True Blood--Again...Episode 9

[rabid1st]

First of all...Sam & Dean? LMAO! Talk about dating yourself with a musical reference.

:looks around:

"WHAT?"

Oh, well...I would laugh just because I have a musical family. Maybe the writer does, too, to be fair.

And...now...am I quitting? I said I would, if this happened...but, since I have suspected it since the first moment I saw Dean...well...let's continue to see how this goes.

Rae

Comments

[auntiesuze.livejournal.com]

Everybody I know has been talking about True Blood lately. I guess I should get the DVDs from Netflix and see what the fuss is about!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

You might enjoy it. It has become woefully steeped in cliche for me in the last three episodes. And, apparently, that is when the show's actually writer's took over from the book author. HA! Well...there you go, say I!

I have no idea why television writers seem to think the worst possible cliches are cutting edge. But I believe it is because they have so little time to think during the writing process. They don't allow concepts to develop fully before slapping them down for all time on film.

Rae

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

At least he's not actually a wolf? I can't remember if he explains in that ep or not.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

A were is a were is a were. You can call yourself a shapeshifter, but your still barking after rabbits. Unless you are a wererabbit, of course.

All of it is completely :headdesk: with the lack of imagination.

Rae
being awfully hard on poor Sam...but seriously...I changed my mind about sharing the show with my friends after that.

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

Actually there's a big distinction in this series between weres and shapeshifters. Sam is not a were; he's much more interesting than that. :)

But weres do play a part in the books, whether or not they will in the show remains to be seen. Harris brought in all kinds of supernatural characters through the series, though, in my opinion, in a much better way than Laurell K. Hamilton who overloaded her books with them too fast.

I thought she/they might...

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

...be planning an introduction of more supernatural elements and I was very happy when they introduced the concept of the Hoodoo woman and demon possession. That is walking a close line to vampire mythology, though, so I was slightly amazed when we got nothing more alarming than a drowned possum.

Amazed, I say, because that sort of thing, in my opinion, is more genuine and far scarier than overt displays of goo.

I am also happy to hear Sam is more interesting than your standard, ho-hum Were. Knowing that makes me more willing to continue with the show.

I had hoped he might be some sort of wizard type...to counterbalance all the dark energy...and give him a powerbase for a true triangle to develop. I don't mind if he's just able to shapeshift. I pretty well figured out the dog was supernatural from the moment I saw it. And that it was Sam pretty soon after that. His galloping naked through the woods didn't surprise me in the least. It made me groan, actually.

But...I will probably continue watching until the end of the season. A lot of people I respect enjoy the show and I can't say I don't enjoy it. Actually, my jury is still out. I think it does suffer from being on HBO. That is probably what is wrong with the pacing...and it leads to a lack of restraint at times. As for the dog reveal...well...it wasn't like I wasn't expecting that...and if you tell me there is more to Sam than a secret urge to chase rabbits...I will just take your word for it.

Rae

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

See I generally consider weres to be confined to one shape and subject to the pull of the moon. IIRCC Sam is neither.

It is the supernatural formula

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

...that I object to. A shapeshifter, a witch and a vampire walk into a bar...that sort of thing. It's the same with the journey to adulthood used a parable in fantasy stories. Any story that starts out with a warrior, a young and bumbling teen, a wizard and an elf (or dwarf) setting off on a quest...makes me groan.

It doesn't really matter if the Elf/Dwarf is called a Efling or a Springer or a Greentoe or if the youth is a girl or a boy or if the wizard is actually the bumbling one. It's all the same formula. Again, I reference one of my original stories based on the fantasy idea...and say that mostly I tried to have it less cliched, but the formula is still lurking there. I am impressed with people who manage to completely avoid the shapeshifter or were angle. As in...nobody sniffs the sheets and ends up running through the woods naked.

Sam does both of those very cliched things in the series. I'm not sure if he does them in the book...but they just signal the animal nature of Sam to me. And I would rather have had him be something other than that. I was hoping the dog was just a dog...or maybe a familiar.

Rae