What we see in our minds vs. Alan Ball’s creations (via @CindyLouLouBear)
When you read the SVM books, there are some characters that you just picture a certain way. It might be because you’ve see them in a movie, or commercial; but for whatever reason, they just pop into your head. I had a few of those as I read along.
Two in particular come to mind, I pictured Claude & Claudine extremely differnt than what Alan Ball brought to the screen.
For Claudine, I pictured Missi Pyle. She’s guested on numerous prime~time shows & was in the movie Galaxy Quest. I thought she would make a wonderful Claudine, as she can take even the most benign character & make it her own.
I pictured Mike O’Hearn as Claude. He was on the American Gladiators as Titan. He’s around 6’5 & all muscle. Since Claude was described as a Romance Novel cover model . O’Hearn would have been great as the standoffish, yet charming gay & proud brother to Claudine.
I can see where Alan Ball would want to make Faery a different land, but I was honestly really dissapointed in the vision of Fae Homeland.
Penalty Box: Alan Ball Gets It (via @EricSookieLover)
For tonight’s fangalicious Fang-A-Thon 2012 post, I was inspired to write about something that has been on my mind ever since I read it earlier today. What I read was an article in the Summer Preview issue of TV Guide magazine. If you haven’t read it yet (and would like to be spoiled in a MAJOR way), I highly suggest you do BEFORE you read any further. If you don’twant to be spoiled…sorry, this post WILL spoil some things for you, so you might not want to read this post.
As the title of this post mentions, it’s Alan Ball’s turn to sit in the Penalty Box. I think it’s only fair. He has screwed us around long enough. As it is in hockey; punishment is handed out to those who break the rules and/or has been found to be guilty of crimes they shouldn’t commit. I’ll be playing the role of referee or judge, jury and executioner.
FIRST PERIOD:
Alan Ball gets it for saying this below;
“This season we wanted to stay away from “Who will Sookie choose?” ~Alan Ball, TV Guide Summer Preview Issue
Oh REALLY? I found this comment to be extremely funny, actually. If there was ever a person who has played the “team” thing more than any other, I can’t think of anybody. Alan Ball is the leader of playing “teams”. Oh right…he expects us to move on, just like Sookie, towards Alcide. *rolls eyes* Sure, he says there won’t be a “team” thing now…but you know that his words mean nothing. He has lied before – who says he isn’t lying now?
This calls for a 5 minute major for fighting. No, he’s not fighting with the fans himself…but it’s because of HIM, True Blood fans fight with each other. He’s the instigator so he gets another 2 minutes.
SECOND PERIOD:
Alan Ball gets it for saying this below;
Eric’s sister – they had the same maker, Godric, who met the true death – arrives to help her bro. Expect serious sibling…friction. “They don’t have the same boundaries that we do in human family arrangements,” Ball says with a laugh.
You remember that kiss in the first full season 5 teaser, where Eric is seen kissing another woman? I guess that is his “sister” Nora. While I do think Eric is the type of character who would typically move on from being dumped by Sookie, by switching back to the man he was before he met her – it still doesn’t make this nausea go away. I don’t want to see Eric move on from Sookie. For that matter, I don’t want to see Sookie move on with anyone else either. The fact Alan Ball LAUGHS about boundaries not being a matter in this, makes me want to shove my fist in his f*ckin’ face. Since he’s not here…I guess I’ll have to do the next best thing.
This calls for another 2 minutes for hooking. Hooking up two characters who don’t belong together and for making all of us here at Eric and Sookie lovers sick to our stomachs. I think he should also pay for all the booze we’ll have to drink during season 5 in order to get through all of this crap. Does he think we’ll find this interesting? Oh wait…he probably doesn’t even care what we think. *slaps head*
THIRD PERIOD:
Alan Ball gets it for…well, he never really said anything, but I definitely feel he deserves something for destroying the character of our beloved Sookie and for being a woman-hater.
Sookie on the show is NOTHING like her book counterpart. I won’t get into this here, because Nymerias pretty much covered all of it in her post here. As you know, Alan Ball has destroyed EVERY SINGLE FEMALE CHARACTER on the show. Tara, many of us hate her because she whines all the time. Jessica, okay, she’s not bad…yet, but to sleep with Jason put her on the same derailing track as the others. Pam, is another character Alan Ball has completely changed from her book counterpart. We still love her, but we hate how Alan Ball has turned her into someone who hates Sookie and broke up her close relationship with Eric. I will say this though…none of these women portray characters we (as fans) can relate to. It only proves my theory that Alan Ball hates women, or doesn’t understand them. I wish the female writers on his staff would stand up to him and tell him; ‘no, this is NOT how women are’.
This calls for a 10 minute game misconduct, and a four game suspension. And for added punishment…just because I’m a woman, and because I’m a b*tch…a slap shot to his ballsack. Shame on you, Alan Ball! I wonder if your mother knows how much you hate women? Shame on you for turning Sookie into a woman who resembles a wife who has been physically abused by her husband over the years. I hope Alan Ball’s husband-wife doesn’t let him call the shots in their relationship. Shame, shame, shame…
GAME OVER.
That’s the buzzer to end this edition of the Penalty Box! Rest assured, Alan Ball will be in here (image below) for the foreseeable future!
Any more penalties you want to add to this? Feel free to agree or add some more on in the comments below!
Godric, the Hermit (via @TrueBloodMame)
In the darkest hour, in the dead night,
As the storm clouds gather, and the lightning strikes,
And the thunder rolls, and the cold rain blows,
The future it holds, what God only knows.
And I will rise up, and I will rise up,
Though I be a dead man, I said yes and amen.
And I will stand tall, and I will stand tall,
Until I meet my end, until I meet my end.
The Hermit
The Hermit shines light in the dark places because he carries a message that solitude, silence and meditation are essential aids to spiritual progress. Solitude takes us away from the multiple distractions of the material world; silence enables us to become aware of ourselves and our own reality, while meditation allows us to turn the mind inward and become receptive to the wisdom that arises from the collective unconscious and from the mysterious reaches even beyond this.
The Hermit symbolises the truth that many insights can be only discovered through quiet contemplation, away from society. Significantly, nine, the number of this card is the product of 3×3 (basis of trinity and a prime spiritual number) with connotations of eternal life. The card therefore has life-enhancing powers.
In the earliest Italian sources this trump is called either the Old Man (il Vecchio) or the Hunchback (il Gobbo). In one early sixteenth century Italian source, it is called Time (il Tempo), which is what it actually represents. From the time of the ancient Orphics, Chronos (Time) has been identified with Cronos (Saturn), the father of Zeus. Once banished, Saturn turned to gardening and applied his sickle to less violent ends. He was shown with it in the statue in his very ancient temple on the road leading to the Roman Capitol. Much wiser now, his reign was called the Golden Age, because he was incorruptible and there were no wars. He is fertility in its most exalted sense. Saturn eventually stepped down in favour of his son and retired from human company. Some say he rules Elysium, the Isle of the Blest; others say he lies in a magic sleep, tended by nymphs, on an island near Britain, and that he will return to bring another Golden Age.
Saturn discovers that Time may bring long life, experience and spiritual growth that cannot be rushed, for in his exile and enforced solitude he learns the wisdom that comes to those who endure and wait in silence. In stillness and serenity Saturn has grown into his own “Golden Age,” the only true Golden Age, the one within. Thus Saturn has become a symbol of quiet contemplation and wisdom, and here we may see a connection to the Hermit. Saturn is an example of the Wise Old Man archetype described by Jung; he is an authority figure, a god-like father, a spiritual guide, often appearing as a priest, teacher, grandfather, etc. He may manifest in many forms, including a disembodied voice but especially an old man. He may also take the form of a young boy, in which we may see the dual aspect of Mercury; He walks to the left to represent the process that Jung calls individuation, wherein the conscious and unconscious unite by means of the consciousness embracing the unconscious; the hourglass is an obvious symbol of the inexorable, irreversible flow of time, but also of the “eternal return,” for although the flow is irreversible, it will eventually stop; then everything must be inverted, and we will be back again at the beginning. Thus each Aeon has its own destiny, and each Aeon must yield to the next. (Chronos was also called Aeon – Aion = epoch, world, lifetime, generation.) The plant most associated with Saturn is the asphodel, a symbol of regret, which grows in the Elysian Fields on the Isle of the Blest, which Saturn rules. It is twilight, of course, because these times of day represent the threshold between the dark and the light, the warmth of life yielding to the cold of death, and the darkness of ignorance yielding to illumination of wisdom.
We give this card to Godric, sheriff of area 9 (Dallas), the maker of Eric.
In the darkest hour, in the dead night,
As the storm clouds gather, and the lightning strikes,
And the thunder rolls, and the cold rain blows,
The future it holds, what God only knows.
And I will rise up, and I will rise up,
Though I be a dead man, I said yes and amen.
And I will stand tall, and I will stand tall,
Until I meet my end, until I meet my end.
The Hermit
The Hermit shines light in the dark places because he carries a message that solitude, silence and meditation are essential aids to spiritual progress. Solitude takes us away from the multiple distractions of the material world; silence enables us to become aware of ourselves and our own reality, while meditation allows us to turn the mind inward and become receptive to the wisdom that arises from the collective unconscious and from the mysterious reaches even beyond this.
The Hermit symbolises the truth that many insights can be only discovered through quiet contemplation, away from society. Significantly, nine, the number of this card is the product of 3×3 (basis of trinity and a prime spiritual number) with connotations of eternal life. The card therefore has life-enhancing powers.
In the earliest Italian sources this trump is called either the Old Man (il Vecchio) or the Hunchback (il Gobbo). In one early sixteenth century Italian source, it is called Time (il Tempo), which is what it actually represents. From the time of the ancient Orphics, Chronos (Time) has been identified with Cronos (Saturn), the father of Zeus. Once banished, Saturn turned to gardening and applied his sickle to less violent ends. He was shown with it in the statue in his very ancient temple on the road leading to the Roman Capitol. Much wiser now, his reign was called the Golden Age, because he was incorruptible and there were no wars. He is fertility in its most exalted sense. Saturn eventually stepped down in favour of his son and retired from human company. Some say he rules Elysium, the Isle of the Blest; others say he lies in a magic sleep, tended by nymphs, on an island near Britain, and that he will return to bring another Golden Age.
Saturn discovers that Time may bring long life, experience and spiritual growth that cannot be rushed, for in his exile and enforced solitude he learns the wisdom that comes to those who endure and wait in silence. In stillness and serenity Saturn has grown into his own “Golden Age,” the only true Golden Age, the one within. Thus Saturn has become a symbol of quiet contemplation and wisdom, and here we may see a connection to the Hermit. Saturn is an example of the Wise Old Man archetype described by Jung; he is an authority figure, a god-like father, a spiritual guide, often appearing as a priest, teacher, grandfather, etc. He may manifest in many forms, including a disembodied voice but especially an old man. He may also take the form of a young boy, in which we may see the dual aspect of Mercury; He walks to the left to represent the process that Jung calls individuation, wherein the conscious and unconscious unite by means of the consciousness embracing the unconscious; the hourglass is an obvious symbol of the inexorable, irreversible flow of time, but also of the “eternal return,” for although the flow is irreversible, it will eventually stop; then everything must be inverted, and we will be back again at the beginning. Thus each Aeon has its own destiny, and each Aeon must yield to the next. (Chronos was also called Aeon – Aion = epoch, world, lifetime, generation.) The plant most associated with Saturn is the asphodel, a symbol of regret, which grows in the Elysian Fields on the Isle of the Blest, which Saturn rules. It is twilight, of course, because these times of day represent the threshold between the dark and the light, the warmth of life yielding to the cold of death, and the darkness of ignorance yielding to illumination of wisdom.
We give this card to Godric, sheriff of area 9 (Dallas), the maker of Eric.
H is for… (via @TrueBloodMame)
Humans – Eric sees them as a strange and enigmatic race
– Tell me what is it that you find so fulfilling about human companionship?
– They feel much more strongly than we do. Everything is urgent. Exciting. Maybe because their lives are so temporary.
– Yes, they certainly don’t keep well. Don’t you find the prospect of him growing old, sickly, crippled somewhat repulsive?
– No. I find it curious. Like a science project. How does Bill Compton feel about your interest in Sookie?
– I’m not interested in Sookie. And even less in how Bill Compton feels. My only interest is finding Godric.
– Of course.
via H is for…
Book vs. Series, part 3 (via @TrueBloodMame)
- Sookie continues to try and find the murderer by listening in on humans thoughts.
- Portia is introduces. “Portia was a female version of Andy: medium height, blocky build, determined mouth and jaw. The resemblance between brother and sister favored Andy, not Portia.”
- Sookie visits Merlotte’s on a night off to read some more minds, but is miffed when Bill comes in with a girl, Desiree. She’s been left as a gift from Eric and Bill sends her off with Jason to have a talk with Sookie. “Eric is intrigues by you now. He can tell you have mental power that most humans don’t have, or ignore if they possess them. He anticipates your blood is rich and sweet.” He continues “Eric’s always been something of a rogue, and the older he gets the more willful he gets.” They must find a way to outrank Eric if Sookie is going to be able to keep away from him.
- When Sookie comes home, something is thrown at the door. She calls Bill who comes and find her cat strangled outside. It was the cat that was thrown at the door.
- Sam tells Sookie to call the police about the calling next day at work which she does. She is also asked by Arlene to babysit her children, Coby, 8 years old, and Lisa, 5. That night as she is babysitting, Bill comes and sometimes later another vampire join them, “the man from Memphis” a.k.a. Bubba. Bill tells her that he is leaving for New Orleans and that Bubba is there to watch over Sookie.
- Arlene tells Sookie that René has issues with vampires because of his sister. René is also Arlene’s ex-husband no.2 out of the 4 she has had and they are only friends now.
- Sookie is asked by Sam to pick out possible new applicants/barmaids. She starts to suspect Sam.
- Sam wakes up in Sookie’s bed and tells her about being a shapeshifter. Andy comes visiting to tell her about a new murder victim. The victim is Amy Burley, one of the possible applicants that Sookie selected.
- When Sookie drops Sam off at the bar, they find Jason passed out in his car. He is brought to hospital and arrested as the police find a tape of him having sex with Amy just a short time before she was killed. Amy set Jason up. She was vindictive because of him having sex with more girls than her.
- Sookie contacts Jason’s lawyer to bail him out, and that is what happens.
- When night falls, Sookie realize the phone line is cut. Should she stay or run? She looks for a rifle and it’s gone. She runs out and hides and finds a dead cat and Bubba possibly dead dead or just unconscious. She realize René is the murderer and runs toward the graveyard.
- René catches up with Sookie in the graveyard and hits her, breaking her nose. She fights back but he continues to break her collar bone and tries to strangle her when she finds a knife in his workpants and she knifes him. When he doesn’t attack her again, but falls over, she walks away to Bll’s and calls 911 and passes out.
- Sookie wakes up in hospital, very bruised and hurt. Her nose, collar-bone, and 2 ribs are broken. Her throat hurts and she has cuts and bruises all over her body, neck and face. She learns that René is still alive.
- Sookie gets flowers from Merlotte’s, Jason’s lawyer and Eric in hospital.
- When Sookie wakes up that night in hospital, Bill is there. He has learnt what happened from Sam, Bubba and the police-report. He wants to heal Sookie, but she doesn’t want to because it makes her change. He tells Sookie about him winning an election. He is now investigator for area 5, which means Eric will have it harder to meddle with them as he has an office now, just like Eric.
- Sookie sees Eric outside in the hospital window and he flies away.
- Bill promise Sookie that “soon we’ll be back to normal” as she goes to sleep in that bed.
The Cryin’ Game (via @DarlingSookie)
So HBO has released their newest promo videoDon’t Cry. It’s Back. to tag along with the poster they released a few weeks ago.
Over the past four seasons of True Blood, many tears have been shed. Sometimes the tears have been in response to pain, both physical and emotional (though the vamps won’t admit to the emotional turmoil).
So who is the prettiest crier(s)?
My vote is for both Eric and Bill:
Eric’s bloody tears over the loss of his Maker, Godric, definitely vie him a spot in this category. And though some may disagree, Bill’s bloodstained face in the hospital as we break up just brings out the blue in his eyes.
Who is the ugliest crier(s)?
It’s no secret, when I cry, it’s a messy thing. Thankfully I’m not cursed with bloody tears or else I would look like I just came out of a slasher flick. And boy, do I ever cry a lot.
Ever since Bill entered my world, I think I have shed more tears than I did in the 25 years before. As many wonderful things his presence has opened up for me: love, sex, companionship…, being on the outskirts of a ton supernatural mayhem tends to leave one in need of investing in Kleenex.
No need to shed any tears, True Blood returns on June 10 at 9/8 CST on HBO. That’s less than three weeks away! Waiting sucks, but not for much longer.
Who are your votes for best/worst/ugliest/prettiest criers?
via The Cryin’ Game.
Day 11: “Goodnight, tiny humans.” (via @Eric_NorthmanTB)
Unlike my progeny, I have a certain soft spot for teacup humans. While most find teacup humans to be annoying and bothersome, I find that they can be interesting. Children often see the world in a way that adults cannot. They have a certain innocence to them and they have a fresh and uplifting view. I fathered many children when I was still human and I enjoyed the time I spent with my kin.
I like these teacup humans. They showed great bravery when the Shifter brought them into my bar. They did not appear to be afraid. Instead, they asked to see my fangs and told me that they were not afraid of vampires. These teacup humans are not full of the hatred that follows many of the older generations. It is a pity that we cannot harness the teacups acceptance of what is different in this world and spread to others.
Bill, I love you so, I always will.. (via @LuvBONESnTBlood)
…Maybe not!
As Sookie said to Eric…At least I hope so, I hope I will!
This is a LONG and wild tangent rant on Bill Compton! If you read it thank you and I hope I don’t confuse the crap out of you like I am! 
I started this blog site with only the best intentions with The Viking Sex God Eric Northman and the Southern Gentleman (of sorts) Bill Compton…
I will keep this site going as if my feelings towards my love for Bill has not changed and that there is hope for a brighter future but it looks grim! 
Let me start by saying since the series started I have rarely gone a day without watching True Blood unless I was sick or it was inevitable. I always watch in order. During the week it might only be one episode a day sometimes more whether it’s a full episode or I skip through and just watch one character’s take throughout, but come the weekend watch out, there are times I have watched a whole season before Monday morning then I’m dragging my feet. I still watch every day! When reading the books though, once I finished one I moved to the next never to reread them again. That seemed to be the big mistake!
Last Thursday I found myself bored at the car dealers waiting for my breaks to be done, I found book 1 on my kindle fire and started reading again. Since then I have been rereading like it is the last thing I will ever do.
As I trudged back through the books in order again I can now say I wish I didn’t…lol!
That statement 95% pertains to BILL!!! In my opinion, Alan Ball made Bill soooo much more likeable and I say Loveable especially in the beginning seasons. I loved the way his tv show character was portrayed. His southern charm, walk and build, his eyes and voice. His gentleness. He is lightning fast and later in the seasons we find out his mind is as calculatingly smart as Eric’s when as King he is definitely a force to reckon with. He is an excellent politician (not that is always a good thing mind you) and salesman. He is…
Hold up! Back up! Stop right there! Snap the $%^& out of it Terry!
That is exactly what I told myself after I got through only re-reading the first book! Really, seriously, I didn’t get that far before realizing OMG what a asshat! I was reminded fast and most definitely furiously just how much of SCHMUCK Bill Compton really is! (Book Bill that is 1000%) I started thinking about this, ok I started reading the books in 2006 a little late but I caught up and True Blood came out in 2008 so by then I had already been up to Dead to Worse Book 8 so I KNEW Bill was a dirt bag!
Signs of a COMPLETE CREEP!
I don’t know what happened. Really I don’t. The only thing I can think of is that although I kept reading the books when they came out every year once I was done, I was done. But when I was watching True Blood it wasn’t just once a week that I watched. Like I stated earlier it was so much more and over and over again that I started to really take Bill as what Alan and Stephen were giving me (Grey Bill is what I call him) as opposed to Charlaine who created the character (sorry but I guess it’s true) and I guess that’s what I focused on. I seemed to put the original complete creep (Book Bill) out of my mind.
From Alan, I saw Bill as doing anything to protect Sookie, including walking out into the sun and nearly getting killed when he goes to try and save Sookie from Rene’. Staking Longshadow protecting Sookie without thinking of punishment. He stays with Russell in fear of them finding Sookie and using her for her gift (we now know a little better with that). He also kills her Uncle Bartlett for molesting her as a child. His worry and love for her seemed so sincere and reborn with her. I truly believed that he fell in love with her spirit and soul. And although he was a vampire was trying so hard to be the receiver of her love.
The Bill we love and wish would stay that way! Dreams can come true you know!
I knew at times he was cruel and heartless but to me that was just Bill reminding us that although he is driven to keep his humanity the best way he can and to mainstream in order to walk amongst the humans with little to no problem he is still a vampire and not human.
Stephen and Alan made me like him even with all the miserable setbacks he had in attempts to hold on to Sookie’s love. Even his ultimate bitter betrayal with the Queen from the beginning in obtaining Sookie for her retinue. I hated it oh boy did I, but I felt so sad for him. I kept thinking oh poor Bill, why didn’t you just tell her the truth when she asked you if you had anymore secrets. You could tell he was always wanting to say something but you didn’t know what. I guess my mind didn’t want to believe he was capable of such malice and manipulation.
Now that is malice and severe opportunistic! Kill Eric and get him out of the way and far from Sookie now before the memory comes back and he rips your throat out! Thank God he had a change of heart!
Alan spun Bill similar yet so different, if that makes any kind of sense! Lol!
It seems now though through the tease we just had that Alan might be turning Bill in the direction that Harris created him. He is just as manipulative if not worse than Eric because of all the lies he tells. It seems in the upcoming season he doesn’t think twice in using Sookie. That I don’t like at all!
No choice for Sookie! She is going to help!
If Alan is going anywhere near Ms Harris’s train wreck we call Bill Compton from where we are now I would pray for Bill’s demise in an undead heartbeat! I couldn’t take to see Stephen play Bill the way he was originally written although he would play it perfectly.
To this day Book Bill I hate and hope that in the end that true death is given by Sookie in anyway shape or form whether it is protecting her or life or death or from something diabolical that he has done.
My version of Book Bill Compton.
But True Blood Bill, thus far into Season 5 I don’t hate him, I’m kind of right where Sookie is regarding Bill, when spell bound Eric was about to kill him I panicked. I am no longer in love with Bill (the character as much as you can love a tv character that doesn’t exist and is fantasy, etc..lol!) but I can’t see him not in Sookie’s life in some way, never an enemy, the show wouldn’t be the same without him. It would be devastating.
My version of True Blood Bill
I know as much as I LOVE the Viking Sex God Eric Northman I would be heartbroken without Bill around!
I am holding on to the one string left I have for Bill Compton because I actually love Stephen Moyer as an actor and I think he is giving us exactly what we need in Bill.
Stephen Moyer
I truly want to believe Bill when he says Sookie is the love of his life and that no matter who she is with he would always be there for her no matter what and he would meet the true death loving and protecting her!
Bill Compton: Sookie. It is not your blood that I love. I love *you*. Your mind; your heart; your soul. And I will forswear ever feeding on you again if that’s what it takes to convince you of that. You have brought light back into my life; and hope; and gratitude. That is why I love you. Nothing else.
Bill Compton: Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in humanity’s most powerful institutions and in the 1600′s, that was the Catholic Church and today, as you all know, it’s Google and Fox News.
Bon Temps’ Body Count (via @TB_PamR)
That article about bodies piling up in TV series started me thinking. There have been a lot of deaths in Bon Temps in the last four seasons. Now before we start debating Tara’s fate, let’s look at some of the other bodies True Blood has buried…or not.
Some of the characters deserved to die. Mary Ann, in spite of her killer decorating sense. Nan because there’s only room for one snarky blonde on True Blood. Marnie, for ruining my face. Sophie Anne, Debbie Pelt and Marcus Bozeman for selfish stupidity.
Others were largely forgettable. The idiot Godric strangled for trying to rape Sookie in Dallas. Most of the males from Hot Shot. Every girl Jason dated, and I use that term very loosely, in Season 1. That idiot witch that tried to get between Eric and Marnie at the end of Season 4, oh, and the gay storm troopers who never had names anyway. Those three idiot vampires and the trailer trash, not they weren’t the same people, in Season 1. Whoever was in the Dallas nest when the FOTS fool blew himself to bits. Anyway, you get my point. Lots of bodies, not many names.
By far the shortest list is that of those characters who had to die but you really wish had not. Sookie’s Gran is at the top of that list. So is Godric, of course. Then the list gets…provocative. There are several characters I could wish were still around and the names might surprise you. Rene, mostly because he was human and could have been arrested, leaving the plot open for his return at a later date (hello, can anyone say Russell???). The Magister. As painful as that season was, I rather admired his sadistic nature. Eddie was a worthless vampire, but assuming he was a competent accountant he could be useful. Lorena just because she made Bill’s existence miserable. And Tommy because at least he made Bon Temps interesting.
Hm. That’s not such a short list after all. I must be mellowing in the off-season. Don’t worry though, sentimentality is just like cement and I’m going to wash it righ out of my hair before True Blood Season 5.Because nothing stays buried in True Blood…even when you want it to. -smirks-
A good use for V (via @mswriteok)
Hello, and welcome to Day 11.
Though they don’t sell V in the books, it’s a popular recreational drug on True Blood. In the books, we see how vampire blood affects humans after Sookie has a sip of Bill. She feels better, her hair is more luxurious, all kinds of things.
The way vampire blood seems to cure almost anything made me start thinking:
In either or both universes, why doesn’t the human medical community ask willing vampires to donate their elixir of life to seriously ill people? Think of the good it could do.
Surgeries would go much better, a small amount put into in IV would hasten healing. Say someone was hit by a car, a little V would have them walking out of the ER within minutes.
In the books, however, it doesn’t help blood diseases. Remember Pam had a girlfriend with leukemia whom she couldn’t turn because she could not get permission. The woman died. I have to think Pam had tried to let her drink her blood and it must not have worked.
It would certainly give vampires a lot of leverage where equal rights are concerned. They could get about anything they liked for the price of a blood donation. What if they asked for an even trade: human blood for an injection of V?
I’m sure a lot of vampires would volunteer because it would increase the size of their donor pool.
And, since it seems that V from a vial doesn’t create a blood bond with the donor vampire, there wouldn’t be all these vampires having feelings about all the people they helped.
It’s just a thought, a supposition, but it has some interesting ramifications.
via A good use for V
New True Blood Season 5 Image Jason Stackhouse (via @vs4as)
A new True Blood season 5 image featured on the HBO website. This one shows Jason Stackhouse looking surprised. This is for episode 52 – 5.04. What is making Jason look so surprised? Waiting sucks! The new season will premiere on June 10, 2012.
See more photos from True Blood Season 5 via New True Blood Season 5 Image Jason Stackhouse
Fang-A-Thon Day 11: The Comics (via @VampKingBill)
I realized the other day I talked about the how my autograph copy of the True Blood: All Together Now is my prized Trubie possession, but I haven’t talked about my feelings on the comic book itself, so today I look to rectify that.
I could talk about how the storylines are interesting and give us scenarios that we’d never see on the show. I could talk about how the dialogue feels true to the characters and how there’s some particularly snappy little scenes (especially with Pam) but I feel like there’s no point in doing so for one very glaring reason: the art.
There are just so many things wrong with the art and I could up a dozen pages that have problems to demonstrate why I have problems with it, but I ultimately chose this panel because I think it shows all the problems neatly. Does that look like Sam to you? If he wasn’t standing behind the bar and if Tara didn’t say “Thanks, Sam” would you have been able to figure that out? And look at Lafayette! Even without the odd emphasis on the lips, the shading on his neck doesn’t quite work and makes his head look weird. Tara and Sookie are somewhat recognizable here, though there are plenty of places where it can be incredibly difficult to tell Sookie and Pam apart. I also have some gripes with the lettering (and that odd sound effect) but they really do pale in comparison to the character models.
It’s clear that the artists were given a mandate the the characters had to look like the actors on the show (each issue usually has a cover variant that uses a still from the show with the actor on it) but that the artists still wanted to create a unique look for the series. This is definitely an instance where going for a stylized look worked against them. When you sit there and try to read the comic but constantly have to stop and remind yourself whose talking you lose all sense of immersion, it’s a distraction and not a pleasant one.
Personally speaking, when I read comics art is a big deal for me because for me a good part of the point of reading a comic is to enjoy the art. I can (and do) read comics whose style may not be to my taste, but in those cases the art still has to work and the story has to be strong enough for me to overlook it. I also have to look whether the books are better than the titles already on my pull list at my current store. On average I buy around a dozen books a month, maybe more. And when I look at True Blood and I look at the other titles, it can’t compete.
But maybe art doesn’t bother you as it does me and you still want to give it a go. If you do, I strongly recommend checking out Amazon. You can buy a new copy of All Together Now for as little as $0.41 new or $0.01 used. You simply can’t beat $3.00 for a hardback. It’s definitely worth a look at that price.
SOOKIE & ERIC PLAYLIST PART 1 (via @Aly_x)
I saw someone post one of these a couple of months back and as I was walking home from college today I decided to come up with my own version. I feel the lyrics to each of these songs fits in at different points during Eric and Sookie’s evolving relationship over the past four seasons of TB. I had very set opinions and thoughts about which song corresponded with which scene/conversation etc between them but of course they can be interpreted by others to fit any of the dozens of moments they share 🙂
1. Adam Lambert – What Do You Want From Me?
2. All American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
3. All American Rejects – I Wanna
4. Alyssa Reid ft Jump Smokers – Alone Again
5. Avenged Sevenfold – Dear God
6. Beyonce Knowles – Halo
7. Beyonce Knowles – Sweet Dreams
8. Billy Joel – Vienna
9. Black Eyed Peas – Don’t Phunk With My Heart
10. Boys Like Girls – Go
11. Britney Spears – Womanizer
12. Britney Spears – Toxic
13. Britney Spears – Everytime
14. Charlene Soraia – Wherever You Will Go
15. Cheryl Cole – Promise This
16. Coldplay – Fix You
17. Cover Drive – Sparks
18. The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
19. Ellie Goulding – Your Song
20. Evanescence – My Immortal (band version)
21. Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry
SVM Character I would Most Like To See In True Blood – Rasul (via @EricNorthmanSVM)
Rasul was first introduced as part of Queen Sophie-Anne’s royal guard in Definitely Dead. He was suave, had a wicked sense of humor and flirted with Sookie making her smile. Later in the book he teams with Eric to save Sookie from The Pelts.
“Rasul has them covered,” Eric said. “You have another fan, it seems.”
He shows up again in All Together Dead with this wonderful exchange with Sookie:
Rasul popped up at my elbow. He smiled when I jumped. Those vamps. Gotta love their sense of humor.
I’d only seen Rasul in SWAT gear, and he’d looked good in that. Tonight he was wearing another uniform, but it was also pretty military looking, in a kind of Cossack way. He wore a long-sleeved tunic and tailored pants in a deep plum with black trim and bright brass buttons. Rasul was deeply brown, quite naturally, and had the large, dark liquid eyes and black hair of someone from the Middle East.
“I knew you were supposed to be here, so it’s nice to run into you,” I said.
“She sent Carla and me ahead of time,” he said lightly in his exotic accent. “You are looking lovelier than ever, Sookie. How are you enjoying the summit?”
I ignored his pleasantries. “What’s with the uniform?”
“If you mean, whose uniform is it, it’s the new house uniform of our queen,” he said. “We wear this instead of the armor when we’re not out on the streets. Nice, huh?”
“Oh, you’re stylin’,” I said, and he laughed.
Rasul manages to survive both the bombing at the Rhodes vampire summit and the Nevada takeover. The last we hear of him, he is a spy for the Amun division and residing in Michigan. I’m hoping he at least gets a mention in Dead Ever After. He definitely deserves it.
via SVM Character I would Most Like To See In True Blood – Rasul
Wipe Away Those Tears (via @TBconfid)
The new promo is using the don’t cry theme, watching it made me miss not only Russell but Franklin. I liked previous seasons when the posters were witty and plentiful.
Reveals: Roman is 500 years old, not old as far as other vamps we have met. He’s not only authority head but leader of their religion. Isn’t this a little late in the game to tell us they have a religion? The prayer recited during that promo of them all in cloaks kneeling and receiving his (or someone’s) sacred blood is in Aramaic. His dream is the coming out of the coffin movement and he doesn’t want to go back to the dark ages. He stakes a vamp fundamentalist for going against him in what might be the first scene he appears in (maybe). In other late news, their Vampire White house (as Ball is quoted) is underground in New Orleans. Bill and Eric are on trial because they didn’t kill Russell just buried him . As many of us have speculated they try to get a reprieve by saying they will hunt down the King and bring him in (those bastards). Then Moyer says that when he and Eric are on the road they start to care for each other, hahahaha. He says there is an unlikely laison at some point, oh noes, not THAT.
Under a pic of Tara Ball’s quoted as saying she’ll be back and is not happy with Sookie, and will have a growing intimacy with the last person you would ever expect. THEN he says that Pam will have a new vampire in her life! He confirms the flashback of her turning, so looks like many of our hunches were on the money. Sam has trouble with Marcus’ family and pack and even Luna, who finds out if Emma is wolf or shifter (which is so not from the books or shifter canon). Jason deals with his feelings for Jessica and what they say is “shocking” family history, so I guess his fairy comes out. Jessica parties while the anti vampers (the rednecks in Obama masks) target her.
20 nights to go.
More on “The Barrens” HERE.
EW has a story about Joe Manganiello and his time as Captain Morgan, yes that Captain– In case you haven’t heard yet, Magic Mike was inspired by star Channing Tatum’s old career as a stripper. So when EW got Tatum. Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, and Matt Bomer together for this week’s cover story , we asked if anybody else had a pre-fame job that might make a good Steven Soderbergh movie.
Everyone shared their best odd jobs, but it was True Blood star Manganiello who had the entire table engrossed with his showstopping story about his craziest before-he-was-famous gig.
“When I was 16 years old, a friend called me up in a panic. She used to book these promotional jobs, and she said, “We had a guy cancel last minute. Can you please step in?” And I said, “Okay, sure. What do you want me to do?” She goes, “Well, we’ll pay you $25 an hour,” — when you’re 16, I mean s–t — “And when you get here, if anyone asks how old you are, just say you’re 21.”
So I had my mom drive me down because I didn’t have a license. She drops me off, and I go in, and there’s this group of adults, and this guy turns to me and goes, “You’re the guy?” And I go, “Oh, yeah.” And he goes, “How old are you?” And I go, “21.” So he says, “Put this on.” And he hands me this pirate suit: the wig, the eyepatch, the beard, the ruffles, the sword, the cape. And I’m gonna go be Captain Morgan at a couple of bars. And he goes, “These are your two wenches.” And it’s these hot college girls. And they gave me this tank, this backpack that they strapped on, and they filled it with rum, and it had a tap on it, and they were like, ‘Go get everybody drunk.’
I’m 16, so I’m a little timid. I’m just worried about going to jail. So at the first bar, I was kind of scared. But then the girls were like, “Come over here!” And we all started drinking off the tap. By the time [we got to] the second or the third bar, one of the bars had those cowboy doors. And by then I was f–king lit, and I was feeling it. So I kick those cowboy doors in and I go, “AAARRRGH!” And the whole bar full of adults turns and goes, “AAARRRGH!” And it was on. I’m leaning on the bar, squirting [the rum] in their mouths, squirting it in mine. I was singing Marilyn Manson covers with the band by the end. The problem was that Seagrams called the next day. And I thought, “We’re all dead. We’re all going to jail.” But they said they didn’t want to do the promotion unless I was Captain Morgan. They loved me. So I got this guy’s ID who was 10 years older than me, and I was Captain Morgan in Pittsburgh from 16 to 21.
Peckish for DOLS (via @JBDuRoneTB)
Based on a lifetime of experience, the South has a thriving population of what I call DOLS (Dear Old Lady of the South). You find them everywhere; neighborhoods, stores, family reunions and, invariably, church.
The identifying characteristics of DOLS include;
– Friendly and happy to see you
– Quick to offer support and wisdom
– Has a dessert they’re famous for
– Produces said famous dessert at social gatherings or when someone is sick or dying
– Sweet, but with a steel hard core you best not mess with
– Knows your family genealogy better than you do
Grandmothers are a good prerequisite for being designated as DOLS, but I must make absolutely clear; simply achieving advanced years does not make one DOLS! Anyone that is a curmudgeon or otherwise grumpy or a busybody are automatically disqualified.
I’ll bet a lot of you are nodding now; you know of which I speak. Have you also noticed that Bon Temps has a marked lack of DOLS to be a small town in the South?
The most obvious DOLS in Bon Temps was Gran. She is such a familiar character to me; I’ve known dozens like her in my lifetime. In my revisit of Season 1, I realized how much I missed her contribution to the feel of the show. After her passing, there was a complete absence of DOLS on True Blood.
Miss Caroline Bellefluer shows promise as a DOLS, but I’m reserving judgement for now. She has a chocolate cake, which is a check mark in her favor. She deftly handled the situation with Bill and Portia, which also helps. I hope she returns to future episodes to firm up my classification of her.
Maxine Fortenberry? Non-starter. I couldn’t drink her into being a DOLS.
Jane Bodehouse? She can’t drink herself into being a DOLS.
Is there anyone I’m missing?
Poor Sookie needs to attach herself to a DOLS to work through her issues. A DOLS could straighten her out in a single afternoon.
And I could use a DOLS right about now. I’m peckish for a signature dessert.
via Peckish for DOLS.
Fang A Thon Night 11 (via @FangbangerEst89)
I saw a picture of these online because i went looking around on google lol. so i went and made these i just call them blood bitten cupcakes lol.
Basically you go the store and get red velvet cake mix in the box lol. (way easier! and cheaper).
You make them as it is directed on the box.
You get any type of white frosting that you like. I personally love cream cheese frosting with red velvet cupcakes.
When the cupcakes are cool and you have frosted them lol. You take tooth picks and then you put food color red drops into the holes and it’ll look like a vampire sucked the blood out of the cupcake!
i plan on making more for the night of the premier! hurray!
via Fang A Thon Night 11.
Day 11 #fangathon2012 – who would I change if I could to be a vampire… (via @SassyJessOB)
This is a difficult subject for me to write about but it’s the only thing I could emotionally express for my next entry.
I have recently been living with my dad having a terminal illness. And with this next post you will see that I would love to change that fact, it’s been so hard watching things go the way they have and seeing my dad suffer.
I can now just imagine what Pam goes through when she wants to make a child that has cancer but cannot do anything about it in Dead Reckoning. And it’s so difficult having nothing you can do at all.
If I could change back time I would just to spend more time with my dad before he has this disease.
So if I could change anyone in to a vampire, I’d have my dad as one.
via Day 11 #fangathon2012 – who would I change if I could to be a vampire….
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