Omg, IKR?! Tara too! I mean in fairness, EVERY character in this show has to experience ALL THE ANGST, ALL THE TIME, but they really take it waaaay too far with those two.
(I read somewhere that Jesus's actor said they'd told him he wasn't getting offed for anything he did, he was great, it was just that happy relationships couldn't last b/c they were boring. FUCK YOU, writers, happy relationships are only boring IF YOU ARE TOO FUCKING LAZY TO MAKE THEM INTERESTING.)
I am sick to fucking death of that shit in sci-fi and fantasy. Happy relationships are pretty much the foundation for most crime procedurals; especially between main characters yet in fantasy and sci-fi it can never last. It makes no sense whatsoever. I do not constant drama or I will stop caring.
Arrgh to think I like Jesus for something so damn stupid...
S4 is one big giant mess, isn't it? I liked the Lafayette-as-medium arc, but that was really THE ONLY thing I didn't feel the writers massively and spectacularly dropped the ball on. They even managed to make me hate Pam this season, and usually, whatever else they do wrong, Pam can at least get a laugh out of me
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Marnie WOULD have worked for me if they had handled it better, b/c omg I have seriously MET this woman, but yeah....... everything you just said about the vampires etc. ._.a
My guess is that Tara is either going to be a ghost (the ghosts of the two ppl Lafayette cares most about following him around, here, let's shove that angst muffin farther down your throat), or she's going to get turned into a vamp, b/c gdi that's just the sort of thing this show would love to do to her.
Yeah, I agree that if the writers had put more thought into Marnie, she would have worked better. Into that entire plotline, really--that could have been the most interesting villain situation they'd had yet, but instead it left me scratching my head. They wrote Marianne well enough that I could roll my eyes at some of the sillier aforementioned points, because I believed this woman as a manipulative psycho just from the way she messed with the leads, never mind all her other mind-control and heart-eating shenanigans. And Russel was just a full-stop, camp magnificent bastard whose lack of complexity actually ended up working in their favor IMO. WORK HARDER ON YOUR VILLAINS, SHOW. YOU MANAGED BEFORE
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Also, was I the only one who found that whole "exorcism" scene disturbingly minstrel-show-esque? Random, I know, but it's been bugging me since I saw it.
And I think if either of us brave S5 we should have a drinking game. One shot for every major plot thread dropped unceremoniously, two for every plot thread resolved but massively mishandled. It seems like they're taking on more every season, but doing all of it less well...
i stopped watching when the 4th season started due to the shock factor shit they were pulling, but i still love tara so much. how could they kill her off? she was the best part of the show. :(
late reply but I DON'T KNOW, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. Her actress is actually signed on for next season, but I'm thinking it's as a ghost. (Or possibly a vampire, since they'd love to do something that awful to her.)
I've never read the books b/c I preferred the characters of the show - frex, Lafayette's my favorite and he's only a one-book murder victim in the books, and the awful shit I have heard about book!Bill... Well, I don't like TV!Bill much but at least he's not THAT unpalatable. And quite honestly I have enjoyed this ridiculous shock-factor camp they've got going on, but they've gradually been taking it farther and farther and TARA AND LAFAYETTE ALWAYS GET THE WORST OF IT, WHY. I mean damn.
Yeah, Lafayette was one of the reasons I kept watching. They took virtually nothing and made him into one of the more likeable characters.
The show and the books kept getting farther and farther apart, and I just eventually couldn't take the over-the-top let's-make-everything-trashy-and-totally-torture-them-all that the show fell into.
I don't think book!Bill is that bad. He made some mistakes and hid some things, but seems like a decent guy...er, vampire overall. TV!Tara is SO different than book!Tara. Like they're two completely different people who happen to share a name and a friend.
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Nothing ever good happens for him and it pisses me off.
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(I read somewhere that Jesus's actor said they'd told him he wasn't getting offed for anything he did, he was great, it was just that happy relationships couldn't last b/c they were boring. FUCK YOU, writers, happy relationships are only boring IF YOU ARE TOO FUCKING LAZY TO MAKE THEM INTERESTING.)
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Arrgh to think I like Jesus for something so damn stupid...
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My guess is that Tara is either going to be a ghost (the ghosts of the two ppl Lafayette cares most about following him around, here, let's shove that angst muffin farther down your throat), or she's going to get turned into a vamp, b/c gdi that's just the sort of thing this show would love to do to her.
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And I think if either of us brave S5 we should have a drinking game. One shot for every major plot thread dropped unceremoniously, two for every plot thread resolved but massively mishandled. It seems like they're taking on more every season, but doing all of it less well...
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The show and the books kept getting farther and farther apart, and I just eventually couldn't take the over-the-top let's-make-everything-trashy-and-totally-torture-them-all that the show fell into.
I don't think book!Bill is that bad. He made some mistakes and hid some things, but seems like a decent guy...er, vampire overall. TV!Tara is SO different than book!Tara. Like they're two completely different people who happen to share a name and a friend.
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