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True Blood
I'm surprised there isn't a thread already about it. I'm sad that Tommy died, but I think having him out of Sam's life will be a good thing. Debbie is an idiot. I hope they kill or do something about Nan, seriously she's being crazy. The vamps walking up to moongoddess at the end was hot! It looks like next week will be awesome!
Re: True Blood
I loved the end scene.
I am happy that the old Eric is back, but I am glad that he remembers what happened with Sookie.
I loved Eric and Pam's reunion after the spell was broken.
Antonia is a pushover.
I won't cry if Tara is blown up with the building.
Exactly all this haha
Is it coming on next Sunday or delayed for a week due to Labor Day weekend?
I loved that end scene. I clapped my hands like a 12 year old at a Justin Beiber concert.
Looks like it will be on next weekend... I don't think I could handle waiting two whole weeks for what's about to go down!
I'm glad Tommy died. He was just making dumb move after dumb move and I never really saw the point of his character I guess.
I'm glad Eric is back and that he remembers everything, including his relationship with Sookie.
Debbie is so weird. I think she is going to sell out Alcide. I hope nothing happens to Alcide though!
I also agree that I wouldn't be upset if Tara got blown up, I'm really tired of her.
Next week's episode looks really good. I agree that the end scene with the vamps walking up to moongoddess was really hot
loved the end scene!
very glad Eric is back but he wasn't supposed to remember his relationship with Sookie. oh well I hope they continue to draw those two out
not upset that Tommy died at all
I also am sad there is only 2 episodes left
I think they really flubbed the whole Eric-Sookie romance. I'm not such a huge fan of the books that I get mad when they deviate, but the thing that made the book romance relatively believable is that Amnestic!Eric was a really sweet, innocent, trusting kind of guy. Having his first action be to kill Claudine just kind of shot that from the start, and Sookie just shrugged it off with a "boys will be boys" kind of attitude?
And then the belaboring of this Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle with all the dream sequences, etc. It's like you can't even care because the whole Eric-Sookie romance was so shallow to begin with. There were no particularly nice moments between them or anything really. I thought Pre-amnestic!Eric had much better chemistry with Sookie, and it fizzled out instead of heating up this season.
Poor Tommy, but I don't know. When he was all, "I don't want to die," I was kind of like, "Just go to a hospital, dude!" Sam didn't seem to put up much of an argument either. But I did feel for the two of them, and the whole "hell is a dogfight" made me feel for Tommy again, because he really did get dealt a crap hand with his parents.
I like that Jesus had the whole Marnie/Antonia dynamic backwards, but that they didn't drag that out. And of course Lafayette, with, "It's a Latin thing."
I'm also not sad that Tommy is dead. He was really starting to irritate me with his poor decision making. I do feel bad for Sam having to bear all of this weight, though. Sam is one of my favorite characters lately.
Was anyone else really surprised that Marnie is actually the strong force behind the vampire killing and not Antonia? I couldn't believe she was so "persuasive" with her when she was about to back out of the whole thing.
FINALLY we're putting the Andy on V thing behind us (I hope).
They (the vampires) certainly won't be blowing anything up now that Sookie is in there. I anticipate her shiny-hand-powers coming to save the day again.
I don't know.
IIRC, in the books Eric DOES in fact remember the romance between himself and Sookie. I can't remember if it is in book 4, but I am pretty sure he does in fact get his memory back and remember the whole thing--in fact I believe his crafty self keeps it a secret from Sookie.
I always find these posts interesting, especially when people compare the show to the books. In the books Sookie IS constantly dealing with a mixture of emotions about Bill..never quite over him--even when he's *not* her boyfriend he's always in the wings...her first "true" love. So why wouldn't that create tension and a love triangle on the show?
I have thought this entire season that given the chance I would stake wimpy Eric and that Alan & Co also did a shits job of portraying him. But if you DO refer to the book, Eric had no memory of his past--and he was this vanilla dude. What I found even more annoying is that Sookie just blindly loved this wimpy guy. Go with the power..and let him teach you how to use yours Sookie..god, become a badass please.
Anyways...
I liked Tara in this episode. I liked how her witchy little friend helped give her confidence and see she IS brave and not such a whiner.
Regarding Tommy. I watched the episode twice and again, I don't think Tommy said he wanted to live. Sam said he wanted to get the V and he said very clearly NO--to which Alcide said every man had a right to choose their path.
I think the show needs to do a better job of tying SOME elements of the book to the show: for instance, it should be a witch vs. vampire/werewolf showdown.
Otherwise, this season HAS been a little...weird for me but, there are still parts I love...I fistpumped when Eric FINALLY came back..and the scene at the end was so well done.
End scene :: hot vamps in black.
I was really disappointed at how gullible and weak they portrayed Antonia to be after giving the impression she was so tough.
Tara is annoying. She needs to disappear.
I loooooooove Lafayette.
Is Tommy definitely dead?
While he was dying, I thought I noticed him looking up at Sam for a second like, "is he watching, does he believe this?" Could he be faking it?
Eric didn't remember in book 4, and he kept bugging Sookie for info and asking "Did we have sex?" etc. I think he remembers in book 5 but he keeps it secret. Sookie dates Quinn and then finally gets back with Eric.
This season has been underwhelming.
I read the books all at once last summer so maybe I'm not remembering it correctly, but from what I remember Bill is still just kind of sad-sacking it around the place. I think Sookie doesn't want him dead, but I never got the sense of "I-can't-fully-commit-to-anyone-else-because-my-heart-belongs-to-Bill." Which again, I don't care if the show diverges, but it seems kind of silly to try to be torn up about a love triangle when her relationship with Eric is so WTF. They just didn't make a compelling case for why she hooked up with Eric all of a sudden, let alone how she could "love" him.
Yeah, at first Tommy is all, "let me die," etc. But then he launches into the "I don't believe in heaven and I don't want to just die and be forgotten," etc. Which is why I felt it seemed a little silly that they all just gave in so easily to the idea that he was a goner and didn't need to go to the hospital. I know he was really fishing for Sam to say he would remember him always and all that jazz, but it seemed a little unlikely that Tommy, Alcide, and Sam would all just throw in the towel because of a little bloody vomit, which he's already recovered from once.
Personally, I thought the books were dumb and stopped reading them after about...say 6...so it's really quite easy for me to disconnect the two storylines. But that's ME.
In the SHOW---what I think has been a shortcoming and I *think* you and I agree, is that Sookie seems to have fallen in love with Eric quite quickly...There were a couple lines where Sookie blabbed out, "I've fallen in love with you over the past three days" or something similar and I was lol'd.
I see why you would think they didn't make a compelling argument for hooking up with Eric. But the past three seasons Sookie saw good in Eric--he'd do something caring, she saw true love and caring in how he cared for Pam or Godric, and then in the next moment he would be selfish, or power hungry or he'd let's just say hold Lafayette hostage--and that was a turn off for her. Sookie is attracted to the good part of him--so when he was ALL good (AKA a huge effin wimp) she finally gave over to her urges. That's the argument for hooking up right there.
What bothered me was that Sookie was kinda an idiot--not seeing that even bewitched Eric--that was still part of him. That goodness was still inside of him. He just is more complex than that too. No one is just black and white--Sookie has to come to grips with figuring out that she isn't, Bill isn't and Eric isn't--and that's the tension.
IIRC, Alcide said every man got to choose his time wrt Tommy. So, I think he sensed death was near and was supportive of Tommy not going to extreme measures to prevent it. I also think he sensed Tommy's penance, but maybe that's a huge stretch.
Of course, I've never read the books, so take that with a grain of non-reading salt.
That's *exactly* why it made no sense at all to me to have Good!Eric's first action being to kill Claudine. It kind of blows the whole, "I can love him now because his heart is gold" kinda thing. He just killed your fairy godmother simply because she was delicious! But Sookie just shrugs it off. I don't understand why they did that *at all* unless it was just to put an end to the fairyland storyline for now. But still, anyone but Eric should have done it.