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Yey! I finally watched my first episode of True Blood, a TV series based on Southern Vampire novels. What can I say about the show? Well, it was, erm... It was a little different from what I expected it to be. I expected a lot less (go HBO!) sex scenes and a slightly better acting on some of the actors' parts. It still got me hooked though.

First I thought the show would be a mild PG-13 or something, but it turned out to be a full hardcore don't-watch-it-with-your-grandma NC-17. I'm afraid I can't say that my idea of vampire sex magically bloomed into something beautiful with the help of this series. More like it got crept out of it's skin and crawled pitifully into the corner. But hey, I used to watch Nip/Tuck and Rome, so I'm pretty sure I can handle some hardcore vampire sexiness.

The star actress of the show Anna Paquin playing Sookie Stackhouse is... Well, she doesn't exactly have "it" to play this role with confidence. I can't help it, she just isn't right. I always pictured Sookie Stackhouse being naturally blonde, blue eyed, busty and gorgeous. (Hey, it's how the books describe her.) Plus, I always imagined her having a much better sounding southern accent.

Anna Paquin is a nice teen-looking girl that was great in X-men, but she just isn't right for the role of a telepathic barmaid Sookie from S.V. series. Also, with the way she acts, she makes her heroine look kind of slow, when in the books she's pretty smart. How did that happen, I wonder?..

Stephen Moyer playing Bill Campton is both good and bad for the role. The bad is that he doesn't really look like Bill Campton from the book series at all (dark hair excluded) and in the half of his scenes he looks exactly like the kind of creep your momma warned you about when you were little.

The good is that if you smack him around a little and ruffle his hair in the right way until he looks a little more "mucho", he sort of looks like the other kind of creep your momma warned you about for completely different reasons, and when you were older, too.

Eric Northman who is my favorite character in the entire Southern Vampire series is played by Alexander Skarsgård. He is good looking enough, although I haven't seen him in action yet and he might be a little too young to play Eric. I always kind of imagined him to be a little more Josh Holloway, but oh well. You can't have everything, can you?

Ryan Kwanten as Jason, with his looks and his acting, is pretty much exactly what I expected him to be. Rutina Wesley's role, on the other hand, was completely butchered to the point where there's nothing left of the character at all.

Now about some other things. I am happy to announce that the Opening Credits song and the Intro itself pretty much rock. I love the lyrics, but the song reminds me of Idlewild Blue by Outkast a lot, which is not a bad thing, if you think about it.

The scenery of True Blood is exactly as I imagined it in the books! That was a big "phew!"for me, because at least now I know that my imagination is set right. Merlotte's bar looks absolutely as I pictured it.

So, to end this post, I have to say I'm not sure what to think of T.B. series yet, but I know now that watching it before sleep could give you nightmares with a Southern drawl. That could leave a girl feeling confused, trust me.

Still, I only watched the pilot so far, so I hope they'll make some improvements in the characters and continue supplying us with True Blood on HBO. I'm looking forward to seeing how the series will unfold and if they'll stray from the original story or not.