TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

trueblood is finally over and it was pretty lame. The entire last episode was boring as [expletive], but at least the plot was.....okay?

[JL21]

I want to know why some vampires can talk and carry on conversations while others are grunting parasitic imbeciles.

And who lives then turns and who dies then turns? Is it something about the victim or does the master or whoever is turning them choose to let them live by not draining them of all their blood?

It feels like they don't have a handle on that, and I wonder how it is in the novel/comics. Not that it's a big deal given the kind of show it is.

You have:

The Master - who seems more like a demon so far
Eichhorst - who is a civilized, walking/talking vampire - maybe the hooded guy is the same as him? Different look though.
The 4 survivors - who woke up before everyone and took varying times to fully turn, and yet seemingly ended up the same as the rest of the plane victims
The little girl - who woke up and went home, spoke to her father, but seemed to already be turned
All the rest, who just seem like bloodthirsty animals incapable of (or uninterested in) communicating

I've spoken to someone who has read the books, and asked about this thing specifically. Or actually, I just made the comment that I wondered why some talked and some were parasites. She said that it eventually gets cleared up. So they may be sloppy about it in the show, but there's allegedly some sort of answer forthcoming. I don't know what that is.

My best guess:

-It has to do with age- how long you've been a vampire.

-The four survivors were a special case. I think there was something different about them when they were turned. It may even be as simple as they weren't turned all the way but they were infected, whereas the others were just turned/killed.

The little girl is the one that throws a monkey wrench into all of it, though. I think that may have just been sloppy writing or whatever, or done for creep factor and suspense. After all, what's creepier than an undead little girl going home to her father and then feasting on him? And it fits the whole thing with the way Abraham keeps bringing up why the parasite is so nefarious- because people always return home to their loved ones. In short, I think it was an intentionally sloppy script moment because she worked great as a plot device and a totem for what they were trying to illustrate.

[thrill]

The dude who plays Eichorst is great.

[Jocephus]

[33anda3rd]

Apologies if anyone posted this a few pages back.

[haltz]

Just shot through the entire series of Friday Night Lights on Netflix, such a great show. I got like no sleep one night since I couldn't stop watching and basically stayed up all night watching it all.

I'm a little more than halfway through the first season. This is the most come from behind team in the history of sports.

[ghostrunner]

One of these days I'll finish the first season. Looking forward to the crazy stupid stuff in the 2nd season whenever I get there.

[Schlich]

They're going to make an HBO show based on shutter island

scorcese directing

[thrill]

One of these days I'll finish the first season. Looking forward to the crazy stupid stuff in the 2nd season whenever I get there.

Yeah, it's crazy, but I'd kill for Adrianne Palicki, and it's much more believable now, in a post-breaking bad world.

[MrSaigon]

Wow. The promos for Mulaney look really, really bad. Like Reba, According to Jim bad (yes, I would know: you'll watch at least a little of anything in English overseas, especially a few years of tech ago). I had hopes for that one from his standup and snl stuff.