what is Sookie?

[mellowtigger]

I'm asking for spoilers about the excellent True Blood television series on HBO.

What is Sookie Stackhouse?  What is it that happens when she touches the evil maenad Maryann (pictured here)?

The tv series is based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, but I have not read those books.

I am thinking of spending $25 to support their production of this great show by purchasing some of their TruBlood beverage.  It's just blood-orange fizzy drink, and really expensive at about $3/bottle plus shipping, but I also think it's important to financially support worthwhile productions.  Download for free, sure, I'm fine with that, but be sure to send them money to continue their work.  :)

spoilers below:
I'm hoping that the tv series will reveal her species before the end of season 2, but it doesn't seem likely to happen.  I've tried searching online, but I still can't find an answer.  I've learned that Sookie has faerie lineage in her family line, but I also read she was told by a relative (a faerie prince of some kind) that her telepathy is not a faerie trait.  So I'm still left with the same question, "What is Sookie?"

Is anyone else sorry to see Godrick go so soon?  So far, he's been the only vampire that I really liked (in the sense that I would want to meet and talk with such a person in real life).  My websurfing revealed that Sookie will be breaking up with Bill and developing a relationship with Eric instead.  (Yuck!)  Sookie also gets the hots for a weretiger and a werewolf.  (Bleh!)  Apparently she never gets involved with Sam ever again, which I find disappointing.  He's the one character that I'd like to date.  He's such a devoted guardian and good guy.  *woof*  Heh.  I think he looks good in an apron, too.  *laugh*

Comments

[kauko.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading through the books (and loving them). Yup, Sookie's greatgrandfather is a fairy and presumably Sookie's telepathy (as well as how much vampires are attracted to her) seems to come from there even though telepathy isn't a fairy trait. Sookie turns out to have a young relative (her cousin's son) who also manifests telepathy, I believe.

The scene in this weeks episode where Sookie has some power over Maryanne is completely unique to the TV show. The whole maenad story in this season is completely changed from the book, almost nothing regarding Maryann in the show happens that way with the Maenad in the book. In the book Maenads are so powerful that vampires (who already know all about them) fear them and will give them whatever they want to get them to go away. The Maenad, named Callisto in the book, and Sam have a romance during the course of the book, but have no backstory like in the show and Sam is never targeted as a sacrifice, nor the whole town 'seduced' by the Maenad like in the show.

Godric's another character they changed from the books (although the whole Dallas timeline in general was close to the book, closer than the Maenad stuff). In the book Godric isn't Eric's maker or the Sherrif of that area. He goes to the Fellowship of the Sun, not out of some enlightened reconciliation between humans and vampires but because he feels guilty for all the people he's killed (especially children) and wants to die. He does die via the sun with Sookie at his side in the book though.

People caught up in the 'star crossed lovers' aspect of Sookie and Bill would definitely be disappointed by what happens after book 2. In book 3 Bill leaves Sookie for Lorena (whom he cannot resist as his maker), and they've been broken up for 4 books now as Sookie can't forgive him for leaving her (EDIT: Bill hasn't been with Lorena for 4 books, though, Lorean betrays Bill and tortures him in book 3 and Sookie rescues him and stakes Lorena in the process.

*************WARNING: HUGE SPOILER HERE: in the book I'm reading now Bill reveals to Sookie that he didn't just happen to move back to Bon Temps and meet her, he was sent there to seduce her by the Queen of Louisiana, who had heard of Sookie's telepathy from Sookie's cousin who becomes a vampire and lesbian lover of the Queen. Once Sookie learns that she loses it and tells Bill to never speak to her again. So, from where I am in the series it doesn't look good for Sookie and Bill ever getting back together.************

Sookie does have a fling with Eric in one of the books where Eric completely loses his memory and actually becomes a nice guy.

The werewolf Sookie gets the hots for is named Alcide, and I was rooting for them so bad (from his description in the books Alcide is my type :) they never seem to manage to admit their feelings and date each other though. In the current book I'm reading Sookie has just started dating the weretiger, Quinn. In the last few books I've read Sookie has about 5 hot men after her, which is making me a little jealous of her, especially the ones, like Alcide, that she doesn't allow anything to happen with :)

Nothing ever becomes of Sam and Sookie in the books as far as I've read.

[mellowtigger]

"The scene in this weeks episode where Sookie has some power over Maryanne is completely unique to the TV show."

Argh! So that's why I can't find spoilers. There are none to be had from the books! :(

Thanks for the detailed info. I'm sure I'll be discussing it with the Bears at Coffee tomorrow evening. (I've gotten some of them hooked on the series, I think.) Yeah, if Bill had ulterior motives, then I can cope with their breakup. And if Eric is a completely new person (memory loss), then I suppose that affair will be tolerable while it lasts too. *laugh*

I think the show is doing a great job of keeping many main characters active in the story threads, rather than focusing on Sookie's relationships with the non-human alpha males of the world. :)

[kauko.livejournal.com]

Well, unfortunately, Eric gets his memory back at the end of that book and is back to his usual self. He and Sookie apparently had a good time of it though while he had no memory. Aside from being 6 foot 5, Eric is apparently very well endowed :)

The reason they changed the Maenad story line so much, I think, was to give all the other characters in the show something to be doing while Sookie was off in Dallas. The problem the show's makers run into, I guess, is that the books are all about Sookie, no one else really has significant side stories unless it involves Sookie. So that makes me wonder how they are going to handle next season, assuming they're going to do book 3, because book 3 is all about Sookie and pretty much all the other side charaters are left behind in Bon Temps while Sookie goes off to Mississippi for the whole book by herself and some new characters. I think they'll really have to create new storylines in order to keep Tara, Sam, Jason etc doing stuff come next season.

[kauko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if Bill had ulterior motives, then I can cope with their breakup

I kinda get the feeling that while he was sent to seduce Sookie, he genuinely did fall in love with her. So, if that's the case there might be some reconciliation between them. Of course, there are 3 more books out I haven't gotten to yet so who knows what happens. There's also a new one due out this fall.