SubJeff on 15/6/2010 at 01:36
I can't believe there isn't a thread about this show. I'm clearly a watcher of all sorts of sci-fi/fantasy Lost/BSG/SGU stuff and this has to be my favourite genre show at the moment.
Season 3 has just started with a corker (imho) and I'm much looking forward to the ride this will take us on.
Seasons 1 and 2 were both as solid as each other and if they can continue for a third this is project good tv. I don't think there is a character I don't like. The setting (Louisiana) fits it all just so (and the title sequence is the best I've seen in recent years) although as a Brit I'm sure the accents and so on may be missing something that I cannot perceive.
I was going to post a picture here but it's a minor spoiler so if you haven't seen the first episode then don't click on (
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/8/2010/06/ead629759044eef7294726399e530190/original.jpg) this.
Scots Taffer on 15/6/2010 at 01:46
I was mildly interested at the inception of the show, being a fan of Alan Ball from his SFU days, and I do like the intro credits (I believe it won some kind of award, offhand), but I've never watched a single episode and don't plan to. Vampires are about the most overused fantasy creation known to man and I hear (from people I trust) the show is like soft-core porn and in my old age I can't really be arsed with the pure titilation factor substituting for story (shows like AMC with restrictions around content really demonstrate how utterly nothing that stuff actually is and that you convey plenty of adult themes and scenes without shoving tits and ass in your face). And really, if all the sex is just to reinforce the psychosexual angle of the whole Vampirism thing - yawn.
heretic on 15/6/2010 at 01:59
Lafayette is one of the coolest TV characters ever, and I love how even the familiar critters always seem to have an unusual twist of some sort.
It also has some of the most fleshed out and believable characters I've ever seen in an HBO series, but maybe that's just because of the circles I run in.
Fafhrd on 15/6/2010 at 02:05
This is probably my biggest TV guilty pleasure. Season 1 was pretty dire, but the tone of Season 2 careened so wildly from slapstick to murder mystery to Southern Gothic Romance and back that it was impossible not to have a good time with it. Alexander Skarsgard is the highlight of the show, and the character of Eric kind of embodies everything that's sort of great about it.
And this season brings us WEREWOLVES (and if we're lucky Sookie's great grandfather: THE KING OF THE FAERIES).
kabatta on 15/6/2010 at 05:04
I saw a couple of episodes. It looked like vampire porn to me. Who says "you have to sleep with a vampire at least once in your life" in a time when a lot of hungry vampires awake from torpor? Or anytime for that matter? Tsk. Vampires ain't what they used to be. :mad:
nicked on 15/6/2010 at 18:12
The Mrs likes it. Every time she watches it though, all I can hear is sex noises. Should I be worried? :p
kabatta on 15/6/2010 at 18:26
Well...it's ok if the state of worship isn't achieved. The scary part is that mom likes it. :o
SubJeff on 15/6/2010 at 18:43
If you haven't seen it give it a go. Try the first series. If you can't get past the sex and enjoy the rest of the show and the characters fair enough, the show is not for you. I wouldn't say it's soft porn but it certainly has a lot of adult themes and the sex lives of many of the characters feature fairly prominently. It's not just titillation though, their relationships are the motives for much that goes on which is more realistic (in my experience anyway) than not. In fact it's the vampire stuff that is unrealistic.
Fav character: Lafayette. I don't get the Eric love, he's not likable and is one of the more clichéd characters imho. Though you could argue that it's poking fun. I wished Godric was in it for longer. :(
Thirith on 16/6/2010 at 05:44
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Fav character: Lafayette. I don't get the Eric love, he's not likable and is one of the more clichéd characters imho. Though you could argue that it's poking fun. I wished Godric was in it for longer. :(
While I like Lafayette (I've only seen S1, mind you, so I don't know much about the second season), I would've thought that he's at least as much of a cliché as Eric, being the sassy homo.
I like Eric mainly because I like Alexander Skarsgard's acting. The guy's got an effortless intensity that IMO really works. Some of this may also be because I thought he was probably one of the best actors in
Generation Kill, so I may be transferring my liking of the one character onto the other.
