The holding company that bought the house — AIK, I think — Any guesses what it’s going to turn out to stand for?
And Bill is dating the lawyer/chamber of commerce woman, right?
No, I don’t think so. I assume you are talking about Portia Bellefleur, Andy’s sister. When she met with Sookie and she read her thoughts I got the impression that she was a bit disgusted by the “vampire business” that Sookie must have suffered. I just re-listened to the scene and while it’s not as clearly negatively toned as I thought, she’s not talking like a jealous lover about Sookie. She certainly seems at least ambivalent about the whole vampire stuff and not quite as in touch with it as one would expect a lover of Bill’s to be.
Her and Bill obviously have a relationship, but I get the impression it’s more of a political one. Remember back in season 1 Bill was particularly interested to learn that Andy’s last name was Bellefleur. Not sure if that’s related in any way, but I suspect that with the introduction of the sister and mention of the dying father that we’ll be hearing more from the Bellefleur clan.
Well, seeing as Erik is of Swedish descent it is clearly going to be Allmänna Idrottsklubben.
Thanks. So these are fairy powers. Sookie gets the mind reading and Jason gets the sexing up stuff?
Sookie gets the power to make her hands glow and shove stuff. The mind-reading may not be part of it.
In the books it’s explicitly stated by one of the fairies (Claudine) that Sookie, Barry, Grandpa Stackhouse and little Hunter’s mind-reading powers are not due to having fairy blood and that fairies don’t read minds. As of the last book I’ve read, 10, there’s still no explanation for the mind-reading characters. It seems that TB fairies do read minds, but it could turn out not to be why Sookie does if the books come up with another explanation
Portia Bellefleur looks a lot less like a linebacker than I was expecting.
I have to agree that Greek myths played out on a Star Trek: TOS set = massive fail. I too was scared that the show would be so bad I wouldn’t want to watch it anymore.
Luckily things improved quickly. I’m willing to let the Fairy stuff slide since it was a method to reboot things a bit, which I think works. Of course there was a lot of infodump and the episode was choppy, but for a season opener with a big time jump that is to be expected.
I LOLed at “You owe me a plaque!” And when the parakeet revived and started flying, I was like, “Wouldn’t it be funny if it --” THUNK And I fell out laughing. Aunt Petunia is great - I could do with her having some screen time.
I think Stephen Moyer bulked up over the hiatus, and that plus the first decent haircut I’ve seen on him adds up to some serious hotness. I’m looking forward to seeing him be a little eveel. Still, nothing beats Eric - loved him writing, directing, and starring in the PSA, all off the cuff.
So, who else went “he’s pinin’ for the fjords” in the parrot scene?
Personally, I thought they overdid the ‘a year went by and now everything is different’-thing. It’s actually a pretty good device to keep the show from going stale and shake things up a bit, but there were just way too many wtf-moments, and stuff that really didn’t seem to fit with the characters. Also, the whole ‘away on Vampire business’ excuse struck me as really lame – you’re gone for a year without making any contact with anyone, and then people just buy a hand-wave? And yeah, the ‘fleeing through faerie artillery’ scene was almost unbearably cheesy.
But didn’t the faeries all read Sookie’s mind when she was trying to communicate with her grandfather that it was a trap?
yup - and the bellboy also read minds -
I like Sookie in the books but she’s insufferable on the show unless Eric is around.
The faerie crap was horrible, who thought that was an appropriate deviation from the books?
I read Dio’s opening post yesterday before I watched the show and it seemed so far out that I just assumed he was kidding.:smack: Oh True Blood, you broke my heart.
As usual, True Blood is saved by the supporting cast, I’ll stick with it but damn.
OK, so we now have:
Vampires
Werewolves
Witches (Is Lafayette a Worlock? Shaman? Witch Doctor?)
Shape-Shifters
Faeries
What’s next, Leprechauns?
Aren’t the Hot Shot people were-panthers, specifically, rather than just shifters? (And does anybody else think that’s a bit of a random thing to throw in?)
You forgot maenad…
As for next up, how about whatever Swamp Thing was?
Don’t forget Greek Godesses. Or their followers anyways.
Pretty much what I like about this show is how over-the-top it is, so the confluence of every variation of legendary monster converging on one small town doesn’t really bother me. Bring on more Faerie artillery, I say.
That said, there’s been a disturbing lack of zombies for a show set in Louisiana. We did have one Voodo practitioner back in season one though.
I agree that part of the appeal is how over-the-top it is. I don’t know why, but they make this crazy mix of characters work pretty well.
All I caught was , “He hardly talks about her,” which could be read either way. Mostly, though, I thought he was leering when he thanked her at the ribbon cutting.
Also, I was wondering where she fit into the Bellefleur clan—thanks for clearing that up.
Of course! I’m sure that’s it.
Meh. It’s hard to come back to True Blood when I loved the ensemble of Game of Thrones so well. Just sticking with it for Sookie, Eric, Bill and Pam as usual. Wish Pam did more than the occasional sarcastic chat.
Although Sam does seem like he’s dealing with all his shit, so if he turns out be now be confident with other shape-shifters and stops being so damn passive-aggressive I’ll like him more.
Unless Tara comes back like the bad ass bitch she was in early S1 she can continue to stay away and fight her way across the US.
Rooting for Jessica to give in to her vampire instincts. Just a little bit - not Russell-style, but for her to stop being the good girl.
Alexander Skarsgård, who plays Eric, is a fan of the football (soccer) team Hammarby IF.
A.I.K. (Allmänna Idrottsklubben) is another football team from Stockholm.
He did give her a look. Tough to tell if it was a sexual one or a predatory/wary one. If Bill’s King of Louisiana now it’s not unlikely that that look was one that one power broker might give to another power broker whom they intend to exploit and/or square off against.
Replaying the scene with Sookie and Portia now and I’ll transcribe the “thoughts” as best I can, I’m sure a complete version is available on the web somewhere.
[paraphrasing]
Sookie: That house has a lifetime of memories.
Portia: Memories of lifetimes of misery and murder she means. Poor girl. Plus all those nights banging Bill Compton! Musta been crazy for him, doing his vampire business. Wonder if she’ll go crawling back. Better not, he hardly mentions her at all.
[/paraphrasing]
So, it’s a bit ambiguous. The way she said “banging Bill Compton” had a tone to it. Not really disgusted, but not really jealous either. Kinda critical if anything, but not said like the new girlfriend IMHO. The “vampire business” line I originally interpreted as her being coy about the blood sucking and vampire sex but on a third or fourth listen sounds more like she’s simply repeating the cover story Bill concocted and she’s saying that Sookie must be out of her mind to go along with it. She obviously knows Bill well enough to judge that Sookie would be foolish to go back to him, she obviously thinks that Bill was using her. I don’t sense any competitiveness there, nor do I sense any compassion either.
Portia obviously is a player now though, somehow.
Panthers, another word for cougars, though still living in the U.S. in the isolated west, were dangerous animals pushed out of their habitat down south early last century. (there are a small group now living in Florida). The were-panthers on TB are dangerous in their human forms (making meth), pushed out of society and living in a small sad colony, in the squalor of Hotshot. That’s my theory, the author wanted to portray a rare, dangerous subspecies of shifters and chose panthers as the animal they turned into. Alligators, possums, or nutria weren’t dramatic enough, but panthers are awesome. (though Crystal transformed into a beautiful black panther, she should have tranformed into a tawny American cougar.).