True Blood

...Bill's deliberate and fully intentional allowing of the Rattrays beating Sookie nearly to death before he intervened.

I'm such an idiot. I never even thought about it like that! LOL! I think by the time Mrs. Harris "alluded" to it in the books, I'd just forgotten. Ahhh, it only makes me love Bill more. (Of course I love Sookie too though). Bill's bada$$!


I really, really need to start watching TB. I've been a fan of the books long before the tv show was even dreamt of, but I've only seen the first episode. Question for all you TB lovers... How do you stand that gap between Sookie's teeth? I swear, sometimes I think THAT's the reason why I haven't watched anything more.

I had no idea Ryan Kwanten was Australian. How cool is that? ^_^ He's doing a very good job with what he's being given as Jason, though. ^_^

Re: Bill and the Rattrays, though, I see it on two levels. Yes, Bill's a bada$$. But he also did this with the intention to hook Sookie on his blood, and never voluntarily came clean to her. He lied to her on multiple occasions, and very deliberately set her up to fall for him with no intention of ever loving her back. Therefore, in my eyes, yes, Bill is Hard Core. But he's also a Great Big Jerk. o.o;;

Yikes! Sorry, zorbaru - at least it wasn't a big plot spoiler? I think the whole thing was over a chapter and once completed was just... over. Not mentioned again until MUCH later and in a wholly different context. o.o;;

I guess the whole issue I have about Bill vs Eric is this:
In the books Bill just falls flat IMO after a certain point. He's condemned himself because not only did he start his relationship with Sookie on a foundation of betrayal but he also made critical errors and lies of omission along with that. It is a common plot device to have a lover have to be involved with a character for some nefarious purpose and they accidentally fall in love and the lover has to reconcile his/her original purpose with their new found love. Bill just screwed it all up by being a vampire idiot.

Eric ..at least has a high level of eroticism, not just the same love rote over and over again, and I'll try not to be too much of a spoiler here but he has more personality through and through, he's masculine to the core and and ..uh just Book Four. When they ended this season I knew they'd have to break out with more Eric this upcoming season.

Bring on more Jessica!

Bring on more Jessica!

+1

We do, also being human, Dave and Karen

I both would and wouldn't. I'm not impressed with either Alcide or Quinn, though, so it's not big to me, you know? But anyhow, whatever they can do to ease some of the massive character bloat would be wonderful. There's so much cast right now that it's nearly impossible to keep track of who's doing what and when. o.o;;

True, but they also are giving 'bit' characters these HUGE roles (like Tara, Lafayette, Andy...), and need to cast around that. So we get a whole load of characters, and it makes all the individual plot threads hard to follow - there is just Too Much Going On, and adding more to that would just make it worse. But, since there is likely no plan to suddenly back-seat some of these supporting characters, the only way to deal with character bloat is to start combining both characters (as per Franklin Mott, old-school vampire businessman and moderately classy guy, and Mickey - psychopathic vampire enforcer-type who screams "DANGER" right from the start) and storylines and hope for the best, you know?

No, the vampire bartender at Merlotte's (book-side) was Charles, and he was a pirate. ^_^

LOVE love LOVE it and the books too! Alcide is yummy

good news true blood fans.

season 4 starts in june

Love it!
Who can't wait for season 4?!?

I haven't had a chance to watch the show yet since I don't have HBO, but I absolutely LOVVEEE the books, at least the ones I read so far. I just finished Book 4!