Again, OPEN SPOILERS.
So do you think Lafayette will become a vampire or that they’ll let stop feeding before they kill him?
Jason- who do you see him coming onto him first in his Daylight Camp: the preacher’s wife, the preacher, or Luke? (I see him banging the preacher’s wife and the preacher asking for permission to join in.)
Jessica- evil little bitch, but at least she knows what she is, unlike her “dad” who wants to have his cake and suck blood too.
Marianne’s “orgy at Merlotte’s” was like a scene co-written by Neil Gaiman and John Grisham.
My two favorite analogies of the night (may not be precise):
Det. Bellefleur on the description of his dancing: “…like an epileptic on meth”. Loved the demonstration later. (I wonder if the Shreveport club will be revealed to be Fangtasia at any point, or if any enterprising bar owner has opened or renamed a club in Shreveport Fangtasia yet.)
Lafayette to Eric: “Do I have a Jew’s chance at an al Qaeda Pep Rally of getting out of here?”
I like that Jessica played Sookie. Does being a vampire make you smarter, or more crafty? I don’t think the Jessica we saw before last night could have pulled it off. I wanted the little sister not to invite Bill inside – let Jessica have her revenge. The sister’s comment that her hair was “bad” – she’s not being treated any better than Jessica.
Bill yelling at Sookie – “Shut up!” and “This is all your fault! I have to fix your mess!” – out of character and an excuse for either more makeup sex or for Sookie to decide on her own to go to Texas with Eric. I can see Bill being angry, but those weren’t Bill’s words, and when Bill’s been angry before, he’s been quietly angry.
And speaking of Eric and Bill and Sookie and finding Godrick (sp?) – if Bill can’t deny Eric, why not just say “Okay, Sookie can help, but I’m going too.”
I didn’t like a lot of this week’s episode. Some scenes just went on too long. Hated the religious camp stuff, and Tara and Eggs are starting to bore me.
And why was Bill shopping for Jessica? Does he even know what size she is?
I haven’t read the books, but the friend I was watching it with has and said that Eggs is the biggest change of any character from the original. In the book he’s a fat pasty whiney white guy. (In the books Tara is also white, but changing her race for the program isn’t that big a deal since they’ve kept her basic personality; with Eggs they’ve just kept the name.)
I was more surprised that Jessica is a character created for the TV series. In a weird way I like her. (I loved her realization when she first awoke as a vampire: “No more home school!” No more whippings!")
While I hate the Jesus Camp people, I have to admit that if I lived in this reality I’d be rather strongly anti-vampire myself. They’re too dangerous and uncontrollable.
Yeah, you know that and I know that, but the sales clerk wasn’t afraid of Bill. I half expected her to call security. Either she likes living dangerously or she doesn’t think vamps are all that fearsome.
Another thing I didn’t like about this week’s episode was the cop falling off the wagon. I don’t remember anything from S1 about him having a drinking problem. And he wasn’t “demoted”, he was just taken off that particular case.
I think one problem with this series is they have too many characters, so some of them get screen time when they have nothing to contribute to the story.
No way they’re going to kill Lafayette - he is too much fun to watch. The ultimate pragmatist, from his immediate and total disclosure (and explanation thereof), to his single-minded scavenging of the hip pin (with help from his molars!), to the objective argument for vamping him. I just adore him, and he would make a very interesting vampire. While he’s probably being truthful and accurate about being Eric’s vampire at the outset of his new life, I’m sure there would soon be competing motivations and, therefore, machinations. And that would be fun.
Question about the Christian camp: it seemed they were satirizing a Krazy Kristian tendency to talk purity, while giving a fully “of the world” style sexual come-on, whether it be the pretty, buxom girl handing out name tags, or her Spears-esque ode to pious virginity. Is this a real thing? I mean, I know there are Christian music artists who ape whatever’s popular, substituting Jesus for romantic objects in the lyrics. But this seemed a really specific indictment of a kind of proselytizing that accepts and cheerfully uses any level of sexual enticement. What’s up with that?
Or she’s a wannabe fang-banger. That’s the impression I got. She’s nice and all to Bill at first, but once she finds out he’s a vampire, she wants to fuck him in the dressing room.
The language is just a really thick Cape Cod accent.
I don’t read the books, but I did wiki her. I’ll spoiler it so you can use your own discretion, but I will say unspoilered that the ancient artwork at her mansion is a hint.
She’s a maenad- followers of Dionysos in Greek myth though Marianne has become more like a goddess herself- who feeds on revelry and and other people’s strong emotions and particularly on their uninhibited [to the point of madness and recklessness] sexuality. She causes frenzied chaos in general because it nourishes her. The language was perhaps Greek, but certainly something that’s not spoken anymore.
If Bill will not have Jessical “looking like a slattern”, he should choose somewhere else to shop than Forever 21! The fangbanger wanna-be offered to ‘model’ in the dressing room a skirt that might as well have been a belt! Bill, really, try Macy’s or Lord & Taylor!
Why did they butcher Eric’s hair? Why? Why? ::cries::
When Bill says he needs to take care of “Sookie’s mess” did he mean what I first thought: he’s going to slaughter Jessica’s family, or my second, he’ll make them forget like someone did last season to the waitress who shot Lafayette? Even though I’m not a huge fan of book or TV Bill, I have trouble believing he’ll kill a ten-year-old…
Because he got blood on it? I have no clue.:dubious:
Honestly, I hate this season so far. I’m far from being a prude, but the hefty use of “fuck” seems forced, the gore has escalated dramatically, and in some vague way, it doesn’t feel to me like the first season did. I had high hopes for this show, but it’s gone from smart and edgy to stupid and icky.
Is it confirmed that the plot will converge from the books from this point on? I’ve only read the first, but if so, I’ll read the series and watch the show with a heavy finger on the off-switch.
I’m pretty sure I heard the word vrykolakas, which was a nice touch.
Why they cut Eric’s hair - no idea on the production level, but in the story I assume he’d have weird pinkish highlights from getting blood in it while it was being processed.
As for what Bill will do to the family - when they cut abruptly to credits as Bill was about to “deal with the mess,” I yelled at my husband, “STOP! Glamour time!” Yeah, I crack myself up.
Oh, BTW, I loved Jessica’s impression of Bill, and how Sookie’s mouth twitched during it too.
(OH, and BTW, BTW, the actors who play Bill and Sookie are a real couple, just thought it was kind of interesting.)
The guy Tara’s hot for, the one with the six-pack who lives at Marianne’s place. Isn’t that his name? It’s what they call him at TWOP. I can’t remember if I’ve ever heard his name used on the show.
Speaking of, what’s up with Bill’s vocabulary and phrases? Yes, I know that he was born in Bon Temps in the 1830s, but that was just as long ago for vampires as for humans and he’s traveled the world since then. He’s adapted to the modern world enough to use credit cards and play Wii golf and have non-marital sex and the like, not to mention he’s spent 140 years as an undead bloodsucking creature, so I’m not buying his antebellum petit-aristocracy mindset.
My dad, not a vampire but an old Jewish man from Brooklyn, liberally sprinkles his conversation with 1950’s phrases and vocabulary that sound rather quaint now. When I’ve used them, people look at me funny because they sound anachronistic. I think people just like speaking the way the spoke in their youth, and Bill is no different.
I really hope Lafayette is turned into a vampire, if the alternative is having him be dead. He’s my favorite character in the show and his turns of phrase are always colorful. “Being a person of poor moral character, I would hit the ground running!” He would make a fun vampire, and the show would be less interesting to watch without him, being that most of the other characters are somewhat moronic.
I don’t think Jessica “played” Sookie per se. I believe she did not intend to go running up to the door to see her family, but was overcome with the impulse when she saw them. It fits with her character that such an act would not be pre-meditated but that she would not attempt to rein herself in either. Of course, this incident can go on the long list of examples of why Sookie is too stupid to live. I don’t blame Bill for being extravagantly pissed off at her. She had no right to meddle in his “rearing” of Jessica. It’s sort of a typical stepparent/bio-parent conflict writ large because people could actually die.
Question about Marianne:
If she is a Maenad, why was she able to force Sam to transform into a dog against his will? Does she have power over people’s animal natures or something?
