Wait. I think I get it now. Lafayette disappeared the night that Bill came back. We don’t think Bill’s responsible, but the characters might.
Lafayette was attacked right before Bill showed up at Sookies door telling her hes fine because he fed. We are obviously meant to think Lafayette is the one he fed on.
Who else loved that Bill rang the doorbell when he came back to Sookie’s house? I had to laugh- he’s such a gentleman!
Great season ending! The thing I love about this and the books is that they seem to intersect at places, but even having read the books, I can’t say for sure how any of the scenarios drawn from the book are going to play out in this show! Which is really kind of brilliant!
Sookie revoked his invitation, he had no choice.
I’ll continue with my sentiments posted in last weeks thread. This show is completely and totally falling apart. The writing and direction makes little sense and characters and scenarios are portrayed so inconsistently that it’s comical, in a bad way.
Sam is apparently a complete and total pussy now? First we see Sam standing up to Malcolm and Co in the bar. Then fending off Bill at Sookie’s all before he’s so easily beaten off and knocked unconscious by the human Rene who wasn’t even paying attention. Inconsistent and silly.
Bill doesn’t own a trench coat and hat?
Rene has apparently been smart enough and restrained enough to attack and kill Maudette, Dawn and Amy in a way to frame Jason and not leave any clues, but he suddenly is so dumb as to try and attack Sookie at home when everyone witnessed him picking her up? Not to mention doing it in a way that allows the telepath to know it’s coming and get away? Huh?
Jason thinks Vampires are OK and that the Religious Fundie is off his nut. He tells Andy that the pamphlet is stupid and too lame to be stuck with. Then, after telling Sookie how he’s changed and is always going to be there for her, he’s going to services at that fundie anti-Vampire church? Listening to the hate speech and celebrating it when he knows full well that Sookie is in love with a Vampire!?! One who nearly died trying to save her? The irrational, all-encompassing stupidity of this character has totally ruined the believability of the show.
Andy is so bullheaded and stupid that, as a police officer he’s going to persist in the belief that Jason is guilty even after the killer strikes again? To be angry and belligerent to Jason as he’s setting him free? Are we really supposed to buy him at all?
Ugh, I like to think I’m not a nitpicker, but Jesus the writing in this show is atrocious!
FTR, I’m betting that it was Jessica in her shiny new Vampire state that killed Lafayette and disposed to the body so carelessly.
Me too.
He was a 60 pound dog when he first got hit by Rene and I don’t think he ever got up after that. We’ve never seen him be a super powerful dog.
Bill had light clothing on that didn’t seem to protect him at all. I’m not sure why we would expect a trench coat and hat to do much good. We know he likes to be as human as possible. If that worked, why not add gloves and a ski mask to the ensemble and go out during the day routinely?
Well he was trying to keep it from her. She ran away because he failed. How could you kill someone without them thinking about it? Hit her with Jason’s truck?
I agree this looks really dumb. I wonder where it will go. It’s such a reversal.
He’s barely a police officer. He’s never shown any competence and has always been quick to baseless judgements. I don’t think he was actually supposed to be persisting in his belief that Jason was guilty though, not on an intellectual level. He seemed more angry at Jason and at reality for not matching his expectations and reluctant to give up Jason’s guilt on an emotional level.
Great ending IMO.
Finished off what it needed to and strarted a few new elements to keep us wanting more. I really hate when a finale leaves you with a huge cliff hanger.
I was surprised that the revoked invitation didn’t really matter. I assumed that sookie would be in the house with the killer and Bill would be outside unable to get in but the sunlight walk was good enough IMO.
At the begining of the season, Jason was pretty anti vampire, wasn’t he? It seems that he might see most of the troubles he and his family went through a direct result of getting involved in different segments of the vampire scene.
I agree with Omniscient. I rather like vampire fiction, and I usually like HBO’s stuff, but the writing on this show was absolutely terrible. I don’t know if I’ll subject myself to season 2.
Jason’s conversion seemed pretty realistic to me. He’s dumb as a sack of hammers, and is looking for something to give his life meaning. For a long time, it was tail. Now it’s the miracle that saved him when he was looking at death row. That miracle came while he was reading the anti-vampire pamphlet. Therefore…
I’ve known people I could imagine reacting exactly the way he did.
The detective wanting to keep Jason in jail even when it when the evidence showed he was innocent was pretty realistic, too. There have been many examples of better police officers than him getting so committed to a belief in someone’s guilt that they can’t let go of it, no matter what the hard evidence shows.
I wish they had spelled out better what happens when a vampire goes outside in the day. Is it just sun? Does a hat/coat/gloves not help? etc.
Aside from that, I thouroughly enjoyed this episode, and the season as a whole. Bring on season 2!
(And Lafayette better not be dead! Maybe he’s just badly beaten and unconscious. Or maybe he’s been turned into a vampire. A fabulous, fabulous vampire!)
Oh, something that I just remembered – I thought it was pretty amusing that the one character who was getting some credit on this board for having a decent Louisiana accent was the one who was supposed to be faking it from listening to a tape.
The vampires in Near Dark went out in daylight but they had to be covered up.
Rube, your explanation of Jason and Andy’s behavior makes a lot of sense. I hate to see Chris Bauer in a role like this though. It’s hard to reconcile Frank Sobotka with this character. His drunk wasn’t convincing at all. I don’t think his heart is in this role.
In the books, sunlight burns them and covering them with a hat and coat would help. But they also go into a near-comatose state during the day. The very old vampires like Eric can manage some consciousness in daytime (Sookie wakes him up once in an emergency) but someone Bill’s age is helpless.
I don’t like the versions of vampires that are merely annoyed by sunlight. One of the most interesting traits of vampires is the contrast between extreme power at night and total vulnerability during the day.
Similarly, I dislike seeing William Sanderson stuck in the role of “generic Southern sheriff” after his glorious turn as EB Farnum, but, hey, the golden rule of show business is that work’s work.
No, he was talking swedish. He said “Åh, du ljuva frihet” which translates more or less to "Freedom, sweet freedom"bork
Thanks for that. My wife and I replayed that scene and couldn’t come up with any explanation, though I guessed he might be speaking one of the languages of his past.
Which begs the question, why would you make such a pain in the ass immortal?
The Magister just saw a helpless victim he could torment Bill with. That she turned out to be a PITA would be a feature, not a bug, from his point of view.
Yeah, I think so too. I mean, we’re talking about a guy who confessed to murders he didn’t commit because he somehow thought he must be killing these women with no memory of the event. He was utterly convinced of his own guilt. Now, most people, when cleared of a crime they had no memory of committing, would think “see, I told you assholes I didn’t do it.” They would see themselves as having been exonerated, not saved.
'Cause being saved implies that you were guilty, but some higher power intervened and cleared you anyway. To believe this requires that you have the ridiculously inflated ego to think you’re special enough for a higher power to go to that kind of trouble for you. It also requires that you be dumber than a box of hair. Jason, bless his little heart, fits both those criteria.