the true death

This episode positive started off with a bang. As well as a bite. As well as a splat. & the squeal of a wolf getting run the hell over. "You positive picked a dumbass time to call me bitch, bitch!" Debbie spit at Sookie, as he held Ms. Stackhouse, Tara & Alcide at gunpoint. As it turns out, Alcide might actually be the one true ultra-sensitive neutered man-beast on this show, & not Bill (who is much come full circle & become "undead awesome"). At least Bill turned a human in to a vampire when they was forced . Alcide is apparently filled with a lot self-loathing that they would not even have a wolf-kid with Debbie. What does they have against wolves? Except for the a-hole ones who have been working for Russell, cannot they be, you know, creatures? With some being lovely & some being bad? Werewolves are not exactly thought about unholy abominations like vampires. Bill's primal bloodletting of Sookie is a pristine example of how dangerous vampiric instincts can be. Wolves appear to be tame be comparison.
I still don't see why Jason's so hung up on Crystal & I am afraid I must admit, sheepishly, that it's to do with the casting. Sometimes when Lindsay Pulsipher's got her mouth closed he looks like she is got one of those toothless elderly men mouths. I do know that the show centers around rednecks & semi-educated rednecks in Louisiana, but Crystal comes off as "outdoorsy." Which is the term I am using in lieu of saying that he seems dirty & smelly. I didn't feel that "spark" between her & Jason & it is delaying my ability to buy Jason's obsession. Of coursework I could chalk it up to his overly-consistent bone-headedness. "I seldom thought I was one time clever to get depressed" was a spot-on line. I do like Jason & Hoyt as roommates. & I also appreciate when Jason actually comes off as charming around the opposite sex, like Hoyt's persistent date, in lieu of a turnip.

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Sam's infiltration in to the world of dog-fighting was sweet. This whole angle has made his storyline infinitely more fascinating. I love that as they peel back the layers of the tumbledown Bon Temps world of prejudiced hillbillies it becomes both more deplorable & more inviting. I still feel like Sam's getting "long conned" by the whole relatives. Possibly it is because I refuse to think 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 they made," Eric shared with Queen Sophie-Ann, right before they bled her human & learned Sookie's secret. A statement like that makes it all the more clear why Eric is so determined to rescue Pam. & so what was the giant secret? what is Sookie? Well, for those who have read the book series, or who were friends with a blabbermouth, you already knew. But the remainder of you, who live & die by the TV series alone, y'all got to find out that Ms. Stackhouse is...well, you didn't get a firm answer yet, did you? What you got was Sookie visiting a soft-lit Dove bodywash commercial & meeting up with a telepathic British dream mate, before "The Nothing" (aka Bill, or a vampire who wishes to steal her light) came in & cast cloud over their frolicking. It was lovely to see Jason declare himself "un-responsible" as Sookie's next of kin. "Come on y'all cease cussin' at her," Lafayette said as they backed Jason & Tara away from Sookie's bedside before they became unexpectedly, yet suitably, poignant & poetic.
King Russell is definitely the best part of this season, & I love that they now gets to erupt in to fits of anger and/or merry mania. I am still not positive how they designs on conquering all of mankind, but I was one time happy to listen to his "survival of the fittest" speech under more combative circumstances. I have seldom been clear about who runs the "vampire legal method." All we have ever gotten as a figurehead is Nan Flanagan & he always appears to be under-attack from right-wing humans on TV talk shows. If the Magister's law is the legal method that he advocates, then it seems archaic for a females who is trying to show that vampires are not a threat. It also must mean that the humans in charge are allowing vampires to have their own method of justice. Now there is a TV show. Human cop/Vampire cop. Thunderheart style. "Meet your new partner."
I expect the remainder of TV to take notes from True Blood on how to describe a actual wedding ceremony. With threats, torture, declarations of obliteration & inevitable, sweet decapitation. That is some hardcore romance right there.