True Blood#5: Sparks Fly Out--Oct 2008

[Truth Seeker]

I surmise two things...1-It does not affect them in the least. 2--It does affect them, that it disrupts thier 'body' functions (like walking, talking), in a temporary phase.

Not a praticial theory...but again, this is just guessing.

Agreed. Set the stage with vampires and werewolves to cloak just how dark the human heart can be. And be fair, with vampires in the foreground and the hint of lycanthropes to come, nothing prevents the writers from throwing in a ghost or two. Gran might not be written out entirely.

I like Bill, thusfar. At least I can relate with his taste in music. As I tend to tell people "My wife listens to country music. I listen to music from other countries."

Does anyone else wonder, with Bill admitting that vampires have no brainwaves or electrical current in their bodies, what would happen if you hit one with a defibrillator?

 

[Truth Seeker]

Everyone thought he was the dog, being seen around in the show, then later, they showed the same dog and him was in the same scene.

I surmise, he might be a 'mage' with a familiar, where the side 'joining', he gets the dog's mind (traits).

They did show it in the preview after last weeks episode.

Good episode; I never read any of the books so I'm gueesing that Sookie's boss might be a lycan.

 

[dravot]

I've read all of the books, and enjoyed them highly.

The main story, the deaths in Bon Temps is pretty faithful to the books, and the Bill & Sookie story is also pretty faithful, but they're completely mucking around with perfectly good characters and storylines with little appreciable affect, and it's pretty annoying and disappointing (Jason on V-juice, for instance).

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Everyone thought he was the dog, being seen around in the show, then later, they showed the same dog and him was in the same scene.

I surmise, he might be a 'mage' with a familiar, where the side 'joining', he gets the dog's mind (traits).

I know he isn't the dog, it was just a random thought.

 

[dravot]

Everyone thought he was the dog, being seen around in the show, then later, they showed the same dog and him was in the same scene.

I surmise, he might be a 'mage' with a familiar, where the side 'joining', he gets the dog's mind (traits).

It's not the same dog.

 

[Felon]

Agreed. Set the stage with vampires and werewolves to cloak just how dark the human heart can be. And be fair, with vampires in the foreground and the hint of lycanthropes to come, nothing prevents the writers from throwing in a ghost or two. Gran might not be written out entirely.

Everyone thought he was the dog, being seen around in the show, then later, they showed the same dog and him was in the same scene.

I surmise, he might be a 'mage' with a familiar, where the side 'joining', he gets the dog's mind (traits).

I was thinking a witch and a familiar, with Sookie perhaps being an unrealized witch.

If it's a lycan, then that's extremely disappointing. Then TrueBlodd basically becomes Twilight, Underworld, World of Darkness and all of the other highly derivative works of fiction that think it's clever and innovative to throw vampires and werewolves together. It was clever and innovative in the 1950's when EC horror comics used it for a twist ending. Now it's lame. Lamer still for a lycan that turns into a pooch instead of a wolf. Please God, no pooch people.

But maybe we will get a vampire granny...

 

[Staffan]

If it's a lycan, then that's extremely disappointing. Then TrueBlodd basically becomes Twilight, Underworld, World of Darkness and all of the other highly derivative works of fiction that think it's clever and innovative to throw vampires and werewolves together.

If it's just vampires and werewolves, perhaps, especially if they hate one another. But I don't much mind a very kitchen-sinky urban (well, rural in this case) fantasy setting. I mean, I love The Dresden Files with all my heart, and those books have:

• Four different kinds of vampires (three of which have been "on-screen" so far)
• Four different kinds of werewolves.
• Demons.
• Ghosts.
• Faeries (of LOTS of different varieties).
• Wizards.
• Holy Knights.
• Valkyries.
• Spirits.
• Angels.
• Fallen Angels (who are not the same as demons).
• Foo Dogs.
• Dragons.
• Outsiders.

And I loves it