Comments | cleolinda: True Blood 1x02, "The First Taste"

cleolinda

True Blood 1x02, "The First Taste"

Oct 03, 2008 15:01

I was good and got work done! Kind of. Uh. WE ARE GETTING BEHIND ON THE RECAPS, LET US DO MORE.

So, previously on "True Blood": Vampires have "come out of the coffin" (sigh). God Hates Fangs. The Woevolins ushered in a vampire and his SEXY VOICE to the little town of Bon Temps, and Anna Paquin seems to have lost her badonkadonk, but she is ( Read more... )

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bibliotech October 3 2008, 21:29:53 UTC

I am LOVING these. I keep sending them to the husband, he's going to get such a kick out of these.

cleolinda October 3 2008, 21:35:28 UTC

Hee! (VOTE FOR MOON PIES. Have you seen the crazy three-part Moonlight wank at FW? This woman, among MANY OTHER THINGS, tried to show up at the studio with 4500 moon pies to protest the cancellation of the show. The cancellation that happened, like, months ago.)

(Also, moon pies are delicious.)

bibliotech October 3 2008, 21:41:42 UTC

I love that the Moonlight fandom has become so much wankier post-show than when it was actually on the air. I keep expecting them to chain themselves to random executives.

cleolinda October 3 2008, 21:51:48 UTC

Oh, bonus trufax: when Moonlight was in pre-production, they were originally going to call it... Twilight. DON'T CROSS THE STREEEEEEAMS.

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gholam October 3 2008, 21:31:12 UTC

Sookie retorts with mustardy vengeance.

Pure, distilled Win. Right there.

glass_radical October 3 2008, 21:36:27 UTC

SOOKIE'S ALREADY GOT A FLAVOR, YOU NOOB, IT'S PRALINES/AZALEAS/SMOOTH JAZZ."

Oh I rofl'd so hard.

schmoo999 October 3 2008, 21:48:42 UTC

Yummy Moonpies.
I love your recaps, you express exactly why I love this show and I am so biting my tongue cause there are so many little bits right from the book pointing the way the story is going but of course I am not going to spill.

Great fun books, great fun show.

snowwhite2421 October 3 2008, 21:52:49 UTC

UNEXPECTED CAJUN IS UNEXPECTED.

That man apparently paid an awful lot of money to learn that accent. I thought it was terrible but friends of mine from New Orleans said it's "not half-bad" so I'm guessing that means it is somewhere greater or less than half-good... ?

Now... having seen some more of the show, I would like to ask again how anyone can believe that SMeyer never read any vampire books or watched any vampire tv/movies. I smell something burning... I think it's her pants.

cleolinda October 3 2008, 22:19:34 UTC

Yeah, I heard he did--and you know, it sounds fantastic for those of us who don't really know better. Like, even I'm Southern enough to know that Sam mangled the pronunciation of "cher" at least once.

I would like to ask again how anyone can believe that SMeyer never read any vampire books or watched any vampire tv/movies. I smell something burning... I think it's her pants.

What I find interesting about that whole issue is that there are so many things in the Twilight books that are like, "Okay, she has no idea what she's talking about, no one who knows anything about vampires or vampire fiction would make that mistake." (Vampires with no heartbeat or circulation being physiologically capable of sex, for example, without even an attempt to handwave it as "magic" or whatever.) On the other hand... there's so many common tropes in there that you want to go, "Oh, COME ON."

greedyskunk October 6 2008, 20:27:30 UTC

Maybe she really hasn't had too much exposure to vampire media. It could just be that some of this information is common knowledge - drinking blood, avoiding sunlight, etc. Little kids dress up as vampires for Halloween and can spout off some well-known vampire lore. It doesn't mean that they've seen every vampire movie or read every vampire book. It might explain how some of the more common stuff is in there, but unless she really *thought* about the why of some of this stuff, she'd gloss over the circulation problem.

But I have never read the books. There's only one copy available at the library and my Spanish is just not good enough to make it through that. (Did she really say that names like Emmett, Alice, and Edward are strange? Jasper and Rosalie I can understand, but Edward? Maybe it was just poor translation on my part.)

cleolinda October 6 2008, 22:06:45 UTC

She said they were strange in that they were "old-fashioned." (Which is her way of dropping an anvil early on that these kids weren't born any time recently.) Rosalie doesn't actually look that uncommon to me--Edward's kind of formal (most kids would probably go by "Eddie"), but there's been a big resurgence of old-fashioned names in the last few years, so I don't really know where she's getting that. I could see any of those names making a comeback, really. (Hell, they probably will now.) I mean, if she'd busted out "Maude" or "Hortense" or something, I'd be able to see her point.