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Yudo posted:Why is "Viking god" billionaire and his progeny still working a bumblefuck dive shithole that assuredly smells of urine? Shreveport is the culture capital of the world.
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Cojawfee posted:She was a major plot point for this lovely season. Right but it was the SERIES finale and I think it probably would have been better to deal with her a little earlier and save the penultimate scene for something a little more poignant, but I dunno I'm an ACTUAL IDIOT
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Cojawfee posted:She was a major plot point for this lovely season. Wait, there was a plot for this season? Are you sure?
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nooneofconsequence posted:Alcide's death meant nothing lol. I loved that she was still driving around in his loving truck.  Capn Beeb posted:IT'S GOT WHAT VAMPS CRAVE Niall, Warlow was the bad guy.  Otherwise I support this.
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Acinonyx posted:Wait, there was a plot for this season? Are you sure? Actually this is a legitimate question. If someone were to ask you what the plot of this season was, what would it be? Like, the cure is something that comes to mind, but no one outside Pam and Eric seemed to give a poo poo about it. Other than that I have no clue. It was just a bunch of unimportant crap with a couple individual good scenes.
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Bill died. Gay Vampire American Steve Newlin lives forever. An acceptable finale. Even Pam and Eric couldn't salvage this horrible season. e: I'm glad they didn't try to end on Bill's death. I'll take goofy fanfic over pretending Bill was a character worth mourning.
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Aug 26, 2014 06:16
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I always wonder with bad tv like this if the creators are aware of how terrible their poo poo is. Or did they finish writing this episode thinking: "Geez, people are gonna love this finale".????
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Aug 26, 2014 06:28
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PaulDirac posted:I always wonder with bad tv like this if the creators are aware of how terrible their poo poo is. Or did they finish writing this episode thinking: "Geez, people are gonna love this finale".???? They must be aware enough to change the original Bill becomes human ending. Not that we know that existed for sure, but the hints all seem to be there.
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PaulDirac posted:I always wonder with bad tv like this if the creators are aware of how terrible their poo poo is. Or did they finish writing this episode thinking: "Geez, people are gonna love this finale".???? I think they've openly skirted around "okay we have (had) no clue what we're doing, which is why the show's ending this season". Ball's departure was this show's death knell. If he wouldn't have left, this season would've rocked. I have a strong suspicion based on the events of S3-5 that he was trying to lead up to some fairy/human vs vampire war with Sookie at the center with her fairy royalty thing but the writers scrapped that for some unknown reason. I guess that would've been too much fun for them.
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How did Eric survive roasting on fire in the middle of the alps or whatever? They gonna solve that one in a webisode or something?
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The very briefly tossed that mystery aside with some one liner about how he just buried himself in the snow.
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PaulDirac posted:I always wonder with bad tv like this if the creators are aware of how terrible their poo poo is. Or did they finish writing this episode thinking: "Geez, people are gonna love this finale".???? They are thinking "wow I love getting this check for working a half hour blazed" as they rip another binger and get back to pounding out their all important memoirs/great American novel. I'm cynical...or perhaps just disappointed.
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Capn Beeb posted:Except Warlow is actually now Harley Stone from Split Second I tried to come up with a fitting ending for Niall but I can't do grandpa justice. Something about being pissed off at losing Sookie and faerie-baking an entire nation of dwarves in response. I'd watch a show about faerie king Rutger Hauer blowing up dwarves, eating spaghetti, and trolling his descendants at critical moments in their lives.
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Rocco posted:How did Eric survive roasting on fire in the middle of the alps or whatever? They gonna solve that one in a webisode or something? This show had a very stupid way of handling sunlight, almost as bad as Angel with their "Oh, I'm not in direct sunlight" middle of the day shooting. This entire season they just went "gently caress it, Vampires can be awake and fine during the day, because we have no way to make people keep waiting until night to do poo poo". But Eric did cause an avalanche and hid under some snow or rocks or maybe a really nice asian cowboy blocked all the sun with his comically large hat.
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I wish to God that writers / producers had to attend some sort of, "How to End A Show," class of some sort so we could hopefully not get this sort of crap at the end of it all. Get bent all you hacks.
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There were so many missed opportunities this season. The major cliff hanger from last season was Eric and they never bothered to explain what happened or how he lived. Not even a hint of what happened, like a random news flash during Bill's TV interview that an entire Swedish town had gone missing during a freak avalanche. There were good moments from this season. Unfortunately all of them combined together comes out to about 90 minutes total. I didn't mind Hoyt coming back because I like him. But the marriage thing was way too long and ridiculous. It's a shame they never used Possum Kingdom during any of the episodes. True Blood's entire Facebook page is filled with pissed off people. At least HBO isn't removing comments. They have a really lovely auction up for True Blood set props, none of which are particularly interesting. They have shot glasses and things that if you put them with your regular dishes you'd probably forget which one you paid $100 for and which ones came from Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm not sure what's worse - having a real finale but one that's so poorly written as to make you wish they'd just gotten canceled after last season - having a good show canceled out of nowhere, knowing the best was yet to come (Carnivale) I've been meaning to re-watch Carnivale and Rome...
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Dammit_Carl! posted:I wish to God that writers / producers had to attend some sort of, "How to End A Show," class of some sort so we could hopefully not get this sort of crap at the end of it all. While the writers definitely deserve blame here, I think it probably doesn't help that HBO dragged this show out until everyone had run out of ideas and only cancelled it because "Welp it's not making money and we need the slot." I know the idea gets beaten to death around here but I feel like it's a lot easier to end on a good note when you have a clear cut beginning, middle and end or at least when you still have enough ideas to make a coherent plot. With most of the series I've seen that have terrible final seasons, you can usually look back and pinpoint when the show probably should have ended because the good storylines were done.
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Did anyone find the Hoyt and Jessica thing disturbing on some level? "Things were so bad that you begged me to wipe your memory, but now that I'm a stranger to you let's get back together!" I don't know...shouldn't that have been a red flag for Hoyt, instead of just going along with it? gently caress it, I'm thinking too hard about this show, aren't I?
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^^^^^^^ Yes you are. But you could also see it as Jessica having gained more experience and maturity since they split up.
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Hemp Knight posted:^^^^^^^ True, but it's still kind of creepy. True she told him about some of the bad stuff in broad strokes, but unless a lot of stuff came out offscreen Jessica is basically taking advantage of his amnesia. It doesn't really matter how mature you are if you're like "Oh I erased your memory, clean slate for me!"
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Dammit_Carl! posted:I wish to God that writers / producers had to attend some sort of, "How to End A Show," class of some sort so we could hopefully not get this sort of crap at the end of it all. Taught by Shawn Ryan.
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This season is compelte garbage and the finale managed to disappoint in astounding fashion despite my hideiously low expectations going in, so bravo. Not a second of that episode that didn't involve Eric and Pam was worthwhile and I am stoked that this show is now out of its misery. They should have stopped after 5 seasons.
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The best part of this entire show was seeing Bill Compton finally die. He has been an emo idiot from the first season and has had it coming this entire time. A stupid poorly written graveyard death scene is exactly what he deserved. I am glad his final wish of most of his blood making it into his coffin was fulfilled.
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Kimmalah posted:While the writers definitely deserve blame here, I think it probably doesn't help that HBO dragged this show out until everyone had run out of ideas and only cancelled it because "Welp it's not making money and we need the slot." The problem with this is they had the whole world of urban fantasy to draw from, and we got Yakuza a wedding episode. There's plenty they could have done that would have been better than what we got. Even falling back on the good old random ancient vampire would have been better than what we got. I would have been happy with 'so bad it's good'. Hell, I would have been happy with 'so bad it's bad'. But this? This was just a boring mess. Even Eric and Pam's storyline was complete poo poo, saved only by the virtue of them actually being Eric and Pam.
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So how is Bon Temps continuing to function? Isn't like, everybody but the main cast dead? Or grew a brain and split town? Theres gotta be like, 15 people in town max
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Junkenstein posted:The problem with this is they had the whole world of urban fantasy to draw from, and we got Yakuza a wedding episode. There's plenty they could have done that would have been better than what we got. Even falling back on the good old random ancient vampire would have been better than what we got. That's true, but I feel like the whole season has been a complete muddled mess and this was just the end result of that.
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The Duggler posted:So how is Bon Temps continuing to function? Isn't like, everybody but the main cast dead? Or grew a brain and split town? The final shot could've been redeemed a little bit if they panned over from the sappy, vasoline-lensed Happy Ending Dinner to reveal a gigantic mass grave right in Sookie's back yard where all of the other hundreds of people from the town were dumped.
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Kazanir posted:I tried to come up with a fitting ending for Niall but I can't do grandpa justice. Something about being pissed off at losing Sookie and faerie-baking an entire nation of dwarves in response. Faerie with a shotgun.
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I am going to rewatch the series and see if I can pick out who the beard guy actually is See you in a month!
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The Duggler posted:I am going to rewatch the series and see if I can pick out who the beard guy actually is I really don't think beard guy is anyone that's been on the show before, otherwise some super-fan or reviewer would have said something by now. It's pretty much universally been "Who the gently caress was that random dude?"
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Aug 26, 2014 20:18
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It's human Bill. They just chickened out on actually showing him because of the backlash against the story leak.
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Hemp Knight posted:^^^^^^^ 2 days earlier she broke up with her boyfriend of almost a year because he cheated on her because she was ignoring him/shutting him out. Later that night she slept with Jason himself was in a year long relationship thus continuing the circle of cheating, this is not a person who is ready for marriage.
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Nichael posted:Shreveport is the culture capital of the world. Once in Shreveport I asked two girls for directions to a club called Chicago. Their response was, "like the state?"  Yes Shreveport is truly a magical city.
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