True Blood...is not respecting it's Fandom.

[impetusofadream]

*Firstly Up Yours El Jay for having a jacked up website and making my re-type this*

Secondly, as you might be aware I'm a big fan of True Blood and the books the show is based on. And this current season is supposed to be based on my favorite book of the series. So needless to say that I was very excited for tonight's season premiere; only what

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[rawthorne]

I'll put forth an unpopular opinion, but I actually found the whole sparkly faery bullshit to be, well, bullshit. I think the audience of the show is too mature (and has to be, considering the violence, gore and sex) for the faery godmother Disney crap. Wasn't keen on the fact that we only got a glimpse of this new faery land that Ball has created, but I understand they only had so much room in the first episode to introduce the plot.

I wasn't impressed by the episode because I think the writing was a bit lazy. That said, Lafayette continues to be fabulous and I'm pleased they're showing Tara take ownership of her life for a change. After three seasons of getting screwed over, repeatedly, she seems to be in a mutually satisfying relationship and living life on her own terms. That's a major step in the right direction in her characterization.

Don't despair about them not introducing the Eric-plot just yet. I have a feeling they're setting Bill up to be a Big Bad versus an Eric who will pull a Spike and then promptly get castrated, so to speak... thus leading us into a whole Sookie having to take care of her would-be attacker plot line.

[impetusofadream]

I wasn't wanting sparkly faeries because there's a fucking FAIRY WAR later in the books. In fact I'd of been kinda pissed if they'd all been happy Tinkerbell knock-offs. What makes me angry is that faeries in Harris' her grandpa...is NOT her grandpa. King of the Faeries is her grandpa. And that in my mind the way they read was always coming off a bit more like Tolkien's elves in that they generally find humans...beneath them unless they are like offspring of one of hte fae and even then they have to exhibit fae-like powers for the fae relatives to give a damn. Granted I haven't finished the book that the faery war happens in but to my knowledge they ALWAYS look like fantabulous other-worldly as opposed to Troll-ish other-worldly.

I like Lafayette, get down with your fierce gay self, but Tara just...annoys me. I think it's because she's just a blurb in the books and the person in the show just hasn't ever really connected with me. I do like that she's not letting things just happen to her anymore. It just bothers me cause her story line is just so radically different than the books, where she owns a store and it fairly well adjusted and by the point where I am in the books is married and preggers.

YAY FOR BILL BEING A BIG BAD!!! *I really don't like his character at ALL, and will have a bitch fit to shame all former and future bitch fits if he ends up with Sookie again. Especially because we still haven't met Quinn.*