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By: pbartteacher

pbartteacher — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:52:11 +0000

Arlene, very cool that your article was picked up by a Brazilian fan site. I am not surprised at all. True Blood continues to spread not like a disease, or a fungus or but more like a happy tune that you can’t get out of your head.

We have all been there when you hear a song and the remainder of the day you spend singing it. Or trying to remember the lyrics. So it is with True Blood. My Sunday night addiction to “V” is worth repeating several times during the week. Not only DVR reruns, wikis, blogs, downloading photos or videos to fan sites galore but also rereading the CH books.

OK, I’ll admit I probably should be first in line for the intervention. Thank goodness the season will be ending as I go back to school.

By: Arlene Culpepper

Arlene Culpepper — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:35:19 +0000

pbartteacher, you are not the only one who needs an “intervention”. Everyone I know who watches the show is fully enthralled in it – probably because of those characteristics you listed in your comment. Isn’t it great?

By: Arlene Culpepper

Arlene Culpepper — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:33:19 +0000

How cool is it that the article was picked up by a Brazilian site?

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[TrueBlood] Time Bomb « Batata Transgênica — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:07:03 +0000

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By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:25:12 +0000

Great article and excellent responses. I immediately caught on to this idea with the “God Hates Fangs” sign in the opening credits. I’ve had unfortunate exposure to Fred Phelps and his hateful followers (Their primary logo is ‘God Hates fags’) when he was in the area protesting a funeral; I saw the link immediately. Your are right that there will always be ‘others’ in society – it has been an unfortunate historical constant.

By: pbartteacher

pbartteacher — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:22:06 +0000

Here, here to both of the previously made entries.Tallgrrl and Arlene Culpepper. There is not much of anything that grabs my attention on television today. To be truthful, I have never been a fan of reality television (Survivor Who, Dancing with the ?). I don’t especially like cop shows, lawyers or tv shows about hospitals. What does that leave you with? Good question. If you look at regular programming choices that are left, comedy is about the only realm that I have not touched on this short blog.

Back to True Blood. I like it just because this was intelligent about subjects pertaining to prejudice, fear, acceptance, being the outsider, equal rights. I guess I caught onto to that in the first minutes of the first episode. It made me stop and say hey this is actually intelligent but also very funny and on occasion gruesome and oh yeah, erotic or sexy. Thank goodness Alan Ball and his writers have come along with the fine cast of True Blood to ease my boredom. I actually watch very little television except for movies on TCM and AMC. Just not that much out there worth watching.

Keep up the intelligent plot lines, interesting characters and if you can throw in a good moral issue now and then all the better. Here’s to our favorite “V” addiction. Perhaps I need an intervention. I do spend some time on my favorite show. But at least it keeps me off the street. Ha. Counting down to Sunday, 1 more night and a few hours until Timebomb. Should be an awesome episode.

By: Arlene Culpepper

Arlene Culpepper — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:25:55 +0000

TallGrrl, that was a great comment you left. Thanks for giving your response. I too, am curious to see if anyone else has thoughts on the subject.

By: TallGrrl

TallGrrl — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:00:05 +0000

When I first started reading your article, I must admit that the first thing that came to my mind was: “Duh! No shit, Sherlock!”
Then, I realized that because I’m: 1) Black; and 2) a little older than you are, maybe that’s why I “got” the parallels IMMEDIATELY.
True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Stories are another example how genre has been used to point out and discuss issues that people find it hard to deal with. Race being one of them. Especially in this country with our history and our so-deep-seated=that-it’s-pathological attitude/issues/problem with race and racism. (Especially these days since The Crazy has come out of the closet with the election of a Black president.)
From The Twilight Zone to Star Trek to Alien Nation to Battlestar Galactica, genre has had stories and story lines dealing with prejudice and bigotry, misunderstanding, fear and hatred. (And I’m just mentioning TV shows!)
It’s not just racial bigotry that’s dealt with in True Blood, though. There’s also misogyny and homophobia.
People will always find an “Other” to fear and hate.
It seems to me that in the True Blood universe, those haters are going to have to realize that THEIR little group of what they call “normal” is very much outnumbered, and maybe the way to survive is to accept.
It should be that way in real life too.
There was a line where Sookie, realizing that there are not only just Vampires, says: “What else is there?” and I believe it was Sam that tells her: “More than you know.”

Anyway, I liked what you wrote and thought I’d drop my penny in as well. I’d like to see what others think about this as well.
: )

And sometimes it’s not that something can’t be fixed. It just can’t be fixed immediately.
So you begin the repairing. You might not be the one to finish. You just pass the tools on.