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shadowkat1. True Blood - continues to rock this season. It's spooky Southern Gothic. And
*I'm loving vamp Tara, who can totally kick butt. She can out-wise-crack Pam. Perfect match.
"If I wanted to dress drag, I would have raided Lafayette's closet." Turning Tara into a vamp is inspired.
*I can't decide who is creepier? Terry's Fire Monster or Lafeyette or Russell Edington. I'm going with Lafayette at the moment. Edington remains amusing.
* Someone should have knocked out Doug. Just saying.
* Sorry, Eric is hotter than Bill. Bill still looks scrawny and tiny. Even more so next to Eric. But I do love the bro-romance going on there.
* I wish I could care what is happening to the shifters and Sam, but I don't. I know they won't kill Sam, seriously, we should be so lucky. But Hasta La Vista - Luna and the shifter club, you were so boring. The only one I liked, the kid, got away.
*Jason looks like he may join the anti-sup club soon...lets' hope not. The anti-Supe club is also creepy. Possibly creepier than Lafayette. But Jason's renewed hatred of vamps works...and is an interesting storyline.
I actually like this season. The plot is tighter. The writing cleaner. And the character arcs make sense. It's more like the season with The Fellowship of the Sun - which I think was Season 2? And reminds me a little of S1, which was also tighter in structure.
They've managed to get rid of the annoying characters and the annoying character arcs, and
inserted a few interesting new ones, and enhancing old characters that were growing stale.
2. Amy Pallindino-Sherman (Gilmore Girls/Bunheads), Aaron Sorkin (Newsroom/West Wing/Sports Night) and Joss Whedon all have one thing in common - quippy dialogue that you wish you thought or said, but know for a fact that no in reality ever says. In short - the witty dialogue, one-liners, and quips are cool, and lots of fun to listen to, but let's face it - no one talks like this. No one. It's comedy dialogue.
That doesn't mean of course that I don't eat up this type of dialogue like candy. I love it. Realistic dialogue tends to be incredibly boring.
*I'm loving vamp Tara, who can totally kick butt. She can out-wise-crack Pam. Perfect match.
"If I wanted to dress drag, I would have raided Lafayette's closet." Turning Tara into a vamp is inspired.
*I can't decide who is creepier? Terry's Fire Monster or Lafeyette or Russell Edington. I'm going with Lafayette at the moment. Edington remains amusing.
* Someone should have knocked out Doug. Just saying.
* Sorry, Eric is hotter than Bill. Bill still looks scrawny and tiny. Even more so next to Eric. But I do love the bro-romance going on there.
* I wish I could care what is happening to the shifters and Sam, but I don't. I know they won't kill Sam, seriously, we should be so lucky. But Hasta La Vista - Luna and the shifter club, you were so boring. The only one I liked, the kid, got away.
*Jason looks like he may join the anti-sup club soon...lets' hope not. The anti-Supe club is also creepy. Possibly creepier than Lafayette. But Jason's renewed hatred of vamps works...and is an interesting storyline.
I actually like this season. The plot is tighter. The writing cleaner. And the character arcs make sense. It's more like the season with The Fellowship of the Sun - which I think was Season 2? And reminds me a little of S1, which was also tighter in structure.
They've managed to get rid of the annoying characters and the annoying character arcs, and
inserted a few interesting new ones, and enhancing old characters that were growing stale.
2. Amy Pallindino-Sherman (Gilmore Girls/Bunheads), Aaron Sorkin (Newsroom/West Wing/Sports Night) and Joss Whedon all have one thing in common - quippy dialogue that you wish you thought or said, but know for a fact that no in reality ever says. In short - the witty dialogue, one-liners, and quips are cool, and lots of fun to listen to, but let's face it - no one talks like this. No one. It's comedy dialogue.
That doesn't mean of course that I don't eat up this type of dialogue like candy. I love it. Realistic dialogue tends to be incredibly boring.
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:13 am (UTC)Truly, that is the only thing I miss about CNN. Also - having teenagers around the house. Back when both kids lived at home and Tom & I both worked at CNN, dinner conversation at our house was amazing. So were weekends.....
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Date: 2012-07-10 10:37 pm (UTC)I mean I do to an extent. But I edit myself. Dry wit...can come across as rude.
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Date: 2012-07-11 05:47 pm (UTC)It was the smartest place I'd ever been, with the most dedicated workers. Newsrooms are very competitive (be right!! be first!! what happened!! WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW!!). Then we mock politicians and make really off color, black humor jokes.....