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**telecom_goddess** · 08-01-2011, 09:44 PM

I heart True Blood...and so far the season is really good. I read the book corresponding to this first so I kinda know what's coming to a degree, and so far they've kept the same main plotlines.

The nice Eric would be awesome to have but he has lost his edge.

**SuperRTL** · 08-01-2011, 11:03 PM

Don't worry, if it follows the book at all (there have been some huuuuuuge departures with this one already) the nice Eric will get his edge back. I also heart True Blood and Eric Northman.

**Seraph** · 08-02-2011, 12:38 AM

Quoth SuperRTL View Post

Don't worry, if it follows the book at all (there have been some huuuuuuge departures with this one already) the nice Eric will get his edge back. I also heart True Blood and Eric Northman.

Its not really going to happen. Alan Ball is a massive, massive Bill x Sookie shipper. He's said in interviews that he also will be veering very, VERY far away from the books, and basically making the show his own incarnation of the series.

As I told my husband after watching the S3 finale: "Welp, if this show was a truck, it just went down the highway of the books, took that exit over there, veered a hard right, hit a ramp, caught on fire, went over a lion pit, and is now barreling down a dirt road to god-knows-where. While still on fire.

Whether it ends up being an epic ride that was totally worth it, or a burned-up hunk of metal remains to be seen. <.<

**Nyoibo** · 08-02-2011, 01:21 AM

I love nice eric, I think he's so cute like that, I am however looking forward to when he changes back and makes many and varied people suffer righteous vengeance.

**raw456** · 08-02-2011, 01:41 AM

To be perfectly honest, I am not impressed with season 4.

Dead to the World is my favourite book of the series but I'm just not getting into the onscreen version.

I appreciate Alan Ball is making this HIS show and is only basing it on the characters Charlane Harris created, but I was really looking forward to this season and I've been dissappointed so far.

I will keep watching it as I want to see how it pans out, but it wont be with baited breath.

Having said that, I do like Fiona Shaw as Marnie Stonebrook. The book version of her has a brother and is quiet different, but she rocks the character!

**SuperRTL** · 08-02-2011, 04:42 AM

Yeah, I started getting a bit irritated with the series about half way into Season 2, to be honest. I was really looking forward to seeing Eric in pink spandex. I got the feeling Alan Ball was going to be a big Bill fan when he kept giving Bill all of Eric's best lines in season 1. Still, I kinda want to see where it goes. I'm really, really hoping it'll be worth the ride.

**Jester** · 08-02-2011, 05:17 AM

Having never read the books, I am loving the series so far. It's had both is great and bad moments, but overall, I am thoroughly addicted.

And I have to say, since Ball has said he is going to make it his own series, which apparently he's said from the beginning, I don't know why so many people are surprised that it's not following the books as closely as they may want. Hell, enjoy it for what it is...a twist on the books that was inspired by the books, but is not slavishly following them.

That's how I went into the Lord of the Rings movies, which were taken from what I consider the greatest book ever written. Yes, Jackson stuck mostly to the plot of the books, but there were some definite deviations that got under some people's skin. Since I went in expecting it to be different, I was not one of the ones annoyed by it.

**fireheart** · 08-02-2011, 05:51 AM

Given my introduction to True Blood consisted of halfway through season 2 and some snippets from season 3, I sat down and rewatched the series. And I'm working my way through the books.

Personally I don't consider one to be better than the other. There's some elements from both that are equally good (Hep D in the series makes more sense than Sino-AIDS in the books).

**Eireann** · 08-02-2011, 12:30 PM

I haven't read any of the books, but I have flipped through a few of them. The beginning to one book (I don't remember which one) contained something so horrifying, I just hope it doesn't happen in the series, because I truly DESPISE the idea of it.

If anyone wants to know what I mean, PM me.

**Moirae** · 08-02-2011, 04:57 PM

I haven't read the books. I've toyed with the idea, but I'm so thoroughly enjoying the show that I'm not sure if reading the books will destroy the fun or not.

I love the strong Eric. He's one of the best characters of the series. I play Vampire: The Masquerade and he's exactly how I've always pictured the vampires in that game. Bill is too but for different reasons. Eric would be Ventrue (the blue bloods of the vampires, they rule the Camarilla, or the good sect of Vampires). Bill would be a Toreador, overly emotional. The vampire that tortured Tara in the first or second season would be a Sabbat, not sure which clan but Sabbat is another Sect of vampires, and they are thoroughly insane and love being a vampire with an unbridled passion. They also simply love torturing well.. everyone.. including each other.

It really is done well. I just don't see why vampires would be... nice.

**Seraph** · 08-02-2011, 09:27 PM

Quoth Jester View Post

And I have to say, since Ball has said he is going to make it his own series, which apparently he's said from the beginning, I don't know why so many people are surprised that it's not following the books as closely as they may want. Hell, enjoy it for what it is...a twist on the books that was inspired by the books, but is not slavishly following them.

That's how I went into the Lord of the Rings movies, which were taken from what I consider the greatest book ever written. Yes, Jackson stuck mostly to the plot of the books, but there were some definite deviations that got under some people's skin. Since I went in expecting it to be different, I was not one of the ones annoyed by it.

I had no idea originally that he was going to deviate so far. I got the hint in Season 2, though! When a certain character got exponentially more airtime than he did in the books...I was like, ok. <.< I like him better in the show though, they've done well with his character.

And heartily agree on the LOTR movies. He stayed close enough though, I still hold those movies in my desert island favorites.

Quoth fireheart View Post

(Hep D in the series makes more sense than Sino-AIDS in the books).

Very good point. Plus, she pretty much dropped that whole thing completely. Could've been a GREAT story mechanic...but no. She apparently prefers the creepy kinky scenes. Which at this point, I just skip past. -.-

Quoth Moirae View Post

Sabbat is another Sect of vampires, and they are thoroughly insane and love being a vampire with an unbridled passion. They also simply love torturing well.. everyone.. including each other.

I think my husband's friend played one of those. Then became a human, and was re-turned by a Malkavian. Long story short, his character was flipping MENTAL....and was the target of no less than three blood hunts.

**fireheart** · 08-03-2011, 02:12 AM

Quoth Seraph View Post

Very good point. Plus, she pretty much dropped that whole thing completely. Could've been a GREAT story mechanic...but no. She apparently prefers the creepy kinky scenes. Which at this point, I just skip past. -.-

After the episode involving Jerry the ill one, they don't make mention of Hep D again, but they do vaguely mention Sino-AIDS at one point when they're trying to cover up that a certain character meets Mr. Stake.

**Seraph** · 08-03-2011, 05:01 PM

Quoth fireheart View Post

After the episode involving Jerry the ill one, they don't make mention of Hep D again, but they do vaguely mention Sino-AIDS at one point when they're trying to cover up that a certain character meets Mr. Stake.

Yeah...but it could've been great drama fodder. You know, maybe an epidemic of it that's taking out tons of vampires, or maybe even a mutation of it that affects more of the supernatural community....

But it was dropped faster than a bouncy ball with a 3 year old. -.-

**Moirae** · 08-03-2011, 05:37 PM

lol. Well a Malkavian would be mental since their flaw is insanity. Its a billion times worse if they're in the Sabbat because their insanity is encouraged. Actually.. that nut that tortured Tara could have easily been Malkavian. So could Russel Edgington.

And the vamp thats the spokesman for the Council would easily be Ventrue.

Hmm, on second thought, Eric may be Brujah. He's a little too violent for a Ventrue.

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