True Blood S03E02
Thursday, 24 June 2010 01:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelI was gonna leave marina an epically long comment and then I realized, hey, I can post entries.
First: CLIFFHANGER ARGH YOU ARE MY NEMESIS. I will never get used to them, even when I know they're coming.
Second: Lots of new characters! The King and Talbot apparently support the hypothesis that vampires become increasingly gay with every year of bloodsucking. So, Bill is only a little teeny bit gay, Eric and Pam are pretty damn gay although they dabble, and the vampire royalty are pretty much made out of bloodied rainbows. The King also has this weird English fetish that makes me wonder how old he is. I'd say it's just an affectation but it seems pretty intense.
Sam's birth family... IDK. The kid brother seems like he could be interesting, there's a dynamic there that could be developed. On the one hand I might say, it's a little too much like another Jessica. On the other hand, Bill is basically the worst maker ever and he and Jessica only had this dynamic for about eleven seconds before he left her to fend for herself. A real mentoring relationship might be nice.
Jesus. YES. It is time for Lafayette to have nice things, I think! He better be nice and normal and human.
Werewolves. Mean and nasty but not too fascinating just yet. I am pleasantly surprised to see that female werewolves are not too much of an afterthought. I also like the hint of pack dynamic that showed up when the vampire king decided to punish his werewolf minion not by shooting him, but by shooting his packmate. Reading too much into it? Why yes, don't mind if I do.
Third: Old characters!
TERRY. JUST... TERRY.
Lafayette and Tara. It's funny how she was introduced as Sookie's best friend but basically they have little to do with each other most of the time. Lafayette needs something in his life other than dishing out sarcastic justice and saving people from the brink all the time. And I do not mean being held captive by sadistic Swedes, either. It looks like Tara isn't getting nice things, instead she's falling into the company of the gaunt British vampire who broke into Sookie's house, and beating the crap out of people. Now, I might have been totally turned on by that beating-up scene, but I hope this won't segue into, "Tara falls under the thrall of an immortal who makes big promises, turns against her friends without realizing it, and has her heart shattered." For obvious reasons.
I suspect that it was Pam that cleared Mr. Stinky from Bill's house for Jessica. Perhaps that's where I'll get the mentoring I was craving, and also MOAR Pam. Which is always good. I'm really starting to appreciate her, and since no one can be a worse vampire daddy than Bill, she'd probably do Jessica some good, whilst simultaneously making her creepy and sarcastic.
Sam fails to shapeshift into a bird to get out of the way of a car? We know he can do it, he did it last season. Did his newfound brother strand him? IDK.
I still like Sookie a lot and am basically :):):) whenever she's on the screen. I realize I'm probably in the minority here. There are certain qualities typical of heroes that I haven't completely soured on, and the Sookie brand of unbelievably earnestness is somewhere on the list. I like that she loves Bill and is loyal to him, irrespective of the actual relationship between them or of Bill's merits. I like that she talks back and takes chances, and especially that this is sometimes (but not always) a terrible idea. If she got away with it all of the time, she;d be author-coddled and boring. If she got into trouble all of the time, she's be too stupid to live. So far, I've found her to be a nice middle.
I leave you with Kate Beaton's immortal words: You are food.
marina an epically long comment and then I realized, hey, I can post entries. First: CLIFFHANGER ARGH YOU ARE MY NEMESIS. I will never get used to them, even when I know they're coming.
Second: Lots of new characters! The King and Talbot apparently support the hypothesis that vampires become increasingly gay with every year of bloodsucking. So, Bill is only a little teeny bit gay, Eric and Pam are pretty damn gay although they dabble, and the vampire royalty are pretty much made out of bloodied rainbows. The King also has this weird English fetish that makes me wonder how old he is. I'd say it's just an affectation but it seems pretty intense.
Sam's birth family... IDK. The kid brother seems like he could be interesting, there's a dynamic there that could be developed. On the one hand I might say, it's a little too much like another Jessica. On the other hand, Bill is basically the worst maker ever and he and Jessica only had this dynamic for about eleven seconds before he left her to fend for herself. A real mentoring relationship might be nice.
Jesus. YES. It is time for Lafayette to have nice things, I think! He better be nice and normal and human.
Werewolves. Mean and nasty but not too fascinating just yet. I am pleasantly surprised to see that female werewolves are not too much of an afterthought. I also like the hint of pack dynamic that showed up when the vampire king decided to punish his werewolf minion not by shooting him, but by shooting his packmate. Reading too much into it? Why yes, don't mind if I do.
Third: Old characters!
TERRY. JUST... TERRY.
Lafayette and Tara. It's funny how she was introduced as Sookie's best friend but basically they have little to do with each other most of the time. Lafayette needs something in his life other than dishing out sarcastic justice and saving people from the brink all the time. And I do not mean being held captive by sadistic Swedes, either. It looks like Tara isn't getting nice things, instead she's falling into the company of the gaunt British vampire who broke into Sookie's house, and beating the crap out of people. Now, I might have been totally turned on by that beating-up scene, but I hope this won't segue into, "Tara falls under the thrall of an immortal who makes big promises, turns against her friends without realizing it, and has her heart shattered." For obvious reasons.
I suspect that it was Pam that cleared Mr. Stinky from Bill's house for Jessica. Perhaps that's where I'll get the mentoring I was craving, and also MOAR Pam. Which is always good. I'm really starting to appreciate her, and since no one can be a worse vampire daddy than Bill, she'd probably do Jessica some good, whilst simultaneously making her creepy and sarcastic.
Sam fails to shapeshift into a bird to get out of the way of a car? We know he can do it, he did it last season. Did his newfound brother strand him? IDK.
I still like Sookie a lot and am basically :):):) whenever she's on the screen. I realize I'm probably in the minority here. There are certain qualities typical of heroes that I haven't completely soured on, and the Sookie brand of unbelievably earnestness is somewhere on the list. I like that she loves Bill and is loyal to him, irrespective of the actual relationship between them or of Bill's merits. I like that she talks back and takes chances, and especially that this is sometimes (but not always) a terrible idea. If she got away with it all of the time, she;d be author-coddled and boring. If she got into trouble all of the time, she's be too stupid to live. So far, I've found her to be a nice middle.
I leave you with Kate Beaton's immortal words: You are food.
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2010-06-24 03:24 (UTC)There's a super sexy werewolf Alcide in the 3rd book that I really hope they introduce - and introduce well - into this season.
I am getting tired of Tara. She needs to stop crying and bitching at people; she's too self-pitying. Which isn't her fault; it's the fault of the writers constantly putting her in predictably betraying situations. Like, you calling that she'll probably end up involved with this new vampire who will just be using her. And she'll end up miserable in the end, again.
Lafayette is my favorite. I'm so glad they didn't kill him off like they did in the very beginning of the 2nd book.
- Piglet
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2010-06-24 06:25 (UTC)I'm definitely glad they didn't kill Lafayette. The show needs a little humor in it, and certainly everyone else is too busy angsting to supply it, except Jason, and his is mostly unintentional.