I think Jason is a horndog and not very bright, but I don’t think he’s supposed to be seen as an egotist or a stereotypical bullying jock or redneck. He’s self-absorbed in some ways, but not mean. He’s not racist or homophobic. He can show empathy.
His sexual compulsivity actually makes sense in terms of his back story. The loss of his parents at an early age leads him to seek emotional bonding and intimacy through sex. I don’t know if that’s intentional or not, but anecodotally, I’ve had two friends who lost their mothers when they were children (both to brain cancer, coincidentally), and both of them were compulsive womanizers and sex addicts. The irony is that while both of them went through women like water, they were also both apt to declare that they were hopelessly in love about every other week. They used sex as a narcotic, but they also both really craved an emotional intimacy and a permanant partner as well, and they both were strongly attracted to women who were domineering and maternalistic (not to mention older). They both might as well have had neon signs saying. “SWM seeking mother replacement” on their foreheads.
Jason’s behavior on Trueblood comports exactly with guys I’ve known in real life who lost their moms when they were young. Amy was bossy and authoritarian but also could be nurturing, and supportive (at least she pretended to be). That’s exactly the combination of maternalistic traits that my friends were drawn to like moths to a bug zapper.
The implied connection that I see between Jason’s early loss of his mom and his sexual compulsivity might not be intended by the writers, but I find it interesting that it accords with what I’ve seen IRL, even if it’s coincidental.
That makes a lot of sense, Dio. I also got the sense that Amy being more intelligent and educated meant she was able to talk Jason out of leaving her and into doing what she wanted. Several times, he objected to her evil shit, and she baffled him with bullshit quite efficiently, so he wound up like, “What? Um, I guess that makes sense . . .” In other words, while he may have had the moral strength to leave her a couple times, he lacked the intellectual strength to maintain it.
I also think Tara’s relationship with her mom is very true to life. We’re programmed to seek approval from our parents, and even the most abusive shits will have kids who love them (in a way) and do stupid things as a result. I remember watching a show documenting therapy, where a patient talked about his mom deliberately burning him with cigarettes. Less than two minutes later, he described her as “a good mother.”
Remember when Maryanne ran into Andy? She said, “Hello, Detective… Bellefleur, is it?” and her tone suggested that the name was significant to her, too. Thanks for pointing out that she was the woman with the pig who caused Tara’s accident; I didn’t recognize her.
I am struck by how much the character Jason resembles a former coworker. If he comes into some money, buys a Harley and then tries to convince the rest of the cast that he has always been a hard core biker, he would be right on the mark.
In the book Sookie spent a lot more time listening to other people’s thoughts to find the murderer. I don’t understand why they’re not doing that in teh show. Other than that vision of the pie waitress. The telepathic aspect is almost being ignored, just treated as a novelty when it should be more.
I didn’t either. I got it from the TWOP thread. But I should have picked up on it. There was just a brief glimpse of her in the road with the pig, and she was scruffy and dirty, didn’t look at all like the woman who came to the jail for Tara. Then when she and Tara got into her car and Tara says “I’ll get your car dirty”, Maryanne says “I’ve been dirty too”.
When she knew Andy’s name, I thought it was because she ran a brothel and he’d arrested her in the past, but Andy didn’t seem to recognize her. And he wasn’t curious about her either, which I thought was strange. Pretty woman leaving the police station with Tara, driving a fancy convertible? Cops notice stuff like that.
Don’t know if there’s any overlap in the fan base, but Maryann is played by Michelle Forbes, who played Admiral Caine on Battlestar Galactica and Ro Laren on ST:TNG.
I’m annoyed that they introduced a new character at the end of the season. They’ll resolve the murders, but I smell a cliffhanger coming for Tara and Sookie/Bill.
And David Duchovny’s girlfriend in Kalifornia. What’s weird is that I recognized her right away as the pig lady, but had to pause the DVR to verify it was Rene in the fax.
I’m in full agreement w/you on this having read the books also.
Since we tend to see Jason in half of his scenes shirtless, which I have no complaints, I have a question about his or rather the actor’s chest hair. What’s up w/it? Are they shaving it? It seems short, but not in a trimmed way and it seems to have an odd pattern w/some large bare patches? Is the actor so young it has not fully grown in yet? Anyone else notice this or am I the only horn-dog paying attention to stuff like this and not the plot?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found that odd. Maryanne knows him, but he doesn’t know her, and right off the bat he’s yelling and cussing at her. I wonder if her presence has a psychological effect on men.
You might have something there. I found a blog reporting that one of the writers/co-producers for True Blood is Raelle Tucker, who has also written for Supernatural.
I know nothing of Supernatural but Dead Until Dark the first book in the Sookie series was published in 2001. In this book, she calls “Shifted-Sam” Dean there too. Does that clarify anything?
My 84 year old mother and 87 year old father are hooked on this series. I don’t always watch it w/them, but when I do, it’s a hoot especially w/the CC running. It was even worse watching Sex and The City and the Sopranos w/them. Why do the nastiest of words always hang on the CC screen forever?
BTW: Seems I am the only horn-dog or at least the only horn-dog that notices Jason’s odd body hair coverage. I only mention it here b/c it tends to pull me out of the scene every time.
I only mention it here b/c it tends to pull me out of the scene every time.