Season 1, without a doubt, for me. While a lot of the characters seemed at times to have ill-defined purposes, plot-wise, I thought it was an excellent foundation upon which to build. I was rooting for Bill & Sookie. I loved the Magister character. Eric was a dark and mysterious figure then... and I never expected that from Rene!
Season 2 was a struggle for me. I liked Hoyt-Jessica a lot, and Jason in the Fellowship was funny at times, but Mary-Ann... if there was one plotline I could excise from that season, that would be the one. Unfortunately, it was the MAIN arc for the season, and that pretty much killed it for me. By the end, the show turned into a cheesy zombie flick, and I still don't understand the rules for how and why people went into and out of these transes. Obviously getting hit real hard does it, but there's a way they never explain for getting out of them, because the whole town seems normal enough after the first few instances.. they just don't remember the freaky parties...
Season 3 was really really bad for me. Russell is an over-the-top, mustache twirling bad guy.
Sam is a former jewel thief? Why is he suddenly getting drunk for no reason? His character does a complete 180. He doesn't have to be a goody two-shoes, but going around shooting people is just too much.
I don't understand why we can't have a relatively normal non-human on this show. I also don't understand why so many people in the town suddenly have some special powers.
Sookie's ready to marry Bill, breaks up with him, goes back, then does it again... make up your mind!
Speaking of Sookie.. that maniacal look she had flushing Talbot down the drain was just ... odd and offputting. It's probably something that worked much better on the page than the screen, or maybe was just mis-played by Paquin... I dunno... but it just struck me as wrong. I understand why she did it.. she wanted to make sure Russell had no reason to drain her blood trying to revive Talbot, but she shouldn't have taken so much pleasure in torturing him doing it.
Eric's revenge plot was waay too simple and straightforward. I was looking for something revealing to happen, but it just didn't. It seemed like it was just filler... without a whole lot of thought.
I also hope that they don't do what they were suggesting and have Maxine and Summer go off on some hair-brained scheme to kill Jessica and "save" Hoyt... they seem way too inept to actually successfully pull something like that off, and are more likely to end up killing Hoyt in the process, or more likely just failing outright, but I never got the sense of menace that I think they were trying to convey... I really want to see them make it. They were the plotline from the season that I enjoyed the most...
I sure do hope next season is much, much better. I'm very close to giving up on the show.
Season 2 was a struggle for me. I liked Hoyt-Jessica a lot, and Jason in the Fellowship was funny at times, but Mary-Ann... if there was one plotline I could excise from that season, that would be the one. Unfortunately, it was the MAIN arc for the season, and that pretty much killed it for me. By the end, the show turned into a cheesy zombie flick, and I still don't understand the rules for how and why people went into and out of these transes. Obviously getting hit real hard does it, but there's a way they never explain for getting out of them, because the whole town seems normal enough after the first few instances.. they just don't remember the freaky parties...
Season 3 was really really bad for me. Russell is an over-the-top, mustache twirling bad guy.
Sam is a former jewel thief? Why is he suddenly getting drunk for no reason? His character does a complete 180. He doesn't have to be a goody two-shoes, but going around shooting people is just too much.
I don't understand why we can't have a relatively normal non-human on this show. I also don't understand why so many people in the town suddenly have some special powers.
Sookie's ready to marry Bill, breaks up with him, goes back, then does it again... make up your mind!
Speaking of Sookie.. that maniacal look she had flushing Talbot down the drain was just ... odd and offputting. It's probably something that worked much better on the page than the screen, or maybe was just mis-played by Paquin... I dunno... but it just struck me as wrong. I understand why she did it.. she wanted to make sure Russell had no reason to drain her blood trying to revive Talbot, but she shouldn't have taken so much pleasure in torturing him doing it.
Eric's revenge plot was waay too simple and straightforward. I was looking for something revealing to happen, but it just didn't. It seemed like it was just filler... without a whole lot of thought.
I also hope that they don't do what they were suggesting and have Maxine and Summer go off on some hair-brained scheme to kill Jessica and "save" Hoyt... they seem way too inept to actually successfully pull something like that off, and are more likely to end up killing Hoyt in the process, or more likely just failing outright, but I never got the sense of menace that I think they were trying to convey... I really want to see them make it. They were the plotline from the season that I enjoyed the most...
I sure do hope next season is much, much better. I'm very close to giving up on the show.
