The door knobs were just a show of force. If they tried harder to get out ,they would have found there was a lot more. the knobs were a message not to leave. They would have been charbroiled if they went through a window.
I can’t find a thread for the current episode - did whoever usually starts them spend a couple of days without power too?
Yes, that’s Elaine’s sister. Elaine from Seinfeld. She and Julia Louie-Dreyfus are sisters.
Half sisters, I think.
No idea, but Tommy dying was sad. I wanted him to stick around.
The V-Team shot with the bazookas at the end had me in stitches.
I thought SD readers just stopped caring! There are only two more episodes left, and then a whole year…I hope the next two get more notice, the finale will.
Maybe it’s for the best poor Tommy died. He didn’t have much of a future, though he was showing signs of growth by learning how to read and trying to do something good for Sam (by confronting the werewolves in the guise of Sam).
I wonder what the fearsome foursome at the end did with Nan. Probably left her chained up in the cell.
I think it’s probably because this season sucks. There is nothing compelling about any of the plot lines. That Schmoopy Eric thing was awful. The stuff about the faeries and their world was kind of interesting but it was dropped. I’ll finish off the season and start the next one but my interest is waning.
Now that Northman is un-schmooped, Tara did something other than cry for once, Bill may not be entirely an idiot, and Tommy’s done being annoying, I at least have hope.
At least next week’s episode should be violent.
:eek: Well sheeit, how was I to know that, I didn’t know who the hell you meant by Elaine, I thought maybe it was that one that kept yammering about how she was bringing her sister (in law?) to the the group or something.
I was without power/internet most of the week due to Irene, so that might be a factor with other people.
I don’t think we have a regular person. I started this one 2 weeks ago, and checked a few times to see if anyone had started a thread for last week’s ep, but none. I think it is the overall suckitudedness of this season and people don’t much care anymore.
Allow me to ditto myself re: the last ep.
It blows my mind that Alan Ball allows his name to continue to be associated with this steaming pile of crap.
Next episode is on Halloween. I think the locals would build bomb shelters for that day.
Can you elucidate the factors that lead to you enjoying season one but not season four?
Yo, I got that ancient V… $2000 an ounce
Any buyers?
I was not happy with the Bebe story line, but I have been a watcher since day one. I think it is great TV. The olio of plots , with so many characters , make it tough to follow without some degree of involvement. But I don’t expect every story line to be to my liking. Too bad they won’t polish off the witches story line next week.
I’ll be happy never to see the inbred panthers ever again.
IANAStoid, but I’ll take a crack at this, because I enjoyed the first three seasons (esp. season 3 and Russell), and I’m only continuing to watch at this point because I’m hoping the show will get back to that point. Season 4 has been almost a total loss, IMHO.
I haven’t really articulated why I feel that way until now, so please allow some scattered thoughts:
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Ensemble-itis. The show just kept adding characters and expanding existing characters’ roles over the last three years, to the point where it is just too disjointed at this point. Why, oh why, are we spending so much time on Andy Bellefleur’s ridiculous V addiction story? Why did we spend so long on Terry and Arlene’s baby? Who in god’s name thought it would be a good idea to spend additional time on Tommy Mickens? Most of these storylines feel like contrived ways to continue to spend time with who were and should continue to be minor bit players, and I really haven’t enjoyed them at all.
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The escalation of “shock.” I get it. Moments like Bill twisting Lorena’s head around mid-coitus are what everyone talks about around the water cooler. But the story with Jason getting repeatedly raped by the women (and girls) of Hot Shot just went so far beyond the line of bad taste that I just don’t have words for it (and, on a whole, I am nearly impossible to offend). And all of that never even lead anywhere. The Hot Shot/Jason becoming a Were Panther story just fizzled, and didn’t have anything to do with where Jason is now in the current story.
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Deviation from the books? This is just a guess on my part, because I’ve never read them. But from what I understand, a lot of what has been most popular about the last three seasons (Lafayette surviving season 1, Jessica/Hoyt, Russell Edgington’s rampage) were deviations from the books. It seems like that made the producers/writers feel empowered to bring the story completely off the rails (I understand a LOT of this year is a complete deviation). I’m (thankfully) forgetting some of the first half of this season, so excuse the dearth of examples, but it really did feel like each episode just turned the motorcycle around and jumped over that shark a couple more times. The Repeated Rape of Jason Stackhouse is the big one that comes to mind, but I know there were more. Maybe someone will be so kind as to fill in some more examples. Anyway.. maybe the writing staff is better at adaptation than devising their own plots for these characters.
I really want to like this show, and there are parts I still dig. I love Jesus the Bruja. Most of the stuff with Marney has been cool. Maybe they’ll dig up Russell and completely turn it around for me. Till then… I’ll give it some more time but, meh.
Oh yes, Bill and his “We can’t sleep together anymore because you’re my great-great-great-granddaughter” storyline may have actually made me pull a muscle doing this: :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Well, in some cultures the vampires take Halloween off. They find it all much too crass. 