Comments on: True Blood Season 3 Preview Post

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:32:57 +0000

What I don’t like about the TV show is the lack of “Bubba”. I guess they were afraid of lawsuits.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:07:00 +0000

Actually, Bill’s origin story is told in the books. Club Dead is all about Bill’s sire, Lorena,

Maybe I will have to reread it. I remember very little page time given to how and why Bill became a vampire, and I don't recall any flashbacks to their lives together prior to his meeting Sookie. Of course, I still have to read the latest. Can't wait!

By: Cassie

Cassie — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:52:11 +0000

Actually, Bill’s origin story is told in the books. Club Dead is all about Bill’s sire, Lorena, and the most recent book goes into even more detail about why Lorena made Bill a vamp. Plus gives juicy details of Eric’s origins.

I’ll admit, I don’t watch the tv show (don’t have HBO, don’t really want to pay for the show on iTunes), so I get that they’re likely revealing the origin stories at a different pace. But the books have all the info, I promise!

By: Ariel/Sycorax Pine

Ariel/Sycorax Pine — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:04:00 +0000

I. Can’t. Wait. And I am particularly glad to hear we will get more of Eric and Godric despite the obviously impediments to continuing that plot line.

My problem with True Blood’s first two seasons has been that the supernatural runs away with the show, to the detriment of its really rich characterization and canny realism. The real delight was in seeing what happened to a grittily (and campily) real world of prejudices and complexities when a discrete set of supernatural elements are introduced to it. Even in the books, I found myself increasingly dismayed when the fairy elements are introduced and quickly escalate the absurdity of the plots. And the terrible side-effect of the Marianne plot line was that every time someone fell under her spell, they were wiped clean of characterization and thus of interest. Hmm. In recent installments of the (book) series, I have almost wished that she could just settle into the details of Bon Temps and its characters again. (Which is why one of my favorite installments is the Eric-amnesia one.)

By: Kate Diamond

Kate Diamond — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:36:24 +0000

Mmmm… Alexander Skarsgård is so tasty. Hurray for fabulous Eric Northman casting.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:58:49 +0000

@Julia Rachel Barrett: Julia, I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the difference between Seaosn 1 and 2 and your hopes for Season 3! @Wanderer: LOL. I think Eric becomes a love interest to root for only in Book 4, personally. I love the books, and like the series quite a bit. It happens that we have a group of us who watch the series here in town, and we get together sometimes to do it, but I wish I knew folks in RL who read the books. I think my spouse plans to start reading them this summer, and I can;t wait.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:59:03 +0000

Haven’t seen the preview yet since I’m on my phone not laptop but I’m looking forward to season 3! I also gained Charlaine Harris a new fan. I gave my sister the first two books a few months ago and she read them in days. Gave her the rest of the series as well as the TV shows and now she’s an all caught up fan waiting for season 3 just like me.It’s nice to have someone in the real world to talk about the the show AND the books. It was funny, too, because after reading she liked Alcide out of the 3 guys. I had to do a double take on her and ask, “What about Eric?”

What about Eric, indeed!

By: Julia Rachel Barrett

Julia Rachel Barrett — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:00:15 +0000

I was enamored of True Blood, Season One – outstanding writing and a fleshing out of characters like Jason and Tara who were much more secondary characters in the books. Season Two, aside from Eric, lost me a bit. Too much maenad, too much Tara, too much Tara’s mother. Too much Eggs. In Season Three, I’d like to see a little more of Pam and a greater focus on the main characters. I try to remind myself that while True Blood is based on the book series, they are not the same thing.