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[shadowkat]

1. 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.

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Actually if you make it through the first half of Book 3 - you should be ready for the tv series.

Assuming you don't get bogged down in Book 2. I got bogged down in Book 2 and Book 4...speaking of which, at some point I should probably finish reading it and start book 5.

[sophist.livejournal.com]

I found books 4 and 5 to be tough slogging. There's actually a lot of stuff in there which seems like it'll be important, but it's tedious on first read.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I'm still stuck in the middle of Book 4. I loved the character of Jamie until I hit book 4...and began to think, stop brooding and whining already! I started to lose interest in a character I'd found fascinating up to that point.
And kill Cersei already, she's grating on my nerves.

Less is more, Martin, less is more!

That said, I rather liked Aysha - who is Arrya in the series. And Sam is not bad.

[sophist.livejournal.com]

That's confusing to call her Arya, since Arya Stark is one of the main characters. Two Aryas is too many; they should have stuck with Aysha.

Agreed on Jaime. And Cersei.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. But they changed her name to avoid confusion with a minor character named Osha. I kid you not.

Makes you wonder about the tv series writers.