Well I’m not an attorney in LA so I don’t know for sure, but most states have very specific rules and forms in which a will must be structured. Failure to do that can cause the will to be declared invalid. I doubt the will that Bill actually possesses would meet those strict legal guidelines unless the law on wills hasn’t changed in 120 years.
Regardless of the structure of the form itself, there’s a language problem. You can’t place as a beneficiary to your will at the time of creation someone who is not yet in existence. This includes Andy. Hell, it includes Andy’s grandmother. A trust could be formed to accomplish that purpose, but not a will.
The Rule Against Perpetuities was just a legal joke about a very frustrating section of property law that would be shot all to hell in True Blood’s world, which I could explain but wouldn’t really be worth the time or humor.
Anyway, so Bill’s will is invalid. He dies intestate (or without a will). So where does his property go? Well first is the question of whether Bill died in like 1865. In True Blood’s world he did. So there’s a real problem with him dying a second time (you know, other than the soupy mess he left). But regardless, the rules of intestacy are such that you can have children be in line to inherit…and even grandchildren, but it kind of breaks down after that.
Alas, there really isn’t much caselaw on the property rights for a great great great great great great grandfather dying intestate. I’d have to assume that even if it were valid to give Andy the property, it would be equally valid to round up every single other equal or greater descendent on par with Andy and split the property amongst them.
But it’s more likely that it just reverts to the government. No, Bill would have been much better off trying to form a living trust with Jessica. Unfortunately, that advice wasn’t given by the attorney Bill saw; however, that was the second to last mistake she ended up making.
They never said. They did show someone who looked like Wolverine, which I guess is appropriate.
And on top of all that (most of which goes over my head) the whole thing is moot since Sookie turned him to soup and buried him. No legal authority has proof that he met the true death. At some point, the best someone can do is take Andy’s word for it since he’s the Sheriff, but clearly he’s biased since he inherited millions of dollars worth of land/improvements. Even the mayor and the deputy are all going to have pretty biased opinions of the situation.
ISTM, Bill should have made some kind of will so at least there’d be something in writing. Better yet, he should have just sold the house, outright, to Jessica.
So…
Only Sookie knows that Bill is dead.
Sookie is pregnant.
Sara is still alive (I think) and on the run, again (right?)
Jason is with, yet another, of Hoyt’s girlfriends.
Tru Blood has been reworked into New Blood and is back on the market
Am I missing anything?
Did they leave it open for an 8th season down the road or a movie or did they just purposely leave some loose ends? Personally, I don’t mind loose ends like this, it reminds you that you jumped in right in the middle of these people’s lives and when you leave, they’re lives keep going on. Sookie will still cause drama, Jason will probably still be sleeping around, Vampires will probably take over another town, life goes on.
They should have ended after Season 3. They could have made it a tighter cast and a more compact story line and had just as much drama, there was never any need for like 70 characters all with their own back story.
And WTF, why did Lafayette get nothing more then a 2 second cameo at the very end?
Indeterminate. 1 year to infomercial filming. Three more years to opening the stock exchange. Then cut to unspecified Thanksgiving.
Last two seasons were pretty solidly crappy but at least they did fake me out at the end. So that was good.
With the mind reading and the being warm and saying he was feeling more human than ever as a vampire I expected what would happen was Sookie would blast him and rather than killing him it would finish de-vampiring him and then they’d both be human and live happily ever after.
That was painfully bad. Everything with Bill & Sookie, Bill & Jessica, Jessica & Hoyt, and Hoyt & Jason was embarassingly unwatchable. The scene where Eric lets Sara go was also awful, but at least all the post-escape scenes with Sara were good, especially the final one.
All in all I give this episode an F. Just terrible. And what’s worse, how the hell does Ashley Hinshaw get cast on True Blood and not get nekkid? What the hell? hehheh.
Sara is chained up in the basement of Fangtasia, and has been for years. Eric and Pam sell her to vampires for $100,000 per minute. They will keep her alive and chained up in her own personal hell for many years to come.
In fairness, Jason appears to have actually settled down with this one. And who could blame him? Ashley Hinshaw, yowza.
I’m totally missing the logic behind the “Sookie! Sookie! I could die any minute now from this rapidly progressing fatal illness, so I need you to give up the magical powers that are the essence of you to kill me right now.” Was he channeling Darren Stevens, with the “I only want you to be magical when it’s for my benefit” attitude? I cheered Sookie when she stood up and told him to forget it.
I still don’t get why he insisted on dying at her hands. Was he being Psychologist Bill, feeling that she had to kill him to let him go? Personally, I’d have told him to lay down and get comfortable in the coffin and wait for the sun to come up.
I don’t think we have to spoiler anything anymore, but I thought he was turning human as well. I couldn’t remember if any vampires had died yet and started to wonder if maybe that’s what HPV does, turns them back to being human.
The logic was, from Bill’s standpoint, that he wanted to die the true death, which Sookie can provide and Sookie didn’t want to be fae anymore which this would do. She’s said over and over that she doesn’t like being able to read minds and this would stop the ‘line of vampires from here to the gates of hell’. It was his idea, yes, and I think he was truly trying to help, but she has said over and over that she doesn’t want to be a fairy anymore. In fact, way back when grand-dad showed up, she considered getting rid of her powers then.
What didn’t make sense to me is why Bill would die for a human. She’ll live for, what, another 50-70 years. Bill has hundreds or thousands of years left. He cut his life very short for a girl that he dated for a few years. Why not just pack up and move to another part of the world?
I thought for a split second that when Sookie stabbed Bill with the stake and he didn’t immediately explode, that he actually did turn human, but the stake through the human heart when kill him anyway making the death kind of tragic and a big mistake. That would have been interesting.
The AVClub recapfor this episode is good. The recapper says that if you had told her during the season two madness that the finale would mainly be a simple wedding, she’d laugh in your face. I agree. I would have expected so much more.
Also, I’ve probably said this before, but Bill is terrible. He thinks he knows what’s best for Sookie, so he wants to die rather than be with her. And not only that, but he thinks it would be best for her if she was actually the one to kill him. If he really did just want to die, he could walk out into the sun any day he wanted to. But the show had to go on and on about Bill’s deathwish because there was no other urgency this episode.
I liked Eric and Pam finally killing the Yakuza, but it was so easy, there’s no reason why they couldn’t have done that several episodes ago, and then given them a more fun storyline. Also, it seems strange that Eric and Pam are back in Fangtasia, even though they would presumably be millionaires from New Blood. I would think they’d have fabulous mansions in Monaco or something instead.
I think it was more like four years. There was a one year time jump to Eric and Pam’s infomercial, and another “three years later” after that. And they did not say who got Sookie pregnant, you just kinda saw the back of a brown-haired guy at the end of the table who was presumably it. I guess it wasn’t important who it was, it was just important that she was pregnant.
Jason’s crazy vampire ex didn’t explode right away either. Maybe it’s an age thing.
I’ll have to re-watch the ending, but was the Thanksgiving dinner out in the back yard during the daytime or were they under lights at night? Because if it’s the former, in addition to being the best Thanksgiving ever, it would probably Jessica’s last.
Agreed, I’ve been watching this show out of momentum for longer than I’ve been watching because I liked it. The first two seasons were really good, the third season was weird (that was the one with the Maenad and the giant orgy) and it was all kind of downhill after that as they kept trying to top themselves.
Well, unlike a lot of posters I didn’t think the finale was all that bad. I agree the series got progressively worse over the last few years and it was time to put a stake in it. Most of this final season was just pointless, other than to bring in a few characters we’ve not seen in awhile. So although the finale wasn’t great, the series stopped being even “good” a long time ago so this was just fine.
Maryanne was season 2. She was actually introduced fairly early on in season 1, when she went to visit Tara in jail in like episode 7 or so.
Season 1: Bill & Sookie’s romance, Arlene’s serial killer husband, Jessica is born
Season 2: Maryanne, Godric, Fellowship of the Sun
Season 3: Russell Edgington, Alcide and the werewolves
Season 4: Marnie the necromancer
Season 5: The Authority, Tara the vampire, Faerie nightclub, Jessica-Jason-Hoyt
Season 6: Warlow, vampire concentration camp
Season 7: Hepatitus V
If you ask me, seasons 1 and 3 were fantastic, 5 and 6 were pretty good, 2 and 4 kind of sucked and 7 blew chunks.
I’d agree with that assessment completely, though while I think season 7 was obviously the worst in the series (there was just very little actual plot), I didn’t actively hate anything in it…I just found it very much limping along. So bad, but not unwatchable. I didn’t like Maryann or Marney at all.