I can’t believe they wasted so much time on the incredibly dull Tara story line. I hope that’s the last of it.
I guess it’s time for girl friend swap for Jason and Hoyt.
The Tara storyline was maddening. Tara has gotten short shrift in some storylines before, but it would have been better if she had just been killed off at the beginning of the season and that was it. It would have been one thing if he had killed her father, and the flashbacks were to show either the gun that was used, or the dad’s body. But she was showing a gun that wasn’t used for anything? And Tara and her mom apologized to each other? Also, why was Tara speaking in gibberish and on a cross with a snake in the first episode or two of the V hallucinations?
Also I can’t believe how many villians that this season has set up who are then fairly easily dispatched. The Hep-V vampires, the Bon Temps townsfolk wanting to kill all the vampires, and now Violet seemed to be set up as big villians, but then are done with pretty quickly. Violet especially is bad, since she might be the oldest and most powerful vampire we know of on the show, and she’s shot by Hoyt? She should have heard Hoyt walk into her house, not have been surprised by him walking down the stairs into her sex dungeon.
And I guess the reason for the Bill flashbacks this season is to show he wants to die now so he can be reunited with his human wife?
Eric is the oldest vampire we know about (by about two centuries over Violet), and now that he’s healed, he should be the most powerful.
I’m guessing Bill’s going to choose to die so that he doesn’t spread his “darkness” any further. (Didn’t we already do that with Godric?) Bill’s flashbacks have been as pointless as the Tara storyline.
This is a recurring problem on the show. Last season we had Governor Burrell, who was built up as a powerful figure with big plans for oppressing the vamps, only to be swiftly and unceremoniously beheaded by daywalker-Bill halfway through the season. Then Warlow–who was built up as the biggest, baddest vampire ever–goes out like a bitch. Taken out, in fact, by Sookie-fucking-Stackhouse with an assist from Jason and Niall.
I thought maybe 5 year old Tara shot her father and that’s what they were going to find digging up the yard - and simultaneously thought how the hell would a 5 year old bury a body?? No! But she didn’t really bury the gun, just covered it up with leaves -unless she went back and dug a hole? No! Just stupid. And Bill won’t be ‘cured’? More stupid. Two more episodes to go. Thank God.
I was fascinated by the Tara side plot. It just rounded out the whole series for me, from beginning to end. I think it symbolized the cycle of life and death and the potential for both violence and good in between. Tara, dressed in white, is the bride at the wedding feast. Only to vaporize into the ether when the groom does not show. Lafayette is the trickster, showing his dual nature even at an early age. And Sookie is the long lost friend, returned at the end. That was a beautiful vignette showing us the height and depth and breadth of the human condition.
You’ve been watching the same HBO series the rest of us have?
Yeah, I didn’t get the Tara stuff either. For 2 or 3 seasons her mother was an insufferable alcoholic and a horrible mother. But now she is a saint because Tara’s daddy was even worse and all is forgiven?
It’s hard to believe that this show actually used to be good.
Now that is some graduate-level BS there, John. Hat’s off. If you find a university offering a course in deconstructing True Blood, that’s the seed of your term paper right there. 
I was wondering a bit about how Hoyt showed up at Violet’s house. How did he know where it was? Or did his girlfriend/fiancee call him? And in the last episode, Wade and Adilyn were being a bit shy in Violet’s sex dungeon. (I particularly liked Wade’s confusion over how Violet might use the dildo on him.) But in the previous episode, he got nekkid in Adilyn’s bedroom, so why the sudden shyness?
I assumed he followed Jason.
I actually loved how Violet was killed. Too insane with rage to worry about anyone else, and dispatched unexpectedly. Too often shows and movies have some big battle to defeat an enemy, and it’s refreshing to just have someone do it without a setup or some long winded speech. Of course here, Violet was jiving the speech, but Hoyt killing her was still unexpected.
The reason for the Bill flashbacks, sadly, is nothing more than the fact that Bill has been unlikeable, unrelatable, and kind of a dick the past couple seasons. They need to get the audience to care about and relate to him again so that his resolution has emotional resonance. It’s about as delicate as using a chainsaw in surgery.
That Tara subplot pissed me off to no end. Stupid, pointless, and it almost seemed that they deliberately made it that way as a fuck you to all the fans who hate Tara.
I know I’m a sick, sick person, but I kind of wanted to watch Violet carry out her medieval tortures, with only Jason and maybe Jess surviving.
What the fuck is the point of this season? My best guess is that it’s about the cure for Hep-V?
All the other crap really seems pointless. Tara, Violet, the Mayor, the 87 episodes about the roving vampires kidnapping everyone, Eric being super emo, Bill being sick, Lafayette and his new boyfriend, Hoyt…All of that shit seems so pointless.
Pretty much par for the course with this show.
I would guess it all about contractual obligations. Just my guess.
Wow, with only one episode left and the previews not looking very spectacular, I would say this show is poised to go out with a whimper.
So Bill’s will from like 1890 is effectively invalid because it wouldn’t name anyone still alive and couldn’t just list “and heir to be determined later,” though lord knows what the rule against perpetuaties is like in True Blood’s world of immortals.
So Bill effectively died intestate and his property would not revert to his great great great great grand nephew. It would revert to the state.
Sorry Jessica.
Yup, that’s the only logical flaw I found in the series finale.
I’m confused, what’s the problem? Andy is his closest, living, next of kin, that was established a few seasons back and since Bill is dead he can’t change his will anymore.
ISTM, the flaws would be that if you can’t change your will because you’re dead, then how do they deal with all the transfers of assets and all that. Though I can fanwank that by assuming that they’re just hoping to keep all the assets of vampires that have no living next of kin (that they can easily find, or that want to come to Bon Temps to claim it), but since they’re tax payers and they can’t get rid of them, they’ll just along things to keep moving forward.
Now, how did Jason and that girl manage to end up with like 3 girls (that are that old) in the two years that passed? Or was it longer than that? And who got Sookie pregnant, did I miss that or did they not say? She called someone ‘hon’ but it looked like she was just calling Jason.