Practically could be!
Now let me add…
The acting and writing, while never outstanding, has descended to a level that a high school drama department should be embarassed by. While I was all for Eric and Sookie gettin’ down, the way they did sucked all the joy right out of it. Barf.
It’s just bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Insanely bad. Shockingly bad.
Yeah, I never dreamed they’d be able to make this show into something that makes the novels look like Jane Austen-level literature, but somehow they’ve managed. It’s just been awful, especially the pillow talk. And I say this as someone who rather likes Schmoopy Eric, especially in the book.
I didn’t mind the scenes of Hot Shot except that, in retrospect, there was no reason for them in the first place.
This season jumped almost a year into the future and there was no need to bring Hot Shot back into the mix. Jason was saddled with it at the end of season 3 but he could have easily said “eff this shit.” and walked away. The writers could have never mentioned it again and it wouldn’t have made a difference to Jason’s overall story arc. But they did. They spent, what, 4 episodes on his capture and rape and then 2 more on his escape? And then it’s never mentioned again? So writers, you’re basically admitting you didn’t have a thing for Jason to do at the beginning of this season and needed a placeholder for him through half of it until you could get him hooked up with Jessica.
The repeated rape of jason was fucked up, but no more so than what’s already been shown in this series. What was beyond the pale was that they only did that for shock value and then dropped the entire storyline once it became convenient. If you’re going to have Jason kidnapped, bound, and raped over a week, then own that fact and draw it out to its natural conclusions, whatever those might be.
It shouldn’t have happened, no matter how they did it. What I liked best about the show was Sookie and Bill and their forbidden, doomed, heartbreaking love for each other. They’re Maddie and David, Sam and Diane, Bones and what’s-his-name. I realize that’s what Harris wrote, but it ruined the show for me when Bill and Sookie fell into bed with other people.
God yes. I’ve only watched intermittently this season. Every time I tune the show, they’re doing something stupid.
WTF yes. Not like his zombie zygotes risk making a flipper baby. Fuck 'er blue! I like to watch.
The whole hot shot/werepanther storyline literally ended with “oh it doesn’t work like that” or something. That whole waste of time, a storyline over seasons, discarded with an offhand line. What a waste.
Edit: Waste of time, that is, not a waste of a good storyline. Because it was a retarded, annoying, nails on chalkboard bad storyline from the start. It’s just even weirder that they didn’t even go anywhere with it.
The earlier seasons, I told my mom, “this show is beyond stupid, you can’t believe how stupid, but I can’t believe how much I enjoy every episode.” This year: “this show is still beyond stupid but I’m only watching because it’s Sunday night and that’s what I do on Sunday night.”
Oh come on. The stupidness of the “I’m a vampire controlled by a witch” dance is nearly unparalleled in both stupidity and also hilarity.
Not to mention “bazooka vs magic shield”.
It does seem like the were-panther and voodoo-doll ghost stories were randomly dropped without true closure (and the Sheriff Andy loves a fairy storyline randomly introduced), but I’m going to reserve judgement until after the finale.
Lol, I’m thinking back to earlier moments of shock and awe, like when Lafayette was in Eric’s dungeon, the other guy there started mouthing off, and Eric came storming down. Tore the guy’s arm off and beat him to death with it (now who hasn’t wanted to do that???) - and Eric was wearing a pink plastic cape because he was getting foils put in his hair! I didn’t know whether to laugh or what! No great moments like that this season, just all those silly scattered stories about evil babbys and the sordid were-panther storyline.
Yes yes yes.. when they were being pulled towards Marney’s magic bubble, they looked like the dancers who didn’t make the cut at the Thriller auditions. Hilarious… but I’m thinking unintentionally so. 
I really disliked the treatment of Hotshot, in the books to me Hotshot was more of an Amish type enclave. seperate but with strict rules and a sort of quiet nobility. In the show the are instead a bunch of inbred, crazy rednecks full of stereotypical uncle=fathers and brother-husbands that this area has forever been taunted with.
And yeah becoming a were in the books does work like that, but based on the books the whole Mickens storyline couldm;t have happened and what a tragedy THAT would have been.:rolleyes: