True Blood

Well, True Blood is something kind unusual. The series got my attention because it's from the same creator of Six Feet Under and writer of American Beauty, and both are 2 excellent pieces of art. But when I heard about the plot of this new one I thought that it would have all the possibilities to be a huge mistake. For world's sake Buffy and Angel are not among us anymore, but vampires are on top once again because there's this new franchise, Twilight (2008), and also there's the fact that everybody loves a great vampire tale and we all were missing that on TV.

Anyway, vampire tales freaks people's mind because this fascination over these creatures and all their ambiguous qualities really impresses every human being.

Of course that's not all about it, and unlike Buffy or Angel this one is different from the vampire stories that we usually see on television because it's not for teenagers and also is not a crappy one. The vampires or even Sookie's psychic power are just forefronts to a plot that centers all the difficulties between humans and what is called different. So, it's not strange that entire series deals with all different kinds of people that once and still are being named "freaks" or "different", like: black people, gay people, southern people, older, addicted, women, whores, etc. And also is not strange that Sookie and Bill feel so connected because they are just the representation of these different social groups. Have you ever asked yourself why "freakies" have "freakie" friends? Because they share the same feelings and this is the base to construct any kind of relationship. That's why there's a psychic girl and vampires because otherwise it could had been just another series and people would say: "oh, okay... just another one about gay people or black people trying to prove something for someone". Remember X-Men and all its society issues? Well, it's quite the same thing because dealing with unreal things makes people incapable to point their fingers. So they just shut up and fit their selves in any kind of familiar circumstances it's shown with no constraint. So, positive points for Alan Ball once again.

Posted by clementine

Aug 28, 2010

Don LaVange said...

"I feel like letting my freak flag fly!"

Christian said...

You're WAY of and I usually like your posts, but your reasoning is now questionable to me. Quote: "Black people, gay people, southern people, older, addicted, women, whores, etc."? You put all of those in the same "pot"?
"Gay, addicted and whores" is a mental state of a human being and shows human gullibility to emotions and not taking control of thinking patterns. "Black people, older, women" is humanity. "Southern people"? Really? Even being from different location makes someone "different" to you?
Your posts are "Reflections of you", as you named them. This post is a bad reflection of your mind. I don't care if someone paid you to write or promote this show or not (I would not be even surprised if so), but this post did not describe the show. It described your views. You might be watching the SHOW, but REAL PEOPLE are reading your posts.

Christian, you don't say this explicitly, but I'm inferring you start with the critique that our dear hostesses use of gays, the addicted, and whores (which you lump into sins and stupidity -- not very modern of you old boy) alongside blacks, old people and women has a problem of kind. Then you tell us that one could construe all sorts of "differences" by merely picking anything. Or it seems you're saying something like that.

For the first point, she's not making a comparison, so a list of things that one doesn't normally find in your favorite twilight movie can an ought to include a hodge podge of humanity. I think her point is that what all those people had in common, despite their "normalness" (the being black and being southern and being gay and straight are the "normal" qualities) is their being freaks -- werewolves, vampires, who knows what goes... their all freaks.

In our "reality" there are no freaks of that sort. The freaks are the humans. The gay ones and the ones who think being gay is evil, the black ones and the white ones, the northerners and the southerners.

As one freak has always said to another:

we are everywhere!

Good review dear hostess.

Don Lavange:
Thanks for the comment. I never mentioned "sin", but I'm glad you already had some input on that. (Sin never gets "old" BTW). Being black (or any other skin color), woman, man or from specific region is not a sin, though. (Since you mentioned sin).
Yeah, freaks are everywhere. Keep in mind that even being a freak does not have to be a permanent label. And as one christian always said to another: Freaks are everywhere! LOL

Aug 29, 2010

Christian: what you actually said was: ""Gay, addicted and whores" is a mental state of a human being and shows human gullibility to emotions and not taking control of thinking patterns."

It sounds here like you are associating being gay, being addicted or being a whore with states that could be avoided if one is somehow in charge of one's emotions and one's thinking. Whether one calls it "sins" or "weaknesses", it amounts to the same.

I suppose my critique here is that you are associating being gay with a weakness, a notion which I find problematic thinking in itself.

As to whores and addicts... there are worse things in the world to be.

As to the other things, of course they aren't sins or weaknesses.

Anyway, enough of this, back to your regularly scheduled blog.

Yu Yu Din said...

Love True Blood, it's another great Alan Ball series. They don't show enough of it in India. :-(

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