At least he gets a senior citizen's discount when he rides the bus...

[dangermousie]

I know I have a billion replies to make and promise to get to them but for now, it's time to confess:

I am addicted to Bill/Sookie.



The reason I formulate it like this is because so far, that is THE reason I like TB. Even if I cannot avoid a firm conviction that Sookie is, while sweet and brave, remarkably dim and with a nonexistent take on self-preservation, and is probably the kind of woman who writes letters to serial killers in prison.

I can't help it, you guys! She is so sunny and sweet and optimistically believing in good about everyone. Plus she has that adorable gap between her teeth (shut up!) And he is so old-fashioned (He is so old-fashioned he doesn't know how to truly use conditioner if his hair is any indication) and alpha (whatever - I have very TRADITIONAL preferences in my fictional men) and well-mannered and protective. And he asks for her permission to call on her and they have so much eye-fucking. He is also dark-haired and with a Southern accent. And they have ridiculous killer chemistry.



I fell for them about the moment when she saved his life and then mocked him for his prosaic name unbefitting a vampire. I am a goner.




So cheesy, so good.

So, yeah, I am watching for Bill/Sookie. It does not help that I (unpopular fandom opinion number 3) loathe the repulsive slimebag Jason - I am sure there are more mature amoebas out there. Not to mention that it is his character's fault I am subjected to those hilariously bad sex scenes. Ugh. I don't like Tara (unpopular fandom opinion number 4) because she is a total bitch (her intro scene ruined her to me for a good long while - if some sales person was that rude to me, I would have hauled off and slapped her) but she seems sort of functional so deserves better than Jason - I hope she gets over him.

As to Eric - I will take y'all's word for the fact that he gets awesome and hot in S2 but for now all I can say is his costumer, stylist, and make-up artist all hate him. He looks like a wannabe goth in pancake make-up. Alexander Skarsgaard isn't really my type at all, lookwise,* but objectively speaking, he is a very good-looking man, so I do not see why his assistants had to work so hard to make him look that bad. (The hair!!!)

* Seeing the amount of fangirls he has, he will hardly miss my devotion not being applied to him :)

Will I ever switch ships? Unlikely. Once I get a ship, I glom on like a limpet. I can sometimes lose interest in the ship for whatever reason, but then it usually means I am done with the show too - I sort of find it hard to refocus. But we'll see.

So yeah, Bill/Sookie is SO MY OTP! Eleventy! Clearly, in any show involving two vamps in love with a blonde heroine I will always go for a brunette guy over the blond one :P

I want them to have sex on a table or similar.























So I'll be in my lonely Bill/Sookie corner. At least I know ambergold will join me :)

Here is a deliciously cheesy my for my deliciously cheesy ship:

I am using the only vamp ship icon I have. I need to get me a Bill/Sookie one.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Whoever was responsible for dressing/making Eric up in S1 needs to be beaten, then fired. That AWFUL wig. *shudder* It's REALLY HARD to make that guy look bad, but boy did they. And BOY did they make him look a thousand times better in S2. TRUST ME. *thud*

Also, re: Jason, I found him pretty reprehensible through most of S1 and S2, but despite myself, I've found him quite redeemed toward the last half. I know, color me shocked.

I think you're really going to like Jessica's arc in S2.

And re: Bill/Sookie, you have the added pervy RPF bonus of knowing the couple was actually falling in love during the shooting and are, IIRC, engaged now. I'm not into RPF, but I'm a serious sucker for the romanticism of them falling in love on the set.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The rpf thing is very cute (I don't rpf but the background knowledge is, I agree, sweet).

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I have never seen the show, but going by my flist I don't think hating Jason is that unpopular. With Eric, though, you are on your own.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Someone has not to care for Eric. It will just have to be me :)

[sundae-sweet.livejournal.com]

Same here when it comes to hair colors, opposites should attract. If one half of the OTP is blonde and blue eyed, the other should be a brown eyed, brunette. That's just my totatlly superficial OTP kink. That and really tall guys with petite girls.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh yes on the tall thing!

[thelana.livejournal.com]

My unpopular fandom opinion is that I just feel ridiculously sorry for Bill. On the show as such he just loves her to obsessively much and it just hard for example to see him have to do things he has to do and only does for her and at the same time you just know it will put a dent in the relationship even though he's only doing it because he has to/out of love (wait till you get there, so shippy). It's kinda hard to see somebody try to hard to do everything right (IMO) and still get the nagging feeling that it might not be enough in the end.

(heh, if you're ship worried, you can always just watch only season 1 like a mini series and be left with a happy ending)

I kinda think that the "theme" of his story is the whole "person from a few centuries past who is really out of step with modern times still". That in the end that no matter how hard he tries, he still sort of gets lost in the shuffle.

[filmi-girl.livejournal.com]

You know, I hadn't thought about it like that. It's true though that BIll just can't seem to do anything right in S2 but he keeps trying, bless him... :)

We'll have to see how the finale shakes down...

Spoiler for season 2

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Somebody I think said it in an episode reaction on TWOP that Bill KOWS he's fighting a losing battle and that he'll lose Sookie the moment he realizes that Eric tricked her into drinking his blood. Which from his POV really sucks because what Eric did was mean and underhanded and that totally shouldn't be why and how a love ends. But he's just trying to avoid the unavoidable.

And controlling attitude or not, he is right not too rarely (think Jessica visiting her parents...) even if he handles it badly. I still see him as the guy who's stuck in the past and who's just overtaken by modern times and attitudes. With the twist of course being that it's not just the humans who have more modern attitudes, many of the older vamps do as well and that's why they leave him in the dust, no matter how much "good man" he tries to be. He's old fashioned even among vamps.

I was actually pondering at one point I think the Bill/Sookie relationship became unequal. I think it's when the whole "He's the only one whose thoughts I can't hear" seemed to lose importance to the plot. At this point I would say the relationship is unequal because it's pretty obvious that Sookie is more unique to Bill than Bill is unique/irreplacable to her, if that makes any sense.

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[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm - I think I will just stick to watching the first season. I am not big on tv shows anyway, preferring the drama format of a single story.

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[thelana.livejournal.com]

Season 1 is pretty closed in itself, so I reccommend that. Plus, even if you ignore all character issues, the plot in season 2 is soooo stupid and meandering. I actually really considered giving the show up (and I'm not deeply invested in any ship) and I actually haven't watched any episodes since the Godric one from beginning to end because I was just soooo bored. There are two major subplots that split up the characters and meander like crazy and so far both of them have ended in a "Wow, now that was completely useless, why did we do that again?" kind a way. Stick to season 1 for now :)

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[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Perfect. S1 is about 12 hours, a length of a typical drama. Clearly it and I were meant to be :)

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[filmi-girl.livejournal.com]

Ooo! That actually makes a lot of sense about Bill. But the thing I can't get around is at the end of episode 11, Bill calls Eric out on making Sookie drink his blood and Eric says something like - you mean like you did the first night you met? And Bill has no response for that. I have a feeling there is more to this than meets the eye...

With Jessica visiting her parents, he was totally right not to want to let her go but I can't help but sympathize more with Sookie, who was trying to understand how Jessica felt, than with Bill, who seems completely uninterested in her. He's trying to be the old-fashioned "Father Knows Best" Dad and it really doesn't play well... so, yes, I agree about the old-fashioned thing! Hee!

(I'm so hooked on True Blood!)

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[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

I could tell you what's up with that but it is a spoiler so...you probably wont like the answer if your big on bill/sookie. I will say though that just cause it happened that way in the books doesnt necessarily man Alan Ball will go the exact same route but he does seem to be going a similiar route.

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[filmi-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm on Team Eric all the way!

(Which is the way things go in the books, yes?)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

This makes a lot of sense - people retain their upbringing/background no matter what etc. It's like all the girls who might dream of Mr Darcy or whoever. If he stood in front of you, you'd probably find him getting on your nerves after a while because his very basics of behavior are different from what you expect.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

My problem is that I have read the books - I used to ship Eric/Sookie in the first two books quite intensely, though.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I tried the books but got bored...

[filmi-girl.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! I'm so happy you're watching! If this is one of those situations where we can just divide the heroes between us, that will be cool. :) Considering we were on opposite sides of the Angel/Spike debate, that might just happen! LOL!

Tara is pretty unpopular - I actually liked her in S1 but not so much in S2. Jason and Eric really start to shine in S2. I didn't care one way or the other about them in S1.

And Bill/Sookie are really cute in Season 1. I love that he respects her grandma and goes to her Civil War meeting!! CUTE!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Considering we were on opposite sides of the Angel/Spike debate, that might just happen! LOL!


Angel v. Spike mark 2? At least this fandom is unlikely to have as viscious shipper wars as Buffy had. *shudder*

sorry to pop in!

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Honestly I cant understand how anyone could stil ship buffy/spike after most of the events of S6 (or whenever the almost!rape and hate!fucking happened/started)Was never big on Angel though. Too severe for my tastes.

[mishane.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm so stupid, I've read all your drama recaps and I never really realized you liked the alpha male. DERRR. . .

I am TOORRRNNNN. Well, not really but I haven't watched Season 2 yet so I kind of am. Because I liked Bill/Sookie during the first half of season 1 (before I read the books) then HATED him during the second half of season 1 (after I read the books) and then kind of liked him again at the season finale. So. . .I am torn between Book!Bill and Show!Bill. I try to put my prejudice against him out of mind when I watch the show. . .but I can't. OH WELL, I'll be watching Season 2 soon so maybe my opinion will change definitively.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I love my alpha males. I think it would be awesome to be swept off my feet and never have to worry over anything. For a few months, at least :)

I haven't read the books and don't want to - I tried one and got bored.

[mishane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the books are what I consider trashy beach reads. When you're bored and there's nothing else to do. I read about 8 of the books in one weekend, they were so short. Not a literary masterpiece at all.

[kikintae.livejournal.com]

i like first season better. i found myself daze out watching the second. I think the only redeem is eric in second season. I can't stand Jason in first season(fast forward every scene he is in, such a useless person imo) and he dull in second one. Tara, thought dislike her, i also felt pity for her, but then on second, she become blah. I like bill and sookie in their the first one, they are very cute, but then second season, i felt that he treat her as a child. Eric caught my eye when he fist appear, but afterward i didn't notice much about him. He really shine in the middle of second season and he cut his hair(thank god, i can't stand his hair in the first season thought he look good). i like his interaction with sookie(she hate him so much). I tried the book, but it was so boring. the series better than the book imo, it flesh out much better. The book is very flat with only sookie view of everyone.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just might watch the first season.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

*curls up with you in corner and throws rocks at the world* I fell for Bill/Sookie during that exact scene too;) And I really d on't get the whole Eric thing- he's too thin and suffers from really awful guyliner. And how can anyone resist the world-stopping chemistry Sookie has with Bill?

if you think Sookie is dim-witted with latent suicidal tendences(which I totally agree with btw) just wait until you get later in the season...that's partly why I stopped watching, actually. Sookie kept throwing herself recklessly into danger and Bill kept letting her/actively assisting her and I got fed up.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

oh, and I consider Jason scum of the earth and kept on cheerfully hating him through all the show's weak, half-hearted attempts to convince me that he was really a worthwhile guy underneath it all. have you gotten to the funeral yet? my hatred for him reached a high during that point.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Not gotten to the funeral but seriously - why is he on my screen exactly, wasting my time?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

world-stopping chemistry Sookie has with Bill

Exactly. But seriously, how awesome was it when he is trying to be all snarly and menacing and deadly and she is just mocking him because he is named Bill and he is so puzzled, poor dear. Awwwwww.

Sookie kept throwing herself recklessly into danger and Bill kept letting her/actively assisting her and I got fed up

I don't mind dim heroines - that is why dramas and me get along so well :) But seriously, if she wasn't dimwitted, there'd be no story as any sane person would stay far away from any vamp no matter what.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

ow awesome was it when he is trying to be all snarly and menacing and deadly and she is just mocking him because he is named Bill and he is so puzzled, poor dear. Awwwwww. exactly!! it's so incredibly endearing how confused he is by her perfect equanimity over the fact that he's a vampire:) I like the fact that they're mutually drawn to each other because each can provide something no one else can - he provides her with silence and she provides him with acceptance. But I do think they have a relationship that transcends that, also.

I admit I liked them less in 2nd half than 1st half of season 1 - hopefully you have a better experience.

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

I find an inordinate amount of glee in seeing wade your way through True Blood :)

I like Sookie so much (she's adorable!) that I can't seriously ship her with anyone, but rather go with the maxim that she shall have whomever she wants. For the time being, it seems to be Bill, so Bill it is.

Aw, Jason. I too couldn't stand him at first, but I warmed up to in season 2. He can be interesting when he's not exposing his pale ass and boinking everything that breathes.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I can't seriously ship her with anyone, but rather go with the maxim that she shall have whomever she wants.

That's how it used to be with me and Veronica Mars. And Starbuck from BSG.

Sookie is very very awesome, I agree :)

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

Bill/Sookie in S1 are super cute, with Bill being all gentlemanly, and Southern, and I think Anna Paquin is awesome. And totally awesome that they are getting married IRL.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I agree - it's all ridiculously adorable.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

Both Bill and Sookie are pretty, but I wish they would stop frying Anna Paquin's hair blonde. In the book it's supposed to be all nice because it's natural and she doesn't do anything to it. Kind of defeats the purpose!

Yeah, Steve Moyer>>>>>>>Alexander Skarsgaard for me, so you're not alone.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes! *clings*

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

I (unpopular fandom opinion number 3) loathe the repulsive slimebag Jason

Not really. Most people didnt like Jason from the get go. For alot of the reasons you've stated, he's dumb, immature, a jerk, a whore. I was so w/e about him until the second half of S2 and now I adore him. He redeems himself in a big way in S2 and develops alot as a character plus so many hilarious lines come from him. :)

I don't like Tara (unpopular fandom opinion number 4) because she is a total bitch
Sadly not that unpopular. I say sadly cause I do like her (though at first she annoyed me)but most people are either indifferent to Tara or dont like her very much or at least of those I see on ontd_trubld and Lj in general.

So far I'd say your only truly unpopular opinion is shipping bill/sookie ;) You know I dont mind Tv!bill he brings the lulz but I cant stand the way he talks sometimes or rather I should say the way stephan moyer attempts to imitate a southern accent. Man why is it so hard to find good southern accents on tv? (I will say one thing about the actor who plays Jason. His southern accent is damn convincing. I'd have never guessed he was really australian)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

There is no way I can like Jason - his main concern when all these women he knows are dying is he can't get it up. He can be saving puppies and I don't care. I am afraid I will never change as I've taken to skipping any scene he is in.