TrueBlood Series Finale Finally

The thing that had been building up the entire season, (that Japanese company creating the cure) was ended in the first 10 minutes. That’s fine and all, but I felt like that was going to be the big thing. It wasn’t. What was this episode mainly about? A wedding. Who’s getting married? Jessica and Hoyt. How does that make sense? It doesn’t.

This season started out killing off almost everyone. There was at least 2 people who died in each episode. That went until episode 5. Then it got really slow again. The story was interesting though. Then They found this cure in Sarah Newling and Eric was cured, but now Bill had the virus. It seemed easy enough that Bill would drink from her as well and be cured. However he didn’t want the cure so the rest of the season was Bill trying to die from the virus and set his affairs in order. Hoyt had come back because his mom died and he ended up meeting up with Jessica again. He started to like her again and in this episode, Bill pressured them to get married before he would die.

So here’s the wedding. Jason was the best man, Sookie the maid of honor. Sookie began to hear Bill’s thoughts at the wedding. They didn’t have rings and the government hasn’t legalized vampire weddings yet so this is pointless for right now. It doesn’t make sense to me because in Hoyt’s mind, they have only known each other for a couple days.

The other character plots didn’t much matter. This is a series finale so in my opinion it should have gone a lot faster and kept attention a lot more. The very last thing that the show has to wrap up, is Sookie deciding if she wants to be human. Bill had asked her to kill him and in the process it would turn her human.

Most of this is just a summary of the episode, but I gave it to prove my point of that I did not like this finale. It was too slow and there wasn’t anything that I cared happen until the end. Season and most especially series finales are suppose to be exciting and answer or ask big questions. This one did not. Go watch it. Maybe you’ll like it more than I did.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to spoil the ending but decided that I will. You’ve been warned. Bill dies. Sookie kills him but doesn’t use her powers and she decides to keeps them. Then it jumps ahead a year to show that Eric and Pam are cashing in on Sarah’s blood and have “New Blood”. Then it jumps ahead 3 years to show that they are still in production. Then it jumps ahead again to Thanksgiving. This is the “Happily ever after” for everyone. Jason stays with the girl that was Hoyt’s girlfriend which I think is dumb because it’d get very messy. Hoyt is with Jessica which I think is dumb because I don’t think that she could go forever without telling him that her and Jason slept together. Sam comes back for the holiday. Sookie is pregnant and they don’t exactly show who it is. They show him from the back and side and from those angles it looks like someone who looks like a combination between Bill and Alcide. O and Jason has 3 kids.

Now I know they had to end it somehow, but come ON! That was terrible. Were the writers completely out of creativity? I’m mad that I liked the show to begin with. I’m glad it’s over though. I know that the books and the show went different routes and I have yet to read the very last book, but hopefully it brings me better satisfaction than the show did for all these characters.

On a side note, all my predictions came true as to who lives and who dies. Lafeyette wasn’t even in this episode except for a cameo. Which I found to be stupid because they kept him alive for so long.

One last thing, I’ve been away for a very long time and that’s because I’m in the process of moving and soon I’ll be moving again. So my posts will be hit and miss.

Wolfman

The penultimate movie in the Universal Monster Cinematic Universe is the Wolfman. This movie starts off with a flashback to Dracula where Dracula is attacking the nearby village as a wolf. One of the people he bit survives. That person is Larry Talbot and he wakes up a month later. He is played by David Duchovny. He is ill. His wife and children are worried. The full moon is approaching. They believe that it is from the bit being infected.

In some mythologies, the moon is full for three nights instead of just one. On the first night of the full moon, Talbot turns into the Wolfman. This isn’t a CG Wolfman. This is all makeup. He kills his family and then attacks the village. The next day he wakes up in blood of his family. He is upset. The village is finally fed up with all the monsters. Van Helsing is seen putting up fliers, trying to gather up a team of monster hunters.

The second night of the full moon Talbot turns again. The next day, he realizes that he is the Wolfman. He hears rumors of a man who also has strange transformations and goes to see him. This man is Dr. Jekyll played by John Wesley Shipp. John Wesley Shipp played the father on Dawson’s Creek. He also played Barry Allen on the 90s live action Flash TV show. Dr Jekyll is in prison. Talbot visits him but Dr. Jekyll is unable to help him.

The third night he turns again and the following day he decides to leave, not knowing if he will turn every night. The movie ends with him leaving the village. Fill in some plot and add drama and we have a movie.

Post credit scene: Dracula comes to the Wolfman a month later and says that it is the monsters turn to take revenge on the humans.

Tune in next time for the Avengers like movie in the Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe.

Frankenstein

This movie in my Universal Monster Cinematic Universe, is more darker than the others. This movie is Frankenstein. Frankenstein has Dr. Frankenstein (Johnny Depp) kill his wife (Mila Kunis), then deny that she is dead. This isn’t the fun crazy Johnny Depp that we’ve seen in most of his movies like Pirates of the Caribbean or Alice in Wonderland, but psychotic killer crazy Johnny Depp like Sweeny Todd or Secret Window. Part of Frankenstein believes his wife is alive and part of him knows she is dead. He begins work on how to bring her back to life. During this time, he partakes in necrophilia.

At some point in the movie, he goes to meet a fellow scientist who is on the verge of a break through in his invisibility research. If you guessed that this was the future Invisible Man then you were right. This man is played by Neil Patrick Harris. Later on in the movie, Frankenstein gets a call from his friend to come to his home. Frankenstein arrives but doesn’t see his friend anywhere. Deciding he doesn’t have time for this, he leaves in a hurry. We see something float in the air though, leaving us to believe that the Invisible Man is already created. The Invisible Man is like Hawkeye in Thor. He doesn’t get his own movie but is given some back story.

Frankenstein is able to resurrect the Bride of Frankenstein with the help of Igor who is played by Jeremy Davies (who played Charles Manson in Helter Skelter and a character on Lost). She goes insane. He creates another monster to kill her once again because he is unable to. This monster is the Frankenstein’s monster we all know and love. This monster is also played by Ron Perlman. I think his voice would be the greatest. Plus he kind of looks like the monster.

So the Bride and the Monster battle with the Monster being victorious. During the skirmish, Dr. Frankenstein is killed as well. Frankenstein’s monster leaves the castle, lost and not knowing what his purpose is.

That’s all I have for this one. The story may not be the greatest, but the cast would carry the movie where it needed to go. And I’m not coming up with an entire script but if the right person was able to, then this could be a great movie.

Ironically, I Frankenstein is playing as I wrote this. Not planned.

Dracula

Dracula would be the second in my Universal Monster Universe.

The movie starts out similar to past Dracula’s that we know. Jonathon Harker is traveling, but in this version, Mina Harker (who is normally Mina Murray and John’s fiancee) is Harker’s sister. They stop at Dracula’s castle to stay for a bit. Dracula is played by Hugo Weaving (better known as the Smith from the Matrix). John Harker is played by Aaron Eckhart and Mina is played by Catherine Sutherland (better known as Cat the pink Power Ranger from Mighty Morphing). During their stay, Dracula travels to the local village as a wolf and attacks. He kills many people by biting and scratching. Because of this attack, Van Helsing decides to track down Dracula and kill him. Helsing is played by Jensen Ackles. Van travels to the castle and with the help of the Harkers, he is able to repel Dracula from the land. During the skirmish, John Harker is killed. Van falls for Mina Harker and the two leave together.

Post credit scene: I’m not really sure what would work here as a post credit scene. I would say that there wouldn’t be one at all. Maybe this movie is like the Hulk of the Avengers movies. Or maybe there could be a Bryan Cranston cameo. Maybe Van Helsing sent Cranston a letter because he was involved with the Mummy.

The Mummy

The first of the Universal Monster Cinematic Universe has already been announced as the Mummy. This is what I would do for this movie if it was in my power.

Stephen Banning (the hero from an older Mummy movie in 1959) is played by Bryan Craynston. His son is John (played by Ryan Kwanten [True Blood’s Jason Stackhouse]) and a couple other guys (one played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan [maybe his name is Rick]) enter the tomb of Imohtep in Egypt, 1895. This is the same time as the original Mummy. The men make mention that their expedition was put together by a man named “Victor”. They uncover the sarcophagus and awaken the Mummy. The Mummy at first isn’t shown. He controls scarabs and other bugs, plus traps and sand to attack the men. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is alone and is attacked by the Mummy. We believe that he is dead. Later he shows up saying that he was able to get away. The men continue to try to escape and they learn that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is now the Mummy in that man’s skin. The skin image falls away and we are given the Mummy’s reveal. The Mummy is CG but make it look good (not like the Matrix). The father and son end up being able to trap the Mummy back in its sarcophagus, ending the movie.

Post credit scene: The Mummy’s sarcophagus is being placed in a box by workers. That box is then sealed and the last thing we see is the men putting the shipping on the box. It is being shipped to “Victor Frankenstein – Transylvania, Romania”

This movie would set up connections to be later followed up. Tune in tomorrow when I discuss Dracula.

Checking In

I took a longer break from blogging than planned. Sorry for all my readers out there. However, I am still alive and just going to give you a preview of my themed blogs for the next few days.

This idea comes from the upcoming Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe. It has been announced that the first movie in this universe will be The Mummy. I will be taking each of these movies one day a movie and tell who I would cast and how the movie would go.

Be prepared. I came up with some great ideas. Tune in tomorrow