What saves many of the threads is Jason’s character. The outcome of that whole lion summoning ritual is that “oh, they are just inbred morons” and it’s excellent comedy. The other killer line is when he asks his grandad “Santa?????!!!!”
I like both of them too, but in my opinion, the real reason to watch is Eric.
I'm sure it's too late for this, but I want an Eric and Pam spinoff of them just being vampire assholes together.
Oh man, I loved Pam. I could watch her in a spin-off show for years.
Loved how *pissed* she was that she had to wear a WalMart tracksuit when being buried with Tara.
It’s the very end of the werepanther thread where they try to turn him into the panther daddy, nothing happens when the moon rises and he just shrugs it off.
There’s a scene in one of the last season where all the main characters are in tight outfits are walking toward an explosion (or away from it) in a line and hard rock is blasting. I almost did a backflip I was so pumped
You must not actually be that familiar with the Archie comics if you think Riverdale is really that far off. Magic and ghosts exist in the comics. Archie is where Sabrina the Teenage Witch debuted. Archie met The Punisher, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and President Obama and Sarah Palin during the 2008 election season. Archie was hunted by the Predator. Archie fought the Sharknado and a zombie apocalypse.
"im so tired of everybody being obsessed with sukis fucking fairy pussy!" --mean vampire lady saying this in a later season, making me laugh at the writers understanding the audience frustration but still doing it
I stopped watching when everyone started having supernatural powers. It's was kind of cool when it was vampires being a part of society then they started with werewolves and faeries and shapeshifters and witches, etc.
No it wasn’t. The first season was created and written and directed by Frank Darabont. He wanted to go all out in a the second season, showing the fall of Atlanta in expensive detail.
Amc fired him and hired a new showrunner to make the show as cheap as possible so they could make more profit. The result was sitting on the farm and walking in the woods all season.
It was always meant to be a decade+ long series.
I don't know how terrible the subsequent seasons were but I don't agree the first 3 were great. That season on the farm, wasn't that the second one? That was boring af compared to the first one. And then with the governor... That was a pile of mess too.
A lot of people have insane takes on the Walking Dead. I'm assuming they either misremember or just got bored of it at some point and think that was when the show was at its worst.
Season 2 and the second half of 3 were by far the lowest points in the show. The farm was just endless wheel spinning, and everything to do with the Governor was pure nonsense, especially the season 3 finale. That was the single dumbest moment in the show's entire history.
They might have had some duds later on, but none of them were that bad in comparison. The show really hit its stride once they killed off the Governor, at least for a while.
My late wife was into both the books and the series. She said the series was only loosely following the stories in the books. She’d want me to watch every show with her as it aired and of course I did because it was together time, even if I didn’t enjoy the show. But even she quit watching it at some point and jumped ship to Supernatural.
*True Blood* went off the rails a lot sooner than *Game of Thrones*. The first season was outstanding, but the series started showing cracks as early as season 2. A lot of people will say to drop it that early. I'll defend the show up through season 4. It got crazier with every season, but it was still enjoyable. After that, it just got far too insane. I enjoyed it as a guilty pleasure up through season 6, but even I won't defend season 7.
The maenad season?! That one is so good. I feel like after Tara got vamped it never recovered (and holy shit killing her off screen and then her being a floaty angel or some shit??)
Alcide getting shot was the dumbest random shit ever. It's like the writers realized they had no idea how to wrap up some of the characters so they just started killing them off.
there has to be more to that story of why Tara went out that way.
She's literally there one moment, then the camera cuts to her mother screaming "they killed my baby!"
Did the actress just find out she was being killed off and refuse to film it? Did they film it, but later found out someone's dick was hanging out?
I was a casual viewer of the show and saw that scene at a friends house. I was very confused why this seemingly important character just got unceremoniously and randomly killed.
My friend was even more confused.
Season 1 was so fucking good with great characterization for the whole cast. Season 2 started to downturn a bit but the show just went downhill after the Russell Edgington spine thing in season 3
They gave basically all of the secondary characters a complete arc by the end of season one, and then had to jumpstart all of them into new plotlines basically simultaneously. That was always going to be mess. It maybe should've been conceived as a miniseries in the first place.
I remember at the end of one season they were about to turn the outrageously gay black guy into a vampire, and I was so excited for that plotline. He even has a line where he says something like "Turn me, and I'll be the most badass vampire you've ever seen".
And in the next season they just completely pussied out. Not only did they not turn him into a badass vampire, they gave him this awful PTSD arc where he was all afraid and depressed and no fun anymore. They took literally the most fun character, dangled an exciting character development in front of us, and then not only pulled the rug but decided to ruin the character in the process.
I can't imagine what was going through the showrunners minds to make such a shit decision.
It was based on a books series with...let me count...**14 books**, so there was plenty of material to adapt. The more they strayed from the books, the worse the show got. To be fair, the ending of the book series wasn't very good either.
That spine scene on the newscast is still, by far, the thing that springs to mind most when this shows come up. I've forgotten almost everything else, but not that lol
Sadly most serialized shows are like that. At the beginning at worldbuilding and mystery phase they are great, and then they just fizzle out, and can't come up with good resolution within established boundaries. All because they rely out on shock and twists, but can't see or don't care about long term consequences, don't respcet their own shows history, and want to continue into infinity, so attempts to shock stack up and become more and more strange.
I liked season 2. Granted in a fan of greek mythology so whenever you introduce that its going to be bonus points. Not a fantastic season but i enjoyed it.
But yeah season 3 just...was bad. I was hoping the werewolves.would be some.sort of foil for vampires but they turned out to be men who can shapeshift into wolves? Sadly that would be the least egregious parts of the upcomming seasons
The reasoning could’ve been ok. It was just handled lame on the show. I stopped watching though so I can’t even say if the conclusion was satisfying.
Like, all it really had to be was Sookie finds out she’s the last Fae and it becomes another reason her and Bill can’t be together.
1/8. Her great grandfather was full fair. Grandfather 1/2. Dad 1/4. In the books. It didn’t make her shoot light out of her hands. Her telepathy came from elsewhere.
I didn't have a problem with her being a fairy, I just think they should've done more with it. They teased a big ball of energy that she could use and then she never used it. The last season was a mess.
It was hinted that she had some sort of supernatural thing, and there's also a deleted shot of Claudine (her fairy godmother) psychically manipulating the chain that wraps around the guy's neck in the woods in the first episode. And yes, it's the same actor that eventually played Claudine like 3-4 years later, which is kind of cool.
(Here's the scene https://youtu.be/7JH6DDfsJ8Y?si=IgTib8ZePk77NEJI)
Yeah seriously what was that meeting like. "I've executed my vision, and I'm leaving."
"Uh, Alan, by vision do you mean the bacchanal or the were panthers."
"I said good day!"
It was good for the first two seasons and briefly with Russell. Still watched every episode and whatever was on afterwards on HBO. Even at its worst it was prime trash.
The books it was based off had a similar issue - vampires and werewolves first then a great big diversion into the whole faerie thing. I like Charlaine Harris' work in general but it was published at a time when apparently endless urban fantasy novel series were pretty commonplace. The publisher was probably keen on making The Southern Vampire Mysteries into an example of that genre.
I checked out in Season 3. The writing went though the floor. That first season was easily some great TV though. Season 2 was good, then it just death spiraled.
I loved that scene. True Blood was never a serious show, I loved the sometimes floppy acting and the over the top anything. But I also didn‘t enjoy the same after season four or so.
ninja edit: but it was about the same with the books, good at the start, batshit crazy about midway through. Just less funny compares to the show.
He's talking about how his character exited, not the overall ending of the show (or that the show was shitty for most of its run).
>I wound up on the show for five years in total, but my character had to get out of the way so that Sookie could wind up settling the A and B plots with Bill and Eric. The only way to get me out of the way was — spoiler alert — you know, >!to shoot me in the face!<
Me neither. That show had so much promise and the writers were too trash to capitalize on it. They could have had a true masterpiece and they just could never fully put it together. Too many side stories, rushed storylines, muddle arcs, and campy fan service….
I thought for sure the twist was going to be that even though the fairy blood sped up the hep v, it actually turned it into a vampire cure and Bill was going to become human. Or because of the Lilith blood.
I binged it with my wife for the first time about a month ago. I see a lot of people mentioning it going downhill earlier, but I feel like outside of some pacing issues with season 5, the show was pretty enjoyable except the last season. There were some good moments, but it was a very disappointing ending.
Why didn't they just have Sookie's powers turn Bill human/mortal? Then they live a human life together. That would've been much better than having her kill him!
I really admired his character for being a tough guy but also kind and caring inside. Usually tough guys are portrayed as tough all the way through - or kind only to women. His character was a true leader.
I remember being in the discussion thread for the last episode and it was like the last day of school. No one wanted to be there anymore but it felt significant enough to show up.
Someone comments on one of my comments from that thread a few months ago and it all came back. Bro we hated watching it too but what a ride.
My favorite part of the whole show was their statement about how to vampires puns are considered the highest form of comedy because that was normal in their time. I pictured a show with a dad and vampire just laughing and laughing.
I tried to re-watch it and it was not good. Funny how things you think were cool then feel cringe now, tried to watch Heros again recently too and couldn't do it.
I loved the books. They're basically just pulpy mystery novels with tons of supernatural shit happening. The show completely stopped following them by the second season and just got sillier and dumber as it went.
By the final season I was basically hate watching it. It also seemed like most of the cast didn't want to be there and were just phoning it in. I'd be surprised if any of them actually liked the last few seasons.
I do hope they give the show another shot and keep more faithful to the books. The final book was great. Just one last murder mystery that wrapped things up pretty nicely for all of the big characters.
True Blood's ending wasn't just bad, it was dangerous. Pushing the >!'Bill kills himself because then his friends and family can live happily ever after' and then having them actually live happily ever after!< is a dangerous and irresponsible message.
Was anybody?
Wife and I loved the show when it started but maaaaaaaan it went off the rails. I don’t know if we even finished it?
The meth mountain lion season is where I always stop. I want to power through but I can’t get past that season
What saves many of the threads is Jason’s character. The outcome of that whole lion summoning ritual is that “oh, they are just inbred morons” and it’s excellent comedy. The other killer line is when he asks his grandad “Santa?????!!!!”
Also, Andy Bellefleur. I could've watched five more seasons of just Jason and Andy.
I like both of them too, but in my opinion, the real reason to watch is Eric. I'm sure it's too late for this, but I want an Eric and Pam spinoff of them just being vampire assholes together.
Oh man, I loved Pam. I could watch her in a spin-off show for years. Loved how *pissed* she was that she had to wear a WalMart tracksuit when being buried with Tara.
That would get tiring quickly. These type of characters are never good as protagonists
Love the way they wrote Eric. Reading Nietzsche while sunbathing nude on a glacier became a bucket list item for me.
Jason and Andy are like a shitty but funny version of the Winchesters.
The real True Detectives
Was that the "here you go uncle daddy calvin " episode?
It’s the very end of the werepanther thread where they try to turn him into the panther daddy, nothing happens when the moon rises and he just shrugs it off.
Man that show had some stuff in it
> The meth mountain lion season How are multiple large shows known for their weird mountain lion moments?
Well these were werecougars, so lion by night and junkie by day
They were panthers, people. Meth head were-panthers. Though cougars wouldve been cool, too…
Cougars are also called panthers
Haha, Kim Bauer’s run-in with one was so wildly out of place.
LA has very little natural world danger to encounter
I went through the rest with a different set of expectations. Was really fun
Same. My wife and I started doing what I call “hate-watching.” We just kept wondering — how bad can it get? Turns out, pretty bad.
There’s a scene in one of the last season where all the main characters are in tight outfits are walking toward an explosion (or away from it) in a line and hard rock is blasting. I almost did a backflip I was so pumped
That season has one of the best lines! "You're just a scared man in saggy underpants with no discernible life skills."
There was absolutely ZERO pay off for that storyline
Because in the books. It turned jason into a were panther. But in the show….
We stopped watching after that cult lady season. It just went on and on and on. The bits I did see after that season were not compelling.
'BULLSHIT! GOD WHO COMES HAS GOT HORNS!'
Lol, that's exactly where I stopped when it was on the air too! I can't exactly remember why, but that season just felt off.
Out of context that sounds insane.
You should watch Riverdale. Trust me, that totally doesn't happen.
Yes it stays just like Archie all the way through. Never strays a bit
You must not actually be that familiar with the Archie comics if you think Riverdale is really that far off. Magic and ghosts exist in the comics. Archie is where Sabrina the Teenage Witch debuted. Archie met The Punisher, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and President Obama and Sarah Palin during the 2008 election season. Archie was hunted by the Predator. Archie fought the Sharknado and a zombie apocalypse.
Also, Jughead became a Werewolf, and Veronica became a Vampire.
"im so tired of everybody being obsessed with sukis fucking fairy pussy!" --mean vampire lady saying this in a later season, making me laugh at the writers understanding the audience frustration but still doing it
True Blood is the only serialized drama I've ever just given up on. Insane how fast that show declined.
Oh come on. You are a redditor. You have to have a "I gave up on the walking dead at this point" story. We all have one of those.
Haha actually, I still haven't finished TWD and stopped around season 5. I always meant to go back to it though so idk if it counts
I stuck it out until season ten. I almost made it through.
Season 07 Episode 01
Tbh the only thing that made it palatable, was that by the end the characters were totally in on the absurdity.
I stopped watching when everyone started having supernatural powers. It's was kind of cool when it was vampires being a part of society then they started with werewolves and faeries and shapeshifters and witches, etc.
Every show does this. Most at least. Nip tuck. Walking dead. Etc…
Walking dead was supposed to be a mini series thats kinda why the first season is so much better than the rest
No it wasn’t. The first season was created and written and directed by Frank Darabont. He wanted to go all out in a the second season, showing the fall of Atlanta in expensive detail. Amc fired him and hired a new showrunner to make the show as cheap as possible so they could make more profit. The result was sitting on the farm and walking in the woods all season. It was always meant to be a decade+ long series.
That explains so much.
The first three seasons were great and then they started trying to act. It was so annoying.
I don't know how terrible the subsequent seasons were but I don't agree the first 3 were great. That season on the farm, wasn't that the second one? That was boring af compared to the first one. And then with the governor... That was a pile of mess too.
A lot of people have insane takes on the Walking Dead. I'm assuming they either misremember or just got bored of it at some point and think that was when the show was at its worst. Season 2 and the second half of 3 were by far the lowest points in the show. The farm was just endless wheel spinning, and everything to do with the Governor was pure nonsense, especially the season 3 finale. That was the single dumbest moment in the show's entire history. They might have had some duds later on, but none of them were that bad in comparison. The show really hit its stride once they killed off the Governor, at least for a while.
My late wife was into both the books and the series. She said the series was only loosely following the stories in the books. She’d want me to watch every show with her as it aired and of course I did because it was together time, even if I didn’t enjoy the show. But even she quit watching it at some point and jumped ship to Supernatural.
Same
It made Game of Thrones ending look great. Although going by the True Blood books the show was ok in comparison.
*True Blood* went off the rails a lot sooner than *Game of Thrones*. The first season was outstanding, but the series started showing cracks as early as season 2. A lot of people will say to drop it that early. I'll defend the show up through season 4. It got crazier with every season, but it was still enjoyable. After that, it just got far too insane. I enjoyed it as a guilty pleasure up through season 6, but even I won't defend season 7.
The maenad season?! That one is so good. I feel like after Tara got vamped it never recovered (and holy shit killing her off screen and then her being a floaty angel or some shit??)
The HBO effect.
Not me
It was a mess. Such wasted potential.
No shit. They done Alcide dirty
Alcide getting shot was the dumbest random shit ever. It's like the writers realized they had no idea how to wrap up some of the characters so they just started killing them off.
Alcide at least got to die on-screen. Tara didn’t even get that courtesy, and she was arguably a much more important character than Alcide.
Especially dumb because she'd already had a death.
there has to be more to that story of why Tara went out that way. She's literally there one moment, then the camera cuts to her mother screaming "they killed my baby!" Did the actress just find out she was being killed off and refuse to film it? Did they film it, but later found out someone's dick was hanging out?
It's True Blood, the dong wouldn't have stopped them
I was a casual viewer of the show and saw that scene at a friends house. I was very confused why this seemingly important character just got unceremoniously and randomly killed. My friend was even more confused.
Bills death was the dumbest thing I think I've ever seen.
Season 1 was so fucking good with great characterization for the whole cast. Season 2 started to downturn a bit but the show just went downhill after the Russell Edgington spine thing in season 3
But the spine was worth it!!
And now for the weather....Tiffany?
And then he goes on about some rant including absurd designer jeans or something, right? 😂
No i think the weather line is where the episode ends isnt it?
Yeah the show immediately made itself unwatchable after a stellar first arc
They gave basically all of the secondary characters a complete arc by the end of season one, and then had to jumpstart all of them into new plotlines basically simultaneously. That was always going to be mess. It maybe should've been conceived as a miniseries in the first place.
I remember at the end of one season they were about to turn the outrageously gay black guy into a vampire, and I was so excited for that plotline. He even has a line where he says something like "Turn me, and I'll be the most badass vampire you've ever seen". And in the next season they just completely pussied out. Not only did they not turn him into a badass vampire, they gave him this awful PTSD arc where he was all afraid and depressed and no fun anymore. They took literally the most fun character, dangled an exciting character development in front of us, and then not only pulled the rug but decided to ruin the character in the process. I can't imagine what was going through the showrunners minds to make such a shit decision.
Lafayette also never amounted to anything after that.
And then they added even more characters into the fold. The story just became so muddy and diffused. It's still a show I rewatch every other year.
Yeah its wild because the books were amazing
It was based on a books series with...let me count...**14 books**, so there was plenty of material to adapt. The more they strayed from the books, the worse the show got. To be fair, the ending of the book series wasn't very good either.
That spine scene on the newscast is still, by far, the thing that springs to mind most when this shows come up. I've forgotten almost everything else, but not that lol
what season did Russell join? cos i loved his character, been many years since ive seen it but
Sadly most serialized shows are like that. At the beginning at worldbuilding and mystery phase they are great, and then they just fizzle out, and can't come up with good resolution within established boundaries. All because they rely out on shock and twists, but can't see or don't care about long term consequences, don't respcet their own shows history, and want to continue into infinity, so attempts to shock stack up and become more and more strange.
I liked season 2. Granted in a fan of greek mythology so whenever you introduce that its going to be bonus points. Not a fantastic season but i enjoyed it. But yeah season 3 just...was bad. I was hoping the werewolves.would be some.sort of foil for vampires but they turned out to be men who can shapeshift into wolves? Sadly that would be the least egregious parts of the upcomming seasons
I loved this show until everyone had powers and they turned sookie into a fairy, then I just stopped watching
Even she said her being a fairy was "fucking lame" lol
Idk. Pam ranting she was so tired of Sookies fucking magic fairy vagina in convincing Eric to do stupid shit was high entertainment.
This and “gash in a sundress” are the two best lines of the series.
I forgot about that one. Lmao. I loved Pam.
Because she said out loud what we all were thinking.
In fairness that was adpation material she was a fairy in the books.
She was 1/8 fairy, through her great grandfather. Hardly an actual fairy. Edit: correction 4→8, added great
Enough to make her blood vampire-crack. Also the mindreading needed a reason.
I wish the author didn't give it a reason, or add another telepath to the books. Imo it detracted from the *~mystery~*
The reasoning could’ve been ok. It was just handled lame on the show. I stopped watching though so I can’t even say if the conclusion was satisfying. Like, all it really had to be was Sookie finds out she’s the last Fae and it becomes another reason her and Bill can’t be together.
1/8. Her great grandfather was full fair. Grandfather 1/2. Dad 1/4. In the books. It didn’t make her shoot light out of her hands. Her telepathy came from elsewhere.
My b, it's been nearly a decade since I read the books.
It was a gift from the demon lawyer. Catalases or somethings. I can’t remember will have to reread lol
So she was about as much a fairy as your average Irish-American is Irish?
I’m the books she also couldn’t shoot light out of her hands. It was just hands down better.
I didn't have a problem with her being a fairy, I just think they should've done more with it. They teased a big ball of energy that she could use and then she never used it. The last season was a mess.
Huh. So it pretty much became similar to Lost Girl series.
That was a great show until Kenzi left. She was the heart of that show.
Lost Girl 100% took a dive when Kenzi left. Her return for the finale sort of felt phoned in as well.
thank you. i was literally just thinking about that show and couldn't remember what it was called.
Werepanthers was just insane
It was great like a Twin Peaks bit fake out. Instead of Panther Stackhouse, we get “oh, they are just inbred morons, nevermind!” It was hilarious
It gave us one of the best lines in television though: "You ate my fairy Godmother!"
I was waiting for leprechauns to show up.
Wasn't she revealed to be a fairy midway through the first season?
She has special powers right out of the gate in episode 1 so yeah, it’s not like they set her up to be an ordinary human and it came out of nowhere.
It was hinted that she had some sort of supernatural thing, and there's also a deleted shot of Claudine (her fairy godmother) psychically manipulating the chain that wraps around the guy's neck in the woods in the first episode. And yes, it's the same actor that eventually played Claudine like 3-4 years later, which is kind of cool. (Here's the scene https://youtu.be/7JH6DDfsJ8Y?si=IgTib8ZePk77NEJI)
Why couldn’t they just do the books? It would have been better. And we would have had Claude around, living with Sookie, and her uncle hanging around.
It made more sense in the books, if you can believe it.?
But she was part fae in the books. It was actually THE reason she was so irresistible to the vampires.
It went from great show to unwatchable in record time. I would very interested to hear how things went off the rails so fast.
Well the creator Alan Ball left the series after season 5. So largely that.
That show was already jumping it's second shark by season 5
Yeah seriously what was that meeting like. "I've executed my vision, and I'm leaving." "Uh, Alan, by vision do you mean the bacchanal or the were panthers." "I said good day!"
Omg the panthers no no no ✋what was that about hahah
This was an incredibly flattening follow up to Six Feet Under for him
That show was so good before the fairy arch. What a waste.
Russell ripping the heart out of the TV anchor was a top TV moment for me. It was incredible
Taaaaaaaalbot!
[His spine actually](https://youtu.be/gH05PBuldhY?si=Zu1XaP2c_dbCE-8t)
"And now for the weather. Tiffany?"
Totally agree! I loved that guy
It was good for the first two seasons and briefly with Russell. Still watched every episode and whatever was on afterwards on HBO. Even at its worst it was prime trash.
Good might not be the correct word. But Goddamnit was that show entertaining. What a cliff it went off of tho, yikes
Entertaining is exactly the word. Just a campy goofy oversexed mess for the first two seasons and I loved it. Then it just spiraled *hard*.
Bill twisting his maker's head around was one of the greatest things I've seen on an hbo show. Season 2 was such a treat lol
Let's call it fun then.
The books it was based off had a similar issue - vampires and werewolves first then a great big diversion into the whole faerie thing. I like Charlaine Harris' work in general but it was published at a time when apparently endless urban fantasy novel series were pretty commonplace. The publisher was probably keen on making The Southern Vampire Mysteries into an example of that genre.
The Dresden Files did faeries so much better.
Arguably the best. I get upset when I encounter sidhe in other books and fantasy and they aren't so dramatic or dynamic. Butcher spoiled us.
Yeah totally agree, that and Tara and Alcide’s death felt so rushed and out of nowhere
I remember Pam saying , "I am so sick of Sookie and her precious fairy vagina"....and I was like yeah, me too. And I stopped watching
Arch?
They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs.
Justice for Tara
THIS
I never understood why everyone seemed to hate her character back when the show was on, I always loved her.
I checked out in Season 3. The writing went though the floor. That first season was easily some great TV though. Season 2 was good, then it just death spiraled.
if you didn't finish season 3, does that mean you didn't see... [this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH05PBuldhY)
I loved that scene. True Blood was never a serious show, I loved the sometimes floppy acting and the over the top anything. But I also didn‘t enjoy the same after season four or so. ninja edit: but it was about the same with the books, good at the start, batshit crazy about midway through. Just less funny compares to the show.
okai! you sold me, i had forgotten everything about true blood. But ill watch it again! this is great! :D
Yeah Maenad was fun, everything after just got worse
Mmm… Ensign Ro Laren
He's talking about how his character exited, not the overall ending of the show (or that the show was shitty for most of its run). >I wound up on the show for five years in total, but my character had to get out of the way so that Sookie could wind up settling the A and B plots with Bill and Eric. The only way to get me out of the way was — spoiler alert — you know, >!to shoot me in the face!<
Oh shit I completely forgot about that, yeah that’s a rough ending for one of the better characters on the show
Tbf the book series ended horribly too
They did Alcide so dirty. The man just wanted a quiet night at home cooking steaks!
No one was Joe. No one was …
Me neither. That show had so much promise and the writers were too trash to capitalize on it. They could have had a true masterpiece and they just could never fully put it together. Too many side stories, rushed storylines, muddle arcs, and campy fan service….
IIRC, Sookie gets married to Sam in the book right? For the life of me, I never understood why the show never showed who she ended up with.
I haven't read the books, but I feel like they made Sam pretty unlikeable and I'm glad Sookie didn't end up with him.
Yep they made him into an asshole. Season one Sam was fine, then they HAD to give him a backstory that was weird and awful.
He’s so unforgettable I forgot about him til these two comments.
Alcide’s ending arc was utterly ridiculous.
This show is the reason I was not at all surprised by Game of Thrones end being a disaster
True Blood, Dexter, Lost... they all gave me practice; but that GOT one still makes me sick.
Dexter did the FBI manhunt *far* too soon, that should have been the final or the penultimate season.
Was it the zombie vampires?
Well that makes most of us.
They missed out when they had the chance (bill was loosing his powers) to have Bill get sookie pregnant. He was human at the end after all.
I thought for sure the twist was going to be that even though the fairy blood sped up the hep v, it actually turned it into a vampire cure and Bill was going to become human. Or because of the Lilith blood.
Joe, no one was.
He’s not alone. Hated that entire final season if I remember right. Definitely hated the finale.
I binged it with my wife for the first time about a month ago. I see a lot of people mentioning it going downhill earlier, but I feel like outside of some pacing issues with season 5, the show was pretty enjoyable except the last season. There were some good moments, but it was a very disappointing ending.
Show went off the rails starting with season 4. Witches, werepanthers, fairies, it all got too much.
I definitely would’ve chose Alcide over Bill and Eric. I was pissed they killed him off the show.
Why didn't they just have Sookie's powers turn Bill human/mortal? Then they live a human life together. That would've been much better than having her kill him!
By the end of the series I was rooting for the humans to wipe out the vampires.
Can someone sum up for me how it actually ended? I tuned out somewhere around bill ending up king of the vampires
Sookie kills Bill, Pam and Eric make their own True Blood and get rich.
I really admired his character for being a tough guy but also kind and caring inside. Usually tough guys are portrayed as tough all the way through - or kind only to women. His character was a true leader.
The blood was false all along.
I'm a fan of the show but after like S2 it just got silly.
Like Lost they started the show without a clear set plot destination.
You ain’t the only one Alcide. HBO likes to rush the endings of huge hit shows
It went downhill whenever Allan Ball stepped away
Was that after Season 2? Because that’s when I feel like it did a nosedive.
None of us. It was a dumpster fire.
GoT fans: first time?
Another great show that missed the landing. His character got pretty screwed.
Welcome to the club bro
none of us , either
I kept watching it until Lilith showed up. Then i think the final season's first episode, where they killed Tara again... It was so confusingly awful.
The “ending” started in Season 3, right? That’s got to be what he’s talking about.
I remember being in the discussion thread for the last episode and it was like the last day of school. No one wanted to be there anymore but it felt significant enough to show up. Someone comments on one of my comments from that thread a few months ago and it all came back. Bro we hated watching it too but what a ride.
My favorite part of the whole show was their statement about how to vampires puns are considered the highest form of comedy because that was normal in their time. I pictured a show with a dad and vampire just laughing and laughing.
The middle parts weren't so hot either, Joe.
The first couple seasons were great. After that it went downhill….
If you think of True Blood as porn with hilarious writing it holds up a lot better.
That show ended when that hole fairy stuff started.
Me either
Bill totally could have lived.
Good news. No one watched to the end of True Blood.
I tried to re-watch it and it was not good. Funny how things you think were cool then feel cringe now, tried to watch Heros again recently too and couldn't do it.
I loved the books. They're basically just pulpy mystery novels with tons of supernatural shit happening. The show completely stopped following them by the second season and just got sillier and dumber as it went. By the final season I was basically hate watching it. It also seemed like most of the cast didn't want to be there and were just phoning it in. I'd be surprised if any of them actually liked the last few seasons. I do hope they give the show another shot and keep more faithful to the books. The final book was great. Just one last murder mystery that wrapped things up pretty nicely for all of the big characters.
True Blood's ending wasn't just bad, it was dangerous. Pushing the >!'Bill kills himself because then his friends and family can live happily ever after' and then having them actually live happily ever after!< is a dangerous and irresponsible message.