For those who’ve read the Mayfair books by Anne Rice, the Franklin:Tara dynamic reminds me of the Lasher:Rowan relationship, more than is probably coincidental. His absolute delight at simple things (like speed texting ‘motherfucker’), her captivity, his genuine love for her plus homicidal rages, etc…
Another favorite line- Tara has just told him “We need to talk” and he says with real despair “That’s how it always starts and then I wake up surrounded by body parts!”
It’s funny seeing that actor play batshit crazy after seeing him as Forney in Where the Heart Is and as Cromwell in The Tudors.
People who live outside the southeast or one of their few other locations may not have gotten the humor when Franklin offers to take Tara to Shoneys for a special occasion dinner: it’s the southeastern Big Boy franchise, slightly upscale from Waffle House. Not exactly where you’d want to eat your last meal as a human and even funnier is the notion they’d stock synthetic blood.
Ok, I will try to view Franklin with a more humorous air, because so far he has just screamed ‘psycho’ to me in a little too realistic way, and comes off extremely menacing rather than funny. Menacing in a psycho way, which is even scarier, cause you really can’t predict wtf he’s going to do next.
Did anybody else catch- or at least read (don’t know it was intentional)- the double entendre in the “who’s going to break” discussion? It seems both were- uh- versatile on the matter but Lafayette won out.
Yeah, their whole tete-a-tete made me smile big. Lafayette deserves some, booyah!
At first I was afraid it was some kind of set-up, but the genuine grin on the face of the guy, looking to heaven going ‘YEAH!’ after he convinced Lafayette to let him stay, well…yeah. If that was acting, it was acting for a camera, and he’s not supposed to know that’s there, right? So I’m going with ‘genuine crushin’ So sweet
Yep, I’m thinking the dad making the kid dog-fight is right. Watching it again, and as he bursts into Sam’s house, he says “I own him! Head to tail!”
Though the thing about responsibility makes me think the kid did fuck up pretty good somewhere along the line, and the dad’s making him dogfight to make money to pay whatever it is back.
More for a really weird GD perhaps, but… would a human-dog shifter have any real advantage over a real dog? True you’ve got the human intellect, but without thumbs and tools it’s not that big of an advantage in a fight you wouldn’t think since dogs have some pretty fast and keen instincts and reflexes.
I’m hoping that Sam and his birth mother will have a major falling out and go at each other in a shifter battle that will be like the Wizards Duel from Sword in the Stone.
I got the impression from Sam & Max Hit The Road that it’s about upscale as Dennys.
I like him on the show a lot better than the vampire Russell hooked up with in the third book. This guy is more fun.
Not hardly if the show continues to follow the books this closely.
Is anyone else suspicious of Jesus? It’d be nice if things work out well for LaFayette, but…
Good call! We know he has a lot of scars from, as he said, fighting.
But I still say there’s some molesting going on, too.
One thing that kind of bugs me, in a geeky kind of way, is when Alcide talks about something being a “were thing”, or when they use “were” as short for werewolf. Werewolf literally means “man-wolf” (think of the “vir” in virility). So if something is a “were” thing, then it’s a “man” thing.
Anybody else think that Joe Lee had a dog fight scheduled for that night, thus his escalating into panic and rage when the boy didn’t show up? He probably had money already down on the fight. That’s why younger bro wanted to stay with Sam, and he didn’t want to call and tell his dad that he wasn’t coming home.
