-Anyone really just want Maxine to die already? -Way to go Alcide, someone needs to remind Sookie she's not to blame for everything. -Every episode needs more Pam.
Leave it to Sookie (and the writers) to only remember the 'good' stuff about Bill. As viewers, are we supposed to remember all the crappy things he did to Sookie starting from the very beginning? Like allowing her to be beaten and then 'saving' her solely so she would have his blood? And it looks like she'll be taking his blood again next week. So smart, Sookie!
Even with Bill hardly being in the episode, he's still Sookie's only hero. Good thing I'll only have to endure it for one last season.
hmmmm.... I certainly hope that the writers have a big surprise for us and everything will just get exponentially better writing and actingwise as for knowing that this is the send off season, the first 2 eps have been fairly uneven and disappointing to me... other than the reveal that Pam finds Eric (apparently infected with Hep V), and the pretty strong foreshadowing when Sookie read the diary that she'll probably end up with Bill at the end (I would hope not as that just seems lame with all the crap that he's put her through), I really didn't care much at all about the other plots at all - the Lettie Mae character was bad enough early on in the series and in small doses, and I really don't care for her to be a prominent piece if just to serve as a means to have Tara appear in visions, and the whole Bon Temps mob plot is so bad especially with the poor acting performances that I couldn't rate this ep higher than poor... I really hope that things get better and it goes out with a bang but right now the season has been a let down imho...
They should not have made Jason and Eric the very first scene. All I wanted fto the rest of the episode was more Eric. I don´t care about Lettie Mae and Tara, I was hoping she was gone forever. I don´t even really care about Holly and co. in the basement or what the town is up too. I really really hope that the next episode will have more Eric, Jason, Pam, Bill and Jessica, the only characters I care about. Well, and Sookie a little bit, I guess.
I still think this about some kind of spiritual revelation, so I think all of these other characters only enhance and strengthen whom the main characters are and what they have to loose. I think if you really care about the characters, then you want them to be happy and accept whom they want to be with--the families they keep trying to make/have that keep getting destroyed...Arlene and Tara have been here since the beginning and deserve to have a meaningful story line, even if you don't like them. Everyone is spread apart in a way in which it only seems likely that they all will bring together pieces of the puzzle.
Charlene Harris's books were always about people being able to change and/or do the right thing, St. Alice was a nice way to reflect on who Sookie once was (touch on both Bill and Eric--because that's the night she met him too) and again on what they all have to loose if they don't find a way out of this. It set the tone to dire and dark oblivion.
Ok, I liked the first sequence (although the rumors suggested it was more strong sex-oriented ... honestly to me it felt like a weak erotic stuff). But I CAN'T STAND all the stuff going on with the Bon Temps rebels. Really, TB writers? We're in the last season and not only you keep adding new characters instead on focusing on the main ones, but these new bunch of people are also very stupid, 0% interesting.
A lot of the stuff though was about touching on things from former seasons. This mayhem with Bon Temps def goes back to season 2, when the town went crazy via Maryanne--there were other little season 2 references similarities, including Jason + sex + church, Ideas about Tara being in between places/not in control of herself (including ancient chanting). I think the idea is also that some of these people will always be "sheep" and it's the main character's jobs to try and save them when they go asunder or under a bad influence.
I also really likes how everything secretly danced around Eric! The fact that he's sick, and those just like him are in his bar! That's Sookie's flashback homed in on Bill, but was also leading to when she first met Eric at Fantasia.
I think the other characters are nice ways to for use to see both what our characters are up against and what our characters have to loose. It also reflects the idea that whatever the final themes are going to be, that it's meant to be universal.
I enjoyed the episode but really dislike that Eric is infected with Hep V. Every season has portrayed Eric and Smart and cunning, now he goes and does this? Really? Eric Pines for no one least of all a sibling that went unmentioned until last season. I think this is very weak and disappointing writing. They could do much better.Unless of course the goal of these 10 episodes is to kill every last main character then I guess....
I didn't vote. I would have voted: GROSS! Even after a few seasons, they sure find new ways to die. Imagine some vampire goo dribbling down your hoo-ha. So gross, but then I was magnetized by it and repeated the scene a few times. And I probably did it with Jason and Eric dreamy scene. I was like Jason in that church when watching that scene. And where's my James fix?
Agree completely! I want more Eric and Jason, and Pam, Bill, Jessica, (even) Sookie. Who cares about Lettie Mae? Way too much of the episode was spent on her
The pizza was only 2 days old, there is no guarantee he would get sick at all. Jason drank Eric's blood in last season's finale after Violet drained him. Eric needed Jason to help find the captured Vamps in the white room. The timeline is a little weird, but the first 3 seasons all took place in 2008/2009. It is supposed to be around 2011/2012 currently on the show.
It´s not that I don´t like Arlene, but in my eyes she should have stayed a minor character, like she was in the books. Same goes for Andy, Tara and a lot of other characters. It is ruining the storyline that there is way too many characters. It has been a problem for a few seasons now, and I had hoped that they had sorted it out.
I loved the flashback to season 1. But it also reminded me of who Sookie use to be and I realized that she has changed a lot...too much. I think it is a shame that her character is sooo eager to help the town (who dislikes her), but never shows any concern for Eric, who she use to be in love with. She use to be very passionate about the people she loves and she seems to have lost that trait.
"She use to be very passionate about the people she loves and she seems to have lost that trait.",/i>
Yes, but that's the theme of the season, characters that had a lot of passion are semi- disillusioned (Sookie, Lafayette, Andy, Eric) with the current state of things-they lost some of their faith of goodness in the worls...It's one reason why "St. Alice" was used, as the actual St. Alice is the saint about asking God to strength in times of "sickness" and suffering. So the start of the season is about a loss of hope, but yet some kind of willingness to see things through. Sookie (and Sam) saw a reflection of the past, but also a potential future, where if they don't find a way to help or deal with these Hep-V vamps, then all that any of them cared about or have endured may be lost. Sookie also had a moment of hope when she read the diary, she remembered how she felt before--hopeful.
I also know that there is not one big bad of the season and so I think the idea is look at all these smaller, but yet interrelated and interpersonal stories. It's about dealing with loss and finding out who's everyone's real pillar of strength. The other characters only act to remind us that these are universal themes (it's not just about the main characters, it's about the whole world--so the audience should actually be able to relate to it better) and/or are catalysts to return the characters to hope and faith. I think you can't do it without them. As it is the final season, and fans meet the true death of the show, it makes sense that we go back to season one, and really deal with spiritual loss. Adele Stackhouse was featured in one of the first promos for the season with a scene where she had said something like, 'God will reveal his purpose when the time is right'...that's what this season will be about...a great revelation...
my god, they have dozens of characters in this show, at least half of them with nothing to do...Is Tara's mother really needed? Was that Henry-the-vamp-love diary thing a huge stretch in a story, or what? Sookie just happened to open that diary at the page where that girl described how she met that vamp in a bar or whenever, and he took her to fangtasia, and all other coincidences...I just hate Bill character with passion.
It's not coincidence, this is about faith, reflecting back on the entire series, and FATE. (There have been tons of juxtapositions to things we have seen in other seasons so far. A lot of season 2 in this episode as well)
In one of the promo's before the season started featured a flashback of Adele Stackhouse where she once told Sookie, "God will reveal his purpose, when the time is right" -So this is about facing existentialism and all of the accumulated losses, having faith be shattered and somehow finding away back to hope again.
The flashback wasn't just about Bill either, it played with the other major reveal of the episode, which is that night was also the first time she ever met Eric. IMO it was very clever to chose that moment, considering first the dream in which [an out of character] philosophical Jason tries to reach out to Eric, and when we learn that all of the sick vamps are not only hanging out at Fangtasia of all places, but that they are using their existential crisis as means to be more savage than ever before, which in turn ultimately reflects the truth of sick, lonely, depressed, Eric.
Their will not be one be bag this season, but several bads. I could spoiler you, if you would like with a reveal of some of those, just let me know and I will reply to you.
You know it because you are one of the show writers or its just your own ideas? Sorry, I cannot believe there is deeper meaning in a show like TrueBlood. I doubt anybody would even find it. Its not some dead serious tv drama. I want some great story that gives us conclusive ending of this show. I dont wanna think hours about some hidden meaning, if there is even any at all. For me the scene with the diary was just it, Sookie reading diary of another girl in love with a vamp. Nothing more I think this character is really poorly written...She doesnt know what she wants. Cant decide.
Spoil me and write where you get your info from, Its even more interesting than TB story this season...Feel free to write everything you know. :)
way better than the first one! รง DAMN what an awfull luck! Arlene and he girls have. I liked that Sookie saw herself trough the other girl story. WTH is wrong with Tara's mother? what was Tara saying¿? Eric and Jason... do i need to say more? i bet there are like 1000 fanfictions completing that moment. PAM! FINALLY! YOU FOUND HIM! but is he infected?
Thought it was ok. The beginning, omg HOT!!! Been waiting for that. And Damnnn. And omg the ending killed me!!! At first sight iI saw him and instantly my eyes started to fill with tears, and what do they do??? THEY END THE EPISODE!!!! This is not how this is supposed to go!! They need to fix this!! I DON'T READ THE BOOKS. IDC WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS. THEY NEED TO FIX THIS SHOW!! Onnn another note...I like Jessica's scenes and solely Lafayette.and Hell yeah Arlene!!...didn't care for anything else.
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-Anyone really just want Maxine to die already?
ReplyDelete-Way to go Alcide, someone needs to remind Sookie she's not to blame for everything.
-Every episode needs more Pam.
Leave it to Sookie (and the writers) to only remember the 'good' stuff about Bill. As viewers, are we supposed to remember all the crappy things he did to Sookie starting from the very beginning? Like allowing her to be beaten and then 'saving' her solely so she would have his blood? And it looks like she'll be taking his blood again next week. So smart, Sookie!
ReplyDeleteEven with Bill hardly being in the episode, he's still Sookie's only hero. Good thing I'll only have to endure it for one last season.
For me, it was the worst episode ever.
ReplyDeleteBetter than the premiere as the show is at least embracing its goofiness and going back to having some humor.
ReplyDeletehmmmm.... I certainly hope that the writers have a big surprise for us and everything will just get exponentially better writing and actingwise as for knowing that this is the send off season, the first 2 eps have been fairly uneven and disappointing to me... other than the reveal that Pam finds Eric (apparently infected with Hep V), and the pretty strong foreshadowing when Sookie read the diary that she'll probably end up with Bill at the end (I would hope not as that just seems lame with all the crap that he's put her through), I really didn't care much at all about the other plots at all - the Lettie Mae character was bad enough early on in the series and in small doses, and I really don't care for her to be a prominent piece if just to serve as a means to have Tara appear in visions, and the whole Bon Temps mob plot is so bad especially with the poor acting performances that I couldn't rate this ep higher than poor... I really hope that things get better and it goes out with a bang but right now the season has been a let down imho...
ReplyDeleteAwesome, only because Eric and Jason. And the scene at the end, with Eric and Pam. I am shamelessly in love with Eric and Jason.
ReplyDeleteYes, more Jessica and Adilyn. I SO wanna see them end up as a couple. They are so CUTE
ReplyDeleteThey should not have made Jason and Eric the very first scene. All I wanted fto the rest of the episode was more Eric. I don´t care about Lettie Mae and Tara, I was hoping she was gone forever. I don´t even really care about Holly and co. in the basement or what the town is up too.
ReplyDeleteI really really hope that the next episode will have more Eric, Jason, Pam, Bill and Jessica, the only characters I care about. Well, and Sookie a little bit, I guess.
This is not happening in present day. So it is not 2014
ReplyDeleteThe AWFUL votes surpass the AWESONE ones. That says something...
ReplyDeleteI still think this about some kind of spiritual revelation, so I think all of these other characters only enhance and strengthen whom the main characters are and what they have to loose. I think if you really care about the characters, then you want them to be happy and accept whom they want to be with--the families they keep trying to make/have that keep getting destroyed...Arlene and Tara have been here since the beginning and deserve to have a meaningful story line, even if you don't like them. Everyone is spread apart in a way in which it only seems likely that they all will bring together pieces of the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteCharlene Harris's books were always about people being able to change and/or do the right thing, St. Alice was a nice way to reflect on who Sookie once was (touch on both Bill and Eric--because that's the night she met him too) and again on what they all have to loose if they don't find a way out of this. It set the tone to dire and dark oblivion.
Ok, I liked the first sequence (although the rumors suggested it was more strong sex-oriented ... honestly to me it felt like a weak erotic stuff). But I CAN'T STAND all the stuff going on with the Bon Temps rebels. Really, TB writers? We're in the last season and not only you keep adding new characters instead on focusing on the main ones, but these new bunch of people are also very stupid, 0% interesting.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the stuff though was about touching on things from former seasons. This mayhem with Bon Temps def goes back to season 2, when the town went crazy via Maryanne--there were other little season 2 references similarities, including Jason + sex + church, Ideas about Tara being in between places/not in control of herself (including ancient chanting). I think the idea is also that some of these people will always be "sheep" and it's the main character's jobs to try and save them when they go asunder or under a bad influence.
ReplyDeleteI also really likes how everything secretly danced around Eric! The fact that he's sick, and those just like him are in his bar! That's Sookie's flashback homed in on Bill, but was also leading to when she first met Eric at Fantasia.
I think the other characters are nice ways to for use to see both what our characters are up against and what our characters have to loose. It also reflects the idea that whatever the final themes are going to be, that it's meant to be universal.
It opened and ended strong but there was a lot in the middle that was lacking. I hope it gets better since we only have a few more episodes to go.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the episode but really dislike that Eric is infected with Hep V. Every season has portrayed Eric and Smart and cunning, now he goes and does this? Really? Eric Pines for no one least of all a sibling that went unmentioned until last season. I think this is very weak and disappointing writing. They could do much better.Unless of course the goal of these 10 episodes is to kill every last main character then I guess....
ReplyDeleteI didn't vote. I would have voted: GROSS! Even after a few seasons, they sure find new ways to die. Imagine some vampire goo dribbling down your hoo-ha. So gross, but then I was magnetized by it and repeated the scene a few times. And I probably did it with Jason and Eric dreamy scene. I was like Jason in that church when watching that scene. And where's my James fix?
ReplyDeleteI didn't think of it till you pointed it out, but 'blood-matter' down there with Arlene happened in season 4 too! Definitely grosser though! XD
ReplyDeleteAgree completely! I want more Eric and Jason, and Pam, Bill, Jessica, (even) Sookie. Who cares about Lettie Mae? Way too much of the episode was spent on her
ReplyDelete-Hell yes. Maxine should've died years ago
ReplyDelete-I love Pam, too
The pizza was only 2 days old, there is no guarantee he would get sick at all. Jason drank Eric's blood in last season's finale after Violet drained him. Eric needed Jason to help find the captured Vamps in the white room. The timeline is a little weird, but the first 3 seasons all took place in 2008/2009. It is supposed to be around 2011/2012 currently on the show.
ReplyDeleteIt´s not that I don´t like Arlene, but in my eyes she should have stayed a minor character, like she was in the books. Same goes for Andy, Tara and a lot of other characters. It is ruining the storyline that there is way too many characters. It has been a problem for a few seasons now, and I had hoped that they had sorted it out.
ReplyDeleteI loved the flashback to season 1. But it also reminded me of who Sookie use to be and I realized that she has changed a lot...too much. I think it is a shame that her character is sooo eager to help the town (who dislikes her), but never shows any concern for Eric, who she use to be in love with. She use to be very passionate about the people she loves and she seems to have lost that trait.
"She use to be very passionate about the people she loves and she seems to have lost that trait.",/i>
ReplyDeleteYes, but that's the theme of the season, characters that had a lot of passion are semi- disillusioned (Sookie, Lafayette, Andy, Eric) with the current state of things-they lost some of their faith of goodness in the worls...It's one reason why "St. Alice" was used, as the actual St. Alice is the saint about asking God to strength in times of "sickness" and suffering. So the start of the season is about a loss of hope, but yet some kind of willingness to see things through. Sookie (and Sam) saw a reflection of the past, but also a potential future, where if they don't find a way to help or deal with these Hep-V vamps, then all that any of them cared about or have endured may be lost. Sookie also had a moment of hope when she read the diary, she remembered how she felt before--hopeful.
I also know that there is not one big bad of the season and so I think the idea is look at all these smaller, but yet interrelated and interpersonal stories. It's about dealing with loss and finding out who's everyone's real pillar of strength. The other characters only act to remind us that these are universal themes (it's not just about the main characters, it's about the whole world--so the audience should actually be able to relate to it better) and/or are catalysts to return the characters to hope and faith. I think you can't do it without them. As it is the final season, and fans meet the true death of the show, it makes sense that we go back to season one, and really deal with spiritual loss. Adele Stackhouse was featured in one of the first promos for the season with a scene where she had said something like, 'God will reveal his purpose when the time is right'...that's what this season will be about...a great revelation...
my god, they have dozens of characters in this show, at least half of them with nothing to do...Is Tara's mother really needed? Was that Henry-the-vamp-love diary thing a huge stretch in a story, or what? Sookie just happened to open that diary at the page where that girl described how she met that vamp in a bar or whenever, and he took her to fangtasia, and all other coincidences...I just hate Bill character with passion.
ReplyDeleteIt's not coincidence, this is about faith, reflecting back on the entire series, and FATE. (There have been tons of juxtapositions to things we have seen in other seasons so far. A lot of season 2 in this episode as well)
ReplyDeleteIn one of the promo's before the season started featured a flashback of Adele Stackhouse where she once told Sookie, "God will reveal his purpose, when the time is right" -So this is about facing existentialism and all of the accumulated losses, having faith be shattered and somehow finding away back to hope again.
The flashback wasn't just about Bill either, it played with the other major reveal of the episode, which is that night was also the first time she ever met Eric. IMO it was very clever to chose that moment, considering first the dream in which [an out of character] philosophical Jason tries to reach out to Eric, and when we learn that all of the sick vamps are not only hanging out at Fangtasia of all places, but that they are using their existential crisis as means to be more savage than ever before, which in turn ultimately reflects the truth of sick, lonely, depressed, Eric.
Their will not be one be bag this season, but several bads. I could spoiler you, if you would like with a reveal of some of those, just let me know and I will reply to you.
You know it because you are one of the show writers or its just your own ideas? Sorry, I cannot believe there is deeper meaning in a show like TrueBlood. I doubt anybody would even find it. Its not some dead serious tv drama. I want some great story that gives us conclusive ending of this show. I dont wanna think hours about some hidden meaning, if there is even any at all. For me the scene with the diary was just it, Sookie reading diary of another girl in love with a vamp. Nothing more I think this character is really poorly written...She doesnt know what she wants. Cant decide.
ReplyDeleteSpoil me and write where you get your info from, Its even more interesting than TB story this season...Feel free to write everything you know. :)
way better than the first one! รง
ReplyDeleteDAMN what an awfull luck! Arlene and he girls have.
I liked that Sookie saw herself trough the other girl story.
WTH is wrong with Tara's mother? what was Tara saying¿?
Eric and Jason... do i need to say more? i bet there are like 1000 fanfictions completing that moment.
PAM! FINALLY! YOU FOUND HIM! but is he infected?
Thought it was ok. The beginning, omg HOT!!! Been waiting for that. And Damnnn. And omg the ending killed me!!! At first sight iI saw him and instantly my eyes started to fill with tears, and what do they do??? THEY END THE EPISODE!!!! This is not how this is supposed to go!! They need to fix this!! I DON'T READ THE BOOKS. IDC WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS. THEY NEED TO FIX THIS SHOW!! Onnn another note...I like Jessica's scenes and solely Lafayette.and Hell yeah Arlene!!...didn't care for anything else.
ReplyDeleteJudging by this episode, Eric and Jessica will be dead soon. Has Jessica got the virus? It seems likely since she's not healing...
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