Live-For-Me Blogging: True Blood 2.2
in celebration of a new theme and slightly jazzed up site, i bring you more not-quite-live blogging for true blood!
(okay, really the events have nothing to do with each other, i just needed an intro)
00:00 i do not like this direction for eric. do not do not do not.
00:01 okay, maybe a little, if it means keeping lafayette alive and hanging out with vamps. (DFtB, but tara was used as a “how not to play with vamps” device in the books, so i don’t really object to swapping lafayette out for her)
00:04 jessica wasn’t in the books, right? oh, right. as a way to explain how new vamps work.
00:05 there is nothing about bill that is even remotely vampire-like in this scene.
00:07 yay for keeping lafayette alive!
00:08 ….i forgot what i was going to say here. this is what happens when i don’t pause to jot down the thought.
00:09 oh crap. i forgot about jason and the born-agains.
00:11 that guy is gay, jason. this is not going to go well for you.
00:18 seriously, jason. gay.
00:19 “god bless texas”? that’s pretty in your face about the fact that they’re in texas.
00:21 you know, it’s good that alan ball has decided to gore the place up. …i guess. usually i hate it when folks de-vamp the vamps and make them all sparkly and non threatening, but this seems unnecessary. (omg! he bit the foot!!!)
00:23 i like tara more this season, too. she seemed a bit too “in your face” last season and she’s mellowed into her character.
00:25 like the maryann/sookie dynamic. i don’t remember that in the book, either.
00:28 sigh. i do not care for musical interludes from country singers that i do not recognize. …oh wait. it’s sort of part of the plot, still that went on too long to not be a showcase, which is annoying. …i also think that’s an annoying actress on days of our lives, which i try not to watch.
00:33 i have less to say about this show than i do about others. is that because it’s better and more engaging, or because it’s boring for long stretches?
00:34 having a teenage vamp tower over sookie makes her look young and poorly cast.
00:35 eric looks stupid in a track suit. and with short hair.
00:39 (DFtB) andy’s a drunk? that’s a shame.
00:40 prediction i hope comes true: maryann charms andy into dancing and he does not look like an epileptic on meth.
00:41 seriously? a song that constantly repeats “cause some trouble” now? a little on the nose and bashing us over the head with the music this epi.
00:42 is my math wrong, or are we smashing books 2 and 3 together?
00:43 i’m glad they’re keeping sookie’s black eye around for a while, but it looks fake and odd. i wouldn’t mind it if they tv’show’magicked it away.
00:44 she’s going to kill her family, right? please let her kill her family.
00:45 jane woodhouse for the win!
00:46 prediction coming true in … aw, damn. cut to jason and the maybe-not-gay guy.
00:46 muslim buffy!! writing++
00:47 *now* prediction coming true in 3…2…c’mon!!
00:48 okay, i was almost right. he was dancing with maryann, but was also an epileptic.
00:49 how absurd is it to act with a dog like he’s a person?
00:50 EAT YOUR FAMILY!! oooh, angry abusive daddy. that should do nicely.
00:52 i think they’re going to kill lafayette now. i think that’s sad, but the right story telling element.
00:54 better plan: rescind her invitation.
hrm… well that was a heck of a double/triple cliffhanger, although i’m only worried about the bar patrons because i’ve read the books. otherwise that wouldn’t make my list.
i am torn and feel like a hypocrite. i do not like it when people write about vampires and take all the vampiness out of them. but i really like eric the way he is in the books, and this eric is way more in your face about his vampiness and it makes me sad because it will either negate upcoming plot points, or render them ridiculously implausible. i am pleased, but i am sad, and cranky at myself for being sad.
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