True Blood Season 3
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Calli and I watched it...we're totally hooked. Lots more nudity in this season, it looks like 
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Thanks to the timing of their DVD release, I'm still waiting for 2 to get to my house via netflix. Thus, pretty much guaranteeing that I won't bother getting HBO to see season 3 (and will just wait for it to be on DVD).
Conscience off, Dick on.
Attaboy Stackhouse!
The Sam and Bill sex scene had me OMGWTFing for a few minutes until I remembered the blood.
Also, six hours!
That pretty much sums up my feelings for the show as well.
Also, if you got HBO, you could watch Season 2 on their OnDemand service.
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I could....but this way, I can be unnecessarily bitter.
True Blood is fucking crazy in the best way
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Vamp sex takes it to the next level.. Why put a paper bag on her head when you can completely turn her head and spine the opposite direction and still have sex...
It's been great so far but damn man, they are taking it up a notch for sure.
By the by, if you want a semi-spoiler, they reveal what Sookie (and Jason by extension) are, towards the end or the end of this season. And lets just say.. it'll be kinda shocking cause you'll be like "WTF? Oh ok yea that kinda makes sense"
The ending of the last episode was fucked up in the best True Blood way.
Having read the books, I can guess, but the show has only been sort of following the books, and really just writing their own stories that are heavily influenced by the books. So no spoilers based on the show please! Though I am interested in who Sookie's relatives might be in the show and who will get to play them. They had a family tree in the secret drawer, so some ancestors might show up in flashbacks or what not.
Also, just kill Tara already. If it were not for all the great scenes her character provides for Lafayette, I would write her out two seasons ago.
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I doubt they will show her family. The family tree relates to what they reveal her and her brother to be. I just hope they do it..differently than the books, what they are is pretty cool but how they introduce it is kinda goofy.
yeah, kind of a blah, plodding episode. I can't wait for the blowup between Mississippi and Louisiana, though.
Very nice episode last night! Sookie's background is opening up as well as Erics. And Bill is in trouble, I wonder if Eric can or will save him. The Jason storyline is developing well. Just unsure were they are taking the Sam idea though. And Jessica remains awesome.
I wonder if Eric can take the king of Mississippi in a fight, the king is older but Eric is Eric.
I wonder if Eric can take the king of Mississippi in a fight, the king is older but Eric is Eric.
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It depends on the situation. In the novels, older vampires almost always win, since older = stronger, so unless its a close gap, the King would be physically more powerful than Eric. But, Eric can fly, the King cannot (or at least shouldnt be able to)
They should be revealing what Sookie is (and by extension Jason) soon. I dunno if they will outright say it but they've mentioned they'd give us some type of explaination this season.
They are Faeries. The powers don't always pass down in the blood lines but it happens. Sookies powers are the telepathy and thought implanting. Jason's, well he doesn't get powers per say, but his being a Faery makes him more charismatic basically, people like him easily. Oh and in the books he becomes part shapeshifter since he gets bitten by a Were.
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I was surprised really, I like the character. In the books, he's a very minor side character who got killed basically in book 2 in an "underground" swingers-orgy type sexual club that went on behind the scenes in Bon Temps, so seeing him and Tara get more fleshed out characters is very nice.
I like Lafayette a lot. I used to like Tara a lot a lot (she was my favorite character in season 1). Then in season 2 they started having her act dumb as bricks, over and over. It made me really mad when she kept ALMOST saying "gee, I seem to be hanging out with some terrible people, I should stop doing that" and then instead she just walked right back over and Mary Anne snapped her fingers and Tara instantly became her bitch again. I mean, I get it. Mary Anne has powers and Tara doesn't. But it's made clear that ordinary people CAN resist with some degree of success, and Tara's a smart, strong girl who should have done SOMETHING useful during... I dunno, the entire fucking season?
This is what turned me off to the True Blood series. The Mary Anne storyline really pissed me off and it took great convincing of my wife to get me to start season 3; I'm glad she did. Although I really dislike the way they make Sookie's character in the show 10x more annoying than the books.
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This is what turned me off to the True Blood series. The Mary Anne storyline really pissed me off and it took great convincing of my wife to get me to start season 3; I'm glad she did. Although I really dislike the way they make Sookie's character in the show 10x more annoying than the books.[/QUOTE]
They had to beef up season 2. Basically the storyline with Eric's maker was a much bigger storyline... but since it doesnt pan out to much in the first couple books they had to expand on the Maenad as the big bad of season 2. Again she could have been easily defeated if Sookie could control her powers at that point in the series but in the books the Maenad just kinda goes away. At least they included Sookie getting hurt by her at the start, that was the focal point of the Maenad plot starting. The rest they kinda had to make up as they went a long.
I'm just hoping the new Song of Ice and Fire series is good. the brief teaser stuff we've seen looks great. SOFAI is a far superior series of books.
The use of the Maenad in the show was bad storytelling, period. Whether they were making it up for the show or taking it from the book, I dunno. But they keep setting things up that look like they're going to build to a compelling climax, and then turn around and say "nope, that plot's not going anywhere, this character is just an idiot."
I was kinda okay with the cop and Jason going all commando and then turning around get getting mind-screwed in 30 seconds, since they're frankly kinda dumb people and it was in character for them to do something stupid and have it fall flat. But if they were gonna do that, I'd prefer there to not have been this huge build up surrounding it. They successfully rescued Sam, that was fine.
The whole finale had so much redundancy. Eric and Bill both go to see the queen. Sookie and Sam and Eric and Tara and Jason all try to take down the Maenad individually.
I was kinda okay with the cop and Jason going all commando and then turning around get getting mind-screwed in 30 seconds, since they're frankly kinda dumb people and it was in character for them to do something stupid and have it fall flat. But if they were gonna do that, I'd prefer there to not have been this huge build up surrounding it. They successfully rescued Sam, that was fine.
The whole finale had so much redundancy. Eric and Bill both go to see the queen. Sookie and Sam and Eric and Tara and Jason all try to take down the Maenad individually.
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i loved how they showed just how powerful Russel is..a small flinch of a shoulder is enough to send Bill flying
I'm loving this season so far. I've read all of the books, so I have a good idea of what is coming, but there have been come great characters introduced this season: Russell/Talbot, Franklin, Alcide (yum! Did you see those nalgas last night?), etc. After the Marianne shit last season, this is a nice change.
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He really was spying on her family history at the Queens orders, cause she knows what Sookie is. Once Sookie learns that, she breaks up with him and basically hooks up with Eric
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