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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: jhocking on 14 Jul 2009, 04:38
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I just watched the first few episodes of this show. I kept watching even though the writing made me cringe because I wanted to give the show a fair shake of the stick. Many people have told me it is awesome, but from what I could see it is shit. If there are any fans here, somebody please explain to me why this show is awesome, because I really don't see it at all.
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I've gone as far as episode three solely for the silly accents.
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I haven't seen it, but if I start watching it my only justification will be that it provides me with an opportunity to gaze at Anna Paquin with unabashed adoration.
I mean hell, I almost watched a whole episode of Harper's Island or whatever the hell it's called when I found out it had Elaine Cassidy in it.
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She was the most annoying character of them all! I couldn't believe it!
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Well obviously you don't watch it with the sound turned up. Sheesh!
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... so, it's a lot like the L-word?
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I am addicted to True Blood. I also read the books, though, so I don't know if that's why I absolutely must watch it, but I enjoy it a lot. Sookie does drive me nuts, but a few of the other characters are interesting and lots of fun, like Lafayette. He's fucking hilarious. And it's sexy.
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... so, it's a lot like the L-word?
Now I heard that Elodie Bouchez was in a season of that. Is that true or is it just a trick to make me watch it?
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The first and second episodes were entertaining for me. But then I lost interest.
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Most people I know who watch it seem mostly to cite that: 1. It's on HBO and that means it's better. 2. It's not Twilight. 3. Fuck you, vampires are awesome.
I do not understand why people fuckin' love vampires so much, I really don't.
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Well ... vampires love humans so it's only natural to return the favour.
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It has a lot of nudity and graphic sex. As far as I know Anna Paquin didn't go off-kit until later in the first season and a lot of people seemed to be disappointed by that fact.
I hear the second season is actually pretty good. First season got low marks from a lot of cats because of Second Season of Twin Peaks Syndrome (symptoms include B and C stories / characters that are incredibly difficult to care about or watch)
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It has a lot of nudity and graphic sex.
That works for me!
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Most people I know who watch it seem mostly to cite that: 1. It's on HBO and that means it's better. 2. It's not Twilight. 3. Fuck you, vampires are awesome.
I do not understand why people fuckin' love vampires so much, I really don't.
#1 is usually true. Except for Co-Ed confessional. Come on, if I wanted to see "college students" get it on, I'd buy a Girls Gone Wild.
I also don't get the whole Vampire fixation that we've dropped under. I mean, there were always good Vampire movies and books, but I think since Stephanie Meyer made it appeal to lovesick Scene teenage girls, the whole world has went Bat-s*** insane (pun maybe intended). Heck, right before Edward St. Emo Cullen came along, there was "Let The Right One In" which was a kick-ass movie, but nobody but nobody's best friend who smells funny knows about it.
Pop culture blah
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If you want to really get into it, the Sookie series of books started long before Stephenie Meyer.
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More like Sookie Stackedhouse lololol
Before Stephanie Meyer there was Anne Rice. It was eventual that vampire novels would be cleaned up enough for mass tween consumption. Besides, vampires have always fit neatly within the constricts of romance fiction because Bram Stoker's defining novel (along with many other defining horror novels, tellingly) was written in the Victorian era, and the threat and mystique of vampirism comes from symbolism rooted in a repressed conception of violent, immoral sexuality. Vampires are described as perfectly beautiful with a savage / vulpine quality (exotic!) and they only come out at night, being bitten by a vampire is often described as being something pleasurable that one submits to, etc. etc. They were basically begging to be included in guilty pleasure smut pulp.
Which Twilight is, just repurposed to a hilariously twisted degree. Vampires are still sexual beings preying on virginal girls, but Edward is made a hero by barely containing his desire to devour the protagonist. It's basically a really long screed meant to reinforce repression and promote abstinence. But that's common knowledge by now and besides, messages never really matter to anyone older than a certain age.
True Blood is trying to take a different path by making sex front and center (thus demystifying and disempowering it to a degree) and offering broad social commentary, which is usually the domain of, I don't know, zombie horror. It's an interesting way of doing things but I just don't think the show is any good (haven't seen the second season)
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Vampires are described as perfectly beautiful with a savage / vulpine quality (exotic!)
Fun Fact: In Dracula, the eponymous character is described as actually being quite ugly, but when spoken about (or written about, as the case may be), the adjectives and verbs used to describe what he does sound like the kind you would use to describe some sort of godly creature. So he is actually incredibly ugly, but with so much charisma that people wouldn't notice. I wish that held over more.
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All of the vampires (male and female) as I understand it, are so described. They're repulsive on one level, but utterly, inescapably seductive.
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Could be. I can't remember the description of the wives, and I never got around to finishing it before I had to take it back to the library. I really ought to check it out again, just skip past the boring crap with Mina and Lucy.
Yeah, I know, I should never ever read Les Miserables.
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I hear War and Peace is a ripping good yarn.
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The best reason to watch this shoe is for the absurd amount of hella rude titties.
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The best part about this show is Anna Paquin. She is one of the few girls in the world I would consider going gay for.
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The best reason to watch this shoe is for the absurd amount of hella rude titties.
Fuckit, man, I don't watch shoes.