True Blood - this week's
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shadowkat1. Have given up on Sorkin's Newsroom - I don't like anyone and I find it boring. The pilot was great, but the episodes following it lost me. Too preachy, too sappy, and too relationship oriented. Plus I think Sorkin has some unresolved gender bias issues he needs to sort through.
2. True Blood however, is highly entertaining this season and the tightest written of its entire history on air. I don't know what happened. But all the stories are working for once.
* Sam's - I found amusing. Sam's storyline has always been either creepy or weirdly funny.
* Alcide is actually hot when he's not with Sookie. Although I think we saw more of his body than anything else in his storyline, luckily it is a hot body.
* Bill works better as sinister and a bad guy than a good guy. He's more interesting as a villain. And Eric works better as a good guy or reluctant good guy. It may be how the actors play it. Skarsdale has these huge and expressive eyes, you can barely see Moyers.
At any rate, I'm enjoying the vampire storyline and the Eric/Bill bi-play. Not sure how they are going to bring Bill back from this season. Will state they are sort of following the book's interpretation of the character - by the later books, Bill was an out-and-out jerk and ERic was the sweetheart.
* Sookie's storyline is the least interesting, possibly because I don't like or care about the character all that much. Will state I'm curious who the vampire is - Russell, Bill, or someone else? Rather like the Jason/Sookie bi-play though.
* Love Pam/Tara...which is alternately touching and creepy...Pam is slowly corrupting Tara.
Turning Tara into another version of herself. Also the two bitchest/snarkiest female characters in the series, not to mention my favorite, together. What's not to love.
* Terry/Lafayette story finally comes together - which worked for me. Both were equally scary and creepy and fit Southern Gothic perfectly.
The series has gotten more Southern Gothic and less satirical...which I think is why I like it better. Satire doesn't work in large doses for me, I tend to get bored. It's like all humor actually. Which may explain why sitcoms are only a half-hour long. You stretch it to an hour, you lose the joke. Or pull it too thin. Snark? In Bunheads and Newsroom there's too much of it. If you snark all the time, you sound like an ass. You have to temper it. This is why characters like Cordy, Anya, and Spike were not on all the time and their snark was often lightened with self-deprecating wit. Humor is always a balancing act, I think. Not sure if I communicated that well or not.
Okay, off to bed.
2. True Blood however, is highly entertaining this season and the tightest written of its entire history on air. I don't know what happened. But all the stories are working for once.
* Sam's - I found amusing. Sam's storyline has always been either creepy or weirdly funny.
* Alcide is actually hot when he's not with Sookie. Although I think we saw more of his body than anything else in his storyline, luckily it is a hot body.
* Bill works better as sinister and a bad guy than a good guy. He's more interesting as a villain. And Eric works better as a good guy or reluctant good guy. It may be how the actors play it. Skarsdale has these huge and expressive eyes, you can barely see Moyers.
At any rate, I'm enjoying the vampire storyline and the Eric/Bill bi-play. Not sure how they are going to bring Bill back from this season. Will state they are sort of following the book's interpretation of the character - by the later books, Bill was an out-and-out jerk and ERic was the sweetheart.
* Sookie's storyline is the least interesting, possibly because I don't like or care about the character all that much. Will state I'm curious who the vampire is - Russell, Bill, or someone else? Rather like the Jason/Sookie bi-play though.
* Love Pam/Tara...which is alternately touching and creepy...Pam is slowly corrupting Tara.
Turning Tara into another version of herself. Also the two bitchest/snarkiest female characters in the series, not to mention my favorite, together. What's not to love.
* Terry/Lafayette story finally comes together - which worked for me. Both were equally scary and creepy and fit Southern Gothic perfectly.
The series has gotten more Southern Gothic and less satirical...which I think is why I like it better. Satire doesn't work in large doses for me, I tend to get bored. It's like all humor actually. Which may explain why sitcoms are only a half-hour long. You stretch it to an hour, you lose the joke. Or pull it too thin. Snark? In Bunheads and Newsroom there's too much of it. If you snark all the time, you sound like an ass. You have to temper it. This is why characters like Cordy, Anya, and Spike were not on all the time and their snark was often lightened with self-deprecating wit. Humor is always a balancing act, I think. Not sure if I communicated that well or not.
Okay, off to bed.
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Date: 2012-07-31 02:51 am (UTC)But all the characters are working really well this season. Even Sookie. I really enjoy nihilistic Sookie who's realizing just how much she ruins everyone's lives. And her sibling moments with Jason are really touching.
Pam and Tara are amazing. Love it.
I wasn't really invested in the Authority storyline before, but I'm much more interested now that Bill has joined the Dark Side. Seeing Eric as he realized he was surrounded by fanatics was priceless. But Eric has always been a more interesting character for me.
I like that Alcide wasn't thrown at Sookie. But damn, we certainly did see a lot of him in this episode. o_o It's nice to see crazy gramma werewolf standing up to the pack too. I thought she had some kind of malicious hidden agenda but now it seems more like she just didn't know how far the pack had gone.
Definitely a strong season so far. I'm looking forward to the last few episodes.
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Date: 2012-08-01 12:25 am (UTC)Also agree on Eric and Bill. Find Eric more interesting... Bill, doesn't do that much for me for some reason.
Also gramma werewolf definitely is more interesting than expected.