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heathershaped) wrote2008-11-20 11:43 am
heathershaped) wrote2008-11-20 11:43 am
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Adventures in Blogging #20
-- First, the dorky: I cannot contain my squee over the fact that Smallville is on tonight. I cant. Wait. To see what happens. I am such a nerd about this it's not even funny. Hell, even Supernatural looks like it's going to be pretty good; if only because last week was a bit of a cliffhanger. Also, I'm liking Anna/Hildy from Mad Men. ;)
-- I signed up for Netflix. *headdesk* I've been resisting, but it's actually kind of cool and pretty cheap. I started out by ordering the entire series of The West Wing one disk at a time. :P I've recently decided that I need to catch up with it. *nod* When it first aired on television, I couldn't get into it; I guess because I was young and not really into politics, etc. Better late than never, though.
-- Go do my poll if you want a holiday card from me this year!
-- Now for spoilery discussion of True Blood.
True Blood
I love True Blood. Vampire stuff as a genre is pretty hit-or-miss for me, both in literature and on-screen. Love some of it, don't like all of it. Case in point, I hate Twilight. Tried it? Hated it. In the words of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda, Twilight and True Blood are matter and anti-matter; if you put them both in a room together, the universe would cease to exist. This is absolutely true, man. Not even on the same plane.
Anyway. I've never read Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books, so I didn't have that recognition going in. I started watching because I generally love HBO's series; I think they bring a realism and grittiness that you don't see anywhere else (I love Showtime too, but HBO doesn't have the same need for preternatural prettiness). So I was really curious what they'd do with something as fantastical as vampires. Personally I think they're doing a great job. Some of the accents are over-the-top, it's soapy, sometimes a bit campy, gory and hard to watch with food, funny, very mature, surprisingly tender at times, highly entertaining and I love it. I love everyone in it in different ways, and I love the slightly different take on vampire lore.
I'm a little sad that the season's over after Sunday. It's absolutely flown by! At least we now know who the killer is, but the fact that it's Rene seems almost a little anticlimactic. Not just because the moment Jason told him about the girlfriend being on V, she gets killed, which makes it pretty obvious. But I don't know -- it's almost like I don't care that it's Rene. I wasn't attached to him before and didn't have much of an opinion on him either way. Still, no one knows yet, so I can't wait to see how it comes out and who might be hurt before it does.
And Jason ... Oh, Jason. The man is almost too dumb to live. Maybe if he'd spent a little more time in clothes during the season, he'd have been able to focus and not be a damn idiot. Whomever that actor his plays him really well, though. Pretty, sometimes kind of sweet, and dumb as rocks. I love when Lafyette gets on his case about how fucking stupid he is, though I would have loved to see Lafayette get a chance to kick his ass over what he and Amy did to Eddie. And now he's in jail because he thinks he's the killer. Idjit.
I hope the Sookie-Bill-Sam triangle gets resolved. I don't now which I'd prefer she end up with -- Sam is sweet, but Bill would be more interesting I think. Plus, there needs to be more Eric, and since Bill knows Eric, she needs to stay attached to Bill. I love Eric so much. What a sexy (and funny!) motherfucker. Poor Tara, though. She can't catch a break from any direction, and she's got some major issues. The guy she's sleeping with is still in love with Sookie, her mother is a Piece of Work, and now there's some weird pig lady who's taking her home for some weird shit. :(
Oh, and Lafayette owns my soul. If anything happens to him, no matter WHAT happened in the books, I'm going to be upset.
That got long, so I think that's enough for one post.
♥
-- I signed up for Netflix. *headdesk* I've been resisting, but it's actually kind of cool and pretty cheap. I started out by ordering the entire series of The West Wing one disk at a time. :P I've recently decided that I need to catch up with it. *nod* When it first aired on television, I couldn't get into it; I guess because I was young and not really into politics, etc. Better late than never, though.
-- Go do my poll if you want a holiday card from me this year!
-- Now for spoilery discussion of True Blood.
True Blood
I love True Blood. Vampire stuff as a genre is pretty hit-or-miss for me, both in literature and on-screen. Love some of it, don't like all of it. Case in point, I hate Twilight. Tried it? Hated it. In the words of
cleolinda, Twilight and True Blood are matter and anti-matter; if you put them both in a room together, the universe would cease to exist. This is absolutely true, man. Not even on the same plane. Anyway. I've never read Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books, so I didn't have that recognition going in. I started watching because I generally love HBO's series; I think they bring a realism and grittiness that you don't see anywhere else (I love Showtime too, but HBO doesn't have the same need for preternatural prettiness). So I was really curious what they'd do with something as fantastical as vampires. Personally I think they're doing a great job. Some of the accents are over-the-top, it's soapy, sometimes a bit campy, gory and hard to watch with food, funny, very mature, surprisingly tender at times, highly entertaining and I love it. I love everyone in it in different ways, and I love the slightly different take on vampire lore.
I'm a little sad that the season's over after Sunday. It's absolutely flown by! At least we now know who the killer is, but the fact that it's Rene seems almost a little anticlimactic. Not just because the moment Jason told him about the girlfriend being on V, she gets killed, which makes it pretty obvious. But I don't know -- it's almost like I don't care that it's Rene. I wasn't attached to him before and didn't have much of an opinion on him either way. Still, no one knows yet, so I can't wait to see how it comes out and who might be hurt before it does.
And Jason ... Oh, Jason. The man is almost too dumb to live. Maybe if he'd spent a little more time in clothes during the season, he'd have been able to focus and not be a damn idiot. Whomever that actor his plays him really well, though. Pretty, sometimes kind of sweet, and dumb as rocks. I love when Lafyette gets on his case about how fucking stupid he is, though I would have loved to see Lafayette get a chance to kick his ass over what he and Amy did to Eddie. And now he's in jail because he thinks he's the killer. Idjit.
I hope the Sookie-Bill-Sam triangle gets resolved. I don't now which I'd prefer she end up with -- Sam is sweet, but Bill would be more interesting I think. Plus, there needs to be more Eric, and since Bill knows Eric, she needs to stay attached to Bill. I love Eric so much. What a sexy (and funny!) motherfucker. Poor Tara, though. She can't catch a break from any direction, and she's got some major issues. The guy she's sleeping with is still in love with Sookie, her mother is a Piece of Work, and now there's some weird pig lady who's taking her home for some weird shit. :(
Oh, and Lafayette owns my soul. If anything happens to him, no matter WHAT happened in the books, I'm going to be upset.
That got long, so I think that's enough for one post.
♥
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Oh...if you have some time could you email me about how to do a custom layout? I have a graphic ready but have no idea how to proceed.
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Email the image and I'll play with it this weekend.
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Even in the books, Rene wasn't much to think about. There was even less of him in the books, so seeing him on the show like that made him more real to me, and perhaps the best thing about the show is how pretty most everyone is. Sam NEVER looked like that in my imagination. In the books, I envisioned him to be a more weathered-lumberjack type guy. I thought it was gross that he had something for Sookie, but in the show, I think Sam's hot, and he has me all bothered... not like Bill does. Bill, in the books, reminded me of Tuxedo Sam in Sailormoon lore, so Bill was never that sexy to me. Bill in the show is magnifiscent. SO FUCKING HOT.
I'm not going to tell you what role Eric has in the books. I don't know if they're going to go that way in the series. I'm not a big Eric-show fan. :P
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That's interesting, about Sam! I even think I saw somewhere that he has a different name, and that there's no Tara at all, etc. Bill as Tuxedo guy is a hilarious visual. With the chivalry and everything! (Though I only saw Sailor Moon when it was airing on tv here, and he was called Tuxedo Mask. How corny! Loved it all the same. :P)
Haha, I'm curious to read the books now, and see the differences.