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True Blood 1x12 Review
You’ll Be the Death of Me
• I love how the confrontation we’ve been building up to all season – the Killer going after Sookie – played out. I loved the set up because why wouldn’t she trust Rene who is marrying her friend and good with kids and a friend who wonders if she and Bill will get married? It wasn’t stupid or naive of her to trust him. I loved Sookie escaping and running, and using her ability to slow him down, using her smarts to get away. I loved Bill walking into the sunlight to save her and Sam changing and running to save her and how both of them accomplished what they set out to do. Sam stopped Rene, provided a distraction, and Bill, via their bond, woke Sookie from unconsciousness. And then my favourite part of all, the thing I love so very much about the whole thing, and then – Sookie saved herself. She saved herself and she saved them and it was wonderful.
• I love how Sookie is like this force of nature and all the townsfolk just kind of move out of her way. Cause she’s crazy you know. Different. Other. I love it.
• When the man from the Fellowship of the Sun came to Jason at the jail I was rolling my eyes in disgust. This sort of person really is the worst of humanity (well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration) and I was praying desperately that Jason wouldn’t fall into their grasp. Poor weak, dumb, broken Jason. And for awhile there I had hope – when he told Andy how boring he found the pamphlet left for him and when he told Sookie that he was given a second chance to live and he was going to do better. But I suppose I should have known better than to hope. This is after all Jason. I was thinking that it was Tara who was falling into a cult this episode, and perhaps she has, but Jason definitely has. I just find this sort of thing so creepy.
The thing I’m most curious about with Jason is how he can reconcile this new path he’s chosen with his sister’s path. She’s with Bill, in love with him and serious enough that she doesn’t just laugh off marriage as not ever a possibility, and he is a part of her life. How can Jason see that and yet still be so lost in the Fellowship?
• “I was sitting in that jail and I kept thinking about all that stupid stuff I’ve done.” – Jason
“That must have kept you busy.” – Sookie
Heeeee. I love how she just calls it how she sees it even with people she loves.
• My theory on Adele’s death proved to be wrong. It appears that he was expecting Sookie and when he saw Gran instead he killed her in a rage. ... I prefer my version.
• Bill once again wakes with Sookie’s terror only instead of lying there helplessly like he did last time he gets up and walks into the sunlight for her. Runs into death and pain and burning because she needs him. How could she turn away from him after that? Especially since she loves him. And poor Sam who is so good and kind and dependable – Sam who saved his vampire rival from immolation – ends up losing the girl because for all that he’s a wonderful person she doesn’t love him.
• I’m kind of curious about where the heck Tara came from. I mean she didn’t have her phone so how the hell did she even learn about what happened to Sookie? I guess we’re supposed to just think that the timing is lucky.
• I found the whole vampire/human marriage thing interesting because of the attitude showed by the magistrate and most (all) of the other vampires we’ve seen. Who are all these vampires fighting to be able to marry humans, who are those that want to, when so many of their brethren think of human’s as cattle, as a lesser species not worthy of thought? That is some serious difference in opinion.
• I really did not buy the ending – with Sookie and Tara screaming like that. There had better be something spectacular about that body – either someone they know or something seriously horrible done to it... though even then with everything Sookie has been through this season I’m still not going to buy it with her I don’t think. I mean – she found a friend’s body, found her grandmother’s bloody body, found her cat’s body and was hit with its blood (and at that she screamed and who can blame her), was covered in Long Shadows blood and remains (drenched)... and any number of other horrible things.
• I wish we’d gotten a Tara/Sookie scene. Their lives are different after this season – Tara’s especially, and she’s changed. I’d like to see the girls talking about it, or at least Sookie commenting on it.
• Eric and Pam dropping Jessica off with Bill because she is just too annoying amused me. Seriously – poor Bill. He can just never win for long.
• I love how the confrontation we’ve been building up to all season – the Killer going after Sookie – played out. I loved the set up because why wouldn’t she trust Rene who is marrying her friend and good with kids and a friend who wonders if she and Bill will get married? It wasn’t stupid or naive of her to trust him. I loved Sookie escaping and running, and using her ability to slow him down, using her smarts to get away. I loved Bill walking into the sunlight to save her and Sam changing and running to save her and how both of them accomplished what they set out to do. Sam stopped Rene, provided a distraction, and Bill, via their bond, woke Sookie from unconsciousness. And then my favourite part of all, the thing I love so very much about the whole thing, and then – Sookie saved herself. She saved herself and she saved them and it was wonderful.
• I love how Sookie is like this force of nature and all the townsfolk just kind of move out of her way. Cause she’s crazy you know. Different. Other. I love it.
• When the man from the Fellowship of the Sun came to Jason at the jail I was rolling my eyes in disgust. This sort of person really is the worst of humanity (well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration) and I was praying desperately that Jason wouldn’t fall into their grasp. Poor weak, dumb, broken Jason. And for awhile there I had hope – when he told Andy how boring he found the pamphlet left for him and when he told Sookie that he was given a second chance to live and he was going to do better. But I suppose I should have known better than to hope. This is after all Jason. I was thinking that it was Tara who was falling into a cult this episode, and perhaps she has, but Jason definitely has. I just find this sort of thing so creepy.
The thing I’m most curious about with Jason is how he can reconcile this new path he’s chosen with his sister’s path. She’s with Bill, in love with him and serious enough that she doesn’t just laugh off marriage as not ever a possibility, and he is a part of her life. How can Jason see that and yet still be so lost in the Fellowship?
• “I was sitting in that jail and I kept thinking about all that stupid stuff I’ve done.” – Jason
“That must have kept you busy.” – Sookie
Heeeee. I love how she just calls it how she sees it even with people she loves.
• My theory on Adele’s death proved to be wrong. It appears that he was expecting Sookie and when he saw Gran instead he killed her in a rage. ... I prefer my version.
• Bill once again wakes with Sookie’s terror only instead of lying there helplessly like he did last time he gets up and walks into the sunlight for her. Runs into death and pain and burning because she needs him. How could she turn away from him after that? Especially since she loves him. And poor Sam who is so good and kind and dependable – Sam who saved his vampire rival from immolation – ends up losing the girl because for all that he’s a wonderful person she doesn’t love him.
• I’m kind of curious about where the heck Tara came from. I mean she didn’t have her phone so how the hell did she even learn about what happened to Sookie? I guess we’re supposed to just think that the timing is lucky.
• I found the whole vampire/human marriage thing interesting because of the attitude showed by the magistrate and most (all) of the other vampires we’ve seen. Who are all these vampires fighting to be able to marry humans, who are those that want to, when so many of their brethren think of human’s as cattle, as a lesser species not worthy of thought? That is some serious difference in opinion.
• I really did not buy the ending – with Sookie and Tara screaming like that. There had better be something spectacular about that body – either someone they know or something seriously horrible done to it... though even then with everything Sookie has been through this season I’m still not going to buy it with her I don’t think. I mean – she found a friend’s body, found her grandmother’s bloody body, found her cat’s body and was hit with its blood (and at that she screamed and who can blame her), was covered in Long Shadows blood and remains (drenched)... and any number of other horrible things.
• I wish we’d gotten a Tara/Sookie scene. Their lives are different after this season – Tara’s especially, and she’s changed. I’d like to see the girls talking about it, or at least Sookie commenting on it.
• Eric and Pam dropping Jessica off with Bill because she is just too annoying amused me. Seriously – poor Bill. He can just never win for long.