True Blood (HBO)

[O]

This show has turned into the most stupid program on TV.

 

[Bert]

I was going to comment on tonights episode, but instead I'm going to take a long walk in the woods and hope for the best....

 

[devilalum]

I was going to comment on tonights episode, but instead I'm going to take a long walk in the woods and hope for the best....

Don't make any promises you cant keep.

 

[Covert Rain]

Oh god. Seriously? Thank god the story line is over with the witch. She was annoying as hell. Just when I was starting to feel good about them moving on.....they just had to sprinkle in a bit of fairy dust.

I am all for swampery tarts and sex but again with the fairy crap??? This show doesn't need an excuse to show gratuitous sex scenes but seems like they search for excuses to go back to the fairy land.

 

[Stout]

Oh god. Seriously? Thank god the story line is over with the witch. She was annoying as hell. Just when I was starting to feel good about them moving on.....they just had to sprinkle in a bit of fairy dust.

I am all for swampery tarts and sex but again with the fairy crap??? This show doesn't need an excuse to show gratuitous sex scenes but seems like they search for excuses to go back to the fairy land.

The problem is, Daren, that they're suddenly clinging to the story lines later in the books, after they've already completely ruined them. Without the faery stuff, they just nuked about half of the material from the books. But they've done the faery stuff so completely ******** that no one wants to see it. Catch-22 at its finest.

 

[Cheesebeef]

people are still watching this show?

 

[Stout]

people are still watching this show?

Only to record it for my mother, who does not get HBO. I told her that I don't care about next season, though...I'm finished with the show after this.

Spoiler

So, after Marney proves herself to be a murderous psycho, she quickly convinces them to form a circle to cast a spell. Not only do they agree, BUT FRICKIN' SOOKIE decides to join it! I was actively rooting for her death in that fire after that. These writers are absolute morons, and that was only one of the many flaws in the show again.

 

[Covert Rain]

The problem is, Daren, that they're suddenly clinging to the story lines later in the books, after they've already completely ruined them. Without the faery stuff, they just nuked about half of the material from the books. But they've done the faery stuff so completely ******** that no one wants to see it. Catch-22 at its finest.

Ahh....well I never read the books so I didn't know. You seem to be right that it's the way they went about it. The way they are handling it reminds me of 99.99% of Sci Fi's original movies.....corny as hell.

 

[NJCardFan]

Oh god. Seriously? Thank god the story line is over with the witch. She was annoying as hell. Just when I was starting to feel good about them moving on.....they just had to sprinkle in a bit of fairy dust.

I am all for swampery tarts and sex but again with the fairy crap??? This show doesn't need an excuse to show gratuitous sex scenes but seems like they search for excuses to go back to the fairy land.

I guess you didn't stick around for the previews of next weeks episode because Marnie isn't completely gone just yet. The preview showed her spirit going into Lafayette. My guess is that either Lafayette or Jesus are going to die in the finale. That said, some plot lines they completely dropped mid seasons:

Tommy turns into Maxine and gives permission to drill on her property. The next week he's dead.

Jason was being brought into the ware panther clan but he escapes...and apparently isn't going to change into a panther.

Baby Mikey was tormenting his mamma...but not any more. Arlene seems to have forgot the whole thing as well.

Since Marnie is dead...to a degree, does this mean that the spell on Pam is broken?

What happened to Portia?


See, what I think happens in the writers meetings is that they throw all kinds of ideas out onto the table and instead of picking the best plots, tey go with them all.

 

[Bert]

I guess you didn't stick around for the previews of next weeks episode because Marnie isn't completely gone just yet. The preview showed her spirit going into Lafayette. My guess is that either Lafayette or Jesus are going to die in the finale. That said, some plot lines they completely dropped mid seasons:

Tommy turns into Maxine and gives permission to drill on her property. The next week he's dead.

Jason was being brought into the ware panther clan but he escapes...and apparently isn't going to change into a panther.

Baby Mikey was tormenting his mamma...but not any more. Arlene seems to have forgot the whole thing as well.

Since Marnie is dead...to a degree, does this mean that the spell on Pam is broken?

What happened to Portia?


See, what I think happens in the writers meetings is that they throw all kinds of ideas out onto the table and instead of picking the best plots, tey go with them all.

Next season?? ZOMBIES. Wait not just Zombies, ZOMBIE PIRATES,,, no no wait, CURSED ZOMBIE PIRATES THAT CAN FLY AND SHOOT ACID OUT OF THEIR FINGERS!

I should write for this show forsure.

And yes cheese, I'm still watching. It's been my favorite show for a while, so I just decided to ride out the season and if it didn't improve (which it really hasn't) then I'd be done.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Next season?? ZOMBIES. Wait not just Zombies, ZOMBIE PIRATES,,, no no wait, CURSED ZOMBIE PIRATES THAT CAN FLY AND SHOOT ACID OUT OF THEIR FINGERS!

I should write for this show forsure.

And yes cheese, I'm still watching. It's been my favorite show for a while, so I just decided to ride out the season and if it didn't improve (which it really hasn't) then I'd be done.

i just couldn't do it anymore. I watched the season premiere and thought it jumped the shark and was then just bored to tears the next two episodes and found that i had no interest in ever seeing another episode ever again... and from what i'm reading, looks like i made a good decision.

a shame... it was a pretty solid season 1 and I really liked season 2, and even dug a lot of season 3 but for some reason this season just seriously turned me off.

 

[Bert]

i just couldn't do it anymore. I watched the season premiere and thought it jumped the shark and was then just bored to tears the next two episodes and found that i had no interest in ever seeing another episode ever again... and from what i'm reading, looks like i made a good decision.

a shame... it was a pretty solid season 1 and I really liked season 2, and even dug a lot of season 3 but for some reason this season just seriously turned me off.

A very good decision

 

[Covert Rain]

I guess you didn't stick around for the previews of next weeks episode because Marnie isn't completely gone just yet. The preview showed her spirit going into Lafayette. My guess is that either Lafayette or Jesus are going to die in the finale. That said, some plot lines they completely dropped mid seasons:

Tommy turns into Maxine and gives permission to drill on her property. The next week he's dead.

Jason was being brought into the ware panther clan but he escapes...and apparently isn't going to change into a panther.

Baby Mikey was tormenting his mamma...but not any more. Arlene seems to have forgot the whole thing as well.

Since Marnie is dead...to a degree, does this mean that the spell on Pam is broken?

What happened to Portia?


See, what I think happens in the writers meetings is that they throw all kinds of ideas out onto the table and instead of picking the best plots, tey go with them all.

Yep all good points. I didn't even mention the plot problems all season like you did but that is just an example of how piss poor writing has been all season long. Also, I didn't watch the preview. CRAP. More Marney. Dear lord if this continues....please someone give this show the "True Death".

 

[NJCardFan]

Let's see, season finale is now over and after about 55 minutes of boredom, we get...

Jesus is dead.
Marnie is officially gone.
Tara may be dead(shot by Debbie Pelt).
Sookie kills Debbie via shotgun.
Steve Newlin is a vampire.
Russell has been freed from his concrete prison.
Eric and Bill kill Nan.
Renee's ghost, complete with fake Cajun accent, warns Arlene about things in Terry's past coming to light.
Andy finds love.
And we finally get to see Jessica's naked bosom...well, at least one of them.

Most of this happened in the last 5 minutes. Horrible finale to say the least.

 

[Bert]

Let's see, season finale is now over and after about 55 minutes of boredom, we get...

Jesus is dead.
Marnie is officially gone.
Tara may be dead(shot by Debbie Pelt).
Sookie kills Debbie via shotgun.
Steve Newlin is a vampire.
Russell has been freed from his concrete prison.
Eric and Bill kill Nan.
Renee's ghost, complete with fake Cajun accent, warns Arlene about things in Terry's past coming to light.
Andy finds love.
And we finally get to see Jessica's naked bosom...well, at least one of them.

Most of this happened in the last 5 minutes. Horrible finale to say the least.

Well worth the wait.

 

[Stout]

Thank goodness it is over. I was just keeping up so that I could record it for my mother, who doesn't have HBO. I have told her repeatedly that, if she wants to watch the next season, she will have to get HBO herself

 

[Beaver]

Aha. GF is making me watch this show. Just completed season 4. Hate it. Red Head is right up my alley though

 

[Covert Rain]

This season is shaping up better versus last IMO. This show borders on being to freaking weird at times. Last season was just so uneven compared to the other seasons. So far I have to say I am liking this season.

 

[Bert]

This season is shaping up better versus last IMO. This show borders on being to freaking weird at times. Last season was just so uneven compared to the other seasons. So far I have to say I am liking this season.

I agree I kept watching it because it's still one of the better Summer shows and it has a lot of hot women taking off their clothes. (Hey I can be honest about my motives lol) and I did think they got better last season.

This season is turning out to be much better too. Anything is better than the steaming pile of nothing that season 3 was. But last weeks episode made me realize just how uninvolved emotionally I have become with this show. I am truly just watching it for the heck of it and this is how I know.

Spoiler

Terry Belfleur got killed on Sunday. He's a character who has been on the show since the pilot. He got killed and I had no reaction. Not like I was expecting to break down in tears but I think this show has just gotten so out of hand with SO MANY plotlines going all at once that we dont have any real attachments to any of the characters anymore and we aren't phased when they die anymore.

Just like the writers bungled up Andy's kids getting murdered. They made that whole thing so silly and so bizarre that they managed to take any semblance of emotion out of 3 pretty young women (fairies) being slaughtered. We weren't sad they got killed and you couldn't even really feel bad for Andy the dude hadn't even given them names for crying out loud. That's pretty impressive bad writing.

I mean honestly, who at this point could they kill that would be a real shock or a punch to the gut? Jessica? Eric? Lafayette and maybe Jason,,, maybe.. but that's pretty much it for me. Seriously Warlo could rip Sookies head off and at this point I really wouldn't care. Sad cuz I really used to love this show. I thought the episode where Godric died was powerful stuff but that seems like a LONG time ago.

 

[NJCardFan]

I can't argue with you Bert.

Spoiler

Here's what bothers me about True Blood. Season 1 was great. Season 2 was good, not great. Season 3 was a mess. Season 4 was an even bigger mess. Season 5 was better, more along the lines of season 2. This season started off well, now it's spiraling into season 3 territory. I mean, the writers/producers constantly throw in storylines then abruptly end them. For example, season 4, they wasted half a season on Jason and the werepanther arc only to end it with no mention since. The werewolf arc this season is a complete waste of time and is only included so Alcide and Sam are included in the season. This would have been time well spent elsewhere. Killing Terry, I mean, huh? Would have been better to kill him off after the whole Ifrit thing last season. And the whole Andy thing is a hot mess that's not going anywhere. I'm beginning to not like this season.

 

[Bert]

I can't argue with you Bert.

Spoiler

Here's what bothers me about True Blood. Season 1 was great. Season 2 was good, not great. Season 3 was a mess. Season 4 was an even bigger mess. Season 5 was better, more along the lines of season 2. This season started off well, now it's spiraling into season 3 territory. I mean, the writers/producers constantly throw in storylines then abruptly end them. For example, season 4, they wasted half a season on Jason and the werepanther arc only to end it with no mention since. The werewolf arc this season is a complete waste of time and is only included so Alcide and Sam are included in the season. This would have been time well spent elsewhere. Killing Terry, I mean, huh? Would have been better to kill him off after the whole Ifrit thing last season. And the whole Andy thing is a hot mess that's not going anywhere. I'm beginning to not like this season.

Spot on NJ.

The whole thing just stinks of a room full of bad writers who are like "ok this character is a fan favorite so lets FORCE them into the plot somehow so everyone will be happy and in the meantime we'll kill off someone else so it seems like there is still drama."

Instead of a room of good writers who are like; "Ok this person is a fan favorite so lets kill them because it works perfectly in the plot and as an added bonus it will piss everyone off. "

Spoiler

although I will say they did a halfway decent job of killing Nora, but I'll reserve judgement because Eric should be really pissed off and kicking ass from this point on and if they dont make it that way I'm going to be really annoyed.

 

[Covert Rain]

Question for any of those that have read the books. Is the series even using plot points and parts of the books anymore? Have they already exhausted that material aside from probably the ending? I don't know if there are going to be anymore books so that might be a dumb question. Just curious how the show compares to the book. I have heard at least one person tell me the show is better but I don't know.

 

[Stout]

Question for any of those that have read the books. Is the series even using plot points and parts of the books anymore? Have they already exhausted that material aside from probably the ending? I don't know if there are going to be anymore books so that might be a dumb question. Just curious how the show compares to the book. I have heard at least one person tell me the show is better but I don't know.

I used to watch this show, though thank God I stopped seasons ago. It differed in big ways from the books right from the start, but at least in the first two seasons it followed the main story line. After that, they pretty much fell to crap, both in following main story lines and in quality. I mean, the show became nothing more than pornographic garbage, and had such weird and stupid writing it was too ridiculous.

 

[NJCardFan]

Spot on NJ.

The whole thing just stinks of a room full of bad writers who are like "ok this character is a fan favorite so lets FORCE them into the plot somehow so everyone will be happy and in the meantime we'll kill off someone else so it seems like there is still drama."

Instead of a room of good writers who are like; "Ok this person is a fan favorite so lets kill them because it works perfectly in the plot and as an added bonus it will piss everyone off. "

Spoiler

although I will say they did a halfway decent job of killing Nora, but I'll reserve judgement because Eric should be really pissed off and kicking ass from this point on and if they dont make it that way I'm going to be really annoyed.

Spoiler

Nora, like Terry, was a nothing character. Terry was known a little more but we didn't meet Nora until last season. Killing Terry made no sense and the possible stupid story line with Arlene vs. the Bellefleur's is not sitting well with me. Arlene was less of a major character than Terry was and why do we care what happens with his burial? The show is supposed to be about supernatural beings(vamps, werewolves, witches, manad's, etc not drama about some shot out fry cook and his family.

 

[Bert]

Spoiler

And atleast 50% of this weeks (2nd to last of the season) episode was dedicated to TB's funeral. The people in charge think we took that really hard and needed almost a half hour of on-screen closure huh? A shame because I thought the rest of the episode was pretty entertaining.

Stupid.