No thread yet? If nothing else, we should all say this:
Poor, poor Jessica!
(Though I find it amusing to play “Six Degrees of Regenerating Hymen” with this: Jessica’s grows back. She’s in True Blood with Anna Paquin. She’s in X-Men II, which has a female with Wolverine’s healing power, which made me think, “Man, it would suck to have your hymen perpetually heal.”)
I liked Jason a lot this episode. Especially the scene with Bill.
Yay, the vamp house finally looks like the hangout for a nest of vampires, not just an empty house with four actors rattling around in it. However, I think Luke being able to walk right in was majorly, unforgivably stupid. At least in the bookthe house is clearly described as being in a normal subdivision among other human houses, so no special outdoor security would be expected, and the FOS assailants surrounded the house and shot through the windows.Lastly - Maryanne. Yes, she’s creepy and evil. But if you keep showing her doing the same basic creepy, evil stuff every week, it gets old. Even with gross cannibalism special effects, it’s dull. The only interesting thing about the Maryanne plot this week was the coroner’s story about sodomizing a tree.
Yeah, where’s the True Blood love? We finally get a week where lots of stuff happens and nobody is posting.
I liked this episode, and i am glad Godric is being all philosophical instead of being all bored and sick of it all like in the book.
And yeah , Maryann can go any time now. She’s boring.
How did Eric and later Bill get into the church without being invited in? I can think of at least two occasions where they made a point of showing that.
Also, I really thought that Bill was going to kill Lorena:
“When will I see you again?”
“Never.” ::stakes her::
I liked the exchange between Eric and Sookie.
Sookie: He’s your maker, isn’t he?
Eric: Do NOT use words you’re not familiar with.
Sookie: You have a lot of love for him.
Eric: Do not use words I’m not familiar with.
And then there was Jason’s comment after hugging Bill. (Paraphrased, because I can’t remember the exact words.) “Was that OK for you?”
Can’t kill her, she’s the subject of the third book. I wouldn’t mind skipping over that and getting to book 4 though… Especially since Sookie/Eric fans were robbed a scene between them in this episode No car accident, no shape shifters & werewolves, no Eric’s ruined shirt that he has to take off…we were definitely robbed.
Jason: “Mr. Compton, can I talk with you a minute?”
Nice, mannerly southern boy respecting his elders!
MaryAnne prepared heart the correct way, with root vegetables, but she must have started the day before because heart takes a looooong time to cook. And that was a souffle? Looked more like heart pot pie, with a crust.
I wish they would keep Godric on this show for more than a few episodes. They kept Lafayette on, and he was supposed to be dead quite soon,in the book.
The scene with Luke was fantastic. It really stepped up the Fellowship’s game. I loved the scenes with both Newlins being abandoned.
Funny that’s how I feel about all of the gripes about the Maryanne storyline. There’s nothing wrong with it at all IMO, it’s one of the more interesting parts of the story. It’s a longer, slower mindfuck. She’s a FOIL, she’s not SUPPOSED to change much. The story isn’t ABOUT her, it’s about what she’s doing to Bon Temps. Andy going crazy, Sam being thrown in Jail, all of that happens BECAUSE OF MARYANNE.
Get over it already.
One of these weeks I would love to see one of these threads start off without the gratuitous bitch about Maryanne.
There’s nothing more tedious than endless bitching about pivotal plot elements.
If you guys don’t like Maryanne you don’t really like True Blood because she’s at least 50% of the plot.
Maryann: Go. Away. GO AWAY. * Goawaygoawaygoaway! * I’m almost at the point where I just FF her sections of the week’s storyline, except I like Sam. I used to like Tara. Poor, poor, formerly interesting Tara, all tangled up in this shitty storyline to nowhere.
Everything else I rather liked this week. It seems that both Jason and Sookie are quiet, um, not bright; but Jason is more aware and more endearing in his Dumb. He’s a cutie, and I don’t even like blonds.
Godric I found fascinating, and well-protrayed by the actor. He seemed tired, complicated, wise, enigmatic; I’d like to see more of him, please. I liked his, “I am older than your Jesus” line. BTW–did anyone ever identify his origin? His small stature and tattoos intrigues me. He also looks like he’s about 17. Anyone who’s read the book(s) aware of his frozen age?
Poor Jessica. Good thing there are other sexual options they can pursue that wouldn’t perpetually be tearing her hymen. Just gotta get creative, girl, that’s it!
My DVR was unplugged accidentally in the last few minutes of the show (doh!), so it ended for me when Marina (is that her name? Bill’s maker? What’s her history; how much older is she than he?) is talking with Sookie at the bar. Sookie says, “I’m sorry, who are you again?” …annnnnnnnd end recording. Crap. Did I miss anything?
Curious what will become of preacher and his wife.
Dewey, I loved that interaction between Sookie and Eric myself. I especially loved the subtle reactions in Eric’s face after Sookie mentioned love; he dropped his eyes and seemed briefly confused and/or contemplative before responding.
Sookie ends up going full Jerry Springer on Lorena – all --“fuck off you bitch, you stay away from him,” – Bill eventully tells Lorena to leave him alone, and that he never wants to see her again.
then, at the very end Luke from the cult shows up in the church with a bomb and silver chains wrapped all over him. Cliffhanger.
My own favorit line from the episdode:
“I reckon I’ve already been to Heaven. It was inside your wife.”
I think it’s Lorena. She came out into the party to fuck with Sookie’s head, telling her she was nothing but a toy, a blood bag, not actually meaningful to Bill, etc. Going on and on about how she and Bill had spent two nights together in their hotel room, old lovers reminiscing, etc. Sookie stood up to her and told Lorena that she’d already lost Bill and never really had him because not only did he not love Lorena, he never had. Lorena was being a straight up biotch trying to fuck with Sookie and Sookie came right back at her all lippy and Lorena fanged out and was going for her when Godric stepped in and stopped her.
All peaceful and zenlike, he grabbed Lorena, ordered her to retract and dressed her down in front of the entire house as an example of everything that’s wrong with vampires. “I don’t know you, but I can tell you’re very old and you’ve obviously done nothing to improve yourself in all these years because you’re still quite petty and wrong. This human (Sookie) has proven herself to be a loyal friend to our kind and you’re a flea. Be gone from my district before dawn” type stuff.
Godric commanded Bill to escort Lorena out and she was crying to Bill about how embarrassed she was and how she was helplessly still in love with him and when would they see each other again and Bill was all “Never!”
Then Luke strolled in with what appeared to be some sort of bomb strapped to himself all covered in silver chains and jewelry and the last shot was Luke pressing the detonator.
Eric was a Viking on a raid 1,000 years ago and about to die from wounds sustained in a battle when he was turned into a vampire by an admiring Godric, a tattooed 16 year old savage (who had already been a vampire for 1,000 years). His tattoos indicated he was a Celt or a Pict. But I read that the Vikings had been raiding the country up the Rhine when Eric sustained his wounds, so that would make him a barbarian from a Germanic tribe. Interesting that over the centuries Godric did not become a raging slaveringly Evil leader, but evolved into a calm and wise authority figure, even forever 16 years old.
He said he barely even needs blood anymore. Maybe if you’re a vampire for long enough, you mellow out and become a higher being like Godric. There was still no real explanation of why Godric was at the FoL church, was there? Rev. Newlin sounded like he was going to burn someone, but Godric did not seem worried about that at all.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when Sookie gets home and finds crazy ass Maryann in her house playing marionettes with Tara and Eggs.
I think maybe Lorena holding Bill in the hotel room is the show’s version of the events in Club Dead. I’m not sure they’re willing to have the leading man screw someone elseat this point in the story. Also, the whole reason why he was where he was in that book was pretty dumb, and not even Harris seemed to know if the king of Mississippi or Lorena, or whoever, was the driving force.
As for skipping to book 4, I’m right with you. Quivering breast puppies notwithstanding, I think it’s my favorite.
But those of us on Team Eric can still hope for the first aid scene to occur in the next episode, right? Luke did have bullets amongst the silver flotsam he’d strapped to himself. And I believe they showed Sookie near Eric as Luke made his announcement.
Not yet. Especially with regards to if he was really being held there how he got out to help Sookie and if he was able to easily escape why he didn’t before. Probably something that will be addressed at some point since they had that moment where the rapist guy says “Godric it’s me” before he gets killed. I do really like the Godric character and hope he sticks around. I’m a little surprised Eric isn’t a little bit less dickish given that Godric is his maker and he seems to have a lot of reverence for him. Maybe Godric will influence him to be a little more likable leading to a better connection between him and Sookie.
This episode was surprisingly plot advancing at least where the church stuff was concerned. That part of it seemed almost like a season finale. How many episodes are left anyway?
I want to know if next week we’re going to have some bullet-sucking action. Although it looked like the Lukinator just had chains wrapped around himself, so maybe not. Le sigh.
Count me in with everyone else who is bored senseless with Marianne’s plotline. Yes, yes, she’s a Greek mythological being of some sort, she makes people’s eyes go black and then they have sex/kill people, and then she laughs maniacally. WE GET IT. Let’s move on, please! It’s sad, because I love Michelle Forbes and I think she’s doing a swell job with the character but there’s just not much to work with there.
There were a lot of funny lines in this week’s ep. “Was that…OK, for you?”
I am also wondering what Godric was doing at the FOTS church in the first place. I mean, I know why he was there in the books, but they seem to be taking a different direction in the show.
Oh, and I will second Unauthorized Cinnamon’s observation that in the books there never did seem to be a good reason for why Bill took off with Lorena. It was never really explained, beyond, “He has a weird fascination with her.” OK, and…?
I thought this ep was pretty good, overall. Except, no Pam!
Wait a minute, did Luke show up in the church all dressed to bomb, or in the hotel lobby (or bar, or whatever it was) where all the vampire were meeting?
No car accident, no shape shifters & werewolves, no Eric’s ruined shirt that he has to take off…we were definitely robbed.