I watched the first episode of HBO's new series True Blood. I think Vampires must be the vogue at the moment, with Twilight and this it seems like everyones jumping on the Bram Stoker Bandwagon. Unlike Twilight whose vampires are almost unrecognizable to the traditional ideal True blood sticks more to the How to be a Vamp Handbook.
True Blood is set in a world where Vampires have "come out of the coffin" and are trying to live amongst mortals. The Japanese have perfected a synthetic blood alternative called Tru Blood so vampires are, in theory, no longer a threat. They have retractable fangs, their weakness is silver and they don't go out in the daylight, pretty standard Vampire stuff.
The first episode shows Sookie, unusual in her own right as she reads minds, meeting her first vampire, Bill. The speed with which these two fall in love is ridiculous (even for a Twilight fan!), in fact Sookie has pretty much already fallen for him when she saves him for "vampire-drainers" (people who drain vampire blood and sell it as a drug). Next thing you know they are staring intensely into one another's eyes practically declaring their undying love.
Sookie is annoyingly prissy, another role model to the Jonas Brother generation I think, she squirms at sex conversations and swear words. I couldn't stand her, a typical self-righteous prig.
I suppose some people might watch it for the eye-candy, grungy vampiric Bill and more traditional pretty boy Jason (Sookie's Brother). But neither of them really do it for me. On a side note Jason has his own problems having strangled a woman to death during sex which I hope fits into the stroyline some how otherwise it's the most pointless secondary story I've ever seen.
I'll watch one more episode but if it's as bad as the first I think I'll wait for Twilight to get my Vampire-fix.