True Blood (HBO)

[Renz]

I just finished the Twilight book series (excellent--I didn't want to read it, but it was truly awesome) and needed a vamp fix. The show is a bit over the top, but cool and funny. I cant stand Jen, but whatever. Hopefully Lafayette isn't really dead and he's just a vampire now, but I doubt it. Shows never seem to work out the way i want them too.

Lafayette isn't dead. He has been in all three episodes this season.

 

[Renz]

Tonight's episode was great! I can't wait to see where the show is going next.

 

[Ryanwb]

I would have at Bill's maker like I was blood thristy

 

[Renz]

I would have at Bill's maker like I was blood thirsty.

 

[Mulli]

I would rather watch the Blade sequels.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

i'm loving this show, but think it curious that they've ALREADY introduced so many other non-vamp supernaturals. my god, there's so much storyline still to be developed with outted vamps that i would think they would have saved the souki's, shapeshifters, and now witches/demons for later seasons when their storylines ran dry.

 

[Renz]

Man, I can't wait for Maryanne to get what's coming to her. It's going to be great when someone finally knocks that smirk off her face.

How stupid is Daphne? You could see that coming a mile away.

 

[Ryanwb]

i'm loving this show, but think it curious that they've ALREADY introduced so many other non-vamp supernaturals. my god, there's so much storyline still to be developed with outted vamps that i would think they would have saved the souki's, shapeshifters, and now witches/demons for later seasons when their storylines ran dry.

This show is based on a series of novels, which it is following quite closely (I only read one of the books). So there isn't really any way for them to save some of these things for later seasons

 

[Stout]

This show is based on a series of novels, which it is following quite closely (I only read one of the books). So there isn't really any way for them to save some of these things for later seasons

Exactly. There are a LOT of supes out there, trust me! As far as following the novels, the overarching story IS following the novels, but that's about it. It's a great show but, like most adaptations, strays VERY far from the books.

 

[Louis]

Is there anywhere online to watch season 2 eps?

 

[Renz]

i'm loving this show, but think it curious that they've ALREADY introduced so many other non-vamp supernaturals. my god, there's so much storyline still to be developed with outted vamps that i would think they would have saved the souki's, shapeshifters, and now witches/demons for later seasons when their storylines ran dry.

I think it's great. If the main focus of the series was vampires 'fitting in', I think the series would have gone stale very quickly.

You saw that at the beginning of Season 1 when the characters kept debating 'vampire rights' (and the writers beat the audience over the head with the obvious comparisons of vampire rights to gay rights).

If that storyline had continued, I would have lost interest a long time ago.

 

[NMCard]

What kind of super natural powers does Andy Belfor posses to be immune from Marianne's powers?

 

[Renz]

What kind of super natural powers does Andy Belfor posses to be immune from Marianne's powers?

Andy's not immune, he fell under Maryann's spell during previous orgies. He showed up to this last one late and then fired his gun, which must have distracted Maryann and kept him from being hypnotized.

 

[SunDevilDon]

I thought it was hilarious when Sam showed up buck naked and Andy didn't even say anything about it lol.

I can't believe there are only 3 episodes left. Oh well, thank God it ends just in time for football season.

 

[Renz]

I thought last night's episode was one of the best ever! Hilariously over-the-top. My one quibble is that it was only 45 mins. long. That was weak.

 

[jf-08]

It was a shame it was a short episode.

 

[Stout]

Balls! Such a short episode. Still, a great one.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I finished up season 2 yesterday. I never really noticed the episode length, but I usually watch a few at a time. Man, season 2 was jam packed. I'm glad to read that they're following the books, since that means there is plenty more to do and this show should last a while. It seems to have a pretty strong following.

Jason has got to be one of the most likable characters on recent TV. He's such a doofus. He cracks me up every time he's on screen. I loved this exchange:

Jason Stackhouse: Sometimes you need to destroy something to save it. That's in the Bible or the Constitution.

Jason Stackhouse: Why ain't you never liked me, Andy? Was it because of how much ***** I get?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: No.
Jason Stackhouse: 'Cause I ain't never taken any ***** away from you. There is more than enough ***** to go around.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: It ain't about *****! I just think you've had everything to easy.
Jason Stackhouse: What have I ever had that was easy?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: You were all-state quarter back.
Jason Stackhouse: You think that was easy? I'm startin' to have knee issues and I ain't even thirty yet. What else?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: Well yeah, women do just throw themselves at you. You don't even have to do anything.
Jason Stackhouse: Yeah well, actually I do. I work out like a mother-****er and I watch a lotta porn to learn stuff. What else?... My best friend killed my grandma and my girlfriend. I come from no money. My momma and daddy died when I was eleven.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: So did mine!
Jason Stackhouse: Your daddy died in Vietnam, but your momma ran off with some yankee race car driver. You may hate me, Andy Bellefleur. You may think you're better than me and maybe you are. But you and me are the ones who have received the callin' to save this town! So obviously God wants us to bury the hatchet.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: [understanding] It's all up to us, aint' it?
Jason Stackhouse: It is and we can't **** it up.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: [certain] We won't **** it up.
Jason Stackhouse: This town might be full of crazy rednecks and dumb-asses, but they're still Americans.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: That used to mean something.
Jason Stackhouse: It still does!

What a cliffhanger again to end the season.

 

[Bert]

I finished up season 2 yesterday. I never really noticed the episode length, but I usually watch a few at a time. Man, season 2 was jam packed. I'm glad to read that they're following the books, since that means there is plenty more to do and this show should last a while. It seems to have a pretty strong following.

Jason has got to be one of the most likable characters on recent TV. He's such a doofus. He cracks me up every time he's on screen. I loved this exchange:

Jason Stackhouse: Sometimes you need to destroy something to save it. That's in the Bible or the Constitution.

Jason Stackhouse: Why ain't you never liked me, Andy? Was it because of how much ***** I get?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: No.
Jason Stackhouse: 'Cause I ain't never taken any ***** away from you. There is more than enough ***** to go around.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: It ain't about *****! I just think you've had everything to easy.
Jason Stackhouse: What have I ever had that was easy?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: You were all-state quarter back.
Jason Stackhouse: You think that was easy? I'm startin' to have knee issues and I ain't even thirty yet. What else?
Detective Andy Bellefleur: Well yeah, women do just throw themselves at you. You don't even have to do anything.
Jason Stackhouse: Yeah well, actually I do. I work out like a mother-****er and I watch a lotta porn to learn stuff. What else?... My best friend killed my grandma and my girlfriend. I come from no money. My momma and daddy died when I was eleven.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: So did mine!
Jason Stackhouse: Your daddy died in Vietnam, but your momma ran off with some yankee race car driver. You may hate me, Andy Bellefleur. You may think you're better than me and maybe you are. But you and me are the ones who have received the callin' to save this town! So obviously God wants us to bury the hatchet.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: [understanding] It's all up to us, aint' it?
Jason Stackhouse: It is and we can't **** it up.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: [certain] We won't **** it up.
Jason Stackhouse: This town might be full of crazy rednecks and dumb-asses, but they're still Americans.
Detective Andy Bellefleur: That used to mean something.
Jason Stackhouse: It still does!

What a cliffhanger again to end the season.

rofl I completely agree. I started watching this show a few months ago in the middle of season 2. I had reservations about it because I thought it was just another trendy show about vampires (cuz you know, thats all the rage with the kids nowadays) lol nothing could be further from the truth, this show is fresh, edgy and DEFINITELY not for the kids. I instantly went out and got Season one on DVD and I'm totally hooked.

I agree with you about Jason, he's one of the funniest characters I've ever seen. He's just such a ******* you cant not love him.

I cant wait for season 3! Give me more Trueblood!

 

[NJCardFan]

I cant wait for season 3! Give me more Trueblood!

I didn't see any thread about season 3 so I will comment here. Season 3 started off good but stunk. They jammed way too much in there. And they completely overdid the gayness this season. I mean, every episode? Lafyette/Jesus, Russell/Talbot, Sophie Ann and any female, even a near encounter with Sam and Bill and Eric and Talbot. I mean is being gay/lesbian a qualification to being a vampire? But that aside, the first 2 seasons had one major plot and maybe 2 side plots. Season 3 had 1 major plot and about 50 sub-plots. The season was just a mish mash. I hope season 4 is better.

 

[Renz]

I didn't see any thread about season 3 so I will comment here. Season 3 started off good but stunk. They jammed way too much in there. And they completely overdid the gayness this season. I mean, every episode? Lafyette/Jesus, Russell/Talbot, Sophie Ann and any female, even a near encounter with Sam and Bill and Eric and Talbot. I mean is being gay/lesbian a qualification to being a vampire? But that aside, the first 2 seasons had one major plot and maybe 2 side plots. Season 3 had 1 major plot and about 50 sub-plots. The season was just a mish mash. I hope season 4 is better.

Agreed. I've liked each successive season less than the previous one. It's like the producers/writers feel like they have to keep topping themselves all the time.

There are too many characters and everyone who appears in the show now is a vampire/shapeshifter/werewolf/witch/fairy. I think humans are outnumbered about 10-1.

I really liked the first two seasons, but now the show is dangerously close to jumping the shark for me.

 

[Stout]

Agreed. I've liked each successive season less than the previous one. It's like the producers/writers feel like they have to keep topping themselves all the time.

There are too many characters and everyone who appears in the show now is a vampire/shapeshifter/werewolf/witch/fairy. I think humans are outnumbered about 10-1.

I really liked the first two seasons, but now the show is dangerously close to jumping the shark for me.

Yeah, last season just had too much going on.

 

[NJCardFan]

Yeah, last season just had too much going on.

In another forum, here's my assessment of season 3 and why it was horrible:

To summarize, these were the different plots to each True Blood season:

Season 1: As beginnings usually are, it's more about the characters but the main plot aside from Bill and Sookie's budding relationship, was on the Bon Temp Strangler(which ended up being someone no one expected and his rage was based on anti-vampire bigotry ).

Season 2: Plot #1 was Eric asking Sookie to help find his maker who has gone missing. It's in this season we're introduced to Rev. Newlin's Church of the Sun who wants to wipe out Vampires. Of course he's portrayed as a loony fundamentalist Christian who is blinded by Vampire bigotry. Of course his issues with vampires are quite founded. Plot #2 involves Sookie's friend Tara who meets up with a woman who turns out to be a Maenad and her powers sends Bon Temps into debauchery. Eventually Sam & Bill conspire to kill her.

Season 3: Plot #1-Bill is kidnapped by V addicted werewolves who work for the Vampire King of Mississippi who wants Bill to be a sheriff and hopes Bill will help him win the hand of the Louisiana Queen. Of course the Vampire King is already hooked up with a guy he's been betrothed to for several centuries. Bill relents until he finds out that Russel(the king) is actually out to acquire Sookie, who, as it turns out is actually a fairy(as in Tinkerbell...no I'm not kidding) because legend has it that drinking the blood of a fairy can help vampires walk in sunlight. Russel also uses Eric to get Sookie as well as his army of werewolves. He also has a vampire he uses named Franklin who becomes infatuated with Tara who he kidnaps, keeps tied up, and basically rapes her at his behest. Eric finds out that Russel is the one who killed his family when he was a Viking and sets out on revenge. Which he eventually gets, so to speak. Plot #2-Sam sets out to find his real parents to find out where he came from. Turns out they are white trash and his mother used to be entered into dog fights(they are a family of shapeshifters) and now they use Sam's brother Tommy. Sam eventually takes Tommy to try to straighten him out but in the mean time Sam discovers his dark side. Plot #3: Lafayette finds love from a male nurse and after a while they try V together(V being vampire blood which has amazing qualities. Too much to get into right now) and after tripping, it turns out that Jesus is a Bruhu(male which). Plot #4-Arlene(waitress at Sam's tavern/restaurant) turns out to be pregnant with Rene's baby, Rene being the 1st season Bon Temp Strangler who was killed at the end of that season, and she's worried that the baby might turn out to be evil like Rene. She doesn't want to have an abortion because she doesn't believe in it yet she gets help from another waitress who happens to be a wiccan who gives her a potion of some sort to self miscarry but it doesn't work, much to her chagrin. Plot #5-Jason, Sookie's brother, wants to be a cop but he's dumb as a bag of broken hammers but he tries anyway and basically blackmail's the new Sheriff, Andy because of something that happened at the end of season 2 to push him through. In the mean time, Jason becomes infatuated with a girl he sees at a backwoods homestead of meth dealers but she is hesitant to hook up with him because she's been promised to her brother/cousin(talk about something that would take too long to explain) to preserve the family bloodline because it turns out that she and her family are Cat People(like the Natassia Kinski movie where they turn into panthers). Plot #6-In an attempt to ween Jason's friend Hoyt away from Bill's progeny, the young Jessica(a former fundamentalist Christian teen, yes teen, she's supposed to be 16 or 17 years old,who Bill was forced to turn into a vampire because he had killed one protecting Sookie), Hoyt's overbearing mother, hooks Hoyt up with a very pretty but annoying girl named Summer(a bane of the producers, she's a good moral Christian girl so we must paint her to be a fool), and even though he dates her for a while, he hates her and loves Jessica. The season ends with Hoyt renting a house and asking Jessica to move in while his mother is showed buying a rifle.

Whew. I know I missed some stuff with season 3 but keep in mind, all of this was packed into 12 episodes. There was way too much going on for just 12 episodes. The season had no real direction. I still like the show but for Pete's sake, 1 or 2 plots with a subplot or 2 isn't bad but with maybe 1 reall plot and several subplots was just too much and the story suffered.

And before anyone complains, the long paragraph was done on purpose to show how convoluted season 3 was.

 

[Stout]

Okay, I am REALLY starting to get fed up with this show. Why in the hell do they feel the need to make up out of the blue all kinds of wild and weird story lines that take up half of the show, ignore some of the best plot lines of the entire series--which happen to be THE MAIN plotlines of ENTIRE BOOKS??? Good grief, this season looks absolutely hideous! Anyone looking at the 'coming this season' at the end has to be thinking, 'WTF???'

Seriously, they're killing it for me. Absolutely killing it. Right now, I'm probably going to be out by halfway through the season, and I used to LOVE this show. The best plot line, IMO, in the entire SERIES, a plotline that was THE main one in an ENTIRE book, THIS SEASON'S book, and it isn't even going to play a MINOR role? WHAT THE EFF!!!!!

Charlaine Harris either signed away complete creative control, or is simply letting them do whatever they want to ***** herself out for more money, because they are KILLING her story this season. Actually, it thus far bears almost no resemblance thus far.

 

[JerkFace]

Okay, I am REALLY starting to get fed up with this show. Why in the hell do they feel the need to make up out of the blue all kinds of wild and weird story lines that take up half of the show, ignore some of the best plot lines of the entire series--which happen to be THE MAIN plotlines of ENTIRE BOOKS??? Good grief, this season looks absolutely hideous! Anyone looking at the 'coming this season' at the end has to be thinking, 'WTF???'

Seriously, they're killing it for me. Absolutely killing it. Right now, I'm probably going to be out by halfway through the season, and I used to LOVE this show. The best plot line, IMO, in the entire SERIES, a plotline that was THE main one in an ENTIRE book, THIS SEASON'S book, and it isn't even going to play a MINOR role? WHAT THE EFF!!!!!

Charlaine Harris either signed away complete creative control, or is simply letting them do whatever they want to ***** herself out for more money, because they are KILLING her story this season. Actually, it thus far bears almost no resemblance thus far.

What was the plotline?