The Red Avenger
Posts: 34
Joined: 20/12/2005
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A real bugbear of mine is people saying "Oh it's just [new teen fad] with more [sex/swearing/violence] or it's a rip-off of [new ten fad] when [new teen fad] is much newer than [thing being talked about] Take this for instance - it's being compared to Twilight - when the source material is much older than Twilight. so surely it should be "Twilight is like this..." I don't suppose Charlaine Harris is that bothered to be honest - as it means her books will be lapped up by the Twilight hoardes - so I'm happy for her. It happened with all the Potter-rites when Sky showed Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - they all called it a ripoff when Hogfather was about 10 years earlier. And infact how dare he invent a school for Wizards (well actually a University) - when in fact he invented that one before most Potterites were even born in 1983. Sometimes it takes something like a new version of an old thing - such as the Star Wars fans complaining about Lord of the Rings being a rip off - until it's pointed out that the books were written in 1953 - so who ripped off who, sonny Jim, if anybody? It just annoys the hell out of me. Anyway - onto True Blood. Only watched the first two episodes so far - really enjoying it. Brilliant idea to have Vampires coming out into the open and trying to integrate into society - there's a feeling of unacceptance and the "Gay Rights" in the good ol' USA" arguments are a nice parallel. I think the characters are strong, well written and there's plenty of scope for "fleshing them out" - it's another winner for HBO who like "Showtime" continually push the boundaries of conventional TV - making them more like mini-films than TV programmes which seem to be made so the companies can shoehorn in 15 minutes of adverts in to an hour program. Along with "The Soprano's, Deadwood, Sleeper Cell, The Tudors, Dexter and Six Feet Under" these two companies are making groundbreaking Television that doesn't pander to the masses and knows it's audience and more importantly, doesn't insult them. Yep - True Blood definitely falls into that category and look forward to watching this each week - or in my case I have about 4 episodes to catch up with this week. ... RA
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