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Ozzu
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I still watch this show with my wife, but I do believe it jumped the shark back in season 2.
My wife and I just blame the character "Eggs".
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Rasix
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I think we groused about season 2 quite a bit here. It was mostly terrible.
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HaemishM
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I'd blame the Maened.
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Slayerik
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Abagadro
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This show came on TV pre-shark jumped.
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Rokal
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This show came on TV pre-shark jumped.
This. Season 2 wasn't some massive decline in quality. I remember watching season 1 and thinking "man, this show is fucking stupid". I still watch it though. |
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Velorath
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To me, every season has had the same issue. The writers feel the need to stretch every single plotline out through at least an entire season and in some cases longer. Andy's V addiction started last season. Tommy being a selfish dick who keeps fucking over Sam likewise started last season. Arlene thinking her child could be evil because Rene is the father went through a good part of last season. Tara started off with some promise this season, having built up a stronger and more confident persona for herself, only to rapidly revert back to being the same whiny victim she's been in every previous season.
And yeah, there's also the issue of too many characters. What has Alcide's plot really been this season aside from occasionally being concerned about Sookie? It's like they wanted to keep him and Debbie around in the cast, but didn't really come up with anything for them to do. What has Tara added to the plot? Sadly, I think Hoyt needs to go at this point also. He's a funny character a lot of the time, but his only connections to the plot are Jason and Jessica, and the Jessica/Hoyt thing has run its course, and the show doesn't need another ongoing love triangle.
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Rendakor
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The "too many characters" issue is also what makes everything take forever; each group of characters only gets ~10m of screentime per episode so things move at a snails pace.
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Bunk
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To be fair, they did whittle down the cast a little over the last few episodes.
For me the most jarring part of this season was the ridiculous Hot Shot plot point. It's as though you had a whole new group of writers look at the Hot Shot stuff from last season and went "how can we wrap this up and be rid of it in three episdoes?"
Jason went from hillbilly patriarch to rape victim to potential werepanther to "I forgot about all that and now I'm banging my best friends girl" in the course of three days.
Still, I keep watching for some reason. Have to admit I laughed at the drinkbox scene with Eric.
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HaemishM
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Still, I keep watching for some reason. Have to admit I laughed at the drinkbox scene with Eric.
Scenes like that are exactly why I watch. Their seasons really are too long for some of those plots. We've spent what 3, 4 episodes with these idiot wiccans imprisoned in that magic shop? The show could do what it does well with about 10 episodes a season instead of 13, and a few less characters as well. Now we have Rapy Smurf humping Andy in the woods which I'm sure will have some effect next season as the child of Retarda Sheriff comes back fully grown and Fairy Free. The whole Lafayatte possessed by the baby momma (and really the whole baby is possessed by the spirit of Rene thing) didn't really need to be there to establish Lafayatte's status as a medium. Game of Thrones has too few episodes a season, this has too many. |
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Slayerik
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The last episode was fuckin' atrocious. Horrible acting all around, probably points toward script or directing as being the real problem.
My girl and I just kept looking at each other in amazement of the bad.
Everything this seaosn just feels like a set. The big vamp conference wasn't so big. The empty ass town when Marnie bunkered up... idk. Still watching...not really sure why...
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lac
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Ten years from now, when this has officially become the new Days of our Lives, you'll find yourself sitting next to your spouse or daughter watching a particularly awkward and campy episode, when suddenly embarrassed by the utter crap she's watching, she'll say something like "yeah, it's over the top but it's all good fun" or "I can believe I'm still watching this shit" and you'll just nod and smile sagely while you think to yourself "fuck me man, I missed every historical event in my lifetime but when this shit started, I was there".
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Evil Elvis
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about
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Riggswolfe
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So....I win the no empathy award for doing a fist pump and saying "YES!" at the supposed tragic ending.
Then my wife had to destroy my happiness by looking at me and going "Lafayette is a medium you know..."
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Bunk
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Actually seemed like it was going to be a fairly non eventful finale  |
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EWSpider
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Actually seemed like it was going to be a fairly non eventful finale Pam had the best line of the season: “I am so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. Fuck Sookie!” |
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Rasix
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Tebonas
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And people say there is no god! Best finale of any episode of any series ever.  |
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Bunk
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Now everyone can spend the next six months worrying about / fearing
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MournelitheCalix
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Little Red Riding Hood. That was my favorite part of the episode season. To hell with sookie, Jessica is smokin hot! |
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« Last Edit: September 12, 2011, 08:54:50 PM by MournelitheCalix »
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Born too late to explore the new world.
Born too early to explore the universe.
Born just in time to see liberty die.
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Xerapis
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Before the finale, I always thought Debbie Pelt was a total waste of screen time.
Now, she is the season MVP.
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..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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Riggswolfe
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Before the finale, I always thought Debbie Pelt was a total waste of screen time.
Now, she is the season MVP.
Yeah Debbie went from my least favorite to most favorite character with one shotgun blast! |
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Zaljerem
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We have an overabundance of characters and not enough decent plots to occupy them all. I expect more will die soon (and good riddance).
 Jessica is in fact smoking hott ... with two tees .... |
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kaid
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I am sorry hoyt for I do have love for you but seriously it does not matter how long you are friends with somebody banging jessica would always be worth it so you cannot be hating on jason.
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DLRiley
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Oh this show is too cluttered with plotlines!
Than how about we follow the main plotline lets see
Sookie is a mind reading waitress who is superhot but a virgin in a super dink hillbilly town in Lousina
She can't get with any man because ALL MEN THINK ABOUT SEX WITH HER AT ALL TIMES, a fact she never got over since she was 14
Eventually all eligible males either stopped talking to her or doesn't live in bontomp
CUE VAMPIRE BILL
Now sookie is wetter than 14 year old girl back stage with an R&B artist, she is ready for some hard fucking, mostly because she can't read all his dirty thoughts (despite the fact that he is undressing her with his eyes at all times). But...
CUE FAKE LOVE TRIANGLE
Sookies boss, a mild mannered guy who just happens to be a shifter but is afraid to tell people cause supernatural shit + hillbillies don't work together, he holds a mad crush on sookie and unlike every other guy in the place he can think about baseball while checking out her ass. Oh did I mention that his emotions have a tendency to run high, bordering bipolar at the slightest touch of his berserker button? Anyway one night with jittery sookie getting her face melted by the otherwise reasonable sam, generally ends that romance. The real kick to this story is that Sam, being the hopeless romantic he is, is so overly concerned with not showing his real self that hooking up with sookies, whose powers he had guessed, was to him the one way he could possible be himself (she can hear you jerking off). Such his want for that type of companion, he DOESN'T vent his sex drive on the miles of ass he could be tagging but instead pines for sookie and later tara, much to the irritation of the audience.
TO THE HANDS OF THE NOT SO EVIL VAMPIRE
After falling for vampire bill....yeah she falls for vampire bill gets into further hilarity of near death experiences pilled on top of each other, while clinging to bills virgin busting penis like a life boat. For 3 seasons.
Wait that is kinda bad, what about another relevant character....there is none but lets take Jason.
Jason spends his days fucking girls, working out, and fucking more girls (no seriously that was season 1 for jason). One day the chicks he banged were murdered, que hilarity he ends up in jail, being a v drug addict and a vampire killer (yep that was season 1).
SEASON 2
Jason joins the fellowship of the sun, it gets rather campy from here on out, a christian group that hates vampires and trains an army of humans to fight vampires. Jason having killed a chain up vampire in his girlfriends basement, gets auto initiated in the cult, hit on by the preachers super hot wife, and learns how to stake vampires and praise the lord at the same time. Being jason, he is far too stupid to drink the koolaid, but he is more than happy to shoot guns, fuck hot women, and generally piss of the local alpha male. Than his sister sookie walks in and all hell breaks lose.
OK NOT REALLY
Sookie volunteers to infiltrate the fellowship of the sun after everyone insisted that it was a bad idea and she is likely to get herself killed.
5 MINUTES OF SPY WORK LEADS TO
Nearly getting raped by the second in command of the fellowship. Much of the stupidity committed by this woman would have ended right there (another 3 seasons worth)....if she wasn't saved by the suicidal vampire (who is the reason why season 2 has a plot) who agrees to let a vampire hating cult cook him in exchange for letting them know that vampires are really nice guys after all.
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Vaiti
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Got through a third of that WALL OF TEXT. My head hurts.
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DLRiley
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Got through a third of that WALL OF TEXT. My head hurts.
Dewalled it but head is likely to hurt anyway. |
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MisterNoisy
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QUE VAMPIRE BILL
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HaemishM
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Well, that was... explosive. Literally.
It was kind of funny that they got halfway through the damn thing before any vamps showed up. Really slow. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop. And boy did it. Right on a really annoying character's fucking head. I cheered as well.
Jessica in Red Riding Hood gear... MORE PLZ KTHX.
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Pezzle
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Finished watching the season. How fucking awful. Let's abandon reason or sensibility. The characters do the dumbest shit, the acting is bad and everyone is flat.
Also, kill Sookie.
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Der Helm
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You got this confused with Jersey Shore ?
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Finally got around to binging through the 2nd half of the season. So glad Jesus is dead- I was over that storyline 10 minutes after it started. Hopefully Tara is dead too. Jessica in Red Riding Hood gear... MORE PLZ KTHX. Dear god, yes. My wife, when she showed up - "OK, she is really hot. And this is coming from your wife" More skin please. |
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Rendakor
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New season started last week, surprised no one's commented yet.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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New season started last week, surprised no one's commented yet.
It just seemed like they tried to cram too much into one episode. Essentially it seemed like they started the season with a plan for 18+ episodes and had to cram the first 6 into the season premiere because they only got a buy for 12. --Dave |
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Abagadro
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New season started last week, surprised no one's commented yet.
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