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shadowkatLJ is still obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and True Blood S3. (and quite upset about the fact that both shows are sort of ahem unpolitically correct? They are *just* tv shows people. Lighten up. TV shows aren't supposed to be politically correct, sort of foils the whole point of being a tv show - you know as in the mindless and often offensive entertainment? We aren't exactly talking literature here. We're talking fun pulp! Which I'm guessing was never meant to be analyzed. We're talking about a medium that produced such critical gems as Three's Company and Manimal. Although, Sherlock Holmes is supposed to show up on PBS this fall - the closest thing the US has to a literary tv network. Only the most lofty of British and American tv shows make it to PBS. And well, anything with Sherlock Holmes in the title because Sherlock Holmes is British and like Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Agatha Christie must be literary.)
After seeing the episode I Will Rise Up - True Blood S2 (I have not seen S3, I know, I know I'm behind everyone on the tv stuff...but it is what it is.) - I get why people fell in love with it. This episode was hilarious and moving.
Ball's team of writers are better at dialogue than Charlain Harris - this is a lot funnier than I remember.
Sarah shoots Jason with a paintgun.
Jason: (totally serious) I'm dead? No, I'm not. Oh, it's a miracle. God has saved me! Thank you, Jesus.
Sarah: It's a paint-gun, grow a brain cell already.
Me: Hee. Honey, you haven't figured that out until now? And I think he needs to grow more than a brain cell. Maybe a whole brain.
Jason to Sookie: I'm really stupid Sookie. I have a brain but it only appears to be taking up space in my head.
Sookie: No, you're not stupid. You are just letting your brain sit there and take up space.
That's just being lazy. It ain't the same.
ME: Sookie darling, pot calling kettle black here.
Also, have to admit - the sex scene with Sookie and Eric is the only hot sex scene I've seen on this show and this show has a lot of sex scenes. I credit Alexander Starsgard for that one. Also is it just me or is Stephen Moyer who plays Bill starting to resemble a ghoul or skeleton? That man is far too skinny. He looks gaunt. And sort of creepy as a result. I mean, he really resembles a starved vampire. I understand that Bill doesn't drink human blood and he wants to fit the role - but I think he's taking this a bit too far. Starting to remind of Scorpius and this is not a good thing.
I laughed when Sookie found out Eric had suckered her into sucking his blood. I remember that from the books. It's how the author got Eric and Sookie together - they ended up with a blood bond or being bonded by blood. This made no sense to me - because, hello, she also drank and shared blood with Bill. I'm guessing Ball may play with this in a different and far less romantic manner than Harris and Anita Blake and Anne Rice did. Might be wrong.
Loved the Eric/Godric and Godric/Sookie scenes - the actor playing Godric was quite good.
And Anna Pacquin sold that scene -reminding me what a great actress she truly is. She actually did a better job of selling it than Starsgard. Although the Eric was rather interesting in these two episodes - you get the feeling that he is confused by what he is feeling. This was a particularly good line:
Sookie: You care for him because he's your maker?
Eric: don't use words you don't understand.
Sookie: you love him?
Eric: don't use words that I don't understand.
Much more entertaining relationship. Actually, I find Bill and Eric more interesting than Bill and Sookie. Jason and Sookie are more interesting, and for a moment there - I was actually beginning to wonder if we were going to have an incest storyline. Wouldn't be surprised if we did.
At any rate, I'm highly entertained. Laughed my head off during the last two episodes. Maryanne is hilarious, so is Eric and Jessica Tuck in the role of vampire media mongol. Also the dual themes of religion have been expanded to explore two types of religion, chaos and order or rather the worship of chaos, and the worship of rules and order. Both derail but in different ways.
After seeing the episode I Will Rise Up - True Blood S2 (I have not seen S3, I know, I know I'm behind everyone on the tv stuff...but it is what it is.) - I get why people fell in love with it. This episode was hilarious and moving.
Ball's team of writers are better at dialogue than Charlain Harris - this is a lot funnier than I remember.
Sarah shoots Jason with a paintgun.
Jason: (totally serious) I'm dead? No, I'm not. Oh, it's a miracle. God has saved me! Thank you, Jesus.
Sarah: It's a paint-gun, grow a brain cell already.
Me: Hee. Honey, you haven't figured that out until now? And I think he needs to grow more than a brain cell. Maybe a whole brain.
Jason to Sookie: I'm really stupid Sookie. I have a brain but it only appears to be taking up space in my head.
Sookie: No, you're not stupid. You are just letting your brain sit there and take up space.
That's just being lazy. It ain't the same.
ME: Sookie darling, pot calling kettle black here.
Also, have to admit - the sex scene with Sookie and Eric is the only hot sex scene I've seen on this show and this show has a lot of sex scenes. I credit Alexander Starsgard for that one. Also is it just me or is Stephen Moyer who plays Bill starting to resemble a ghoul or skeleton? That man is far too skinny. He looks gaunt. And sort of creepy as a result. I mean, he really resembles a starved vampire. I understand that Bill doesn't drink human blood and he wants to fit the role - but I think he's taking this a bit too far. Starting to remind of Scorpius and this is not a good thing.
I laughed when Sookie found out Eric had suckered her into sucking his blood. I remember that from the books. It's how the author got Eric and Sookie together - they ended up with a blood bond or being bonded by blood. This made no sense to me - because, hello, she also drank and shared blood with Bill. I'm guessing Ball may play with this in a different and far less romantic manner than Harris and Anita Blake and Anne Rice did. Might be wrong.
Loved the Eric/Godric and Godric/Sookie scenes - the actor playing Godric was quite good.
And Anna Pacquin sold that scene -reminding me what a great actress she truly is. She actually did a better job of selling it than Starsgard. Although the Eric was rather interesting in these two episodes - you get the feeling that he is confused by what he is feeling. This was a particularly good line:
Sookie: You care for him because he's your maker?
Eric: don't use words you don't understand.
Sookie: you love him?
Eric: don't use words that I don't understand.
Much more entertaining relationship. Actually, I find Bill and Eric more interesting than Bill and Sookie. Jason and Sookie are more interesting, and for a moment there - I was actually beginning to wonder if we were going to have an incest storyline. Wouldn't be surprised if we did.
At any rate, I'm highly entertained. Laughed my head off during the last two episodes. Maryanne is hilarious, so is Eric and Jessica Tuck in the role of vampire media mongol. Also the dual themes of religion have been expanded to explore two types of religion, chaos and order or rather the worship of chaos, and the worship of rules and order. Both derail but in different ways.
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Re: Just a tv show?
Date: 2010-08-16 04:51 pm (UTC)The internet and political correctness. Where to start? Ugh.
Let's just say there's often not always a tendency towards hypocrisy and hyperbole when it comes to this topic. I've had my analysis attacked by the politically correct police. And sigh,
people do take themselves and their tv shows far too seriously sometimes.
That's not to say you shouldn't do analysis on this topic or that excellent analysis has not been done. It has. Can't think of any at the moment, and don't have the time to read the link posted above.
Seriously though I don't look to fluffy shows for high art and intellectual themes, but I don't think it's too much to ask that they don't slap us in the face with cliches and stereotypes.
True. Sometimes I wonder if I've forgotten more tv shows than most people online have watched? Should do a meme or something to find out, would if had the time. At any rate - I have a list of tv shows that slap us in the face with cliches and stereotypes all the bleeding time. Moffat, from what I've seen of his work to date (haven't seen Sherlock Holmes) - isn't that bad. Actually he's a lot better than RTD and JJ Abrhams - who can at times make me cringe with their stereotypes and cliches. And don't get me started on Bones. But as in all things mileage varies.
okay off to get chocolat, then back to the grindstone.