Here are my priorities: I got back from a week in Spain yesterday and the first thing I did was download and watch the episode of True Blood I missed while I was away. So, late thoughts! Spoilers, as per usual.
- Sookie’s reaction to being told that she’s part fairy were not dissimilar to my own. I think it’s difficult to add a supernatural element to an already unlikeable character in a way that makes it remotely cool, even if that’s exactly what happens in the books.
- I tend to forget the body count that has built up around Jason, both at his own hand and by proximity. Thanks for the flashbacks!
- Tara and Jason have absolutely no future as Renard Parish grave diggers. That was the worst attempt to get rid of a body that I’ve ever seen.
- Not that I ever have much interest in Sam’s story lines, but I really hated the one in this episode. And his inexplicable flashback hair. And his murderous rampages? WTF. They’re trying to toughen this guy up in all the wrong ways and I think placing it in 2003 doesn’t seem far enough back. What year is it on this show, anyway? Is it still 2007? If so, Sam waxing lyrical about some day running a successful bar in as late as 2003 doesn’t really give him much time to actually get the whole business set up. That this is what I was thinking about in this scene should indicate a lot.
- I love it whenever vampires have to go through the tedium of human-type bureaucracy. I also love that there is apparently no Swedish term for “gold-digging whore”. I love it when Pam tell’s Eric to pull it together and I like her trying to keep her maker alive any way she can. Go team!
- Bill actually said “butt boy”. HAHAHAHAHA WHAT. Is Bill incapable of making any kind of cutting insult or what?
- STEVE NEWLIN, YES. The Newlins are infinitely far better secondary characters than Crystal and the Methheads ever will be.
- Things that are gross: Tommy telling Jessica that her verbal throwdown with Arlene gave him a boner. Jesus. Jessica, please just tell Sam that his little brother is sexually harassing people in the workplace.
- I want them to find a way to keep Summer around even though she and Hoyt are finished. It’s nice to find a little wholesomeness on this show once in a while.
- I had the exact same reaction as Sam when he told Tommy he’s an idiot. Literally. Tommy said his line and then I said it at my TV at the exact same time as Sam. Thanks, show!
- TERRY!!! ♥ Terry is the best ever.
- You know what I really hated in Season 1? All of the stupid V hallucination sequences with Jason and Whatsherface. You know what I really hated in this episode? That they felt it was necessarily to bring out all the stupid post-production brightness and colour correction controls to repeat everything with Jesus and Lafayette. DO NOT WANT.
- As much as I prefer Sookie/Eric to Sookie/Bill (which is to say, I would prefer Eric with anyone he gets to make out with, in this case Sookie), his ineffective wooing techniques are starting to seem a little desperate. “I’M NOT GOING TO BE AROUND FOR VERY MUCH LONGER, I NEED TO SAY GOODBYE WITH TONGUE.” Get it together, man. Also, loved the part where he was perched on Jason’s couch in Sookie’s dream, and points for Sookie actually having the unconscious skill to detect that it was a dream while still in it.
- Most hilarious moment all episode: where Jason rescinds Bill’s invitation into his home and Bill gets sucked back through the doorway, omg. I always wondered if this is what would happen if we actually got to see someone get de-invited while they were inside and yep, that’s exactly what happens. If the door had been closed, would he have been sucked through the wood?
- Were-jaguar? Ugh. Also, no need for the Mountain Dew glow of her eyes. I think the shape shifting is enough to prove she’s supernatural.
- When Eric killed Talbot, my sister (who doesn’t really watch this show) was like “But Russell didn’t get to say goodbye!” all sad-like. I guess now we know how Russell says goodbye. Eesh. this show is being really mean to sex workers this season.
- I wish Eric would stop locking people up in his sex torture lair.
- Best part of the entire episode: Hoyt punching Tommy. IT DID NOT EVEN BREAK HIS CONCENTRATION. Walk walk walk POW walk walk walk. Amazing.
5. – Eric was actually speaking Russian! LOL. I guess the dancer girl comes from one of the ex-USSR countries?
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(I guess I didn’t comment a lot back then)
Also wanted to say Hi, – I used to follow your layout community on LJ and I sometimes read your movie reviews
Yeah, Yvetta is from Estonia.
I did not know you were going on vacation, so after a few days, I thought, “Hey, why didn’t Liz post about True Blood? Did she stop watching now that Joe Lee is gone?” Glad you’re back.
As usual, I agree with pretty well everything you said. I’ll add that, as cheesy as I find it that Eric keeps going, “OMG, there’s something TERRIBLE you have to know about Bill, but I can’t tell you right now — I have to leave!” like he’s on Heroes or something, it’s working on me. Every time he does it, I get all excited, and then when he leaves, I’m like “Come back! Tell us what’s terrible about Bill! Besides the obvious!”
Oh god, if the lack of Joe Lee was a reason to stop watching, someone would have to shoot me.
Also, I want to punch Eric in the face for constantly being so cliffhanger-y. I get that he’s a guy who plays things close to the chest and tries to control the outcome of everything by revealing information one bit at a time as he sees fit (and not a moment sooner), but now that he’s constantly running around going “I’VE GOT A SECRET AND I’M NOT TELLING” I just want him to shut the hell up. Like… if you’re not going to tell anyone week after week after week, please stop reminding us.
And the fact that Bill has continued hidden failures that we don’t already know about both excites and depresses me.
I’ve been wondering where your post has been. (Um, ok that sounds way more stalkery than I meant it to be but you just tend to always put out there what I’m thinking too, only in funnier terms!)
#3 made me LOL. So true.