Losing my love for True Blood

[Joe Washington]

Yes, I've seen the show. Actually, I've seen every episode of it from the beginning. Otherwise, I wouldn't have posted this thread in the first place.

Each season of Breaking Bad cover a period of a month but the Season Two finale had a seven-week flashforward near the end.

True Blood covered a period of nearly two months up to the show's present and a lot of things can happen in two months. Look at Lost.

And if you don't like any of my threads ("what if" or other wise) and you are only going to give me negative comments, then stop responding to my threads.

 

[Starbreaker]

True Blood is not Breaking Bad, first of all. I don't understand why you keep talking about it. Character development doesn't exactly mean "change." Not everybody immediately changes the way they act just because a Menad comes to town. If it ain't broke (millions of viewers), don't fix it.

 

[doubleohfive]

^Precisely.

Granted, there will be those viewers who can't get beyond the (horrible!) fact that TV shows adapted from books are precisely that -- adapted (the last show I worked on suffered from similar fans' wrath) but at the same time, even the people who can accept said changes will also find reasons to critique and complain. I know that the last season of Doctor Who has been quite a contentious point of conversation between myself and several of my writer friends...

That said, it is also important to remember that while it's been two years since True Blood premiered, not a lot of time has passed since the pilot, so if your (the general your) whole argument is predicated on that, well... I'm not going to be taking you very seriously.

I like True Blood. It's a refreshing spin on the vampire mythos, and light years better than Twilight. Sure it can be clichéd at times, but no tv series is perfect. It's a dark, fun, roller-coaster cotton candy ride in to the underworld showcasing sex and other base desires. For now, that's all I need it to be. I'm sure someday I'll get around to reading the books, but for now, as a tv show, it's doing fine by me.

 

[Trubinator]

A friend of mine got me started on watching True Blood. I've seen everything up until the episode where Godric makes his departure. It was OK in season one and got better in season 2. It seems like if they expanded the show and made it a nationwide war between vampires and humans, it could be redeemed. But if they're just going to go do the whole soap opera thing in Bon Temps for another three of four seasons, I'll stop watching. Don't get me wrong, the show has some good characters and has a very interesting premise. I just don't quite trust HBO to do an arc show properly.

 

[BolianAuthor]

^

IDK... they seemed to be doing it well with Big Love.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

True Blood is not Breaking Bad, first of all. I don't understand why you keep talking about it. Character development doesn't exactly mean "change." Not everybody immediately changes the way they act just because a Menad comes to town. If it ain't broke (millions of viewers), don't fix it.

Me and my friends aren't much different than we were ten years ago, much less last year. Hell, I get together with old high school friends I've known for 40 years and I usually think we haven't changed a bit.

A character that realisticly described may have an epiphany of sorts once every few years, and may or may not stop making the same mistakes over and over. If they change at all, even a little bit, their friends and family should be bloody shocked, just like mine would be.

Good storytelling should involve continuous character exposition. We should get to know them better and better as we go along, just like we get to know people in real life, when we see them in different situations. If you only see someone at work, or in the line at the coffee shop, they aren't going to reveal very much new about themselves.

 

[Starbreaker]

I guess I could make a TNG analogy out of this... what if in Season 2:

Picard suddenly liked children
Riker took his own command
Data got emotions
Troi and Riker get married
Geordi can see normally
Pulaski is suddenly nice to everyone

It just wouldn't feel right. There's a reason we like characters to begin with.