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viklane
07/14/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
I love this show. I do. But it's starting to annoy me how every episode feels so damn short. It's like watching an actual daytime soap. I want to feel like each episode is its own story.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

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Okay, about the actual show.

I personally think they need to start moving the narrative forward because they have been sitting on the same storylines - Godrick's disappearance in Dallas, Maryann's crazy Maenad ways, Jason's involvement with the creepy televangelists - for a few weeks now. The most entertaining parts of the last episode were small, throwaway parts, like Layafette's hump-a-mania, the sex scene, Jason's one-liners and everything involving Jessica. The actual story line is leaving a bit to be desired.

That said, was I the only one who cracked up when Jessica glamoured the limo driver into screaming that some girl was a slut who got fingered in the church by some guy? Because that is SUCH a church girl thing to do. I am surprised by how much I've come around to loving Jessica's character. She was so annoying that first episode, but ever since then she's been one of my favorites.
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HidingInCanada
07/13/09

@whynotshesaid: I'm quite sure they'll speed it up soon enough... give it time! This episode was so much more interesting than the last one.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@HidingInCanada: Oh, I'm not going anywhere. This show is still one of my favorites. I just wish they'd give us some forward motion. Or at least give us more Pam and Eric, and Hoyt and Jessica.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
So with you, Dodai. This hooker loves the nasty sex and the gore. The romance is the most boring part of the show. And I actually like Bill.
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Cunning_Linguist
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
Listen Alan Ball. I like you, I do. You brought me Lafayette and Eric, and perhaps most importantly, the entire run and (most of) the glorious cast of Six Feet Under. Just don't tell me that because I have ladyparts, I must be watching True Blood because of the romance. I'm not. In fact, the "romance" is kind of the lamest part of the show. What I want is more of Lafayette's beautifully vulgar language and dancing, naked people smearing cake on themselves and each other, and Sookie getting beaten up. Because Sookie kind of annoys me and because I like gratuitous violence when it's peppered with vampires and Greek mythology and such. I'll let this one slide, sir, but don't let it happen again. And keep up the good work.
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you've got red on you
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
This woman is totally in it for the blood--and Eggs' ass and Jason's abs don't hurt either, that's for sure.
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JohanPaladin
07/13/09

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So all of a sudden, it seemed to me, in the past two months everyone's been talking about this show. And I like me some tv shows, so last weekend I gave it the old college try. I come from a long tradition of being into sci-fi/fantasy stuff, vampires are awesome, sex is obviously great, whatever, I thought this show would be the new one to watch.

But I don't get it! I really hated it. The terrible Paquin monster isn't even the end of what I hated about it. Am I so alone? Obviously this is a post for fans of the show, and I don't mean to start listing things I or others don't like about the show. I only watched two episodes. I just want to know whether I am alone, naked in the cold, or not!
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@JohanPaladin: The show takes a few episodes to pick up. I was skeptical until about halfway through the first season. Now I am sucked in (pun intended).
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The Queen of No
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
I love this show so much. It's just so entertaining. And every episode ends on the best note.. total cliffhangers.

I think Andy is going to figure SOMETHING important out. And I am so happy Lafayette is okay!.. for now.

Jason continues to be one of my favorite characters. I can't wait to see what he inevitably gets into.
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dirtybee
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
Jason needs to get back to his man whoring days - STAT!
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@dirtybee: Oh, I suspect he will be soon enough. Sarah Newlin practically impaled herself on his dick this episode. It will happen, just you wait.
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wakatopatopa is karl lagerfeld
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service

okay. here's a screenshot of MaryAnne's creepy hands. I'm pretty sure they look just like the minotaur/bullman's. what do you think?
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@wakatopatopa is karl lagerfeld: I thought it was the pigs hooves but some blogger said it was obvious evidence that she is the minotaur-thing. Either way, they need to get moving with her storyline, because I AM BORED.
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wakatopatopa is karl lagerfeld
07/13/09

@whynotshesaid: word. I get it. she throws great parties and vibrates.

but if it is the case that she vibrates and then becomes the minotaur, I don't know how much more interesting that would make her for me. It seems convoluted.

good thing I've never read the books!
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dj_chick
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
My theory about Jason and Sarah is that he's reading way too much into her sweetness, and that she really has no sexual interest in him at all. And, of course, he'll end up making an ass out of himself and leaving FotS. That part of the show can be so frustrating for me because it's an entirely new storyline!

As for everything else, I'm afraid to say more because I don't want to accidentally let a spoiler slip. Anyone else who is into the books get the same feeling?
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HadwinBabazoid
07/13/09

@dj_chick: See, I think she totally wants to bone Jason and is sick of being so housewifey and pure around her husband. I hope they get it on soon.
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dj_chick
07/13/09

@HadwinBabazoid: I thought that at first, too. But it's taking them too long! I would think they'd already be going at it if that was where it's going. I think he's either just projecting his fantasies onto her behavior, or there's some ulterior motive for them keeping him around and for keeping him so close. After all, it was their church who tried to have Sookie kidnapped, and just because the limo driver didn't know her identity doesn't mean that no one knew.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@HadwinBabazoid: Of course she wants to bone him. Look at him. Mannequins in the dispay windows at the mall want to bone him. He is pure sex.
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Eric Northman is mine
07/13/09

@dj_chick: sweetness? yeah, you're right i think she's nuts. Did you see that crazed look in her eyes when her husband talked about promoting Jason to a solider. Lady is down for the cause.
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NowhereGirl
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
Anna Paquin is ruining this show for me. I love everyone else, but she's just not the right actress for this part in my mind. She drives me crazy.
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Jys
07/13/09

@NowhereGirl: I think her look isn't quite right. I think she does a fairly good job with Sookie's personality, but after reading the books (which are quite good and I highly recommend) I just picture her differently, more like Amanda Seyfried from Big Love. Also, I don't know how they could have accomplished representing Sookie's inner dialogue from the books into the show without a horrid voice-over, but not having it makes Sookie look merely dimwitted, rather than showing that her careful dimwittedness is a defense mechanism from hearing everyone's thoughts around her.
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NowhereGirl
07/13/09

@Jys: Amanda Seyfried would have been much much better. She really has the look I imagined when I read the books too. Good call. I think Kate Bosworth would have been good too. Also... I grew up about 50 miles from where Bon Temps is supposed to be, and her accent drives me crazy. Or maybe it's her voice. I don't know. I think really that as soon as I decided I didn't like her as Sookie, my brain came up with more and more things to dislike. I still love the show though, and can't wait to watch it each week.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@NowhereGirl: Agreed. I think she is the worst part of the show.
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BytheSea
07/14/09

@Jys: Not hearing her thoughts makes her more of a victim, too, b/c we don't know all the clever things she does to try to keep herself out of trouble. That ten seconds with the supposed limo driver took me ten minutes to read and it was all Sookie carefully opening her mind for the first time to read somoene's thoughts and cleverly decide how to use them. In the book, she was doing mostly fine until Bill came along.
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alextotheb
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
My boyfriend and his mother watch this show together every Sunday night. And it kinda disturbs me. There. Is. So. Much. Fucking. Am I wrong for feeling this way?
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
07/13/09

@alextotheb: Nah, it's the same way I could never watch the Tudors with my father.
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Jys
07/13/09

In reply to True Blood: Food, Sex & Room Service
I've not seen it mentioned yet, but did anybody else notice during Tara's birthday orgy, while Maryanne was furiously pulsating, her hands changed into the horned bull beasts hands?
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captainhaddock
07/13/09

@Jys: Yeah, I saw that. They're just teasing us though, revealing details so slowly. Need more info on this bitch, plz.
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
07/13/09

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I felt sorry for Tara saying that she cried on her bday every year b/c each year her bday was the worst day.

It was shitty of marryann to get rid of Tara's Mom's bday gift.

and I do wish someone would tell Sam that hey, maybe it's not a good idea to get romantical with your employees.
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

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Oh Lafayette. Hooker, you spin me like a washing machine.
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip:
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: OMG, that is amazing!
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Dodai
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: Lafayette's use of "hooker" was inspired.
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captainhaddock
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: K, I'm just going to watch this all day instead of working. Genius!
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce: @Dodai: "WHOOOOO! Get that shit! Fuck! Uh huh!"

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VioletBeauregarde: Party Pooper Extraordinaire
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: That is quite possibly the greatest gif ever!
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captainhaddock
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: LOL, are you reading my mind? I was like "When is sumthin' going to get humped?" ...And there it is.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: So here's the thing: everyone else has been having the sex, when do we get to see Eric and when, separately, do we get to see Lafayette?
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: Also, I'm freakishly amused imagining the camera crew/Alexander having to keep a straight face while this was filmed.
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I am prepared to wait for Eric. I am supremely untroubled by all the delightful, fucked-up teasing they're doing with that blond Viking because I have read the novels and know that when Mr. Northman eventually does get his kink on, it is SPECTACULAR. Lip-bitingly delicious. It'll be totally worth the wait.

In the mean time, I am going to enjoy watching Lafayette have his sordid way with various pieces of household furniture, because, high as a kite and carpet-humping, he's still about ninety hundred times sexier than anything else on the TV. Nelsan Ellis, I salute you.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: Nngh. Without too much of a spoiler, does any of this getting of the kink on occur whilst in texas?

I want to lick him.
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I could not possibly say. I can, however, remind you that Eric has a thousand years' worth of nasty to get out of his system. He's a devious fucking manipulator; he plays people like they're living chess pieces. And there's a particular piece that is in for one hell of a match, in all possible ways.

And yes. Very lickable, isn't he?
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: This. Is. Unbelievable.
I can hear the fan fiction engines revving like Lamborghinis in the distance.
Um. Yeah. I do not need to watch this. Ever. I will be hooked like a fresh flounder.
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Phyllis Nefler
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: hearted. and i am so stealing that.
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Dictator for Life
07/13/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: The book's description is so good, you don't need fan fiction. Rowwwrrrrr.
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: I, like you, resisted True Blood for a long time. Vampires were stupid, vampires in rural Buttfuck Louisiana doubly so. I had a nice handful of shows that kept me happy, thank you very much. No need for any of this coffins-n-fangs silliness.

And then I made the mistake of watching the first episode. And it was like vampire crack, like the most delicious, hilarious, country-fried candy I'd ever tasted. I live in London, and the trees full of Spanish moss and the murky bayous and glasses of ice-cold sweet tea and buttercup-skinned women in short-shorts and beautifully sweaty men in worn-out jeans seem a million, billion miles away. And I love it.

I dare you to watch the first episode, Rooo. I dare you, little fishy. Life is so much sweeter when you're hooked. ;-)
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A Small Turnip
07/13/09

@Dictator for Life: @Phyllis Nefler: Heee! Get your motors runnin', bitches. I'll meet you on the corner of Lafayette and Viking.
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bitchyspice
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: I blame OnDemand and sheer boredom one weekend when classes let out for the summer and all my friends being gone. I was awake for 26 hours watching all of them because I couldn't stop. I hated the entire concept, too, because Twilight makes me twitch.
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Cunning_Linguist
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: I am notorious for my love for .gifs, and you have graciously provided. You have been hearted, my friend.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: Hooker, that is the greatest animated .gif ever.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@Dodai: YES. I have been calling people "hooker" all day long because of it.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: You have just single-handedly convinced me to purchase the entire series this week when I go shopping. I am dying to see what kinky shit Eric gets up to.
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whynotshesaid
07/13/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: WATCH IT. You will love it. I swear.
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Eric Northman is mine
07/13/09

@A Small Turnip: hahaha hooked indeed. If you've read the books and are interested in the E/S pairing. This is hands down the greatest fan fic ever. Enjoy!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4570625/1/
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A Small Turnip
07/14/09

@Eric Northman is mine: Holy shit. I'm only up to Pam revealing her love of Dr. Phil, and I am sold, sold, sold. And I usually hate fanfic with the fiery passion of a thousand burning nuns. I and my super-heated libido thank you kindly for that most excellent linkage.
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A Small Turnip
07/14/09

@whynotshesaid: Book Four. BOOK FOUR, I TELL YOU. And Book Three is rather delectable with mischievous Eric sexytimes, too. Let me know when you get to it, girl.
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