Wait. What? There’s only one episode left? This season of True Blood just seems so unfinished and, sadly, unsatisfying.
It seems as if, after Russell’s Network moment, there should have been a bigger, louder outcry against vampires. It should have become a much larger media circus, resulting in more than simple – yet, surprisingly well-spelled – graffiti outside Fangtasia.
But, those thoughts could stem from my overall lack of interest in the characters lately. You know, because I’m an elitist who doesn’t care about people who don’t read.
Or it could be just that few people pay attention to the news. Anyway, here are some other True Blood thoughts:
- I’m really enjoying seeing Bill Compton get his ass kicked and am particularly fond of Awesome Pam’s application of colloidal silver spray. Then again, I’m fond of anything Awesome Pam does.
- It’s understandable for Bill to be clueless about relationships – he’s clearly been carrying around Lorena baggage for decades – but, jeez. A girl can only take so many dead bodies and so much double-crossing before she gets burnt out and looks for a guy with a pulse. All things considered, Sookie has been pretty understanding.
- I accidentally typed Dookie instead of Sookie on that last one. Heh.
- Let’s hear it for Evetta: dancer, bad ass, cardiologist.
- Crystal’s family. . . . ummmmm. . . yeah. Her fiance was her half-brother. That doesn’t need a comment.
- Annnnddd. . . Tara’s crying again.
- Oh, and now she’s banging Sam Merlotte. OK. I can get behind that.
- I can’t get behind Sam’s drunken transformation. Yeah, he’s had an emotional breakdown coming for a while – it just feels like the whole BadSam! sideshow last week was unnecessary, particularly considering his “Sam’s such a nice guy” speech tonight. People who are perpetually nice and recognize when they’re being taken advantage of relate to that speech, probably fantasize about running off at the mouth like he did in this ep (I do, anyway – I’m the Sam Merlotte at my jobby job, putting up with everything because I’m nice and understanding and a team player). Sam didn’t need this whole dark past layer in his character onion.
- I want Lafayette to have voodoo superpowers in the worst way.
- The True Blood previews are getting more and more like the Mad Men previews: meaningless statements presented without context to dramatic music, none of which says anything about the actual episode.
- True Blood, if you kill off Eric Northman, I am done with you. Done. With. You. These feelings can be assuaged by bringing back Alcide. Preferably without a shirt. Or naked. Everyone has a price – mine is juicy man ass.
Lastly. . .
I feel like there would have been more tension at the end of this episode if I didn’t know True Blood had already been renewed for a fourth season. Remember when we didn’t know? And how tense that was? I’m wondering if one of the things that made some older season finales so great was that we didn’t know if it was actually coming back.
Here, we know. True Blood will be back next summer, which means that Sookie will live, along with either Bill Compton or Eric Northman or both. Russell will most likely die the true death to make room for a new Big Bad (based on novel #4, I’m guessing it will be a coven of V-drinking witches), which is unfortunate. I already love Russell.
Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She’s angry that it’s 2010 and she still doesn’t have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
I'm not terribly worried about Eric. The producers know which way their bread is buttered. What I'm really worried about is poor Arlene and her evil!baby. As adorable as Terry's dance of joy was in the hospital, she's clearly distraught about this whole situation. Maybe witch lady can help her chillax or try a different tactic to induce the miscarriage she's hoping for.
And I really hope Russell and his jug-of-Talbot go away in the finale. I don't care if he's burned up or killed by Eric some other way or put in jail for his very public murdering, but I'm just over him now. Maybe he can follow in Franklin's footsteps and do a guest spot as a bad guy on Leverage. Then he could still rock the evil suit of evil but without a crystal decanter full of blood and guts. Ick.
Yeah, I have zero concern for Eric as well. There's NO way they are going to get rid of him.
I can't believe this season is coming to an end. It feels like it hasn't even gotten started yet. I also hate, hate, hate the Sam back story. It came out of nowhere. And I thought the Jason plot of this episode was stupid. He goes off to find Sookie… and ends up at the football field? And somehow finding out that Super Jock is on V makes him want to accept Crystal? They lost me on that one.
Here's hoping next season is better!
I was lost on the Jason front, too. Maybe his little revelation had something to do with knowing that Kitch's parents buy the V for him, Like, the trashy family is involved in the drug trade, but the presumably nice family is also involved in the drug trade, therefore Jason loves Crystal. Or something.
I don't think Jason's views on Kitch and Crystal are necessarily connected. I think he just needed a little distance — physical and temporal — in order to absorb some pretty shocking information about his would-be girlfriend.
Though I was also confused as to why his search for Sookie took him to the high school football field. It really doesn't seem like a place she'd be under normal circumstances, let alone after being kidnapped by crazed vampires. I guess the boy just has a short attention span.
There's got to be a more efficient way to carry around Talbot's goopy remains. Surely Russell could cremate the goop and have it made into a ring or something.
I like that idea. Lump-of-compressed-Talbot-ashes is much more efficient and less goopy. Heck, being a vampire, Russell might be able to compress it enough to make a diamond or something. That'd be pretty.
Denis O'Hare has said that Russell's story is not over this season, so maybe he'll be around yet! I can only hope. Also, I hope that Tara gets a better season next year – she's had two terrible seasons with Maryann and Eggs, then Franklin – I want good things for her!