Saturday, May 19, 2012

Day 10: I do not like...

I have tried since Season One to like Detective Andy Bellefleur.
I can't really say why I don't like the character but I do not, neither in the books nor on the series.
I'm sure actor Chris Bauer is a great guy, so he must do a fabulous job playing the biggest hick on the show.
Maybe it's because he is a bigot on so many levels, or maybe because he's a hypocrite. Here is a man who has loved hassling Jason Stackhouse for years, but got himself hooked on V.
If his cousin Terry Bellefleur had not stepped in, Andy would still be on V.
Maybe he simply is jealous of Jason and his success as an athlete, a lover and his ability to make friends with little or no effort.
The only time Andy has been sympathetic was when he stepped up to help Sam with MaryAnne. He let Sam live with him in his hotel, but while Sam worked to find out how to defeat the demigod, Andy drank. And drank. And drank.
Does Andy have any real friends? His grandmother Caroline bullies him, retired sheriff Bud Dearborne barely tolerated him, taking his badge and gun away wheAndy saw Dawn as a pig and tried to report it.
I am stumped why a fairy could choose him, out of all the available men in Bon Temps, to have her wicked way with in the woods. The only interesting thing about that is if she'll have a baby that has fairy-like powers and what affect that will have on Sookie.
Can Andy be redeemed?
It looks like an overhaul may be underway for Season Five.
He finally is dating Halleigh Robinson, a waitress at Merlotte's. In the book, they are married and a daughter on the way. On the show, will his night with the fairy jeopardize all this, or will he simply not mention it to his girlfriend and go on business as usual?
Even though Bill is his several times great-grandfather, it's never clear what he thinks about this. We know Portia had to be glamored to stay away from Bill, and Caroline Bellefleur reveres him as the relative he is.
So there it is. The one regular actor on True Blood I could live without.
Easily.


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