True Blood - this week's
Jul. 30th, 2012 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 09:40 am (UTC)I really don't know what's going on with Bill. I like the character, but I can't see how he comes back from this. I suspect a Twangel-like ducking of responsibility, though, given that Alan Ball is on record as saying he thinks Bill and Sookie are soulmates.
The slight fly in the ointment for me this season is Norah (Eric's vampire sister). I find the character annoying and after what she said and did in the latest episode wish Eric would just stake her.
Is that character in the books?
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Date: 2012-07-31 10:34 pm (UTC)Everything else is not related to the books at all. Except possibly the Shifter murders.
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Date: 2012-07-31 10:44 pm (UTC)It's possible that snacking on Sookie could wake Bill up and out of his Lilith daze? Doesn't exactly redeem him, but they may not need to, just let him angst over what he's done.
Although one of the themes of this season appears to be "reap what you sow" or "payment for past crimes". Bill appears to want to lose himself in being a vampire, to escape it. They may be going down the addiction trip for Bill, certainly wouldn't be the first time a show did that. It does however get old after a bit.
Eric is more interesting to me. Bill, I'm somewhat ambivalent about. ;-)
Making Tara a vampire was the best thing that ever happened to that character. Her interactions with Pam are great. She's obviously worming her way into Pam's affections despite Pam's best attempts to pretend otherwise.
Agree. Best new relationship dynamic ever.