louder please

before we start, i’d like to point out that i wrote about the tv series vs. the books on murmur.com last week, and some of the discussion gave me a bit of pause about my irritation with jason going to jesus camp. i do like this story line, and as someone mentioned, he really is the best character to bring along to show what’s happening at the camp while sookie’s off doing other things.

i don’t have any loyalty to the source material. i haven’t been in love with these books and these characters for years, and save for quinn (and maybe a bit of eric), i’m not really rooting for anyone. if alan ball wants to take a fairly decent horror/fantasy mystery series and turn it into something much darker and robust, that i enjoy more, what am i really whining about when he mixes up some of the details and scraps some plot lines?

nothing, that’s what, so here we go!

0:01 and you know what? this thing with teenage-vamp and bill and sookie is a much *much* better relationship conflict than what happens in the book. (also, pls get eric out of that track suit. kthxbye)

0:03 i do not like the blood tears. i think even though they’re made of blood, they would be runnier and less like maple syrup on someone’s cheeks. no wait, maple syrup is thinner than this crap.

0:03 hooray for the vampire telling the stupid human girl that she’s a stupid human girl. nothing makes me happier than when vamps scare the shit out of silly girls who’ve romanticized them out of their fangs. (i may have clapped)

0:04 if that’s who/what i think it is…i’m not sure i approve.

0:06 yay! fangtasia means pam and bill! (i’m afflicted with liking the supporting characters more than the leads again).

0:12 not that i’m complaining, but i wouldn’t expect someone waking up from a nightmare to be as well defined as if they’ve just come back from working in the gym. don’t those things sort of smooth out when you’re not using them for a while?

0:16 i really like that the show’s showing more of maryann. one of the benefits of not being a first-person novel, i suppose.

0:19 go terry! (i am all about the tv-show version love this week!)

0:20 is it the HD that makes some of the gore makeup look really fake? well, not so much fake, but really seamed.

0:21 i really hope that mrs. bible camp has a vamp lover on the side. if i were alan ball, that’s what i’d do at some point. she distracts me, too, since she looks like an actress that used to be harmony on buffy…who eventually was a vampire.

0:24 well, one thing’s consistent: jason’s still stupid as a rock.

0:28 are there that many people close enough to the middle of louisiana for her to throw a party that big? i mean, guess shreveport is near enough but….

0:31 squee!! fanged angry eric!! (i know, i’m a complete hypocrite.)

0:32 more props to the writing staff of true blood. this motivation for getting sookie to dallas works much better. (and keeps lafayette around)

0:34 sigh. anti props for “i smell sex in the air” when the prowling vampire girl struts through the bar. can we be a leeetle less obvious with the soundtrack, pls?

0:36 isn’t her face all over the news? why is nobody in the bar saying “hey! isn’t that the lost girl that’s on the news?”

0:43 distracting casting choice #2: mr jesus camp looks like wil wheaton doing an impersonation of will forte doing an impersonation of a jesus camp leader.

0:46 jessie and hoyt are adorable, but it’s going to end poorly, isn’t it?

0:49 supremo casting for the part of lafayette and way to let the actor take his time on that welcome home scene. and way to keep him alive and interesting.

0:51 sigh. another stupid “oh, all the other vamps are pure evil, but you’re okay” speech from the stupid human girl.

0:56 daphne and sam? hrm… i mean, better than him mooning over sookie every book/season all book/season long. but that sort of throws off the the points where him mooning over sookie is useful and interesting, unless like last season they decide to be friends just in time for sookie to need him again, which is laaame.

0:57 oooh, that’s different daphne then, huh?

0:57 “who’s been making those scratches all over your back?” seeeeeriously?

no true blood until july 12th? i guess that means you won’t hear from me for quite a while on this topic. we’re heading for a largely tv and internet-less vacation on the 11th, which means it won’t be until after the next two episodes have aired that i’ll get a chance to watch any.

ah well, we could all use the break, i suppose.

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