they killed it/true blood rant
I forgot to mention how we finished True Blood awhile back...ohman most disapointed finale ever! But didnt it go down hill since Alan Bell left? True Blood became what it was not. Sookie got more annoying. Characters that were less than morale but for some reason were made acceptable got more morale and just not acceptable! It got so weird...
But icing on the top was Sookie getting pregnant with some nobody and having an idealised moment with everyone breaking bread. It ruined it. I really should have stopped watching it when it became crap. All the episodes were bad, but the last ep took the cake. Where shall we start?
Glamourising suicide? And then Bill who has put Sookie through so much shit then getting her to kill HIM. Do it yourself BITCH! (well thats the old attitude True Blood used to have!). You know just to fuck her up a little more. THERE IS NO WAY THEN THAT IT IS TRUE SOULMATE LOVE. And her doing what he says. Letting him make the decisons for her. So anti feminist. Total contrast to the start of the show and all the other promotions in the show (black character not killd off, explorations of gay relationships, explorations of family outside the norm...). And in the end Bill killing himself caz he wont give Sookie babies. Oh gosh, so bad.... And it wasnt like Jessica was killing herself getting with a human...I mean there is adoption. Think outside the box. But sadly there was no thinking outside the box.
This: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11081341/True-Blood-finale-review-a-betrayal-of-a-great-series.html so true!
& there are no good reviews of this finale. Kinda weird too how Hoyt and Jessica got back together ad reallyt fast. Considering how many problems they had and how complicated it was. Still I did kinda feel they were sweet together to start with and said when it ended earlier in the show. When Allan Bell left too it got way more soap operay and focused on too many different characters per episode/less deep. Also if True Blood wanted to teach us that real love is messy but you just work it out even though its not perfect...it certianly lost this...
I thought it was about teaching us that the dark and messy sides of ourselves are okay. To embrace them too and that life isnt black and white but shades of grey....and then it has this black and white ending where Bill gives up love so Sookie can have this 'idealised american dream' of love uggggh
"Jessica and Hoyt got hitched, because it was Bill’s greatest wish to see his progeny married off? Bill just had to lecture Sookie about how having children makes life worth living? Sookie needed to chat with the Reverend about God’s plan? For a show that once skewered Ted Cruz and other self-proclaimed defenders of “family values,” this was pretty conservative stuff.
What happened to the transgressive fun of True Blood? It’s hard to remember now, but when the series first premiered, its campy, hedonistic vibe felt somewhat revolutionary-or, anyway, as revolutionary as a show that would later feature werepanther rape can get. Back then, in 2008, the vampire myth had been completely defanged by the Twilightbooks and their pale hero, Edward Cullen-who could conquer his desire for sex or blood or sleep or anything beyond gazing deeply into his girlfriend’s eyes. By contrast,True Blood opened with gratuitously explicit sex scenes, then segued into one of themost ricidulously gory bloodbaths in TV history later that season. The characters were all gloriously weird, whether they were vampires, werewolves, faeries, or shapeshifters-never mind whether they were straight, gay, or bisexual. This show didn’t just want you to watch its freak flag fly. It wanted to stake that freak flag through your heart.
Sure, the storyline about Maryann-the Maenad who made people lick ostrich eggs-made no sense at all. But, hey, there was a storyline about a Maenad who made people lick ostrich eggs!True Blood deserves respect just for daring to be totally nuts. And for sticking with the show through all its mounting insanity, I think we deserved a totally insane grand finale-not some sentimental Jane Austen ending culminating in a wedding. Don’t get me wrong-I love Jane Austen! I just don’t thing she belongs in Bon Temps.
In the end, it’s disappointing to find Bill transformed into just another old-fashioned Southern patriarch, down to the way he deemed that Jessica should get married right now, just so that he can “give her away.
Once upon a time, True Blood played with gender roles in pretty subversive ways. Women largely run Bon Temps: Maryann once had the power to control the whole town. Lillith once had the power to control Bill. Pam has just as much sway over Eric as he does over her-you could say they have a pretty equal relationship, if only because they’re equally into dominating other people. So it’s a little sad that, in the end, Hoyt brought Jessica home to Daddy, uttering “Yessir!” the whole way, and Jessica admitted that she’s been dreaming about her wedding since she was little. “I may be a vampire, Bill,” she says, “but I am also a girl.” As if the urge to plan a wedding were etched in one’s chromosomes.
Granted, there were so many other problems with the finale. We didn’t get enough time with the best characters: Eric, Pam, and Lafayette. (Though maybe getting to see a blood-spattered Eric bopping his head to the car stereo was good enough.) The fact that Bill’s death looked like an outtake from a schlocky horror movie robbed it of any real emotion. And the biggest problem? It just wasn’t any fun.
I might be overthinking the show’s politics. Violet once told Jason that all she ever wanted from him was to live in a world “with no wit, no intellect.” When the show was really working as an orgiastic, soapy spectacle, that’s all I wanted from True Blood as well. But I can’t help watching that final scene-when Sarah Newlin, now a sex slave, admits that she has “nothing” to be thankful for this Thanksgiving-and realizing that it feels kind of prescient.
“Nothing” was the final word spoken in True Blood’s final episode. Maybe it was fitting: What did this deeply radical show ultimately stand for? Nothing. What did we spend seven seasons watching this show for? Nothing."
Yeah this : http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/08/25/true-blood-finale-what-went-wrong/
Only amazing scene:
But icing on the top was Sookie getting pregnant with some nobody and having an idealised moment with everyone breaking bread. It ruined it. I really should have stopped watching it when it became crap. All the episodes were bad, but the last ep took the cake. Where shall we start?
Glamourising suicide? And then Bill who has put Sookie through so much shit then getting her to kill HIM. Do it yourself BITCH! (well thats the old attitude True Blood used to have!). You know just to fuck her up a little more. THERE IS NO WAY THEN THAT IT IS TRUE SOULMATE LOVE. And her doing what he says. Letting him make the decisons for her. So anti feminist. Total contrast to the start of the show and all the other promotions in the show (black character not killd off, explorations of gay relationships, explorations of family outside the norm...). And in the end Bill killing himself caz he wont give Sookie babies. Oh gosh, so bad.... And it wasnt like Jessica was killing herself getting with a human...I mean there is adoption. Think outside the box. But sadly there was no thinking outside the box.
This: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11081341/True-Blood-finale-review-a-betrayal-of-a-great-series.html so true!
& there are no good reviews of this finale. Kinda weird too how Hoyt and Jessica got back together ad reallyt fast. Considering how many problems they had and how complicated it was. Still I did kinda feel they were sweet together to start with and said when it ended earlier in the show. When Allan Bell left too it got way more soap operay and focused on too many different characters per episode/less deep. Also if True Blood wanted to teach us that real love is messy but you just work it out even though its not perfect...it certianly lost this...
I thought it was about teaching us that the dark and messy sides of ourselves are okay. To embrace them too and that life isnt black and white but shades of grey....and then it has this black and white ending where Bill gives up love so Sookie can have this 'idealised american dream' of love uggggh
"Jessica and Hoyt got hitched, because it was Bill’s greatest wish to see his progeny married off? Bill just had to lecture Sookie about how having children makes life worth living? Sookie needed to chat with the Reverend about God’s plan? For a show that once skewered Ted Cruz and other self-proclaimed defenders of “family values,” this was pretty conservative stuff.
What happened to the transgressive fun of True Blood? It’s hard to remember now, but when the series first premiered, its campy, hedonistic vibe felt somewhat revolutionary-or, anyway, as revolutionary as a show that would later feature werepanther rape can get. Back then, in 2008, the vampire myth had been completely defanged by the Twilightbooks and their pale hero, Edward Cullen-who could conquer his desire for sex or blood or sleep or anything beyond gazing deeply into his girlfriend’s eyes. By contrast,True Blood opened with gratuitously explicit sex scenes, then segued into one of themost ricidulously gory bloodbaths in TV history later that season. The characters were all gloriously weird, whether they were vampires, werewolves, faeries, or shapeshifters-never mind whether they were straight, gay, or bisexual. This show didn’t just want you to watch its freak flag fly. It wanted to stake that freak flag through your heart.
Sure, the storyline about Maryann-the Maenad who made people lick ostrich eggs-made no sense at all. But, hey, there was a storyline about a Maenad who made people lick ostrich eggs!True Blood deserves respect just for daring to be totally nuts. And for sticking with the show through all its mounting insanity, I think we deserved a totally insane grand finale-not some sentimental Jane Austen ending culminating in a wedding. Don’t get me wrong-I love Jane Austen! I just don’t thing she belongs in Bon Temps.
In the end, it’s disappointing to find Bill transformed into just another old-fashioned Southern patriarch, down to the way he deemed that Jessica should get married right now, just so that he can “give her away.
Once upon a time, True Blood played with gender roles in pretty subversive ways. Women largely run Bon Temps: Maryann once had the power to control the whole town. Lillith once had the power to control Bill. Pam has just as much sway over Eric as he does over her-you could say they have a pretty equal relationship, if only because they’re equally into dominating other people. So it’s a little sad that, in the end, Hoyt brought Jessica home to Daddy, uttering “Yessir!” the whole way, and Jessica admitted that she’s been dreaming about her wedding since she was little. “I may be a vampire, Bill,” she says, “but I am also a girl.” As if the urge to plan a wedding were etched in one’s chromosomes.
Granted, there were so many other problems with the finale. We didn’t get enough time with the best characters: Eric, Pam, and Lafayette. (Though maybe getting to see a blood-spattered Eric bopping his head to the car stereo was good enough.) The fact that Bill’s death looked like an outtake from a schlocky horror movie robbed it of any real emotion. And the biggest problem? It just wasn’t any fun.
I might be overthinking the show’s politics. Violet once told Jason that all she ever wanted from him was to live in a world “with no wit, no intellect.” When the show was really working as an orgiastic, soapy spectacle, that’s all I wanted from True Blood as well. But I can’t help watching that final scene-when Sarah Newlin, now a sex slave, admits that she has “nothing” to be thankful for this Thanksgiving-and realizing that it feels kind of prescient.
“Nothing” was the final word spoken in True Blood’s final episode. Maybe it was fitting: What did this deeply radical show ultimately stand for? Nothing. What did we spend seven seasons watching this show for? Nothing."
Yeah this : http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/08/25/true-blood-finale-what-went-wrong/
Only amazing scene: