I wish True Blood wouldn't stop teasing James and Lala and spend more than 2 minutes on them. With all the sex they have shown with the other couples and the fake sex dream between jason and eric had all I want it is for TB to spend some time with Lala and James and develop their relationship. Lafayette is my fav character so any episode with him in it I will enjoy somewhat.
First Tara. Now Alcide. This season of True Blood is beginning to feel like the kill-happy final season of Oz. And, beyond being surprising, I haven't found either of those deaths emotionally affecting. Am I the only one who feels this way?
Okay I was sad about Tara death because I love her character but Alicide death didn't do anything for me he hot but kinda happy he gone the people in the town is getting on my nerves now they want to do something when have the people in town are supernatural more James and Lafayette please and more scenes with Jessica and Aadilyn tell me no one see the chemistry between those two and more Pam love her
Really didn't care about Alicide's death. It seemed like the show never really knew what to do with him after he was first introduced. But overall this was the best episode of the season and it is a better show when it embraces its craziness and doesn't take itself too seriously.
Meh, it was okay. I enjoyed the flashbacks more than everything else. Alcide dying wasn't a surprise, his story ended last season. Sarah Newlin as Noomi is interesting, I wonder if she's changed identities before? Glad the Hep-V vamp storyline is drawing to a end, it's about time.
seriously right? at this rate there won't be anyone left by the finale! No you're not, I agree the deaths are just like "bang they're dead...next." there are no emotions attached to any of them. Sookie grieved for a like a second for Tara and the only one still mentioning her is her mother. Now Alcide and it doesn't look like anyone is gonna be teary eyed next week about the loss. It's almost like by this point in show the characters don't care b/c they've seen so much death and it feels like writers are just going through motions of killing people off because it is the final season & they need to create drama and slim down the cast or something. There is no emotion or deep feeling behind it like there's been in past seasons when someone dies...hell there was more emotion when Tara died the first time. Even Pam's reaction was lame. For all the emotion behind losing a progeny and how Pam apparently felt about Tara the writers didn't address it the moment it happened...it took til the 3rd ep for Pam to even mention it. While it's been interesting thus far...I hope emotionally it gets better and so does the content b/c the sick vampires is getting a little old. With the exception of finding out Eric is sick. Otherwise I'm kind of growing tired of the infected.
-Please tell me Maxine Fortenberry is dead. I've wanted this since season 1. -Sarah Newlin sucks. She just sucks. -Poor Willa. Sadly, the Reverend is actually being a good man doing what he is. -Damn it... They're really setting up a Sookie choosing between Northman and Compton.
This ep was mostly everything I've always hated about this show. Too much pointless sex to prop up not enough plot. Alcide's dead was pointless. And Pam confirmed that Tara really is dead in a rotten off screen death scene. Sookie and Bill will be end game, which at this point, I don't even care anymore. About the only few things I liked were Sarah's story and Lafayette.
They killed off Alcide?!?!?!?!? Glad it´s the final season. No, just kidding. I wanted to be like all the screaming girls when Eric "died" last year. Although, I will miss him.
No words, awful season so far. I feel like I have lost seven years of my life watching this mess. First they kill Tara off screen, than they kill Alcide as if they were in a hurry and all this while introducing 10+ new characters nobody gives a F about.
I think it's all different because it's a final season. If Tara or Alcide did die in the fifth season, I would be wondering how Sookie would go on alone with the further seasons. Now it looks like Eric might die too. Is that gonna make all the way free for Sookie to return to Bill? Please no.
Ok, Alcide died for good (and it's SO OK with me). But, really, TB showrunners? Is this the way you wanna kill off main characters? Tara died offscreen (and, by the way, only yesterday did Pam realize her progenie met the true death?). The Alcide scene was messy, caotic. Ep3 was better than ep2, but still ... this should be the most awesome season because it's the LAST (did anyone whispered Breaking Bad?). No way, it keeps doing worst. Decent stuff from yesterday: Violet ripping off Maxine's heart (and it was very similar to what Eric did in the season 4 finale - remember the scene when he killed a Marnie male fellow?); all the scenes including Jessica. Sad we didn't see any magic performed by Holly. The Nan Flanagan also was good (and unexpected).
NOOOOO! not Alcide he was hot. but I do not get HBO so I do not know what's going on but I guess last season kill off as many as you can but not Eric please.
Is there anyone left alive ? ". Is this how they plan on ending the series - killing off everyone ? I understand that they want to go out w a bang, but killing everyone isn't my idea of a bang.
"So does this mean you've got a clean slate :
I am beginning to think the posters are right - they are paving the way for a Sookie - Bill reconciliation. Which is So Very Wrong. But the moment she confided her feelings towards Alcide I knew that was his demise. Atleast Alcide was ALIVE.
Pam and Eric are always the highlight! Momma Hoyt - haven't we ALL wanted to do that ourselves! Lala n James are good - but I feel for Jessica What DID happen to Sam? Lou - Young n stupid - poor Holly.
I AM looking forward to Pam n Eric's quest for Psycho Sarah !!
I will reserve my feelings till the final curtain ..... But thus far it's a
yeah, killing a character ,that was in the show since season 1, offscreen and then kill another one that was in the show long enough to be given some decent death scene...is this season for sure? A bunch of new guys who are not interesting got more screentime than most of the old ones! I dont care how reverend met that crazy woman, long and boring, useless scene, I dont give a F about how that new new recasted vampire felt when he took his last pill. So many time wasted. It does not feel like final season. They should have make one BIG bad, like some demon or something, now we have a bunch of subplots and some petty villains.
-Goodbye Alcide (not too surprised thought) -Violet FTW (I knew she would be likable at some point) -Looks like James IS taking the place of "Drake" (either that, it was a fake casting call to begin with) -Sookie still loves Bill -Everyone is acting SO out of character in this episode! -Love the Pam and Eric scenes/flashbacks (nice to see parallels to Eric's human days, the Authority, an appearence pay the great and amazing NAN, and looks like I was right that GUS will be connected to the True Blood company after all) - Glad we didn't have to wait to long to see the new Sarah Newlin (and that she's the catalyst for another Eric revenge story!) - Tara is officially a ghost! - Wonder what will happen to Willa now? -Fun to see a lot of the characters converge to the same place.
I know one more character from a previous season is suppose to either come back or make an appearance, but I'm hopeful since we got this flash back with Nan that maybe we will see a lot of the characters from previous seasons!!
Thought this episode stuffed a bunch in. Looking forward to seeing how things will either begin to change and/or get resolved!
It's suppose to be. In one of the interviews that showrunners said that the body count would be HIGH! -I think what's so shocking about it so far is how little resolution or build up some of these deaths have been presented. They've really been laying on the nihilism thick! I still think Tara has a story, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Alcide again in some capacity (flashback/spirit) either...
I'm still thinking there could be a catch. Bill more than all the characters is still not acting like Bill (and obviously we got a little clarity as to why, but I'm still suspicious about Lilith), but further more by touching on seasons 5 & 6 with Thee Authority and this Japanese group behind True Blood, I think there could be some kind of magical Fae potion or something that could "heal" the sick vamps, let a lone something "spiritually revalating" happening like at the end of season 4...I think Bill may sacrifice himself for her, although I could see both Eric and Bill dying, providing us with the novel's ending...
They're making a point about nihilism and shattered faith here. Just sudden smack-bang deaths with spirituality touched on, but continuously ripped to shreds by injustice and hatred. They want this to feel doom'n gloomy, but I'm thinking the ending will be very opposite...
I think everyone under estimates the idea that maybe some of these people could be brought back to life in the end or at least be reminded that there IS something beyond material life in the TB universe!
The thing about True Blood that makes it interesting and not just fun, is that death is never the end of anyone...I think if they want to really say/do something miraculous, then they have to take everything away in a very quick and unsavory way, if they want there to be something really meaningful afterwards...at least that is what I'm hoping they're going for anyways...
I keep trying to give this show the benefit of the doubt, but yet again I ended up rolling my eyes every five minutes.
Alcide's death came too soon after Tara's. If major characters die too often, even if a show is in its final season, the character deaths don't have as much shock value. I also didn't see why Sookie had to make that confession about her feelings for Alcide to Bill. If Alcide was going to die in the end of the episode, it would have been better for the plot, not to mention Sookie's character development moving toward the end of the series, to have Sookie say those things to Alcide. It's like Alcide was a disposable character in an episode that should have been titled "The Bill and Sookie Show." The vigilantes should have all been taken out in one episode, but instead only a handful of them are being dealt with at a time.
A lot of story has been crammed into ten episodes when it should have all been spaced out over two seasons. The True Blood writers had a lot of time to plan the end of the series and the final season is still rushed, with too many characters and storylines remaining secondary to a relationship that is supposed to be long over. Even more boring than that is the continued story of Sarah Newlin and the Japanese company. If Sarah Newlin was the key to finding a cure all along, then an episode didn't need to be wasted telling a backstory of Eric and some French girl he sacrificed for Pam. We get it, she loves him enough to make him get cured. I've seen network shows end better with only a few months' warning at the most that they were getting cancelled.
finally got around to watching the ep and slightly better ep than the previous but that isn't saying much in this sadly disappointing (for me) final season so far.... still hoping for drastic improvement in the eps to come, but right now I am not holding my breath
Well that's 3 People I wanted dead. HELL YEAH! 4 More to go. AndI am so glad Sam is alive!! I was really scared for a minute. He really hauled ass in the air. I was listening intently for a THUD sound.
AndI need to say this b/c it's driving me crazy. If they're gonna have Lala and James screw can you just hurry up and get it over with?? Their scenes are cool and all. But JFC the whole only getting together to get high off drugs is quickly becoming boring. I loveee Lafayette but if he's gonna continue this for the remainder of the season, the LAST season, I will be disappointed. I know he's grieving and all, but get out the house and care about your friends that are still alive. Idk wtf James is doing, I can't figure him out. Not yet with this whole thing.
Bill and Sookie...that's it. I'm not even gonna bother. And i like SM but his face is unbearable to look at. And I'm talking about Bill this time. I'm talking Stephen. I don't like w/e botox or w/e he did to his face. It makes him look worse! Bill, just ugh! He's aggravating the crap outta me. His voice, his now "calm and gentle" tone. Like he want to seduce her, but he won't. Like who are you trying to kid? I'm not buying his whole attitude.
Didn't care for the flashbacks with Eric and Pam. I didn't mind them either. I've always loved the relationship between them. I'm glad Pam got Eric to get up just by dropping that evil witch's name and I HOPE they find her!!!
Loved the scene with the Rev and Willa. She's adorable and I hope she stays safe, I've always liked her.
Only just caught up with this episode (as the first 2 really didn't have me eagerly waiting for it). So far for me this season has just been sloppy. I was never a fan of Tara, but her character deserved a better send off. Dying off-screen? All that meant is that we really weren't sure if she had died or not. Now Alcide is causually gun down and removed as well, and I hate to think it's just so that there are now no more obsticles to Bill & Sookie endgame but I fear that may be the case. It all seemed a bit pointless. As for the sudden introduction of Sylvie as being this big regret in Eric's 'life', WTH? Apparently she is so important that she is one of the first names mentioned by Pam and yet we've never heard her mentioned before? It seemed like a lazy way to invent some naked Eric screen time, and altohugh I don't object to that, it was quite frankly superflous to the plot.
I used to love True Blood, the characters, the stories, the whole bundle. Now I find myself feeling glad it's ending.
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Vampire Violet has been the best thing about this season.................so far! Nobody, 4 NOW!!!
ReplyDeleteReally i'm here for the James and Lala sl. Honestly if it was't for them I wouldn't even watch true blood.
ReplyDeleteI wish True Blood wouldn't stop teasing James and Lala and spend more than 2 minutes on them. With all the sex they have shown with the other couples and the fake sex dream between jason and eric had all I want it is for TB to spend some time with Lala and James and develop their relationship. Lafayette is my fav character so any episode with him in it I will enjoy somewhat.
ReplyDeleteFirst Tara. Now Alcide. This season of True Blood is beginning to feel like the kill-happy final season of Oz. And, beyond being surprising, I haven't found either of those deaths emotionally affecting. Am I the only one who feels this way?
ReplyDeleteOkay I was sad about Tara death because I love her character but Alicide death didn't do anything for me he hot but kinda happy he gone the people in the town is getting on my nerves now they want to do something when have the people in town are supernatural more James and Lafayette please and more scenes with Jessica and Aadilyn tell me no one see the chemistry between those two and more Pam love her
ReplyDeleteKudos to Violet for killing Maxine Fortenberry!!!
ReplyDeleteThat fat, ugly bitch deserved it!!!
Oh, shit really? Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead. Now, what about Sarah Newlin?
ReplyDeleteThat character was a favourite of mine in the beginning...but i slowly got over him and he became the absolute worst. Good riddance.
ReplyDeleteReally didn't care about Alicide's death. It seemed like the show never really knew what to do with him after he was first introduced. But overall this was the best episode of the season and it is a better show when it embraces its craziness and doesn't take itself too seriously.
ReplyDeleteMeh, it was okay. I enjoyed the flashbacks more than everything else. Alcide dying wasn't a surprise, his story ended last season. Sarah Newlin as Noomi is interesting, I wonder if she's changed identities before? Glad the Hep-V vamp storyline is drawing to a end, it's about time.
ReplyDeleteseriously right? at this rate there won't be anyone left by the finale! No you're not, I agree the deaths are just like "bang they're dead...next." there are no emotions attached to any of them. Sookie grieved for a like a second for Tara and the only one still mentioning her is her mother. Now Alcide and it doesn't look like anyone is gonna be teary eyed next week about the loss. It's almost like by this point in show the characters don't care b/c they've seen so much death and it feels like writers are just going through motions of killing people off because it is the final season & they need to create drama and slim down the cast or something. There is no emotion or deep feeling behind it like there's been in past seasons when someone dies...hell there was more emotion when Tara died the first time. Even Pam's reaction was lame. For all the emotion behind losing a progeny and how Pam apparently felt about Tara the writers didn't address it the moment it happened...it took til the 3rd ep for Pam to even mention it.
ReplyDeleteWhile it's been interesting thus far...I hope emotionally it gets better and so does the content b/c the sick vampires is getting a little old. With the exception of finding out Eric is sick. Otherwise I'm kind of growing tired of the infected.
-Please tell me Maxine Fortenberry is dead. I've wanted this since season 1.
ReplyDelete-Sarah Newlin sucks. She just sucks.
-Poor Willa. Sadly, the Reverend is actually being a good man doing what he is.
-Damn it... They're really setting up a Sookie choosing between Northman and Compton.
This ep was mostly everything I've always hated about this show. Too much pointless sex to prop up not enough plot. Alcide's dead was pointless. And Pam confirmed that Tara really is dead in a rotten off screen death scene. Sookie and Bill will be end game, which at this point, I don't even care anymore. About the only few things I liked were Sarah's story and Lafayette.
ReplyDeleteThey killed off Alcide?!?!?!?!? Glad it´s the final season. No, just kidding. I wanted to be like all the screaming girls when Eric "died" last year. Although, I will miss him.
ReplyDeleteNo words, awful season so far. I feel like I have lost seven years of my life watching this mess. First they kill Tara off screen, than they kill Alcide as if they were in a hurry and all this while introducing 10+ new characters nobody gives a F about.
ReplyDeleteI think it's all different because it's a final season. If Tara or Alcide did die in the fifth season, I would be wondering how Sookie would go on alone with the further seasons. Now it looks like Eric might die too. Is that gonna make all the way free for Sookie to return to Bill? Please no.
ReplyDeleteOk, Alcide died for good (and it's SO OK with me). But, really, TB showrunners? Is this the way you wanna kill off main characters? Tara died offscreen (and, by the way, only yesterday did Pam realize her progenie met the true death?). The Alcide scene was messy, caotic.
ReplyDeleteEp3 was better than ep2, but still ... this should be the most awesome season because it's the LAST (did anyone whispered Breaking Bad?). No way, it keeps doing worst.
Decent stuff from yesterday: Violet ripping off Maxine's heart (and it was very similar to what Eric did in the season 4 finale - remember the scene when he killed a Marnie male fellow?); all the scenes including Jessica.
Sad we didn't see any magic performed by Holly.
The Nan Flanagan also was good (and unexpected).
NOOOOO! not Alcide he was hot. but I do not get HBO so I do not know what's going on but I guess last season kill off as many as you can but not Eric please.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not the only one. I couldn't care less about Tara and Alcide dying.
ReplyDeleteIs Sam dead? He took the spike on him when the Hep-V vampire was going to kill Bill. And we don't see him after this. :(
ReplyDeleteI keep going back to Sookie's comment(s) :
ReplyDeleteIs there anyone left alive ? ". Is this how they plan on ending the series - killing off everyone ? I understand that they want to go out w a bang, but killing everyone isn't my idea of a bang.
"So does this mean you've got a clean slate :
I am beginning to think the posters are right - they are paving the way for a Sookie - Bill reconciliation. Which is So Very Wrong. But the moment she confided her feelings towards Alcide I knew that was his demise. Atleast Alcide was ALIVE.
Pam and Eric are always the highlight!
Momma Hoyt - haven't we ALL wanted to do that ourselves!
Lala n James are good - but I feel for Jessica
What DID happen to Sam?
Lou - Young n stupid - poor Holly.
I AM looking forward to Pam n Eric's quest for Psycho Sarah !!
I will reserve my feelings till the final curtain ..... But thus far it's a
Killing Field
yeah, I heve a feeling almost every fan of this show hates Sookie and Bill as a couple, but the writers seems to be blind...
ReplyDeleteyeah, killing a character ,that was in the show since season 1, offscreen and then kill another one that was in the show long enough to be given some decent death scene...is this season for sure? A bunch of new guys who are not interesting got more screentime than most of the old ones! I dont care how reverend met that crazy woman, long and boring, useless scene, I dont give a F about how that new new recasted vampire felt when he took his last pill. So many time wasted. It does not feel like final season. They should have make one BIG bad, like some demon or something, now we have a bunch of subplots and some petty villains.
ReplyDeleteI liked her best with Eric. And the books had her with Eric about the longest of anyone. She and Eric had good chemistry.
ReplyDelete-Goodbye Alcide (not too surprised thought)
ReplyDelete-Violet FTW (I knew she would be likable at some point)
-Looks like James IS taking the place of "Drake" (either that, it was a fake casting call to begin with)
-Sookie still loves Bill
-Everyone is acting SO out of character in this episode!
-Love the Pam and Eric scenes/flashbacks (nice to see parallels to Eric's human days, the Authority, an appearence pay the great and amazing NAN, and looks like I was right that GUS will be connected to the True Blood company after all)
- Glad we didn't have to wait to long to see the new Sarah Newlin (and that she's the catalyst for another Eric revenge story!)
- Tara is officially a ghost!
- Wonder what will happen to Willa now?
-Fun to see a lot of the characters converge to the same place.
I know one more character from a previous season is suppose to either come back or make an appearance, but I'm hopeful since we got this flash back with Nan that maybe we will see a lot of the characters from previous seasons!!
Thought this episode stuffed a bunch in. Looking forward to seeing how things will either begin to change and/or get resolved!
It's suppose to be. In one of the interviews that showrunners said that the body count would be HIGH! -I think what's so shocking about it so far is how little resolution or build up some of these deaths have been presented. They've really been laying on the nihilism thick! I still think Tara has a story, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Alcide again in some capacity (flashback/spirit) either...
ReplyDeleteI'm still thinking there could be a catch. Bill more than all the characters is still not acting like Bill (and obviously we got a little clarity as to why, but I'm still suspicious about Lilith), but further more by touching on seasons 5 & 6 with Thee Authority and this Japanese group behind True Blood, I think there could be some kind of magical Fae potion or something that could "heal" the sick vamps, let a lone something "spiritually revalating" happening like at the end of season 4...I think Bill may sacrifice himself for her, although I could see both Eric and Bill dying, providing us with the novel's ending...
ReplyDeleteThey're making a point about nihilism and shattered faith here. Just sudden smack-bang deaths with spirituality touched on, but continuously ripped to shreds by injustice and hatred. They want this to feel doom'n gloomy, but I'm thinking the ending will be very opposite...
ReplyDeleteI think everyone under estimates the idea that maybe some of these people could be brought back to life in the end or at least be reminded that there IS something beyond material life in the TB universe!
ReplyDeleteThe thing about True Blood that makes it interesting and not just fun, is that death is never the end of anyone...I think if they want to really say/do something miraculous, then they have to take everything away in a very quick and unsavory way, if they want there to be something really meaningful afterwards...at least that is what I'm hoping they're going for anyways...
Is everyone going to die before the season ends?... and the deaths are so sudden they just shock you D:. great episode has been the best so far
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to give this show the benefit of the doubt, but yet again I ended up rolling my eyes every five minutes.
ReplyDeleteAlcide's death came too soon after Tara's. If major characters die too often, even if a show is in its final season, the character deaths don't have as much shock value. I also didn't see why Sookie had to make that confession about her feelings for Alcide to Bill. If Alcide was going to die in the end of the episode, it would have been better for the plot, not to mention Sookie's character development moving toward the end of the series, to have Sookie say those things to Alcide. It's like Alcide was a disposable character in an episode that should have been titled "The Bill and Sookie Show." The vigilantes should have all been taken out in one episode, but instead only a handful of them are being dealt with at a time.
A lot of story has been crammed into ten episodes when it should have all been spaced out over two seasons. The True Blood writers had a lot of time to plan the end of the series and the final season is still rushed, with too many characters and storylines remaining secondary to a relationship that is supposed to be long over. Even more boring than that is the continued story of Sarah Newlin and the Japanese company. If Sarah Newlin was the key to finding a cure all along, then an episode didn't need to be wasted telling a backstory of Eric and some French girl he sacrificed for Pam. We get it, she loves him enough to make him get cured. I've seen network shows end better with only a few months' warning at the most that they were getting cancelled.
finally got around to watching the ep and slightly better ep than the previous but that isn't saying much in this sadly disappointing (for me) final season so far.... still hoping for drastic improvement in the eps to come, but right now I am not holding my breath
ReplyDeleteWell that's 3 People I wanted dead. HELL YEAH! 4 More to go. AndI am so glad Sam is alive!! I was really scared for a minute. He really hauled ass in the air. I was listening intently for a THUD sound.
ReplyDeleteAndI need to say this b/c it's driving me crazy. If they're gonna have Lala and James screw can you just hurry up and get it over with?? Their scenes are cool and all. But JFC the whole only getting together to get high off drugs is quickly becoming boring. I loveee Lafayette but if he's gonna continue this for the remainder of the season, the LAST season, I will be disappointed. I know he's grieving and all, but get out the house and care about your friends that are still alive. Idk wtf James is doing, I can't figure him out. Not yet with this whole thing.
Bill and Sookie...that's it. I'm not even gonna bother. And i like SM but his face is unbearable to look at. And I'm talking about Bill this time. I'm talking Stephen. I don't like w/e botox or w/e he did to his face. It makes him look worse! Bill, just ugh! He's aggravating the crap outta me. His voice, his now "calm and gentle" tone. Like he want to seduce her, but he won't. Like who are you trying to kid? I'm not buying his whole attitude.
Didn't care for the flashbacks with Eric and Pam. I didn't mind them either. I've always loved the relationship between them. I'm glad Pam got Eric to get up just by dropping that evil witch's name and I HOPE they find her!!!
Loved the scene with the Rev and Willa. She's adorable and I hope she stays safe, I've always liked her.
I so agree
ReplyDeleteSo aweful. Boring killing people off I want Alan back as the writer's. These writer's suck big time
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who did not understand how Eric got sick??
ReplyDeleteOnly just caught up with this episode (as the first 2 really didn't have me eagerly waiting for it). So far for me this season has just been sloppy. I was never a fan of Tara, but her character deserved a better send off. Dying off-screen? All that meant is that we really weren't sure if she had died or not. Now Alcide is causually gun down and removed as well, and I hate to think it's just so that there are now no more obsticles to Bill & Sookie endgame but I fear that may be the case. It all seemed a bit pointless. As for the sudden introduction of Sylvie as being this big regret in Eric's 'life', WTH? Apparently she is so important that she is one of the first names mentioned by Pam and yet we've never heard her mentioned before? It seemed like a lazy way to invent some naked Eric screen time, and altohugh I don't object to that, it was quite frankly superflous to the plot.
ReplyDeleteI used to love True Blood, the characters, the stories, the whole bundle. Now I find myself feeling glad it's ending.