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It Happened: Sookie and Eric Have Sex!
Posted by: | CommentsYes, in the closing scene in tonight’s episode of True Blood Episode 6: I Wish I Was The Moon, Sookie and Eric have sex in the woods under the full moon. Eric was about to be sentenced to die at the hands of Bill, the Vampire King of Louisina, but after Eric gave such a heartfelt speech about loving Sookie and wanting Sookie to be happy, Bill let him go.
After he’s freed he finds Sookie, who was in the woods chasing after her brother Jason, who thought he was doomed to turn into a werepanther. He approaches her, kisses her and soon after, the hot sex scene begins.
Meanwhile Bill, standing outside as well, has a quiet, reflective moment. I’m sure he’s thinking about some of the things Eric said, namely, that he was okay with dying since he’d die knowing what it felt like being loved. I’m sure he’s also thinking that by letting him free, Eric and Sookie will definitely get together. Poor Bill, he has to make lots of tough decisions as the King. But it’s clear he’s still the wonder southern gentlemen he’s always been.
Anyway, it’s been much anticipated and I’m glad I got to see Eric and Sookie’s sex scene. It wasn’t very explicit (by True Blood standards that is) but there was plenty shots of naked Eric from the back.
Aah, I wonder what I’ll be dreaming about tonight . . . .
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The Sexy Men of True Blood Season 4
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Bill Compton is a vampire, turned against his will during the American civil war and Sookie’s love interest. Unlike other vampires, Bill has more compassion for humans probably because he fiercely holds on to past memories from his human life. Although he is not as ancient as some of the other vampires, he is quite powerful and he is willing to risk all of that – his standing in the vampire society and his own safety to protect Sookie from those who want to take advantage of her faerie ancestry.
In season 3 however, it was revealed that all that was merely a ploy to get Sookie’s much wanted faerie blood for the Queen. Bill is seen as someone loyal to the vampire Queen and one who was merely acting upon instruction. Sookie breaks it off with Bill when she finds out about his betrayal. He later faces the vampire Queen in a deadly duel and becomes the King upon her death.
Stephen Moyer is the sexy English actor who plays Bill’s part on the show. Moyer is popularly known for roles such as Mick Benson in Undiscovered and the Editor Alternate Endings. His filmography lists more than 10 movies and 29 television shows, and has also won several awards for his work! He’s probably best known to the American population because of his role in True Blood.
Eric is probably one of the oldest vampires on the show currently. He is over 1000 years old and is said to have been a Viking warrior in his human life. He is a powerful vampire and he also the sheriff of Area 5 (a vampire district.) Eric takes a liking towards Sookie after he finds out that she is capable of reading minds. It is hinted on the show that his family may have been royals of the ancient world. He is always the badass villain trying to trick Sookie into drinking his blood and buying her house while she is away to get her to fall in love with him!
Swedish actor Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård seems to be the perfect fit for this character. Not only is he one of the sexiest men on the show, he is also a fantastic actor. Prior to his role on True Blood, he was popular for his roles such as Meekus in Zoolander and Brad Colbert in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. He has been acting since the age of 7 and has won several awards for his work in the industry. Skarsgard says he first needs to connect with his characters before he play them. “In a weird way, I always play myself, just through different mirrors. If I read a script and I don’t connect with a character, if I can’t find the character on the page in my soul, then I’m not going to be able to do a good job,” said Skarsgard in an interview.
Sam Merlotte is the owner of Merlotte’s bar where Sookie works and is probably the first supernatural being other than vampires introduced in the show. Sam is a shape shifter and is often seen watching over Sookie in his dog form. He was portrayed as one who adored Sookie and was loyal to her, however things may have frayed a little when she gets involved with Bill. Sam openly disapproves of their relationship and although he had initially supported vampire rights feels that humans and vampires should be separate… equality is another issue altogether!
Sam is adopted as a baby and raised by his adopted parents… until they discover that he is not normal that is! Sam one day (as a teen) comes home to discover that his adopted parents have moved leaving all his possessions behind! He later finds out about his real family from his adopted father while he is on his death bed. Sam is portrayed as one who obviously has temper issues and also has a dark past that no one knows about yet.
Sam Trammel the American actor who plays Sam Merlotte’s role on the show is an accomplished stage actor. His performance in ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ was also nominated for the prestigious Tony awards. “I saw the kind of guys that I thought Sam would be like and those guys wore Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots. Any man wearing those things could be Sam Merlotte. Sam is a guy that doesn’t think about clothes. He’s got jeans, boots and the shirts and that’s pretty much it,” said Trammell in an interview.
Jason Stackhouse is Sookie’s brother who is portrayed as one who doesn’t care much about anyone else but himself. Perhaps the only person he is really protective about is his younger sister. Jason was a road crew supervisor and developed quite a reputation for sleeping with the women in Bon Temps. He is also part faerie, but he seems to have inherited a different gift (sexual magnetism) while his sister inherited telepathic abilities.
Ryan Christian Kwanten, the actor who plays Jason’s role on the show, is Australian by birth. He is well known for his role as Vinnie Patterson on the Australian soap-opera Home and Away. He also has several other films and TV shows under his belt and has been nominated in the Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performance.
The Women of True Blood Season 4
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Sookie Stackhouse, as you may very well know, is the lead character in True Blood played by actress Anna Paquin.
Sookie is a gifted telepath who works as a waitress in Merlotte’s in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She grew up thinking that her gift of being able to hear people’s thoughts is really a disability. Her parents send her to a therapist as a child who convinces her that she is naturally able to read people’s body language. After she loses both her parents in a flash flood, she and her brother are raised by her maternal grandmother. She has never really dated because she can hear their crude thoughts and that has always lead her to alienate herself from people… until she meets Bill. Bill is a vampire whose thoughts she cannot hear which leads her to eventually fall in love with him. Bill later introduces her to the world of supernatural elements where she discovers that she is actually part faerie.
Anna is a Canadian born, New Zealand actress who has the record for being the second youngest winner of the Academy Award. In 1994, at the age of 11, she won the best supporting actress award for her role in the critically acclaimed movie ‘The Piano.’ She has since done a string of successful films such as ‘Almost Famous,’ ‘She’s All That,’ and ‘X-Men.’ Anna has more recently won Golden Globe’s best actress award for her role as Sookie in HBO’s True Blood. Anna is now married to her on screen lover Bill played by Stephen Moyer. “Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people. But it’s really not. When it’s a love scene with someone you actually love its no ‘Can I touch him here, can I touch him there’ You know what your boundaries are, or aren’t I suppose,” said Anna in an interview. About her role as Sookie she said: “Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn’t be True Blood if someone wasn’t trying to kill her.”
Tara Thornton, like Sookie, grows up being a pariah in society. Her childhood in an abusive home with an alcoholic mother has made it hard for her to fit in with normal society, but this has also made her tough and quick to anger. She is a natural when it comes to reading people’s personalities and she has no qualms about telling them openly what she thinks of them. This I’m sure can only alienate her even more from society. Tara and Sookie are best friends as children and continue to be good friends, understanding and helping each other through life. After the death of the only man she ever loved, Tara leaves Bon Temps, hoping never to return. With the start of season 4, we see Tara in New Orleans working as a cage fighter and in a lesbian relationship with another fighter.
Tara’s role is efficiently played by American actress Rutina Wesley. According to Alan Ball, the creator of the TV series, “[Wesley] was the first person who showed [Tara's] vulnerable side.” When asked what she thought about her character’s sudden change in sexual preference she says “I don’t think she (Tara) was expecting it. I think it just happened. I think it was one of those things where you just fall in love with who you fall in love with.” She goes on explaining, “I don’t think she labels herself as one thing or the next. She just started hanging out and the next thing you know, she was in love.” Wesley went on to say “I think she (Tara) is finally going to love herself in a way that is beautiful. Her self-esteem is back up and that’s opened her up to love someone else. I think she also needed a new lease on life. She totally comes back more zen, and she’s a feisty season one Tara who we all loved.”
Pamela Swinford de Beaufort is another century old vampire who is fiercely loyal to her maker – Eric. Although the show doesn’t explore too much into Pam’s background, we often see Pam and Eric speaking to each other in Swedish. She has also mentioned a few times that she was once a prostitute. She is often portrayed as one who is completely devoid of feelings and apathetic to human suffering. Eric is probably the only one for whom she has any feelings at all! Even so, she is not in love with Eric, in the traditional sense of the word. She has also portrayed strong lesbian tendencies on the show.
Pam’s character is played by Kristin Baure van Staten, the American TV and film actress best known for her role in True Blood. She is also known for her roles in popular movies such as Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Room 302 and 50 First Dates. She has also guest starred in several hit TV series such as LA Law, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Dark Angel, Two and a Half Men, etc.
Jessica Hamby is a character that is exclusive to the TV show… by that I mean, you will not find her character in ‘The Southern Vampire Mysteries’ series on which the show is based. Jessica is a very young vampire having only been recently turned by Bill. Throughout the show we often see her making those amateur vampire mistakes like draining a person to death! She lives with Pam and Eric for a while on Bill’s request, but soon they are annoyed with her and return her to Bill’s care. She is involved in a romantic relationship with Hoyt but they drift apart after she attacks his mother. With season 4, we see them together again.
Deborah Ann Woll is an American actress of Irish and German descent. She has played guest roles in many popular shows including ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, My Name Is Earl, The Mentalist and Law and Order SVU.
True Blood: Season 4, Ep. 5: Me and the Devil
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The episode titled ‘Me and the Devil,’ opened up several new possibilities in storylines, even though some of them (like the Sam Merlotte and Tommy story) seem a little disjointed from the rest of the plot at the moment. The vampire / witch clash on the other hand, has become even more intense this week!
We found out last week that the girl Bill’s been sleeping with (Portia) was one of his descendants. This week (understandably) he tries to break it off with her, but Portia doesn’t seem to think incest is a big deal. Portia insists that it’s even legal in some states pushing Bill to use his vampire skills on her. Bill glamours her into thinking she’s not interested in him and what’s more he even gets her to scream at the very sight of him! As funny as that was, I’m sure that’s going to come back to bit him in the butt.
Sookie on the other hand is still trying to help amnesiac Eric. Have I mentioned just how much I enjoy this new role of Eric’s? This reversal in character is surely bringing out the best in Skarsgard – he makes an excellent bad boy and he is utterly convincing in the new innocent role as well.
Good Eric has a dream in which Godric (his maker) tells him that he is damned and that he should feed on Sookie. So Eric suddenly finds himself in Sookie’s room about to attack her when she wakes up and convinces him that he really shouldn’t feed on her. She ends up comforting him saying that there is some good left in him after all. They have a special moment there as Eric cries in Sookie’s lap.
Meanwhile, Tara, Jesus and Lafayette are unaware of Eric’s change in personality. They finally decide that Marnie is useless and turn to other channels for help. Jesus’ grandfather is a powerful sorcerer in Mexico and they think he might be able to protect them. Tara briefly contemplates going back to her lover in New Orleans but decides against it. She later turns to Sookie for help. Eric walks in the door and out goes Tara!
But before Tara left Sookie managed to get some information about what had happened to Eric. So off goes Sookie, posing as a regular customer, to pay Marnie the witch a visit. While Marnie is reading her palm, Sookie hears her late grandmother’s voice warning her about Marnie. That’s cue enough for Sookie to get up out of there – and fast.
Pam’s face is clearly falling to pieces and as you can imagine, Miss Pam is not amused. She asks Bill to allow her to kill Marnie. But because of the new AVL vampire code that forbids vamps from harming humans (the true death is the punishment for violators), he disapproves her request. Instead he orders his soldiers to capture Marnie and imprison her. Marnie still claims no knowledge of the spells she cast on Eric and Pam. And as Bill discovers, she’s telling the truth. Bill learns that the woman in Marnie’s visions is a witch from the 1600s who used necromancy to drag vampires into sunlight. He also finds out that Eric is currently taking refuge in Sookie’s house and he’s not very happy. Primarily because it means Sookie lied to him when he asked her about Eric.
In other storylines, Tommy ends up killing his monster of a father and trickster of a mother. He turns to Sam for help who not only helps him get rid of the bodies but also offers him some comfort and advice.
Arlene on the other hand, is convinced that her baby is being haunted by the ghost of the baby’s biological father – Rene Lenier. And Jason has a very explicit sexual dream that included both Jessica AND Hoyt!
I especially loved actress Fiona Shaw’s portrayal of Marnie this week. She is one heck of an actress who doesn’t need words to express what she’s feeling! I was actually excited to see Eric and Godric on the screen together again! It has been a while since the two of them bared their fangs together! With all these new developments there’s no telling where this season of True Blood will end up!
Question to Ponder: What do you think Bill and the American Vampire League (AVL) will do to Marnie?
Hit me up in the comments section.
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I’m Alive and On Fire Watching True Blood Ep4
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Here’s what happened tonight in True Blood Episode 4: I’m Alive and On Fire
• After Eric sucked the life blood from Claudine Sookie’s fairy godmother (as Sookie said “you drank the whole fairy”) he decides he wants more blood. From Sookie. She refuses but then Eric, apparently high on blood, runs off into the night.
• Bill questions Pam about Eric’s whereabouts. She accuses him of deliberately sending Eric to the witches. She also tells Bill he’s gotten power hungry since he became the King of Louisiana.
• Jason is still being used as a Boy Toy for the women of Hotshot. They’re lined up for him. I guess this is poetic justice since Jason’s probably slept with more women than most in the small town of Bon Temps. However it’s pretty sad when one of the young girls is also sent in to have sex with him; she’s brainwashed into thinking she has to do this for her people. Jason talks her out of doing anything and convinces her to untie him, which she does.
• Marnie has a vision of the witch she channeled when she erased Eric’s memory. She witnesses the witch in question being burned at the stake. Looks like she was alive during the Spanish inquisition. She keeps repeating something like “fortesu eru nortu”.
• Alcide agrees to help Sookie find Eric; he strips down naked (yum), turns into a beautiful white wolf and runs into the woods with Sookie on his heels. They later find Eric swimming in a lake (naked I might add). When Alcide changes back to a human (naked I might add) he and Eric have a naked, hunky standoff. Sookie referees just in time because the sun starts affecting Eric.
• Fenton and Crystal discover that Jason is gone. Fenton changes into a werepanther and runs off looking for him with the intent to kill him. Later, Jason is able to climb a tree and jump on top of Fenton, killing him with a wooden stake (isn’t that interesting). Soon after, Crystal arrives and when Jason attempts to rebuke her she tells him that he’s one of them now and will become the Ghost Daddy of Hotshot.
Later that night Hoyt and Jessica find Jason lying in the middle of the road at night. Jessica gives him some blood to revive him.
• Lafayette, Tara and Jesus try to talk Marnie into reversing the spell she put on Eric. She initially tells them she can’t do that because the goddess, not her, cast the spell. When they explain that “can’t” is not an option when it comes to dealing with vampires, she attempts to reach the goddess spirit. To no avail. Uh, Marnie is a bit of an airhead if you ask me.
Fortunately, one of Marnie’s attempts to contact her spirit guides finally pays off. A book falls open to a specific page that tell her to “draw your circle in the light of the moon of Artemus.”
• Sam’s brother Tommy goes back to see his mother since she left Joe Lee, her husband. But she acts strange when Tommy asks how she got away from him. She later tells him that Joe Lee had put her back in the ring. Tommy gets mad and then out of the dark, Joe Lee wraps a chain around his neck, choking him and telling him that his days of freedom are over. It looks like Joe Lee is going to force Tommy to start dog fighting again.
• Sam goes to visit Luna (horse lady) and discovers she has a daughter named Emma. Luna acted strange when he first arrives, as if she didn’t want to ask him in. But after he saw her daughter she seemed to warm up a bit. Have I told you that I don’t trust Luna? I think there’s something weird about her.
When Sam asks her why she didn’t tell him about her daughter she tells him she’s careful about revealing her daughter to anyone because his father is a werewolf. A very jealous werewolf who might be a bit violent. I think Sam should walk away from this potentially disastrous relationship.
• Sookie is finally able to get Eric tucked in to his “hidey hole” underneath her armoire. Alcide tells her she’s not safe letting Eric stay there but Sookie seems to think she’ll be okay. I tell you – I love Alcide’s character. And that man is some kinda handsome!
• Bill goes to visit Portia Bellefleur and meets her grandmother, Caroline. While tracing the Bellefleur family tree Bill and Caroline realize they’re related. As such he tells Portia they can’t see one another anymore (they had sex during the last episode). Why? Because she’s his great-great-great-great grandaughter!
• Back home, when Alcide tells Debbie Pelt about how he assisted Sookie, she starts acting weird. It’s obvious she’s still jealous of Sookie.
• OH MY GOODNESS! In tonight’s episode Terry Belefleur put demon baby Mikey down for a minute only to come back into the room to find the following words written on the wall:
“BABY NOT YOURS”
As you can imagine, Arlene freaks out about this.
• Bill goes to visit Sookie looking for Eric and Sookie lies to him, telling him she’s not seen him. He asks her permission to search her home but she refuses. Bill almost goes ahead with the search but after she reminds him that she’s never lied to him, he feels guilty about doubting her and leaves.
• Pam joins Marnie, Lafayette, Jesus and Tara during a night time ritual in which Marnie attempts to reverse the spell she put on Eric. After a few minutes an angry and impatient Pam approaches Marnie who puts her hand in front of Pam’s face and begins channeling the witch goddess. In a strange language Marnie says “Corrupt and un-sanctified corpse that walks, behold and see yourself.” Almost immediately Pam’s skin begins to age really, really fast. She reaches up to touch her face and some of her skin peels away. She runs away into the night.
Once again, the vamps have learned not to mess with Marnie. She may seem a bit ditzy but when she channels that goddess she’s hell on wheels.
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True Blood Recap: If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’? – Episode 3
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Tonight on True Blood Episode 3 “If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’?” we learn that Eric has TRULY lost his memory! Looks like vampires aren’t the baddest bullies on the block – some witches are powerful enough to stop them in their tracks.
Here’s what else happened tonight:
Sookie thinks Eric is simply being difficult when she sees him walking along the road by himself. So she drives away only to have him do his vamp-thang and suddenly appears beside her car. She then realizes something is wrong when he tells her “I know what I am – I just don’t know who I am.” She agrees to help him figure out what happened to him as long as he doesn’t touch or bite her.
Tara is upset that she’s once again been attacked by a vampire. If you’ll remember, last week she attempted to defend Marnie when she was attacked, only to have Eric focus his attention on her. Once she’s done complaining Lafayette attempts to put things into perspective for she and the witches in the coven (as only Lafayette can):
“Bitch, climb down off that cross for two seconds, you don’t think it freaked my shit out?” “It’s not just any fanger it’s Eric Northman, who’s fuckin’ ancient and stupid powerful and can kill all of us. And now he probably will.”
I love Lafayette!
Meanwhile, Jason, who’s been repeatedly bitten by Crystal and Felton realizes they plan to turn him and then use him to make more werepanthers since their numbers are dwindling.
Call me weird, but I’m lovin’ the new more ballsy Bill Compton. In previous seasons I always felt Eric thought he had the upper hand but now Eric realizes Bill isn’t someone to be toyed with. Tonight Bill has to deliver a sentence to a vampire that was caught on film feeding on a human (check out http://vamps-kill.com). According to Bill, that’s against vampire law and as such, he has to be punished. The sentence? THE TRUE DEATH. And Bill is pretty cavalier about issuing the sentence too. Perhaps he’s getting a bit power hungry but deep down I still like Bill. Why? Because I believe he still loves Sookie and that he’s only doing what has to be done to ensure their survival. And as the King of Louisiana he’s in a better position to do that.
After Bill sentences the careless vamp he’s visited by Jessica. She confesses that she fed on a human at Fangtasia which causes him to remind her that if she’s caught doing that on film even he won’t be able to protect her. He then plays the good Dad and tells her to “vamp up” and tell Hoyt what happened. Aw, see, this is what I mean about Bill. He’s really a nice guy.
Sookie then calls Pam to tell her that Eric has lost his memory. Pam does her vamp-thang and rushes over. Eric doesn’t recognize her and Pam realizes that the witches did something to her. She asks Sookie to hide Eric away because if the AVL finds him they’ll want to kill him. sookie agrees but tells Pam she wants to get paid for watching over Eric.
When Jessica goes home Hoyt immediately starts hassling her for being out so long by herself. He then accuses her of bringing back some doll that they threw away. Hmmn, I must have missed when that happened. Anyway, Jessica tells him what happened, he hits the roof, and she decides to glamor him into thinking he’s not angry. She looks sufficiently guilty for doing this which tells us she’s still cares for him.
Okay, we’re at the 30 minute mark (it’s 9:30pm EST) so I’m going to go ahead and publish this post. I’ll keep adding to it as the episode continues!
Sookie visits Alcide, asking him to help her with Eric and discovers Debbie Pelt is back in Alcide’s life. Debbie apologizes to Sookie for trying to kill her and tells her she’s a changed woman. I have to say, Debbie looks like a new woman.
Alcide agrees to help her hide Eric but Sookie decides not to take him up on his offer. Hmmn, Alcide doesn’t seem to happy to learn that Eric is staying at Sookie’s house.
Tommy, still living with Maxine Fortenberry, answers her door and finds a guy there who wants to purchase the natural gas rights to Maxine’s land. He offers $10k per acre to which Tommy has a brain fart or something and suddenly starts negotiating with the guy like Donald Trump.
At Merlotte’s Tara asks Sookie to try to persuade Eric not to seek revenge against Lafayette. Sookie lies and tells Tara that she hasn’t seen Eric because he’s missing. They’re interrupted by Sam who ends up behind the bar sharing a drink with Tara. He wants to make sure she’s accepted his two-natured status. She has. Sam tells her she can camp out at his place if she like; she declines and tells him she’s seeing someone. He tells her “so am I.” I assume he’s referring to Luna (who I don’t completely trust by the way).
They’re interrupted by Jesus who tells them Lafayette has disappeared from Merlotte’s. Jesus and Tara drive away looking for him.
Meanwhile:
-Bill is approached by Portia Bellefleur who propositions him for sex. Bill tells her that he could never love her.
-Jessica gives demon-child Mikey the dirty doll that she and Hoyt tried to throw away. I’m sorry but that doll looks evil.
-Tommy propositions Sam about taking advantage of Maxine and cashing in on her natural gas offer, without telling her about it.
-Portia and Bill have sex.
-Sookie goes back hom looking for Eric and finds that he’s left.
-Turns out Pam is responsible for Lafayette’s disappearance. She’s taken him back to the dungeon where he was tortured but Tara and Jesus come to the rescue. Tara holds a gun on her (with wooden bullets) while they reach an agreement to deliver lead witch Marnie to Pam in 24 hours. If they don’t Pam promises to “eat, fuck and kill” all three of them. One can only hope it would occur in that order.
-Marnie offers a sacrifice to the spirit that gave her the power to put the spell on Eric. She’s not quite sure why she was chosen by the spirit; she slashes her wrist and the spirit appears to her.
-Jason, boy toy, awakens to find Crystal getting busy with him against his will (he’s tied to a bed). We then see there’s an entire line of women waiting to have their turn with him.
-Sookie is visited by Claudine who is still trying to get her to return to fairyland. She tells her that she’s the one that helped her defend herself against the drainers the night she first met Bill. Just then, Eric attacks Claudine and COMPLETELY DRAINS HER DRY.
The episode ends with Sookie telling Eric “you just killed my fairy godmother”. Eric looks at her with a guilty look on his face and says “Sorry.”
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Bill Is The King Of Louisiana And You Smell Like Dinner, True Blood Episode 2
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Bill is the King of Louisiana and living large in tonight’s episode of True Blood. Yes, Sookie is in for quite a surprise when she learns that her old boyfriend has moved up in the world since her trip to fairyland.
Here are the Top 10 highlights from “You Smell Like Dinner”, tonight’s episode of True Blood:
#10: Jason is tied down to a bed and held prisoner by the crazy ass inbred folks in the small community of Hotshot. He almost talks one of the kids into untying him when Felton barges in with a shotgun.
Later, when Andy Bellefleur comes by accusing them of dealing “V”, Crystal has to hold a knife to his neck in order to keep him quiet. Felton, realizing that Andy is hooked on “V”, sends one of the Hotshot guys out to give him a vial of the stuff. This works and Andy tells them he’s taking the “evidence” away with him.
#9: Anti-vampire protesters have set up camp outside Fangtasia. Hoyt approaches one of them but then gets beat down by a few of them. He takes his punches like a man (I really like him) and gets in a few good hits himself.
But alas, he and Jessica are still having relationship problems. When Hoyt refuses to drink her blood to help him heal, Jessica leaves with the initial intent of getting him some Advil but then decides to go to Fangtasia, where she again encounters the anti-vampire protesters. But she also sees the cute guy from last week’s episode who she takes into the bathroom and sucks his blood.
#8: They Call Me Mr. Sam: A naked Sam (who has one of THE best butts in prime time) tries to get busy with one of his new shape-shifter friends the lovely Luna, but she’s a shy filly (heh, heh) and runs away from him.
But later, she shows up at Merlotte’s and makes it clear that she’s interested in him. Sam makes a date to see her later that night.
Okay, but the date entails sitting around a campfire with the other shifters. It’s there that Luna confesses that she once shifted into the form of her mother. She tells them about skin walkers, who the Navajo’s believe are able to shift into the form of any other animal, including the form of a human. But here’s the catch: you have to kill someone in order to do that. She then reveals that her mother died giving birth to her. Um, there’s something not quite right about Luna.
The campfire party is interrupted by Sam’s brother Tommy, who’s spying on them. Sam chases and tackles him and learns that Tommy wants him back as a brother. They agree to try to start trusting one another.
#7: Sookie goes to see Bill and learns that she’s “on the list” and is cleared to enter his home, which by the way, is REALLY pimped out. Sookie opens the door as Bill and Katarina are getting dressed after getting busy. Yes, it appears that Bill moved while Sookie was hanging out with the faeries.
Sookie asks for Bill’s protection from Eric. Bill suggests that she seek shelter in another human’s home. She’s not too pleased with that answer but she’s even less pleased that he’s the new King of Louisiana.
#6: Flashback Time! We take a trip back in time to 1982 London when Bill was a punk rocker that got his blood fix in dark alleys. Fortunately, he was still a fairly decent blood sucker. This attracts the attention of Nan Flannigan of the American Vampire League who tells him that Louis Pasteur (a vampire) is working on a synthesized blood invention that will satisfy a vampire’s craving for human blood. She asks him to work with her cause to infiltrate the vampire groups that still want to hunt and kill humans.
We later see Bill being visited by Sophie Anne, the Queen of Louisiana. The AVL vampire SWAT team soon makes mincemeat of her at Bill’s command. After that Nan Flannigan pronounces him King of Louisiana.
#5: Poor Little Mikey. Arlene is so convinced that he’s evil that she’s losing it in public. Later, the baby spits in her eye and then appears to SMILE AT HER in a goofy baby way. Okay, I’m on to that kid. That’s not gas that’s causing him to smile like that. That baby’s teched!
#4: Tara startles Sookie by coming to visit her. The thing is, as Tara was approaching, Sookie has a vision of the evil fae running toward her. After she enters her house (which is actually now Eric’s house since he purchased it while she was away) she finds that Eric has built himself a cubby (a place to “sleep” during the day) in her house. Coffins are so last season.
#3: Bill warns Eric about the new coven in town, telling them about their ability to bring a bird to life. He says “if they can control the dead they can control us.” Eric takes him seriously and agrees to take care of the issues.
#2: Tara drops in on Lafayette and Jesus and they talk her into coming with them to a witches coven. At the coven meeting, Marnie tells them that they should attempt to raise a dead body.
And then, ERIC ENTERS!
This scares the hell out of everyone of course. Eric tells Marnie that her coven can no longer meet. When Marnie asks “what’s in it for me?”, Eric tells her that her terms are NOT negotiable. Eric then attacks Marnie, sucking her blood. When Tara attempts to help Marnie, Eric turns his attention on her but by then the witches have joined hands and started chanting. Marnie then begins channeling some ancient chick that begins speaking a chant in a foreign language. I’ve never seen Eric scared before but he’s definitely bleeping his pants at this point. When they’re done chanting Eric runs away.
#1: Crystal and Fenton decide that they want Jason to be one of them. She and Felton change into werepanthers and Crystal bites Jason in the side! Ooh, if you’ve read the books you know where this storyline is going!
The episode ends with Sookie finding Eric walking in a daze on the side of the road. Not only does he not know who she is, he doesn’t even know his own name. If you’ve read Dead To The World you know a bit about what just happened to Eric. I have to say that this is one of the best books in the series and marks the time when I truly fell in love with Eric’s character. Even if you haven’t read the earlier books you can read this book as a standalone. It’s REALLY good.
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