hey marlene, i saw your note about member threads but then saw what looked like serious ranting about starting new ones, so i thought i'd just explain my 'schrodinger's vampires' comment here where no one can get their panties knotted up - especially if i was overstepping in inventing the term.
schrodinger was a quantum physicist who conducted an experiment with a cat in a box - which you should google, since i'd probably jam it up trying to explain it. type in schrodinger's cat and you're off to the races. the jist of the experiment was to prove that when you observe something, you change it just by observing. so one thing will never be the same thing to every person, nor will it be the same thing when people are seeing it as it is when *no one* is seeing it. as soon as you observe something, you change it and therefore the idea of the "real" or "true" thing is impossible. that's my interpretation, anyway.
so my "schrodinger's vampire" line, obtuse as it was, was my attempt to point out that it wouldn't matter if Alan Ball said he was going to reproduce Harris's books EXACTLY, to the finest detail; as soon as he even lays eyes on it, he's making it something different than what Harris made. heck, each person that reads Harris's books probably reads a different thing than everyone else.
but i'm biased, of course, because the show is my first TB love and therefore i'm invested in ITS storylines. to imagine a Bill who doesn't adore Sookie or a Sookie who could fall in love with Eric just feels...yucky. but i don't judge.
I dont like facebook so I'll probably never go to it....~shrugs~
