We watched the first 2 eps of True Blood and really disliked it. However, I keep hearing all this great stuff about it and wonder if we should have continued. Does it change much after the first 2 eps or is it more of the same?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Glamcookie - Jun 11, 2009 12:36:40 pm PDT #2274 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
erikaj - Jun 11, 2009 12:42:26 pm PDT #2275 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
The middle part gets more dramatic, but if you didn't like the initial vibe, I don't know if you're going to change your mind. I like it, but I'm bored with Naked!Jason by midpoint, I gotta say. Love seeing William Sanderson and Chris Bauer again...they rock.
sumi - Jun 11, 2009 12:48:13 pm PDT #2276 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
I really liked it. . . . I pre-ordered the dvds as soon as that was possible just on the basis of the first episode. When they came in - I watched the entire season w/i 24 hours and ordered HBO.
Zenkitty - Jun 11, 2009 12:52:36 pm PDT #2277 of 7329
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I really like TrueBlood now, but I didn't like it immediately - the first couple episodes irked me. A friend talked me into watching it again, and it got better. It's definitely its own thing.
Vortex - Jun 11, 2009 1:38:19 pm PDT #2278 of 7329
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And you just have to resign yourself to Jason's idiocy.
Zenkitty - Jun 11, 2009 1:43:32 pm PDT #2279 of 7329
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yes, he is an intractable idiot. You'd feel sorry for the guy, except, well, he's an idiot.
le nubian - Jun 11, 2009 2:00:31 pm PDT #2280 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, when there was less Jason, the show improved.
It might have taken me until ep 5 where I decided - this isn't so bad. I initially did not take well to the show. Ep 4 is difficult to watch - the stupidity is raw.
kat perez - Jun 11, 2009 2:51:26 pm PDT #2281 of 7329
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I couldn't take Jason or Tara at first and was basically just holding on for Gran and Lafayette. However, the Tara character got a lot better as the season progressed and Jason, well, once he stopped being nekkid practically every minute of every scene he was in, he got a little bit more tolerable.
I actually think the main characters on the show (Sookie/Bill/Sam/Jason) are infinitely less interesting than the supporting characters. In addition to Gran and Lafayette, the Bellefleurs rock. Arlene is great and I would watch an entire spin off of the Hoyt Fortenberry Show. And I thought the other vampire characters, Eric and Pam and Eddie, were great. I mean Eddie's story alone made the back half of the series watchable. And Stephen Root, man. Awesome.
Glamcookie - Jun 11, 2009 3:04:56 pm PDT #2282 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Thanks for your input. We may try it again as there is something going on in S2 that we are interested in...
erikaj - Jun 11, 2009 4:51:19 pm PDT #2283 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, and Ms. Fay gets another toaster. Cause Mom went from actively repulsed and disgusted by Entourage to toleration to Sharing Her Daughter's Freaky New Interest to seeing Piven on tape talking about acting and turning to me saying "Wow, he's *really* smart...that's the agent, right?" So, now though I'm uncomfortably aware that my Brainy Jewish Guy button and my Competence is Hot button were factory installs, I thought it was too cool not to share. And at least I know a bit more about theater than I do about Olbermann's baseball thing. But he's so into it, it's sexy even though it still sort of sounds like "blah, blah, Ginger, blah, blah, blah," Boom! Second-gen conversion toaster.