So, who is completely underwhelmed by True Blood? I know it's because I have been reading Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books for years. I love them. I love how silly they are and how it seems completely natural that there are vampires, werewolves, other shifter-types, and fairies. I especially love how the descriptions of Sookie's clothes sound so tacky! Like, of course she would wear scrunchies and white-lace dresses with matching glove/sleeve thingys. The books are dark and twisty but have moments of levity as well (Hello Bubba!). The books of course are not without their faults. It's impossible for every book in a long series to be great (HP excepted).
I just do not get excited about the show, even though my DH and I make sure to watch it every Sunday night. For one thing, True Blood Sookie (TBS) gets on my last nerve. She is way less whiny in the book and lots more self-sufficient. Book Sookie (BS) would never have let her house stay that dirty after a crazy maenad spread mud all over the place. Also, the most important thing about Sookie is her ability to hear people's thoughts. In TB, the characters discuss her "ability" but we rarely get to hear what she hears. I guess that is one drawback of switching from a first person narrative to a third person, multi-character focused plot. And TB has apparently bestowed some other, yet-to-be-named power upon our poor, unsuspecting heroine...cue suspenseful music. Plus, Sam's TB story is redonkulous (sp?) and I want to FF through his scenes.
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