Maybe it had something to do with the “Great Revelation” mentioned last week, which presumably means the “coming out” of the vampire world.
Before that happened, wouldn’t predation and generaly vile behavior be the only avenue of survival for a vampire?
At the very end Sarah(?) Newland says, “I’m sorry…” to Sookie. I thought she was apologizing for having been involved in trapping her–but she could just as well have been apologizing for her husband’s behavior.
I think True Blood has been very uneven this season.
Early on, Jason truly felt that he had a calling and then he began to have dreams and was conflicted about it. Now those concerns are entirely gone. He’s just worried about his pseudo relationship with the Reverend’s wife.
Bill and Sookie are getting annoying particularly the way Bill rolls over whenever Sookie gives the same empowerment speech every week.
Sam is an idiot for not thinking something was up with Daphne.
The Maryanne storyline has barely progressed in three weeks other than that we have had progressively more and more orgies. Wouldn’t exactly call that plot advancement.
All that being said, it still has some great actors doing great work, even if the writing isn’t as strong as last season.
Since when is In Treament cancelled and since when is it boring?
Can someone clarify the sacrificial rock business? I didn’t understand what it was when Eggs and Tara found it, and why he felt drawn to it and then why they were both upset. Very confused.
Is background information like this given in the novels? Otherwise, I’d have to speculate that you could charm/glamor humans into voluntarily allowing themselves to be fed from. Apparently it’s pleasurable if you’re consenting. It’s also conceivable that people, without force or glamor, would become the vampire’s entourage of willing blood donors. I imagine a vampire could provide a cooperative human with a lot of advantages and perqs, esp. in more primitive times. This is all speculation on my part, but I don’t think vicious serial murder is the only way a vampire could sustain himself. They have a lot of ways of getting what they want without resorting to such crude and wasteful methods.
Along similar lines, that 1920s murder scene really struck me because in the books, Harris very clearly mentions on several occasions that vampires simply would not let blood go to waste. If there is a murder victim who has not been drained completely of blood, then vampires didn’t do it. With that in mind – and I know the TV show has diverged a lot from the books, but still – it surprised me to see Bill and Lorena just letting all of that blood spurt out onto the sheets, going to waste.
Another thing, and this is my personal speculation only, but it seems like it would be a much more sustainable feeding model (so to speak) for a pre-revelation vampire to glamor someone, take just enough blood to feed without seriously harming the human, and then moving on. Vampire glamors an explanation for the neck wound into the human’s mind, and then moves on, no one the wiser. As opposed to, say, leaving a trail of bloody mutilated corpses behind in your travels.
If you have to be careful not to reveal that vampire exist, certainly glamoring people and/or recruiting a willing herd of devoted blood donors would be a much more effective way of maintaining your cover than leaving a trail of mutilated, bitten, bloodless bodies in your wake. I haven’t read the books or anything, I’m just imagining what would be the most effective ways to feed on blood without getting caught or blowing your cover.
I have no clue. I think that scene was just a setup so we’d be anxious about the orgy – so we’d know it wasn’t just an ordinary orgy, that there was going to be a sacrifice. It wasn’t necessary though. That fancy knife was enough, and MaryAnn with the bull’s head, etc.
I’m thinking maybe that was where the voodoo/excorcist lady got her heart cut out. And, as others said, Eggs had probably been there along with a bunch of others during the sacrifice, but he was in that black-eyed orgiastic trance that MaryAnn creates and so he doesn’t clearly remember it
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I called it in last week’s thread! 
Everyone else was assuming MaryAnn’s male assistant was the pig.
MaryAnn did say in an earlier episode that she could force him to transform if she wanted to–she threatened to ‘out’ him in front of his friends by making him change. Presumably, she can also prevent him from transforming when she’s near.
The thing that annoyed me the most about the episode was this: the instant Sookie figured out that the pastor and his wife knew who she was and why she was there, she should have grabbed her partner and marched right the hell out of there. There was nothing to be gained by maintaining the charade. She made a halfhearted attempt to say that they needed to go, but then she let herself and her companion be led into another room where they could be more easily trapped. Completely moronic. She really is stupid.
He had been to one of her sacrificial orgies in the past, and participated, but not been aware because he was in an ecstatic trance.
Haha my wife and I were talking about all that wasted blood. Why they broke the dude’s neck without draining him made no sense.
It takes all kinds. There probably were vampires who worked like that.
Yea Sookie is seriously a fucking moron.
-5 points for lack of church lady nudity.
Incidentally, she seems to be a really good actor - she seems to pull off that forced happiness/outgoing thing that preachers and pastors tend to do. Sort of politician-like.
But she could also show off some acting skills naked.
Speaking as a more or less straight woman, I am going to have to agree with you here.
Poor, dumb, Jason Stackhouse. Although, I think he has untapped depths. So to speak.
My money is also on Andy Bellefleur saving Sam’s bacon, by the way.
Re: why is Eric preventing Bill from saving Sookie. Maybe I missed something, but I don’t think either of them has a clue that Sookie needs rescuing yet. As far as they’re concerned, she’s doing a little recon at the church, she’s with an ally, it’s a semi-public place, and no one there knows who she is (per limo guy). I believe Eric is simply using Lorena to get Bill out of the way. His thinking is that Sookie would essentially belong to him, except for Bill claiming her. If Bill goes with Lorena, or if Sookie dumps him because he messed around with Lorena, or whatever, Eric assumes that he’ll be free to take Sookie.
As for why Sookie didn’t high tail it out of the church, I think there are two things at play. She doesn’t want them to know that she knows what they’re thinking - if they feel they must keep up the pretense, it makes it more likely they would let her “run to her car for something” or whatever. Second, Hugo is being dense about the situation. He doesn’t realize she’s hearing their evil plot, and is continuing to play his part - “But honey, the tour isn’t over.”
My take on Sarah’s situation is that they had all been alerted that some fangbangers were coming to spy on them. She knew Sookie was a vampire sympathizer. But she did not realize the men planned to imprison Sookie, and she was especially shocked at the violence. BTW, loved her moral hierarchy:
husband plans to trap and kill vampires - OK
husband plans kidnaps and roughs up vampire allies - mmm, I’m a little shocked by that
husband says “cunt” - I’m filing divorce papers!
Her name is Anna Camp and according to Wilkipedia she is “best known for starring as Jill Mason in Peter Shaffer’s play “Equus” opposite Daniel Radcliffe, and on the small screen as Sarah Newlin in the HBO series True Blood.”
According to her True Bood Bio she appears to be a very accomplished stage actressin New York.
This show is going in so many different directions, I’m finding myself both bored and annoyed. And, apparently, entertained because I keep watching. sigh
I don’t see how the preacher lady is so hot, but I’ve never been one for blonds. Well, or women, really. Still, I don’t get it.
When Jason started kissing on her, I said out loud, “Jason Stackhouse, you are an idiot.” He seems about as stupid as his sister to me.
I’m glad to see we’ve finally stumbled in on Maryann doing her Maryann thing in some sort of climax of her storyline. I’m glad, because it means it’s almost over and we can hopefully be done with her.
The whole 1930s thing with Bill and his maker slaughtering that couple just squicked me out. It made me not too sympathetic to vampires, and it made me like Bill a bit less. The blood-soaked fucking was just…gross. Ewwww.
Ugh. This is reminding me of Weeds, where everything was great for a season, then second season it unnecessarily seemed to try to do too much. I understand the book may be part of the reason why this season was a bit messy, so I’m hoping next season isn’t as chaotic or boring.
True Blood Spoilers
Or should I say semi-spoilers.
Bill does, due that connection vamps get with their humans. That’s why he woke up all startled at the same time Sookie was getting captured.
Bill does, but as Unauthorized Cinnamon said, Eric doesn’t, so he doesn’t know he’s put her into danger. Yet. He didn’t set her up for rescuing, just underestimated the danger of sending her on a recon mission with a guy to protect her.
As for Sookie not bolting, not only was she dedicated to getting the vampires the info they need, she seems to have heard enough of their thoughts to realize that they were going to be taken down one way or another. As she’s told people, she’s telepathic, not psychic, so can’t you imagine someone hoping to find a way to defuse the situation without breaking cover if they play along for just a little while longer? It just didn’t work out in her favor, that’s all.
Did anyone here catch the first episode of Being Human on BBC America? It has a similar premise to True Blood - vampires, werewolves, etc. are real - but my impression from the first episode is that it’s much better-written than True Blood. The main characters are a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who share a house in modern-day Brighton.