When I was young, my mother taught me the old adage: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Unfortunately for her, I am responsible for talking about True Blood tonight. Its not that I hated it, because I didn’t. At the very least, I was excited that they dispatched with MaryAnn with time to spare. However, this season finale just wasn’t in the same neighborhood as season one … And that’s the problem.
I have beat on this season, ad nauseum, about how the quality of the show rode with where the story was being told, be it Texas (great) or Bon Temps (er … not so much). Unfortunately, I feel that once the story shifted completely back to Louisiana, it never really rebounded. Sure, Jason was funny as hell, and his teaming up with Andy has been good, but not nearly as when he was training with the Newlins (And, please find a way to work those folks back into the story).
I blame the MaryAnn storyline, but not completely. Its time to find a story for Tara that’s not about her whining or getting in with some cult. Move Lafayette to the forefront, stat. In fact, his dynamic with Eric is infinitely more interesting than Eric’s with Sookie. Hoyt and Jessica exploring each other and growing together was a great story, that looks like its going to have a major, unnecessary bump in the road.
That’s not to say that there isn’t a lot to love. I am a big fan of Sophie the Vampire Queen, and what dynamic she adds to the the show from a political standpoint (and, as a guy, I’ve got no problem with Evan Rachel Wood as a redhead). What happens between Eric and Bill, and how she factors into that, is something I’m really looking forward to.
I’ve got faith though. The first season was great. Parts of this season were outstanding. There’s a great deal of source material to play with, Deborah Ann Woll, an incredible cast, Evan Rachel Wood, a brilliant writing staff, and, well, Anna Paquin.
Clacked by Ivey West 
on Sep 13, 2009 @ 23:33 EST5EDT
I can definately see why Sookie would hesitate at Bill’s proposal. TB’s events were summer long for us, but in TB time it was what???? a week? So in Sookie time she has been:
* Kidnapped
* Almost raped
* Survived a suicide bomb
* Drank from Eric with all the trappings along with that
* Found her friends, home & town defiled
* Watch her closest friend “die” (and then revived)in front of her
* Discovering she may not be human
Yeah…the timing of a proposal was WAY off from someone who loves her….SHEESE!
Ok, so I’m new to the whole True Blood series. I didn’t see the first season and have only seen a few episodes of this one, but even I wasn’t pleased with the finale.
If Sam came back to life, it’s possible for Maryann too, so are they really rid of her?
I don’t think Sam came back to life, he was near-death and used Bill’s blood to heal from what would’ve been a fatal wound. I’m wondering if he’ll be connected to Bill (and consequently, start having sex dreams about him), or if he’s resistant to that b/c he’s a supernatural being
i don’t think he’ll be resilient to that, because sookie is supernatural and she has sex dreams about eric.
*POST AUTHOR*
Yeah! Echo, welcome!
I think Stan is right … Sam was brought back from near death, whereas MaryAnn (thankfully) is done. Alan Ball has stated in an interview that Forbes is no longer with the show.
And that’s a point I don’t think I made well enough this season. I love Michelle Forbes, and, despite despising MaryAnn, in retrospect, I did enjoy her performance here. Unfortunately, the story, especially relating to how it affected secondary characters (Terry and Andy would be the exceptions to this rule). Tara became a completely uninteresting and ‘unrelatable’ character, Arlene a horrible mother, and Egan Foote (because he’ll always be Egan Foote to me) just screwed anything that walked (or, you know, was a tree). All of which paled in comparison to every storyline based in Texas.
favorite line of the night:
“Its like if a tree falls in the woods its still a tree, ain’t it” – Jason
even i had the WTF? look that Andy had.