True Blood Season 3 and Why I Will Continue to Watch It
Posted by Lauren | Under Reviews, TV Shows with 2,970 views Sunday Jun 27, 2010
True Blood is a stupid show. I realized this halfway through the second season, when the show became more about the gratuitous sex and other forms of fan service rather than the tension between vampires and humans. It’s too bad, because the first season had a fairly tight story, likeable characters, and enough suspense to make me want to marathon one episode after another. After the season 2 finale, which had a terribly corny ending that I will not spoil, I rolled my eyes and vowed to never watch this show again.
For those of you who are completely lost, let me explain what this hot vampire commodity is all about. Adapted from the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris, True Blood is premised upon the idea that vampires have “come out” and decided to live with the humans. They claim not to be the bloodthirsty killers who only view humans as walking lunch boxes and to prove this, they’ve resorted to drinking synthetic blood created by the Japanese. Set in the mystical American south, the show is supposedly about the vampires’ struggle to fit into society, but somewhere along the way it degenerated into the NSFW version of Twilight.
The show is centered around a Mary Sue of a female lead, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin). She’s your typical God-fearing white girl-next-door, except she’s also some sort of telepath. She cannot have intimate relations with people because she hears their thoughts, especially during physical contact. This is why she falls in love with a vampire named Bill (Stephen Moyer); for some reason, she can’t read vampires the way she can with humans and she feels at peace with someone for the first time in her life. There’s also a really hot vampire named Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) who is older and more powerful than Bill. He also as a thing for Sookie, which I don’t understand, because she’s so wholesome and dull it sickens me to look at her. Sookie works in a bar, where her boss Sam is apparently some sort of shape-shifter. Guess what, he has a thing for Sookie too! There are a bunch of other characters, but I won’t talk about them because they faded into the woodwork after the everyone-wants-Sookie angle became True Blood’s dominant theme.
You’re probably wondering, if I hate this show so much, why am I even blogging about it? Well you see, I learned that season 3’s first episode would show Alexander Skarsgard’s nekkid ass. How can I resist? Just look at how gorgeous this man is! So I downloaded the episode, watched it with my boyfriend (who hated me for it afterwards), and found a reason to continue watching True Blood once more.
WARNING: spoilers, sexual content, and NSFW images up ahead!
Behold – Alexander Skarsgard’s ass in all its naked glory! In this particular scene, he was having sex with a human girl hanging from the basement ceiling. Rawwwr.
However, this scene didn’t thrill me as much as another scene that followed shortly after. This I did not see coming!!!
OMG.
OMG!
OMG!!!!!
OMG!!!!!
Needless to say, I have never been this titillated while watching a TV show. I kept pinching myself to make sure I wasn’t just hallucinating the sexual tension between Bill and Sam. My boyfriend spent the entire scene rolling his eyes at me, understandably so. If you really come to think about it, this scene was absolutely unnecessary. It did nothing whatsoever to move the plot forward, nor does it allude to any previous sexual tension between the two characters. In fact, the blatant homoeroticism pretty much came out of nowhere. Normally, this sort of bad writing would have irritated me, but guy-guy love gets me giggling and squealing like a delighted high school virgin with a secret stash of yaoi. I’m guessing this scene worked for hundreds of girls too, especially if they grew up with Anne Rice’s vampires like I did.
Needless to say, as long as you keep thinking of True Blood as girl porn and not a TV show with an actual story, it’s actually pretty watchable. Writers, please keep the homoerotic tension brewing and create more sex scenes for Eric.
Screen caps from Geeky TV
Uhm, I beg to differ about Sookie being “wholesome”. No wholesome girl (or even “unwholesome” ones) would resort to touching themselves in public. Sookie did this in front of Bill’s house in season 1. And True Blood is softporn, both for men and women. The sheer amount of breast exposure and pumping scenes would be enough for most guys.
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There actually was a reason for Bill and Sam’s intimate scene. If you watched the second season you would have known that Bill gave Sam some of his blood so Sam could heal from being stabbed. When you consume a vampires blood you become sexually attracted to them more (same happened with Sookie when she drank Eric’s blood) so that scene was showing that attraction to Bill that Sam has since he drank Bill’s blood. I also believe that this scene is foreshadowing for later in the episode.
Right, I’d forgotten about that. Thanks for reminding me! I sure hope this means more homoerotic action between the two in the future. :D