True Blood First Look: Season 4's Vamps Unite

Bill is not old enough to ne king he would be killed by the older Vamps

First of all it’s ‘fae’.

Second of all she’s, at most, a 1/5 (and that’s a big estimate…in the book I think she’s like an 1/8 or something) fae but she’s considered human. She’s more human than fairy.

Nice.

I love Bill with Sookie-just they way he says her name is sexy. I love Eric too, to hard to pick! That is why the show is so good-can’t wait for season 4!!!

Here, here! Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion – whether or not it “annoys” someone else. Personally, I read the box set of Sookie books that I got as a Christmas present before the show. I hated the books. This is just my opinion: but Ms. Harris can’t write her way out of a paper bag and I’m constantly astonished that they even got published with the amount of inane babbling going on in them (seriously, most of the books were Sookie talking about how hot she is, why everyone else in the world – but her – is terrible (especially other women), what she wears, and when she showers and shaves her legs). The only characters that I liked were Pam, Eric, and Sophie-Anne. Sookie was a horrible (I found her stupid, annoying, whiny, and just plain judgmental and mean) and I don’t like a series if I can’t like the main character – especially if it’s in first person. And Bill had absolutely NO personality. Even so, I spent the first three books wondering why in the world he would even want to be around Sookie. All she did was b*tch any time he opened his mouth other than when they were having weird sex.

The plot lines were forced and contrived and all wrapped up in a nice, neat little package in one paragraph at the end of the book. Sometimes I had to read whole chapters over again to understand what was going on because Sookie kept going off on tangents about stupid crap or Harris introduced characters that were only there to explain the out-of-nowhere endings. Then, as the series went along, most of the characters were just the same ones in different packages. I know she probably introduced Amelia and Claudine in order to make it look like Sookie actually has friends and doesn’t hate anyone prettier than her, but they were essentially the same character because she didn’t flesh them out enough. Most of the secondary characters were broken record, cardboard cut-out, 2-dimensional filler characters.

I started watching True Blood against my better judgment because I heard that it was better than the books. And, my word, it is! I absolutely love where Alan Ball has taken the series. It actually makes sense and the characters are SO much more interesting. At first, I was a little upset that he was making so many changes, but then I just learned to enjoy this show as separate from the books. I like it that way because I actually don’t know what is going to happen! And since I didn’t like the books anyway, it’s a plus for me.

On the whole Eric vs. Bill thing: In the books, I didn’t care – I really didn’t. Bill was boring but Eric deserved waaaay better than Sookie – Bill probably does too. It really didn’t make any sense why Eric was interested in an actual relationship with her. She’s irritating and I liked Eric being the antagonist and just making sexual advances because that suited his character more. I didn’t really like the books where they were together because he kept letting Sookie boss him around. Blah, he lost his appeal when she whipped him.

In the show, I love Sookie and Bill together. But I still think that Bill should be a little peeved at her and not the other way around. He risked his life – numerous times – to protect her and make sure that no one else found out about her. Regardless of his lying when they first met, he’s more than made up for that. Yeah, he should have told her. But, since then he’s faced death every single freakin’ episode for her…. so …. eh. And, just like in the books, I love Eric the way he is. I like him free, single, and just trying to get Sookie into bed. He has balls in the show – I hope he doesn’t lose them when he finally gets with Sookie like he did in the books.

That being said, the fourth book was my favorite because I loved Eric losing his memory. I just really hope they don’t make him lose his appeal the way he did for me in the books.

Alcide is way hot, but in the books he’s a wuss so I’m looking forward to getting that little side-flirt out of the way. And please, God, don’t let them bring on Quinn. He was so annoying. I hated him. I wanted Bill and Eric to murder that waste of page space in the worst way. Actually – maybe he and Sookie did deserve each other, I hated them both.

The problem with the Bill versus Eric thing is that the Eric/Sookie relationship is a stronger presence for a much greater number of books. If Alan Ball wants to sell me on Bill/Sookie: step 1. Do Book 4 RIGHT!!! Messing up Book 4 is unacceptable, either do it right or don’t do it at all! Step 2. SELL me on Bill/Sookie as the better couple in the TV show. He hasn’t done that. Bill betrayed Sookie and he almost killed her. Since Alan hasn’t sold me on Bill/Sookie as the better TV couple, then I’ll continue to root for the better Book couple.

right on!

i think sookie should either be with eric or quinn. eric is hot hot hot but i think the best match for sookie would be quinn. but it is only a tv show and how ever they do it is up to them, so just sit back and enjoy (sometimes cussin them out for doin stiped stuff…lol).

And by the way, my previous reply is to the LOL poster.

My comment above was in reply to LOL. (well said Dee!)