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True Blood: Season Finale

Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
edited September 2010 in Social Entropy++
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Didn't see a True Blood thread here, and since the most recent episode (or the last two minutes) is being hailed as 'groundbreaking' (and not in a cliched way), I thought maybe we should talk. HBO show about vampires co-existing with humans after a great revelation (that they exist). The show takes place in Bon Temps, LA (middle of nowhere) and centers on the relationship between a waitress and a vampire, and all the crazy adventures they end up having to deal with.

We are now in season three. The show often has gratuitous sex scenes (from the very beginning of the pilot), lots of nudity, lots of gore, and an ever-expanding mythos. The actress who plays Sookie (the waitress), has recently leaked that show has been tentatively renewed for five more seasons by HBO. So it's a keeper.

Now to discuss season three (and the most recent: episode nine):
Holy fucking shit, way to completely take the show in another direction with little notice. For the first two seasons the Vampire Rights Amendment and the political debate has been a backdrop, something you see on a TV or see in a newspaper while more important shit happens in the foreground. Now, BAM Russell assassinates a national TV anchor LIVE and starts his own very public human-vampire war. Did not see that coming. Best two minutes of the series.

Edit: The obvious solution is just to label a spoiler as book, or show+season

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    we are up to our armpits in vampire media.

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  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I only finished to season 2 where
    godrick dies

    then i stopped watching due to lack of hbo

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Can we make a note that if someone wants to do book spoilers to, well, specify that it's a book spoiler?? This seems unnecessary but some other places I browse bitches keep saying book shit when I'm expecting it to be a show spoiler.



    as for tonights episode
    EXCITING. I'm excited for the direction the show is going in. I want to know wtf sookie is.

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  • GodLovesYou69GodLovesYou69 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    uriel this show is pretty great. it has homos slapping rednecks and such.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    keep meaning to get into this

    can i start season 1 on hulu or anywhere similar?

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    fucking love this show

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Raneados wrote: »
    keep meaning to get into this

    can i start season 1 on hulu or anywhere similar?

    People are selling used for about $20 on Amazon. Which is pretty good for an HBO series. Other than that, it is still an HBO series so there is no other legal way to watch short of subscribing to HBO.

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  • FletcherFletcher Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    take THAT redneck dude(s)

    i really wanted to hate this show but it drew me in

    help i can't escape

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  • FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    so is blood in this show just a metaphor for cocaine

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    team eric by the way.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Oh almost forgot from the most recent episode:
    Vampire Stormtroopers! I know some people are going to hate them, but I love them. I see it as a merging between all the weird vampire mythos swirling around out there in fiction. Sometimes True Blood goes traditional, sometimes it goes Blade.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Buffy was the last vampire show I will ever watch.

    I vow this on my father's ashes.

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  • SloSlo Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Did Buffy have this?
    A certain vampire just ripped out a certain newsreporters spine, using it as a pointing stick, and gives a long ass speech to the tv audience ending with

    'We will eat your children, then we will eat you.

    And now the weather!

    Tiffany?'


    Yeaaaaaa, no. Its also great because it doesn't take itself seriously at all.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    That is a good thing.

    Buffy took itself too serious.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    This show is pretty entertaining! It is the secret embarrassing thing I like to watch when I'm by myself at night and can't sleep.

    This is also because once I put it on my iPod and brought it on an airplane and it turns out that it's sort of awkward in that context. Surprise!

    An hour into the plane ride you realize the person next to you is also watching Sookie and Bill have sex

    You are stuck next to this person for the rest of the trip

    thank god there are only twelve more hours of flight time to go

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I had hbo for this:

    http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/index.html

    but got rid of it.

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  • faitsfaits a panda eating cake seattleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    Other than that, it is still an HBO series so there is no other legal way to watch short of subscribing to HBO.

    The first two seasons are available from Netflix, but not on instant watch. So you've got to sit around waiting for the discs to show up. But it's worth it.

    Love this show. Could not get into the books AT ALL.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Man I haven't seen last night's episode yet. Watching it later on today.

    "Groundbreaking" eh? Can't wait.

    True Blood is very good at suprising me with its content.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Love me some True Blood. Getting ready to watch last nights episode.

    I like that True Blood can be cheesy sometimes. It's not terribly serious but it can be fun.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Last episode we finally got to see Sookieboob again.

    I was pleased.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I saw a few episodes of this

    It barely seemed to be about vampires, as the story I stumbled onto was about some
    hedonistic witch/demigodthing woman who turned people into horny crazies and then was killed by a shapeshifter

    Do they keep expanding the universe like this in the 3rd season? Because I am a sucker for campy mythological shows

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    all the episodes are on On Demand but I haven't really kept up with them
    not a huge fan of werewolves

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  • L.E.O.L.E.O. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    this is the most sexual vampire story ever, its pretty cool all round.

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  • HoA-playerHoA-player Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It is very entertaining, also very gay.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Last night when
    Russel's gay vampire lover was dead and he was carrying around the left over bloody goop in a crystal urn I was laughing. He was talking to it. Stroking it. He missed his little Talbert so much.

    Also, next episode should finally show the
    were-panthers who sell meth.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sam has been having a very frustrating time lately

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  • Apparition8Apparition8 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The actress who plays Sookie (the waitress), has recently leaked that show has been tentatively renewed for five more seasons by HBO.


    Please let this be true.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Apparition8 wrote: »
    The actress who plays Sookie (the waitress), has recently leaked that show has been tentatively renewed for five more seasons by HBO.


    Please let this be true.

    Girly gasp

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    also I watched pretty much all of season two saturday and goddamn jason stackhouse is fucking retarded

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Slo wrote: »
    Did Buffy have this?
    A certain vampire just ripped out a certain newsreporters spine, using it as a pointing stick, and gives a long ass speech to the tv audience ending with

    'We will eat your children, then we will eat you.

    And now the weather!

    Tiffany?'
    No it doesn't. Which is a shame, because that right there was the best thing this show has ever done.

    Hands. Down.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Slo wrote: »
    Did Buffy have this?
    A certain vampire just ripped out a certain newsreporters spine, using it as a pointing stick, and gives a long ass speech to the tv audience ending with

    'We will eat your children, then we will eat you.

    And now the weather!

    Tiffany?'
    No it doesn't. Which is a shame, because that right there was the best thing this show has ever done.

    Hands. Down.

    fuck that

    that was the best 2 minutes of TV i think i have ever seen

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  • KarnackKarnack Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    this show is trash. it's godawful. it really has very few redeeming qualities.

    that said, I can't help but keep up with it.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Slo wrote: »
    Did Buffy have this?
    A certain vampire just ripped out a certain newsreporters spine, using it as a pointing stick, and gives a long ass speech to the tv audience ending with

    'We will eat your children, then we will eat you.

    And now the weather!

    Tiffany?'
    No it doesn't. Which is a shame, because that right there was the best thing this show has ever done.

    Hands. Down.

    fuck that

    that was the best 2 minutes of TV i think i have ever seen
    I was laughing hysterically for a good five minutes afterwards. We really need a .gif of that.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    here's the gif
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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Zzulu wrote: »
    I saw a few episodes of this

    It barely seemed to be about vampires, as the story I stumbled onto was about some
    hedonistic witch/demigodthing woman who turned people into horny crazies and then was killed by a shapeshifter

    Do they keep expanding the universe like this in the 3rd season? Because I am a sucker for campy mythological shows

    So far in the show, they've had:
    Vampires
    Shapeshifters
    Werewolves
    a Maenad (the witch/demigotthing)

    Undisclosed in the show so far (but heavily hinted at), the books tell us that:
    Sookie and her kind are faeries
    The hillbilly meth dealers are werepanthers
    And the new waitress (and alot of people are speculating Jesus & Lafayette) are witches

    So yes, they do keep expanding the supernatural universe. And it's incredibly campy in all the best possible ways.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Karnack wrote: »
    this show is trash. it's godawful. it really has very few redeeming qualities.

    that said, I can't help but keep up with it.

    So long as you come by it honestly.

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  • Al_watAl_wat Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Slo wrote: »
    Did Buffy have this?
    A certain vampire just ripped out a certain newsreporters spine, using it as a pointing stick, and gives a long ass speech to the tv audience ending with

    'We will eat your children, then we will eat you.

    And now the weather!

    Tiffany?'
    No it doesn't. Which is a shame, because that right there was the best thing this show has ever done.

    Hands. Down.

    fuck that

    that was the best 2 minutes of TV i think i have ever seen
    I was laughing hysterically for a good five minutes afterwards. We really need a .gif of that.

    God yes I loved that scene

    so

    much

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  • SASA Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Burden of Proof wrote: »
    all the episodes are on On Demand but I haven't really kept up with them
    not a huge fan of werewolves

    There aren't any werewolves in True Blood. Theres a character that can turn into a dog though.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    SA wrote: »
    Burden of Proof wrote: »
    all the episodes are on On Demand but I haven't really kept up with them
    not a huge fan of werewolves

    There aren't any werewolves in True Blood. Theres a character that can turn into a dog though.

    Um.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Viscount Islands wrote: »
    SA wrote: »
    Burden of Proof wrote: »
    all the episodes are on On Demand but I haven't really kept up with them
    not a huge fan of werewolves

    There aren't any werewolves in True Blood. Theres a character that can turn into a dog though.

    Um.

    Ummmmmm.....

    SA have you watched the show

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