Yeah, that's me and Jason Stackhouse. I know you're jelly! :D )
Where to begin?! WHERE TO BEGIN!?!?! Sighhhhhh I really need to stop reading books! Yes, I actually said that. Why you ask? Because I read too many books that then get turned into TV shows or movies. In the last 6 months I have read 5 books that are now being filmed for TV shows and movies. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is bad. In the case of The Sookie Stackhouse novels and True Blood this is bad.
I discovered these books through my roommate and read the fist 5 before I even knew it was being turned into a show on HBO. I had high hopes for the show because HBO rarely gets it wrong and the first season was pretty great. By great I mean, it stayed true to the books and I liked that. The second season also stayed pretty true to the books with a couple of things from book 3 and 4 sprinkled in but it still worked. Now it appears that there's a free for all and they aren't following the books at ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is madness. Yes, I realize that sometimes people don't want to follow books scene by scene but when you are just blatantly adding characters or making up things that have nothing to do with the basic plot of the story I have a problem.
Here's the thing, when you're dealing with a series of books you kind of have to follow the books because things happen in an order and they happen for a reason. Sookie hanging out for a year in fairyland during this season premiere makes NO DAMN SENSE this early in the show. LET ME REPEAT THAT, NO DAMN SENSE! And yes I'm sure the fans of the show think it makes perfect sense and loved the premiere but for anyone who has actually read the books you know better. There are things that need to happen that haven't happened yet that are crucial to the characters and their development throughout the series.
The easiest way to describe it is to imagine The Harry Potter series, I've never read it, but I get the gist. Things happen in each book and those things help shape what happens in the last book. So imagine that they just randomly made the first movie with stuff from book 4 or perhaps they just threw in a couple random characters for fun. It doesn't work! If you are going to base a show on a book then follow the damn books!
Needless to say I was disappointed by this premiere episode. I thought it was basically nonsense and filled with a lot of fluff. I mean Sookie has been in fairyland for a year? Really? REALLY?!?!!?!?!? Andy is hooked on V? Really?!?!?!?!? Tara has run off to New Orleans and become a lesbian?!?!!? And BILL IS NOW KING!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!??! REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?! I mean what the hell is really going on!?!?!? It's just stupid. Stupid!!!! I will say that the 2nd episode was better (if you have HBO on demand the 2nd episode is up already) but I'm still disappointed. I suppose I'm just going to have to try and disconnect my feelings about the book and the show and take it for what it is. That being said, expect more rants in the future!
In an effort to not be completely negative here are some of the things I liked about the show.
1. Tara got new weave! I was so happy those braids are gone! So happy!!!!
2. Jason got kidnapped! Now this may not seem like a good thing but this is the beginning of some great things for his character!
3. We are FINALLY setting up Sookie and Eric love...I think! It isn't the way they did it in the book but it definitely seems that this is the direction it's going in! Eric and Sookie's love makes me so freaking happy and it starts in book 4 so hopefully.
4. Did I mention Tara got new weave?
5. This whole evil baby situation is kind of hilarious.
So I guess we shall see what happens. We shall see... Oh and one last thing, Bill as King!?!?!?!? REALLY!?!??!!??! Yeah, it shall take me a minute to get over that one.
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