Illiterati
Council Member & Author
I enjoyed the start of the series, but over time, I became more than a little irritated at some of the directions Alan Ball has taken the series.
When Lafayette survived the first season, I was a bit shocked. The character of Tara was so NOT was she was in the series of books, and I find her character to be more than a little coarse and annoying. African American with attitude has been done over and over and over...ad nauseum. She's the whipping boy of the entire series: she is doomed to never find happiness. Even Alan Ball, in interviews over the past four seasons has suggested that this is true.
Now we have Lafayette as some kind of demon-faced medium (nothing says that he lost that ability once Marnie was quite literally dragged out of him), the suggestion of zombies in the next season, evil goblin-fairies (so NOT in the books), and more.
The way Alan Ball has taken this series, it's a shocker that any of the residents of Bon Temps still choose to live there. I'm sorry, but if my apartment building turned into the equivalent of Bon Temps (the Altar of Zul?) I'd be looking for somewhere else to live.
There are many times when I've considered abandoning the series entirely, much as I did Six Feet Under, Big Love and Weeds. I'm very near that point with Dexter.
I can only take so much more of this before I snap.
When Lafayette survived the first season, I was a bit shocked. The character of Tara was so NOT was she was in the series of books, and I find her character to be more than a little coarse and annoying. African American with attitude has been done over and over and over...ad nauseum. She's the whipping boy of the entire series: she is doomed to never find happiness. Even Alan Ball, in interviews over the past four seasons has suggested that this is true.
Now we have Lafayette as some kind of demon-faced medium (nothing says that he lost that ability once Marnie was quite literally dragged out of him), the suggestion of zombies in the next season, evil goblin-fairies (so NOT in the books), and more.
The way Alan Ball has taken this series, it's a shocker that any of the residents of Bon Temps still choose to live there. I'm sorry, but if my apartment building turned into the equivalent of Bon Temps (the Altar of Zul?) I'd be looking for somewhere else to live.
There are many times when I've considered abandoning the series entirely, much as I did Six Feet Under, Big Love and Weeds. I'm very near that point with Dexter.
I can only take so much more of this before I snap.
