Anyone here watched HBO's "True Blood"?

[Coventina]

I'm about 2/3 through season 1 and I'm enjoying it a lot.

From what I gather from the internets, the show ends very disappointingly.
Is there a point where I should stop watching and not have the show "ruined" and imagine my own ending?

I'm asking, because I'm really enjoying it, but I'm scared to get too invested and then get bitter about it.

An example for me is the Harry Potter series. Here, I'm talking about the books because I never finished the movie series.
I hated the last book so much that I stopped being a fan of the entire franchise and stopped watching the movies at that point.

Any DUers with opinions on this?

Also, I don't really care about spoilers. To me, a story well-told is worth watching/reading, even if you are familiar with it.

[tblue37]

1. The book series it's based on is much better. After the first season, which stuck close to the first

book, the show went off the rails and hardly connected to the books at all.

[Glorfindel]

2. Hi, Coventina! I watched all seasons of "True Blood"

and I really wasn't disappointed in its content or its ending. Granted, I was living in southern Mississippi at the time, where things are almost as strange as they are portrayed in the fictional Louisiana of "True Blood." I suggest just relaxing into the story and not try to make it anything it's not. But then I'd watch Ryan Kwanten, Alexander Skarsgard, and Anna Paquin giving a dramatic reading of the New York City telephone book circa 1980.



I was also disappointed in the final volume of "Harry Potter," but it took itself much more seriously than "True Blood" did. I hope this helps!

[catrose]

3. I quit watching in the second season

I'm not sure where you'd stop, but for an ending, you might prefer to check out the last Sookie book from the library and read the author's ending.

And the real ending for me is that the actors playing Bill and Sookie got married IRL.

[trueblue2007]

4. i read the Sookie Stackhouse books and watched the movie on Amazon

very good. I watch EVERY Harry Potter movie i can. Twilight movies also

[bobbieinok]

5. Read some of books before it was on HBO watched bits of a few.

Dislike actors playing some of main roles

[IcyPeas]

6. season 1 and 2 were fantastic

you felt sorry for Bill the vampire. there are some great stories of all the characters. I even loved their names, like Hoyt, Sookie, Lafayette, Sam. Loved the detective character. the staff of Merlotte's. poor Jessica, not a very smart vampire.

I loved Bill and Sookie story. Loved the idea of a synthetic blood, V juice. Loved the name of the vampire club: Fangtasia

it does go downhill although slowly. ended up with too much shape-shifting in the last season. I watched every season though. Great show overall.

Oh and RIP Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis).

OH, AND MOST OF ALL. One of the best openings in TV history (in my humble opinion). I never fast forwarded thru the opening.

[lunatica]

7. You'll get bored with it long before the end

I did.

Some shows need to know when enough is enough, and that’s usually when they have to change all the characters and plots just to keep going.