True Blood 6/28/09: "Scratches" (OPEN SPOILERS)

[wonderlust]

I get the sense that Marianne wants Tara and Eggs to have sex for some sort of ritual or supernatural purpose. Sacrifice? Progeny?

[tr0psn4j]

@elfkin477

So, the reason supernatural guys are attracted to Sookie turns out to be sort of ego-deflating for our heroine. The spoilers below are from the last few books in the series:

[spoiler]A few books into the series, Sookie meets a woman named Claudine, and her twin brother Claude who are a sort of supernatural being we haven’t seen on the show yet - fairies. Claudine becomes a not-very-reliable fairy godmother to Sookie for a couple of books, and it’s shown that vampires can’t be around fairies without biting them, because their blood is highly intoxicating to vampires (picture a living, breathing catnip toy), and less so to other supernatural types. Understandably, the twins avoid being around Bill, Eric, Pam etc.

Sookie accepts this, and has no idea that there’s any connection between her and the twins until an old man named Niall shows up claiming to be her great-grandfather…and a fairie prince. It turns out that he is both, and his son, rather than the man Sookie believed was her grandfather, was her father’s father. Her dad being 1/2 fairie makes her 1/4th herself, and that’s why the supernatural men find her so damn enchanting. Sookie is not terribly thrilled to learn that part of the attraction has nothing to do with what sort of person she is.

As an aside, mind-reading isn’t a fairie trait, but there’s evidence in book eight with a character not yet on the show that it’s definitely a familial trait.[/spoiler]

I’m on the second to last back so I haven’t read any of that yet. Why isn’t she allergic to lemons like the other faeries are?

Also, why wasn’t episode 4 on last Sunday?

[AuntiePam]

@tr0psn4j

Also, why wasn’t episode 4 on last Sunday?

Maybe because of the holiday weekend? They did a mini marathon. It was announced after episode 3 week that the next new episode would be July 12. So no worries – it’s not cancelled.

[elfkin477]

@tr0psn4j

I’m on the second to last back so I haven’t read any of that yet. Why isn’t she allergic to lemons like the other faeries are?

Also, why wasn’t episode 4 on last Sunday?

I don’t think the books ever said (maybe in book 9, but I’m still waiting for the library to get it in). I can guess, though:

Given that Eric, Bill and Pam can resist biting her, I assume it means that she doesn’t have too much “fairy-ness” to her blood despite who her real granddad was…which would also account for lemons not bothering her.

Harper’s Island didn’t air last weekend either, and both of the final two episodes air back to back tomorrow. I guess both networks decided no one would be home on a holiday weekend.

[tr0psn4j]

I’m reading Definitely Dead, forgot there’s more than 7 books.