True Blood review: Turn, Turn, Turn
Oh, "True Blood." No matter how crazy, insane, ridiculous, or bizarre you get, I still love you.
I've completely detached the HBO series from the Charlaine Harris novels now, because I knew the show would veer off in vastly different directions from the books. The season premiere last night proved it.
Spoilers ahead.
Predictable: Tara being turned into a vampire, by force, because half her head was missing and Sookie and Lafayette really wanted her back. Unpredictable: Pam agreeing to be Tara's maker so that Sookie would be in her debt, Gods how I loved Pam's lines and how she chewed scenery so quietly. Predictable: Tara coming back strange. Unpredictable: Tara freaking the fuck out and attacking Sookie in the last five minutes, as well as previews showing that Tara indeed came back strange, rather animalistic, and completely, totally, violently pissed off. At least having Pam as her maker will be amusing as hell.
Predictable: Steve Newlin being "a gay vampire American." Unpredictable: Steve Newlin being in love with Jason Stackhouse. That entire scene was so adorable, especially when Jessica intervened and claimed Jason. Newlin's tortured howl of "I love you!" as Jason rescinded his invitation was hilarious.
Predictable: Bill and Eric developing a bromance. Unpredictable: Everything that happened to them, including Nora, the Authority, and Eric deciding that Sookie didn't need their help.
Predictable: Alcide coming to Sam's rescue and declaring that he killed the packmaster. Unpredictable: The odd cannibalism of the corpse ritual. What?
Predictable: Lafayette doing anything. Unpredictable: Layafette being such an amazing badass in anything he did. I love him so much. I'm so glad they didn't kill him like his book counterpart in the second season.
Stuff I didn't really like: They crammed how many plotlines in one episode? They had how many unnecessary plotlines in the first episode alone? What was the point of Jessica's frathouse party? Why did Alan Ball decide to create a vampire Authority? Are the faeries just being ignored for the time being? Just how far will Alan Ball take the series away from Charlaine Harris, and how much does she care? I mean, aside from the buckets of money she's been getting. This is what they mean by "loosely based on the book series."
I've completely detached the HBO series from the Charlaine Harris novels now, because I knew the show would veer off in vastly different directions from the books. The season premiere last night proved it.
Spoilers ahead.
Predictable: Tara being turned into a vampire, by force, because half her head was missing and Sookie and Lafayette really wanted her back. Unpredictable: Pam agreeing to be Tara's maker so that Sookie would be in her debt, Gods how I loved Pam's lines and how she chewed scenery so quietly. Predictable: Tara coming back strange. Unpredictable: Tara freaking the fuck out and attacking Sookie in the last five minutes, as well as previews showing that Tara indeed came back strange, rather animalistic, and completely, totally, violently pissed off. At least having Pam as her maker will be amusing as hell.
Predictable: Steve Newlin being "a gay vampire American." Unpredictable: Steve Newlin being in love with Jason Stackhouse. That entire scene was so adorable, especially when Jessica intervened and claimed Jason. Newlin's tortured howl of "I love you!" as Jason rescinded his invitation was hilarious.
Predictable: Bill and Eric developing a bromance. Unpredictable: Everything that happened to them, including Nora, the Authority, and Eric deciding that Sookie didn't need their help.
Predictable: Alcide coming to Sam's rescue and declaring that he killed the packmaster. Unpredictable: The odd cannibalism of the corpse ritual. What?
Predictable: Lafayette doing anything. Unpredictable: Layafette being such an amazing badass in anything he did. I love him so much. I'm so glad they didn't kill him like his book counterpart in the second season.
Stuff I didn't really like: They crammed how many plotlines in one episode? They had how many unnecessary plotlines in the first episode alone? What was the point of Jessica's frathouse party? Why did Alan Ball decide to create a vampire Authority? Are the faeries just being ignored for the time being? Just how far will Alan Ball take the series away from Charlaine Harris, and how much does she care? I mean, aside from the buckets of money she's been getting. This is what they mean by "loosely based on the book series."