True Blood (HBO Series) Spoilers OK, with Warnings!

[JoeAnn]

WooHoo!  Anna Paquin won the Golden Globe.  What a nice win for her and True Blood.  Oh, and Stephen Moyer was hot on the red carpet.  Love his native Brit accent. He said they began filming season 2 this week.

[Passion]

Yes very exciting!  It made me totally miss the show...hearing the music when she won the Globe! 

[Jack Rance]

GREAT win for Anna AND Trueblood ( SOO GRREAT Stephen / Bill was there to share her joy)  -I also felt a big ole twinge when they started playing the first notes of  the " I want to do BAD things to you" theme .Here is a YouTube clip of the award and a GREAT interview of the cast at an after party -WAY TO GO TRUE BLOOD

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxrdW33uMw

[JoeAnn]

GREAT win for Anna AND Trueblood ( SOO GRREAT Stephen / Bill was there to share her joy)  -I also felt a big ole twinge when they started playing the first notes of  the " I want to do BAD things to you" theme .Here is a YouTube clip of the award and a GREAT interview of the cast at an after party -WAY TO GO TRUE BLOOD

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxrdW33uMw

That song is my ring tone, lol. 

[jack]

i thinkl its time this made its way back to the active threads...

it would appear that ryan kwanten has kept himself in shape, and shirtless, for the coming season...

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef01156f8e76ad970c-popup

[Passion]

Very excited to hear that the new season starts mid-june!  Right?

[jack]

not as excited as for SYTYCD 5 but close.

[BrokenOkie]

Season 2 starts tomorrow.  Please remember spoilers are OK, but with warnings.  Enjoy!

[jack]

all righty....

anyone got links to sites that have the current series available.  i know they are out there, but i am too lazy to search.

[oilgun]

I'm so glad I found this thread!  My viewing is up to date, I got the Season 1 DVDs and pretty much marathon-watched the whole thing,  I got HBO for season 2 but I'm not used to waiting a week for the next episode, lol!

Anyway, TRUE BLOOD is my new all-time favourite show.  I love, LOVE, Bill Compton, and Jason Stackhouse of course, because who can resist a clueless cutie.  Sookie gets on my nerves at time though.  I even added Nan Flanagan as a Facebook friend, I hope her role as the spokes-vampire for the AVL expands a bit.

I have no desire to read the books for some reason.  I guess because I got to know the characters on the TV show, reading the books might somehow taint my love for them.  Something like that.  Is the writing has to be better than the painful to read Twilight?

[JoeAnn]

I'm so glad I found this thread!  My viewing is up to date, I got the Season 1 DVDs and pretty much marathon-watched the whole thing,  I got HBO for season 2 but I'm not used to waiting a week for the next episode, lol!

Anyway, TRUE BLOOD is my new all-time favourite show.  I love, LOVE, Bill Compton, and Jason Stackhouse of course, because who can resist a clueless cutie.  Sookie gets on my nerves at time though.  I even added Nan Flanagan as a Facebook friend, I hope her role as the spokes-vampire for the AVL expands a bit.

I have no desire to read the books for some reason.  I guess because I got to know the characters on the TV show, reading the books might somehow taint my love for them.  Something like that.  Is the writing has to be better than the painful to read Twilight?

While I'm not on board with the Twilight disdain, Charlaine Harris is a much better writer than Stephanie Meyers. She was already an established writer of mysteries, with several published series before she wrote Dead Until Dark, the first Sookie Stackhouse book. 

Alan Ball has been steadily taking True Blood in its own direction so the books are just different enough that you can enjoy both versions. I will give the nod to Charlaine Harris in one aspect though, since the books are written from her point of view and the reader is privy to her internal thought processes, CH's Sookie comes across as more mature and a little more world-weary than Alan Ball and Anna Paquin's version.  She isn't so post-teen flouncy. In contrast, True Blood is slightly trashier and definitely sexier than the book series.  Damn fun to watch, for sure.

You can find lots of CH's books at your local library if you're leery about spending bucks on an untried author. Give 'em a try.   

[oilgun]

Thanks JoeAnn!  I wouldn't describe my feelings for TWILIGHT as disdain.  True, I couldn't handle the teen-baroque style of the writing but I enjoyed the movie, and way more than I'm willing to admit,  ! Rob Pattinson IS dreamy.  I do have a HUGE problem with the liberties the author took with the Vampire lore, though.  Vampires who are impervious to the sun's rays is just bizarre to me, but I guess she had to find a way to get them into a high-school setting.  (There's a hell for you, high-school for eternity.) So she thought: "I know, instead of killing them the sun just makes their skin glitter!  Yeah, that's the ticket, girls love glitter!"   (OMG, it IS disdain!   )  

[Passion]

I am rolling Oilgun!  Glitter is the girl of the 00's best friend for sure!  True Blood ruined Twilight for me....the book and the movie. I think the fact that they are teenagers and the girl wants to give up her life for the dude...obviously a common theme in movies but it bothered me a lot because so many young girls are so in love with the series.  Not a great message and I guess the author being Mormon had something to do with it!  (Yes, that was a bit of a low blow! One of my Mormon friends recently pissed me off!)

[JoeAnn]

Thanks JoeAnn!  I wouldn't describe my feelings for TWILIGHT as disdain.  True, I couldn't handle the teen-baroque style of the writing but I enjoyed the movie, and way more than I'm willing to admit,  ! Rob Pattinson IS dreamy.  I do have a HUGE problem with the liberties the author took with the Vampire lore, though.  Vampires who are impervious to the sun's rays is just bizarre to me, but I guess she had to find a way to get them into a high-school setting.  (There's a hell for you, high-school for eternity.) So she thought: "I know, instead of killing them the sun just makes their skin glitter!  Yeah, that's the ticket, girls love glitter!"   (OMG, it IS disdain!   )  

lol, I enjoyed the movie too.  More than I expected considering my niece coerced me into taking her to the midnight premiere.

At the risk of labeling myself a fangurl, I didn't mind the sparkling.  Frankly, it's *vampires*, the undead but not rotted, we're talking about.  In my mind (and maybe the author should have bullshitted her way through an explanation like this) I just told myself, fine, years of undead existence promote the build-up of minerals on the vamps' skin, hence the sparkles when under direct sunlight.  Every author out there plays with vampire lore, adding and discarding and inventing to suit the rules of the universe they write in.  Twilight was Meyers' first book and, despite the weak technique, she did manage to capture something that lots and lots of readers enjoy.  She's not my favorite author, I'm well past the age of YA books, but I do respect what she's created.  I love seeing so many teens and early twentysomethings sitting around reading her books.  I teach college, and just the mention of Twilight will easily derail my lesson plan for the day as so many students have opinions they're eager to share.  This from students who brag about hating to read.

[oilgun]

Thanks JoeAnn!  I wouldn't describe my feelings for TWILIGHT as disdain.  True, I couldn't handle the teen-baroque style of the writing but I enjoyed the movie, and way more than I'm willing to admit,  ! Rob Pattinson IS dreamy.  I do have a HUGE problem with the liberties the author took with the Vampire lore, though.  Vampires who are impervious to the sun's rays is just bizarre to me, but I guess she had to find a way to get them into a high-school setting.  (There's a hell for you, high-school for eternity.) So she thought: "I know, instead of killing them the sun just makes their skin glitter!  Yeah, that's the ticket, girls love glitter!"   (OMG, it IS disdain!   )  

lol, I enjoyed the movie too.  More than I expected considering my niece coerced me into taking her to the midnight premiere.

At the risk of labeling myself a fangurl, I didn't mind the sparkling.  Frankly, it's *vampires*, the undead but not rotted, we're talking about.  In my mind (and maybe the author should have bullshitted her way through an explanation like this) I just told myself, fine, years of undead existence promote the build-up of minerals on the vamps' skin, hence the sparkles when under direct sunlight.  Every author out there plays with vampire lore, adding and discarding and inventing to suit the rules of the universe they write in.  Twilight was Meyers' first book and, despite the weak technique, she did manage to capture something that lots and lots of readers enjoy.  She's not my favorite author, I'm well past the age of YA books, but I do respect what she's created.  I love seeing so many teens and early twentysomethings sitting around reading her books.  I teach college, and just the mention of Twilight will easily derail my lesson plan for the day as so many students have opinions they're eager to share.  This from students who brag about hating to read.

Oh, I agree with you there, I think it's great that the TWILIGHT series has tweens and teens reading.  That's always a good thing.  I have no issues with the series being popular with that age group or any group really, I was just explaining my personal issues with Meyer's world.

As for the sparkling skin, Meyers mentions in the commentary that it came from a dream she had.   Apparently, the whole scene where Edward reveals his sparkling skin to Bella is the cinematic version of the dream that inspired the whole series.  I realise that writers have played around with the Vampire myth, adding and removing certain elements.  Anne Rice got rid of the Vampire's aversion to Christian symbols and garlic.  TRUE BLOOD followed suit and added new stuff:  Vampire blood as a powerful drug for humans but with different effects; Silver as Vampire kryptonite; etc. But both of these and all other vampire worlds that I'm aware of have kept what I consider to be the basic tenets or defining attributes of Vampirism: the thirst for human blood and a deadly allergy to direct sunlight.  I'm just glad I saw TWILIGHT first, because , like Passion, TRUE BLOOD ruined it for me.