Stay True Blood

Here we are, just two weeks and a day away from the season four premiere of True Blood. I planned on cancelling HBO right after the finale last year as I never watch the channel otherwise. I never did though. How else would I be able to watch previous seasons On Demand?? OR get all my juicy little snippets from season four? Tom would highly disagree but the $14 a month is worth it.

Now down to business. I watched the six minute intro to season four episode one and can I just say... I am so freakin' sick of all these faeries! When Allen Ball created this show I (at first) was so happy he stuck with the books. Then with a little creative license, if you will, he turned something already cool into something totally awesome. He went in other directions Charlaine Harris was either too prudent to address or just doesn't have the wildly vivid imagination Ball undoubtedly possesses. Having read all but the last of the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mysteries, I know they become stale and Harris is really reaching... especially in books nine and ten. What turns me off? All this faerie bullshit! Vampires are a given, werewolves, a must, shape shifters... adds a little somethin' somethin'... the fae and the witches? I can totally do without them. Ugh, even the Maenad of season two was just a little too silly for my taste.

If you are familiar with the books, you know that Lafayette's character dies in the beginning of book two. (and if you didn't know that... sorry... but you'll probably never read the books anyway.) Now think about the show and how different it would be without this integral character. He is by far one of the most popular characters in the series. He adds so much color and flavor to the story. He made it ok for a white girl from upstate New York to go around calling people "hookers". (I really love that!)

Do I like the story line of Lafayette and Jesus? Hell yeah! When they tripped out on V and we got an idea of what kind of magic they possess, I'll admit I was enthralled. I do wonder if Jesus is actually evil though. Could he be? He just seems too sweet and I don't want Lafayette's heart to break like his poor cousin, Tara. Did I just say that? Wow, now I know I miss this show!

Tara Thornton is quite possibly my least favorite character in the series. I feel sorry for her sometimes, but, pardon my french, she's a dumb bitch. *Please note.. I don't usually talk like that, especially calling other women bitches, let alone a dumb one. Well maybe I do but I certainly don't blog about it. I digress... Tara is always a victim of circumstance. She never tries to dust herself off, pick herself up and start over again. She gets buried deeper and deeper and at her own hands. She cut her hair off at the end of season three as if the weight was too much. Yeah Tara, THAT'S going to fix your problems.

Aside from all the faerie poo that seems to stink up season four, there are so many other story lines I can't wait to develop. Jason... he went missing at the end of season three. Going by the books, I know where he is and what's going to happen. Will Allen Ball be true to Harris' story? We'll see. This season also brings forth one of my most favorite story lines of the entire Sookie series.... Eric Northman is under a witches spell and remembers nothing of his past, and an unassuming Sookie spots him wandering aimlessly down her road and takes him home. If you didn't love Eric before... there is no way you won't fall in love with him now... or in my case... all over again. Pffft, Bill who?

In Bill's defense, he really does love Sookie. Yes, Queen Sophie Ann sent him to Bon Temps to search for her and try to find out what she is (a stupid faerie!). Was that the only draw though? Vampires are attracted to the scent of faeries. From season three we know that the blood of a faerie allows a vampire to walk in daylight. Not for long... but Russell didn't know that. ;)

Russell Edgington. I do declare! What will come of him? He alone had some of the most epic moments in the show's history. For those of you who have never read the books... guess what? In the books, he hardly makes a huge impact. Yeah, he's there and some of what we see in the shows is also in the books. Very little though. Allen Ball took this flamboyant Mississippi vampire and just stretched him to the limits. The moment where Russell is atop the building with the candy jar of goo that once was Talbot, the music goes all 'Dark Shadows' on us and he vows to honor Talbot by avenging his death. It was so brilliantly corny. If you were able to catch every little homage it truly was such a wonderful scene.

So this brings me to Allen Ball. Choices, Mr. Ball. Choices. You can stray, we know you have this amazing ability to build on otherwise insignificant references within Harris' writings and you have made magic. But please, please do not make this thing with the fae our big plot. I can't deal with it. It reminds me too much of Little Nicky. You remember what heaven was like in that movie? I'd rather be in Hell too.