So, I just got done watching this week’s episode of True Blood! Yay!
I’m interested to hear everyone’s thoughts on this one, as there were certainly a few “…” moments for me.
First, WTF? Eric can fly? Where the heck did that come from?
Second, why oh why oh why are we skipping next week? I need my fix!!
They seemed to leave so many things open in this episode that the next one will really, really have to be jam-packed to close out the season. I am pretty excited for it, and very, very excited to see how Maryanne makes her exit.
Favorite parts: Thank you, Jason, for asking the question I’ve thought all season (Has Sam ever had sex with a lady dog?)! And “teacup humans” has now permanently entered my vocabulary.
I felt a little annoyed by Eric flying, too – they’ve never shown it or, as far as I can recall, alluded to it in the series before. These vampires are getting TOO damned omnipotent. When that happened to Superman, they had to invent kryptonite to give him a credible threat.
Pepper Mill, who has read more of Harris’ books than I have, says it’s canon in the books, though.
As for next week, it’s because of the Labor Day weekend – the same reason they moved my “Clash of the Gods” on History.
Sookie once asked Bill if he could fly, and Bill said he couldn’t, the same way not all humans can juggle or sing. It’s a talent/skill not all vampires have.
Poor Lafayette.
I’d almost forgotten in the last few weeks what a dumbass Jason truly is, bless his heart. Sweet, hot, well-intentioned, but just dumb as a box of hair.
Bill is just way to broodingly intense about everything. Damn.
The bit with the Stackhouse cousin in the Queen’s place was interesting. In the books, Sookie refers often to her and Jason having no other family except one female cousin lost to drugs long ago. That must be her, wonder what they’re up to with introducing her.
I’m wondering if MaryAnne needs a shapeshifter to sacrifice why she didn’t just use the one she had that was already loyal to her rather than wasting her in a bid to get Sam put in jail.
I’m wondering how the sacrifice will go - will they kill off Sam, or find some way to make MaryAnne think he’s been killed? Does she have to have sex with him, eat his bodyparts, or both?
I found it amusing that Eggs is building a nest lol.
I loved all the Ho Yay comments from the Queen. She’s right about Eric and Bill needing to get a room. And the Latvian boy was quite tasty.
When Eric made Lafayette drink his blood, Bill and Sookie were in Dallas - they flew there on Anubis Airlines. When Eric was finished with Lafayette, he said, “And now, I must fly,” and then showed up in Dallas. It was a little to book fans and a slight intimation. And as Queen Tonya said, I think there has been at least one other reference to some vampires being able to fly.
I loved how his hair was messed up when he arrived at the Queen’s.
I didn’t love much else in this episode. The Stackhouse contingents both came down with a terminal case of stupid. Just what are Jason and Andy going to do with all their firepower - just mow down all their friends and shrug, “Oh well, it needed to be done”?
Meanwhile, it took two humans and a vampire to subdue Tara. So Tara’s going to go single-handedly retrieve Eggs. :dubious: But OK, she’s overwrought. Then Sookie and Lafayette decide they can go right into the lion’s den and forcibly remove two people, all by themselves. Then Sookie decides she’s going one further - she’s marching into her house and kicking out the immortal, powerful god avatar who’s surrounded by minions. “Well, I’m not afraid.” Yeah great. To paraphrase Yoda, you should be, you stupid twat.
At least [del]Sam[/del] Arlene’s kids came up with a feasible plan - find another really powerful supernatural being and ask for his help.
I disliked the Queen. I realize she’s supposed to be putting on a bit, but it came across to me like the actress was reading her lines, not a character saying what came into her head.
I am intrigued that they’ve introduced the Hadley plotline. That should be fun.
It was an ok episode in my opinion. Did nothing special but advance the plot to next week and introduce Hadley.
The only thing I can think of as to why they did this is that they needed to have a human sacrifice to make Tara and Eggs into cannibals and secure their brains.
This question stuck with me for a while last night after seeing the episode. I mean, really? An egg? For god’s sake - why? Why, why, why? And who the hell laid that thing? Ouch.
I think my favorite part of the episode was when Sookie got off that guy who was trying to have sex with her in her kitchen. Some of the gore was a bit over the top, though - the guy in the sink playing with his intestines, the woman chopping her finger off. Enough already.
And I had problems with the queen’s explanation of how creatures become immortal. They think themselves immortal? Isn’t that usually considered a mental illness?
The only thing I really can say I enjoyed last night was the parts with Jason and Andy. Otherwise it didn’t seem like all that much happening. Just more crazy peoiple all over the place and scenes of exposition telling us about Maenads.
While I never wondered that exactly, I did always expect them to show two dogs humping at some point when Sam and Daphne were out on a shape shifter jaunt.
Maybe it answers Jason’s other question about Sam- perhaps he turned into an she-ostrich at some point. It can’t be any dummer than the real reason the writers have probably cooked up.
I understand that most seasons end with some sort of cliff-hanger, but Mr. Ball-please please please go ahead and wrap up (and by wrap up I mean kill) Mary Ann. I don’t know if it’s the actress (who I think should have had a more foreign and exotic look and voice) or the writing but she just doesn’t work.
While I haven’t read the Harris books, last night’s episode seemed to have more of a Gaiman flavor than what I understand her books have. Did anybody else notice this? (Gaiman routinely uses immortal characters, former gods/goddesses and the notion of “imagined into existing” in his work. For that matter he’s even had maenads in his graphic novels (though only when retelling the Orpheus story- not in a modern day setting).
While “blackeyed” the characters obviously keep some trace of themselves and have full access to their memories, otherwise Hoyt’s mom (the redneck Gentile cousin of Fran’s momon The Nanny) wouldn’t be able to taunt him with revelations about his father. However when Sookie “went in” to Tara’s mind she found nothing but emptiness.
Do you think Tara was still under Mary Ann’s spell when begging/threatening/demanding to be let go so she could go for Eggs?
For all we know flying is a rare trait among vampires or that only the really old vampires can do. So the rest of those that can’t fly would need the special airline accommodations. We also don’t know how fast they can fly or how far they can fly.
When they explained Mary Ann’s secret, I immediately thought of Hob Gadling from Sandman, who attained immortality by simply *deciding *not to die.
And this episode had another example of an issue I’ve seen come up at least 2-3 times … two characters with telepathic powers conspiring in the vicinity of other telepaths with no consequences. I forget the conversation, but when Bill and Eric step out of the queen’s house, they start talking behind her back as if she wouldn’t know. I’m not sure how the vampire telepathy rules work, but it rubbed me wrong. She’s The Queen damnit! At least wait til you’re off her lawn. Same failure as redneck-bomber-guy showing up at Godric’s pad and catching everyone by surprise.
One of the stupidest lines from last night was Lafayette asking if the text Sookie just received was from Bill, and her evidently not seeing anything wrong with the question. HELLO! It’s daylight. What are we forgetting?
I hope they don’t kill off Lafayette. If they do they’ll lose a lot of their viewers because he’s the most interesting mortal on the show.
I was wondering this too, given how freaking nasty and manipulative she was to everybody.
I liked the revelation that MaryAnne was summoned by Tara’s ritual last season.
Huh?!? What vampire telepathy? I was under the impression vampires were immune to telepathy and this was the whole reason Sookie liked Bill in the first place. Where are these telepathic vampires?
I don’t think that will be an issue - last season they killed the Big Bad in the finale, and the cliffhanger was related to the NEW Big Bad.
I wonder if this will lead to his attempting a Superman Lois Lane romantic flying moment with Sookie.
to book fans and a slight intimation. And as Queen Tonya said, I think there has been at least one other reference to some vampires being able to fly.