Has Tru Blood Jumped the Shark?

[Yavin4]

I say, Yes. It did a Triple Lundy over the shark.

[Skinner]

1. I stopped watching two seasons ago.

When I realized I didn't care at all what happened.

[Yavin4]

2. Smart move

It's so bad this year that I feel embarassed for the performers on the show.

[olddots]

3. epasodic TV jumps the shark as soon as it gets a renewal .

Ray Donovan is floundering already , TV is almost like politics =get the gig then get lazy .

[dr.strangelove]

4. This year was better than last, but it still was a shell of its former greatness

rumor is that the probable death in the last episode will be confirmed in the first episode of next season. Show is done, stick a fork in it.

[Chan790]

10. Not probable. Being considered confirmed in the post-show commentary by EP and Director. *Spoiler*

The Northman is dead.

To quote them (roughly): "Since the dead of Godric, Eric has lived for his sister. Now with Nora dead, he's empty...and in his desire to be alone, he isolated himself...not knowing that when Warlow died, the power from Warlow's blood would die with him. In such an isolated spot, with no shelter, Eric had no choice but to burn...And he burned."

He dead.

[dr.strangelove]

12. *SPOILER* - Not True - I think

Well, who knows what dead really means in the world of TB since VAmps are technically already dead. But in some form, the Northman will be back as a regular next season.

http://www.today.com/entertainment/true-blood-boss-answers-burning-question-eric-dead-6C10962818

But thanks to show boss Brian Buckner, fans won't have to wait until next summer to find out if the hunky bloodsucker played by Alexander Skarsgard will live to see the new season. In an interview with TVLine, Buckner said the ancient vampire will indeed be back.

"I can tell you that Alexander Skarsgard is going to be part of the next season of 'True Blood,' " he told the website. "He will be a series regular. I'm not going to take Alex Skarsgard out of people's living rooms."

Maybe he will become a Godric/Lilith ghost type character, or maybe he will be a slightly sunburned Viking God. But no matter what, we get more of Eric next season! Whether he is "alive" or not remains to be seen.

[Chan790]

13. Well, it's brilliant either way.

Now, rather than discussing whether TB has lost its way, the viewers spend the season-break trying to figure what the burning of Eric means and what shape he'll be in next season. Maybe Pam saved him but they'd both be pretty fucked up at that point.

[dr.strangelove]

14. Totally

By putting in the Eric question, it gives viewers a question they need to know the answer to. I did not understand why he did not drive himself into the ice and snow. He can toss cars like they are pebbles, surely he can quickly dig a hole in the icy snow covered mountaintops.

[TM99]

5. Yes with gusto!

Alan Ball left production. The show had a different producer much of last season, and yet another at the end of this season who is taking over the show. And it is bloody obvious to my partner and I.

Ball wanted True Blood to be an adult vampire show with lots of sex and mature themes. I swear the last few episodes of this past season were like watching a campy John Waters film - vampires playing volleyball in the sun, alpha sex boy Jason now some vampire's sex toy, first he is good Worlo then he is really evil Worlo, and Eric sunbathing naked in the snow covered mountains?

Bluntly, if they killed off Eric, we are done.

[NV Whino]

6. Shark was duly jumped in season three

I stopped watching at that point.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. +1

[phleshdef]

7. Nah, not at all. I think the reset is going to be good for the series.

[lunatica]

8. I stopped watching shortly after they did a year of Sookie being gone between seasons

She comes back and finds out she's been gone a year. Meantime Bill has become King with a major personality change. Idiotic way of just zagging when they should have zigged.

[B Calm]

11. The crazier it gets, the more I like it. Maybe it's the sexy women. .

[Xyzse]

15. I was told that there was only one more season left

So... This season was better than the last, with the exception of the ending.
The season end was terribly weak and disjointed.

Either way, since there is only going to be one more season left... I guess a zombie apocalypse makes sense.