Actually, I liked that too. Also, I liked Eric as Tara’s mom. It was silly at first, but quickly made me very sad for Lafayette.
In the books. Some of them, particularly makers and, uh, makees can communicate mentally.
Yeah, I have a feeling we’ll say goodbye to Maryann and also hear more from Hadley and/or the Queen in the season ender.
I’ve always wondered what on earth Sookie was thinking going after those vampires when sweet, adorable Sam is so obviously carrying a torch for her.
I thought it was incredibly sweet when Sam told the girls “Well, your Daddy must’ve really loved your Momma, because you know that had to hurt.” (After the redhead told him that he had her mother’s name tattooed on his stomach.)
I also loved some of the Jason-isms, such as his speculation about Sam having sex with a female dog. “That’s not bestiality. That’s NATURE.”
Sookie commented that the text message was 6 hours late - and that she thought getting a new phone would solve that problem.
Maybe she’s one of those awful women who love Bad Boys and don’t appreciate Nice Guys.
Vampires can be awake during the day, as long as they’re not exposed to sunlight. Bill’s maker kept him awake for several days, cooped up in the vampire hotel.
Then why all the angst in S1 when Sookie daydreamed about having breakfast with Bill? Does she know he can be up and about in the daytime? Might save their relationship.
Bill’s house has windows.
So is the next season werewolves, witches, or faeries?
OK, but were Bill and Eric communicating that way in the scene outside the Queens house? It’s possible I just didn’t notice.
Well The Queen specifically brought up Weres, have they been mentioned before as an actual being and not just a theory of Sookie’s or Sam’s?
Having just introduced Sookie’s cousin this could lead us to Witches (I haven’t gotten beyond the second book but I recall hearing she has a cousin who is a witch) or Faeries (since we are starting to meet the extended Stackhouse family.) They didn’t reference it this episode but I am assuming Sookie’s handbeams will be addressed eventually and have a connection to one or the other.
Why was there mention of Lafayette/Eric sex dreams but we don’t see them. I want my money back!
Evan Rachel Wood may not always be the best actress when it comes to conveying dialogue but I adore the way she seems to physically embody the characters she plays. They tend to have ticks, or swishes, or talk with their hands, etc. the way I feel the character would/should.
During all her scenes it was a lot of little things that grabbed my attention. It seems delightfully bitchy and controlling to arrange your furniture so that people are forced to converse with you from the other side of a pool.
Was everyone else not sure if she actually meant Yahtzee before we saw them play? Granted, I don’t know what else it could have meant, but it made me laugh when we saw them gathered around that tiny table playing Yahtzee. That is going to be fun to explain to Sookie:
“Where were you! I could have used your help when Plan C(hucking things at people’s heads) stopped working!”
“Err I was…”
“What?!”
“Playing Yahtzee poolside with hot gay guys while the Queen tried to bully me into having sex with Eric while making jokes about Eisenhower.”
“…”
“Sookie?”
“<throws Wiimote at Bill’s head>”
Speaking of Eisenhower, how annoying must it be to go anywhere with The Queen?
“This is terrible! I haven’t had decent Mongolian* since Ghengis Khan’s sweet sixteen!”
*I am aware Vampires don’t eat human food, just let me have my joke.
But they get really tired and get the “bleeds”, so they don’t do it unless forced to.
About witches - Sookie’s cousin Hadley is a vampire, not a witch. And she’s the Queen’s lover. Later on witches are brought into her storyline, though, in the books.
I think Evan Rachel Wood is a terrible choice for Sophie-Ann. I don’t know how old she is, but she sure doesn’t look 17 to me. And that was some seriously bad acting on her part. If she’s going to be as big a part of the story as she is in the books, I really hope ERW gets better like the actress playing Jessica did. I seem to recall she had a less-than-stellar debut, although that may have been just me. For now, though, there’s a whole lotta :rolleyes: whenever she’s on screen.
I’m thinking there will be witches as well, but here’s my guess (GIANT spoilers for books and possibly next season):Introducing Hadley and the Queen is setting up Sookie finding out that Bill was assigned to seduce and use her. This breaks her up with Bill, just in time for her to find half-naked Eric running down her road, bewitched into a fetching scared-bunny amnesiac, with ensuing quivering breast puppies.
When Sam told Sookie he was a shifter she asked if he was a werewolf and he told her (something to the effect of) “No, weres are something different altogether and trust me, you don’t want to know one”. The implication was he’d encountered them when trying to figure out what he was and that they are total villains.
I have to strongly agree with you there. I found my attention wandering… she can barely deliver a line before I’m thinking… “Hm. I think I need a snack. Oh, wait, I’m supposed to be watching the Queen of Louisiana!” And then I get up to go get the snack anyway, because the next five words she said made my brain wander off into the weeds, looking for something shiny. (Or salty, as the case may be.)
Summary of this last episode:
Bill - You got to appreciate what an explosive element this Maenad situation is. If she comes to town and finds a bunch of rednecks doin’ a bunch of redneck shit, ain’t no tellin’ what she’s apt to do.
Queen - I’ve grasped that, Bill. All I’m doin’ is contemplating the fangbangers.
Bill - I don’t wanna hear about no motherfuckin’ fangbangers. What I wanna hear from your ass, Your Majesty, is, “you ain’t got no problems, Bill. I’m on the motherfucker. Go back in there, chill Sookie out and wait for the cavalry, which should be comin’ directly.”
Queen - You ain’t got no problems, Bill. I’m on the motherfucker. Go back in there, chill Sookie out and wait for a vague and crappy plan, which should be comin’ shortly.
Bill - You’re giving me that shitty plan?
Queen - You feel better?
Bill - Shit, Your Majesty, that’s all you have to say? :smack:
For those who’ve read the books: is Sam Merlotte the (approximate) age of the actor playing him (late 30s/early 40s) or is he much older? The reason I ask is that in flashbacks to when he was a kid (when he was played by a teenaged actor) the houses could easily have been from the 40s or 50s, and I was curious whether shapeshifters aged the same as regular humans.
The fact that Eric can fly is established on the last page of the first book “Oh, yeah, it was the full moon, tonight—I could see it out of the window. I could see something else, too. A white face appeared out of the blackness and floated between me and the moon. It was a handsome face, framed by long golden hair. Eric the Vampire grinned at me and gradually disappeared from my view. He was flying” but they changed the ending on the show so she’s never in the hospital, and therefore doesn’t see him out of her hospital window. You know, one of the changes they made this season cut out a hospital scene too, I wonder if they’re saving on production costs that way? Must be.
About the next episode, I’m surprised no one in this thread has expressed the worry that occured to me immediately after the queen’s explanation to Bill. I’l put it in a spoiler box in case my prediction (which isn’t based on the book’s ultra-lame ending) is right.
Last week Maryanne was facinated by Sookie after the light-from-her-hand incident and asked her “what are you?” and Sookie blows her off with a never you mind. If Sam isn’t the perfect vestle, won’t she go after Sookie next since she apparently thinks she’s a sup of some kind?
Unauthorized Cinnamon, your spoilers are for book 4. I would love to skip right to that, but I think they’ll twist book 3 next season. If so we’ve already met the Big Bad for season 3. We’ve yet to meet two of the other most important characters to that plot, though.
Sampiro, in the books he’s younger than the actor: only around 30 since Sookie notes a few times that he’s only a handful of years older than her. Andy is only in his early 30s in the book too, having gone to school just a couple classes ahead of Jason.
I’m having the same problem with the Mary Ann plotline that I have with a lot of bad movies in which the hero/ine decides to take on the bad guy themself rather than the obvious-
CALL THE COPS!
Obviously Sheriff Bud and other Bon Temps authorities (except Andy, kinda sorta) is right out, but they could still alert the media- call in the National Guard- alert other state authorities- call in Minutemen if you have to. I don’t think Mary Ann could blackeye the entire state of Louisiana as if she could she probably would have long ago, plus they need to let others know that these things exist.
Speaking of Sheriff Dearborne, this show has shown him (William Sanderson) in his underwear asking another man to dance, and it has shown Eddie the Vampire (Stephen Root) naked in bed with Jason in a dream sequence.
TRUTH OR DARE: If you just absolutely had to dance with an underwear clad William Sanderson or wake up with a naked Stephen Root and then of course attend to whatever happens next, which would you take?
I think Stephen Root’s the better looking/less ugly actor, but I’d still be having images of Milton saying “they said I could suck your blood if I kept it to a reasonable volume” or of Bill Dauterive come to life, while with Sanderson I’d have images of E.B. Farnum pantomiming cunnilingus with the carpetbag full of money Hearst gave him in Deadwood.
Oh sure, and stretch the Maryanne story line out for another several weeks while they go through trying to convince the authorities, the authorities attempting and no doubt failing to subdue/kill her through conventional means, arguing over whether to ask for help from some supernatural beings, etc. etc. No, thanks!
I was going to say Sanderson, because Stephen Root’s characters are such schlubs, but I Google-imaged Root, and he’s kinda cute when he’s not in character. William Sanderson, however, looks like a weathered old man whether he’s in character or not. So Root it is.