It really bugs me too because in the tv series Sookie is always being rescued by someone else, but in the books she actually kicks a good deal of butt.
I’m glad to hear that, it may be the deciding factor in me picking up the books to read while we wait for next season. I’m getting so tired of hearing Sookie yell, “BILL! HELP!” every time she gets in trouble. In the first episode, she saved his ass, but now she just spends her time getting into life-threatening situations and then calling for Bill to save her.
My sentence structure was awful, I was trying to separate the Scarface quote from the Schwartzenegger (?) movie quote. Ugh…
I LOVE that the Queen was playing the old school Yahtzee with the funny-looking professor’s face on the shaker cup. We had that game when I was a kid and it was one of my favorites. I love how she told Eric that he sucked at that game.
My point exactly Dogzilla. That action weakens Sookie’s character as far as the series goes when compared w/the books IMHO. Thanks for clarifying.
The geography nerd in me was disappointed that Sookie didn’t know where Burlington was located. Besides Boston would have been a better reference since Mass. was the first state to recognize SSM, but of course that’s splitting hairs.
I was thinking while watching it that Maryanne lives in a mansion not far from Bon Temps. Since I’m guessing Maryanne didn’t have much of a paper trail and either rented in cash or bought it outright surely Tara and LaFayette if nobody else will have sense enough to go loot it [which could probably be done quite leisurely] before the authorities get wise to it being abandoned. As Sam (“God bless whoever made those blue jeans”) found out, she keeps a fortune in cash around, plus she has some interesting pieces of ancient art around.
Brilliant!
I forget, does Sam still have all that cash bagged up?
A Lois Lane and Superman relationship.
I came in here to post the same thing amanset did. Rainbowthief did NOT use a spoiler tag in the post amanset quoted. The content of the books is usually encased in Spoiler tags here, at least for those that are being considerate.
Now I know something that has nothing to do with this past episode, and casually has spoiled a major plot point for me.
Thanks a fucking lot, Rainbowthief.
I dunno if this counts as spoilers, but the plot point mentioned really doesn’t play much of a role in the later books, except maybe to add to Sookie’s general May Sue-ness. I’ve never seen the TV show, and I don’t know if they would do more with this point.
When Maryanne convinced Tara to let her crash (all too literally) at Sookie’s house, she said that she’d only been housesitting the mansion for a wealthy “friend” who was out of the country, and since he’d returned she needed a place to stay.
And you think she was telling the truth? I think that was only to get Tara to say “yeah, ok, you helped me, I’ll help you to sookie’s gramma’s wedding dress”.
Apparently genealogy (a long time small town southern vice anyway) is about to play a big part in the series. Jason/Sookie’s cousin Hadley (sp?) is introduced and the “what are you?” question posed that will probably bring in her parentage or ancestry, Sam’s on a quest for his birth parents which you know is not going to end well, and I figure that Bill planning on remarrying (providing he gets released) will have him going the other way and tracking down his descendants by his first marriage.
Bill also mentioned owning two slaves (or his family did)- a man and a woman. It was Tara who asked this. I’ve wondered if Tara was one of his descendants from a youthful fling with a slave.
What would be weirder would be if it turned out Sookie was one of his descendants. Considering Bill lived in Bon Temps 145 years ago, and that Sookie’s family has always lived there and in fact he knew them, and that Bill had several children, Sookie is strangely incurious about this fact.
Of course with cousins there comes a point where it’s no longer incest. Some states still forbid first cousin marriage, but first-cousins once-removed can probably marry in all states, second cousins definitely can, and by the time you get to fourth cousins or more it’s more trivia than connection. (I’m probably fifth cousins or closer with many of the posters on this board and half the people I see everyday.) I wonder if there’s a point where ancestors are no longer incest- if Bill was say Sookie’s great-great-great-grandfather would it be incest? Or great-great-great-granduncle- would it make a difference? It’s not like he’s human anymore after all, and there’s never going to be a child from the marriage, and he certainly was never a grandpa figure to her or her grandmother or anyone else, but still it’s icky.
And of course if Eric had children when he was a mortal it would be next to impossible for him to keep track of descendants. My mother’s paternal grandparents (who had 15 surviving children) died in the 1950s and already have well over 1,000 descendants alive today, and Eric lived more than a millennium ago, so millions of living descendants spanning the world and of every race and creed and nationality would be very feasible. All of Bon Temps could be his progeny. So would it be incest if he were your 40th great grandfather?
Regarding Bill’s geneology:
In the book he’s related to the…
Bellefleurs. He actually ends up giving them a lot of money, much to the dissapointment of Sookie. It’s not that she had a problem with them, it’s just that they were so ungrateful and hate Bill.
Telling the full truth? Probably not - at the very least, she charmed some guy into letting her stay, the same way she charmed/manipulated Tara and Eggs. Or maybe she bug-eyed him into agreement, or maybe she was just a squatter staying there without permission (although most wealthy homes like that have an alarm system of some kind). I think any of those is more likely than Maryanne renting or buying a huge mansion without any form of income. Huge mansions like that aren’t usually available for rent and cost somewhere north of a million dollars. Even if she had enough money lying around, paying cash for a million-dollar property is going to raise a lot of suspicions. Maryanne was very charming, even when she wasn’t bug-eying people, and it’s not hard to imagine her charming some rich guy into letting her stay at his place while he was away for a long time.
I’m pretty sure that Bill doesn’t have any direct descendants. I recall from the first episode that he moved back to Bon Temps and back into his old home because his last living descendant died and by some recent law regarding vampires and property rights, he became the owner of the house.
Did she not know where it was or just didn’t realize why he would pick there? It seemed like she realized why he wanted to go there when he pulled out the ring.
Mass had SSM first, but Vermont had Civil Unions long before that. Also, earlier in the series there was a specific mention of vampire marriage issues but I don’t remember which state was involved then.
Gotcha.
While obviously she had an agenda and her story can’t be taken fully at face value, I don’t think it’s likely she owned the mansion either. The owner wasn’t her ‘client’, but she could have easily sweet talked him into letting her stay there, or black eyed him into it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does return.
I got the sense that she was puzzled because Vermont seemed like a random location until he pulled out the ring.
And man, I was cringing when he did until she got all nervous and couldn’t say yes. I’ve liked changes to the series, but having her marry Bill is way way out of the plotline of the book series.
I didn’t finish watching season one until New Years, and I’m sort of sad to have seen this season as it aired. Now it’s going to be so much longer between seasons:( For everyone, right? Season one was on later in the year by a few months, wasn’t it?
FWIW, I had the same reaction. “Vermont ? Why would anyone want to go to Ver…ooooh !”, and right then he shows the ring. Good timing, that Bill.
The fact that Sookie didn’t know where Burlington was located. I’m sure that only bothered a geography nerd like me.
If I remember correctly, when Sookie looked at the ticket she said something along the lines of “Burlington, where’s that?” Then Bill stated “Vermont” and then pulled out the ring.
Yeah VT approved CU’s in 2000/SSM in’09 and MA approved SSM in '04. However CU’s don’t equal SSM in my book and that’s why I’d have preferred the reference go to Mass.
I probably took notice of all these minor details b/c I was shocked based on the reasons Dogzilla stated above that AB opened the can of worms of marriage between Bill/Sookie.
But then at the end she did come back out to say “yes,” and as a fan of the book, I didn’t like that either.
In the books,
Sookie has a series of romantic attachments after breaking up with Bill, and IMO part of what makes her ‘date around’ is that she is still looking for Mr. Right. She was always a tiny bit ambivelent about Bill. She knows it would be hard to be with a vampire permanently. She knows she could never have kids. She isn’t portrayed in the books as 100% okay with those issues, such that she would have accepted a proposal. But then in the books, Bill doesn’t propose.