Damn good episode tonight! I knew Bill wasn’t going to see Eric at the end, but I thought maybe he was going to his maker for help. A vampire queen? I’m sort of expecting her to be a very young looking girl, younger than Jessica even. The blood on the leg is just meant to throw viewers off; it probably belongs to whoever the queen is feeding off of.
Andy and Jason had were great tonight. The actors really took off with their scenes and made the most out of them.
I don’t think Jessica really bit Hoyt’s mother, probably wanted to just give her a good scare.
I was surprised by how much they packed into tonight’s episode considering that there are still two more left this season. Can’t wait for the next two!
p.s. Is it just me or are the boards unusually slow lately? Since I live on Pacific time, I never get to start the weekly thread for any shows!
Yeah, I like the idea of them all banding together to protect Bon Temps from Maryanne. Personally I think all the Maryanne stuff is about to payoff. Of course I wasn’t one of those who liked to spend half their time bitching about Maryanne.
OK, this episode officially kicked all kinds of ass.
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[li]Jason wielding a nail gun and chainsaw in glorious battle[/li][li]Bill and Sookie double-teaming Tara’s brain[/li][li]Terry hilariously leading his troop of Maryann-zombies[/li][li]Jason being God[/li][li]Maryann building a sacrificial altar out of Kobe beef[/li][li]Hoyt’s mom blasting monsters on the Wii[/li][li]Sam being smote, and[/li][li]The vampire queen has an awesome moat[/li][/ul]
Casting for the queen is perfectly in line with your vision. I won’t spoil who it is, but let’s just say it’s a young starlet who has been associated with goth.
I’m a big fan of hers and was bummed she wasn’t in this episode. I guess that means she’s only in two. I had heard three, but she wasn’t in the credits so I’m guessing that wasn’t the actress’s leg. (Doesn’t mean it wasn’t the character’s leg.)
They showed her face in the previews for next week.
Was it just me, or was Bill uncharacteristically brusque and domineering when he demanded to feed on Sookie? I realize he was sickened and scared, but damn, that seemed pretty harsh. It’s pretty clear that they’re setting up an Eric and Sookie thing, but I’ve been wondering if and how they would have Bill do something to drive Sookie away. Not that this rises to that level, but are they laying the groundwork?
LOVED Jason and Andy (and Sam) conning the townfolk!
Once again, Lafayette gets the winning line: “This must be the worst intervention in history.”
Lafayette gets the winning line, but Terry by far gets the winning scene. I love how in regular life Terry is sort of…fragile, but when part of a zombie horde, he steps right up as the take-no-shit leader and even as the take-no-shit leader of the zombie horde he’s willing to make sacrifices to protect Arlene. It’s like being zombified brought out the real Terry that’s underneath all the mental/emotional scarring, which makes me think Maryanne’s effect on him is fundamentally different from her effect on everyone else, or at least her effect on Tara.
Sookie said that Tara was completely gone, that she was basically just a vessel filled with someone/something else, and that fits with her behavior. Regular Tara with her inhibitions down wouldn’t just hit and spit and chant, she’d throw in plenty of acerbic insults and play up her angry young black (wo)man schtick–that’s how I knew she was coming back a little, when she came out with that crack about not being Bill’s slave.
I dunno where they’re going with the whole Sookie shooting light out of her hand thing, but I fear it’s going to be very, very stupid. Even more stupid than anything in the books I’ve read so far, and there’s been some really ridiculous stuff in those books. Entertaining, mind you, but ridiculous even by the standards of a world full of vampires, were-critters, and telepaths.
So my big question is why are certain people “immune” to Maryanne?
What kept Terry Bellefleur from going black-eyed? What about Lafayette and Tara’s mom? Shouldn’t Maryanne be able to control them as well?
I suppose they are going to play up Sookie’s “otherness” to explain why she was able to keep Maryanne at bay. Is it going to be in line with what the books say about her?
If I missed where the show explains it, let me know.
Great episode, IMHO.
I googled to see who the Queen is, and I am optimistic she will do a great job.
I think it’s arguable that Tara was in a different, worse state than the other people, due to eating the heart pie. That act certainly was presented as having a big effect on her and Eggs.
Dark2Phoenix and I were fanwanking the immunity of some characters - maybe to go black-eyed, you first had to participate willingly in some Maryann-related violence or debauchery? (Of course Andy getting shitfaced and doing his seizure dance at the bar kind of throws a monkey wrench in this.) Though I would be willing to believe that in the cases of Andy and Lafayette, sheer orneriness provided the protection.
I think she probably did, since as a young vampire she hasn’t learned to control her impulses. I suspect Hoyt will intervene before she kills her though. Or maybe she will kill her, and their relationship will have to face the aftermath.
I don’t think Bill was out of line given the urgency of the situation. He was facing some unknown, possibly mortal danger and had no idea what was going on, and he knew he wouldn’t really hurt her, so it seems like a reasonable demand.
Supernaturals are immune to her effects. Maybe those unaffected have some undiscovered supernatural talent.
That’s the impression I got - that he partially snapped out of it when he realized the gravity of the situation.
It’s a point I hope they don’t just ignore thereby turning it into a plothole. There’s something unique about the Bellefluor family, as Bill reacted to the name in an early episode - maybe they’re just descendents of Bill. If not, then maybe there’s some sort of supernatural heritage.
As for Tara’s mom, maybe she really did have a demon and hence has been touched by the supernatural and is immune.
And Lafeyette clearly is awesome to a supernatural degree.
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Incidentally, I may have bought Jason as some Greek god too - how many mere mortals look like that? I bet there’s a whole lot of Jason/Eggs slash out there.
I was highly disappointed by this episode. The glow-y hand and the sudden expansion of Sookie’s powers (able to pull Tara back from the brink) was too deus ex machina for my tastes.
I think Maryanne’s goal is to bring out the real true raw emotions that are stuck deep down. That’s why Terry is kind of noble as a Zombie while others are slavering lust-filled creeps. Maryanne isn’t trying to turn people evil, she is trying to feed off of their real and raw emotions.
I have a guess, based on what was shown in the preview of the next episode.
I think they showed Sookie and Lafayette in the car on the way to do something. My guess is that they are going to try to steal the horned headpiece that Maryann wears during her rituals. Would that prevent her from summoning Dionysus or Bacchus or whatever it is?
Well we know supernaturals like Sam and Bill and Sookie are naturally immune. My take on the rest was that you had to trust MaryAnne before she could work her mojo on you. Anyone who was overly suspicious couldn’t be affected. Note that Tara and Eggs started to get suspicious, and MaryAnne couldn’t just make them go all big eyed. She had to first ally their suspicions and put them to ease before she could make them go bug eyed again. Same with police guy - MaryAnne seduced him into being less uptight and he went all footloose and fancy free like the others. But when he discovered the weird orgy with sacrificial Sam, he became unalteringly skeptical and hasn’t been affected by MA since. Of course, for Jason and Lafayette it probably doens’t hurt that they’ve done V.
Bill was rationally in the clear, but he was abrupt. It’s understandable but still jarring. This is fairly common for him - normally he’s somewhat charming and mannered, but in a pinch he loses his manners. Again, it’s understandable, but if it happens often enough it could start to strain their relationship.
A big me too for the awesomeness of Jason as the God that comes. And for his earlier attempts to be awesome with a chainsaw and nailgun, even though it was humorously tempered by the zombies not caring if they get hurt.
I’d like to add
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[li]Arlene giggling while being held hostage[/li][li]Sam’s post smiting apron mooning[/li][li]Jason as the special guest god’s benediction “and y’all will all get good weather and uh… nice crops and stuff”[/ul][/li]
I certainly hope whatever the uprising is that it kills Maryanne as she’s either a bad character or a bad actress but one or the other makes her increasingly unwatchable.