So, do you suppose Jason and his late girlfriend had erotic dreams about Eddie?
The actor who plays Jason is Australian? Wow. He had me fooled. Being originally from Louisiana, I can usually tell a fake Southern accent a mile away.
The casting overall on this show is quite good. Nelson Ellis is particularly impressive given the level of difficulty. Having to play flamboyant gay is already fraught with perils, from risking getting bad laughs to coming off as too broad and offensive, then having to also make that character by turns be convincingly badass, terrified, enraged, traumatized, etc. is just that much harder, yet Lafayette never seems fake. I think one good choice Ellis seems to have made from the beginning is to make Lafayette’s femme side not into the character’s default personality setting, but into an affect that the character puts on and off. Lafayette isn’t just some factory model, Hollywood queen, he’s actually a fairly masculine (and always self-aware) character who plays by varying degrees into the affect depending on his mood or by what he wants other people to see.
Even a lot of the smaller roles are well cast. Chris Bauer so well embodies Andy Bellefleuer, for instance, that it’s easy to forget it’s a performance.
He did wake up with Eddie next to them naked in bed once. No idea if it was related to his blood or his conscience though. (Either way, waking up next to a naked vampire Stephen Root would be disturbing; I can only think of vampiric Milton: “The sheriff says I can drink blood from non consenting humans as long as I keep it to a reasonable volume…”.)
I was really worried in that one scene at Gram’s house that Sam was going to get forced out of his fly shape while spying on MaryAnn like that.
That guy’s a chameleon. I can’t believe it’s the same guy who was Machine from 8MM, and Frank Sobodka, the main dockworker character from Season 2 of The Wire.
Loved the Eric dream scene. I don’t know if it means anything, but bring on the Eric/Sookie-ness soon, please 
This scene makes up for the Eric taking care of Sookie scene in the book but absent from last week’s episode.
She’s 1/8th fairy, which isn’t revealed for several more books down the line than the show is drawing from. But in the book there wasn’t so much people being taking over by the manaed, so who knows how that’ll work out on the show.
In the book there were two vampires kidnapped by the FOS. What your friend described pertained to the other one, whose name was something like Farrel. Godrick in the book is simply world-weary and ready to move on.
Edit. What I said is misleading upon review. Sampiro’s friend’s statement applies to the other vampire in the book only through the word “and” in the spoiler box. The rest does not apply, as he was content with what he’d done.
No, he’s right. Godric wasn’t kidnapped in the book, he was going to meet the sun voluntarily because he is precisely as described. That’s why he was loose to save Sookie–he was there of his own free will, so there was no need to try and keep him locked up. The only vamp who had been kidnapped was Farrell, and he was locked up, chained with silver, and deprived of blood up until Godric threw Gabe in with him. Farrell was the one whose disappearance they were there to investigate, and he was just a regular old bloodsucking guy.
No he’s not. [spoiler]When the FOS shoot up the party, he’s got a questionably legally of age boy with him. His tastes ran decidedly young.
“We’d arrived in the midst of a welcome-home party for Farrell, who was standing in the living room with his arm around a handsome young man who
might be all of eighteen. Farrell had a bottle of TrueBlood O negative in one hand, and his date had a Coke. The vampire looked almost as rosy as the boy.”[/spoiler]
Sorry about my unspoilered book info earlier, I guess I hadn’t realized we were spoiler-boxing book stuff. Anyway:
Yeah, Farrell did have a taste for younger-looking guys. However, at one point Godric is confessing his past crimes to Sookie, and he says he has killed people. She tries to brush that off with saying something about how, “Yeah, but Bill told me all vampires kill when they are young because they can’t help it,” and he says no, he killed children. A lot of children. It’s strongly implied that Godric preferred to feed on/kill young children. At that point, Sookie backs down somewhat from trying to convince him not to meet the sun, but still feels a lot of sympathy for him.
About time someone gave that Eggs douchebag an ass whooping.
My friend also said that the Bellefleur cousins are
Bill’s direct descendants from when he was human
in the books. Is this ever relevant plotwise?
Sort of, insofar as
Sookie gets pissed off at Bill sometimes because he is funneling vast amounts of money the Bellefleurs’ way (without their knowledge of who is sending them the funds – they think it’s inheritance from a long-dead relative or something, which actually is pretty much accurate) and isn’t really helping her out at all. Although she never asked him to, so it’s kind of petty on her part. But it feeds into her frustration/irritation with Bill starting around book 3 or so. I’m trying to think if there were any other plot developments related to this, and I don’t think so.
I got the sense that if you were very suspicious or had an idea of what she was up to then she couldn’t control you, which is why she didn’t just use her mojo on Lafayette either.
Okay, here is my theory on Mary Ann v. Sookie, and this is strongly based on the books, so I will spoiler it.
[spoiler]
Thinking back to what I read on Wiki about maenads: they worship debauchery and revelry, especially drunkenness and sex, with the express purpose of driving humans mad. Batshit crazy mad. So they’ve been leading up to this all season, showing us how the debauchery is slowly ratcheting up in intensity. First, it was just nasty dancing at Merlotte’s. Then there was an orgy in the woods. Finally, we were led up to the sacrifice ritual that Sam escaped from. Now, Mary Ann has Tara and Eggs beating the crap out of each other and eating that poor waitress’s heart. (I would have too, because you don’t set up my Sam. Grr. I heart Sam.)
So, while Sookie can’t be made all black-eyed herself because of her fraction of Supe blood/telepathy, she is very much affected by the people around her. Can you imagine how awful it would be to be forced to listen in on someone else’s descent into madness? Now imagine it’s your entire home town descending into madness. Early in season one, we got a sense of how crazy it must drive Sookie just to overhear the mundane inner thoughts of happy customers at the bar. She has to work hard to block it out, right?
Every single human person in the town, except the shifters and vamps, is under the control of Mary Ann and if she wants to make 'em hate on each other, Sookie gets to hear the ugliest, deepest, inner thoughts of each person in Bon Temps. Get them all together at an orgy at Sookie’s house, and then have Sookie return home to find the entire town driven mad, nekkid and writhing, in her own backyard. Imagine what their thoughts might be. Take every scene where a few people at Merlotte’s were uptight or angry about something and then multiply it by 100 with hate and anger and vitriol and pretend you will be forced to overhear all that: *This *is why Mary Ann is a threat to Sookie.
For a telepath, that would be torture. Beyond torture. In fact, it’s one of the few things I can think of that would seriously torture Sookie. Drive everyone else batshit crazy and make her listen in.
I think that’s what’s coming. Sookie will return with her vamps to find all hell literally broken loose at her house. She cannot be influenced by Mary Ann; but Mary Ann can influence the thoughts of everyone else, which Sookie will hear.
In the books, Bill and Eric basically pinned Sookie down between them until Mary Ann sort of imploded out of existence. It was implied that Mary Ann made everyone crazy and then vanished, moved on to the next town, because this is what maenads do. The show up, wreak havoc, and move on. Vampires also have the ability to erase human memories, so that is how book two resolves: The vamps protect Sookie until Mary Ann leaves, and then they help her clean up by wiping people’s memories and disposing of some bodies. Nobody ever mentions Mary Ann again, of course, so Sookie is the only person in Bon Temps with memories of her. [/spoiler]
I think part of the reason for the boredom with the Mary Ann story line is that it’s difficult to show via this medium, the mental stuff that’s going on, and by that I mean Mary Ann making the people black eyed and carrying out her will… That and we haven’t heard any explanation for Mary Ann’s motives, but I think it will be made clear at the end of the season.
In other news, I heard that True Blood has been picked up for another season, so yea! HBO!
Eh, he didn’t leave because he was bored or depressed or anything, he left because he was done. That’s it. You’re still thinking of life and death like a mortal with a mortal’s sense of urgency. He was simply finished living, that’s all there is to it.
Godric, an immortal being, transformed from a monster vampire over the centuries into a more enlightened being. From pure bad to good. Maybe he just evolved into a better creature and in doing so knew that - yeah, really, his time was up. Especially after he admitted the possibility of believing in God. I hope we see him again (in flashbacks).
Everyone is so gung-ho for Hoyt and Jessica, but that relationship is doomed. She is just tragic. They have NO future, and Hoyt’s momma, annoying as she is, pointed it out.
I suppose they have to eliminate storylines every so often to make room for new ones. Like the big upcoming Queen :rolleyes:. Wish they’d kept Godric and cut back on Mary Ann!
Godric was such an interesting character. He could have stuck around for another decade or two and done a lot for the world. Then again, maybe he did enough. Maybe his sacrificial, Christ-like death will be what it takes to start the ball rolling. Hmm. Maybe Jesus was a two thousand year old vampire who disappeared when the Sun hit his cross.
True but I wasn’t over fond of the actor. He had a lot of physical presence but his acting was quite wooden. I thought his best scene was when he turned Eric in the flashback - he was ever so Puckish. After that he was just… stilted and boring.
Speaking of Stephen Root’s Eddie, I wish they’d have more like him. It’s irritating that all the vampires in fiction seem to be great looking broody guys. I’d love to see more exceptions: Fran Drescher as Zelda, a Queens housewife who was ‘made’ during Eisenhower and still lives with her 85 year old son [Don Rickles] and his family, or Sherman Hemsley as Soggy Biskit, the most mediocre blues man in the history of the Mississippi delta who got turned by Robert Johnson (who didn’t sell his soul but became a vampire) but still can’t play worth a damn, or Leslie Jordan as Robert E. Lee who it turns out wasn’t exactly as tall or gallant or handsome as his reputation. Bring on the immortal nebbishes.
You should read “Fat White Vampire Blues” by Andrew Fox. It’s pretty much about a vampire nebbish, apparently the blood in New Orleans is high calorie from all the Southern cooking.