A tale of 2 Erics

[prettymartin]

So I finished reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels last night. 10 books, 5 days. I think I made good time. And I've noticed there are some major discrepancies between the books and the show True Blood. Of course, this is natural, no tv show and/or movie is EVER completely faithful to the book it was made after, but the biggest discrepancy that I

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[rebekah_3]

I love the Eric in the books. Alan Ball who produces True Blood is a big Bill/Sookie fan and I think that he deliberately makes Eric not as nice so he can keep Sookie with Bill. At least until the fans revolt, because Bill is lame and Eric is awesome...

[prettymartin]

You would think though that they would try to be more faithful to the books, at least in the ways of the relationships. We'll see what happens in season 3 I guess.

And I still wonder if they're trying to push the Bill/Sookie thing because the actors are engaged in real life and they're trying to keep them happy.

[rebekah_3]

I have a feeling that that might be the case. Alan Ball has said before that the primary relationship will be between Sookie and Bill - if that's the case I'll not be a happy camper.

[prettymartin]

But why? Sookie and Bill aren't even a couple after Book 2. Why introduce Alcide and I'm assuming they'll introduce Quinn at some point, which are again, more of Sookie's love interests. I don't get why they're keeping Sookie/Bill as the main focus.