True Blood

[Rendakor]

[MahrinSkel]

--Dave

EDIT: This latest one was a little better, some parts still seemed a little rushed, but not more than usual for the show.

[Riggswolfe]

*sighs* Really HBO?

[lac]

Damn, third episode I've been tricked into watching and the King still hasn't shown. I want some insanity with my vampire sugar and I want it now.

[Bunk]

I think they are building up to plenty of insanity this season.

Show remains a guilty pleasure for me.

[Rendakor]

Damn, third episode I've been tricked into watching and the King still hasn't shown. I want some insanity with my vampire sugar and I want it now.

I thought that was the King was saw lying all burned up looking at the end of episode 2.

[lac]

It was but that was just a teaser, really.

[HaemishM]

I keep watching, and I don't know why. I'm about halfway into the 3rd episode and I only give a shit about a few of the storylines running.

Fucking Tara as a fucking vampire. I really thought we finally fucking got rid of her, but NOOOOOOO, we have to turn her into a fucking vamp. Sookie is just being pants on head retarded this season, moreso than usual. Chris Merloni is doing well as the Guardian. He seems to really relish being allowed to chew scenery like Willem Dafoe. The shapeshifters and wolfpack storylines I don't give a shit about, and the Jason Stackhouse drama is reaching for a reason to exist. The gay preacher turned vampire thing is kind of amusing, as the actor is perfect for it but I don't know how much meat is on that bone. But really, I'm just waiting for Russell to return.

[Slayerik]

Nailed it, Haemish.

[Rendakor]

I'm in the same boat as Haemish. The vampire council/Erik & Bill story is at least going somewhere, Pam's backstory has been pretty interesting, and I can't wait for Edgington to start ripping out hearts. As for the rest, I don't give a single fuck about Terry's war flashback shit, Tara just needs to die, and Stackhouse and Sobotka's Adventures in Fairyland just put me to sleep.

[Riggswolfe]

I'm with most of you it sounds like. Bill and Eric away from Sookie was great. Any scene with Jessica in it is good for me though pairing her with Tara made me want to find the writers and shake them hard. I'm sort of interested in Pam's back story and wonder if some of Pam's awesomeness can rub off on Tara and make her a tiny bit less annoying. I doubt it. More than likely Tara will drag both Pam and Jessica down the road to shittiness with her.

[El Gallo]

Stackhouse and Sobotka's Adventures in Fairyland just put me to sleep.

This X a million.

[Rasix]

Completely. Fucking. Predictable. 

[Bunk]

The foreshadowing was rather stupidly heavy handed, but really, they had to go that direction with the plot. Otherwise, what was the point of the season so far.

[Slayerik]

Decent season so far!

[angry.bob]

I hadn't watched this show since episode four of the last season, and then I watched the very latest episode a few days ago. This show is a fucking unwatchable mess. Granted, I don't know what happened in between but they're just trying to cram in too many different storylines that seem to have nothing at all to connect them to one another and everyone was an unlikeable dick.

[Reg]

It's a soap opera. You can't miss 20 episodes and expect to pick it up right away.

[sickrubik]

I hadn't watched this show since episode four of the last season, and then I watched the very latest episode a few days ago. This show is a fucking unwatchable mess. Granted, I don't know what happened in between but they're just trying to cram in too many different storylines that seem to have nothing at all to connect them to one another and everyone was an unlikeable dick.

This past weeks episode was fucking terrible. It was one of the worst paced and constructed episodes of TV I've ever seen.

[Pezzle]

What  a disaster.  You have all the characters doing crazy shit that defies what you know about them.  The scenes are changed so rapidly the show now comes with a seizure warning.  Then you are forced to endure what felt like 20 minutes of 2 people watching tv in a cleverly pointless flashback scene because, you know, all 58 plots need equal screen time.

I was lost at the end of the episode. 

[lac]

This show.

[sickrubik]

So, I was feeling a lot more optimistic with the beginning of the episode... then.. that Two Sams shit happened and that terrible CG of whatthefuckever Vampire thing that told Sookie it was going to swallow her soul or some such.

it's starting to feel like a bad pen and paper RPG LARP (thank you Ingmar... wait, what the fuck are you doing reading this thread?).

[Ingmar]

I think you mean LARP.

[Riggswolfe]

This season has been better than any except the first and the one with Russell. Still, that's not exactly high praise.

High points:

Russell coming back.
Erik/Bill actually sort of interesting again.
Pam (in fairness, she's always a high point)
Jessica(see above)

Neutral:

Tara makes me want to slap her instead of stab her repeatedly. That's progress right? As I told my wife I think it's because Pam is just so damned awesome that she is making Tara less shitty simply by being around her.

Low points:

Still too many characters. This show really should figure out which characters it wants to focus on and do something about the rest. I'd personally narrow it down to Bill, Jessica, Erik, Pam, Sookie and Jason. Sam and Lafayette can be recurring guest stars.

[Wasted]

I find myself actually liking vampire Tara.

Most of the show is just a mess though.

[HaemishM]

Tara needs to be staked - she is only tolerable by being Pam's bitch. And even then, not so much. Does becoming a vampire mean you dress like a retard or something?

I want someone to kill Sookie already. I've just come to hate her doe-eyed Mary-Sue-Ness. Sam is way overused, IMO, though if I get to see Luna naked I suppose that's a fair tradeoff. I like the Erik/Bill dynamic this season but fuck me, is everyone so goddamn dumb they can't see that "Lilith's blood" is just from Salome? It's not like it isn't obvious or anything. The Russell Edgington/Gay Preacher aside is fun, and there are a few things like that which make the show watchable. But I'm seriously done with at least half the storylines they put out.

[Pezzle]

I happen to like Tara, or I did before all the dumb garbage they heaped on in the last few seasons.  I think that character could be salvaged if they gave her and Pam more than 3 minutes of screentime.  Sam is great, but overused.  Sookie needs to die.  Kill Bill too at this point.  Most others need death or a return to background characters that need not be prominently featured in every episode.  95% of the vampire stuff is beyond retardation at this point.  And who gives a damn about the werewolves? 

Any of these elements could be salvaged but it would take more than a glance or two a week to develop them.  That cannot happen when you have 435390 plots.  Terrible terrible terrible.   

Most of the show is supernaturals now and it is ridiculous.  Also, Fuck Sookie.

[Slayerik]

Yes, fuck Sookie lots. And lots.

I think Bill is finally an interesting character. I haven't liked Tara since season 1. Pam is my girl. Russell is the shit. Overall, the season has been better than the last couple IMO.

[MournelitheCalix]

This season has been a vast improvement over the last.  However I want to also reiterate what has already been mentioned we have too many characters in this show.  It really has detracted from the story telling and I also think it would be best if we saw a purge.  Mind you I think it would be nice to see characters move on instead of being simply gratuitously killed off.  I would like to see the following as PoV characters:

1.  Sookie
2.  Erik Northmen
3.  Alcide (I would actually like to see more of a ruthless werewolf horde instead of the panzies they have been so far).
4.  Bill Compton
5.  Jessica Hamby (just for the red riding hood outfit)

The rest, simply guest stars for story arcs.  Though I think killing off both Sam and Tara would be something to strongly consider since their characters have done nothing for multiple seasons.

[Bunk]

This season has been a vast improvement over the last.  However I want to also reiterate what has already been mentioned we have too many characters in this show.  It really has detracted from the story telling and I also think it would be best if we saw a purge.  Mind you I think it would be nice to see characters move on instead of being simply gratuitously killed off. 

Kind of funny considering this episode.

 

[Phred]

Tara needs to be staked - she is only tolerable by being Pam's bitch. And even then, not so much. Does becoming a vampire mean you dress like a retard or something?

I don't know but didn't you answer your own question in the same sentence? Maybe she's dressing that way because she's now Pam's bitch? I mean she kind of dresses like Pam.

[Tebonas]

I really hope when Russel storms into the Fairy club and gorges himself, they do it to "The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke". Then he has done a lasting good and can die by oversaturation.

[MediumHigh]

I can't believe no one mentioned the lack of naked sookie? I mean her banging random guy twice her size is 90% of the show 

In all seriousness vampire Tera works out better than I'd possible imagine. Watching her deal with vampire shit and going "oh" is plenty of lolzy for me. Feels like there is magically less storylines, or maybe its the fact most of the side ones wrapped up in midseason.

[Trippy]

I can't believe no one mentioned the lack of naked sookie? I mean her banging random guy twice her size is 90% of the show 

Anna Paquin is pregnant.

[MediumHigh]

I can't believe no one mentioned the lack of naked sookie? I mean her banging random guy twice her size is 90% of the show 

Anna Paquin is pregnant.

Eric or Bill 

[Trippy]

Bill. They are married in RL.