Between Dead Until Dark and True Blood, we can see a numerous amount of differences. Since the book follows Sookie's life and everything is seen through her perspective, we don't really get the chance to peer into the lives of her brother or any of the other supporting characters. Of course, the show has some down sides like projecting the vampire blood as an illegal drug that forces the characters to go through lots of trouble to obtain, and making Jason seem like a really dumb southern boy, but even these parts are pretty entertaining! Sookie does need some (more like a lot) of work as a main character, but since she gets about half the screen time as she did in the book, this gives the audience a chance to enjoy the other stories going on. For example, the situation Tara is going through with her abusive, alcoholic mother is emotional and causes us to actually feel something. Another character's story we dive further into is Lafayette's. We get to see every side of this character, from throwing an infected burger in a customers' face to an intimate rendezvous with an old vampire for some more V (vampire blood). Both of these characters, which are black, are extremely funny and they add much entertainment to the show in its entirety. #blessforallthatsass
Some other differences noticed in the show include the effects of V. Adding to the "illegal" connotation of it, we see Jason and his new girlfriend, Amy, practically addicted to how the V affects them. For some reason, this change we see in Jason and Amy is one that we don't see in Sookie, even though she is also drinking the blood from Bill, her vampire boyfriend. Maybe they are trying to show us that the blood from good, metro vampires has beneficial effects ( "true" vampire blood) and the V obtained through illegal activity has bad effects. Or, since Jason is a possible suspect, he has to experience all the bad sides to drinking V whereas sweet, damsel in distress, Sookie, gets all the good effects... who knows.
Another very interesting character we delve deeper into is Sam, the shapeshifter. The book does a really good job keeping his identity a secret until early one morning BAM! He wakes up naked next to Sookie. In True Blood, Bill makes a smart comment about Sam "marking his territory," he goes into dead Maudette's bedroom and sniffs to his hearts' content, and he even shows up as a dog in several scenes! #thirstytobebetterthanBill
We could certainly get into how... interesting... the sex scenes in these couple episodes were... but I think it best to save that for another time. Our minds can only handle so much True Blood and Dead Until Dark.
With all these plot twists the director places in the show, we are like totally captivated. Now wouldn't it be so much more exciting if the main character was a better Sookie Stackhouse? Yeah, my thoughts exactly...
I think you are on to something when you wrote that the difference in the effects of V between Jason and Sookie may be making a point to show that illegally acquired and used V is bad but "willingly given" V is good. This is just a thought that came up while reading your post, but I feel as though this is very similar to how drugs are viewed in our society, some drugs may have terrible side effects but are not stigmatized because they are legal and even prescribed by doctors, while some would argue that there are more natural drugs with a less negative impact that are illegal. These drugs are usually treated with a much more negative attitude than the legal one's that in some cases can be more harmful. What do you think?
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