True Blood: 3×04 Bill punch

Just because I don’t like Lorena. ENjoy and feel free to use it.

True Blood TWO DAYS LEFT!!!! Long post with goodies

Waiting sucks a little less now, no?

• Ryan Kwanten announces it’s only two days till season three :3
• Stephen Moyer Talks to Chelsea Lately About Anna Paquin
• In other news HBO Introduces True Blood Twitter Microsite by launching a new feature with which fans can squee and gasp together while watching True Blood every Sunday night!!
• Six New True Blood Clips: HBO released six new True Blood clips in advance of Sunday’s premiere, and here are them all!

Clip #1 features a very pissed off Eric and Pam trying to make him see reason. Clip #2 features Sookie and Jessica trying to find clues to Bill’s whereabouts. Clip #3 (it is currently unavailable on HBO’s site) has Bill facing off with a wolf. Clip #4 has Eric telling Sookie what he knows about werewolves, and startling himself in the process. Clip #5 shows Jessica going to Pam for advice on being a vampire. Clip #6 (this is also currently unavailable) is a scene between Sookie and Alcide.

• http://true-blood.net/ has 30 New True Blood Season 3 Stills
• And… last but not least! 9 posters! Clicky clicky!

New True Blood Poster #11: Life Goes On

The one next to Bill looks like a zombie 😛

True Blood collected minisodes

Shirtless Bill minisode

HBO has released the latest True Blood minisode via MySpace, this time featuring a shirtless Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) entertaining a female caller one evening. Said female caller has hidden intentions which Bill quickly turns to his advantage. Enjoy!

True Blood: Season 3 – Bill Minisode

True Blood extended season 3 trailer

HBO keeps building the excitement toward the season 3 premiere. Here’s an extended trailer

True Blood:Alan Ball talks season 3 +Premiere Sneak Peek

Alan Ball has promised that fans will be surprised by the third season of True Blood. Although the series is based on books by Charlaine Harris, Ball explained that readers of the novels will not know what is coming up in the programme. “For people who read the book, they’ll be surprised who kidnapped Bill,” Ball told Zap2It. “We definitely have used the plot from the book as a starting point, but we have done a lot differently as well.” Ball added that the team behind the television series made a decision to expand on the stories told in the novels. “Part of our challenge is that the books are basically Sookie’s story,” he said. “And they’re not anyone else’s story outside of how they interact with Sookie. We’re always looking for a way to create stories for the other characters and at the same time unify everything that keeps all the characters involved with each other as much as we can.” He continued: “Our cast just continues to expand, so it’s a challenge finding a way to serve everybody. But I think that’s part of the appeal of the show, that there are so many different characters with so many different stories, so there’s something for everybody.” Ball also dropped hints about what is to come in the third season of the show. “There’s a lot of new stuff happening, a lot more about vampire politics and the introduction of werewolves into our world,” he said. “And there’s stuff going on in Bon Temps as well. Without giving too much away, everybody’s got their hands full and everybody is being extremely tested by the circumstances of their lives.”

Here’s the sneak peek of the True Blood season 3 premiere during last night’s series finale of Lost on ABC. Even if you didn’t have the equipment to access the clip on your TV, you can see it online! Watch Sookie face-off with (naked) Eric in her search for Bill; watch Eric reluctantly assume his responsibility as Sheriff of Area 5; squee over the sexual tension. There’s a HQ video on HBO.com

Win True Blood’s season 2 on DVD!

http://true-blood.net/ has a contest where you can win season 2 on DVD!

Charlaine Harris: Dead until Dark review

The book, like the inspired show revolves around Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in the small southern town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie is a kind, naive, working-class southern girl whose parents died in a flood when she was very young and has been livings with her granny since. Vampires in the sookieverse have “come out of the coffin” and everyone knows about them now. Sookie had never seen one but when one shows up at the bar where she works she is fascinated by him and saves his (un)life the very same night. Around the same timeand someone starts murdering local girls who sleep with vampires.

The book is told in the first person from Sookie’s perspective. Bill, the vampire, is a darkly attractive, formally polite suitor that is a lot more colder than his character on the show. The sexual content is quite low and for much of the book Sookie is trying to decide whether she even wants to date Bil or not.

As I said Sookie is telepathic. She can read other people’s thoughts -that they have at the moment – unless she’s specifically screening them out, which she does most of the time anyway because it’s overwhelming. She is extremely attracted to Bill not because of his vampire charm but because she can’t read his thoughts which brings a very welcome silence whenever she’s with him. She considers her ability to be a handicap, not something to be exploited, and mostly tries to hide it and not use it. This “disability” renders Sookie a bit alienated from the rest of the town who treat her like she’s retarded sometimes.

What is extremely interesting and different in  Dead Until Dark is that the characters are not the usual college/high school people of rich or middle class that most vampire stories use but is instead about working-class people in a small town in the southern US.

We don’t see much difference between the first season of the show and the first book of the series but there are several points that differ.

• On the show the sex is explicit and excessive, in the book it is lower and slightly brushes on erotica.
• In the first season of True Blood, Bill kills a vampire (Longshadow) who attacks Sookie and is forced to turn teenager Jessica into a vampire. In Dead Until Dark, Eric the Viking vampire is actually the one who kills Longshadow. While Eric is punished for this, the punishment is light as the vampires see Longshadow’s betrayal of Eric as deserving of death.
• Eric has a relatively big role in the show (and we’re thankful for that!) in the book he’s a minor chracter.
• Throughout season one, Sookie’s brother Jason, gets addictedto V – vampire blood. This never happens in Dead Until Dark – or any of the other books in the series. While addiction to vampire blood is mentioned briefly a few times throughout the book series, it plays a very small role. V plays a major part in the story line of True Blood season one and in the life of Jason Stackhouse.
• In season one of True Blood, Sookie’s friend Tara takes a prominent role in the series, she doesn’t appear at all in Dead Until Dark unless I completely missed her. Which means almost the same.
• In the True Blood’s first season finale, Bill is horribly burned when he erupts from his sleeping place – into the sunlight – to save Sookie from serial killer Rene. Sookie ends up chopping Rene’s head off with a shovel. In the books the vampires are literally dead when they are sleeping during the day. In Dead Until Dark, Bill plays no part in saving Sookie from Rene. Sookie saves herself in both in the end and ends up hospitalized from the violent altercation. Rene also survives the match with Sookie – just barely – and is imprisoned.

It is a good read if you’re into (real) vampire stories and especially if you’re sick of seeing Twitlight everywhere. These vampires are real and KILL people.

Sink your fangs in it and enjoy 😉

True Blood: Minisode with Sam and a friend

HBO has released the next in the series of True Blood minisodes. This one features Sam letting off some pent up steam.  I can’t stop laughing 😀

Sam and Friend