Is anyone watching True Blood on HBO?

[Trainer Monkey]

I'm not really into horror novels. Werewolves are my fave horror characters although 90% of werewolf movies are awful.

Still American Werewolf in London is possibly the greatest horror of all time, and I loved Dog Soldiers. The Ginger Snaps films wern't bad either.

I am a werewolf man myself. Spoon from Dog Soldiers is on of my favorite movie characters. I thought there was supposed to be a sequel coming out?! I heard that about 4 years ago.

I do like vampire movies though and thought Hammer's Horror Of Dracula was much better than Universal's Dracula.

I wouldnt go that far,but I will admit I have both the remastered DVD of Dracula Prince Of Darkness,and a Tshirt as well

[Dizaster]

Believe me I will. Ideally I'd like to see a vampire shoot some jizzum into that gap between her teeth but I'm not sure American tv bosses are as progressive as that, still being stuck in the moralistic dark ages.

Have you ever downloaded any Deadwood? I think you'd love that show and is as 'progressive' as i've seen from any television show....

My download limit is getting shot to shit this month with about 8 of my favourite shows coming back.. I'm going to struggle to add True Blood to the weekly download roster, but it sounds fun.... If I have to, i'll drop my girlfriends weekly Gossip Girl download.. Hey, I like to live dangerously..

What's with having a download limit, just go to an isp who doesn't have one.

I've been banned 5 times by companies now, BT, Eclipse, AOL (twice), Onetel. I just get a mac code and move on, downtime rarely for more than 24 hours.

Now I'm with Tiscali who have a cap between 6pm and 11pm but let me download as much I want outside those hours.

AOL told me I averaged around 600 gb downloaded per month, quite a bit over their 40 gb monthly limit

Australia is a TOTAL TOTAL SCAM!!! I have searched all the ISP's and scanned the forums, and it is well known that there isn't any company in Australia that does true unlimited downloads... They ALL have some sort of cap. The highest is about 100gig which is one of the real crappy ISP's..

They are usually between 60gig and 25gig...

When you reach your limit, it either 1)Slows litereally to about 8kbps which is worse than my 1995 modem speed.. (in 2008 that is a fucken scam). or 2)They charge you something like 25cents per meg download after you reach your limit.. Which is even fucking worse!! $1 for 4 meg.. This is where people have gotten bills for like, $5000 and had to dispute them...

So my plan is actually within probably the top 5 or 10 plans in Australia for value/speed/limit, and it's 25gb per month, to slow once I read the limit and I pay $100Aus per month which is about 35 to 40 pounds I think...

The one next deal up from mine costs $150 and goes up to 60gig per month, but then starts charging you at some incredible rate, and I can't risk going over that, so i've opted for the slow connection option which is basicially equal to no connection at all... I can forget downloading.. Only browsing and forums at that speed...

I'll repeat, Australia is such a scam.

In America and England, the idea of competition is to put out deals better than your opponents to win over/keep customers.
In Australia, the idea of competition is to all plan together the best possible ways to get the most money out of customers for the least goods/service back... No company is prepared to break free from the pack and offer a really decent package...

So i'm stuck paying $100 a month for a max 25 gig... It is a total scam. The companies have the ability to put a decent package together. Especially the big companies which i'm with. But they have no need to because the competition isn't doing it, and they are making all the money they need right now only offering these useless packages...

This is another thing that is convincing me slowly to move to another country.

[Kev]

Have you ever downloaded any Deadwood? I think you'd love that show and is as 'progressive' as i've seen from any television show....

My download limit is getting shot to shit this month with about 8 of my favourite shows coming back.. I'm going to struggle to add True Blood to the weekly download roster, but it sounds fun.... If I have to, i'll drop my girlfriends weekly Gossip Girl download.. Hey, I like to live dangerously..

What's with having a download limit, just go to an isp who doesn't have one.

I've been banned 5 times by companies now, BT, Eclipse, AOL (twice), Onetel. I just get a mac code and move on, downtime rarely for more than 24 hours.

Now I'm with Tiscali who have a cap between 6pm and 11pm but let me download as much I want outside those hours.

AOL told me I averaged around 600 gb downloaded per month, quite a bit over their 40 gb monthly limit

Australia is a TOTAL TOTAL SCAM!!! I have searched all the ISP's and scanned the forums, and it is well known that there isn't any company in Australia that does true unlimited downloads... They ALL have some sort of cap. The highest is about 100gig which is one of the real crappy ISP's..

They are usually between 60gig and 25gig...

When you reach your limit, it either 1)Slows litereally to about 8kbps which is worse than my 1995 modem speed.. (in 2008 that is a fucken scam). or 2)They charge you something like 25cents per meg download after you reach your limit.. Which is even fucking worse!! $1 for 4 meg.. This is where people have gotten bills for like, $5000 and had to dispute them...

So my plan is actually within probably the top 5 or 10 plans in Australia for value/speed/limit, and it's 25gb per month, to slow once I read the limit and I pay $100Aus per month which is about 35 to 40 pounds I think...

The one next deal up from mine costs $150 and goes up to 60gig per month, but then starts charging you at some incredible rate, and I can't risk going over that, so i've opted for the slow connection option which is basicially equal to no connection at all... I can forget downloading.. Only browsing and forums at that speed...

I'll repeat, Australia is such a scam.

In America and England, the idea of competition is to put out deals better than your opponents to win over/keep customers.
In Australia, the idea of competition is to all plan together the best possible ways to get the most money out of customers for the least goods/service back... No company is prepared to break free from the pack and offer a really decent package...

So i'm stuck paying $100 a month for a max 25 gig... It is a total scam. The companies have the ability to put a decent package together. Especially the big companies which i'm with. But they have no need to because the competition isn't doing it, and they are making all the money they need right now only offering these useless packages...

This is another thing that is convincing me slowly to move to another country.

That is shit. My provider Tiscali cost £14.99 a month for 8 mb download speed with no monthly limit at all. The way it works is you have a 40 gb limit between the hours of 6pm and 11pm, the peak hours. So you're basically asked not to fileshare during those hours.

Outside of that though I can download as much as I like. I routinely download around 500 gb a month, I just don't do it during the evening and they are cool witht that.

[Kev]

Ok I've watched the first 3 episodes of this now and have a few hunches.

Does anyone else think that the barman (Sam?) is the dog in the courtyard?

The dog turns up every time Suki is in trouble, Sam is said to bark in his sleep, and he has a creepy picture in his office.

He's also said to Suki she can read his thoughts if she wants, which makes me believe she wouldn't be able to because he's not human.

Could he be a werewolf or some kind of shapeshifter?

Great show though, really enjoying it so far, and am hoping the twist is he is some kind of evil werewolf.

Any thoughts?

[Diane]

Ok I've watched the first 3 episodes of this now and have a few hunches.

Does anyone else think that the barman (Sam?) is the dog in the courtyard?

The dog turns up every time Suki is in trouble, Sam is said to bark in his sleep, and he has a creepy picture in his office.

He's also said to Suki she can read his thoughts if she wants, which makes me believe she wouldn't be able to because he's not human.

Could he be a werewolf or some kind of shapeshifter?

Great show though, really enjoying it so far, and am hoping the twist is he is some kind of evil werewolf.

Any thoughts?

Sam's not the dog, remember he tossed a ball for the dog to go fetch. Oh wait, that might have been in the 4th episode that you haven't seen yet.

I didn't notice the picture in his office though, I'll have to look for that.

But the barking in his sleep was odd.

If I remember right, I think Suki has already read Sam's mind once.

I'm glad you're enjoying it Bilbo, it's a great show. Have you looked for the 4th episode yet? It premiered Sunday night, so you might be able to find it now. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about this episode.

[Kev]

Ok I've watched the first 3 episodes of this now and have a few hunches.

Does anyone else think that the barman (Sam?) is the dog in the courtyard?

The dog turns up every time Suki is in trouble, Sam is said to bark in his sleep, and he has a creepy picture in his office.

He's also said to Suki she can read his thoughts if she wants, which makes me believe she wouldn't be able to because he's not human.

Could he be a werewolf or some kind of shapeshifter?

Great show though, really enjoying it so far, and am hoping the twist is he is some kind of evil werewolf.

Any thoughts?

Sam's not the dog, remember he tossed a ball for the dog to go fetch. Oh wait, that might have been in the 4th episode that you haven't seen yet.

I didn't notice the picture in his office though, I'll have to look for that.

But the barking in his sleep was odd.

If I remember right, I think Suki has already read Sam's mind once.

I'm glad you're enjoying it Bilbo, it's a great show. Have you looked for the 4th episode yet? It premiered Sunday night, so you might be able to find it now. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about this episode.

I've not see the fourth episode, just watching the first 3 tonight. I think the show is great, I usually hate vampire stuff but this one is good because it focuses less on the nonsense and more on the real world relations.

Plus I like how its the first vampire flick to realistically potray how humans would respond to them, i.e half of them would treat them as the spawn of Satan and want them destroyed, whilst the other half would want to fuck them.

I've just watched the first episode again now and I'm sure Terra is a different actress in the first episdoe. I notice my episode 1 is labelled Screener so am downloading another version now in case there is another version out there. My first ep also has some writing that says 'Missing Scene 29' or something so maybe I've got a prerelease ep 1 that is missing a bit.


Back to Sam, there is definitely more to him than meets the eye. In the first episode when Suki meets the vampire and says she was suprised nobody else knew he was a vampire, he looked at Sam and said 'He Does.'

When we first see the dog and Suke tells Bill that she thinks he lives nearby he says 'No doubt.......' as if he knows something.

The fact it was mentioned that Sam barks in his sleep and that Bill seems to have some kind of wariness to him makes me think he's not human. He's definitely a werewolf, or shapeshifter or can talk to animals or something imo.

Also in the first episode who was the girl who was watching Suki when she had that chain and was about to hit that guy draining the blood from Bill?

I initially thought it was Terra but she clearly had some magic power because she swung the chain around his neck and tied it before running off?

I'm going to rewatch the second ep now and try and work out some more.

Really cool series though, and I love the title music at the start

Cheers for the heads up on it

[amat]

OK, so I came home from work on Saturday and was flipping on the DVR to catch Mosley-Mayorga and True Blood was on. There was like some white guy and a black guy and the white guy had a mask on and the black guy was video taping him jacking off or something. I caught about 30 seconds of it before I finally got to the DVR menu but knowing that, I don't think there's anyway I can watch that show. Not that it isn't a good show, but having seen that I just can't give it a second chance.

Unless that wasn't True Blood in which case this is really awkward.

[Kev]

OK, so I came home from work on Saturday and was flipping on the DVR to catch Mosley-Mayorga and True Blood was on. There was like some white guy and a black guy and the white guy had a mask on and the black guy was video taping him jacking off or something. I caught about 30 seconds of it before I finally got to the DVR menu but knowing that, I don't think there's anyway I can watch that show. Not that it isn't a good show, but having seen that I just can't give it a second chance.

Unless that wasn't True Blood in which case this is really awkward.

haha that was the end of the third episode I think. Don't worry it gets better, you get to see vampires filmed having sex too

[Diane]

OK, so I came home from work on Saturday and was flipping on the DVR to catch Mosley-Mayorga and True Blood was on. There was like some white guy and a black guy and the white guy had a mask on and the black guy was video taping him jacking off or something. I caught about 30 seconds of it before I finally got to the DVR menu but knowing that, I don't think there's anyway I can watch that show. Not that it isn't a good show, but having seen that I just can't give it a second chance.

Unless that wasn't True Blood in which case this is really awkward.

haha that was the end of the third episode I think. Don't worry it gets better, you get to see vampires filmed having sex too

Amat you'll have to give it a shot, if you knew what lead up to that, you would understand it, and probably laugh about it.

Don't worry, you'll see plenty of stuff that you will enjoy.

[amat]

I wasn't serious about that being the end of the show for me, but I was probably never going to watch it anyways.

[Kev]

Ok I've just finished rewatching the second episode again and have taken a snapshot of the picture in Sam's office.

This is near the end of the episode at 49.46.

The setting is he has called Suki into his office to ask her if she can read the vampires thoughts and she tells him she can't and that she feels so peaceful around him because of it.

Anyway Sam says she should read his thoughts sometimes because she might like what she hears but she declines.

Then after she leaves the screen pans to the picture on the wall.

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It's clearly alluding to Suki being watched over by that dog in the courtyard and the fact that Terra says that Sam barks in his sleep MUST mean he's the dog, or at least turns into a dog or can communicate with dogs etc.

Is he Suki's supernatural guardian? Is he a werewolf? Is he good or evil?

All I know is he definitely ain't human

Loving this show by the way! Episode 3 again next

[Diane]

Yes, that does look like the dog.

Maybe Sam just knows the mystery of that dog?

Or maybe, he is one, but just not the one we keep seeing?

Damn it, you're going to get me into LOST mode with this shit.

I have all 4 episodes on my dvr, now I'm going to have to rewatch, and look for all the little details, that I wasn't looking at before.

You should have put this in the other thread, so we can keep all of this together, for future reference.

Now I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

[LEGION]

I'm going to watch the 1st two right now. Hope this is good. Any hotties?

[Kev]

Hopefully a mod will merge them, lets face it over half the people on here are now mods so one of them will do it

I just wanted to get your immediate attention so that I could see your response.

You were right about Suki baing able to read Sams mind, she reads it in the first episode.

I cant remember if Sam is seen with the dog yet, I've just watched the first two episodes tonight and am going to watch the third again now. It's 5 am here

I forecast a big showdown between Sam and Bill later on, and I DEFINITELY think werewolf's will be making an appearance later in the series!

There must be some significance to this.

I also reckon Suki's gran has got some skeletons hidden in her closet. She's a bit strange, I reckon she might have fucked a vampire or other supernatural years ago which may be why Suki has that telepathic gift.

I wonder if Sam is actually a vampire hunter?

[Diane]

Well in episode 4 you will hear a little bit more about Suki's power, and how she may have gotten it.

You're obsessed with this show now, aren't you?

I told you that you would like it.