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uvmjioa September 23, 2009 at 3:39 am

phabmir- Thank you,uvmjioa.Great site.

missyella September 13, 2009 at 7:22 pm

We just have to. Hopefully all the casts careers are on an upward trajectory!!!!

missyella September 13, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Hi Nia,

You should have read some of the comments about the Photographs posted of the cast of Straw Dogs on their down time, in the little Rowing Boat.

And now that he may be seeing ERW, they are horrible.

I cannot repeat some of the comments made about ASkars, even his Father was bought into the postings, nasty, nasty, nasty!!

I will watch the episode tomorrow and hope I don’t cry too much.

Roll on 2010, but in the meantime, I have the Books and the DVD is arriving next month.

I will keep my eyes open for anything else that may come in.

See you later!

missyella September 13, 2009 at 11:29 am

Thank you AdoreBill,

I do hope that I have not caused any offence with my remarks to the now deleted Luke.

I saw red!!!! I hope my response was constructive, as much as I wanted to be really rude to the Poster.

I have read some horrible things that have been posted about my fav Alexander and they are so hurtful, why do people do it????

I am based in London, so my only outlet about this wonderful show is on sites like this and others, I am bereft that tonight is the last show until next year.

I want to thank each Poster as well, for allowing me to have my “twopeneth” worth of comments and I look forward to the next season and coming comments on this great site.

BLF September 13, 2009 at 8:51 am

Board,

We made it.
In about 12 hours time (east coast) we will be watching the season finale of TB and all the spectulation for this episode will end. Though we will have 9 months of POV to discuss here before season 3 🙂

I just want to say it has been a pleasure reading and posting with y’all (even the one negative nelly who happens to post with the name of the FOTS suicide bomber).

Happy viewing tonight!

missyella September 12, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Hey Luke, what does your posting on this site say about you?

You obviously searched to find it, so who is the dimwit now???

Why bother to comment you idiot!!!!!! You go and get a life?

Shayne September 10, 2009 at 7:53 pm

Hey Missyella,

I like both the books and the series – although I guess it’s rather obvious that I like the show more – but I think if I didn’t keep them separate it would ruin my enjoyment of both of them, and that would be a real shame, since they both rock in their own way.

Nia September 10, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Gosh, can’t we just enjoy the show without the constant comparison to the books????
Remember this is a thread about the season finale not a book review!
Go Team True Blood!

Shayne September 10, 2009 at 11:33 am

I’m not saying it was done in the books, I’m saying that it’s done on tv a lot. And since AB has said that Bill and Sookie’s relationship will stay a focus of the show, it seems as if his choices for doing that are either going to be keep them together, or do the on-again/off-again thing. There’s also the fact that SM has a contract – 7 years, I believe – so they can’t write him out of the show the way CH wrote him out of the books.

With respect to the books, I’d say that it seems as if Sookie isn’t quite as done with Bill as she might have thought. The end of Dead and Gone makes me think he’s still in contention for her affections.

The queen could have been generalizing about not liking men. Or the thing with Eric could be a one-off. I think I read something about the queen’s sexuality being ‘ambiguous’, or something like that.

I read the look on Bill’s face more as worry than guilt. They say that Sophie-Ann is dangerous and a little bit crazy, and Bill doesn’t want Sookie to be hurt. Also, I thought the queen had more of a big sister/little brother vibe with Bill, despite the “Shall we have sex?” line. She certainly teased and tormented him like a big sister would tease a little brother. But I also thought she might have been a bit disdainful of him, and the way he chooses to live his life.

I have to agree with you on that last point. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that he manages to leave the thing with Bill and the queen ambiguous until some later time, so that no one knows for sure what’s going on. I’m going to go crazy with the waiting.

Shayne September 9, 2009 at 8:57 pm

@Emily
You said:
“And I am interested in hearing your argument. I am a Bill AND Eric fan, and actually didn’t think even the book reason Bill had for going to Sookie was so bad, but you make it sound like he will be even more sympathetic in the show. If so, how do you think AB will work the Eric storyline in? I think it’ll be hard, going forward, to follow the book plots at all if Sookie and Bill are still together… so I think they’ll likely have to break up (at least temporarily). Do you have a theory on why (and whether) that will happen?”

Okay, keep in mind, this is only me making my best guess, and I am very much a Bill/Sookie shipper, so I could just be guilty of seeing what I want to see.

Having made my disclaimer, here goes nothin’. 🙂

First of all, I’m not entirely convinced that AB is going to go with the idea that Bill knew about Sookie right from the beginning. For one thing, if you’re the queen, and you’re going to pick someone to go ‘undercover’ for you, it seems as if it would make a lot more sense to get someone who a) isn’t soft on humans, b) has some understanding of humans, and c) has an actual talent for deceit. In the first couple of episodes Bill doesn’t seem to have any idea how to deal with people, outside of falling back on manners and customs that are 150 years old. And he has a big mouth that he runs off at the worst times, and has the crappiest poker face I’ve ever seen. He’s not exactly spy material. And the justification that was used in the book – that he grew up in Bon Temps – seems exceedingly weak, since it’s not like he’s going to know anyone in the present. There’s also the fact that, practically the minute he gets Sookie in his sights, he runs off with the Rattrays for a snack. That doesn’t seem like a guy on a mission, to me.

Next, there’s this: in episode 1.04, when Sookie meets Eric for the first time, he would seem to know absolutely nothing about her. The next time he turns up, in Bill’s tub in 1.08, he says “You didn’t think you could keep her all to yourself, did you, Bill?” in such a way that it sounds like he knows exactly what she can do. And later, at Fangtasia, Sookie says to Eric, “I know what you can do,” and Eric says, “And we know what you can do, too.” It could mean nothing, but the fact that he seems to know, rather than be guessing, suggests to me that maybe, at some point between 1.04 and 1.08, he went to Sophie-Ann the same way he just did in 2.11, and told her about this strange girl he just met. In the books, Hadley seemed like a real social climber, divulging information about Sookie in order to get in good with the queen. But that doesn’t seem to be the way Hadley’s being played on the show. She seems sweet and innocent, and not at all like she just sold her cousin down the river to win favor with Sophie-Ann. So, and I know it would be a bit of a coincidence, I’m wondering if maybe Sophie-Ann could have glamored the info out of Hadley instead of her willingly giving it up, and then tried to get Bill in on the action after he already knew her, because, of course, Eric certainly would have mentioned that Bill was with Sookie. If Bill was pulled in after the fact that would make him look a lot better, in my opinion, cuz it’s obvious that he’s not able to say no to the queen. Then, he’s between a rock and a hard place, and it would look bad that he hasn’t told Sookie yet, but not as bad as if he knew all along.

Third, it seems rather odd that Sophie-Ann would send Bill undercover in Eric’s area without telling Eric. If she didn’t trust Eric, that would make some sense, but the previews for the finale indicate that she’s got something going on with Eric, be it business or pleasure I’m not sure, but it seems as if she does trust him enough to tell him to put a lid on Bill’s curiosity about something she’s got going. If she trusts Bill enough to send him to seduce Sookie, I would assume that means she trusts him a lot, and if she trusts him, I would think she’d just warn him away from whatever it is herself. The fact that she’d choose to go through Eric instead makes me think that she doesn’t want Bill to know that she’s up to something at all, never mind what it is.

Fourth, how did Eric know that Bill gave Sookie his blood the night the Rattrays nearly killed her? The fact that he knows, and Bill has no idea how he knows, suggests that something more is going on. It also suggests to me that Bill is about to get hosed.

Fifth, Bill goes and tells the queen that Bon Temps is about to implode, and instead of telling him what he needs to know and letting him get back, she jerks him around and acts like she doesn’t give a hoot about what goes on there. She says, “Don’t worry, you’d know if Sookie was in trouble,” but the problem is, if Sookie gets in trouble during the day that means that Bill is that much farther away from being able to help her when night falls. For someone who supposedly went to so much trouble to set up Sookie as an asset, she sure doesn’t seem to care all that much about her safety. Or she just doesn’t want Bill to know how much interest she really does have.

To go along with that, most of ep 2.11 seemed to be filler. Sookie laying on the floor with Mike Spencer? Totally unneccessary. Jason and Andy breaking into the sheriff’s station? Could have been a lot shorter. Coby and Lisa and Sam going to visit Eric? Again, could have been shorter. And yet, here’s this new, interesting character who we hardly get to see, and when we do, she’s jerking Bill’s chain and not saying a whole lot of anything interesting or useful. Bill was there for a ton of time that we didn’t get to see, and because so much of the rest seemed so superfluous, it makes it seem like showing so little of the queen was deliberate – that we got to see just enough to lead us to believe what AB has to know almost everyone knows about by now, so that he can change it up later.

Sixth, if they had set Eric up in a position to look better in the face of Bill looking worse, I’d be more convinced that AB was going to follow the books on this one. But not only does Eric not look better than he has previously on the show, they’ve made him a lot darker than he was in the books, too, and not nearly as affectionate with Sookie. But Bill has continually been built up to look way better than he did in the books. Almost every change to Bill’s character has placed him more and more firmly in the role of hero. For AB to choose to follow the books now, and make Bill look bad on this one point, it would in effect be throwing away everything he’s done up to this stage to make Bill the good guy, because it would throw everything Bill’s done before this into total doubt, all for the sake of a single shock. And going for the quick shock seems like cheap storytelling to me, and totally beneath AB.

Okay, there’s most of my reasons for thinking AB won’t follow the books, but this is getting really long so I should probably stop soon.

I honestly don’t think Bill and Sookie need to be broken up in order for most of the storylines to happen. Bill was gone near the end of season one in the show just like he was in the books, but for a totally different, and much more valid reason. (AB even gave a shout-out to the book when Sookie said to Sam, “If Bill is more interested in vampire politics than he is in being with me…”) I’m sure he can manage to get the characters to where they need to be. Or, like when he had Bill kill Longshadow instead of Eric, he could just have Bill step into certain parts that Eric would have done. From the sounds of some of the things the actors have said in interviews, it sounds as if Eric might be getting his own storyline next year, outside of what happens in book 3, so who knows how much the show will diverge from the books next year? There’s also the fact that a break-up, temporary or not, without a good reason will likely come off as cheesy and cheap. The whole on-again/off-again thing has become such a cliche on television the last ten years or so, I really hope AB doesn’t go there. It’s not necessary to create conflict, and he’s got tons of ways to keep people tuning in without resorting to it. Bill makes a comment to Sookie in 2.02, after they’ve just had make-up sex, that they wouldn’t want to be “one of *those* couples” (the ones who keep breaking up and getting back together). It’s such a knowing comment about the cliche itself that I’m really hoping it’s AB’s way of saying that he’s not going to go there. But again, that could just be me seeing what I want.

Anyway, I think I’m done now. 🙂 Do you have any theories you’d care to share? I’d love to hear them?

Loleaf September 9, 2009 at 5:12 pm

I love both Allen & Charlaine’s imagination and their writing styles. When True Blood first came on I had no idea it was based on books until later in the season(that’s what I get for not reading the credits, huh)! Thus started the fascination and addiction that I have today for the series and books. Charlaine and Alan have outdone themselves in such a way that they make it hard for us to pick out favorite vampire. I myself am torn..When the series started I was a Bill lover. Then after season 1 ended I bought the books and read them all over the break. Then it happened and all hell broke loose, at that time I became an Eric lover too!! I feel like I am in a love triangle myself!! They both are completely different entities(the series and books that is), where series Bill is more sincere and sweet and book Bill is at times sarcastic and can be somewhat rude at times(not always to be fair.)But as the books go on Bill does get written out a bit and does protect her with no thought for his own life. Eric in the book is much like he is in the series except for the fact that in the book he not Bill staked Longshadow. Also, he has no problems coming on to Sookie trying to get her to come to him freely. Sookie seems more open to the book Eric that the series character. IMO!! She has no problems going or calling Fangtasia to talk to him when she needs to.. That’s what turned me onto Eric in the books, he seems like he is always there for her when she needs him. I love the two entities (The books and the show)!! They are an addiction and I have read the books numerous times and still aren’t tired of them along with On-Demand viewings of True Blood my daily fix is fulfilled. I highly recommend reading them during the break!!! If you don’t want to spoil anything just read the first two books and compare for yourself.. Then read the other books after each corresponding season. I bet you will be torn like I am!! If you thought that the dream scene with Eric and Sookie was HOT, that is nothing compared to the scenes in the books between the two of them.. Can you say SHOWER SCENE!!! I knew you could….

emily September 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm

@Shayne:

You said:

“I don’t think Bill will be shown to be working with the queen the way he was in the book. Or, if he is, the reasoning for it will make him seem much less like a bad guy than the book did. I have what I believe to be a well-reasoned argument to support this, but I won’t post it here unless someone is interested in seeing it.”

And I am interested in hearing your argument. I am a Bill AND Eric fan, and actually didn’t think even the book reason Bill had for going to Sookie was so bad, but you make it sound like he will be even more sympathetic in the show. If so, how do you think AB will work the Eric storyline in? I think it’ll be hard, going forward, to follow the book plots at all if Sookie and Bill are still together… so I think they’ll likely have to break up (at least temporarily). Do you have a theory on why (and whether) that will happen?

Constance September 9, 2009 at 3:11 pm

I agree, the whole Bill/Sookie love thing had to be done the way it was to make it believable, and they have done an awesome job, maybe too good…I just don’t buy into the whole bit about Bill, as a vampire, being as “good” as he is. He is a vampire after all, and no matter how much he tries to deny it, that is what he will always be. It’s like Pam said in season 1, “If I had a heart, it would be breaking right now”…they don’t have a heart, so therefore how can they possibly love as humans do…or to the extent anyway? The humans are refered to as a vampires “pet” so to speak….I think any of them are capable of becoming attatched to a human very deeply…even Eric 🙂 he was very loyal and cared very deeply for Goderic, I think he could do the same with Sookie.

Yes, there is a great storyline with Eric/Sookie, and it can be done in a way, just as Bill/Sookie, that can be amazing….I just hope we get that. Eric is just as passionate about what he cares about as Bill is…also, it will give us more of a chance to enjoy each of the guys acting abilities…I would love to see Bill in other ways as well on the show…not just as smitten with Sookie. They all deserve the chance to show what they can do, to their full capacity.

I think AB has done a fantastic job of staying true to the “spirit” of the books….

It’s only season 2…who knows what the future seasons will bring…I am looking forward to each one!

Shayne September 9, 2009 at 1:05 pm

***To me, it’s like if they took the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and made Sam carry the ring instead of Frodo, or had something else being obsessed with the ring instead of Gollumn…People would have been beside themselves to say the least.***

There would have been no reason – I mean no reason required by the demands of adapting the novels to the screen – to make Sam carry the ring instead of Frodo. But there are good reasons for the changes they’ve made on True Blood. For one thing, in the books Bill never seems all that invested in his relationship with Sookie, but it played all right on the page. On the screen, that same lack of investment would have been glaringly obvious, and since the first season was all about Sookie’s romance with Bill, it would have been really hard to get the viewer to buy into a relationship like that. Then, after a full season of doing everything in their power to make Bill into a much better guy than he was in the books, it would ruin the internal consistency of the story if they were to suddenly start following the books in season 2. And if they don’t play Bill the way he was in the books, they have no good reason for Bill and Sookie to split up. And splitting them up for the express purpose of putting Sookie with Eric, without a good reason in the story, would be exceedingly bad storytelling.

***How many times have we felt so passionate about a book and then gotten upset when they make the movie and change major parts about it in the movie…..yes add some things to make it interesting on the screen, but stay true to it at the same time.***

I would argue that AB has stayed true to the spirit of the books, even if he hasn’t followed some of the character arcs to the letter.

Shayne September 8, 2009 at 10:26 am

Um, predictions? Okay.

I think, despite what the preview may make it look like, that Sam and Bill are working together. I figure Bill will tell Sam that Sookie is in danger and Sam will agree to help, cuz Sam is awesome like that. But I also think they might be in for a surprise, cuz I think Maryanne is planning on using Sookie in place of Sam for the ritual. When the queen told Bill about the maenad, she said she wanted a supernatural to sacrifice, and Bill said ‘the two-natured’. I daresay that Sookie qualifies as two-natured, and since it seems as if the ritual was going on when Sam and Bill walked into the middle of it, it didn’t seem as if Maryanne felt the need to wait for Sam any longer.

I think that, along with Maryanne, Eggs will die. And I think Tara might have something to do with his death. When Lafayette was doing the tarot for her a card came up that he said meant ‘a sacrifice of the heart’. That obviously applied to the Hunter’s Souffle that Tara and Eggs ate, but I think it applied to something more as well. This is a total guess, but I’m wondering if Tara has to kill Eggs to save someone else, and that’s why it shows Sookie in the preview saying, “I am so, so sorry.”

I don’t think Bill will be shown to be working with the queen the way he was in the book. Or, if he is, the reasoning for it will make him seem much less like a bad guy than the book did. I have what I believe to be a well-reasoned argument to support this, but I won’t post it here unless someone is interested in seeing it.

Shayne September 7, 2009 at 2:08 pm

******Um, Eric is a vampire. They are hunters. Killers. Just because they are mainstreaming now doesn’t change the past – for any of them. They all at some time in the past (as we saw so gruesomely with Bill & Lorena) killed with pleasure and abandon. And he’s not a self hating vampire like Bill, he’s a life loving vampire.***

There are two main differences that I see between Bill and Eric. The first is that Bill was doing what he did directly because of Lorena – she forced him to walk a path that he never would have willingly walked on his own. And the second thing is, despite the power of Lorena’s influence, Bill managed to find himself again. He changed, for no other reason than that he knew it was right.

***We know that kids and virgins are delicious to vampires. I stare longingly at chocolate mousse on the dessert cart all the time without doing anything about it. Doesn’t make me a bad person.***

Of course it doesn’t, but chocolate mousse isn’t alive. And it’s not the fact that Eric looked like he wanted a taste, it was the fact that he said ‘delicious’, which, to me, implies that he knows they are because of personal experience.

***And what would Sam do exactly? Threaten ERIC? Eric was barely taking Sam seriously as it was. I liked how Eric stayed true to himself and showed the kids his fangs – he’s a vampire, deal with it.***

I’m not saying Sam would be in any way effective against Eric, but what could Eric do to Sam in the middle of his open club? The fact of the matter is, Eric does his own version of mainstreaming, too – not like Bill, but he makes an effort to be civilized. Not to mention, I doubt he would want to reinforce Sam’s already poor view of him – not because he cares what Sam thinks, per se, but because he wouldn’t want Sam spreading that kind of stuff around.

***Did you see the way Eric was looking at Sookie in Scratches? Eyes glazed over, no movement, fangs out? That’s the want for blood. Didn’t see it in that scene.***

That’s the want for Sookie’s blood, in particular. (He didn’t look all entranced like that when he was feeding from that chick.) She tastes different, and one would assume her blood likely smells different, too – and that would be exceedingly obvious to Eric what with it open to the air like that.

***AB has absolutely made Eric a good guy. A one dimensional one? No. He’s complicated – as any 1000 year old survivor should be.***

I have to argue on this one. I’m not saying that Eric is the bad guy. Eric is one of the good team, if you will. He’s not a bad guy, and he’s certainly not a villain the way some people are making him out to be, but he’s more morally ambiguous. He’s a good character, but he’s not a ‘good guy’ the way Bill is a good guy. Of course he’s complicated, and that is absolutely how it should be.

***He’s good to Pam, keeps Ginger the dingbat employed, he always helps when he’s asked (and in true vampire fashion, wants something back, but he does help!), he tried to help Bill with Jessica, he cared deeply about Godric, he allows Bill to exist in his area blah blah blah.***

Pam is his child, so I would hope he would be good to her. And Godric was a good maker, so it’s not surprising that he cared deeply for him. I don’t think he cares a whole lot about Ginger one way or the other. Yes, he always helps when he’s asked, but the fact is, he always has an ulterior motive, so it’s hard to judge just how much of that is him being good and how much is him being self-serving. He didn’t agree to take Jessica until Bill said he would owe him a favor.

This is probably going to sound funny, but the one nice thing I think he’s done for Bill is taking Jessica back to him. Not that it seemed nice at the time, but I think that was actually something that he was doing, at least in part, ‘for’ Bill, rather than ‘to’ Bill. Eric has had a good relationship with his maker, and with his child, and those relationships are important to him. I think, in the few-and-far-between moments when he’s not angry with Bill, he actually kind of likes him, and I think he wanted Bill to have the same thing with Jessica that he has with Pam.

***Eric is no more purely bad than Bill is purely good. And the writers bend over backwards on this. We’ve seen Bill do PURELY evil things on this show – and good. And same with Eric. But since Eric is the anti – hero, he gets that villain label.***

I don’t think Eric is purely bad at all. And of course Bill’s not purely good. But Bill has changed, has made the choice to be better than he was. And it’s not just a momentary flight of fancy for him, either – he made the choice a long time ago, for his own sake, because that’s the kind of man he was, so it can’t be said that he’s doing it just for Sookie. We’ve seen him rise above his instincts as a vampire, we’ve seen him show mercy for the sake of mercy alone. (He could have killed that kid out front of Godric’s nest and no one would have been the wiser, but he let him go because it was the right thing to do.) That’s what makes him the ‘good guy’. I don’t think it’s quite fair to call Eric the villain, though. I’d say, because he’s on the good team but is actively trying to steal Sookie away from Bill, that he’s more like Bill’s foil.

cgpunker September 7, 2009 at 11:17 am

I try really hard to separate the books from the show…and while we don’t know if Bill has ulterior motives on the show, we certainly have clues that he’s not all he seems to be.
At this point, I have no idea where we’re going with Bill. I HOPE he’s got more to him.

I used to love Bill in S1. But he just got too one dimensional to me. Plus, I hate love stories where the 2 people don’t really understand each other at all. Where they fall in love with who they WANT the other person to be instead of who they are, warts and all.

It’s why I love the idea of Sookie & Eric. DreamEric is the first person to really identify who Sookie is. She is, like Eric, fiercely loyal to her loved ones and willing to kill for them. Bloodthirsty indeed 🙂 Bill sees that as naivete maybe? Youth? Eric would KNOW there’s no way Sookie would stay put at Lafayettes. She doesn’t have that in her – and it’s not stupidity.

Shayne September 6, 2009 at 6:13 pm

I couldn’t agree with you more. Both actors are awesome and talented, and both bring something extraordinary to the show. I love watching Eric, and I truly think he is a great character, although I think I’d love watching him even more if I wasn’t always so worried about what he was going to try to do to Bill next.

I think it’s great how supportive all the actors are of each other. I’ve not seen a lot of Alex talking about the show, but he seems like a really classy guy. And anything I’ve seen Stephen say about his fellow actors has all been complimentary in the extreme.

***Alexander has been quoted saying he is Stephen’s biggest fan.***

I tend to think it would be more accurate to say he’s Stephen’s second biggest fan, next to Anna, of course. 🙂

Shayne September 6, 2009 at 5:39 pm

I’m not married, but I, too, am a sucker for nice guys. That’s why, even though I really enjoy watching Eric, I will always like Bill best, Sam and Hoyt second, and Eric third.

Shayne September 6, 2009 at 5:05 pm

As much as I wish the last part of that was true, I have a sneaking suspicion that is NOT what AB said in the podcast.

Also, na, would it be too much to ask that you not resort to cursing and name-calling? It tends to make us all look bad.

na September 6, 2009 at 4:47 pm

go team bill

Missyella September 6, 2009 at 3:54 pm

Britt, I have found the Bill Compton character far tooo cloying, I suppose it was die to the fact he bacame as he says “Vampire” during the Cival War, whwre Men were supposed to be bore gentlemanly and becoming.

In the Books (if you have read them, I find his use of sex with Sookie as a way to make things better), yes he may love her, or so he tells her but give her body a rest for goodness sakes!!!!

She was injured a couple of times and he wants sex, even when he is in out right pai, I think any woman not enamoured, would tell him to stop, but he has awoken as she says her sexiness.

Don’t forget Sookie was a virgin, when Bill came into Merlotte’s and she was intrigued because she had never seen anyone like him before, therefore the attraction was formed on her part and remember she cannot read his mind, so has no idea what he could be up to!!!!

Britt September 6, 2009 at 12:53 am

So I’ve been re-watching season 1 & 2.. i just dont understand how some people arent totally smitten by Bill & Sookies relationship.. Re-watching it all just makes me love it all over again.. So AMAZING! True love!

Missyella September 5, 2009 at 8:28 am

I do not know what AB has in store for Eric’s character, but please make it be good.

He is not a “Monster” but is slowly being portrayed as one, in the show.

I thought the Eric pleading for his Maker’s life, was true to form, yes Eric has lost his humanity after a 1,000 years, but I think once you lose your Maker you are effectively lonely!! And I think he is lonely, yes he has Pam and Chow, but it is not the same.

The scene with Arlen’s children, I did not think was strange, he was asked a question about his fangs, he did as requested and Sam’s reaction would have alarmed them, Eric and Pam discussing their merits in Swedish was funny, when will they come into contact with Children and yes they are delightful and delicious!!!! as Children can be, without any thoughts on the dark side.

AS plays the part to perfection, long may he reign!!!!!!!

Missyella September 5, 2009 at 8:15 am

Thank you, I have saved it as one of my favourites.

Shayne September 4, 2009 at 10:44 pm

***Wow. Eric as a monster for being nice to those kids and joking with Pam? THE HORROR!!!***

I’m one of the ones who didn’t read it as Eric joking with Pam, and I have to say that, not only did it creep me out more than a little, it made me think worse of him than almost everything else has. It’s almost like they took the bad traits out of Godfrey to make Godric, and then gave those bad traits to Eric. In one of the earlier eps this season, 1.06, I think it was, Eric is feeding on that girl who calls him baby, and he says that the thrill of feeding is gone for him now that all of his snacks are willing. That put a bad taste in my mouth, too, because it basically implies that he gets a thrill out of taking what he wants by force.

***He was downright sweet to Lisa – with no threat at all in his voice.***

Of course he wouldn’t use a threatening tone. Just because he wants to drink her blood doesn’t mean that he would want to hurt her. Also, that would somewhat defeat the purpose of switching to a language that no one but Pam understands. And along with the fact that he wouldn’t want to scare the kids, Sam was sitting right there, and he wouldn’t stand for it if he thought Eric was threatening Lisa.

***I think alot of people misunderstood that scene. Or maybe I’m a monster, because I thought AS played it delightfully.***

I thought AS did a great job, as well. But I think that about Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, and Michael Emerson as Ben Linus, too. AS is wonderful, and I really like Eric as a character as well – he’s a joy to watch, and it’s obvious he’s having fun playing the part – but I don’t think, at least in AB’s version of things, that Eric is a good guy. Or at least he isn’t yet.

Shayne September 4, 2009 at 10:12 pm

In the blurb for the finale it says something to the effect of, ‘Sam places his trust, and his life, in the hands of an unlikely ally.’ I’m guessing that Bill tells him Sookie’s life is in danger, which would make Sam willing to help him, and they cook up some sort of plan together.

Sam is way too cool to die. Not to mention, if Bill really did sacrifice him to save Sookie, I doubt Sookie would forgive him any time soon. And since AP and SM filmed a scene of them dancing together to “Before The Night Is Over” – I’m guessing it will be one of the last scenes of the ep – I doubt you have to worry about Bill getting Sam killed.

Shayne September 4, 2009 at 10:01 pm

***In the books, it was Eric who saved Sookie from Longshadow, not Bill…so take those brownie points away***

This is the show, not the books – they have become two separate entities – so you can’t take those brownie points away. Bill did the staking, and paid the price for it, so those points are all his.

***it just causes more negative vibes toward Eric than is warranted.***

But on the show those negative vibes are warranted. Saying that Eric didn’t do those things in the books doesn’t excuse his actions on the show.

***And what are all the die hard Bill fans going to say and feel when Sookie hooks up with Quinn?***

With all that AB has changed so far, what’s to say that Quinn will even be used as a love interest at all? Because SM has a contract and won’t be able to be written out of the show the way CH wrote Bill out of the books, it would make more of a love square. And while a triangle can be believable, four players feels like one too many to me. Also, I don’t remember the Bill/Sookie/Sam triangle in the first book the way it was on the show – maybe instead of introducing Quinn they’d use Sam again instead.

Shayne September 4, 2009 at 7:59 pm

I don’t have iTunes. Do you suppose you could paraphrase what AB says in the Podcast?

cgpunker September 4, 2009 at 10:57 am

Wow. Eric as a monster for being nice to those kids and joking with Pam? THE HORROR!!! He was downright sweet to Lisa – with no threat at all in his voice. I think alot of people misunderstood that scene. Or maybe I’m a monster, because I thought AS played it delightfully.

Eric’s no more of a monster than Bill is – and we have no idea what happens with Eric & the Queen – just as we have no idea about Bill’s PAST with the Queen.

What I love about this show *is* it’s departure from the books.

Part of me kind of hopes Eric does become a bigger badass. I almost don’t care if he ends up with Sookie, as long as we get MORE. I deprogrammed S1 of this show out of my Tivo after the 3rd episode. The whole Sookie/Bill thing was such a snooze – where was the vampire story? Then I caught Ep 4 later and once they introduced Eric & Pam I came back. I read the books between seasons, and started watching S2 because I knew we’d be getting more real vampire. And I’ll be back for S3 for the same reason.

Stephanie September 3, 2009 at 9:10 pm

If things were going bookwise we’d kno what was going on. Sam can’t die (he’s needed later on) and Lafayette should already be dead (but I’m glad he’s not)! This makes it exciting all over again! GO TEAM Eric!!! Bill’s a CHEAT!!!! (but only if AB follows the book) I can’t remember the last time I was excited by a book/tv series.

Constance September 3, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Well, they looked pretty hot and sparks were flying in my living room! And everyone else I talked to that watches the show. I think if you are a die hard Bill fan, it’s just hard to swallow Sookie with anyone else…guess it will be the same when they put her with all the other guys she ends up dating as well. I never could warm up to Quinn in the books, because I was so much an Eric fan. I like Bill, but I am looking forward to the Eric storyline…I just hope they don’t keep up the whole deal with making it look like Eric is responsible for everything that comes between Bill and Sookie…though it is AB’s show….that is totaly not how it is in the books….the only tricky thing Eric did was getting Sookie to suck the bullets from him…Eric had nothing to do with Sookie and Bill not being together…that was ALL Bill dishonesty with Sookie. Guess we’ll see how it plays out, but I will, and so will so many others, continue to pull for Eric and Sookie.

Isis_Nocturne September 3, 2009 at 6:36 pm

I didn’t realize that Alan’s contract with Charlaine over the True Blood show said that he had to take 100% of his storylines from the books… These are two different mediums, and different stories in their own rights…

Isis_Nocturne September 3, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Maybe I’m just a sucker for love, but from that first moment on screen together, I saw sparks, and the way that they looked at each other… To me, as a film major, it fit really well into the show to show that instant attraction, and love at first sight, then instantly add to that chemistry with the “Bill saved Sookie’s life” bit.

Looking at the show as a film student, I still don’t see any sort of chemistry between Paquin and Skarsgard, except for friendship. As cute as I think Alex is, he and Anna just can’t pull off their characters being “in love” because to me it looks like they’re working WAY too hard on it! If it’s not there, it’s not there.

Isis_Nocturne September 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Uh, WRONG! Why don’t you go on itunes and listen to what Alan Ball has to say on the subject. It’s part of the True Blood podcast… 20-something minutes.

Also, Sookie has the ‘love at first look’ thing with Bill the MINUTE she notices him in Merlotte’s. Yes, later that night he saves her life after she saves his, but still… The emotion was there BEFORE the blood exchange!

mairemor September 3, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Well, it looks like AB’s finally done it–He’s destroyed the triangle by pairing Eric and Sophie-Anne, and by definitively turning Eric into an Iago plotting to off Bill. It’s pretty obvious where this is heading…OOC Eric called in Lorena (NOT in the SVMs) and now he’s going to hand Bill to her somehow. Let’s see how many Eric fans watch next season now that Eric is a total monster and there’s no real chance of ESN and zip chance of LTR.Also, AB made the attraction all about the blood bond *sighs* BTW lots of WIKI members were totes turned off by Eric (not joking, saying it in Swedish so the kids didn’t get it) comment in Swedish that the children are delish. More evil monster, Eric…

Christine September 3, 2009 at 1:30 am

oohh maybe sam can shift into a tree? lmao..

who knows

Options September 3, 2009 at 12:05 am

The one thing Im looking forward to from the finale is that the Maryann storyline is finally gonna die and we’ll be rid of it… AMEN!

Elizabeth September 2, 2009 at 10:22 pm

I was a bit confused as in the beginning Sookie is cradling Bill, but at the end, Bill is behind Sookie and she is restrained trying to get to someone, who I guess is Sam. Oh the wait!!!!!

Christine September 2, 2009 at 8:03 pm

*SPOILER*

WELL, THIS IS MY GUESS WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT SEASON FINALE

It says in the synopsis for the finale

’“Sam places his trust, and his life, in a most unlikely ally.”

I’m guessing that Bill & Sam have some sort of plan to give up Sam to Maryanne (but making it look like Bill has forced him, so Maryanne doesn’t get suspicious ) because the only way she can be defeated is when she thinks she has accomplished whatever the hell she is trying to with Sam.

I also think that Bill & Sam wont have anytime to let any one else in on their plan. So Sookie and the rest of the gang will probably be thinking Bill made Sam surrender to Maryanne. Possibly what Sookie is apologizing for.

I’m gonna guess that Sam probably gets hurt… but I’m almost positive they wont kill off his character.

In an interview Sam Trammel says that “Sam” turns into one tiny animal and one very large animal this season. Now we’ve seen him turn into a fly.. but not something very large. So I’m guessing this will play a part in the finale.

I also read an interview that said “Maryann will be vanquished, but no one character will single-handedly takes her out, but rather it will be a group effort by all of the good guys.”

So I’m gonna say it’s Maryanne that dies.

Isis_Nocturne September 2, 2009 at 7:10 pm

OMG! The finale is gonna be INCREDIBLE!!!