True Blood Season 2 - Small Spoilers - Humourous Commentary - 2 Sneak Peeks E16 - Maryann & Sam - Lafayette & Tara

I have to be frank and say that except for Alan Ball's answers the info below is old territory covered. I even  got the distinct feeling that the interview was conducted awhile ago. That, or the interviewer is not watching the show. Regardless, Alan Ball seems always able to put an amusing spin on his answers so that even if the questions are kinda stale which these were, you get something worth reading in his answers. I've excised the teeny tiny bit of new information if you could call it that, from what the lovely Deborah Ann Woll and the very cute Sam Trammell said and bolded a couple of good bits. Sam (so handy that both the actor and the character he plays have the same first names) alludes to an "insane" scene done "recently" and considering how a few scenes played out in Book 2 of the Sookie Stackhouse series, if the True Blood writers go that way it has to be totally insane in it's rendering. Looking forward to it. It should be very, very big and very, very bad. :D

Q&A with Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby)

Q: Jessica didn't want to become a vampire, and now she's a part of this vampire family. I take it she'll have some adjustment problems.

About the character of Jessica: "It's a whole new world. She has to deal with everything you have to deal with as a 17-year-old girl, and on top of that, she can kill people, which is maybe not such a good thing to add with a teenage temper." 

Q: Does her dramatic relationship will Bill settle down eventually, or does it remain more of a strained situation? 

A:It settles down as much as a father-daughter relationship ever does. Is that mysterious enough for you? 

Deborah Ann Woll - Photo credit: HBO

Q&A with executive producer Alan Ball 

Q:What genre of television would you say True Blood is, if you had to pick just one? 

A: Drama. We don't have an actual sign in the writers room that reads, "It's the emotions, stupid," but we might as well. We feel like we have to keep these characters rooted in some sort of emotional reality because otherwise, it's a parade of special effects and set pieces. Last season True Blood was very Southern Gothic and grounded in Bon Temps, La. This season seems more of an epic vampire family saga.

"Are we leaving Bon Temps for good? I'm working with source material, so I'm following the books.The show gets a little bigger in scope this year, but it always remains rooted in Bon Temps." -- Alan Ball

That's where Sookie lives, that's where Bill lives, that's where all our major characters live. They may go out of town for this reason or that reason, but they'll always come home. 

Q: Sometimes people on this show are just covered in blood—the first episodes are so graphic. Are you going for a comic-book look for the show? Are you going for a specific visual type? 

A:The reality of the fictional world of vampires is that it's bloody. Blood is everywhere, they feed on it, and they feed on people when they are having sex, so it's a messy world. If you're a vampire you're not going to want an all-white house. You're going to need a lot of Scotchgard. 

Q&A with Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte)  In re: his favourite scene this season:

"We did a scene recently that was so crazy. I don't even know how to describe it. I don't know how it's going to come out, it's just insane. The writers are crazy; they're not playing it safe at all this year. They're taking huge chances. If you could think of the craziest possible thing that could happen in a fantastical world of vampires and creatures, you'd have to double it to figure this out. It's really crazy. I hope it's good."--Sam Trammell

Source: E!

After the jump: Lafayette and Tara - Episode 16 Sneak Peek