1. Dear Women of True Blood, please put on some pants. Thank you.
2. Dear Sookie, next time, just wear a sign that says “I fuck vampires.” The smile is annoying.
3. Sam, I hope you have a good twin, who is the guy with Tara, because you are a stalkery jerk.
4. Randy Sue, oh ha ha ha ha.
Something about this episode makes me feel like I’m peeking in a 17 year old girl’s diary.
We’ve met another black resident of Bon Temps. I’m going to fan wank that she’s married to the grave digger. That’d be nice.
Jason is an idiot.
If the killer is who it is in the book, they’ve done a lousy, lousy job of setting it up. But I’m holding out hope that they’ve changed killers.
Sam is still an idiot.
And Sookie is kind of an idiot, too.
Oh, the Magical Negro is officially here with the arrival of the exorcist. The theology of this whole segment is going to drive me to drink. Don’t try that shit at home, kids.
Oh dear god, and Jason’s hippie girl is theologizing in another way that’s going to drive me to drink even more.
But I do love Jason, a little bit.
I’m glad to see someone taught the arsonists to stop, drop, and roll.
Naked Sam may be my favorite part of this whole episode, I must say.
Who bets pervy uncle is one of the bodies?
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So, yes, every Sunday I sit down and watch this show and am struck simultaneously by the thought that it’s just terrible and I’m pissed it’s over so soon. This week is no exception.
Tonight there are two things that stick with me. One is that Andy’s cousin is just most excellently rendered in a very few strokes. The other is that there are perfectly nice actual American folk magic traditions that they could have drawn on for the exorcism scene and I’m disappointed that we didn’t see that or something more closely approximating that. And what a mess we were left with instead! If it was supposed to be some kind of voodoo exorcism (to use both terms loosely), where was the invocation of the gods? If it was a more Christianized voooo exorcism, where were the saints? And while every hoodoo worker has his or her own style, I just cannot believe that getting rid of a demon (or removing a curse or whatever, as the case may be) could be done in an evening. I’ve never heard of a hoodoo ritual that takes just one evening and I cannot imagine the one evening ritual that would get rid of a demon. I mean, if you want to make someone love you, that takes nine nights.
Poor possum, anyway.
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So, yes, every Sunday I sit down and watch this show and am struck simultaneously by the thought that it’s just terrible and I’m pissed it’s over so soon. This week is no exception.
EXACTLY!!!
But I totally didn’t get naked Sam — where did that come from?
It was a full moon, remember? I believe Sam’s best friend is a dog for a reason.
Finally! Someone else who has the same theory about Sam as I do. The hubby thinks I’m crazy, but I think I’m right. Haven’t read the books, though, so I’m looking forward to being validated. Or just pissed off if I’m wrong.
aunt b sound like you hate everything about this show. just switch to sumpin else instead of cutting everything down!! oh: i luv it.
Mizzooki, perhaps you are unfamiliar with human nature?
I watched last night and apparently dozed off during the naked Sam part. I don’t remember that at all.
Its a totally stupid show, that only appeals to prurient interests. I watch it every week.
Many of my dearest friends love the show, but after watching about 15 minutes of the first episode, I can’t be bothered. I am, however, entertained every week by B’s “this is such tripe OMG what’s gonna happen next?” posts. My neighbors across the street were talking about the latest episode this weekend and had some suggestions: the Daughters of the Glorious Dead should change their name to the Daughters of the Glorious Undead, and the vampire from the Civil War should get involved with a bunch of re-enactors.
We watch it too. I caught on a little late. Didn’t care for the first episode but I thought I should give it a little time to warm up – and then I watched another – and then I watched rest all last night!
Anna Paquin kind of annoys me but I’ve grown to adore the LaFayette character.
I haven’t read the book, but I’m pretty sure we’re all on the same page about sweet, sweet puppy-eyed Sam.
Question – why are Vampires not considered “human”?
Well, I guess because they’re dead. And that they’ve just always been considered inhuman monsters. Some vampires seem very removed from the lives they had when they were alive, but some, like Bill, still seem to be something of a continuation of those lives.
Still, I think we’re supposed to understand that vampires are something not human just residing in dead human bodies.
I want to know why V acts like E and VIagra with deviants who use it recreationally and all it does to Sookie is heal injuries? The books don’t really capitalize on V as a recreational drug as much as the show does… but Sookie winds up needing more than once in the span of the storyline.
Anna needs to learn to drop her H’s if she wants to sound like a homegirl.
Like most vampire dramas, they work best when they capitalize on the camp. They failed miserably handling the whole Bill and Sookie finally get it on storyline… but t Alan Ball didn’t write those episodes!
But DD, didn’t you see that tub?! Sure, the whole Dead Confederate Finally Gets Laid part was hokey, but when he got in the tub? That awesome tub? I was almost ready to forgive him for being on the wrong side of history.
I can’t begin to start going off on everything wrong with the Obiah woman and the exorcism(s) and the goofy TVtheology of the Hippie Jewish Chick. Of course finding out later that the Obiah woman was a fake solved some of the problems I had with the bad voodoo/santeria but then brought up problems I have with the world’s acceptence of mysticism.
So it’s okay for the cosmology of this show to accept vampires, shapeshifters and telepaths but NOT okay to accept demonolgy?!? Why the hell not? Of course I personally believe in demons. I also believe that there are multiple gods and magic and all sorts of other stuff. So I have a problem when I see that a show which (supposedly) eagerly embraces the supernatural treats what actual supernatural beings we have with derision and dismissiveness.