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I've just finished season 2 of True Blood and started season 3 (I've only seen up to 3.1), and I've got very mixed feelings.
WARNING: Spoilers for the first 2 seasons of True Blood; small spoilers for The Vampire Diaries (mostly season 1), mild spoiler for season 3 of Being Human UK (nothing related to the main characters os big arcs).
I'd appreciate if you didn't reveal spoilers for episodes of True Blood after 3.1, except to generally tell me if my conclusions still hold for the rest of the show. My views of the show have changed quite a bit since season 1.
I think that TB is becoming my least favorite representation of vampires in recent fiction, bar Twilight. Sure, a lot of fiction gets to mix its vampire metaphors and those metaphors aren't perfect (BtVS and AtS did it, Being Human does it) but I think they're all over the place in True Blood and it's become really problematic.
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WARNING: Spoilers for the first 2 seasons of True Blood; small spoilers for The Vampire Diaries (mostly season 1), mild spoiler for season 3 of Being Human UK (nothing related to the main characters os big arcs).
I'd appreciate if you didn't reveal spoilers for episodes of True Blood after 3.1, except to generally tell me if my conclusions still hold for the rest of the show. My views of the show have changed quite a bit since season 1.
I think that TB is becoming my least favorite representation of vampires in recent fiction, bar Twilight. Sure, a lot of fiction gets to mix its vampire metaphors and those metaphors aren't perfect (BtVS and AtS did it, Being Human does it) but I think they're all over the place in True Blood and it's become really problematic.
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