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True Blood Season 2: The Score

True Blood Score

Last week I got all excited when I was browsing Amazon and drinking some coffee before work and found the score to season 2 of True Blood available for download. While I’m usually a very good girl about avoiding impulse buying first thing in the morning (before I’ve finished the first cup of coffee) I didn’t even think twice about purchasing the mp3 album and starting the download while I finished getting ready for work. I’d enjoyed the score to the first season so much that I’ve been wishing and hoping they’d release more music soon.

After listening to the full album twice through now I can say that while I love certain tracks on it, I think the music from the first season might still be my favorite. Even so, Nathan Barr is an amazing composer and the music he’s written for the show is beautiful. The themes that he’s able to set for each character and then alter enough to make them fit the situations are well written and recognizable.

Probably one of my favorite musical themes through the show is what I call the “Loss” or “Grief” theme. It’s probably best associated with Sookie’s Grandmother but it’s often played when a character, usually Sookie, is hit with a loss in her life. You can hear it played through the first season, most noticeably after the events with Gran. It’s while Sookie is eating that pecan pie alone at her table that you hear that there are words to it, making it a sad and sweet Southern-sounding hymn. (I admit, I cried during that scene and the music was at least partly to blame). Much to my delight Nathan Barr continues to use this theme through the music in the second season, particularly on a track called “Packing Gran”.

One of my other favorite themes is the love theme between Bill & Sookie. While I may not care for Bill at all, the music set for them is a lovely piece that builds in intensity and occasionally leaves you hanging without a musical resolution.

There isn’t much on this particular album that involves Maryann even though she was a huge part of the second season. For that I’m a little grateful. The track “House Party” manages to wrap up her and her influence in one single musical track. You also catch a glimpse of her madness in the early track “Ride & Slash”. We are introduced to some more music involving Eric on this album and the track “Eric’s Grief/ The Bleeds” had me sitting in my car for a few extra minutes, entranced by the new themes and music that I now associate with my favorite blond vampire.

All in all, it was worth the download. I now have more music to fuel my fantasies about being swept away by a tall blond Swedish man. *happy sigh*

Anyone else have a similar reaction to the album? Anyone going to run and nab one of the score albums just to hear what I’m describing? Let me know what you think of them!

True Blood Season 3: Cliffhanger or Letdown?

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Ever since my friend Amanda made me watch many episodes of season one of True Blood in a row I’ve been hooked. At the time she only had seasons 1 & 2 which I devoured happily. From the start I knew my preference lay with Sam and Team Eric as Bill was too broody and emo for me (which may explain why I’ve never really liked Angel). It wasn’t long after that I managed to get my hands on every Southern Vampire Mystery book and read each one in less than a day. Needless to say when season three of the television series started I was ready and eager to see how closely it would follow the books. 

Well, from the start I can say that I had no idea what was going to happen as they branched away from the third book so much. Not that I didn’t enjoy the season. On the contrary, I enjoyed it quite a bit (the Eric, Sam and Lafayette parts more than the Bill parts of course) and I found ways to watch each episode as soon as I could. So when we got to the last episode I was expecting…well…not what the book had laid out but something pretty epic.

Strangely I found that after the episode was over I was left with a feeling of “meh”. I won’t give away any real spoilers but I know that Amanda, who watched that episode with me, expressed a similar opinion. Unlike the ending of seasons 1 & 2 I found that I wasn’t immediately demanding a new episode RIGHT THEN. Yes, I do anticipate season 4, especially if it has certain elements of the fourth book (if that’s the case, I might need a bucket each Sunday to catch the drool) but I’m not craving. Unlike the last episode of season 2.0 of Battlestar Galactica I’m not screaming at the top of my lungs to the ceiling that I can’t wait to know what happens (you know the episode: “I’m getting my men!”)…and that makes me a little sad.

True, I love seeing a good storyline wrapped up nice and neat with just a teaser left dangling but in my favorite shows I love to be left craving the next season. It makes the wait between seasons that much more difficult and the first episode of the new season that much sweeter.

I really hope that season 4 brings back that feeling.

Anyone else (besides Amanda and I) have that experience with the last episode of season 3? Anyone care to debate me on the merits of Bill rather than Eric? Drop a comment below!

Episode 5-True(Geek)Blood

In this episode we are joined by two very special guest to talk about True Blood. We are joined by Jason aka GolfRat from TalkingAboutGames and Anthony aka TinPanAlley from OpenForumRadio. We talk about the first 2 seasons as well as Anthony about the differences from the show and the books.

True Blood related sites

http://true-blood.net/

http://www.trueblood-online.com/

http://truebloodfansite.com/

http://fangbangers.com/

http://trueblood.fannook.com/