A Note About Vampire Shows: Season 1 Finales

I FINALLY finished watching the first seasons of TRUE BLOOD and The Vampire Diaries!

The Vampire Diaries reaction:

• Katherine posing as Elena was genius.
• Jeremy trying to become a vampire was sad.
• I was actually sad when Anna died.
• I wasn't surprised at all that John is Elena's dad.
• Why does Elena keep talking to Damon when she knows he likes her?

True Blood reaction:

• After all Bill has survived, Sookie really thought Bill was dead? Have a little faith.
• Sam is still in love with Sookie.
• Of course Jason wasn't the killer.
• Tara and Sookie are finally good. Too bad Tara joined some kind of creepy cult.
• Jason found Jesus? That's just hysterical.
• But Renee as the waitress killer? I suspected earlier in the episode, but what I was really shocked about was the fake accent. Fake accents always devastate my view of a character.

A Note About Tara and Elena: Soul Sisters

     In a recent viewing of True Blood (I'm just finishing season 1), I realized Sookie's sassy sidekick and best friend Tara is just like Felicity's chemistry buddy Elena.


Similarities:

1. parental issues
2. smart mouth
3. strong and caring for their best girl
4. troubled relationships

Differences:
- Tara is a bartender;  Elena is going to NYU in pre-med (Felicty's UNY wasn't fooling anyone).
- Tara is secretly in love with her best friend's sister; Elena goes after men like prey.
- Tara is southern and Elena is northern.

But really, they're very similar character types.
Watch Tara tell off a customer and Elena swallow embarrassment and sass a boy for giving her a present that could be a headband or a skirt (at 3:30).