Thanks guys!
Right - I’d forgotten that. Still wondering why a drop of V gets you so high but a few pints just gives you weird dreams. I know, I know, thinking too much. I also couldn’t help wondering if Eric had cleaned the basement before he brought the girl down there, so I need to work on relaxing and suspending my belief.
I love how they’re filming the Jessica/Hoyt stuff. At the end of last season, there was a whole sequence that was perfect rom-com: he’s going to meet her to say he’s sorry, she’s going to meet him to say she’s sorry. Hoyt shows up at her door with flowers . . . and it turns out she was going to a truck stop to kill a guy. Then in this one, we get a tight shot of her finding the flowers left on her doorstep, and she goes all melty and says sweetly, “Hoyt.” And then we hear the gurgle of the dying man she’s dragged home with her.
As much as I love some naked Alexander Skaarsgard, I agree the basement sex scene was disturbing on several levels (6 hours? I hope they used lots of lube!). I also found the dream sequence equal parts hot and uncomfortable, probably because these characters don’t even like each other, and Bill was awfully predatory (heh).
Some other great lines:
“I hate it when they make everything about race!”
“See, this is what I’ve been working with for the past half hour.”
And Pam was awesome. So glad she’s now a regular.
In season 1 they said the Magister was the magister for all of North America. So I assume he enforces the laws and has the power to hop into whatever territory in NA he wants to. The President may be The Powah, but if he breaks the law hardcore, the police still have to do something about it.
That has been an issue for me since the first episode. The directors somehow think every woman’s dream is to be pounded at 600 RPM by a cold and clammy weiner? And for six hours? At least Bill doesn’t seem to want to do it in Fast Forward.
At least for that particular scene, I don’t think the woman’s desire had anything to do with it. That was all for Eric’s benefit. She looked high and/or glamoured, and not at all into it.
Hi all … jumping in on the TB stuff in here …
I watched all of S2 on HBO on demand over the past few weeks. I agree that they dragged the MaryAnn thing on way too long. All of that gory stuff (cutting hearts up for stew … I almost barfed on that one, Lafayette in the basement digging through that guy’s leg for a silver rod - this is where HD is more than I want at that time! heh) - bleah.
Thought the S3 opener was good (if frenetic). There’s a good discussion going on over at TWOP re: Tara that really helped me understand her actions (such as they are). I don’t get the Eric and Pam love, though. They’re just okay in my book. Godrick was the only one I really glommed on to in that way and he was gone in the blink of an eye. (I did like the Beel/Sam seduction dream thing though and I’m not a huge fan of the Ho-Yay either. They had more chemistry, I though, that Beel and Sookie have!)
Can’t wait to see what comes along with the werewolves. I’m there, regardless.
(Ironically, “Beel” and Sookie are engaged IRL.)
Now, as you may have gathered, I would not kick Eric out of bed for being room temperature. (And lots of people really do have sex with room temp objects, or cold ones even!) And it’s probable they had a 6 hour tryst involving all sorts of activities, interspersed with rest periods. 6 hours of thrusting seems unlikely. But still, it did seem less than enticing given what we saw.
All of the women I know who’ve been pounded by Wilford Brimley described it that way and said that it may not sound great but it feels out of this world.
Of course I think Eric was lying about being there for 6 hours anyway.
No kidding. He obviously has things to do besides have sex for 6 hours. I think he was just trying to avoid answering Sookie’s question (and what was Sookie going to say to that?) and also make Sookie uncomfortable. That’s something Eric is very good at. He’s simultaneously seductive and off-putting, which is actually what I think a vampire should be like. He’s dangerous and a little bit gross but more than a little alluring (like most things that could kill you).
I suspect that a little bit of V gets you high and a lot gives you crazy dreams because a vampire’s blood is just bait. As somebody said last season, everything about them is seductive. Give a human a drop of your own blood and they’ll be flying too high to notice most of anything. And if you give a human a lot of blood, they’ll start craving you. Only humans don’t crave blood, they crave other bodily fluids. Biting and sex is all tangled together.
You are an evil, evil man.
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Something this show is missing is plain old-fashioned creepiness. The closest they come is when Bill crawls out of his temporary graves. There’s sex and violence and blood and gore and some tension, but nothing is creepy, or even scary. Is this what horror is coming to?
The scariest parts to me have been the non-supernatural- the ersatz voodoo priestess for example. Or the dream sequences: having a naked Stephen Root in bed next to you is pretty scary; for that matter, a pathetic gay vampire trading his blood for sex was about the scariest supernatural part.
One of my biggest reality check beefs with the series- though I assume it’s dealt with in the books- is the secret of the medical use of V. There’s almost no way that could be kept secret. If a dealer can make $20,000 or whatever selling a few bottles worth to druggies then they could EASILY make ten times that selling it to a rich guy with cancer, which would be money problems solved for the Queen: know your market.
But as I said, why sell anything? Just glamor the money from people.
Is it meant to be horror, though? That’s not really the vibe I’ve ever gotten from the show. I mean, yeah, vampires and werewolves and such are most commonly associated with the genre, but I don’t think their inclusion automatically marks something as horror. I think of the show the same way as Dark Shadows, as a soap opera with supernatural characters. And the books are certainly not horror novels. They’re mystery/romance novels with supernatural characters.
Like many of HBO’s shows, this is more about a strange situation/group of people and how they have fairly normal issues. *Sopranos *was like that, and *Rome *was, too. These people are not much like us, but they have many of the same problems to deal with. Teenagers, sex problems, mothers-in-laws, etc.
Did anyone else think that Jessica was accidentally going to turn the dead trucker into a vampire, when she gave him her blood?
I guess he’s really definitely dead, though. She’s going to have some ‘splainin’ to do.
Isn’t that what she was trying to do?
I’ve forgotten how vampires are made in this universe. Would it have worked if Jessica had done it before he was dead?
The selling of V is one of the storylines in the series that are not part of the books.