Alright, I'm getting tired of having so many discussions about this awesome show in so many threads, so it's about time it got its own thread, don't you think?

Carry on, my wayward son (and daughter?)

FINALLY! It took you long enough, huh? but seriously, for opening this...

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I just got the first three books (in Spanish) so, may a I beg of you, if you're gonna talk about the books, please, use spoilers? Thanks!

I've only read the first three books, and I keep wanting to just grab the next ones at the library and read them...but I'm in the middle of so many other books, I'm forcing myself to finish those first lol

As for True Blood, I've seen the first 7 episodes of season 1 and should be getting the next disc from Netflix today. I don't think the show, as a whole, is amazing, but it drew me in and is keeping me hooked.

Thanks Pisces!! I just posted in the Beautiful Men series about these books! My girlfriend is loving them! I'm meeting her for lunch tomorrow and I can't wait to hear what she has to say! I won't spoil anything here, I promise.

Im gonna love this thread

While some people might say that the show isn't the greatest, I have to say that I really love the entire premise behind it. It takes the normal vampire story and throws it on its end by shaking it up a bit.

Firstly, it's set in backwoods Louisiana, not LA, or NY, or some other glamourous, glittery locale. Like the Twilight saga, it uses something other than flash to convey its story. Being set in such a rural place, it makes for some very interesting characters. I like that it depicts small town life accurately (as far as I'm concerned, anyways), with everyone congregating at Merlotte's every night for food and booze. Most of the young men work at the same job (Jason's construction company), and most of the girls work at the bar. I get the impression that Bon Temps is tiny, with only a handful of residents.

Secondly, the world knows about vampires, which is something that hasn't really been explored yet in popular culture. Like any minority, they are being persecuted. There are those who are with them, and those who are against them (i.e. Jesus camp). They don't have to hide in the shadows in True Blood (well, maybe a little). And in addition to the general populace being aware of vampires' existence, they've flipped the coin and made humans crave vampires' blood, because of the stimulant properties 'V' has. So in a society where the killers have been outed, and many are trying to live as peacefully as possible within humanity, you have humans who are hunting them and taking THEIR blood from them. Sometimes, the vampires die. It's a nice reversal on the vampire mythos.

Thirdly, I love that there are other supernatural elements in the series, but they aren't really in your face about it. Sookie is a mind reader. Sam easily changes shape from man to dog, but it's not a spectacle. In the second season, we see Maryann, who is either a witch, or a God of some sort, who seems to be able to release people's inhibitions and lust... why? I don't know yet.

A friend of mine at work compared the show to Twilight, and I had to disagree with her. She said they were very similar. Maybe in the fact that it has the same general formula, 'human girl falls in love with vampire', but this show is SOOOO much more complex than Twilight. The vampires here are responsible for those they turn, they have a law system with each district having its own 'sheriff' (Eric).... Plus, as I said, having the whole dynamic of humankind being aware of their existence on the whole sets it completely apart from much other vampire fiction.

I didn't mean to ramble, I just thought it would be good to add some sort of substance to the thread to get the ball rolling.

I just started the third book and I'm really liking them so far - especially Eric. As previously stated, the rural setting is a nice departure from most books in this type of genre. The characters each have their own charm. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I watched the whole box set of Season 1 (dang near in one sitting!) and found them deliciously addicting.


Pisces: If you want another series where the vampires are known to general society give the Anita Black books by Laurell Hamilton a try. That one also has great characters and interesting dynamics between them

mmhh... haven´t heard of this yet... but after Ana and
you pisces like the show it might be one I will like too
Seems like we all watch the same stuff

Just watched episode three of season two so I'm all caught up.

The second season doesn't seem to have the cut-throat pace that the first season had but it's still highly enjoyable. I love how the fringe characters almost over shadow the leads (I mean Sookie and Bill) at times. Lafayette is my favourite character.

Sometimes Sookie is a bit bi-polar in her emotions and reactions which tries my patience a tad but then I have to remind myself that she's learning the rules as she goes ... just wish she'd exhibit a bit more of the bubbly, open-minded Sookie from the first few episodes.

Hoyt and Jessica are my favourite (brand new) storyline at the moment.

Bring on the next episode!!

PS: Do we have to spoiler episode stuff or is this kind of like the Heroes and Lost thread where it's assumed you keep up and read at your own risk?

Haven't read the books yet. I loved the 1st season of the series. Since I moved, I haven't had HBO to see the 2nd season, but I have been reading the summaries. Of course that all changed this week; HBO is now being received.

I love True Blood. Gore + sex is always a good combination (oh wow, people will think I'm a sick bastard now, which I'm not haha)
Can't wait till season 2 starts here in Brazil.

I thought about reading the books, but I don't know if it's really worth it. (You see, I only like to read books in english (when the author wrote them in english, of course), they seem wrong when they're translated to another language.. but imported books are kinda expensive and this series is made of nine books, right? That's a loooot of money.)

I love true blood!!

The books are amazing and the serial is to good too.

I've been thinking these days about open one thread about this

By the moment I only read completly the first book. I'm reading the second and I will read the third (because I'm reading in spanish and in Spain there are only 3 books now). I'm watching the serial in english, the first season. Please, don't put so much spoiler about the second and the third book

I've only asked for spoilers when people talks about the plot on the books since I recently started reading them, but if it's about the TV show, I think we all are at the same episode? (S02E03)

I bought the first season on DVD and while watching the first episode I was like WTF? lol then before long I was hooked. I watched the entire 12 episodes in one day. Love this show! I've bought the books now also.

I read the books and honestly was not all that impressed. They were okay, but not fantastic. The show is amazing though and one of my favorites. Alan Ball is a genius and so I started watching the show from the first episode and now I cannot WAIT for Sunday night! I'm really glad that they're pulling some of the minor characters more into every storyline so it's not all just Sookie and Bill, though they are fun to watch while Sookie has her major mood swings.

For me, True Blood is... what Twilight should have been. It's much more interesting and the characters are actually developed.

I've spent the last week watching the episodes on my computer starting at 1 in the morning. Woo-hoo?

I haven't seen any of season 2 yet, but I'll get on that right away!

Does anyone else completely LOVE Lafayette?

Me! Lafayette is one of my favourite characters from the show! One of my TOP moments of him from the show is when he's confronting those red-necks about the hamburger with Aids. That was EPIC.

I am just waiting on buying book 9. I would buy it now, but I want something to past the time (aka week) after this season of True Blood ends, it's torture when that happens I think I reread every book a dozen times each while waiting for this season to start.

I would have started a True Blood thread a long time ago but I was afraid of getting my head ripped of by the rabid Twilight fans

Ive just watched one and a half episodes after my friends mum got me into it! she also gave me the book dead until dark to read which is based on it or vice versa right? shes sending me the rest on disk as ive left her house now, cant wait suki gets on my nerves a little but ile get used to her lol. also is her brother the guy that used to play sam in home and away!?!

I was watch that episode yesterday!
That's awsome! XD

What I like about the saga, is that sookie is not the tipic girl who love desperately to ''her'' vampire. Ok, she ''loves'' him, but she can be without him. And he's the perfect vampire : sexy, pale but attractive, bad but kind.
And Lafayette is awsome, I love that guy

Series starts in Uk on Friday on FX Channel
Looks like a must see, but the pics of Stephen Moyer with the fangs in look rather strange ....*Plans a friday viewing night*

Love love love Layfayette! I look forward to all of his scenes, he is so hilarious.

Course I love Eric too!

Gaaaaaaaaaaaah Eric *gulp*

the end.


In other words I finally saw the first 3 episodes of S2.

I'll go to bed and come back later for moar.


PS: the only problem with this series is that it's hard to be eating while watching due to gore. yuk.

Eric is... I have no words for describe him. When I read the book and he appear for first time, I thought he was the most cocky person that I never know, but, after, he's cute. Yeah, what I say is a contradiction, but you'll see what I mean in the second book.

Sorry if that's a SPOILER

are you mad!? that gore RULES!!! I much rather have gore than the sex scenes between Anna and Stephen since they are a couple in real life! /jk

I'm so with ya there



In reading the books so far - Eric is by far my favorite character. I find his cockiness is part of the overall charm of the character - love love love him in book 2! Of course, it doesn't hurt that I "see" Mr. Skarsgaard (sure I spelled that wrong) when I'm reading about Eric



I iz one of dem rabid Twilight fans but I lovez all da vampires - not just the sparkly ones so no head ripping from over muh way

Lafayette and Sam are rivals for the position of my favorite character. LOL I certainly seem to have a thing for dogs.

Eric and Lafayette are my favorites. I mean, seriously, the whole AIDS burger scene in the first season was epic! Jason used to be included in that list until he got all Light of Day on us, of all the story lines I really just don't like his. I do want to start reading the books soon, though I am worried I will be more partial to the show since that is what I found first.

I kind of like the Light of Day side of the story. Gives you a look at both sides of the fanaticism (not so friendly vampires and bible thumping vampire haters). It also further illustrates for me that there really is no black and white, light and dark side to the story, and Jason seems to be struggling with that. The Light of Day people prey on people's fear much the same way the vampires prey on blood. I find Jason's plight to be accepted as a valid person very endearing. But, like with most things he does, he's going about it full throttle from the wrong end!

And yes, Ryan Kwanten (Jason) is Sam Vinnie from Home and Away (the Beautiful Men thread taught me that)

^^ Vinnie from Home and Away


Just watched the first episode and I'm hooked already!

Oops. Never watched Home and Away. Hahaha. Just saw someone posting he was in it in the other thread.

For shame! And he was on it when I was there

And Sam Merlottes is handsome too. Jason have baby face
Yesterday, I saw 3 episodes, and I slept at 7:00 AM

You were on Home and Away?? Do we need to make you a thread?

Not on the show, just on him

Hehehe.

Seriously?

No he was more of a top man.

(sorry for the slightly on topic but not quite hijack)

I agree with Jo about the Jesus camp cult thing. Poor Jason is so conflicted, having been a user of V and then seeing Amy kill a vampire, who he had befriended, no less... and then he had to deal with Rene/Drew killing Amy... he's trying to figure out where he fits into everything and find some sort of justification for his own actions, I think.

True Blood, meet my sister / Sister, meet True Blood --> Yeah, another watcher was created

I never saw Home and Away but he was on Summerland too, that is where I first saw him, and a little teenybopper some know as Zach Effron

Hahaha. It really is that easy to create new watchers. I've been trying to get Suze and my sister to watch but neither of them are big on livestream. Bugger.


There are way too many shows I have no idea about.

But why are you watching in english? There is in Spanish, all the first season. And they are gonna to start from the beginning again at Cuatro.

Can't wait for the next ep. this sunday ...

I even gave her the link of a site where she can download subtitled episodes so, she doesn't need to look for the right subtitles! I think that was the trick, yup. And on a funny note I got my boyfriend hooked on this show too! He really likes it!

Gaaaaaaaah Eric *gulp*

the end.


Thought it had to be repeated.

*Rushes out to watch Robert Downey Jr.*

That guy is gorgeous!!! I always mumble "wow" when I see him


Hell yeah!

So, what do we think of Daphne? Since she's about to head into Skinnydippingville with Sam. Is she the bull-head thing or another victim who survived?
I've decided I don't want to be a waitress at Merlotte's since they don't seem to have a long shelf life.

Also, is Lafayette going to keep the hair and lack of makeup (you know, wearing makeup means you aren't a serious artist) or is he going to shave and kohl again? I wonder what the next phase is for his character.

Any guesses on what happened to Godrick? Whole new monster/villain or one of the ones we've already seen? Who likes Maryann? I can't stop thinking of her as ensign Ro. It also took me two whole episode to recognize Amy as Janis Ian from Mean Girls.

The only thing i can answer is about what happened to Godrick, but since the books are so different from the show (that's the reason i can't answer the other questions) probably i'll be wrong

So we'll have to wait....

Starts on Channel 4 (terrestrial) on 17th July. Will be able to watch first episode before visit!

I also agree that the waitresses at Merlotte's don't really seem to hold up very well, with the exception of Sookie and Arlene.

I hope Lafayette stays the way he is... I mean, yeah, I get the whole 'prison-gay' thing, but I'd really like to see more depth of character for him.

And yes, Jo, I really can't help but see Michelle Forbes as a different character than MaryAnn; I see her as Admiral Helena Cain from Battlestar Galactica, which was the last thing I saw her in and she has the same hairstyle and what not. But I will admit, when I saw her on BSG, I thought "ENSIGN RO!!!" (I really should get the ST:TNG series on box set.... good times.)

I think the thing with not recognizing Amy right away stems from the fact that she's a lot skinnier now than she was when she was in Mean Girls.