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Those 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 her shagfest 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 the gawkers commiseraters away.

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Ball says greatly different things depending on what season he's speaking in, and what fan opinion has to say. It looks to me like he may have changed his opinion about that great love thing, because while he may never have seen BtVS, Charlaine Harris is certainly a huge fan (and my impression is that she was not a Duck).

Honestly, I think the white gown was more a testament to Sookie *finally* losing her virginity than it was about her epic roll in the mud with Bill.

Is it a spoiler to say that the show picks up? It does. I'm a *HUGE* Charlaine Harris fan but I was still disappoiinted by the first half of Season 1.

Dollhouse makes me weepy, but at least he'll get a chance to wrap up all the open story lines and I *HOPE* Joss's next series is on either USA or TNT because they know how to treat their genre shows and I'm betting they'd give their programming directors for the ratings that Joss rakes in.

Tara and Lafayette are still my favourite characters.

Have you met Eric and Pam yet?

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It looks to me like he may have changed his opinion about that great love thing, because while he may never have seen BtVS, Charlaine Harris is certainly a huge fan (and my impression is that she was not a Duck).

That's good to know. Forever love stories just get on my nerves (which could well be a legacy of the Shipper Wars).

I'm sure you're right about the white nightie, or that was its symbolic function anyway.

I'm not disappointed as such. I'm quite entertained really, it's just that so far the supernatural elements of the show are the least entertaining. I don't hate Bill but he is on the dull side, unfortunately. Eric has been in one episode, and no I haven't met Pam as yet. Looking forward to seeing more.

I second your hopes re: Joss and am also glad he had advance warning of the cancellation. However, I don't know how likely it is that he'll get another show. Here's hoping, but he has two failures under his belt now which doesn't look good on his resume. Hopefully, he'll think of something great and someone will give him a chance. Meantime, with Dollhouse, I'll just mourn what could have been.

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Eric has been in one episode, and no I haven't met Pam as yet

Just dropping in to say that yes you have. She was the blonde vamp at the door/beside Eric. They both get awesome :D In general, some more awesome vampire stuff to look forward to, but I shall not spoil you *zips lips*

I found that parts of s1 dragged on as well, but it had enough interesting bits to keep me watching, and there was no way I was passing up on another HBO/Alan Ball show. Season 2 improved greatly imo ♥

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Hi. Sorry to have been so slow responding, and thanks for telling me who Pam is. Since I wrote this post, I've fallen in love with True Blood and that's just season 1. Very pleased that I still have a whole season to watch.