Wow, that was awful.
At least the whole Lafayette and the “bebe” subplot is over.
Did anyone like this episode?
If not for the “Sookie and Bill Lumbergh flee from Witchiepoo” sequence in the season premiere, the “grieving ghost mom who nobody gives a shit about finally goes to heaven or something” scene in this episode would be the cheesiest thing I’ve seen on the show so far.
Can someone explain to me why Tommy went to the meeting with the wolves instead of Sam? Was he trying to be remorseful? Get his ass kicked in place of his brother’s? And if that’s the case, why did he tell them (sort of) that he wasn’t Sam?
This season just keeps getting worse and worse. Perhaps they’ve got that Star Trek odd/even thing going in reverse. Odd numbered seasons of True Blood are superior to even numbered? Season 1 and 3 were by far my favorites. Season 2 was really tedious and now Season 4 is just sucking the enjoyment out of this show.
You know, I love this show, but upon reflection this morning, I hated last night’s episode.
•I did sort of like the Lafayette stolen baby plotline, but I fail to see the point. It added nothing at all to the overall canon; just pointless.
•I really don’t care about Vampire Bill and his Machiavellian machinations for vampire world domination. * yawn *
•Not enough Pam.
•I suppose the part I did like was Jessica crying to her Grandmaker (not really, I just don’t know what that woman is called) and the response, “I never did become a maker and now I’m reminded why and really glad I didn’t.” My only LOL for the episode. I do like the Jason/Hoyt triangle.
•Sookeh-Bill-Eric threesome. I don’t care how smokin’ hot Eric is or how much I’d like to jump through the television screen and do him myself, I cannot abide Anna Paquin in sex scenes. I don’t know why, but she is such a horrible turn off to me that I had to fast forward through the entire scene. Again, the threesome in the sunlight fantasy added nothing whatsoever to the plotlines.
•Alcide-Debbie Pelt. Okay, I like the werewolves. I think it’s interesting what they are doing with Debbie Pelt because I don’t remember her making an overture toward Sookeh in regard to friendship. The guy who plays Alcide is as smokin’ hot as the character is described in the books; howeer, he also seems to be as emasculated as he was in the books. He digs Sookeh, but he stays with that shrewish harpy Debbie Pelt for what reason again? You never find out in the books either. Frankly, I’d take the pretty wolf woman over Sookeh any day, but I find Anna Paquin repulsive for some reason.
• Jason talking Andy Bellefleur down from his bad V trip = priceless. I really like Jason taking charge and being the calm voice of reason… the irony is hilarious.
• I assumed that Tommy went to the meeting instead of Sam because the meeting had been set up by Tommy-as-Sam and Real Sam knew nothing about it. Did we see the meeting setup? I think Tommy is just jealous and wants Sam’s life so he’s hell-bent on messing with it at every opportunity.
•Oh and I hate the Sam + werewolf’s exwife plot line even more than I hate Anna Paquin’s sex scenes.
I tend to dislike the plot lines that weren’t addressed in the books at all. I think they add too many characters and too much detail and make True Blood more soap-opera-like than the books seem to me. I am looking forward to the witch v. vampires caged death match/final battle, and I think the werewolves’ involvement will add to the gore. So the final episode for the season might be fun. Otherwise, I think we are telling the stories from the books that had me going “meh” as I was reading. There are other plotlines from later books that I enjoyed much more.
Did I mention that I do not find Anna Paquin sexy in the slightest? Just wanted to make sure I got that in. 
I liked it too, but I really like Lafayette. However, they left a few things unanswered. How did the baby find his way outside during the fire. Magic I assume. Also, they never brought up what the doll has to do with the whole thing.
Pelt? Really? That’s the most creative name they could come up for a werewolf?
The meeting was setup with Tommy and “Marcus He’llknowwhoIam”
Eta, that would be Tommy as himself. Sam never knew of the meeting, but if Tommy had told him, I’m quite sure he would have gone. Sam’s not one to back done from a fight.
I think we saw a clean version of that doll in a flashback with the Cajun babymama. I presumed she perhaps appeared to the baby and he followed her out… or something. Okay, I didn’t think that through very well. I don’t care enough to get ground down in the details. I think the message from this plot line is [whisper] “Lafayette sees dead people.” [/whisper]
Yep, you can thank Charlaine Harris for that one. Almost as clever as some of J.K. Rowling’s names.
Agreed, even though I think that would be stupid. Who shows up to a fight you found out about third-hand? I would assume the messenger was just stirring shit up or I’d change the terms of the agreement to meet (date, time, location).
I’m not sure about a clean version of the doll, but if it makes a difference, the first time we saw it was when Terry and Arlene were looking at the house (to buy it) at the end of last season (I think). It was laying on the floor in one of the bedrooms as the camera zoomed out. I think it may have been the closing shot.
The Lafayette baby thing is clearly foreshadowing the resolution of the witch plot. Nurse Bruja will probably talk the witch out of the body of the Wicca lady.
Okay, someone at work just cleared up the Tommy as Sam Vs Marcus and the Wolves thing.
He went to meet Marcus as Sam to tell them that Sam wasn’t sleeping with her but Tommy was (which is what he did). The idea being that the wolves would then go, find Tommy, and beat the shit out of him. It was going to be a penance for the shit he’s been stirring up in Sam’s life lately. If you’ll recall, he was writing an apology letter before Marcus walked in. The problem is, you can’t really take him seriously anymore. He’s said “I’m sorry, I’ll leave now” too many times. You know he’s not going anywhere, he’s just going to come back and cause more problems.
But at least that part makes sense now.
Really? Can’t think of any other person on the show currently possessed by a spirit that might need some casting out?
I actually didn’t like the storyline up until the ending in the dug up grave, I thought the reactions of all the actors were just great.
We did. When she showed up at the house to pick up her baby, she had the (brand new) doll with her. I think she even said something about buying it for the baby. I think the point is that the doll was haunted and when it was finally given to a baby, the ghost assumed it was her baby.
This episode was just bad all around.
This - he will exorcise the spirit from Antonia de la bitchypants and send it packing - why he will do this remains a mystery.
That his name is ‘Jesus’ is just rife with commentary.
I like Antonia a hell of a lot more then Marnie, but either way it says a lot for the actress, those are two opposite characters.
Well I did get a kick out of Jason saying “parrot phrasing” instead of paraphrasing.
I liked Lafayette-possessed by Creole babymama, I think he (the actor) did a good job. But I wonder, is that IT? Is that evil baby storyline all over? Evil Rene the serial killer had nothing to do with anything?
I thought a lot of this episode just tiresome and pointless, namely that Sam and Luna camping trip and Sookie in her underwear dream with her two vampire men. The mean werewolf baby-daddy drama ought to be on Jerry Springer, or Dr. Phil.
I really like Nan Flannigan, such an ultra-bitchy, world-weary, two-faced politician. I like her and Bill hissing at each other with such loathing when not in public.
(And nothing to do with anything, but I really hope someday we get Pam’s backstory. In the book she lived in England 100 years ago and was all for being turned into a vampire to avoid her marriage. If they follow that storyline, I’d like to see how she got to be the Pam we all ‘love’ today.)
Yeah, it was also pretty funny when Jesus told the ghost she was in a dude’s body and she got all freaked out when she realized there was a penis down there.
At first, when Jesus said ‘boyfriend’ I thought she was insulted/disgusted at the thought of him dating ‘her.’ That is, I thought she was being homophobic. I thought that was worth a little chuckle. I laughed a bit harder when she grabbed her junk and said 'how a bebe come outta there"?
Brujo. Just because he’s gay, and a nurse, doesn’t make him a girl. 
Yes, the “parrot phrasing” was kind of funny. I actually had to rewind to make sure I heard it right.