Mini Update

Been a while, right? My fault. Mostly work has been a constant, summer school starts on monday, and I've been trying to keep as busy as possible in order to put off writing my novel.

Which isn't coming along very well. The outlining, though nearing completion, is hard to motivate myself for. At the same time, I go to bed every night and read while thinking how much I'd rather just read the book I have planned, so I'm thinking that'll be a reason to keep pushing through until I hit my groove and crank some hardcore zombie action out.

I'm thinking I won't be updating this post with any reviews until I've seen Inception either tonight or tomorrow, and then I'll just do a few write-ups in one go. While I'm here though, why not talk about:

I marathoned Season 1 in roughly a day and a half (probably what kept me from writing/updating shit), and I've moved on to the second season (I think it's in the third right now?) yesterday. 4 episodes in, and the writing hasn't started slacking yet.

Vampires, to me, are an interesting staple in the horror genre; perhaps one of the OG's of scary stories, if you will. For this, I was hoping that the creators of this show would do justice to the myth unlike some rather successful teenage trash that hogs the limelight. Unfortunately for me, though, Let The Right One In this is not.

I get the feeling that this was originally some sort of romance novel that was turned into a tv series, because there's loads of sex (thank God for nudity) but it's not usually counterbalanced with good story. It's undecided whether Anna Paquin, playing the lead roll of Sookie, is just a bad actress or the writers can't seem to figure out her character. Either way, 90% of the cringe worthy moments come from her, and the other 10% are gifted to the audience via her vampy boyfriend Bill (played by Stephen Moyer). If you thought that Batman's growly voice in Batman Begins was laughable, just wait until you hear Moyer try and sound menacing with his deep growl vampire voice. So srs.

Luckily, the rest of the show is pretty damn entertaining, and the premise of Vampires attempting to integrate with normal society rather than live as outcasts is by far the most enthralling portion. Mix that with a really solid supporting cast, and True Blood becomes a pretty decent show. Here's hoping they stop writing shitty dialog.

Until next time, I'm off to see Inception!