--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > A rap for those who are still following "True Blood," > during the last season series creator Alan Ball has > said he will be involved as show runner. > > I think it's a helluva swan song, and simply cannot > wait to see how he resolves things in the last episode > of the season next Sunday, before turning the reins > over to someone else. > > He's done something that no one else I know of in the > entire canon of vampire movies/TV/literature have ever > done -- invented a vampire religion. And it's a cult. > > The TB vamps believe in a goddess named Lilith, who > appears to them when they drink of her Holy Blood. > They have a vampire Bible, and the whole bit. And in > it, Lilith declares that vamps were the first beings > to grace this planet, and that humans are merely > degraded, icky versions of themselves, and suitable > only for feeding on. Vamps rule, and those puny humans > are as on-their-way-out as Maharishi thought capitalism > was. And good riddance. > > The kicker of all of this, of course, is that during > the course of the show we've been conditioned to think > of Vampire Bill as a Good Guy. Yeah, he may have to > drink blood from time to time, but he loves Sookie and > all, and besides, he's so charismatic and handsome. > > But in this latest, swan-song season, Bill has gone > WAY over to the Dark Side. He has drunk not only blood, > but Kool-Aid, and big-time. All over America, die-hard > fans are saying, "WTF...there is only one episode left, > and Bill hasn't revealed himself as 'only pretending,' > and not really under the sway of this vampire cult." > They're still waiting for the Happy Ending. > > What if it doesn't come? > > What if the allure of cult conditioning really IS more > powerful than love or all those other things people > like to believe will win out in the end? > > Me, I have no theories and no predictions. I just wait > to see what Mr. Ball has in store for us next week. > Unlike many in his audience, I have no illusions about > beings (human or vampire) being able to resist the > glammer of cult conditioning.
http://tinyurl.com/8ukhffx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOHY7Z5eaQ&feature=fvwrel >But it'll be interesting to see where *he* takes it.
