# True Blood: "Evil Is Going On" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 13, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547 "2010-09-13T00:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/41 "2010-09-14T06:12:21Z")
> [@Lightsaber](#): > > It didn’t really seem out of character to me. She was pissed off, and Talbot was just a decanter of goo at that point anyway. It was the laugh that was off, not so much decanting and disposing of Talbot. I wondered if it was a dream at first because of that, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/42 "2010-09-14T07:14:39Z")
Baby angel Godric was a big pro - that was totally Godric, and Eric twisting Godric’s words to his own end was totally Eric. Win Win. Where was Felix? I can’t believe I missed Felix! Also sorry, but the scene with Tara’s Mom was a big Pro. It was nice to finally see for sure that the Priest had been manipulating her Mom all this time. And sad at how desperate she was to grab onto some glimmer of hope for happiness. But it was also a game changing moment for Tara. She was able to let go of her need to change her Mom, and just love her for herself, which allowed Tara to also let go of her own attachment to her fears of being tied to the same fate as her Mom. She was able to emotionally release from the burden of her past. The moment where she closes her eyes, and makes that decision was brilliantly written and acted. Bravo. Con: Why is Ginger suddenly in the bar? Weren’t they just saying that Russell could easily charm her? Pro: I did enjoy Alcide, Eric, and Bill all trying to mark their territory… Con: After Sam’s scene with the cook, I thought he was back, but I hated his scene with Tommy (Well, Sam’s part… Tommy’s part was well done). Wow Sam, you have turned into a dick! And why? Pro/con: Vampire matrix. Con: horribly horribly cheesy, derivative and also kind of weird in that Bill can’t fly and this was more like they were levitating than lunging. OTOH Pro: the cheese was cheesetastically funny. I guess it comes down to whether or not it was intentional. Pro: The Queen’s “widow” outfit was a pisser. PS: “tits on a turtle”? [http://moonwarrior.com/wp-content/uploads/mika08-07\_ninjaturtle\_venus.jpg](http://moonwarrior.com/wp-content/uploads/mika08-07_ninjaturtle_venus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/43 "2010-09-14T07:21:26Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > I thought the Talbot-down-the-drain scene was so out of character that I expected Sookie to just lose it entirely. Really? A psychotic killer who tried to end you reveals a symbol (already dead anyway) of his own vulnerability and you _don’t_ flush it down the drain and laugh hysterically? I loved that scene. Sookie isn’t no Godric. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/44 "2010-09-14T07:29:55Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Con: Why is Ginger suddenly in the bar? Weren’t they just saying that Russell could easily charm her? Glamor her, but yes. That’s why they wanted Sookie there, apparently figuring that she could keep Ginger out of the way enough to keep that from happening. It makes sense, Ginger seems to like Sookie and would probably listen if she was told not to go near - and she wasn’t within eye gaze distance of him when they did show her. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/45 "2010-09-14T11:27:23Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the absolute best part of this episode! When Alcide shows up at the bar, Sookie immediately says, “How did you know to come for me?” Typical Sookie, being monumentally self-centered. And when Alcide says Eric called him to do some work, she looks like he threw a bucket of cold water on her. Tee hee! I too thought her laugh was really weird - like they wanted to show she was totally losing it. It was particularly a contrast with her cool, calm reaction to Russell’s initial negotiations. But then she was all over the place in other ways too. She wakes up after Eric kidnapped and nearly drained her, finds out that he’s outside, and immediately wants to save him. Then she hates him again within five minutes. Anyway, I liked how they presented Lafayette’s visions. Very disturbing and evocative. And of course Nelsan Ellis is an acting god. So I’ll be interested to see where that goes. So, in addition to “Daddy-Uncle,” did I parse it right that Crystal and Phil are at least half-siblings? And were betrothed as children too? Ew. They are really making Hotshot ten thousand times worse than it was in the books. All in all, there were some interesting developments, but given that it’s the season finale, the end of all the storylines felt really abrupt. ---
**Author:** ![ginman999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@ginman999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ginman999)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/46 "2010-09-14T14:34:42Z")
Jason had no problem killing a vampire with a wooden bullet from a shotgun. Why didn’t Eric use the same on Russell? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/47 "2010-09-14T14:47:12Z")
> [@ginman999](#): > > Jason had no problem killing a vampire with a wooden bullet from a shotgun. Why didn’t Eric use the same on Russell? He wanted something worse then death for Russel. So they burned him in the sun, wrapped him in silver and buried him in concrete. From what I gather, he won’t die the true death but he will lay there and smolder until someone finds him (which for some reason they decided about be about 100 years). Basically, they wanted him to have a ‘time out’ to sit and think about what he did. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/48 "2010-09-14T14:47:46Z")
> [@ginman999](#): > > Jason had no problem killing a vampire with a wooden bullet from a shotgun. Why didn’t Eric use the same on Russell? He could have easily killed him, but he didn’t want to kill him; he wanted him to suffer and slowly go insane (well, more insane) for hundreds of years while encased in a concrete wall. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/49 "2010-09-14T14:49:50Z")
I keep thinking that this is a bad plan. It seems to me that the contractor is going to show up in the morning and go "What the hell? Who filled this in? We haven’t laid the plumbing yet. " And then tear it out. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/50 "2010-09-14T15:20:11Z")
LOL at Joey P. Eric was going to kill Russell, until he received a vision of Godric. Godric told him that even Russell would find peace after death, with an implication that everyone, human and vampire, goes to some nice place after dying. Instead of Eric agreeing to forgive and embrace peace, though, his reaction was, “Wait, if I kill him, he gets peace? Fuck that shit, now I have to figure out a way to torture him for decades.” ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/51 "2010-09-14T15:49:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I keep thinking that this is a bad plan. It seems to me that the contractor is going to show up in the morning and go "What the hell? Who filled this in? We haven’t laid the plumbing yet. " And then tear it out. I’m not sure, but I think the werewolf Eric called works that site, or his dad does. On another subject, ‘V’ really does whatever you want it to, doesn’t it? It gets you high, heals injuries, it makes you better, stronger, faster, and if you’re from a family with a Voodoo history and do it with your witch-lover, it gives you weird visions for a day. Why don’t the vamps just come clean about the healing properties of their blood? If they’d all donate a pint now and then(just as humans do, but to different effect), they’d save millions of ppl and would be gladly accepted by society at large. Imagine having V carried by paramedics and stocked in the E.R. ETA: Hell, work a trade: one pint of you fav human blood for a pint of yours. . .or 2, or 3 or 10. What price do you put on a miracle drug like that? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/52 "2010-09-14T15:56:18Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Ew. They are really making Hotshot ten thousand times worse than it was in the books. No they aren’t. That’s exactly how Hotshot was in the book. They DID have a inbreeding problem, you know. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/53 "2010-09-14T16:53:24Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > I thought the Talbot-down-the-drain scene was so out of character that I expected Sookie to just lose it entirely. I know she’s sick of all the supernatural crap, but to go from one extreme to the other so fast isn’t human. Not that she IS entirely human, but it jolted me out of the show. I haven’t been that much a fan of the character anyway…she IS highly annoying…but it’s getting worse. \>.\< > [@Lightsaber](#): > > It didn’t really seem out of character to me. She was pissed off, and Talbot was just a decanter of goo at that point anyway. > [@Taomist](#): > > Yeah, but she was trying to do an evil laugh while she was grinding up Talbot; it was just…weird. To me, anyway; I haven’t read the books. Maybe she really is as psychotic as she acts. > [@elfkin477](#): > > > [@Lightsaber](#): > > > > It didn’t really seem out of character to me. She was pissed off, and Talbot was just a decanter of goo at that point anyway. > > It was the laugh that was off, not so much decanting and disposing of Talbot. I wondered if it was a dream at first because of that, but apparently not. Same here. I was hoping it would turn out to be some weird fantasy of Sookie’s, not her real actions. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/54 "2010-09-14T17:46:41Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I keep thinking that this is a bad plan. It seems to me that the contractor is going to show up in the morning and go "What the hell? Who filled this in? We haven’t laid the plumbing yet. " And then tear it out. I got the impression that Alcide (and his father?) were involved in that construction site, and could cover for that. But I could be wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/55 "2010-09-14T18:43:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > I keep thinking that this is a bad plan. It seems to me that the contractor is going to show up in the morning and go "What the hell? Who filled this in? We haven’t laid the plumbing yet. " And then tear it out. > > I got the impression that Alcide (and his father?) were involved in that construction site, and could cover for that. But I could be wrong about that. The sign on the fence said Herveaux Contractors, but it was easy to miss. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/56 "2010-09-14T18:59:56Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > No they aren’t. That’s exactly how Hotshot was in the book. They DID have a inbreeding problem, you know. Yeah, but my impression was that the inbreeding was more along the lines of lots of cousins intermarrying again and again down the line, not siblings being deliberately married off like Hotshot is ancient Egypt with less-advanced dentistry. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/57 "2010-09-14T19:04:13Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > So, in addition to “Daddy-Uncle,” did I parse it right that Crystal and Phil are at least half-siblings? And were betrothed as children too? Ew. They are really making Hotshot ten thousand times worse than it was in the books. Yes, she told Jason the episode before that Phil was her half brother. > [@tr0psn4j](#): > > > [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > > > Ew. They are really making Hotshot ten thousand times worse than it was in the books. > > No they aren’t. That’s exactly how Hotshot was in the book. They DID have a inbreeding problem, you know. I think it’s worse too, the inbreeding aside. At least in the books she wasn’t engaged to a half sibling, and there wasn’t a drug selling/producing problem. In the books it’s just a weird, isolated place, not a cesspit full of drugs, hopelessness, and people marrying kin closer than cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/58 "2010-09-14T19:09:54Z")
I think it’s better this way. The show didn’t have time to give a nuanced, complex portrait of the town. Better to just simplify it into an inbred, hillbilly meth town and build from there. They will have time to start constructing nuance and complexity among the survivors next season. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/59 "2010-09-14T22:18:56Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > > [@John\_Mace](#): > > > > I got the impression that Alcide (and his father?) were involved in that construction site, and could cover for that. But I could be wrong about that. > > The sign on the fence said Herveaux Contractors, but it was easy to miss. Does that provide evidence for or against Alcide having a connection to the site? I haven’t the foggiest clue if that’s his last name or what. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547/60 "2010-09-14T22:24:41Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > > [@lisacurl](#): > > > > The sign on the fence said Herveaux Contractors, but it was easy to miss. > > Does that provide evidence for or against Alcide having a connection to the site? I haven’t the foggiest clue if that’s his last name or what. For. His last name is Herveaux. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-evil-is-going-on/553547.md?page=4)