True Blood

[Velorath]

Anyone could be writing this show.
"Hey, kid! Yeah you in the dumpster, want a job in showbiz?"

I'm not sure what this post means.  It doesn't help that the first sentence refers to the writing while the second line, which looks like it is meant to support the first sentence, would refer to casting (which as a whole has actually been True Blood's strongest aspect).

[birdsguts]

Anyone could be writing this show.
"Hey, kid! Yeah you in the dumpster, want a job in showbiz?"

I'm not sure what this post means.  It doesn't help that the first sentence refers to the writing while the second line, which looks like it is meant to support the first sentence, would refer to casting (which as a whole has actually been True Blood's strongest aspect).

It means you're digging deep in a shallow pool. Incorrectly, I might add. It was a joke, not a carefully calculated criticism of the show based on a reasonable analysis.
BUT
If you want to get up on your mighty nerd steed an analyze it then we'll just say it was a late tribute to the style of Conan O'Brien. In layman's speech it says: "A kid who lives in a dumpster (and therefore has no education) could write a better show." It's a heavily opinionated statement soaked in hyperbole. The only reason I can see you picking on it at all is that you took the joke personally. Honestly, I expected everyone to ignore it and allow it to be my epitaph as far as this thread is concerned as I won't be back in here.
Good riddance amirite?

Since you want to play around in the mud for no good reason I'll leave you with these two question instead:
How good can a show really be when it's "casting" is it's strongest aspect?
How good can the casting really be when only one character (Lafayette) is acted well?
These are rhetorical. Don't answer.

Sincerely, I hope you enjoy season 4. <-- Seriously sincere. I mean it. I wish I could enjoy it myself. I like enjoying good things.

[Rendakor]

Paragraphs motherfucker, do you know them?

Otherwise, meh. Shitty ending episode. Would've been fine if this was there was still an episode left this season, as it was we got no closure at all. They killed off the stupid hick dad and that's about it. Otherwise 10 dangling plot threads.

[Morfiend]

Yah, I thought so too.  The one television blogger/reviewer/whatever I read thought it was great, but I thought it was just a big unfinished mess with too many damn unresolved plot strings. 

io9's Meredith Woerner always does a great recap.

[Sky]

The hick dad was actually a potentially good character, too. Ah, well. I really liked Tara's internal struggle for this episode. Seeing her fight to overcome her negative reactions is kind of a nice culmination of her incessant angry Tara act...and to be honest, they have put that character through so much shit, it's a pretty believable struggle.

Lafayette awesome as usual, the scene when he's freaking out on the phone and then you see him don his armor of coolness and strut back into the kitchen...great stuff.

Bill, as mentioned, was pretty poorly written this episode. There were a few forced scenes that the vampire characters seemed to kind of go in and out of character.

[Ard]

I thought this whole season was pretty lousy, with the last episode being the steaming crown for this pile.  The only good thing that came out of it was that Tara left, and that will only work if she stays gone, which you know won't happen.  The other problem is this removed the only main character who wasn't special or supernatural in some way (because lets not kid ourselves, Jason will be something sooner or later).

 I still like the guy playing Layfayette a lot, and I hope he goes on to do something other than this show, if it continues this downhill slide.

[Mrbloodworth]

It did feel more like a mid-season episode rather than a finally.

[Rasix]

Finale.

[Slayerik]

Would a been a finally if Tara woulda offed herself.

[Riggswolfe]

Would a been a finally if Tara woulda offed herself.

Here here! I feel bad for hating her so much but I can't help it.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, very disappointing episode. The Jason/Shifter Chick subplot which ends with Jason adopting a family of inbred lycanthropes went nowhere, Tara got on my nerves right after she escaped Franklin and never got better, Sam turned asshole and killer AND Cain, Sookie turned into a mega bitch (though this was at least understandable). Absolutely nothing got resolved other than the Russell plot, and while that made sense, what didn't make sense is how Eric escaped and Russell didn't. Less silver? Russell was hurt? Who the fuck knows? Bill wandered in and out of lover/killer without a lot of sense being made. And season 4 is a year away. This show could probably use a cast trimming. Start with Tara and Jason and move on.

[Rasix]

what didn't make sense is how Eric escaped and Russell didn't. Less silver?

Pam dug him out.

[Vaiti]

Well if nothing else, we got rid of Tara. 
Hopefully they stick to their guns and not write her into next season at all and just run with the "She went through so much, shes driven off into the sunset for a newlife."

[Mrbloodworth]

You KNOW she will be back, maybe not in the first few episodes, but it will happen.

[Rendakor]

The best moment of the finale was Tara standing in front of the mirror with the scissors. I was yelling at the TV, "Down the road, not across the street!" and praying it wasn't going to be a dramatic haircut scene.

[WayAbvPar]

Finally got around to watching this. Not a big fan of the ep, but there were some fun parts. Sookie dumping Talbot into the garbage disposal was good times. Was begging for the camera to linger on Tara's car driving away, hoping it meant she was gone for good. Fuck that character.

[lac]

Season 4 airs the 26th. The first 8 minutes of the first episode have been released to the webs by HBO, should you be inclined to take a sneak peak.

[Mrbloodworth]

Yay!

[WayAbvPar]

Something to entertain me over the summer until Boardwalk Empire entertains me through the fall to get that much closer to GoT 

[JWIV]

So far, so very good. 

[WayAbvPar]

I was pretty bored, tbh. Season openers are tough though, since they have to set the table for the rest of season. Not looking forward to the whole witch thing....a little Jesus and LaFayette goes quite a long ways for me. Ditto for Tara, although the little gratuitous sex scene was amusing at least. I enjoyed the recap of last season more than the beginning of this one. It always freaks me out to hear the cast speak in the own accents.

[squirrel]

I thought the episode sucked. The fairy scene was worse than an old Angel re-run. Andy was entertaining at least, and Lafayette is still my favourite character. But yeah, overall I was underwhelmed.

[WayAbvPar]

Andy was indeed entertaining. Although I think he would be more amusing if he was just loud and grouchy all the time, and not strung out on V. Bleah.

Also Jessica needs to have break into the nude scene scene, baby.

[Bunk]

Sookie and Bill were always amongst my least favorite characters, so I just took the fairy thing as necessary setup. Bill at least might be interesting as the King.

Only thing I really got a bit bored with was the witch plot, though I did enjoy the frumpy witch suddenly channeling Jimmy James.

I'm not sure any one part of the story excited me, but I do like the fact that it looks like its going to focus a lot on Eric and Pam.

[Riggswolfe]

Sookie and Bill were always amongst my least favorite characters, so I just took the fairy thing as necessary setup. Bill at least might be interesting as the King.

Only thing I really got a bit bored with was the witch plot, though I did enjoy the frumpy witch suddenly channeling Jimmy James.

I'm not sure any one part of the story excited me, but I do like the fact that it looks like its going to focus a lot on Eric and Pam.

I agree with the witch plot. My big worry is that we'll have yet another season where the biggest threat from the villains is that they might bore me to tears.

The faerie world stuff was ok until the magic energy balls started flying.

Tara didn't make me want to throw my TV into a lake so that's a plus.

Otherwise it is too early to tell. This show is being run as a soap opera and that makes it hard for me to enjoy. Combine that with the CW's Vampire Diaries being a better show in every single way except boobs and I think True Blood gets one more season to convince me it can change but I don't think it will.

[Arthur_Parker]

The faerie world stuff was ok until the magic energy balls started flying.

I couldn't stop laughing when that happened.

[Zaljerem]

Nothing could be worse than the Maenad plot. NOTHING.

[WayAbvPar]

Nothing could be worse than the Maenad plot. NOTHING.

Ugh. If it hadn't lasted ALL FUCKING SEASON it might now have been quite so painful, but yeah, it was awful. The very least they should have done is to give as a Michelle Forbes nude scene for our patience 

[DLRiley]

Sookie and Bill were always amongst my least favorite characters, so I just took the fairy thing as necessary setup. Bill at least might be interesting as the King.

Only thing I really got a bit bored with was the witch plot, though I did enjoy the frumpy witch suddenly channeling Jimmy James.

I'm not sure any one part of the story excited me, but I do like the fact that it looks like its going to focus a lot on Eric and Pam.

I agree with the witch plot. My big worry is that we'll have yet another season where the biggest threat from the villains is that they might bore me to tears.

The faerie world stuff was ok until the magic energy balls started flying.

Tara didn't make me want to throw my TV into a lake so that's a plus.

Otherwise it is too early to tell. This show is being run as a soap opera and that makes it hard for me to enjoy. Combine that with the CW's Vampire Diaries being a better show in every single way except boobs and I think True Blood gets one more season to convince me it can change but I don't think it will.

are you telling me the vampire diaries are......err... maybe i give it another go...

[Slayerik]

[Mrbloodworth]

He was boastful and taken by surprise.

[Rendakor]

He was one of the few characters on the show I actually liked; I hope they fix it quickly.

[HaemishM]

I wasn't sure about the new direction after the first episode, but I like where they are going with the witches thing. Even shifters don't bother me, though the whole "we need to make Jason a werepanther" story really doesn't do much for me.

[Xuri]

So... now we have vampires, werewolves, werepanthers, shapeshifters, telepaths, fairies, witches, necromancers, one maenad, possibly some more that I've missed. What's next? Surely they can't stop there.

[Azuredream]

Weretiger?

(Quinn)