The great True Blood thread --(previously True Blood -- NOOOOO!)

Why? Is she evil?

I lost interest in Sookie after about the third book. Maybe HBO will make it bearable.

Anna Paquin does seem a bit young to play Sookie, but I guess it could be worse. They could have chosen someone really awful, like Paris Hilton or Tara Reid.

:::cringes:::

I hate HBO.

And I tried getting into the first book of the series, but haven't made it more than a few pages in.

I don't know who this Anna Paquin is.

Shadow_Ferret said:

I don't know who this Anna Paquin is.

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She's a mutant.

i cant stand her.

PattiTheWicked said:

Anna Paquin does seem a bit young to play Sookie...

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Um, Sookie is 25 in the books. Anna was born in 82.

chaostitan said:

She's a mutant.

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Um. She looks nice in leather.

I've only seen her in two movies. X-Men and Almost Famous. Don't remember her in Almost Famous, but didn't think she was bad in X-Men.

She's also the youngest person to ever win an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano). I think she was 9 at the time??

I've never had a problem with her, though I don't know how she would fit the Sookie role, having never read those books.

True Blood Debuts On HBO

Allan Ball, of Six Feet Under, has come up with a new series based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire books.

The last attempt at translating an urban fantasy type book to TV was the Sci-Fi Channel's Dresden Files, which I thought was not bad, but either it cost too much for them to keep it or not enough people watched, or both.

As a uf writer (and huge fan of Six Feet Under) I'll be very interested in how this one goes. It starts this coming Sunday.

Here's a review from Tim Goodman of the SF Chronicle, a guy who is usually quite astute in his TV judgment.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/05/DDTA12O4B1.DTL

rugcat said:

Allan Ball, of Six Feet Under, has come up with a new series based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire books.

The last attempt at translating an urban fantasy type book to TV was the Sci-Fi Channel's Dresden Files, which I thought was not bad, but either it cost too much for them to keep it or not enough people watched, or both.

As a uf writer (and huge fan of Six Feet Under) I'll be very interested in how this one goes. It starts this coming Sunday.

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No. The last attempt was was "Blood Ties" on LIfetime based on Tanya Huff's character, Vickie Nelson. And it's going into season 2.

And I hate HBO. Why can't a free network pick up good programming like this?

According to Ball at ComicCon, it's not going to be heavy like Six Feet Under. He wanted to do something fun. But I don't think the writing would suffer just because it's more fun and less dramatic.

I'm looking forward to the show.

I'm interested in watching, mainly because it's Alan Ball doing it. I wasn't a huge fan of the books it's based on, but I enjoy my vampires on TV, so I'll at least give it a try. SFU was one of the best shows on TV, so I have high hopes for it.

Any chance Hulu or Netflix might have this?

Shadow_Ferret said:

No. The last attempt was was "Blood Ties" on LIfetime based on Tanya Huff's character, Vickie Nelson. And it's going into season 2.

And I hate HBO. Why can't a free network pick up good programming like this?

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I am going to a launch party Sunday night. If I love it, I might even sign up for HBO!

My mistake. Blood Ties ended with Season 2. The new season was supposed to start in October but it appears Lifetime has canceled it.

How can Urban Fantasy be so popular in books and yet do so poorly in television?

Uh oh.

My initial reaction was "meh." The s.o. actively hated it.

Anybody love it?

I thought it was slow and not very engaging. The sex scenes seemed thrown in to grab the TV watchers. I actually had trouble understanding most of the characters - mumble, mumble. Also, hard to follow the plot - if there is one. Names were mentioned and I had no clue who they were.

My hubby said he'd probably watch it once more so I guess I will too, but I'm not excited about it. And I agree that all the characters seem dumber than rocks.

Carlene