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May. 2nd, 2007 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javacatI'm managing some moderation in my obession with Six Feet Under thanks to the time it takes for each DVD to arrive from the library request queue. I love the characters, how screwed up they are, but there for each other when it counts. The ending was so brilliant... I rewatched it several times, with and without commentary, and started over, to see it on DVD instead of Tivo'd cable, in case I missed anything before. Knowing how it really ends, how it always ends, for everyone, makes me appreciate the characters even more. Grief and death were close companions of mine for a long time, also, and I love this media experience that show death, points out the naturalness of it, well, Nate does, anyway.
I went sniffing around info on Alan Ball, creator of the series, and he has a vampire tv show coming up sometime this year. Interesting!
http://televisionary.blogspot.com/2007/02/casting-couch-anna-paquin-bites-into.html
Anna Paquin will play Sookie Stackhouse, an innocent waitress who can read people's minds. In a small Louisana town, she comes into contact with the burgeoning underworld... which isn't quite so underground now that vampires can buy Japanese-made synthetic blood and mingle with the living. The vampires' emergence into everyday society throws Sookie into the arms of one of the undead and a love story (writ large by Ball) begins.
Other links: http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/68/18968.php, http://reelfanatic.blogspot.com/2006/07/hbo-sopranos-true-blood-and-spike-lee.html
From the latter, quoting Alan Ball: Having shed one of their more antisocial habits, the vampires "decide to make their presence known, hire PR firms, and sort of ... come out of the coffin. A lot of churches are horribly against them, but they are very wealthy, and contribute a lot of money to Republican politicians so that they can legitimise their holdings." He had fun with subtexts: "Vampires are a great metaphor for minority groups that struggle for rights and recognition, but also for Republicans, in that they’re vicious and bloodthirsty and will destroy anything that gets in their way."
I went sniffing around info on Alan Ball, creator of the series, and he has a vampire tv show coming up sometime this year. Interesting!
http://televisionary.blogspot.com/2007/02/casting-couch-anna-paquin-bites-into.html
Anna Paquin will play Sookie Stackhouse, an innocent waitress who can read people's minds. In a small Louisana town, she comes into contact with the burgeoning underworld... which isn't quite so underground now that vampires can buy Japanese-made synthetic blood and mingle with the living. The vampires' emergence into everyday society throws Sookie into the arms of one of the undead and a love story (writ large by Ball) begins.
Other links: http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/68/18968.php, http://reelfanatic.blogspot.com/2006/07/hbo-sopranos-true-blood-and-spike-lee.html
From the latter, quoting Alan Ball: Having shed one of their more antisocial habits, the vampires "decide to make their presence known, hire PR firms, and sort of ... come out of the coffin. A lot of churches are horribly against them, but they are very wealthy, and contribute a lot of money to Republican politicians so that they can legitimise their holdings." He had fun with subtexts: "Vampires are a great metaphor for minority groups that struggle for rights and recognition, but also for Republicans, in that they’re vicious and bloodthirsty and will destroy anything that gets in their way."