You know, the water in Arkansas is very HARD.

I liked where season 2 ended up eventually (almost everybody in Bon Temps going batshit crazy), mainly because it gave us the Jason, Andy and Sam show for a while there, but there was way too much rinse, later, repeat of orgy/decedance scenes leading up to it. I know they were trying to show it as a decline over a period of time (sort of like out of a Stephen King novel) but it just didn't work. I was basically sitting there saying "Just ascend already!" to Marianne.

"Just ascend already!"

ha! gotta love Buffy fans. The in-jokes keep on giving.

u know, the water in Arkansas is very HARD.

This is the point where I said: "this has got to be a dream." Bill does not say that.

have you read the books, ita? if not, i recommend them. even more so than the show. book!Sookie is much less of a damsel in distress and is generally more likeable. not sure why Alan has gone the route with her that he has. i guess he likes his women whiny, holier than thou and constantly in need of a man to save her.

Interestingly, the audiobooks interpret Sookie as exactly as whiny as the tv show. There are loads of other differences, but the woman who reads the books makes her sound, well...unpleasant.

Book Sookie is far too vain and obsessed with playing dress-up for me to like her. Anna Paquin's version sometimes makes me roll my eyes with her naïveté, but I'm not usually rooting for the supernatural creatures to eat her.

I enjoy the books (I've only read the first two so far), but I LOVE the tv series, and a lot of it is because of the changes they've made from the books. Making Lafayette a significant character, giving Sookie a fried to talk to (she feels very isolated to me in the books), the addition of Jessica (at the end of season one, I honestly thought I would detest her storyline, and I couldn't have been more wrong!), fleshing out Jason (Hee! See what I did there?)

I'm a little afraid to read further into the series because I don't want to get spoiled for anything on the show (despite the fact that the show is VERY different).

that is interesting, bonny. i was surprised reading the books how non-whiny she is. i wasn't expecting to like her.

completely agree about Lafayette, Rayne. i was disappointed when i read the books that he was killed and he also was never really utilized the way they have used him in the show. he's definitely one of my favorite characters.

as for not wanting to read ahead, i understand, but i really don't think you'll have to worry about being spoiled. just look at book two and season two. very few things were the same. season three actually seems to be pulling in stuff from books three and four too. (maybe even more.)

Scifiwire has taken the quick cuts from the Game of Thrones teaser and posted stills.

This is so wrong. (True Blood related)