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Is 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.

Comments

[pinkminx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Anna Paquin with blonde hair = very odd at first. I think I stopped noticing the strangeness of her hair colour around episode three.

Lafayette has some priceless moments. Just wait for the episode with his, uh, burgers. You'll know it when you see it. :-)

Eric's a little colder in the series, at least in the episodes I've seen so far. He and Pam are pure awesomeness and comedy gold in the books, and I hope that'll carry over to the series eventually.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Excellent--I can't wait. And I'm glad someone else is finding blonde Anna Paquin odd!