Day 12: A Character I Could Have Done Without (via @Eric_NorthmanTB)
Tommy Mickens. Hell, the whole Mickens family. I don’t think that Tommy or his family did anything to advance the plot in the show and they were just time fillers and a waste of space. Needless to say, I was not upset when the Mickens family met their demise.
That Time of Year Again (via @DarlingSookie)
It’s almost time for True Blood to return and as always, the signs of it’s premiere date inchin’ closer are becoming more and more apparent.
It all begins with the first True Blood teaser. These are always fairly simple and surely give nothin’ away for the upcoming season. This year’sBuriedcertainly met those standards, though it was a comforting sight to know True Blood was less 5 months away.
Now as the months dwindle down to days, the promos, posters, cast photos and magazines covers are comin’ in.
Are y’all ready for the blood to flow again?
Until then, check out TV Guide‘s May 28 – June 3 issue, featuring Anna Paquin and Christopher Meloni on the cover.
What can you expect?
Here’s a sneak:
Christopher Meloni‘s face is splattered with blood. He’s just shot his first staking scene for HBO’s megahit True Blood — and he’s seriously amped up.
“When that blood hit me in the face, I went, ‘This looks awesome!’” Meloni says gleefully. It’s nearly 11pm and it took two hours to set up the shot — called a “goo drop.” A bucket of stage blood (with some latex blobs mixed in for guts) is suspended from a scaffold. Just below it hangs an empty suit of clothes matching what the actor playing the doomed vamp is wearing. As the stake goes in, the bucket empties through the garments, and the bloodsucker is no more. There’s only one chance to get it right. And Meloni nailed it.
The actor’s excitement is matched only by the seriousness of the character he plays: Roman, the 500-year-old head of the Vampire Authority with the weight of the world on his pinstripe-suited shoulders. He’s chief executive not only of the vampire government but of their religion, too. “My first day on set, I recited a prayer in Aramaic,” says Meloni. No separation of church and state here.
“Roman is a politician who has a dream,” explains executive producer Alan Ball. “He was behind the coming-out-of-the-coffin [movement], something that’s been in the works for at least a hundred years. But there are factions in the vampire community who want to go back to the Dark Ages and feed on humans. The biggest arc in Season 5 is the future of peaceful coexistence.” Adds Meloni, “Roman’s determined. He wants peace, but others have been trying to stomp out his path. Think Obama with very long incisors.”
Tonight’s stakee is one of these fundamentalists, a traitor to the Authority who meets the “true death” in the sleekly furnished conference room of an underground New Orleans compound Ball has nicknamed “the Vampire White House,” where Roman and six chancellors govern the fractious vampire community.
Roman’s pursuit of the conspirators will be a treat for Meloni fans who loved watching him solve crimes in his 12-season run as Det. Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU. Says Meloni, “Elliot was free-form. Roman’s more thoughtful — yet unafraid to pull the trigger. He’s a man of action. Get the facts; get it done. But they both have a certainty of their view. They both think they’re right.”
A major obstacle to Roman’s political agenda has arisen, literally, thanks to two bloodsuckers fans know and love: King of Louisiana Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and Sheriff Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård). At the end of Season 3, the two buried crazed former vampire King of Mississippi Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) in cement instead of killing him as ordered. Now he has escaped, and Bill and Eric are dragged before Roman for judgment. (It doesn’t help that they also killed the Authority’s Nan Flanagan last season.) They bargain for their survival by offering to track Russell down and bring him in.
When the duo hit the road, “bromance” blooms. “They end up caring for one another,” says Moyer, who will go behind the scenes to direct Episode 8 this season. “Me and Alex are mates, and it’s been really enjoyable actually getting to stuff where we’re not just bitch-slapping each other.”
Bonding won’t make up for the love their characters lost in the season ender when Sookie (Anna Paquin), the fairy-blooded blonde barmaid they’re both in love with, told them she didn’t want to be with either. “Bill has lost the thing that he believed in most, and he now is trying to find something else to believe in,” Moyer says. But apparently he’s not too brokenhearted for some sexy action. Teases Moyer: “There is an unlikely liaison at some point.”
Fans of the Sookie-Bill-Eric triangle, take heart. Mid-season, Sookie teams up with her ex-lovers when they need her mind-reading skills to help question a human witness who saw Russell unearthed. Will she be able to keep her vow and stay away from them romantically? “She’s trying her best to be independent and stand on her own, for better or worse,” says Paquin, who in real life is expecting a baby with husband Moyer. “She wants to eliminate drama from her life.”
via TVGuide.com
Waiting sucks, but not for much longer!
True Blood returns June 10 on HBO!
Someone just stake Bill already (via @JBDuRoneTB)
He’s been insufferable since defeating Cooter’s neutered Weres on the way to Russell’s house.
I just don’t trust him. Or like him. It should be obvious to everyone that he didn’t JUST happen to move in next door to Sookie. Or that he didn’t JUST happen to be rescued by Sookie and vice versa. Remember the research into Sookie that Franklin Mott (God bless his miserable sadistic soul) discovered in Bills house? It’s because Bill is a snake in the grass. Or a snake in the graveyard dirt; where he likes to get his freak on.
Russell said Bill was the most promising vampire in a hundred years (loosely quoted). Why? What makes him so promising? And why did the Authority back his coup of Queen Sophie Ann? Well, it’s not because of his “Bill bangs” haircut and affected Southern accent! It’s because he’s a deceitful, manipulative scalliwag.
Not that I have any strong feelings on the subject…
So, I want to see him splatter like a crimson paintball. Jessica can keep a Tupperware container of Bill jello for sentimental purposes, if she likes. Let’s just hope she burps the lid – I don’t want to smell him after he goes bad.
Now, time for the weather. Tiffany?
Fang a thon Night 12 (via @FangbangerEst89)
The Biggest heartbreak of sookie!
Bill…….
Bill should be well since he’s a vampire it’d be more fun to keep hitting him and whacking him with a shovel lol. He betrayed sookie. All along he was with the queen and was using sookie to FEED HER to the queen. How Dare He? That is so completely wrong.
Worse he tried to put eric and cement. Come on? how many of you didn’t love the part when he came to sookie’s house to tell her the truth about bill.
Then bill became king…….eeew! okay i guess we can just throw out my i love bill part of this thing lmao!
poor sookie totally betrayed and yes you could see it in her eyes it bothered her seeing bill with that stupid red head floosey!!!!
hopefully someone will have sense to just have sookie with eric.
aye aye!
via Fang a thon Night 12.
It’s a Fae Day in the Neighborhood! (via @TBconfid)
TruebloodHBO tweeted the TVGuide cover of the issue we spoiled here yesterday, why do they have to photoshop the hell out of everything I’ll never understand.
How to attract fairies, maybe Claude will show up.
Comicosity has pages of the ongoing comic True Blood, CBR has info on #4.
TRUE BLOOD #1
Written by Ann Nocenti, Michael McMillian
Art by Michael Gaydos
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Alan Ball’s hit HBO series, the sensually sizzling story of the lives and loves of vampires, mind readers, and all manner of creatures, returns as an ongoing series! With creative collaboration from TRUE BLOOD creator/writer/producer Alan Ball, this series features writers Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Green Arrow) andMichael McMillian, with art by Michael Gaydos (Alias).
Detailed synopses of the first 3, we had this but not with so much detail, hmmm
SUNDAY, JUNE 10 “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) struggle with the aftermath of Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) shooting, while also cleaning up after Debbie Pelt. Meanwhile, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), cleaning up a mess of their own, are visited by the Vampire Authority, one of whom is Nora (Lucy Griffiths), a woman from Eric’s past. In search of the missing Marcus, Alcide’s (Joe Manganiello) werewolf pack comes after Sam (Sam Trammell). With Bill away, Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) enjoys her new freedom by partying with local college kids; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) is visited by the recently turned Rev. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian); Terry’s (Todd Lowe) PTSD is reignited by Patrick Devins (Scott Foley), an old Iraq War buddy; and Alcide turns up at Sookie’s to warn her about the recently resurfaced Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare).
SUNDAY, JUNE 17 “Authority Always Wins”
At the Vampire Authority headquarters in New Orleans, Bill and Eric meet Salome (Valentina Cervi) and become acquainted with the Authority’s interrogation techniques. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) recalls her human life as the madam of the Comstock Brothel in San Francisco, and her first encounter with Eric. Werewolves J.D. (Louis Herthum) and Rikki (Kelly Overton) pay tribute to Marcus, but Alcide refuses to participate or take his rightful place as the new packmaster. Martha Bozeman (Dale Dickey) shows up wanting to see her granddaughter, causing conflict for Sam and Luna (Janina Gavankar). Fearing Russell’s return, Sookie procures a home-protection system; Arlene (Carrie Preston) tries to get to the bottom of Terry’s erratic behavior; Steve Newlin stops by with an offer for Jessica; and Jason feels the brunt of his womanizing ways.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24 “Whatever I Am, You Made Me”
Bill and Eric barter for their lives with the Authority Chancellors and their leader, Roman (Christopher Meloni). Salome and Roman enlist a new ally in the face of Russell’s return. Sookie goes to Fangtasia to ask for help from Pam, who is still caught up in her memories of Eric and the strange murders at the Comstock Brothel. Andy’s dalliance with Holly (Lauren Bowles) comes back to bite him in the butt; later, he’s visited by Gordon (Steve Rankin) and Barbara Pelt (Linda Purl), who are searching for Debbie. Jason bumps into an old high school teacher, but their reunion brings up conflicting feelings.
Carolyn Hennesy tweets-Back to the TB set on Weds. Working with the dee-lish Michael McMillan among other delectables!
From Tumblr’s Marvel & Whimsy (a whole lotta Askars), pics are from the Bullett Magazine shoot. The vimeo Behind the scenes was removed.
Last night’s Obie Awards had True Blood well represented with Denis O’Hare and J. Smith Cameron (Melinda Mickens) who won for her performance w. an ensemble cast in Sweet and Sad Source Source
Special Citations Mark Bennett,Denis O’Hare,Lisa Peterson, and Stephen Spinella– An Iliad (New York Theatre Workshop) Congratulations to both.
The Cast (via @EricNorthmanSVM)
Despite the inconsistancies in writing and some dodgy story choices, the one thing that cannot be argued is the quaility of the cast. They are stellar.
via The Cast
SOOKIE AND ERIC PLAYLIST PART 2 (via @Aly_x)
Final half for you guys!
1. Florence and the Machine – No Light, No Light (personal favourite, S’s thoughts on E)
2. Hunter Hayes – Storm Warning (personal favourite, E’s thoughts on S)
3. Jace Everett – Bad Things
4. Jason Derulo – Fight For You
5. Ke$ha – Cannibal
6. Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes
7. Lady Gaga – Teeth
8. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
9. LeAnn Rimes – Can’t Fight The Moonlight
10. Madina Lake – One Last Kiss
11. Marilyn Manson – Tainted Love
12. Michael Jackson – Thriller
13. Muse – Undisclosed Desires
14. Nickelback – I’d Come For You
15. P!nk – Please Don’t Leave Me
16. The Pretty Reckless – You Make Me Wanna Die
17. Seether ft. Amy Lee – Broken
18. Stone Sour – Through The Glass
19. Travis Garland – Fucking Perfect
20. Travis Garland – Beautiful Nightmare
21. William Control – Beautiful Loser
22. 30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill
True Blood on Cover of TV Guide Summer Preview Issue (via @vs4as)
True Blood is featured on the upcoming TV Guide magazine cover and a great “spoilery” article inside!
“Christopher Meloni joins Sookie & Co. for a juicy new season” Take a FIRST LOOK at the True Blood TV Guide Magazine cover that hits newsstands this Thursday, 5/24 and share it with Truebies everywhere. Connect with TV Guide Magazine on Facebook:http://itsh.bo/H5Uu5X
UPDATE: here’s the article from the magazine:
Christopher Meloni‘s face is splattered with blood. He’s just shot his first staking scene for HBO’s megahit True Blood — and he’s seriously amped up.
“When that blood hit me in the face, I went, ‘This looks awesome!’” Meloni says gleefully. It’s nearly 11pm and it took two hours to set up the shot — called a “goo drop.” A bucket of stage blood (with some latex blobs mixed in for guts) is suspended from a scaffold. Just below it hangs an empty suit of clothes matching what the actor playing the doomed vamp is wearing. As the stake goes in, the bucket empties through the garments, and the bloodsucker is no more. There’s only one chance to get it right. And Meloni nailed it.
The actor’s excitement is matched only by the seriousness of the character he plays: Roman, the 500-year-old head of the Vampire Authority with the weight of the world on his pinstripe-suited shoulders. He’s chief executive not only of the vampire government but of their religion, too. “My first day on set, I recited a prayer in Aramaic,” says Meloni. No separation of church and state here.
“Roman is a politician who has a dream,” explains executive producer Alan Ball. “He was behind the coming-out-of-the-coffin [movement], something that’s been in the works for at least a hundred years. But there are factions in the vampire community who want to go back to the Dark Ages and feed on humans. The biggest arc in Season 5 is the future of peaceful coexistence.” Adds Meloni, “Roman’s determined. He wants peace, but others have been trying to stomp out his path. Think Obama with very long incisors.”
Tonight’s stakee is one of these fundamentalists, a traitor to the Authority who meets the “true death” in the sleekly furnished conference room of an underground New Orleans compound Ball has nicknamed “the Vampire White House,” where Roman and six chancellors govern the fractious vampire community.
Roman’s pursuit of the conspirators will be a treat for Meloni fans who loved watching him solve crimes in his 12-season run as Det. Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU. Says Meloni, “Elliot was free-form. Roman’s more thoughtful — yet unafraid to pull the trigger. He’s a man of action. Get the facts; get it done. But they both have a certainty of their view. They both think they’re right.”
A major obstacle to Roman’s political agenda has arisen, literally, thanks to two bloodsuckers fans know and love: King of Louisiana Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and Sheriff Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård). At the end of Season 3, the two buried crazed former vampire King of Mississippi Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) in cement instead of killing him as ordered. Now he has escaped, and Bill and Eric are dragged before Roman for judgment. (It doesn’t help that they also killed the Authority’s Nan Flanagan last season.) They bargain for their survival by offering to track Russell down and bring him in.
When the duo hit the road, “bromance” blooms. “They end up caring for one another,” says Moyer, who will go behind the scenes to direct Episode 8 this season. “Me and Alex are mates, and it’s been really enjoyable actually getting to stuff where we’re not just bitch-slapping each other.”
Bonding won’t make up for the love their characters lost in the season ender when Sookie (Anna Paquin), the fairy-blooded blonde barmaid they’re both in love with, told them she didn’t want to be with either. “Bill has lost the thing that he believed in most, and he now is trying to find something else to believe in,” Moyer says. But apparently he’s not too brokenhearted for some sexy action. Teases Moyer: “There is an unlikely liaison at some point.”
Fans of the Sookie-Bill-Eric triangle, take heart. Mid-season, Sookie teams up with her ex-lovers when they need her mind-reading skills to help question a human witness who saw Russell unearthed. Will she be able to keep her vow and stay away from them romantically? “She’s trying her best to be independent and stand on her own, for better or worse,” says Paquin, who in real life is expecting a baby with husband Moyer. “She wants to eliminate drama from her life.”
True Blood premieres Sunday, June 10 at 9/8c on HBO.
For more on the new season of True Blood, pick up this week’s issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, May 24! SOURCE:
A tribute to Deputy Kenya Jones (via @QueenFaeMab)
One of my all time favorite characters is Kenya Jones, played by actress Tanya Wright.
Kenya is introduced during the first season and works as a sheriff’s deputy on the Bon Temps Police Department. We first see her when she is called to the scene of Tara’s car accident and arrests her for driving under the influence. I love her sassy ways and straight forward cop demeanor. Unfortunately she was only in 3 seasons of True Blood, but I thoroughly enjoyed her dislike of Andy and his crazy drinking and pig chasing.
One of my favorite lines was in season 3 where Kenya is sitting at Merlotte’s bar and says “Well I guess the only way to get a promotion in this town is to drink like a fish, hallucinate farm animals and kill a black man. Hey! Promotion!”
Although she won’t be returning to the show, I enjoy watching @Kenya_JonesBT pull folks over for speeding. Every time I see a female cop around, it reminds me of her. Drive safe! You never know when Miss Jones is on duty! 😉
Please Don’t Spoil Me True Blood (via @TB_PamR)
I admit, when I first took up social networking, ok, Twitter, -smirks- I read everything I could find about myself. I read the SVM novels, of course. I recorded and watched True Blood repeatedly, analyzing every nuance of Kristin Bauer van Straten’s performances. I read all the articles and sorted through dozens of tumblrs and blogs. I spent hours searching for and saving images of myself. I watched every trailer, teaser and fan made video on YouTube. I followed every cheap knock-off of myself and my Maker I came across.
Fortunately, I’ve moved past that stage. -smirks-
I know who I am. More importantly, I have grown into a unique and complex person who shares some characteristics with book Pam, show Pam and even all those polyester doppelgangers out there.
In the process, I’ve lost my taste for True Blood spoilers.
Part of that is because if I hear or see something I a) have to share it and b) automatically start playing with it and twisting it to fit my storyline and existence. The first one is annoying to others, especially those who try avoid spoilers or aren’t avid truebies (yes, there are some of those out there -smirks- you know who you are). The second is annoying to me.
It is, as far as I am concerned, pointless to try to second guess True Blood. Alan Ball and his cadre of pet writers have read just enough of the books to be dangerous to all the canon characters because they haven’t read enough to really understand them. It’s a given that wherever I go in response to a trailer or hint, True Blood will go someplace else, and probably in the exact opposite direction. At least until next season. -smirks-
And that’s the other reason I avoid spoilers. I feel that by being an active participant in TBRP and other aspects of the fandom, I have already encountered everything I am going to see in a spoiler and probably much of what I will see in the show. There’s a very good chance I will have seen or read it done better on Twitter or in some fanfic, be it mine or someone else’s.
So I avoid spoilers. I experience True Blood for the first time, and at least with Season 4, the last time, the night each episode premieres on HBO. I think it makes for a more authentic experience and honest opinion, even if the opinion is “I HATE IT!” as most of them were in Season 4. Then I go back to my existence, taking what I need and want, if anything, from the show, but generally just going about my business.
So try not to spoil me in the next few weeks until June 10. I really don’t want to know.
What supernatural being would I be and why? (via @SassyJessOB)
This is a most easiest blog entry I am going to write, because if I’m going to be any supernatural being it would be a vampire… I think I speak for anyone who has watched true blood and any other vampire series that we all want to look super pretty, have super strength, super fast and in a true blood case and other books out there we also want to be able to glamour to get our way!
Vampires make things super sexy and super fun, the only downsides is wooden stakes and silver but out there we all want to be made one don’t we?
I would love to be made immortal. There’s something sexy about not ageing and not having to worry about your latest wrinkle to your tattoo’s slowly destroying as your body ages.
Vampires I believe will exist when the day zombies have been made… Sound stupid but if zombies will become possible, who says we wont evolve and eventually drink blood?
The one vampire I admire the most and makes me want to be made one is Pamela Ravenscroft. She makes vampirism sexy, fun, stylish, and many more things.
So if I was supernatural that’s what I would be…
via Day 12 #fangathon2012 – what supernatural being would I be and why?.
Waiting Sucks, But it’s So Worth it! (via @LuvBONESnTBlood)
Waiting does suck!I’ve been hearing through other sites and dedicated fans that they might use Alcide this season as a replacement for John Quinn. I’m sorry no way! I’d rather wait another whole season without his storyline than to do that!
Don’t get me wrong I like Alcide and even as another guy trying to get into Sookie’s pants but not as a permenant fixture (that belongs to the Viking) and definitely not to over shadow or replace Quinn. They both were and are important to her storyline and they both need their own time in the show!
Alcide
Alcide played by Joe Manganiello
on HBO True Blood
Alcide is a full blooded Werewolf whose father owns a construction/surveying company. Very Alpha and should be Packmaster but does not want the recognition. At 6ft 5 he is huge. Gorgeous eyes of green/gold, messy black hair, rough, chisled physique and full of magnetism.
Sookie first meets Alcide when Bill goes missing (book: Lorena summons him TV: Russell has him kidnapped and brought to Mississippi) Sookie and Alcide never really get a romantic relationship into full swing eventhough he tries many times and due to Alcide’s crazy relationship with his ex-fiance Debbie Pelt. (which Sookie kills). He does not like her association with Vamps but still helps her when she needs it. He will always be there for her. They are close friends.
Quinn
John Quinn is a full blooded weretiger, is just over 6 and 1/2 feet tall, very muscular, bald, scarred and his deep violet (compared to pansies).His whole being is commanding and his presence oozes charisma and confidence.
Quinn’s eyes are like purple pansies!
He is a supernatural coordinator for Extreme(ly Elegant) Events company, his job is to arrange and emcee all types of supernatural community events, such as a packmaster contest or a vampire wedding. He becomes Sookie’s romantic partner for a time. His past is a bit hard and sad in order to get out of it he saught help from vampires who made him compete in gladiator type fights for three years. Though Sookie breaks up with him in the book in the eighth book he never stops trying to rekindle with Sookie.
John Quinn has yet to make an appearance on True Blood yet. There have been many suggestions as who could play Quinn even Ms. Harris likes Vin Diesel. Which I soooo agree with! I also like Liev Schreiber and Jason Statham myself to play him…
Vin Diesel
Jason Statham
Liev Schreiber
I is for… (via @TrueBloodMame)
Insatiable – no explanation necessary
– Where were you tonight around eleven o’clock?
– Here. With Yvetta.
– Doing this? For the last six hours?
– You seem surprised. Is Bill stamina not up to snuff?
via I is for…
Myth and Mystery in the Authority (via @TrueBloodMame)
The new S5 promo shows the Authority members genuflecting to a vial of blood, placed in a protective glass case. Such veneration of blood has a parallel in holding Jesus’s blood sacred (holy blood). The Basilica of the Holy Blood (Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed) in Bruges houses a venerated relic of Christ: his very blood, collected by Joseph of Arimathea.
Myth and Mystery
Legend has it that after the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea wiped blood from the body of Christ and preserved the cloth. The relic remained in the Holy Land until the Second Crusade, when the King of Jerusalem Baldwin III gave it to his brother-in-law, Count of Flanders Diederik van de Elzas. The count arrived with it in Bruges on April 7, 1150 and placed it in a chapel he had built on Burg Square.
History
The first historical record to mention the Holy Blood in Bruges dates from 1256. The real story seems to be that it came from Constantinople, which had an extensive collection of relics including one of the Holy Blood.
Constantinople was sacked by the Crusader army of Count of Flanders Baldwin IX in 1204, during the Fourth Crusade. Baldwin IX probably sent the Holy Blood, looted from the Byzantines, to Bruges shortly thereafter. The manner in which the rock-crystal vial is cut also suggests an origin in Constantinople. The Holy Blood relic is embedded in a rock-crystal vial, which is placed inside a small glass cylinder capped with a golden crown at each end. The relic is kept in a magnificent silver tabernacle with a sculpture of the Lamb of God in the large side chapel of the upper church.
Of course there is also a theory of holy blood being essentially the Holy Grail (Sang real, San Graal). The Holy Grail itself may be a literary device for the vessel that carried the blood, or the bloodline of Jesus. One Grail romance depicts Joseph of Arimathea as the man who brought the Grail to safety. Could the Grail be an allegory for the sacred bloodline of Jesus? The central thesis of Holy Blood, Holy Grail is that the ‘Sang real’ is the Blood Royal of the family of Jesus. If we interpret the Holy Grail as the sacred bloodline, the Grail itself may comprise the documents, the written genealogies of the David-Jesus family. Robert de Boron introduced in the 12th century the genealogy of Percival, which extended from Joseph of Arimathea. According to him, Joseph of Arimathea used the Grail (the Last Supper vessel) to catch the last drops of blood from Jesus’s body as he hung on the cross. Joseph’s family brought the Grail to the vaus d’Avaron, the valleys of Avaron in the west, which later poets changed to Avalon, identified with Glastonbury, where they guarded it until the rise of King Arthur and the coming of Perceval.
But whose blood is the Authority holding sacred?”
True Blood’s New Head Honcho (via @EricSookieLover)
Tonight’s (Day 12) fangalicious Fang-A-Thon 2012 post is brought to you by some very interesting and surprising news that has justbeen released!
HBO has named Alan Ball’s successor for season 6 – IF (that’s a pretty big if, IMO) it’s renewed for a sixth season. The bad news? It’s not me. Yeah, I know that is somewhat disappointing for you. Haha. The good news? (Depending on how you look at it.) Is the fact it’s none other than Mark Hudis!
This is what Deadline.com is reporting.
EXCLUSIVE: True Blood co-executive producer Mark Hudis will take the reins of the hit HBO vampire drama if it gets renewed for a sixth season. With True Blood creator/executive producer Alan Ball stepping down as showrunner at the end of the upcoming fifth season, Hudis would be upped to executive producer/showrunner for Season 6 as part of an overall deal he has signed with HBO. The two-year pact also includes a development component.
Hudis has been on True Blood for the past two seasons — last year’s Season 4 and Season 5, which premieres June 10. While his and Ball’s paths previously crossed on the CBS comedy series Cybill, where they co-wrote several episodes during the 1997-98 season, the two first met two decades ago working at trade publication AdWeek. UTA-repped Hudis’ series credits also include Fox’s That ’70s Show and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. While leaving True Blood full-time after Season 5, Ball is staying in business with HBO through his overall deal there. He will continue to be involved in True Blood and also executive produces new series Banshee for HBO sibling Cinemax.
Speculation is already going around that HBO is preparing themselves in case True Blood isn’t renewed. They won’t lose anything if that happens. Will this be a good thing for us? I’m not sure. Depending on how this season ends, it could mean things are still up in the air for our couple, just like they were in Deadlocked.
I guess only time will tell. Who knows? I just hope that if it’s renewed…Mark Hudis won’t disappoint us like Alan Ball did.
One other thing which came to mind when I read it was this…why is HBO handing over the reigns to someone who has only been on the show since the beginning of season 4? Why not one of the other producers? Someone else who have been there for a longer period of time?
What are your thoughts? Share ‘em below!
How I Would End the Final Book, Part 1 (via @mswriteok)
I’m not Charlaine Harris and I’m glad I’m not, but if I could creep into her consciousness long enough to write the final Sookie Stackhouse book, “Dead Ever After,” here’s what I would do.
I’d set it five years from the end of “Deadlocked.”
~~~
Sookie would by lying outside her much-improved home on her chaise, soaking up the sun, and not far away would be a kiddie pool with two small children splashing away.
Sam would walk out the front door, carrying a plate of raw hamburgers and hot dogs. The grill would be heating up nearby and he’d stop by the chaise and give Sookie a loving kiss right on the mouth, saying, “Hey there, Sook.”
“Hi, honey,” Sookie would answer. “You might want to put a little more sunscreen on Sammy and Adele. The last thing they need is a sunburn.”
“Sure,” Sam said. “Right after I get this meat on the grill.”
As the meat sizzles, Sam picks up his twins and with a lot of giggling and hugs, he re-applies suncreen to his little blonde children.
“What’s up for tonight?” he asks.
“I think Eric and Bill both are coming over to see their ‘teacup human’ godchildren, and Jason and Michelle will be bringing Jason Jr. over and they’re going to babysit so you, me, Eric and Bill can go out for dinner tonight to celebrate our anniversary.”
“Which one?” Sam asks with a twinkle in his eye.
“Oh, all of them,” Sookie replies airily.
Closing her eyes again, Sookie thinks back to how this all came about. She never thought it would end like this.
Five years ago tonight, she brought back Sam from the dead, using the Cluviel dor. Eric wouldn’t return her calls and Bill was impressed she had stood up to the Viking. She knew Bill expected that she would run back to him right after Eric said he was going to marry Freyda.
Eric surprised everyone. He broke of all contact with the Queen of Oklahoma and came back to Sookie, expecting for her to forgive him like she always had.
He was in for a shock. So was Bill.
She remembered the private conversation she’d had with each.
Bill checked in first, as always.
He’d come by as soon as he was up, showered and dressed. Sam and Sookie were in the house, getting ready for bed in separate rooms. After Sam was alseep, Sookie took a deep breath and walked into her living room.
She had told him then that breaking their bond was the best thing she had ever done. She was free to be with her human friends, to do things that lasted all afternoon into the night without worrying about who would think what when a vampire walked in.
She hugged him then, a warm, close hug, and whispered into his ear, “Bill, I will always love you because you were my first love, first in so many things. You made me the woman I am today, but I will never be yours. Never.”
Bill was quite surprised, but stepped back and took a good look at her.
“You’ve changed,” he said, stunned. “I believe you mean this.”
“Oh, I do, Bill. I do,” she said.
The handsome vampire stayed a while longer, drinking a glass of True Blood and considering what the woman he would love for eternity had said. He began to realize she meant it.
After a few hours, he bade her good night and with a kiss to her forehead, he left.
She was asleep on her couch in front of her TV when she heard another knock on her front door. She had no doubt who it was.
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