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I’m just wondering, because your book series is being butchered.

What’s left of the Southern Vampire Mysteries in True Blood? Nothing, nothing except the barest of bare bones.

There are vampires living among humans. They feed on synthetic blood, mostly (speaking of though, have any of you noticed any True Blood at all so far in season 3?). Sookie Stackhouse is a blonde waitress. Eric used to be a Viking. Lafayette is gay. Sam is a shifter. There are werewolves.

That’s it, isn’t it? All the rest is just…what is that shit. I don’t… I don’t even know. I mean, sure, artistic freedom and all, but come ON. The vampire’s one major weakness being that they can’t be outside in the daylight, but then, ALAKAZAM, Beehll can. And wtf with the fae. What. The. And Russell being all “PUNY HUMAN WORMBABIES. I EAT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. NO, SERIOUSLY, I DO.”

I think my reactions to the latest episode (I know, I know, after the last one I should’ve just stopped, but it’s like a trainwreck, I can’t make myself look away) can best be summed up in this lovely little strip of images:

Pardon the craptacular quality, they’re taken with the webcam, in bad lighting. Still, I think they make my feelings clear.

Please be advised that this is an excerpt from an e-mail to Bre, and my e-mails to Bre tend to be disjointed and full of bad language, in more ways than one. They’re more like a stream of whatever thoughts hit me at the moment, broken up by links to images. Bre is very privileged to receive these e-mails from me. ;)

Also; newest True Blood ep? Wth? I don’t like what they’re doing to the characters. Sookie is all “FUCK YOU FUCKING BITCHES IMMA FUCK YOU UP WITH MY POWERRRRS” where she should be all “oh fiddlesticks, I done gone and got me some powers, ya’ll”, and Bill is all “oh I wish I could have known you when you were young and beautiful and liked butterflies and rainbows” where he should be all “IMMA FUCK YOU UP LORENA”. And of course, Eric, who has gotten his gay on like whoa. I do kinda like the sidestory on his family though.
And I don’t like Alcide, either. He’s such an asshole. And Debbie, whaaat. She’s obnoxious in the books, sure, but in the series she’s now all white trash redneck whore gone bad. In the previous episode (or the one before) where she was all “I WILL CUT YOU!!!!11″, I just… I just…what. What. Tell me they didn’t go there. It was just…what. See? I’m at a loss for words. True Blood has made me stupid. :(

And just to include at least one of the images I included in the e-mail:

Seriously? The latest season of True Blood is just one continuous string of wtf.

Yes, I’ve mentioned Supernatural before, but it deserves another mention because it is made of all things awesome. Add to that a couple of hot guys, and BAM! IT’S A HIT. With me, at least. Like Big Bang Theory, it also has its fair share of references to popular culture. Win!

I’ve always been a fan of the supernatural, even though it scares me crazy. I have Supernatural-themed nightmares. Like the other night, I dreamed that Tor was sort of Dean Winchester, and there was a creepy reflection in the mirror and then THE OWLS SENT US DEATH THREATS.

Yeah… Minor derailment there, sorry. It’s true though, I did dream that. The Dean part wasn’t so nightmare-ish. DISCLAIMER: I love my husband and don’t really want him to be Dean.

The first SPN episode I watched was Bloody Mary, one of the season 1 episodes. It was on TV here, and I figured why not, and then I didn’t sleep much the following night. Then I kept forgetting to watch it because it was on at stupid o’clock. But then Bre came to visit and she brought her season 1 DVDs, and we spent much of our time bonding over demons and Winchesters. It was awesome. Who needs a bachelorette party when there’s Supernatural?

Apparently Jared and Jensen aren’t on Twitter. Apparently Sam and Dean are, though. How could Sam NOT be on Twitter? I’m just sayin’. The boy’s a geek. He could almost do a guest part on Big Bang Theory (although I’m really no fan of crossovers. Too much strangeness and awkward and oh hi I’m Harry Potter and I just walked through a portal to Middle Earth. Better not.).

“It’s like we got a contract on us. You think it’s ’cause we’re so awesome? I think it’s ’cause it’s we’re so awesome.” -Dean Winchester

In the words of GIR: I love this show.

And what’s not to love? It has geeky boys (who are kinda cute too), video games, geeky humour and tons of references to popular culture. And that last one, that’s one of the things I love the most. Popcultrefs. Yes, that’s a word. Yes, I might have made it up right now. Also, I googled it right now and the top hit was the Wikipedia entry on popular culture.

I stumbled across BBT on Norwegian TV one day, and immediately recognised it as an awesome show that had to be watched. So I ordered the first season on DVD, and watched. And laughed. Now let me explain something about me and laughing: The later years it hasn’t happened too often. It’s not that I’m not generally having a good time, I just don’t laugh like I used to. BBT makes me laugh like I used to.

And I love it for that.

I may also have a small fictional character crush on Leonard.

If you’re already familiar with the show, then you might also want to follow the guys on Twitter! You can find Sheldon, Raj, Leonard and Howard there, as well as Kunal Nayyar who plays Raj. Fun times!

“I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original projectory and adheres to you.” -Sheldon Cooper, PhD.

A few people have commented on my review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, saying that Hermione’s conjured canaries did in fact attack Ron, and then slam into the wall behind him to become poofs of feathers. Yes, I know. What I missed was them really ATTACKING him, and not just flying at him.

“Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.”

See? That’s what I meant by attacking. There was no pecking and clawing of the flesh in the movie, was there? If there was, I missed it. Twice.

So there you go, hopefully we’re all on the same page now.