged esp for this show a little corny but a little bit real too

also i mean gd that werewolf dude its like

omg that werewolf dude its like i cant even tell, if this show is good, or even why things are happening, but i look forward to it all week, pretty much

― Lamp, Monday, 12 July 2010 18:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^^^^^ thisssssss ^^^^^^^^^^

tara mindraping would be yeah so unnecessary that i feel they must be going somewhere with it - she will fall into evil passion love with captor dude and perhaps even build to a climax where she's on the verge of becoming a vamp as this big solution to her emotional woes - she will opt for humanity at the last second, stake captor dude, fall in love with sergeant stackhouse who will mistakenly think he's saved the day again probably

based on the books, the vampire is mainly fucking with tara to get the info he needs (for his boss). i think he's AWESOME. i know he's an asshole, but i still like him. i do hope the pack of weres are not gonna reeanact the scenes from tbe books because, in the books, it was gruesome and twisted what they did with the women. :-( then again some of the scenes in the series are pretty WAH as well.

i'm just waiting for some eric and sookeh sex. lololol

Every time that vamp comes on screen, I can't help but think, "CROMWELL!"

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Something about this season doesn't feel right. The pace, or... something. Anyway, I was such a hardcore TB fangirl last summer during season 2 but there's something missing for me this season. I also think Bill's situation is weird--it just doesn't seem in character for him to give up so easily. I know he's probably got something cooked up his sleeve.

Also, as usual, needs more Eric times one thousand. Alcide is hot but he's no Eric.

gotta give it to them for that hilarious Eric flying out the car window bit

Alcide and Eric are not nearly as hot has Coot who needs to be all over the screen all of the time.

yeah s2 was damn good TV but so far this year i'm not very invested in it

Everyone say it - this season SUCKS. First season took ages to get going. Second season was great. Now this is like the worst thing on TV and a big waste of everyone's time.

Three shows in and I am out, srsly. It's that bad. Amazing!

I just can't stand Tara's FACE

Jesus you guys give up waaaay too quickly. At least wait for Eric and Sookeh to fuck eachother's brains out.

I can understand why it feels like it is out of sync. This is when Harris (in her books) starts going all Anita Blake on us, I guess.

Have you read the books? Feels like Eric-Sookie is going to be all willtheywon'tthey ad infinitum. Eric's OK, can't stand Sookie. Also her torso last night UGH

"last night" being when I torrented Sunday's episode

Wait, there are books? Why has nobody mentioned this till now?

uhhhh

how about when they say BASED ON THE SOUTHERN VAMPIRE SERIES BY CHARLAINE HARRIS in the credits

also ***SPOILER**** eric and sookie fuck in book 4 so maybe next season

i like this season so far

uh i think

gd that fukken werewolf hmmmmmm

thought I'd never get tired of seeing people unzip their pants and rapidly morph into wolves and birds and pigs yet here I am

it kinda feels like every single character is peripheral to the main plot but there kinda is no main story so far? other than just dudes with their shirts off or w/e

SO many dudes SO few shirts

this season is MUCH better than last season which was awful. although admittedly I have barely any idea what is going on half the time. I get so incredibly bored every time Bill is on screen.

last season was great! with the maynad (sic?) and the crazy church and the anti-vampire terrorist explosion and everything. This season is all boring werewolves and boring Bill and annoying Tara and who-gives-a-shit about Sam's family?

But also perhaps I am ploughing through Breaking Bad which is so great it makes everything else look rubbish

Also would venture that this season seems to lack a little of the humor that I liked in Season 2

maynad thing was the worst, it just went on and on and on and on. also the whole 'eric's maker' story line that just fizzled out during the 30 seconds I fell asleep.

maynad was long but it was funny! I liked Eric's maker! I was sad when he died.

Ha, watching HBO shows on DVD (i.e. on a six-month delay) presents certain problems with participating in these threads, but I just wanted to say thanks for the "Sookeh!" gif.

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how about when they say BASED ON THE SOUTHERN VAMPIRE SERIES BY CHARLAINE HARRIS in the credits

Yeah, sorry for the sarcasm. It's just that I do find all the "oh, in the books they do this, and there's a bit in the books that you haven't got to yet where this happens, so let's see how the series handles that" stuff a bit, well, spoilery.

yeah i don't seek out book spoilers but i don't really care when i stumble upon them because i never feel any real suspense with the show. like every other episode ends with a "the creature is about to attack!" cliffhanger but i'm like yeah whatever get on with it.

it does crack me up when showbiz blogs are all "we have reports from a mole on set that they were shooting a scene with actor 1 and actor 2 standing over a grave WHAT COULD IT ALL MEAN" like they seriously don't know there are books.

This series is a bit weird - there's a lot of WTF-ness going on, and not necessarily in a good way.

Well, "I wanna do bad things with you." lol

also ***SPOILER**** eric and sookie fuck in book 4 so maybe next season

ARGH, do NOT spoil my lure!

Finished the first season tonight - definitely picked up toward the end - for a few episodes in the middle it felt like Tara and Sookie being as shrill as possible for long stretches.

Redhead vampire looks like she's going to be hilarious.

she is the best thing on the show

last night's episode was awesome. I've found that this series really does kind of take half a season to warm up.

I was kinda bored. :-(

i was way more into last night's episode, too

I think the vamp who digs tara is fucking AWESOME. my husband thinks he's psycho. and he is! but in such a fantastic way. i absolutely love the dude. even tara is getting to be more interesting.

he's basically a rapist. still, interesting and kind of funny. and threatening too, which none of the other vampires have been on the show, really, which is why I think it was starting to get a little dull.

sam's family situation got more interesting as well.

new added zany to franklin just makes me think of spike from buffy - meh tbh ("will you be my... VAMPIRE BRIDE" so predictable & so enjoyable though)

<3 lafayette & jesus!!

still don't care abt samfam sitch or jessica/hoyt zzz. when are they gonna reveal who arlene's baby is by or should i have remembered that from s2?

dunno what this krystal girl's all about but jason is still surprisingly amusing even when by now he really really shouldn't be

eric as teen viking kurt cobain - ZOMG awesome - not so sure about the turquoise sweater though

already so fucking bored of sookie's hadoukens or whatever, plz spare us the backstory

franklin's lol im good at textin baby love u 4eva shit is dumm but i like him as a character - hes basically just a really smart really dangerous animal which seems appropriate - now that tara knows shes swimming with sharks that story is less depressing & more interesting

every single thing in bon temps is boring but samfam is both boring and gross i wish theyd bring jessica to jackson bcuz a) she is ~amazing~ and b) i wanna see her around other vamps

p sure this show is just stealing scenes/ideas from porno @ this point

this show knows how to fuck w/ cliffhangers tho i mean

every single thing in bon temps is boring

when i read it like that i know i cant really deny it - i guess they did everything there's possible to do with bt with maryann last season but its still perturbing to admit cos i dunno if this show can be just exciting vaycays all the time now (future book readers stfu!!)

also i think i kinda have the hots for lorena more than i do jessica tbh, christine hendricks took up and will retake all my redhead attention

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he's basically a rapist. still, interesting and kind of funny.

Yeah, but up until Sunday's episode, I was getting sick of his shtick as well. Now that Tara's figured out how to play him a bit, maybe her storyline will pick up. Like everyone else, I could do without the constant battering of Tara's character. She's more fun when she's using her brain and her free will.

Couldn't really figure out why Eric the Teenage Viking spent so much time faffing around during the werewolf attack instead of helping his dad. He didn't come out of that particularly well. Maybe that's the point.

Pretty sure the real babydaddy is the guy who killed all the fangbangers, who was living with the woman and her kids (clearly I am great with names)

It was better this week. Tara still sucks

yeah I assumed arlene's ex is the father (serial killer from season 1). this show really hasn't taken place over a very long stretch of time; I think, from episode one until now, only a few months have passed.

Rene, right?

jessica is so hot

Jessica IS so hot and kind of funny, too.

She has an unblog, too.

http://babyvamp-jessica.com/

Rene, thank you!

I thought I was unique in appreciating Jessica!

Now that I know all these other dudes like her I am sort of grossed out and may have to stop

haha yes the turquoise sweater...what was going on there?

i love jessica! and pam! franklin entertains me a lot. let's face it, the most boring character is sookie.

even bill is 100x more interesting without her

Maybe Eric thought that wearing a tight turquoise sweater to a gay monarch's house when he wanted a favour might be a good idea?

yeah I assumed arlene's ex is the father (serial killer from season 1).

That's not going to move any storylines along much, is it? Surely in order to be interesting, babydaddy would have to be someone non-human.

Could be a random pregnancy from Maenaed orgy parties too, but she wouldn't remember that..

wish they'd do a spin-off with only lafayette and jessica

(eric too)

this shit is getting beyond crazy and i gotta say that i like it

this shit is getting beyond crazy and i gotta say that i like it

Yes! I amwarming up to it again.

still not incredibly enthused, but i'm glad things are finally moving

Really enjoying the king and whatnot, and also what is sookie?

she's a mongo

i'm guessing she's part nymph or fairy or something

loved the Lorena gore explosion! also Dennis O'Hare really kicking it up a notch now

I thoroughly enjoyed Sookie's Narnia/holodeck experience, but there is still not enough Eric in these episodes.

if sookie is an angel or something i swear i will fucking quit this show.

actually i probably won't. but i won't be happy about it.

all that herbal essences shit was just wildly, insanely bad

kinda luv it in retrospect

eric is seriously dead to me until he changes that sweater - enough is enough now

I am normally pretty annoyed about the super sexualized violence against women in this show, but I have to be honest that after about the fifth time Sookie screamed "BEEEYILLLL" and "I'M NOT GOING TO LEAVE HIM" and ESPECIALLY after had the nerve to tell Tara that "two wrongs don't make a right" when she was understandably reluctant to save Bill after Bill left her to die, I was kind of hoping that they would take a total left turn and have Bill just kill her outright.

I laughed when Lafayette told Tara and Alcide to stop cussing at her, though. Ha.

Eric will change the sweater now that he's done farting around with Russell and has Pam back.

Also, it's bloody and Eric seems a little neater than that.

i'm guessing she's part nymph or fairy or something

Yes, that's why her blood tastes so good (to vamps).

I fucking LOVED the episode. Totally awesome.

more eric for GOD'S SAKE

also if AB deviates from canon and has sookie and beel together forever ala twilight i will personally hulk smash him.

because if we follow the books she's about to dump his ass soon and get sexy with eric

i cant believe i just called the charlaine harris books "canon"

I know! That's one thing I didn't like in the episode: the chance that they remain together. I don't know, I think they'll keep'em together. Wish they wouldn't though, but I think the general public might want to and prefers to see them as such because they are a couple in real life.

My husband says Harris stole everything from the Anita Blake books.

Charlaine Harris is Virginia freaking Woolf compared to Laurell K. Hamilton. The Anita Blake books are nearly unreadable.

I have heard they are very very bad from several sources. I'm glad I don't work in a public library so I don't have to deal with them.

I tried to read the first book in the series because I really liked the Sookie books, cheesy and ridiculous though they were, and I was looking for something similarly fluffy/supernatural, and I could not even finish the first book. It just made no sense. I couldn't figure out what the hell was even going on. Like one minute they are in a stairwell and the next Anita Blake is being held captive in a basement and about to get raped by a rat and I'm like... how did they get into the basement and what happened to that other person (or vampire? I don't knowwwwwww) who was with her? Just, shoddy, horrible writing AND there were a ton of grammar and spelling mistakes in the book. Give me a fucking break.

Also, I don't think that AB will keep Bill and Sookie together. They started characterizing Bill as a humorless jerk (and seemed to make him look less attractive) while giving Eric great lines and also making him look super hot halfway through last season. I think this was to prepare the viewing audience for Sookie and Bill's break up. Plus, I think the pro-Sookie and Eric contingent is pretty strong. Eric is wildly popular and Sookie is supposed to be the person with whom we the viewers identify (blech) so we all want to see Sookie get it on with Eric as part of the fantasy/wish-fulfillment aspect of the show.

That whole fairy sequence was like... that was supposed to be like moderately campy, right?

I can't believe we're already seven fucking episodes in. I mean, I'm all for slow pacing and stuff but this show is ridiculous. It's like sloooooooowwwwwwly going up the chainlift and then WHOOOOOOOOOOSH DOWN and a cobra roll and a loop and a few hills and then back to the station, come back next season.

That whole fairy sequence was like... that was supposed to be like moderately campy, right?

lol this was just n/l

gr8 episode imo

Kind of enjoying now haha

That was a horrible shirt Eric was wearing. It was good he took it off.

still all kinds of crazy
this season has been rad imo

last two episodes have been crazy. totally back on form!

That was a horrible shirt Eric was wearing. It was good he took it off.

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lol just came in here to post this

lol this show.

"We will eat you. And then we will eat your children."

also, the bloody soup that remains of his boyfriend in a glass urn.

they need to get rid of that meth chick though, fucking annoying.

yeah, i kinda just want them to get the Jason angle over with already

still, denis o'hare getting sillier and sillier by the week is just plain entertaining. also, bringing back psycho vampire only to snuff him out after about three minutes was pretty funny too

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A+

How good were the human vampire police?

Haha that cover is awesome.

omg. srsly.

also: denis o'hare kinda saving this season.

Jesus, that's some awful photoshopping there.

Loved Eric and Pam's touching little scene where he basically tells her to vamp up and start her own brood, because he might not be around much longer after what he's been up to. But yes, I just find all of Jason's scenes really boring now, partly because they don't seem (so far, anyway) to tie into anyone else's story. He's just running around out there all by himself, making a mess of everything.

For someone attempting to make something like VAMPIRES digestible to society, Nan Flannigan is hilariously non-charismatic.

vampirese doesn't have words for 'gold-digging whore'?

Wasn't she Russian or something? Admittedly I was not paying attention.

Fairies, ffs

idg this show - its so dumm but sometimes i love it & sometimes im just like "ugh shes a werepanther"

I liked this episode because it addressed a lot of shit that had been irking me, such as Sookie being the worst friend in the world and Jason not telling Tara abbot Eggs (that was kind of heart breaking, too). I also thoroughly enjoyed Hoyt punched Sam's heinous little brother in the face.

sam's hotter to me now that it's been revealed that he's got a dick past

right there w/you lamp

they need to get rid of that meth chick though, fucking annoying.

crystal?

I think it's freaking AWESOME sauce. I totally love this show.

i am watching this religiously. it's the campiest most wtf show in ages.

hahahahah I just got it

the meth girl is named crystal

because like

crystal meth

OMG why did I not think of that

there was a joke in one episode (I think Hoyt said it) that he figured her middle name was meth

it's possible that I do not watch this particular show for the dialog sometimes

Haha

Oh, I thought Lala and Jesus's Excellent Adventure was a little weird, but I guess they were just setting the scene for them to be wizards or something, so that could pay off eventually I suppose.

I take back what I said about Sookie being a better friend to Tara. I wasn't paying that much attention to that part of the ep and I thought that she did something more than just be like, "Oh, my bf left you to be repeated raped until your death? Here's a hug. Where's BEEEEE-YULLL????" Ugh. Sookie sucks.

But, you know, as the show moves forward and diverges more from the books (did Sam have a seedy criminal past in the books? I can't remember), it seems like Sook is less and less the main character or even the person with whom A. Ball and friends expect the audience to identify. Maybe that's wishful thinking, I dunno.

Speaking of the books, Crystal was named Crystal in the books but I don't think that they made meth in Hot Shot, although really, between her being named Crystal and the town being named Hot Shot, it would have been ridiculous NOT to put a meth lab there.

i am watching this religiously. it's the campiest most wtf show in ages

^^ this

i think i'm enjoying this season more than the 2nd.

kind of glad the inevitable and lame fairy reveal is out of the way. russell edgington is the best 'bad guy' the show has ever had.

about the only thing that could improve this show is if anna paquin was suddenly stricken with one of those rare diseases with impossibly long names that renders her unable to speak, and therefore unable to act, ever again.

how would "unable to act" be different

well i don't want her to get run over by a truck or anything.

so hilarious that she has an oscar. in the episode where she nearly died this season there was some borderline acting i think

Oh, I thought Lala and Jesus's Excellent Adventure was a little weird, but I guess they were just setting the scene for them to be wizards or something, so that could pay off eventually I suppose.

I kind of agree with the AV Club though, that it would be good to just have some more "normal" humans around. I liked Lafayette the way he was. And at least Sookie's fairy friends seem to be more Tuatha de Danann than Tinkerbell.

I think Anna does in fact do a good job at being/playing Sookeh. I mean, READ the freaking books, she's annoying.

It was pretty obv that Lafayette had something going on cause his mom *sensed* things. She's probably drugged up because she saw shit and people didn't like that or something.

there was a joke in one episode (I think Hoyt said it) that he figured her middle name was meth

Yes, Jason asked what Hoyt thought of Crystal.

And so right about Sam being a dick being GREAT!

I totally obsess over this show. Love it way too much. lol

is arlene really only seven to eight weeks pregnant?

from wikianswers:

Double cousins are formed when two siblings from one family marry two siblings from another family, and both couples have children.
For example, Jane and Elizabeth are sisters. Tom and David are unrelated brothers. Jane married Tom and have a daughter, Sarah. Elizabeth married David and had a son, George. George and Sarah would be double cousins.

It is against the law for Sarah and George to marry in many but not all places, as they are first cousins

i actually did wonder about that

Was behind on this, am all caught up now.

Never truly took to Arlene until this pregnancy story... Think I fell for the vulnerability, but I like her now.

Pam is getting greater by degrees too, I really like those small moments when Eric tells her to man up.

Want lots more of Lala and his mom. alfre is the shit.

Double cousins = kinda like seven brides for seven brothers stuff, no?

The vamp master/kin relationships have been bright spots in this season - not just Eric/Pam, but even Bill/Jessica had surprising chemistry in their brief scenes. It's already been said, but when you take a lot of the characters in this show outside of directly dealing with Sookie and Bill, the cast can actually work pretty well together

ready for sookie to get bill to GTFO tbh

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also, i love these two:

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Agreed. They are my favourite thing in it. I also kind of like grumpass Sam. And Hoyt and Jessica.

I do tend to agree, Sookeh is turning into the least fave character. I always loved Pam, esp in the books. I like how she dresses when not working in the club.

And E is not gonna die, please tell me he isn't. (Of course he isn't, I know, cause he's way too popular.)

That popularity could be what kills the character in the end though. Just hope he doesn't decide to head off in pursuit of a lucrative film career.

he's already scheduled to appear in the next lars von trier movie, a remake of "straw dogs," and the adaptation of popular board game "battleship."

sadly i am not making any of these up.

he's already scheduled to appear in the next lars von trier movie

Argh. Did his dad not warn him off these?

that seems the most insane combination of movies.

anyway HE CAN NOT STOP. he still has to fuck sookeh.

I'm going to miss Russell E. He was fantastic.

Hoyt and Jessica prolly my favorite thing atm.

Sookeh is annoying as hell but I honestly don't understand why she doesn't just kick Bill & Eric in the balls & tell them both to gtfo. It's like she likes being batted around like a tennis ball.

Eric better not die. Bill without Eric would be super dullsville.

I saw a quick shot of Alpo or whatever his name the hot werewolf man coming back for the finale. Yay. I like him best.

LOL Alpo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAfJ8sopLYk

nice touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAfJ8sopLYk

well that was underwhelming

Alpo/Alcide maybe the best part of that episode, and he was barely in it.

WTF kind of finale was that? Loosely ties up lame/boring storylines..zzz

Was really hoping for some Erik/Sookie action. But nooooo.

I can't stand the werepanther/Jason storyline. Tara runs away, big woop. Sookie goes to fairytown...shrug. Sam/Toby...tired of that. Jesus is a witch. Saw that coming.

What next, an Odo character that shapeshifts into chairs & lamps and sleeps in a bucket?

I love this show but cmon. Storytime! Quit showing off yr characters.

Sorry for ranting.

step right up, everybody gets a free heel turn!

True Blood is losing itself in its peripheral characters. They used to be funny walk-on parts but have expanded into subplots and overall the whole thing feels disjointed. During last night's finale, I kept yelling at the TV everytime Jason or fucking Arlene showed up on the screen. I do, however, care deeply about Terry's armadillo Felix. I also seem to give a quarter of a shit about Lafayette - everyone else, though: GTFO.

It was very disappointing to see the action with Sookie/Russell/Bill/Eric only to cut to Jason trying to save some mangy methhead trashy were panthers. It's very disappointing because Jason had such a great storyline last season.

The lowest point: Sam. Way to assassinate and destroy one of the best characters (IMO). Sam is and has been The Good Guy up until this point. Even in Season 2, after being tortured by Mary Ann and having his heart stomped upon by Daphne, he still didn't go apeshit and decide to shoot his brother. I do not buy it at all that he would react the way he is reacting. No way. Worst writing of all time. If you can't do anything with Sam, then I'd rather he shrink into the background than become a crazed psycho. Also another low point: Tara's hair. I actually laughed out loud when she announces," I just needed a change!"

The highest point: The big Beel reveal. Finally, Bill is revealed to be the manipulative twat we all knew he was! Or, that I *hoped* he was... so that he could move aside so that Eric can swoop in. Or Alcide. Anything but Beel. He was the creepiest of creeps this episode, and he can't even successfully pull off killing Eric, which makes me believe he can't and won't succeed in killing off Sophie Ann. The part where Eric was leaning in the doorway picking cement out of his hair was amazing. Thank you Eric for not giving a shit and asking for your phone back! <3 you and Pam.

Overall, nothing was tied up and it was extremely underwhelming.

Yeah the Bill reveal was great. He's just getting creepier and creepier as we know more about him. Love it.

And I agree about Sam. They've stomped his character totally.

pretty poor stuff. garbage disposal was pretty lol tho.

Ha I forgot about that. That was pretty great. And for some reason I had thought it was ashes - I forgot that it was actual gory goop that was in that jar.

also, why didn't russell crisp within two minutes like godric did? he's older than godric, isn't he?

inconsistencies, alan ball.

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because he had sookie's blood in him?

yeah what a whimper from a show that had some amazing wtf cliffhanger episode endings this season.

also don't know how they went from nonstop maenad orgies to fairielande or from jason as bruce campbell to jason as king of some toothless methpanthers without someone in the room saying, hey guys maybe this is kinda lame?

the beel reveal was the only part i really liked mostly because it continues in the classic TB tradition of making no sense whatsoever.

this show is dead to me

ugh faerie flying saucers

ugh methpanthers

ugh godric jesus

this show isn't dead to be yet but next season better step it up quick or I'm so done

the only thing keeping hope alive is that O'Hare will be back next season at some point (if that wasn't already incredibly obvious by the way they handled it) but yeah, i'm in a similar boat

i was admittedly entertained by the big bill heel turn and sookie's random bout of sadism with talbot's guts, but so i mean, really, the sam, jason, tara, lafayette, and arlene storylines that got SO MUCH time really didn't have anywhere to go

I won't even lay down money that the creepy Wiccan waitress storyline becomes a thing

anyone who has read the books: how close is this following them?

this season has felt like they were putting the pieces in place, and yet I don't feel like they know where they're going.

This season was mostly horrible and I will not be watching. My wife is just going to tell me if anything good ever happens, just like she did with Lost and I do for her with current affairs.

the wiccan lady's coming back too, but at least it makes a little sense if they're really gonna do this witch thing i guess

from what i skimmed of wikipedia, they've been drawing stuff from different books for the various seasons - so for instance though this season was based mostly on book 3, crystal didn't actually show up until book 4 and the fairy thing didn't get revealed until book 8, and so on

this show is now laundry folding hour to me

(has been for last few weeks)

was loudly pleading with the tv for tara to shove those scissors into her jugular

I hope there's a faery/werewolf war. And that Lafayette magiks Arlene's baby into a leprechaun that terrorizes the town & starts a blood war with the werepanthers that kills everyone except Hoyt, Jessica, Alpo, Eric & Sookeh. And Pam.

The end.

all i know is that if they dont do the eric/amnesia storyline for next season i am flouncing

oh god no please don't flounce

cant believe it myself but the character im most invested in atp is tara... her storyline was the best thing about this season imo.

ghost godric was srsly the worst thing this show has ever done and this show did season one of this show

Yeah Godric Jebus was pretty bad. Seemed more like Godric Glinda Good Witch of the North "Follow the yellow brick road, Erik"

Oh and Jason as deputy dawg was stupid.

Best Jason part this season was the brief sideline with that football player kid. Everything else with him has felt like borderline Dukes of Hazzard crap minus a cool car

And I hate that werepanther girl.

That is all.

all take everyone here's word that jason's storyline is stupid bcuz all i can focus on when hes on screen is how much time he must spend working out

i felt bad for the actress playing the werepanther because they made her look so ugly all the time

i identify most with tara at this point because ugh let's just bail out of this freakshow altogether, just get in the car and ~drive~ man

also i might be the only person who likes her new 'do

Erik & Sookie shd do the nasty in the first episode of next season. They owe us that much after boring us to death with the finale...

Agreed.

this show is dead to me

This is kind of our feeling as well. All the women my husband liked in the first and second seasons have been killed off, and I'm really only watching it for Eric by now (so every second away from him better be worth it, and isn't).

you must formally rescind your invitation allowing this show into your home

doing my little I told u so dance right about now

Well, I'm glad our disappointment has an up side for someone.

lol sorry

the garbage disposal scene was pretty funny

ok yeah taras whole trip this season was pretty rad i just hate whenever shes onscreen by herself. i guess its the actress. tho i also like her new 'do the long braids looked like such a continuation of her bony frame i always got pixies in my head, "got hair in a girl that flows to her bones..."

ugh faerie flying saucers

lolol Wasn't it like a big ole chandelier type thing? How crazy was that? Honestly I ain't buying this show much anymore. I do hope they get their shit together because this last ep was totally not making sense. Why the hell would Jason stay and help out the Hotshotter if Crystal Meth girl ran away? And no way did Sam shoot his brother dead. Ain't buying it at all. Tara hopefully moves far away and never returns. Man, I hated her whimpering. Also, when it serves them, Sookeh can suddenly use her faerie powers. Deus ex machina my big fat ass. And that sadistic garbage disposal scene was WAH?!? I mean it did not make sense at all how she reacted.

They better get the Sookeh and Eric scene next season. And Dennis. Otherwise I think I am bailing out. Meh.

Jason: You are so totally hot and can turn into a panther and stuff - I'munna e-lope with you.
Crystal: Yeah, cool. Oh no wait, I'm leavin forever with my incestuous cousin. Lookafter these ropey-lookin' troglodytes for me chzthxbye.

this was the worst season for sure

i thought season 2 was pretty great besides too many maenad orgies

i kind of just want a show about pam and eric now

This season felt more like a clip show or a collection of short stories.

True Blood Season 3: "here are some characters that you don't give a crap about"

still havent even bothered watching the finale :(

There's some good bits and pieces, it's just not a finale worthy of the series as a whole.

what homosexual II said.

I haven't watched this show except for the first episode but apparently it is about fairies and portals now?

Apologies if that's a spoiler. I watched the preview of the first 10 minutes of the new season last night and don't know what's new and what isn't.

Oh yeahhhhhh last ep of the last season involved Snookie Snackhouse flipping into fairyland. When does the new series start?

Sunday.

man this show

werepanthers.

idg this show - its so dumm but sometimes i love it & sometimes im just like "ugh shes a werepanther"

― Lamp, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:41 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

i think about this post sometimes and crack up

If someone could just make me a file with all of Eric's scenes in it, that'd do me. I've no interest in any of the rest of this show any more.

Woooo we're in a hotel with HBO! Last season's finale is on now and I forgot how fucked up it was. Fucking werepanthers.

is it tonight?

It's right now!

this is one of the worst shows i've ever seen and yet i'm still sad i'm missing it.

i'm gonna salve my pain by shouting "i'm a FAIRY??" at the cat

Well. That was satisfyingly ludicrous.

i gotta admit i had low expectations, but that was fucking AWESOME

time jump! british goblins casting magic missile! tara's a hard-chargin MMA dyke! bill's a cackling politician! eric swaggin!

the time jump was one of the best ideas this show's had in a long time

yeah seriously. they should figure out a way to do that every season to cut down on sideplot bloat

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holy fucking shit lol

somebody make of a gif of his face when other dude says "espresso" asap

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I want Bill to get the Caesar haircut

Second episode is up on HBOGO.

i haven't tried watching it yet, im assuming the hbogo site is getting throttled

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i just watched it here: http://watchseries.eu/serie/true_blood

haha thats the same place i found a streaming link

This was actually pretty good. Anybody else notice how most of the characters have way hotter haircuts now? Esp. Eric, Bill, and Tara. Jesus looks better w/o the facial hair. Lafayette looks like a tool. Some of the actors only partially bothering w fake accents.

I enjoyed it, but I always enjoy the first couple. I get bored, stop watching, then catch up later, and find myself reasonably amused though I can also say that it's not very good. I'm well past the point of expecting anything more from it though.

I mean I expected very little considering the disaster that was the latter half of last season, there are still too many characters taking screen time away from Eric but yeah the time jump was useful for getting the show out of the mud.

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stuff that was dope:

- the Worlde of Færie with the xmas tree ornament fruit and the pajama-clad models turning into models wearing silly makeup and prosthetics
- lol @ 'magic missile' was thinking basically the same but was like 'up ya game'
- true blood: the gathering! (lol planeswalkers!)
- fukken WITCHES
- how hott jason is. actually how hot everyone is
- tara: the octagon. pwning old drunks. lezzing up. living a lie
- omen baby

stuff that was garbage:

- frank sobotka addicted to v
- still having to care about werepanthers
- some other chick wanting to bone king billy
- everything w/ sookie after she came back to our plane

^ this is all otm, but at least Jason is SPOILERS locked in a freezer now, that could be fun for him.

Also this show still has boobs, actress playing Tara still obvs has "no boobs" in the contract, case anybody was curious

Also were Tara's eyes all black and maenad-possessed-like at some point there

the disaster that was the latter half of last season

disagree with this, last season was great all the way through; the previous season was the one that got on my nerves.

this was cool. time jump was good since I think the past seasons all went bang-bang-bang right up against each other, like, only six months had passed since the beginning of the show or some shit.

- still having to care about werepanthers

i laughed out loud when he drove into panthertown in his truck and they all warily emerged like morlocks seeing the sun for the first time - jason definitely deserves better than a werepanther b-plot though, hes the show's real heart imo

when we got the reveal re: bill being king i was like yes, yes!!!! i loved the montage of him and eric both giving speeches, it made me hope for some kind of political campaigning subplot like brendan gleeson had in gangs of new york

i'd also be perfectly happy if this New Bill stays this way but im afraid there will be some lame backstory reveal that will turn him back into old anguished bill

i was gettin kinda tired of eric last year cuz they were making him too soft, but he had a great Eric Moment this week: walking into fangoria or w/e, removing the mic clip from pam, taking her seat and saying action - it was so unnervingly smooth that you just had to go 'damn'

i'm also enjoying tommy hustling hoyt's mom

I almost barfed at Hoyt eating those eggs though. Gah.

i was a little worried for a minute but the show seems to be returning to form. timewarp: yes! tara as lesbian cagewrestler: yes! +, i know this will excite many of you: SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER eric losing his memory = it's time for sookeh and erik to get it on soon.

overall, all signs point to TB continuing to be the smoking hot mess it's meant to be, and i for one will deign to continue pirating it for free

^ all otm

god i love pam so much. "he gives good string"!!!!!

the fairy/magic throwing/big noses/other plane thing were shit and reminded me of some of the worst bits of Buffy. Also I have major problems with soft lighting. Apart from that it was pretty standard TB. Yeah Pam is awesome.

"goblins casting magic missile!"

that one throwaway line kinda turned me around on the whole fairy/magic throwing issue, i decided to just suspend disbelief and roll with it. like as if it were an especially prurient 60's exploitation flick or something and i decided to just laugh along with the goofy bits so i could fully enjoy the many "good parts" that came with it

i liked episode two a lot except for all the part where i decided sams storyline is going to terrible and boring again

i feel like the size of the ensemble and the pace of the show helps it not be too dragged down by the characters that tend to be terminal buzzkills. even Tara's getting a little out of her perpetual victim rut this season, there's always hope!

im really looking fwd to tara's storyline this season! & youre right, as tedious as sams storyline looks to be they wont actually devote all that much time to it, it was more that i was just hoping from the first episode that hed be chill for a season, bang some other shifter chix w/o getting them killed, down @ the ranch.

i felt like the size of the ensemble was what was killing the show last year - subplot bloat was getting worse and worse (alan ball disease), and i think the time skip was a recognition of this

the 2nd ep gave me a lot of hope for taras storyline, since she was back in sassy repartee mode instead of perpetual victim mode (i hate how the actress quivers her bottom lip whenever she's doing an emotional scene)

i hope tommy ends up doing something fun, i like that kid