I think this blogger suffers from the same curse a lot of us do--once DS was introduced it spurred a lot of other interests in later television shows for those of us who are fans.
Also, as someone who watched True Blood and read all the books, I can attest that the first season of the show followed the first book relatively closely compared to the later seasons of the show. In fact, most people I talk to agree that the later seasons of the show get wildly off book and suffer somewhat for it.
