{"id":1213,"date":"2008-09-08T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2008-09-08T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:35:07","slug":"sookie-stackhouse-no-romantic-engame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Sookie Stackhouse: No Romantic Engame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t seen True Blood<\/em> yet. I’m feeling an odd mix of really, really wanting to watch it and really, really wanting to avoid it for as long as I can. I’m a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books, and thus am fretting about how it all turned out. But that’s not what I want to talk about, exactly. I just finished the latest Sookie tome, From Dead to Worse<\/em>, and here’s something I’ve been chewing on: though Sookie herself has a very sweet romantical-type side, it doesn’t really seem like Harris has a pre-determined endgame couple in mind here. I think that’s kind of cool.<\/p>\n

Now this is, of course, it’s own kind of trap. Sookie seems to keep meeting an endless array of supernatural suitors, and they are all MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER, and that can get kind of annoying. That said, I think Sookie’s general down to earthness keeps it from being completely<\/em> annoying — she’s no Bella Swan, you know? And I like the feeling that there’s no one guy I’m supposed to be rooting for, that it could go a few different ways.<\/p>\n

I’m getting an idea of where I, personally, would like<\/em> it to go, though. I know there’s a pretty vocal fanbase for blabby, preeny vampire Eric (currently blood-bonded to Sookie), but he’s probably my least favorite. Weretiger Quinn seems like a non-starter. I still like Sookie’s first love, Bill (the love interest in True Blood<\/em>), but Harris has taken the character down a path fans don’t seem too willing to forgive. No, I’m throwing my lot in with Sam, Sookie’s shifter boss who’s also one of her best friends. He’s been there the whole time, his connection to Sookie runs deep, and it seems like she might be starting to realize that he’s also ridiculously hot. He’s slowly become one of my favorite characters in the series, and I think if he and Sookie were to finally get it on…the payoff would be deliciously satisfying.<\/p>\n

So, yeah. Put me down for Team Sam. Make me the t-shirt, register the fansite domain, start up the meaningless online petition. Team Sam FTW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t seen True Blood yet. I’m feeling an odd mix of really, really wanting to watch it and really, really wanting to avoid it for as long as I can. I’m a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books, and thus am fretting about how it all turned out. But that’s not what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[287,370,389],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv","tag-charlaine-harris","tag-sookie-stackhouse","tag-true-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}