True Blood

Because I miss Tiff's and my discussions on True Blood.

I'll be doing a rewatch soon of Seasons 1+2+3 and then will get up to date with Season 4 which apparently is amazing according to my friends who are up to date with it.

Anyone else watch TB?

I preferred Michelle Forbes when she dressed as an admiral and spent her days ordering the gangrape of former lovers, and the massacre of civilians. She was very convincing.

I've got them to watch - someone at work insisted I'd love it, and loaned me series 1 - but I haven't bothered yet. It just doesn't work for me. Probably because someone else loaned me the books, which take about an hour to read, and I got very fed up very quickly with how many pages are taken up with her shaving her legs, applying lipstick, and cowering in corners with her hands over her face when there's a fight on. Which, considering it's all done first person perspective, means the Reader doesn't see anything either.

I did watch all of five minute of Twilight last night. Gawd that was boring....

Rave, True Blood isn't Twilight (or Vampire Diaries thank fuck). I can assure you of this. No sparkles, sex, blood ... it gets better as the seasons go on but defs worth a try out.

Give it a go. :)

But the books were terrible..... Although, admittedly, I haven't read Twilight to compare.

I've really enjoyed most of TrueBlood. Being a hetero male,does that make me an exception? My wife loves it too, but the Skarsgaard is probably part of it for her, she can't understand why he wasn't Thor.

Ravenstone wrote:

But the books were terrible..... Although, admittedly, I haven't read Twilight to compare.

The books TB was based on?

And the Twilight books are ... best left unsaid.

trevanian wrote:

I've really enjoyed most of TrueBlood. Being a hetero male,does that make me an exception? My wife loves it too, but the Skarsgaard is probably part of it for her, she can't understand why he wasn't Thor.

Not at all. :)

And I can agree with your wife on that - HE SHOULD"VE BEEN THOR!

I enjoy True Blood, too ... bit behind though, have only seen Seasons 1 and 2 and I don't know if Channel 4 still have the rights to show it in the UK or if it's excusively on FX now.

Fae wrote:

Ravenstone wrote:

But the books were terrible..... Although, admittedly, I haven't read Twilight to compare.

The books TB was based on?

That's the ones. Charmaine Harris, I think. Or Charlene. Pages of her shaving her legs, painting her nails, doing housework, deciding whether to pull the fridge and/or cooker out to clean behind them.... Honestly. It gets a tad irritating. And - of course - everyone loves her, unless they're a Baddie and Must Die.

Oh yeah - the series really just takes the basic outline from the book and then adds a dozen other things and changes things around so in the end it hardly matches. Each season is based loosely on the books - I've read the books so can make a rough estimate on what will be the main plotline for Sookie but beyond that ...

It's crazy.

True though there is a bit of Sookie love but hey ... less so than in the books.

Hmmm..... well, the delectable Eric is quite the lure, of course......

I really must check it out. Thing is, I'm so far behind.

You'll never get on top with that attitude, Rave.

*shakes head*

You can do it - just go at your own pace :)

/Eric only pops up mid-way season 1 and only gets a big role from season 2 onwards ... those be the best times.

Fae wrote:

You'll never get on top with that attitude, Rave.

That's never held me back before ;)

I am soooo glad sexy, bad Eric is back. Good Eric was so dull.

Oh Gawd, not the whole 'cursed by witches' storyline? Yeah, that sucked like a Dyson in the books.

Ravenstone wrote:

Oh Gawd, not the whole 'cursed by witches' storyline? Yeah, that sucked like a Dyson in the books.

Really it was just an excuse for sex.

An excuse? Who needs an excuse???

Ravenstone wrote:

An excuse? Who needs an excuse???

Not everyone is you Rave.

Good idea, resurrecting the wild ride that is TB.
We had fun, kicking around the first two seasons. They were wild and very entertaining.
The first two seasons were quite funny and suspensful. Lots of great characters and twist and turns.
My personal favourite was Jason Stackhouse, the young stud muffin. He was quite hilarious. Reminded me of when I played hockey. I knew guys like him.
His relationship with Sarah Sunshine in Season 2 was one of TV's great romances. God I miss Sarah Sunshine. She's never coming back, is she?
Season 3, I watched all the way through on dvd, about a month ago. Although it did hold my interest, moved at a good pace and was wild and crazy, I didn't like it as much as the first two seasons. The show seemed to lose its innocense some what, not that it was ever PG rated or terribly innocent, but still it always had a light hearted charm too.
However in season 3 the depravity level was ratcheted way up. These vampires were vile creatures. The blood and gore was way over the top.
The vamps spent most of the season drippng blood, torturing humans, torturning each other. None of them ever wiped their faces. How hard is that? We humans generally wipe our face after slurping grape juice or jelly sandwiches.
And even Jason and Lafayette, the two funniest guys on the show IMO, got involved in more serious drama and depravity, and lost their charm a bit.
All I was left with was Dog Boy whose pretty funny when he's not brooding. The more intense versions of Jason and Lafayette though, couldn't be counted on for as many laughs although Jason came through several times. Layfayette was a write-off though, almost as lost as his cousin, whose a permanent basket case.
As for the vampires, I always root against them. Bloodsuckers - every evil one of them. Billy the Bloody. Mr worship me and die, Eric. And the other vamps are even worse. Usually I root for the wolves in any Vamp/wolf clash but in TB S3, the vamps and the wolves were equally despicable. Someone just drop a nuke and take them all out.
Anyway I got through season 3, but I felt I needed a good long shower afterwards, and maybe a few weeks watching something more wholesome like Andy of Mayberry, lest I turn into a bloodsucking messy-faced deviant myself.
Anyway I am ready for Season 4. But now the series might go in the other direction. From relentless gory depravity to fairy goodness.
Sookie's a fairy now. How lame. One of Sookie's better lines.