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EstelSeren & Lexi's Mummy & anyone else who would like a wee book vs show debate!:
EstelSeren & Lexi's Mummy & anyone else who would like a wee book vs show debate!
:The thing is, I don't think Charlaine Harris' Sookie novels deserve any particular attention paid to her rules because she doesn't even bother to keep them straight herself. I think the writers of the show have every right to take artistic license when she is as sloppy as she is.
On the shifter/were/two-natured topic alone, we get a big rundown in book 3 from Alcide to Sookie on weres as they are driving to Jacksonville and he tells her that:
a) weres that are bitten not born rarely survive very long
b) if a bitten were engenders a child in human form, the trait is not passed along
c) if a bitten were engenders a child in altered form, the baby miscarries
Fastforward just two books and there are already contradictions to this. Jason is now a bitten were and no one is concerned about his imminent death. He is now part of a were community and no one says anything about him not surviving. There is concern about how he will adjust mentally, but that's all.
After Jason changes for the first time, Sookie wonders about Jason's potential future children being weres or not if he marries into the Hotshot community, whether he'd have a baby or a kitten if they mated as panthers, as if she has never had the long revealing conversation with Alcide which is supposed to have established all this info.
Don't even get me started on other inconsistencies. For example, is Debbie Pelt a were lynx or a were fox? She's a lynx in book 4 and by book 5, she is casually referred to as a were fox.
Catfish Hennessy is Catfish Hawkins in book 5, as well.
How does a writer not catch that kind of thing? Or her editors?
There are many many more contradictions, but even just starting with those, I just don't think the rules of the world need to be respected all that much.
I do enjoy the novels a lot, but I think even just a little more attention to detail would have resolved all the weird inconsistencies. I have no problem with the show's writers playing fast and loose with Sookieverse. I really think of the show and the books as two very separate entities.
I would love to debate this!
On the shifter/were/two-natured topic alone, we get a big rundown in book 3 from Alcide to Sookie on weres as they are driving to Jacksonville and he tells her that:
a) weres that are bitten not born rarely survive very long
b) if a bitten were engenders a child in human form, the trait is not passed along
c) if a bitten were engenders a child in altered form, the baby miscarries
Fastforward just two books and there are already contradictions to this. Jason is now a bitten were and no one is concerned about his imminent death. He is now part of a were community and no one says anything about him not surviving. There is concern about how he will adjust mentally, but that's all.
After Jason changes for the first time, Sookie wonders about Jason's potential future children being weres or not if he marries into the Hotshot community, whether he'd have a baby or a kitten if they mated as panthers, as if she has never had the long revealing conversation with Alcide which is supposed to have established all this info.
Don't even get me started on other inconsistencies. For example, is Debbie Pelt a were lynx or a were fox? She's a lynx in book 4 and by book 5, she is casually referred to as a were fox.
Catfish Hennessy is Catfish Hawkins in book 5, as well.
How does a writer not catch that kind of thing? Or her editors?
There are many many more contradictions, but even just starting with those, I just don't think the rules of the world need to be respected all that much.
I do enjoy the novels a lot, but I think even just a little more attention to detail would have resolved all the weird inconsistencies. I have no problem with the show's writers playing fast and loose with Sookieverse. I really think of the show and the books as two very separate entities.
I would love to debate this!
) Jason also has an advantage over most bitten weres: he has pack (or the panther equivalent) approval. He's helped through his first change. He's protected. He's expecting it. He's not going to be killed on sight by the pack, which is common in were society (take the Jackson Weres who don't allow bitten Weres so kill any that are in their territory!) You need to take into account the cultural differences between shifter groups as well. Sookie only really gets the bulk of her information from the wolves, but it is shown quite clearly that the panthers do things differently. Sam has a different culture completely. It stands to reason that different groups would treat bitten weres differently and so their life expectancy would differ depending on what they were bitten by! Sookie only gets the bully's account of what should happen, because the wolves have a bad name for a reason: they are more brutal than other shifter groups.
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Oh i love true blood too!!! 
