The article contains spoilers for the show so read at your own risk.

So are you Team Bill, the first love? Team Eric, the bad boy? Or Team Alcide, the Were stuck on his ex?

Lil won tickets to the True Blood Ultimate Experience for Truebies!

True Blood Sweepstakes

We have until June 1st to think of the perfect question to ask Alan Ball and the cast!

Skarsgard News already threw a doozy at me! ……

‘when you won at the scream awards and you mentioned reading the “blogs” did you mean Blood Bonds Blog???’

BUY ME

Can you come up with a better question?

Do you think I should reveal myself as Lil from BBB?

And!!!!

Are you ready for a little fun courtesy of Lil @ BBB?

It’s going to be a bloody season…

are you ready?

Can you handle it?

First read AB’s interview HERE

Courtesy of Ew.com

Then so you don’t have to search through all the comments come back here and see what I had to say………….

It went from the Spirit of the books to the gist of the books? Completely dismantling characters not just story line? Godric the favorite part of the book? Did AB read the same book as me? Because Godric was not a likable vampire in the books, he was a pedophile and the only relationship he had with Eric was E was looking to use Sookie’s talents to earn him money in helping find the ancient vampire. And Eric isn’t just a “bad guy” and again Bill is forever the perpetual victim.

For a while I thought AB was just building Bill up for a bigger fall, but the dismissal of the beginning of Book 3 had “dismantled” my now hopeless theory. And what about the orgy and the maenad story line? Overcooked in every way. Because I have the privilege to hear from so many fans both bookies and Trubies, I know it wasn’t just the bookies saying enough already.

And to be honest as a writer there were several amazing moments from the books omitted that would have been amazing TV. The potential was there and ignored. The finale for me? Was iffy fan fic at best. Am I being harsh? Yeah I guess I am but it’s only because I was sucked in to True Blood because of the writing of season one. I read the books because of the show. I was a Truebie. I had faith that the characters I grew to love would well written and to be honest I just don’t see it. I like Book Bill, he has depth and is brooding but he doesn’t make excuses or deny what he is. He feeds on other humans! He hunts the FOTS! He follows the vampire hierarchy and respects his sheriff no how bitter the pill is to swallow. It made for angst and I actually felt empathy. Now I just can’t wait until he is off the screen, which kills me because I love SM. I would beg my TV to see Sam, or Laffy, or E get more screen time!
And in the words of one Truebie! Get back to the vampires already! That is why we tune in!

And then in response to Patticake who chose to ignore my entire point repeatedly:

At least for me, I know how to keep the show separate from the book. But when someone says one thing and than does another it’s just not right. Alan Ball said last year that he would keep to the books for the most part. Those were his words, then with every interview he has gotten further and further away from that original statement. They made a Behind the Scenes last year and focused on Sookieverse World rules and now most of them have been forgotten. I don’t get that. He’s crafty, I have to respect him for that, but he sucked in scores of book lovers and then twisted the beloved characters into something they did not recognize. I understand their frustration.

Why do I not like Bill? Because he is a high-handed lying racist hypocrite. He knows who Hadley is, he then must have had an idea who Sookie is. He has failed to mention to Sookie that he has seen her long lost cousin. He generalizes all vampires into one gnarly lump. He has continued to kill people in the name of protecting Sookie yet curls his lip when his own kind want to protect themselves and those they care about.
Oh and in regards to Bill and Sookie and Eric and the blood. The point where for many E loving fans is there is no difference in how Bill got Sookie to drink his blood to how Eric did. Actually it was worse. He was late to their meeting in season one and why? Well he never explained that did he? Makes me wonder if he let Sookie become so injured she had no choice but to let him save her, we all saw the foreshadowing in epi 11 but many bill loving fans continue to ignore that very glaring reality.

So not only to the book fans need to be prepared to be disappointed but so do the show fans. If you think you got AB’s plans pin pointed you will be sadly mistaken.
Hugs!

From Godric meeting the sun, to Eric’s tears,

Sookie’s breathtaking dream,

Laffy and Lettie Mae’s intervention

and the beautiful love story between Hoyt and Jessica

we had quite the emotionally charged episode so please let us know what you thought!

Recap Credit Goes to Beerwolf!

 Let’s not forget Maryann, Sam turning into a fly, and Hoyt declaring he is a Grown Ass Man!!

~Lil

A Little Spoiler Chat

Enjoy!!

–Scoobs

“One of the reasons we brought [True Blood] back as soon as we did was it always felt like a summer show. The hope and expectation is to try to bring it back next summer as well,” Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president of programming, told the crowd.

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Don’t get me wrong I love Sally Field and am anti-war but honestly did she need to get nominated for the same character again? When she offered up nothing better or different from the previous year? By the way I know what I am talking about here I love Sisters and Brothers but Anna Panquin played annoying yo-yoing Sookie Stackhouse so well despite the God awful HBO hair and makeup, I actually went and snapped a wishbone from the Thanksgiving Turkey praying the stale fearful Academy wouldn’t ignore her. I knew Stephen Moyer would be ignored, that was not a surprise in the least, so no reason to pretend my shock and awe.

Then there was the amazing supporting cast who bent the rules,

stepped outside the box,, not to mention their comfort zone,

 and blew so many of us away by their take no prisoners performances….oh wait by definition that would have to mean they would be ignored by the academy. Silly Silly Lil.

I could go in to  along diatribe about how Alan Ball and the writers of True Blood deserved the nod but I think anyone who comes to this blog knows we love the show, the writing, (except maybe Simba) and the telling of Alan’s view of Bon Temps. We are avid bookies who have no qualms for seeing what True Blood is… a very lucrative form of Fan Fiction. *waves at the Sookieverse* I think more than just me wishes we could have had the backing to play in Charlaine’s backyard the way Alan does but I could be wrong.

Now on the to worst oversight. The reason I have my hackles up. The reason I have had more comments on my personal FB wall than when I was in the plane with no ride home. The Academy’s complete and utter snub of Alexander Skarsgard. NOW before everyone starts pissing and moaning, I did not really expect him to get nominated for his role Eric Northman. He simply was not on air enough for any nose up you butt academy voter to notice. But to be able to turn a blind eye to the amazing work he did in Generation Kill had really blown me away. Though it has confirmed my fear, the The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has got to wake the hell up! Politics are dripping all over the nominees this year with hardly any exceptions. GK is nominated for casting but the entire ensemble was completely ignored? How can they even rationalize the nominations?

So this year when once again morning television gasps over the lack of viewership for the Emmy’s despite wonderfully funny and cute as a button Neil Patrick Harris as host we can all come back to the BBB, or visit any of the scores of websites that today were able to predict exactly who would get nominated because it never changes, it’s always the same. I expect in thirty years Marihka Hargitay will be nominated for Law and Order: Geriatrics Unit.

And the worst part in all of this? Alexander is probably happy enough with GK being recognized because let’s face it the man is humble and does not seek or expect attention for his performances. He goes into his projects looking for a challenge and expects a lot out of himself. We, as fans, of this tremendously talented actor often shake our heads at his kindness and lack of ego. And that in itself has made it hard for this fan to accept today’s results. He deserved it. He earned it. And I am now joining Lilja in the corner to cross my arms and grumble…………………..

Signed…

             Lil

As a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse novel series, on which Alan Ball based the vampire drama for HBO, Ellis knew that Lafayette, Merlotte’s wisecracking cook — and part-time pornographer/drug dealer — is totally dunzo after Book 1. When he arrived on set for the finale episode’s table read, he prepared himself for the end. “I thought, this was fun, time to look for the next gig,” he says.

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