True Blood Season 1 concluded, with some story threads tied up and others set up for True Blood Season 2, coming to HBO next summer. True Blood proves that, along with the movie Twilight, blood dishes are popular.
It will be months before we even begin to know the answer to some interesting questions. What Maryann, played by Michelle Forbes, until with Tara, and what happened with Sam? Where did Lafayette, the gay, prostitute, drug-trafficking relative go? Is he dead? Undead? How is Sookie dumb as a pile of stones Jason’s brother is going to fit in with the anti-Vampire Church haters, Sons of the Sun? And finally, who is the new serial killer?
It was fitting that True Blood Season 1 concluded on the weekend, Twilight opened with a seventy million dollar box office, which mainly contained teenage girls from ticket money to their new favorite, animated, blood Edward’s heart palpitates with a leech. Vampires are definitely in for a treat, whether it’s the sweet, PG-13 animal drinks from Twilight, or the harsher R-rated species from True Blood.
Did you ever grow out of your fingers? home from school I remember well rushing to watch the latest installment of dark shadows featuring melancholy, death the vampire gentleman Barnabas Collins. Dark Shadows was one of the good things about being of a certain age in the late 60s and early 70s. The series starring Ben Cross in the early 1990s will be briefly remade and will soon star Johnny Depp again.
The vampire was transformed from a villain when Bela Lugosi first posed as a red ruby in the 1930s as Count Vlad Dracula< /a>. The vampire is often a hero, but sometimes he is feared and understood. Whether it’s Nicholas Knight, trying to make up for his crimes in the night shift Toronto Metro Police Department, or Bill from the Vero Sanguine, trying to “mainstream” into human society, a vampire can be a friend or, even, his lover.
Not that some elements of society will approve, mind you. Ann Rice’s vampires, for example, are quintessentialoutsiders, as in the Southern Vampire series of books on which True Blood is based. They cannot help their dark natures. But it is sad. Others are embraced. You just have to agree with that. But they are always looked upon with suspicion, more seriously, with fear and hatred. But they are also always attractive.
Sources: True Blood, Epguide.com
Dark Shadows to the Big Screen, Mark R. Whittington, Content Associates, July 30, 2007
Improving Vampire Laws, Mark R. Whittington, Content Associate, July 20, 2008
True Blood With Anna Paquin Debuts On HBO, Mark R. Whittington, Content Associate, September 8, 2008
Twilight Film Review, Mark R. Whittington, Associated Content, November 22nd, 2008
