the actress who plays sookie, the telepathic waitress, is anna paquin, who
devastated all the fan-boys (including this old fart) when she played rogue in
the x-men movies... and when i say devastated i mean in a good way!
so i don't think it was bad acting, i think the script must have been written
to show a young naive backwoods girl who has to live with a constant barrage
of other people's thoughts in her mind and who therefore appears constantly
distracted - until she finds out that being physically close to a vampire
dampens the sound.
dyskrasia
Posted at 17/06/2008, 09:05
i really like it. it's hilarious. i've never read or heard of the books, so i
had no expectations. i think it has potential. i'm really looking forward to
seeing where it goes.
Posted at 17/06/2008, 10:55
good lord. what a pile of donkey t*rd.
"hmm. we need an adult buffy the vampire show, but we don't have any decent
writers. what to do?"
"we can write it and...uhm...put loads of sex and unfathomable violence in to
make up for the missing plot line, inteligence and everything else that a tv
show should have."
"make it happen!"
and thus it was. and thus my brain cried, "no! please! make it stop!"
but no, the guantanamo bay corp of tv writers didn't listen and let the torture
carry on.
still, thanks for the ul
Hermie
Posted at 17/06/2008, 13:55
it is about the first 1-2 chapters of the first book.. i think they did a fine
job.. watching it for second time now..
jason and bill the vampire are played perfectly, so is sam the bartender and
the black cook (cant remember the name now, he dies in the second book i
think). i was expecting the collie dog to be bigger but that is my mistake..
the rathouse couple are also played perfectly. tara is nothing at all like the
book..
they did a good job on sookies telephaty, hard to do in a tv series..
ketchumifucan
Posted at 17/06/2008, 21:15
i love near dark and cant wait to see how this show takes off.
YourMomma59
Posted at 17/06/2008, 21:44
Quote by bugchicklv
can't comment on the quality or the content as i haven't
watched it yet, but as for your comment on moonlight: check the forum
here, bud. no less than 3 thread topics (that i've read) about how it's been
canceled.
yeah, but they're working hard to find the right finances to bring it to another
network. google moonlight united.
i watched this. i want to smack myself upside the head for doing so. i just
got used to nbc's pristine pre-air releases last summer and forgot about the
sg-1 pre-air that drove me nuts. i hate seeing stuff when it's half-baked.
having said that, i'm a big "moonlight" fan. they did good work on that
show and i loved it. i watched this and felt like i needed a tetanus shot. i
have a hard time believing people in the south are that stupid. even if it's
just southern characters. for the stupidity level of the characters, the pilot
moved way too slow. all of the accents were horrible. loved grandma - she's
the aunt chick from twister!
the ideas for the vampire verse were interesting - having a girl who can escape
from reading everyone's mind by being near a vampire, vampires being out in the
open and synthetic blood. paquin and her vampire dude hooked me - i liked all
the eye contact where they were sussing each other out. loved the banal sex!
it's what makes hbo properties so much better than everyone else. i just don't
know if i can tolerate all the "dumb as dirt" background noise. it's like they
made up trailer trash stuff just to waste time when the story should have been
progressing.
i will probably start watching it just for paquin and vampire boy. i like the
honesty in their relationship and i want to see if the writers have enough balls
to wade through the romeo/juliet swamp without hiding. if they can't shed the
overly trailer trash background of people and things, i probably won't stay with
it long though. i like smart tv, not pathetic tv.
Krypto
Posted at 18/06/2008, 05:14
i agree with most here that this pilot was complete trash... but i think alot of
you are stating the wrong reasons on why it was so bad. most of what has been
said so far is about the acting, and i really don't think that is the problem.
first and foremost i would find fault lies with the directing rather than the
acting. the director is the one who tells the actors "okay now we are going to
film the two of you blandly staring at eachother for an obscene length of time,
and call that drama rather than actually having you display emotions or your
acting abilities."
secondly, the cinematography, camerawork, and production values are so terrible
that the author of the books was probably crying after seeing this. close-ups
for no reason, or long-shots when there should have been a close-up. lack of
sets and props made up for by bad location shoots. stock sound-effects.... was
this shot with a budget of twelve dollars? even the staff behind highlander the
series would be ashamed of this.
although i haven't read the novel it was based on, i would also hazard a guess
that something was lost in the translation. which means that some blame also
lies with the shitty writer that they got to make the adaptation from book to
screenplay.
and lastly i must point out the craptastic work of the casting director.... many
shows are getting away lately with having a lead male character played by an
actor who is by no means ugly, but instead handsome in an unconventional way
(dexter, burn notice, the partner from in plain sight). not all actors have to
be the next george clooney to keep the female viewers interest. but that doesn't
mean you can slap any old dog-faced beast up on the screen and expect the women
to like him just because they've been told that he's supposed to be
attractive.
pharmacopaeia
Posted at 18/06/2008, 05:32
i think this is going to fall firmly in the "guilty pleasure" pile for me. also,
anna paquin pulls of a fairly convincing accent for a (fellow) new zealander!
jace007
Posted at 18/06/2008, 05:52
first of all, this is obviously an unfinished, leaked product from an employee
at hbo (hence the missing scenes). while this isn't moonlight or blood ties, this
is a vamp show with a difference. and yes, anna paquin has a decent us accent
and a cute little rack as well ;-) this has guilty pleasure written all over it
and love the jace everett theme song as well.
Hermie
Posted at 18/06/2008, 09:16
>>although i haven't read the novel it was based on, i would also hazard a
guess that something was lost in the translation. which means that some blame
also lies with the shitty writer that they got to make the adaptation from
book to screenplay.<<<
they followed the book pretty closely, and i think the casting was dead on for
the characters of the book.. for this show to take off they will have to do a
couple of things:
1. more sex!.. vamps always get turned on when they suck blood
2. more narrative to bring the viewers up to date.. otherwise they will think
sookie is retarded, plus she is also very funny.
i like that sookie does not have perfect teeth and the bill looks like someone
hit him in the face with a 2x4.. and that the people in the bar look like
people in a bar in deep woods louisiana.
|2eason
Posted at 18/06/2008, 14:31
thought this was excellent for a preview. good cast, good plot, good start.
seriously, why all the haters? by the end of s01, this'll be epic.
shoxsaloon
Posted at 19/06/2008, 21:33
i like the idea as it was played out, but...
the southern stereotype was a real turn-off.
it was nice to see anna paquin though
Vlashe
Posted at 20/06/2008, 09:37
great show, cant wait for more episodes.
anyone who knocks this is taking it way to seriously.
and at very least its as seirous as angel or buffy.....perhaps more so.
PaulMemoli
Posted at 24/06/2008, 08:55
made a mistake in my last post... the actress playing sookie played the shape
changing mystique in the x-men movies. i knew which character i meant (naked
blue woman) but tagged her with the wrong name....
macdruid
Posted at 27/06/2008, 00:46
i'm sorry but whoever compared this unfavorably to moonlight is way off the mark, imo. ml had some
decent actors saddled with a rehashed universe that couldn't make up it's mind if it was forever knight or
angel and by the final episodes of the season it was pretty obvious the wheels were falling off the vehicle
(just dropping the coraline plot like that... wtf? )
otoh, while tb's unfinished pilot isn't the greatest thing in the world. it's full of interesting characters and
the story feels original. it's not yet another vampire / detective procedural like forever knight, angel,
blood ties, moonlight, etc...
