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Nov. 12th, 2009 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightThose of you I buy comics for, they're in the post. I hope you enjoy them more than I did.
I expect everyone knows by now that Dollhouse has been cancelled. I suppose I knew it was on the cards but I'm sad about it all the same. It was just so nice to have something Jossian I really enjoyed for the first time since AtS ended. Oh well. At least we'll get all 13 episodes so that's something.
Not a lot left on telly really, though I'm still watching True Blood. Spoilers for last night's ep (season 1, ep 6 I think) behind cut. And please nobody spoiler me for anything later.
And on the subject of spoilers, there are now 3 shows I'm trying to avoid spoilers for, True Blood, Mad Men and Dollhouse, and from January there'll be Caprica as well. And there was me thinking that now I'd finally got to the end of BSG I wouldn't be madly trying to dodge spoilers all the time. Oh well, at least that won't happen with Being Human.
Last night's ep of True Blood was the one with Sookie's grandmother's funeral. I'm still finding this show drags at times, plus do you think we were supposed to laugh at Sookie's decision to dress up in a floaty white negligee thingy before running off across the graveyard to hershagfest romantic tryst with Bill? I may have been quietly hysterical at that point, a situation not helped by the fact that there were adverts for Twilight: New Moon in almost all the ad breaks. However, I doubt we were supposed to take it without a big dose of irony. Or am I wrong?
Maybe I am. Read an article in the Guardian during the week singing the show's praises, in which the writer said that the creator of True Blood (whose name I can't remember, I'm afraid), has never seen BtVS, which I can well believe, and conceived of his show as a great romance. If that's the case, I really can't see the show following what I've been told is the pattern of the books and letting the Bill/Sookie relationship lapse while Sookie pairs up with Eric/Sam or whatever. That is, unless Bill is going to get his own show. :)
Tara and Lafayette are still my favourite characters. Best scenes in this ep, Tara facing down Jason after he slapped Sookie and Tara chasing all thegawkers commiseraters away.
I expect everyone knows by now that Dollhouse has been cancelled. I suppose I knew it was on the cards but I'm sad about it all the same. It was just so nice to have something Jossian I really enjoyed for the first time since AtS ended. Oh well. At least we'll get all 13 episodes so that's something.
Not a lot left on telly really, though I'm still watching True Blood. Spoilers for last night's ep (season 1, ep 6 I think) behind cut. And please nobody spoiler me for anything later.
And on the subject of spoilers, there are now 3 shows I'm trying to avoid spoilers for, True Blood, Mad Men and Dollhouse, and from January there'll be Caprica as well. And there was me thinking that now I'd finally got to the end of BSG I wouldn't be madly trying to dodge spoilers all the time. Oh well, at least that won't happen with Being Human.
Last night's ep of True Blood was the one with Sookie's grandmother's funeral. I'm still finding this show drags at times, plus do you think we were supposed to laugh at Sookie's decision to dress up in a floaty white negligee thingy before running off across the graveyard to her
Maybe I am. Read an article in the Guardian during the week singing the show's praises, in which the writer said that the creator of True Blood (whose name I can't remember, I'm afraid), has never seen BtVS, which I can well believe, and conceived of his show as a great romance. If that's the case, I really can't see the show following what I've been told is the pattern of the books and letting the Bill/Sookie relationship lapse while Sookie pairs up with Eric/Sam or whatever. That is, unless Bill is going to get his own show. :)
Tara and Lafayette are still my favourite characters. Best scenes in this ep, Tara facing down Jason after he slapped Sookie and Tara chasing all the
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Date: 2009-11-12 05:27 pm (UTC)I'm sure you're right, though I think it also worked on the ironic commentary on daft old vampire movies level too.
I think it must be the V that's made Jason recover so quickly. Either that or he's also some kind of supernatural creature and we just don't know what it is yes. I feel sort of sorry for him, even though he hit Sookie. He's such an idiot.
Glad you enjoyed the ep. And - presumably - the one from last night.
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:02 pm (UTC)Do you think the white nightie was supposed to be ironic then?
And was it just me or did Bill seem to have an even larger pole up his backside than usual? I really am beginning to find him too cliche and stupid for words. I think it was the blood tears that killed any slight inkling of interest in this verse's vampire mythos - my Buffyverse training is too strong, I was taught early to poor scorn on blood tears and just can't stand them now even beyond the Buffyverse. So now I'm just watching for the humans, which is unusual for me cos normally they're the last people I care about.
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Date: 2009-11-13 11:24 am (UTC)Do you think the white nightie was supposed to be ironic then?
Maybe ironic isn't quite the right word, but it was a definite tribute to old vampire movies, in which Dracula would come in to bite the heroine and she'd be asleep wearing a filmy white nightie.
Except for possibly Lassie, who is too nice to feel sorry for and therefore I am even more suspicious of him than we are probably supposed to be.
He does seem too good to be true, doesn't he? I admit, I disliked him from the first for that very reason. However, I could still be persuaded otherwise. And I agree that as of this episodes, the human characters are far more interesting than the vampires, consisting as they do just of Bill, who is horribly dull. Mind you, most of the human characters are larger than life caricatures, but that's part of the fun of them.