Truer words were never said.
PopMatters' wrap-up of True Blood season two. I agree with most of what Chris Conaton says, especially the part about Tara (who I love on principle, but who was really hard done by this season) and Eggs.
[D]on’t get me wrong, Mehcad Brooks is a very, very good-looking man, but his character was more or less empty. Which gave the impression that Tara completely and easily fell under his sway simply because he was attractive and liked her. I’m not sure that was the point the storytellers were trying to make, but that’s how it turned out.
Which brings us to the issue of the intelligence of the characters on True Blood. There is only one intelligent character on True Blood- Eric. As played by Alexander Skarsgard, Eric is the one person who has a pretty good idea of what’s going on, and knows how to play it to his advantage. The rest of the cast basically just reacts, usually foolishly, to whatever events are transpiring. This is especially true of our ostensible leads, Sookie and Bill. ...the show can’t decide whether Sookie is a wide-eyed innocent or more crafty than she appears. They’d like us to believe that her telepathic powers give her an edge that belies her pure-looking exterior. But Sookie also spent a great deal of the season rushing ill-prepared into situations and paying the price for it. First she was supposed to go “undercover” into The Fellowship of the Sun to try and find the missing vampire Godric, but was captured almost immediately despite being able to read the minds of everyone she was up against. And then, in the final two episodes of the season, she rushed back to her house with no plan other than her determination to save Tara, and ended up just as trapped as her friend because of it. It’s tough to get behind the principal characters when they continually act like such dumbasses.
[D]on’t get me wrong, Mehcad Brooks is a very, very good-looking man, but his character was more or less empty. Which gave the impression that Tara completely and easily fell under his sway simply because he was attractive and liked her. I’m not sure that was the point the storytellers were trying to make, but that’s how it turned out.
Which brings us to the issue of the intelligence of the characters on True Blood. There is only one intelligent character on True Blood- Eric. As played by Alexander Skarsgard, Eric is the one person who has a pretty good idea of what’s going on, and knows how to play it to his advantage. The rest of the cast basically just reacts, usually foolishly, to whatever events are transpiring. This is especially true of our ostensible leads, Sookie and Bill. ...the show can’t decide whether Sookie is a wide-eyed innocent or more crafty than she appears. They’d like us to believe that her telepathic powers give her an edge that belies her pure-looking exterior. But Sookie also spent a great deal of the season rushing ill-prepared into situations and paying the price for it. First she was supposed to go “undercover” into The Fellowship of the Sun to try and find the missing vampire Godric, but was captured almost immediately despite being able to read the minds of everyone she was up against. And then, in the final two episodes of the season, she rushed back to her house with no plan other than her determination to save Tara, and ended up just as trapped as her friend because of it. It’s tough to get behind the principal characters when they continually act like such dumbasses.