Sup y'all~
So my last post was kind of angry and I wrote it in a flurry of caffeinated rage. Basically before yesterday I hadnt updated for a while and wasnt really commenting on my flist's entries for the most part. The reason is I am very busy lately with school, with getting my life together because I'm getting older, my parents are getting more burdened
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I will just say I had fun watching the True Blood finale as a cap to my epic 7 episode marathon. It worked for me, but yeah it was certainly bizarre. I didn't see it stamping out the notion of a higher power succinctly in that one line across the entire show and its themes, but I do see the metaphor (that it was her belief that caused her undoing) and think that it's actually great due it it being so fucked up. I'm actually really impressed by this show and it's inclusion of religion and ideas and notions of god. They entertain the idea constantly in scenes, plotlines, and characters and their own ideas and opinions. I definitely didn't see Mary Ann's conclusion as the show being like "our supernatural world has no god or gods" ever at all ever. Was that what you're saying or you just didn't like the metaphor as to how it played out with Mary Ann?
I can see how waiting for that episode for 2 weeks might have let to a disappointment, but it worked for me as the conclusion to a 7 episode marathon lol. I guess I don't even know how to break down the different episodes, it's all one giant story in my head. It seemed to flow really well with the rest of it and capped things off in this way that, while the last half could feel deflating, I felt was more like setting up newly-damaged-by-s2-events bowling pins and then starting to knock them down again already.
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See I think I totally would have enjoyed it more if I watched it all in succession like that. True Blood is definitely one of those shows that works better when you watch the episodes close together/right after each other. Cause Ball let's the episoes continue exactly where the previous one left off, rather than having each episode have it's own story. It's why I enjoyed S1 as much as I did cause it really has some slow spots, if I'd had to watch it week after week I'd have gotten frustrated much more easily.
The Mary Ann storyline was so long! I didnt mind it really but after all that time, over a year if you count S1 eps which I'd watched before S2 had started. You'd think more would have happened. But oh well man :( It really wasnt terrible, but I felt like with all the build up and the waiting it felt like such a let down. I think that's the problem with weekly progams, you gotta take into account how time can affect viewers perception of the show.
As for the deity thing it was more I didnt like how the metaphor played out. But I think I did do some ranting in general about tv and religion. Cause alot of people and tv shows sort of look down on people with a strong faith. and I feel bad that that's the way Mary Ann had to go in light of that, but as a plot device by itself it really IS clever in a way. and I dont think Ball necessarily meant ill against ANY one who believes in something strongly when he did that, but if it's something you're already sensitive about like myself, then it's hard to see it any other way. It was a momentary anger though, I ranted it out and I feel better about it now. As for Gods on True Blood, who knows, the way Alan Ball spoke abot Mary Ann in an interivew and her God conjuring did make it sound more like she couldnt summon a God and less like there are no Gods to be summoned. So it's entirely possible that Ball might entertain that idea in the future, though as far as I know the Stackhouse books dont have any Gods in them. Either way, I still love this show, and I hope I can go back to squeeing about it like a fangirl again soon! It's really great to have more people on the flist who like it. So I can have conversations like this :)
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And I totally get you! I was just wondering re: if it was the micro level of the plotline that bugged or the macro level of the entire series as a whole. I was simultaneously all "what the hale is going on now?" and "wow that is so strange and imagery and oh and weird and kind of beautiful" re: the bull thing. But definitely I can see where people are coming from from all sides on this finale. And I completely agree with you re: themes on tv in general. I think supernatural shows are the best and exploring these themes and its a shame when their creators don't take advantage, no matter what their own beliefs are. I thought the scene between Godric and Sookie on the roof was so beautiful, so when they have that and then all these different other scenes going on as well I think that's points in its favor. BUT I TOTALLY SUPPORT YOUR RANTING! RANTING IS GOOD. I love when TV makes people crazy, including myself! :)
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