How many different plotlines where there in this episode? Sookie still has to deal with her fairy-family, Hoyt and Jessica are fighting, Bill has a new love interest, the shapeshifter kid is trying to swindle Hoyt’s mom, the “main” plot with the witch and Eric’s lost memory, Andy is an addict and then there’s were-panthers. And the creepy doll/evil baby, maybe.
So thats: 8 unrelated plot lines in a 50 minute episode? Not exactly the poster child for tight writing.
The writers must’ve spent the shows fairly long hiatus thinking of plotlines, and then when it came time to start filming, decided to just film them all.
Doesn’t Bill know that??? (He was all an example of Living History to the Ladies Historical Society in past seasons, getting them all teary about the Civil War and seemed to know each soldier from Bon Temps personally.) In one of the books he knew the Bellefleurs were descendents. Not that that has anything to do with the tv show.
If I had a baby and somebody gave it an ugly, dirty creepy ass doll my only debate would be “Do I throw it out now or be polite and wait til the second she’s left?”
I figure that’s a realization he’ll make some time in the series.
Of course somebody like Eric, who definitely shagged many women when he was mortal, would just have to accept as a possibility any woman he shags could be his descendant. In a thousand years you could conceivably have millions of descendants of every conceivable ethnicity.
To be fair, there’s really no chance of procreation. So the only thing holding them back is the ick factor, and I’m not really sure what a vampire’s threshold for ick is.
I’m loving this season. I mean, come on. The best thing about this show is the over the top cheesiness. Too many plot lines? Too many supernatural critters? Too much drama and sex and bad attempts at southern accents? Hell no, I say, bring it on. Next stop, mermaids!
(Then again, I have no plans to read the books, so I don’t have the same/different problem.)
For that matter, Debbie Pelt is killed in the series, with non of this redemption crap, so clearly they’re going in a different direction on the TV show.
No. On the show one of his two children dies, but the other lived to have her own family. In the books he had three children, all of whom lived to adulthood, one of whom had a child directly related to Andy and Portia, and was a distant aunt to Terry (Andy and Terry being cousins has never been mentioned on the show, has it?).
Cowboy8467, redemption crap aside, Debbie is alive in the books during the timeframe the episodes on TV have* thus far* shown. she doesn’t die until the very end of the book this season is loosely based on If we want to complain about killing people out of sequence, we can go with Claudine, Calvin, Sophie Anne & Stan the vampire…that’s three future plotlines mucked with right there.
Sampiro, if someone tried to give my baby that thing, I’d suddenly develop very strong feelings about little boys not playing with dolls.
And I can’t believe Jessica Willow’d Hoyt!
This bothered me as well. A) Because it was sick and twisted and disturbing (and logistically dubious – how is a getting-raped guy supposed to be able to keep it up and go over and over again for each of those women? I know we’re talking about Jason, but seriously…?) And B) in the books Jason and Crystal were madly in love, there was nobody else involved and they made a baby by accident. Twisting the relationship in that way bothered me.
Not to mention the logic-fail of wanting to diversify the genepool with one new guy. That’s not terribly helpful, you’d need lots of guys to have much positive effect on that score.