It does make me laugh that almost every single person who meets Sookie either wants to love her (have sex with her) or kill her.

I don't know, the latter seems to me like it's a natural outgrowth of being exposed to her personality for any length of time. As for the former, no clue whatsoever.

awesome, Rayne. book four remains my favorite...for obvious reasons. the last book was terrible and i'm not entirely sure what she was thinking. makes me not want to run out and buy the next one the day it comes out though.

book!Sookie is way more tolerable, Matt. i'm still not sure why AB chose to make her the way that she is in the show.

Given she is fae, I actually understand the former a whole lot. I bet she has an affect on all kinds of beings that she may not intend (and heretofore did not know about).

book!Sookie is way more tolerable, Matt. i'm still not sure why AB chose to make her the way that she is in the show.

Honestly, I like Show!Sookie more than Book!Sookie. Yes, she is a halfwit, but at least she's a halfwit who's concerned about substantial things rather than rambling on about how her hair is done or the cute tube top she bought at a Wal-Mart clearance sale for pages on end. I can feel sympathy for someone who's stupid, but shallow vapidity is like nails on a chalkboard.

1) Bubba. (preferably played by Bruce Campbell

Ok, I totally understand why they wouldn't have Bubba in the show, but my inner fangirl just went SQUEEEE! at the thought of BC playing him!

That would ROCK.

But he would be less . . . damaged and more snarky than Book!Bubba. (Which would also be excellent.)

I actually like Book!Sookie much better than Show!Sookie! Show!Sookie is just so selfish. I almost wanted to throw something at my tv screen when Tara apologized to Sookie in the last episode, but Sookie didn't apologize back.

Book four is definitely my favorite so far! I really hope they'll be covering that storyline next season. I think having storylines that occur in and around Bon Temps will do nothing but help the show because it will be easier to have the characters interact without giving ever single one their own storyline. (Book five is local too, so that's two seasons where they can concentrate on Bon Temps and surrounding areas).

I'm on book six now. Not enough Eric, but so far Quinn is yum!

This series is like crack!

This is probably already heresy, but so far, I really hate Boardwalk Empire. I'm a Scorsese fan, so it's not like I can't hack the violence, but I don't care either. And it's way more sexist than Deadwood, even though most of those women were also prostitutes. And I don't care about Nucky Thompson, or at least not enough to see a young woman doing reverse-cowgirl on him.

I haven't watched it yet, but the reviews I read said that the pilot is actually the weakest of those sent out to the critics.

Also the actor who played Omar shows up in the third episode.

Well, it sort of better be, because if you've ever seen a crime story in your life, you've seen that pilot.(Unless you've been in a cave for six weeks without cable, in which case you might actually find Nucky bullshitting the Temperance League while profiteering some kind of delicious irony.) Nucky is no Clay Davis, though. There was something about that guy. Even if you hate him, you kind of like him and want to watch what he does. So far, there is no one like this on this show.But, I guess there's only one Ian McShane out there...not that Ian McShane played Clay Davis, but he has that same "Your eyes should be here," kind of quality. They made the combat veteran actually say "After all the things I did Over There..."(Wow, it really takes an Emmy winner to come up with that.) I saw that actor's name in the credits, Frank. He has been good in a lot of stuff that kind of wasn't after The Wire...and I like "Mean Streets" and King of Comedy and so forth...that's worth another hour or so. Not a lot more, since I know what tits look like, but it's true there aren't many pilots that are instantly good, like the Sopranos or Treme. I can't say if The Wire was instantly good as a pilot cause I watched it after Season 2, so I knew I wanted to see it. The scene about Snot remains a favorite, though.