Stuff.

[the_grynne]

Watch the teaser trailer for HBO's drama pilot Luck, from writer/creator David Milch (Deadwood) and director Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat).

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender will star in Steve McQueen's (Shame, Hunger) next film, 12 Years a Slave, based on the true story of Solomon Northrup, a free black man kidnapped in Washington in 1841

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[the_grynne]

Russell was indeed 3000 or so. And Salome, presumably, is around the same age as Godric. I'm glad that we'll be finding out more about the mysterious Authority - I just hope Ball manages to make the vampire politics coherent. In S4, it was kind of a big mess, and nothing that Nan did made much sense.

[missnyah]

Hm. I am puzzled by Mr. Rushdie's remarks in regard to The Wire (Games of Thrones I get, the show is thoroughly watchable but I'm not enamored). Either A) they are his true feelings or B) they are not.

In the case of A, I suppose he and I must differ rather dramatically in our opinions of what makes a show great (plus, I'm fairly willing to bet he lacks my allegiance to Baltimore). In which case, I'm interested to see what he produces but not especially confident I will enjoy it.

In the case of B, it's ... what? Pre-meditated defensive boasting? An attempt to piss off people who love The Wire so they won't watch your show? Or to convince us you must be the God of TV if you have the balls to say you could do better?

Maybe he was just running at the mouth?

As for True Blood, sure, let's go bigger, badder, and crazier. I'd like some pre-historic vampires. Then I can't blame them for acting like cavemen.

[the_grynne]

Rushdie is apparently a fan of Mad Men, The Sopranos, and Deadwood. Maybe he is just not a fan of realism and/or police procedural as genres?

Then I can't blame them for acting like cavemen.

...or cavewomen, as the case may be.

TB's attempts to tackle vampire politics make me very nostalgic for Vampire: The Masquerade's consistent, involved world-building. And those justicars, they were really something.

[missnyah]

"Rushdie is apparently a fan of Mad Men, The Sopranos, and Deadwood. Maybe he is just not a fan of realism and/or police procedural as genres?"

Ah, yes. I really should try hard not to see conspiracy where coincidence will suffice.

[delgaserasca]

I have seen the trailer for Shame, and the film. Despite having reviewed it, I still can't properly pin down how I feel about it. The lack of dialogue means you have to get a lot of Fassbender's face, and he really performs.

[the_grynne]

I'm sure it'll be like with me and Hunger, which I had on DVD for over a year before I mustered up the resolve to watch it, because I knew it would be depressing.

[rodlox]

I realize that vampires get stronger as they live longer and longer...but wouldn't madness be a liability? (or is the madness a product of her living so long?)

wonder if, in-show or out-of-show, anyone will interpret Salome's character as proof of Jesus. and John, as you say.

a double agent? given how many other groups we've seen, which of those (or of a group we're going to be introduced to later) is Nora working with/for ?

[the_grynne]

is the madness a product of her living so long?

That's something consistent with a lot of modern vampire mythologies. I think sanity (staying connected and empathetic and emotionally balanced) just gets harder and harder the more powerful and older and the more isolated they become. It would be unusual if someone 2000+ years were completely "sane" as we understand it.

Godric has already confirmed that Jesus as a person existed, but I doubt that the monotheist exists in this universe.

a double agent? given how many other groups we've seen, which of those (or of a group we're going to be introduced to later) is Nora working with/for ?

It's presumably a group that opposes the Authority. The part in the casting call that says she values her goals higher than her love for Eric makes me think that Eric doesn't exactly belong to that group.

[rodlox]

> I think sanity (staying connected and empathetic and emotionally balanced) just gets harder and harder the more powerful and older and the more isolated they become. It would be unusual if someone 2000+ years were completely "sane" as we understand it.
Well, I kinda figured that, even if the constant "all my mortal friends die" got overbearing, Salome's vampiric friends would still be around.

(I came from the Highlander fandom, where most of the insane Immortals were those who don't interact with their fellow Immortals)

>It's presumably a group that opposes the Authority. The part in the casting call that says she values her goals higher than her love for Eric makes me think that Eric doesn't exactly belong to that group.
or if he does belong to it, then if she has to chose between them, she would go against Eric rather than go against the Authority.

[the_grynne]

Well, the fact that they describe her as a double agent "within the Authority" rather than a double agent "for the Authority" does imply that her loyalities are not to the Authority.

Edit for muddled expression:
I guess a situation could come up where, if it comes to a decision between saving Eric's life but exposing herself as a double agent in the process (and therefore jeopardizing her real mission in infiltrating the Authority) and letting Eric die, she could go for the latter.