mojolewis

"taken some of the elements of the book, and used them to create a whole different story." Then base the story upon the book but not title it the same as the book. Dead Until Dark is the book that the True Blood series was based upon. I enjoyed the books and I enjoyed the HBO show because I separated the two. In fact, the character that Rutina Wesley played in True Blood was white and not a central character in the books and her cousin Lafayette died on the first page of the second book but because Alan Ball based the show on the books he was able to take liberties. As an author I would hate that my main character was given second billing and a made up character was put in her place. That's just me. Saying that I am enjoying the tv rendition. It is really well acted and done. I just wish it was called "anything else" based upon the book Queen Sugar.

When I first started watching this show I thought, "You know they really are leaving this up to socialization in it's purest form." The episode last night was just an insult to my intelligence. Jamie Otis really gripes my a##. The whole cigarette situation was blow up in a ruse to find any reason to reject Doug. It's amazing how quickly she straddled Ben what's his face on the Bachelor and she had known him for about 10 minutes and besides that he is nowhere near as good looking and good natured as Doug is. She is full of herself and she thinks everyone is buying her trailer trash abuse victim story. My upbringing was dysfunctional and I happen to live in a double wide in the country now and I'm dignified enough and think enough of myself not to hunt for a man on national TV. And the psychologist- please he knows but I guess for TV's sake he tried to convince the audience that this was all a part of Jamie's poor traumatized me psyche. This woman is a ego maniac who one: thinks she is cute, two: thinks she is snowing us into liking her, and three: is only in this for the publicity. Poor Doug. If I were him not only would I have lit up a cigarette in secret but I would have had a swig of Vodka as well. I couldn't imagine crossing my legs and cold showers it would take to live even a second with this tease.