Latest True Blood S4 Episode...yes, my quilty pleasure tv

[shadowkat]

*No, Sookie didn't die - we should be so lucky. She gets to live another day. Alcide wonders aloud why she's still into the fang-bangers, after nearly being killed yet again. And goes back to Debbie. Too late Alcide. Personally, I agree with Debbie - how many admirers does Sookie need? She has her hands full as is. Debbie later goes to chat with Sookie - who isn't thinking about Alcide - because she has problems of her own - Eric is missing.

*Neither did Tommy, dang-it. For a minute there - I honestly thought we had seen the last of Tommy Minskes and the new were pack leader would get rid of him for us. No such luck. Alcide once again to the rescue. Alcide really needs to stop saving all these characters, he's pissing his pack off.

*Meanwhile, the voodoo baby demon doll tale has turned into a lovely tale of two ghosts reunited, a woman and her dead baby get to float up to heaven. Giving us a preview of how we're going to get rid of Antonia. Appears Jesus has the ability to exorcise ghosts. While Lafayette has the ability to channel them.

*Give Tara kudos for figuring out how to get across to Sookie the danger everyone is in. "How stupid are you Sookie! Are you even Listening to me?" Sookie finally does...and voila. She's off to save Bill from Eric or at least attempt it. Honestly this is all her fault, if she had listened to Eric and not insisted on helping Bill fight the witches all would have been, well not, exactly okay, but not the mess it is at the moment. Leave it to the Sookester to make a bad situation worse. (Sookie had convinced Debbie to help her break into Moon Goddess Emporium in attempt to find and rescue Eric who is currently under Antonia!Marnie's spell. And is basically wandering about like a helpless statue. Amensia!Eric is getting old, can we please have Sardonic!Eric back? Regarding Debbie? It occurs to me that Debbie's plan was to give Sookie to Marnie and just take off. Boosting her confidence with V, she felt she could get away with it. Actually she almost did - go Debbie. Tara just screwed things up for her. Rather adore Tara.)

*Via a kinky dream, where Sookie is wearing a filmy red negligee and red underwear, she realizes she can love and have sex with both Eric and Bill at exactly the same time. (So if this is Sookie's dream, why is Sookie almost nude, but Eric and Bill fully clothed? Shouldn't it be the other way around? I know in my dreams it would be. Unless of course Sookie has a thing for herself, which would actually explain a lot.) Although - maybe not as easy as it looks - since threesomes really only work if all three people have the hots for each other - otherwise you've got two people fighting over one person, in a small bed.
Someone's going to get hurt. As Sookie figures out in her fantasy. It's really going to have to be a one guy at a time deal, since Bill and Eric do not appear to have the hots for each other - at least Eric doesn't, I'm not sure about Bill. (In BTVS - this could have potentially worked, since I can totally see Spike and Angel going at it, the only problem there is - well Buffy would end competing with their ust. So nope. Still not a workable situation, any way you cut it - there's going to be a third-wheel. Or one person not getting their jollies off.)

*King Bill asks the Authority Rep (NAN) why it is that they are the only vampires in attendance at this Tolerance Festival. And wouldn't it make more sense to have uh, more vamps. After all isn't this a little like having a Civil Rights function without any Black people - hardly effective. African Americans - corrects Nan, and I don't know, she states, there probably would have been a lot less violence if there weren't so many African Americans in attendance. (Two things? One, I don't know about you - but comparing Vampires to dis-enfranchized minorities when you aren't a dis-enfranchized minority is a bit...what's the word? Arrogant? Two - Nan? You just jinxed yourself. Hee.) I found the whole conversation to be quite funny.

Is it wrong that I'm rooting for Marni/Antonia to succeed and have Eric actually kill King Bill or maybe Nan? Most likely. Not to worry, King Bill won't die. (I should be so lucky). He'll live to fuck the Sookester another day. (Although I'm not so sure about Nan.)

*Jessica and Jason finally get it on in the back of Jason's truck (why they chose the truck, when they had the entire house and the whole back yard to do it in, I've no idea). Now maybe she can convince him to shave that ugly goatee?

*While his brother is getting beaten up by Were Pack Leader whose name I forget, Sam is getting it on with Luna. Who apparently has had one heck of an orgasmic experience camping with Sam. In a very disturbing scene, Sam turns into a rabbit, so that Luna's kid can pet him. (This squicked me for some reason. There was a hidden sexual connotation in there somewhere that I really don't want to think about and makes me wonder about the writers of True Blood.)

*Nan is a hoot. She spends a couple of hours with a romantically challenged and somewhat whiny Jessica. Nan - "I've spent some time wondering if I should become a Maker and regretting not being one, but just a few hours with you has completely wiped that desire out of my head. No interest now." LOL! (Nice satirical riff on single people spending time with teens and realizing, you know what, very happy I do not have children!) Also the discussion Nan and Bill have while silvered is priceless - I actually wouldn't mind Bill surviving, as long as I get more of King Bill (sans Sookie). Nan: I never thought I'd say this, but I actually miss Queen Sofia. Or Nan: Wait is this the same Eric that you were giving the True Death to a while back? Why isn't he dead?
Bill: I changed my mind. Nan: Good to know you're decisive.

[If we can't have sardonic Eric, at least we get sardonic Nan...and sardonic Bill chatting.]

So three episodes left? How much you want to bet, Eric doesn't get his memory back until the last episode? But everyone except possibly Marni and that guy who looks like Terry's twin brother, lives?

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I adored all of Nan's conversations last night, she was the best thing in the episode. And I was totally pleased that Tara is still Sookie's friend, I was beginning to wonder about that.

And I was also pleased that Lafayette's storyline actually went somewhere, now if they could only do the same for Andy.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Not sure why Tara's still Sookie's friend. But yeah, more or less agree.
If I were Tara, I'd have given up. With friends like Sookie who needs enemies?

Agree Nan was hilarious. Since Pam was missing, this worked. Nan's basically Bill's version of Pam. Except she has more power.

Oh I think Andy's is about to come to a head...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Amensia!Eric is getting old, can we please have Sardonic!Eric back?
Oh, God yes, please. Puppy Dog Eric has gotten old reaaaallly fast.

And I did enjoy the whole Lafayette baby stealing/BonTemps Keystone cops response/forgetting Hoyte's pants/poor murdered mother being reunited with her baby plot.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh, God yes, please. Puppy Dog Eric has gotten old reaaaallly fast.

It was fun for a bit. Now, I'm bored. We need to move one. (Although to be fair the same thing happened in the book version, albeit faster...the boredom.)

And I did enjoy the whole Lafayette baby stealing/BonTemps Keystone cops response/forgetting Hoyte's pants/poor murdered mother being reunited with her baby plot.

Agreed. That was hilarious. And whomever is playing Lafeyette deserves an Emmy, he's amazing.

It actually turned out a lot better than I expected.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

The Sookie threesome fantasy reminds me of one image from the Buffy comic I did manage to see, that of nurse!Buffy sandwiched between Angel and Spike. If it was Buffy's fantasy, she'd *never* be dressed as a nurse.

Men really need to figure out how to write women's fantasies and not project.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh so agree. The show is so obviously shot in a way that would turn men on not women. Even the sex scenes, which are sort of dull and not very erotic.

You're right - The comics had the same problem. For a comic book that was allegedly for women, it depicted male fantasies or how men perceive female fantasy - a projection of their own repeatedly.

Solution? Hire more women writers and show-runners for these shows!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I agree on the odd threesome visuals: if it's your fantasy why are the objects of your desire fully clothed? Weird.

Yep. Felt more like an odd male fantasy to me. Unless...Eric and Bill were dreaming too, which makes no sense since both were more or less awake at the time and otherwise engaged.

I'm feeling a little peeved at Jason, it really feels like he's breaking some sort of bro-code with Hoyt by jumping Jess so fast.

I disagree. Jason went out of his way to avoid boinking Jessica. And Hoyt well was being a bit of a whiny nitwit where she was concerned. Besides, they are broken up. How long are you supposed to wait? And hello, two to tango. Jessica literally threw herself at him. And Hoyt literally threw her at him.

I'm glad we seem to be done with the Eric and Sookie love scenes, lord, that was getting dull.

Well, since I think all the sex on this show is a bit dull...except possibly Jason's.