“USE IT!...USE IT!” This is a line from the lackluster final installment of the
Blade trilogy, Blade: Trinity. (This was also the first
of 3 comic book heroes Ryan Reynolds would play. Sigh.) But I digress. Blade
repeats this to Whistler’s daughter when
she feels hopeless after losing her friends in battle. This is the
line I have been quietly chanting since season 4 as I watch, what I
feel are, discombobulated episodes of
True Blood. Throughout this blog I’m sure you’ve seen my fanatical love for all things
Sookie Stackhouse Novels oriented, including seasons 1-3 of HBO’s hit series based on the novels,
True Blood. As I quietly
chant, “USE IT!” I am sincerely hoping that Alan Ball and friends can
hear my plea for them to stop taking lame creative liberties and use the
core plot of the novels for the respective
seasons. This includes not diverging into a realm of subplots grasping
for life on screen but filled with the stuff of Twinkies, and pushing
characters who snap the audience back into attention and truly shine
(Pam,
Lafayette ) onto the backburner for 15 seconds of screen time. Does
every major and minor character need to have an individual plot? No
thanks. By the end of the episode, which seems to get shorter
and shorter every week, my head is spinning with visions of smokey fire
monsters, leather-clad Bill and Eric bopping along, and just all around
“bad juju” (as Lafayette would say).
Tara
was correct last night when she said that, “the more things change the
more they stay the f*ng same!” Because although
Tara is now a vampire, she is still angry and bitter with the world and
the people in it. Thanks writers. (Insert sarcasm here) Just as I was
beginning to like the new season 4 MMA, kick ass
Tara , she comes full circle to the Tara who was trying to break away
from Bon Temps all along. Plus side? It looks like she can hold her own
against a vampire 2 years older than her. And speaking of things staying
the same,
Jason is still a guilt-ridden sex fiend with a kind heart and good
intentions but who is
not a werepanther. He
spent so much of last season and the beginning of this season chasing
after Jessica like a love-struck puppy that I found myself resenting the
writers for not using his werepanther storyline
from the novel. Honestly at this point in the show, that would probably
just be one more supernatural creature added to a roster that is
currently bubbling over in the show, but has no where to go.
What do you think?
