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GreenTeaFrapp · 09-02-2009, 02:50 PM

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I think I'm a tie between True Blood and Dexter

I'd take Dexter over True Blood because there are some actual intelligent characters on Dexter while everyone on True Blood seems to be the stereotypical dumb southerner.

chid · 09-02-2009, 02:56 PM

I think I'm sort of fascinated by the dumb characters and that Southern drawl but I also really liked Doakes and the intelligence of Dexter, I like them both for very different reasons.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-02-2009, 03:53 PM

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I'd take Dexter over True Blood because there are some actual intelligent characters on Dexter while everyone on True Blood seems to be the stereotypical dumb southerner.

You're clearly out to lunch if you don't think Sookie, Bill, Lafayette, Sam, Eric and Tara aren't interesting characters. I'll give you that they play on the stereotype of a dumb southener maybe a bit too much, but Christ, in a small town like Bon Temps, I'm sure there are the fair share of idiots.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-02-2009, 03:54 PM

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I think I'm a tie between True Blood and Dexter

I'll take Mad Men but those aren't far behind along with Entourage, Hung and Nurse Jackie.

GGG · 09-02-2009, 09:34 PM

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Don't listen to these bandwagon jumpers. I enjoyed the episode. I love this show.

Its not bandwagon jumping. Its having a show that had an amazing first season, an excellent political background built up to tell a long term epic story with fantastic allusions to racism issues in the south.

They bring in a fantastic Godric charactor. And you think the show is about to jump to a new level of awsome and in 3 episodes you go to that plot ending and a bisexual vampire saying that the 2 male vampires should **** eachother and blatent ###### nudity that has gotten so boring I am sick of it.

They have even screwed up the Bill's daughter plot which would have been good if the virgin guys mom hadn't been all black eyed.

Not only that the whole logic and mythology of their world is getting stupid from what the whole first season built up.

Alas, I will keep watching the show because the Eric, Sookie, Bill Dynamic and the Lafayette / Eric dynamics have great potential. I have hope for next year because all that is going to happen next week is sookie's powers are going to be explained a little bit better and Eric rather then Bill will save sookie because the Queen will have given Eric better information.

Metro Gnome · 09-02-2009, 10:15 PM

Completely agree, above. True Blood is already coming close to jumping the Shark. The first season was excellent, but the second one is rapidly going down the drain. Some central characters are getting stupider or more manic. There is rapid cycling of periphery characters. The plot has gone from intriguing to downright ridiculous. And Bill Compton has been rendered completely impotent (how much time has he spent waiting around for other, "more powerful" vampires to let him do something or other?).

Then there's the writing. Plot devices are no longer symbolic or satiric, but...convenient. I mean, Sookie conveniently running into another psychic on her first jaunt outside of Bon temps? The "explanation" (yikes) for the "monad" (Maenad?) was incredibly groan inducing. The "Queen" introduced in the most recent episode was embarrassing from minute one.

As an aside, I recently completed the third season from Dexter. It's still excellent. If True Blood continues it's descent, there's no comparison between the two.

DuffMan · 09-02-2009, 10:17 PM

I just finished this last episode and it was way better than what I was expecting. I'm going to keep watching.
I thought the queen was OK, I guess she still likes partying after 1000's of years.
I thought Jason was OK, and him explaiining his life was funny, re picking up girls... I have to work out like a mf'r everyday, and I watch a lot of porn to learn sh1t.
The thing that stood out to me as stupid was, handcuffing Tara to a leg of a coffee table she could've easily lifted up to free herself.
Sookie having her purse slung over her shoulder when she goes back to her old house, to find Tara.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-13-2009, 07:59 PM

Lame season finale. Whole lot of stupid stuff. The whole scene that ended with Andy covering for Jason was ######ed.

jammies · 09-14-2009, 03:06 AM

I agree that this finale was underwhelming. Not nearly as bad as the last episode, but not good either. I did like the scene of the bull killing Marianne, but they wrote themselves into a corner with the whole town destroying itself, and then magically the next day people are just acting like it never happened and everything is back to more or less normal?

Next season there needs to be a focus on 2 or maybe 3 storylines, and that's all. Else it is likely to just putter off into nowhere.

Boblobla · 09-14-2009, 08:46 AM

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Lame season finale. Whole lot of stupid stuff. The whole scene that ended with Andy covering for Jason was ######ed.

Why exactly? It shows the emergence of a new friendship between two people who couldn't stand each other. I thought the interactions between Andy and Jason in the last few episode was great. Jason is soooo stupid and I love how he get all of his colloquialisms wrong.

I do hope next season they focus more on story lines from the books, rather than writing completely new stuff.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-14-2009, 09:04 AM

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Why exactly? It shows the emergence of a new friendship between two people who couldn't stand each other. I thought the interactions between Andy and Jason in the last few episode was great. Jason is soooo stupid and I love how he get all of his colloquialisms wrong.

I thought it was stupid that they needed to cover it up. Eggs was standing over Andy with a big old dagger and Jason shot him. Why wouldn't that be justified? Especially when it's a police officer's word against a guy with a list of priors.

And why was Eggs advancing towards Andy like that? That made no sense either? His body language was that he was looking to attack him but his words were saying that he was looking for help.

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I do hope next season they focus more on story lines from the books, rather than writing completely new stuff.

Next season I suspect will be about the Vampire Queen being the season's big villian that will be tied in with how she's selling her blood to humans. Hopefully, Bill won't be found until late in the season. Is it too logical that Eric was behind Bill's kidnapping?

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-14-2009, 10:17 AM

I'm glad Maryanne is gone and we can now move on. I actually thought the last 20 minutes after Maryanne was gone and the people weren't in their brainwash was really strong.

The ending keeps me wanting more. When the guy came from behind Bill, I actually gasped. I guess I just didn't see it coming at all. Who is it?? Jessica was the only one who knew they were at a French restaurant, but it could really be anyone. I'll be watching next June for sure.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-14-2009, 10:25 AM

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The ending keeps me wanting more. When the guy came from behind Bill, I actually gasped. I guess I just didn't see it coming at all. Who is it?? Jessica was the only one who knew they were at a French restaurant, but it could really be anyone. I'll be watching next June for sure.

Wouldn't Eric have known where Sookie, and therefore Bill, was?

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-14-2009, 10:27 AM

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Wouldn't Eric have known where Sookie, and therefore Bill, was?

Yep, that went right over my head. I never thought about that. But if last season's finale was any indication, it's not gonna be who you think. Everything about the Season 1 finale lead you to believe it was Lafayette in that car. But we all know what happened there.

Boblobla · 09-14-2009, 10:33 AM

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Yep, that went right over my head. I never thought about that. But if last season's finale was any indication, it's not gonna be who you think. Everything about the Season 1 finale lead you to believe it was Lafayette in that car. But we all know what happened there.

I am not sure the writers knew where they were taking that tbqh. In the books Layfayette is the one that is killed.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-14-2009, 10:39 AM

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I am not sure the writers knew where they were taking that tbqh. In the books Layfayette is the one that is killed.

Oh, I bet they knew. They also knew that Lafayette was too popular to kill off but it's a great swerve since it goes against the story in the book.

Boblobla · 09-14-2009, 10:46 AM

Don't get me wrong, I am glad he is alive. I was relieve when it wasn't him in the car. He is one of my favorite chars on the show.

Matata · 09-14-2009, 11:20 AM

I was kind of hoping sookie would be walking back into a restaurant covered in Bill goo.

cyclone3483 · 09-14-2009, 11:30 AM

I'd love to watch the show, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.

Machiavelli · 09-14-2009, 02:54 PM

Bill is so lame. I hate....HATE his character. He's so weak he drips with weaksauce. Now Eric, him I like. Although I wish he was back to his evil arrogant self rather than the wuss he's becoming.