Posted on 07/14/2010 10:38:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
INDEED. ALL WARNINGS AGAINST SUCH CONTACTS AND ATTRACTIONS TO THE OCCULT NEED TO BE HEEDED.
I often ask my students—what’s with the skulls and stuff on clothing etc. They never have any good answers.
It’s always stuff like . . .
It’s dramatic. It’s exciting etc.
To which I reply:
DEATH IS ATTRACTIVE? You REALLY
WANT
TO
ADVERTISE
DEATH???
For what purpose? You looking to die soon?
You eager for your loved ones to die soon?
You want to attract a boy/girlfriend who’s obsessed with death as an ideal mate?
Of course, then, they have no answers.
What hideous seductions of values.
Sheesh.
Culture of death indeed.
That was a GREAT episode, the scene where Giles enters the apartment and there is the music and the rose and he goes up the stairs and lying on the bed is Jenny’s dead body, WOW. I think that alot of the shows in Seasons Two, Three and Five were some of the best writing I’ve ever seen on television.
Did you happen to catch season 4 of Angel when they turned him bad for a bit? Even locked up in cage he was still horrible. I was sad when Lilah died though. I think she really did love Wesley.
Where’s Spike and Drusiila whe you really need them.
Go ahead, ask Spike to glitter, I dare you!
Hmmm, really? I started reading the Southern Vampire series when it first came out and I after watching the first season on DVD, I really don’t think that I care for the show that much. They have already said they are never going to have Bubba in the series, and I love him. Also, they are totally changing the characters around. Bill is NOT a good guy, by any stretch of the imagination. Eric was always the one who saved Sookie from Long Shadow and everything else. Bill didn’t even like her, he was just dating her because he was commanded to. Also, Lafayette is still alive?????? And he’s related to Tara, a freaking minor character who somehow became black and important to the plotline? Sorry, I tend to become over excited :)
I would recommend some of Laurell K. Hamilton’s earlier Anita Blake books. Fair warning though, stop after Obsidian Butterfly. If you read Narcissus in Chains, I refuse to take any responsibility for it. That was where Anita started collecting men. I swear in each book after NiC she started adding lovers and developing magical powers for anyone who gets near her magical hoo-ha.
I read an early Anita Blake short story and liked it. I also read a short story set in her “Vampire Humper” period and...didn’t like it.
They have changed some things, but I really like what they’re doing with the stories.
Bill did fall in love with Sookie after he was commanded to date her. He was brokenhearted when she dumped him, and he’s still guarding her and protecting her, as from the fairies who attacked her in the latest book.
Eric always loved her but didn’t know it until after he had amnesia and she sheltered him.
WTHeck??? Tara has always been black.
I’m glad that Lafayette is still alive. Poor Nelson Ellis takes a lot of grief from his family for the role, but I think he’s doing a great job.
Shame about Bubba. I guess they couldn’t get the rights. Although you’d think for such a popular character they’d try harder. Aren’t there about a million Elvis impersonators jiggling around out there? Heck.
Well, I’m sorry. You got me going! LOL!
Ok, for some reason I thought Tara was white. Had a bit of a brain fart on that, I don’t know why I thought she was white. I just am not partial to the show, even though I really like the books alot. On the upside though, I absolutely love Pam, that is exactly how I always pictured her. And I always wished Sookie would get with Sam anyway.
If you like good paranormal fiction, I’d totally recommend Kim Harrison’s “Hollows” series. Also good authors are Kelly Armstrong’s women of otherworld series and Patricia Briggs is awesome, but her stuff is more were-wolf centered, as is Carrie Vaughn.
here is my problem with Laurell’s books, summed up by a character who was supposed to be evil,but he was right on “That’s your problem Anita, you make women out of all of your men.”
I recently got into Patricia Briggs and Carrie Vaughn, but they were more into werewolves. Kim Harrison is also a good one. Patricia Briggs did a short story called “Alpha and Omega” to start her new series and I liked it. Gotta warn anyone thinking of reading her books that there is a really brutal scene where this one character gets raped beat so bad her arm is refered to as “like a tube of toothpaste with marbles inside it”. It was very hard to read.
Yes; from start to finish, it was vintage Whedon: a really excellent episode. I’ve seen all seven seasons in sequence, several times, and all 5 of Angel. You’re talking about when they turned him to try to get information on Jasmine’s beast? Faith got called in to take him down, iirc? Yep, he was sheer evil.
Fifth season of Angel was best, and the final two episodes are probably about the best series finale, ever. Including Buffy.
Yeah that was the one. Lol, I have a black dog named Faith and 2 ferrets named Spike and Angel.
He was especially evil to Dru. When it went back and showed all the terrible things he did just to her, from the moment in the confessional “God will use you and then strike you down” to him and Darla killing all the nuns right before turning her in the convent, wow! Buffy and Angel were the only two tv shows that I can ever remember making me cry. also, now we all know, thanks to Joss, that sex is evil.
LOL! You’re right. I’ve read some of every one of those authors’ books.
Eric is not as I’d pictured him. In my mind, he is a preternaturally attractive Dolph Lundgren. Alexander Skarsgård has a too-babyish face, but he is doing a great job as well, and he’s growing on me. We just watched the episode where he tricked Sookie into drinking his blood. That was funny to us, but not for Bill, of course.
And Pam is perfect.
Sam and Sookie? Hmmm... I always got a bit of an overtone there (in the books) that he wasn’t quite right for her romantically.
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