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'True Blood' Rolling Stone Cover: Where Are Tara and Lafayette?
Yet, on this Rolling Stone cover the stars of 'True Blood' -- Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer -- look more confused than mired in complex passion. Discussions on the Web about this Rolling Stone cover range from critiquing the careless application of the obviously fake blood, to the ongoing debate over whether Anna Paquin is actually hot or not.
But the BV readers are bringing the REAL question to bear regarding this somewhat controversial cover: Where are Tara and Lafayette? Seriously. HBO and Alan Ball must know that millions of African Americans tune into the show solely because they love these black characters -- in addition to the millions of people of all races who love Tara and Lafayette, too. On the BlackVoices message board about the 'True Blood' Rolling Stone cover started by member itzy8940, our astute audience rightly complains:
miamipearlz: Dang... Where's Tara and Laffayette? Stomps outta thread!!!
daynaj :TRUE BLOOD IS MY SHOW because of the TARA and LAFAYETTE . Last Sunday's epi was da bomb!
Great points made by all. But what do you think? Would it be asking too much for Rolling Stone to have included at least ONE black character from 'True Blood' on the cover as -- let's face it -- it's a sex-fueled ensemble show. These three don't pull in millions of viewers on their own. Or are black people complaining about something irrelevant just because we can -- AGAIN. I will certainly start the complaining by stating that Tara and Lafayette on this cover would have made it hotter -- and this 'True Blood' Rolling Stone cover is just not sexy AT ALL.
Who would you cast for the 'True Blood' Rolling Stone cover -- if you are truly incensed with Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer -- if they could do it all again?
daynaj :TRUE BLOOD IS MY SHOW because of the TARA and LAFAYETTE . Last Sunday's epi was da bomb!
harlemiteblack: illuminati! Where my girl Lafayette at?
laudidadee: This is supposed to be sexy????? Well.......... at least they're objectifying some men for a change.
laudidadee: This is supposed to be sexy????? Well.......... at least they're objectifying some men for a change.
Great points made by all. But what do you think? Would it be asking too much for Rolling Stone to have included at least ONE black character from 'True Blood' on the cover as -- let's face it -- it's a sex-fueled ensemble show. These three don't pull in millions of viewers on their own. Or are black people complaining about something irrelevant just because we can -- AGAIN. I will certainly start the complaining by stating that Tara and Lafayette on this cover would have made it hotter -- and this 'True Blood' Rolling Stone cover is just not sexy AT ALL.
Who would you cast for the 'True Blood' Rolling Stone cover -- if you are truly incensed with Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer -- if they could do it all again?
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By: SHARON on 8/18/2010 3:28PM
THEY WERE SMART NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS DEPRAVED, LUDE PHOTO OP
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By: KKS on 8/19/2010 12:27PM
I think you mean 'lewd'.
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By: dvine on 8/19/2010 10:14AM
i don't read rolling stone so i wouldn't have saw this cover if it weren't on BV.. i don't care if black ppl are on the cover or not because they are the main characters.. if you read the books - sorry 2 tell you folks but in the 2nd book Lafayette dies (he wasn't even a minor character - he was barely mentioned).. Tara isn't mentioned in the 1st bk but she is n the 2nd bk.. i'm bout to read the 3rd..
black ppl don't have 2 be on every cover but i see y ppl are surprised that they are not on the cover w/these 2..
i love watching TRUE BLOOD and i'll continue to watch it as long as it's good.. but i love 2 see TARA n LAFAYETTE because their language is so foul it's funny..
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By: Alex on 8/19/2010 11:38AM
Are you kidding me.....lets always make it about race. If you are following the show there is a love triangle going on right now between the 3 on the cover. Lafayette is gay, and Tara is hot but is dealing with having been raped so I'm not sure it would have made sense to have her naked with the others....Who gives a crap about the feelings of African American viewers do they just tune in to see Tara and Lafayette? Just like Tyler Perry doesn't give a crap about the Caucasians, and Oprah doesn't give a crap about the Republicans (they are both billionaires). It's called freedom of speech, freedom of expression. Why doesn't Jet or Ebony have more articles about white people. Why is there a black history month, and not a white history month, why is the race card still being used....African Americans get every government benefit to better themselves, quit crying oppression there is a half black president in the white house (oops don't cry about that too). Learn from him, and quit dwelling in the past, and using it as an excuse.
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By: puhlease on 8/19/2010 11:56AM
i sure am following the show.. i am very much aware of what's goin on.. i watch it every sunday on HBO..
what u need to do is take your ranting and raving elsewhere.. get a grip..
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By: Lucy on 8/20/2010 4:10PM
@ Alex: I'm sure the questions you posed were meant to be rhetorical but I fail to understand the point of them? Of course race is still an issue -- electing Obama doesn't cancel that. Maybe the exclusion of two wildly popular Black characters on this particular magazine cover is racist, maybe not. But following your opinion with comments/complaints about the lack of white inclusion in magazines like Jet and Ebony, lack of 'White Hx Month,' ect. is so tired and formulaic. Racism exists, it is complex, it happens everywhere and it's ugly. If people could just simply 'get over it,' as your post implies, we obviously would have by now.
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By: TinaMarie on 8/19/2010 11:51AM
Laffayette rocks, but Tara looks like a man. Not a very attractive man either. Her accent sounds fake. She really is my least favorite character on the show. I'm sure the actress is a nice person, but she does nothing for the character of Tara. She over acts.
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By: D on 8/19/2010 12:21PM
I find it hard to believe that black people watch this show just because of Tara and Lafayette. I'm black and I watch the show because it's a good show, not just because of those two. If this magazine cover had like 7 or 8 characters on the front with no Tara or Lafayette, then I'd be offended. But there are only three, so it's not a big deal at all. Sookie and Bill are the two main characters on the show anyway, so they should be on the cover. The fact that Eric is on the cover is just them playing on the whole love-triangle aspect of the show because both of the vampires have a thing for Sookie.
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By: Phew on 8/23/2010 4:17PM
Finally some common sense.
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By: killtorispelling on 8/19/2010 12:22PM
Perhaps they didn't put Tara and Lafayette on the cover naked, covered in blood and groping each other because they play COUSINS on the show? And if they did - Gay rights people would be up in arms because Lafayette wasn't holding Jesus?
Or maybe it is just because they chose the three main characters of the show/books. And yes Lafayette is BARELY in the books and dead in the beginning of book 2 - and Tara isn't even black in the books(if she is? They never mention it)
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