Letters to Cast and Crew: Tara Thornton
Dear Tara,
I am troubled by you. You were so strong when I first met you and now you have totally given your will over to someone else. I wonder if you would have been so willing had you not encountered the hoodoo woman, Miss Jeanette and discovered her dishonesty.
Now you have fallen under the spell of Maryann and her world of luxury and the undeniably beautiful Eggs Benedict. He is lovely to look at, but he is like a sugar coated beignette, lovely to taste but infinitely bad for you. Remember what your mother used to say? “Satan in a Sunday hat?” Well chere, this the Sunday of all Sunday hats, a big lavender one with big blue and yellow silk flowers nodding on it.
Let your instincts guide you, you know not everything is right. As Sam said in his voice mail, look at the people around you. Is this the way you really want to live? Is this what you are all about.
Find your inner Tara, the one that cursed out loud, saw things as they really are and protected you all this time. Find her and find your way out.
All the best to you,
Aslinn
I am hoping the writers will TRY to follow the Tara’s story line the way Charlaine wrote it. Tara was a women who was lost for a time and made some bad choices but was not as fleshed out as other characters in the book so it will be interesting to see what the future holds for her.
Well, Tara doesn’t have much of storyline the first few books, so what Alan Ball has done is create one for her. I like the way the character was developed for True Blood.
I’m thinking in the line of what was said previously. The Tara in the book went through some trouble with the vampires because of her accepting gifts etc. So maybe the writers are showing some of that but in a different scenario.
People have to realize that at the heart of a troubled soul like Tara is someone who wants to be loved and protected–which is why she has walls up. Anyone who knows how to manipulate that will touch her soul. No on is 100 percent strong/smart/brave all the time. I like the fact that Tara is strong, conflicted and has more of a storyline…
Besides, people need to understand that books cannot be followed faithfully in movie and TV formats for a host of reasons that have to do with time, sets and visual appeal…
Tara is the one character that I really dont like it the tv show. i honestly dont see how they would be able to follow the story line in the book for her. in the book her personality was more of a follower and a pleaser but in the show i cant ever see her with a vamp or owning her own store.