Not only did it make for great water-cooler entertainment, but it also helped usher in the vampire-craze wave that eventually culminated in movies like The Twilight Saga taking over the universe, The Vampire Diaries punching up the CW, and Dark Shadows getting a big-screen reboot albeit a terrible one.
It presented questions that fans were dying to know the answers to: Why is Sookie so special? Will Sookie and Bill make it? Why does everyone hate vampires so much? True Blood posed all these questions and occasionally delivered answers, all while cashing in on the metaphorical currency of its night creatures e. It was camp, but it was high camp, the kind of sexed-up, gloriously trashy horror TV that Internet recappers and hardcore fans could still dissect for deeper messages. But as its sophomore year went on, something genuinely wicked had come crawling into Bon Temps: a sense of bloat.
You can imagine how the pre-season meeting in the HBO offices went:. They love the characters. They love the sex. Then, she leaves, leaving instructions for Andy to raise the quadruplets, who are fairy babies. Maurella asks Andy to make sure that at least two of them make it to adulthood. The storyline of Sheriff Andy raising four fairy babies who grow up rather quickly and, in no time, are something years old was by far one of the most random, left-field ideas in the history of True Blood.
Not only was that entire story unnecessary to the big picture of the show, it was also rushed into the series, leaving little room for audiences to even care about what was happening.
You know when a TV show is approaching its ending, realizes that it has run out of time, and decides to speed up storylines that would have otherwise taken several episodes to be developed? After taking several seasons to develop storylines that were quite simple and straight-forward to begin with, True Blood took the opposite route with Hoyt and Jessica.
In the ninth episode of season 7, the second to last episode of the entire show, Hoyt and Jessica reunited. This very sudden development provided further proof that, toward the end, True Blood did not have a firm grasp on the stories that it was telling. Instead, there was almost a soap opera quality to the end of this show.
Throughout the entire run of True Blood , one question loomed over the series: who will Sookie end up with, Bill or Eric? After so much drama and back and forth between Sookie, Bill, and Eric, the True Blood series finale decided to fast-forward in time to show her being pregnant from an unnamed bearded man, who she assumedly ends up with.
There is no doubt that Lafayette Reynolds was one of the most iconic and important characters on True Blood. Even now, many years after the end of the series, it is Lafayette who is most often remembered by fans, and even non-fans of the show have come to recognize him from memes and gifs.
In hindsight, it has become undeniably clear that Lafayette was mistreated by True Blood, particularly in the later seasons. During the series finale episode, not only did Lafayette have no lines, but he only appeared on screen for a few seconds. Sookie Stackhouse was without a doubt the protagonist of True Blood. Unlike the show, all 13 novels in the series were narrated in first person by Sookie, meaning that the readers could only see things from her perspective. While this change is often employed in live-action adaptations of novels, it is certainly not always the case.
This resulted in True Blood's ostensible heroine often being overshadowed in her own show. Speaking of discrepancies between True Blood and the Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels: Tara was never really that important in the source material, despite being made a huge character on the show. However, that is pretty much her only significance to The Southern Vampire Mysteries books.
While it was certainly good to see some diversity in the main cast of True Blood , a show that was set in Louisiana, the writers didn't seem to know what to do with Tara and her storylines were often sidelined. Beneath the campy eroticism and over-the-top fantasy there was more to True Blood than anyone expected. The vampires of True Blood emerged from their coffins boasting violence, verve and sociological metaphors.
Were they a surrogate for HIV-positive people? Should vampire marriage be legal? This gave the show plenty of opportunities to show just how acrobatic vampire love can be. Sookie, or Sookah as co-star Stephen Moyer vampire love interest Bill calls her in his faux American accent, was a telepathic human played by Anna Paquin, who used her powers to try to solve the crime.
I've enjoyed certain moments of their characters' arcs — the first early bits of Sookie's faerie plotline were kind of cool before it got dumb, Bill had some interesting back story — but they feel done, and worse, unnecessary. And never more so than last night. With all this exciting war and scariness breaking out around her, Sookie is once again, sigh, passively imperiled.
I'm glad that Rutger Hauer showed up as the menacing ancient vampire Warlow, but couldn't he be hunting Jason instead? Or anyone, really? It doesn't need to be Sookie. Nothing needs to be Sookie ever again.
We know she can't and won't die, even though we wish that she would, so really there aren't any stakes for her. Which is what I suspect makes her — and Meredith, and Jack, all the others — such uninspiring leads.
They might get theirs at the very end, a la Jack, but until then, we're stuck with them as distraction while we wait impatiently to get back to the good stuff. Not that there's that much "good" on True Blood , but there's a lot better lurking in the bayou than tired old Miss Stackhouse.
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