This episode sure started off with a bang. And a bite. And a splat. And the squeal of a wolf getting run the hell over. "You sure picked a dumbass time to call me bitch, bitch!" Debbie spit at Sookie, as she held Ms. Stackhouse, Tara and Alcide at gunpoint. As it turns out, Alcide might actually be the one true ultra-sensitive neutered man-beast on this show, and not Bill (who's pretty much come full circle and become "undead awesome"). At least Bill turned a human into a vampire when he was forced too. Alcide is apparently filled with so much self-loathing that he wouldn't even have a wolf-kid with Debbie. What does he have against wolves? Except for the a-hole ones who've been working for Russell, can't they just be, you know, creatures? With some being good and some being bad? Werewolves aren't exactly considered unholy abominations like vampires. Bill's primal bloodletting of Sookie is a pristine example of how dangerous vampiric instincts can be. Wolves seem to be pretty tame be comparison.
I still don't see why Jason's so hung up on Crystal and I'm afraid I have to admit, quite sheepishly, that it has to do with the casting. Sometimes when Lindsay Pulsipher's got her mouth closed she looks like she's got one of those toothless old men mouths. I know that the show centers around rednecks and semi-educated rednecks in Louisiana, but Crystal just comes off as particularly "outdoorsy." Which is the term I'm using instead of saying that she seems dirty and smelly. I just didn't feel that "spark" between her and Jason and it's hindering my ability to buy Jason's obsession. Of course I could just chalk it up to his overly-consistent bone-headedness. "I never really thought I was smart enough to get depressed" was a particularly spot-on line. I do like Jason and Hoyt as roommates. And I also appreciate when Jason actually comes off as charming around the opposite sex, like Hoyt's persistent date, instead of a turnip.
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Sam's infiltration into the world of dog-fighting was pretty sweet. This entire angle has made his storyline infinitely more interesting. I love that as they peel back the layers of the ramshackle Bon Temps world of prejudiced hillbillies it becomes both more deplorable and more inviting. I still feel like Sam's getting "long conned" by the entire family. Maybe it's because I refuse to believe that Tommy has become sympathetic. Part of me will always see him as an ungrateful whelp.
"The only vampire a vampire can trust is the vampire he made," Eric shared with Queen Sophie-Ann, right before he bled her human and learned Sookie's secret. A statement like that makes it all the more clear why Eric is so determined to rescue Pam. And so what was the big secret? Just what is Sookie? Well, for those who've read the book series, or who were friends with a blabbermouth, you already knew. But the rest of you, who live and die by the TV series alone, y'all got to find out that Ms. Stackhouse is...well, you didn't really get a firm answer yet, did you? What you got was Sookie visiting a soft-lit Dove bodywash commercial and meeting up with a telepathic British dream friend, before "The Nothing" (aka Bill, or a vampire who wants to steal her light) came in and cast cloud over their frolicking. It was nice to see Jason declare himself "un-responsible" as Sookie's next of kin. "Come on y'all stop cussin' at her," Lafayette said as he backed Jason and Tara away from Sookie's bedside before he became unexpectedly, yet suitably, poignant and poetic.
King Russell is definitely the best part of this season, and I love that he now gets to erupt into fits of rage and/or jovial mania. I'm still not sure how he plans on conquering all of mankind, but I was happy to hear his "survival of the fittest" speech under more combative circumstances. I've never really been clear about who runs the "vampire legal system." All we've ever really gotten as a figurehead is Nan Flanagan and she always seems to be under-attack from right-wing humans on TV talk shows. If the Magister's law is the legal system that she advocates, then it seems too archaic for a women who's trying to prove that vampires aren't a threat. It also must mean that the humans in charge are allowing vampires to have their own system of justice. Now there's a TV show. Human cop/Vampire cop. Thunderheart style. "Meet your new partner."
I expect the rest of TV to take notes from True Blood on how to portray a real wedding ceremony. With threats, torture, declarations of obliteration and inevitable, sweet decapitation. That's some hardcore romance right there.
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