bloodsucking fiends
Jan. 28th, 2009 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideIs anyone else watching True Blood?
So I'm not quite done with the book. But I found myself curious about the HBO show since I've loved so many of them--Deadwood, Rome, and I'm sure others I can't think of. But I found myself with the chance to watch episode 1, and it's um... interesting.
- whoa to the insane sex (whoever mentioned that in comments awhile ago)
- the acting seems pretty uniformly bad by most of the principles (chew, chew, chew)
- the one way it's not faithful to the book is that she can hear Sam, which is a change I really don't like
- I love Sookie's relationship with her grandmother who is adorable
- I so do not find Vampire Bill sexy at all --I would be all over Sam, though
- Anna Pacquin is lovely, but her blonde hair looks so wrong on her to me, I don't even know what to do. I mean, it's pretty hair, and it's not like she doesn't have the skin tone to carry the color, but it just feels wrong. Also, she looks like she's twelve.
I think I may keep watching for now because some parts of it are funny. (And I know any show can take a few episodes to get into.) But GOD, so much bad acting and I think bad direction. All the vampire stuff seems extra cheesy. Don't do super-speed motion if you can't do it well. (They can't.) And their insta-on vamp fangs are cheesier than the fake ones I wore for Halloween a decade ago. They make them look intensely goofy.
So I'm not quite done with the book. But I found myself curious about the HBO show since I've loved so many of them--Deadwood, Rome, and I'm sure others I can't think of. But I found myself with the chance to watch episode 1, and it's um... interesting.
- whoa to the insane sex (whoever mentioned that in comments awhile ago)
- the acting seems pretty uniformly bad by most of the principles (chew, chew, chew)
- the one way it's not faithful to the book is that she can hear Sam, which is a change I really don't like
- I love Sookie's relationship with her grandmother who is adorable
- I so do not find Vampire Bill sexy at all --I would be all over Sam, though
- Anna Pacquin is lovely, but her blonde hair looks so wrong on her to me, I don't even know what to do. I mean, it's pretty hair, and it's not like she doesn't have the skin tone to carry the color, but it just feels wrong. Also, she looks like she's twelve.
I think I may keep watching for now because some parts of it are funny. (And I know any show can take a few episodes to get into.) But GOD, so much bad acting and I think bad direction. All the vampire stuff seems extra cheesy. Don't do super-speed motion if you can't do it well. (They can't.) And their insta-on vamp fangs are cheesier than the fake ones I wore for Halloween a decade ago. They make them look intensely goofy.
