True Blood : A Glimmer of Hope

    I'm skipping the Revolution finale review for now, I'm away and I don't really have time for long ass posts. Also, since I'm away, I'm watching everything a few days late, and I just finished catching up on the last True Blood episode. So let's talk about that.

   This episode had something that's been missing for a looong while now... Eric and Sookie. What's the ship name for that ? Ekie ? Sooric ?! I'm gonna go with Stackman because it's baddass. **EDIT: Turns out it's Sooric.. I guess it's my fault for not starting Stackman, 6 years ago..

   I started watching True Blood when season 3 was airing and I always thought season 2 and 3 were the best. Season 1 was excruciating to watch, but luckily there was one good character named Lafayette. Nelsan Ellis kept me from saying to hell with this sh!t right away. Then came Eric and Pam. And thank God for those two. To this day, they're the only ones (with the exception of Lafayette of course) I'm actually glad to see appear on the screen. 

Actually, I used to skip most of everything that wasn't Eric related. Now I watch the whole thing and it's hard, man.

    True Blood has always been this very peculiar combination of cheesy and creepy, in my opinion. What I'm really trying to say is that it didn't recently just get bad. It is what it's always been. Only, the story lines don't make up for it as much as they might have used to. But anyway, I could never bring myself to stop watching because of that one ship. I wanted to see it happen. Ladies and Gentlemen, Stackman.

    And it happened, eventually. And it was weird but sorta cute. With a side of creepy. Then we had season 5, and season 6, and nothing. Nothing. 2 years I waited for this. TWO f#cking years, and finally here it is.

   Eric gets back to Bon Temps, and it just so happens that we were in need of badass vampires over there. So they get to Bill's house and whaddaya know, Sookie's super happy to see him. Awwwwww..

   It was really nice that this was a Stackman oriented episode, because we have suffered the Bill/Sookie thing for SE-VEN years now (just 5 for me but STILL) and in the episode before that, it was seemingly stronger than ever, but Eric Northman is back b!tches. 

    So they have this little heart to heart (very season 3, IMAO) and even though she's been trying to stay strong and sh!t the entire episode, now Eric's here and he might die too. 

   So her front gives a little and she's not pretending that she's the strongest b!tch in town anymore. He reprimands her choice of boyfriend, then comforts her, it's all very quiet and familiar. Then when she starts to cry just a little (no ugly sobbing or anything) he tells her what he's been up to and -here comes the cheesy- it's adorable that after more than a year of not seeing each other they're so comfortable with each other. 

    Earlier in the episode, Sookie had to mind rape Holly and force her to remember where the infected vampires were keeping the missing humans, and poor Holly broke down after that. Andy, her husband didn't quite know what to do and Sookie simply told him "We like to be held." Just throwing that out there.

   It's a sweet moment. They thought they'd never see each other again and it's nice that they had space to peacefully revel in the fact that after all 7 seasons of non-sense they're both still here, and they've built a strong personal history that belongs only to them.

    But duty calls and they have to go rescue Sookie's friends and co-townies. Eric's sick and dying, so Pam goes in with Bill while the rest of their little operation waits outside.

And of course Eric and Sookie feel a little left out.

  So they hatch their own little diversion plan.

    They get in because Sookie smells like the sun, and flowers and sex in a bottle. And it was a great idea to have them do something like that, it reminds me of the whole fellowship of the sun mess in season 2. *sighh*

And it works perfectly, except, humans are all stupid intolerant rednecks on this show, so they come and ruin it.

    They throw molotovs and shoot vampires and luckily, some of them die. Anyway, while everyone's outside fighting, Sookie's trying to keep Arlene alive long enough to get some healthy vampire blood in her, Bill comes in at some point to do just that, but he says f#ck it 'cause Jessica's in trouble. Which is completely fine, btw !

So Sookie asks poor crippled Eric to get help and he does, 'cause he's a sweetheart.

And then comes the long lingering look of love and gratitude.

    And for some reason, Eric always looks super sad when he does something nice for her. Maybe it's a whole I love her but I can't have her thing, in which case, get over it and just get with her. It'll all be better afterwards, trust me.

    I haven't seen the preview for tonight's episode and I don't even want to know, maybe the whole Sookie/Eric thing is back in the game, maybe they're just gonna be like 'NO. Bill's her true love, stop fighting it. I don't know. Also, Alcide's dead. Did not see that coming. But I guess it was always gonna end like that for him, it was the only way to legitimately remove him from the list of suitors. It's like, you can't have him, he's dead ! You can have Eric or Bill, now CHOOSE. So I guess we'll see.. My hopes are way up now, so tonight's ep will either be awesomely cheesy or it'll definitely seal what my opinion of True Blood has become.

True Blood : 'Think I Gotta Start A Petition ..

Well, well, the 6th season of True Blood has started, about a few weeks ago, and as far as I'm concerned it's only been getting worse. Let's talk about the first episode. It's really the only one worth talking about, although I have high hopes for the 4th episode. So, let's talk !

In the past 10 months, while we were waiting and waiting and waiting some more, Bill turned into a psychotic freak who hates electricity. This guy.

For those of you who need a little recap', Eric and Sookie watched Bill drink a small bottle of Lilith's blood, and then die. And then come back to life through a puddle of blood. Nice going.

So Bill has become a threat. More specifically, a more powerful threat, actually, the most powerful threat there is.

So Eric and Sookie are running for their lives. Together. And longingly looking at each other, 'cause you know, never hurts.

I am 100% on board with the Eric/Sookie thing. It might be the only reason I'm still watching, actually. I mean nothing's really happened between the two of them since season 4, and I'm still watching, but I live for the little things like the way Eric looks at her. I particularly like that look (below) because it's not a common look. He doesn't look at everyone this way. Only the people he's interested in. His interest comes from the fact that she's not just a damsel in distress, she can fend for herself when needs be.

I could go on and on but you get the point, their characters are perfect for each other.

So they manage to get out of the building with the crazy/crazier version of Bill inside. Get everyone and go.

I love those few minutes in the car : to have all these different and conflicting characters in the same space (and what a space indeed). You got everything : Vampires, humans, vampire-haters, vampire-lovers, vampire lovers (wink wink), Sookie, Eric, Pam, Eric's little sister ... Thank You. That's the kind of True Blood I want to see : stories intertwined, characters that all interact with eachother, confrontation, basically the three-first-seasons-True Blood.

I'm starting to like Nora. Might have something to do with the fact that her plan requires killing Bill (best movie ever). But first she wants to know what Jason knows about Warlow.

 If there is to be a Jason/Nora storyline, I'm totally on board with that ! 

I really don't have much to say about this scene except that I loved it. Nora glamours Jason and that kind of sets him off.

So he starts pointing his gun at her, and when Sookie arrives she gets in the middle. Once again. But it's okay, I liked it.

I would love for those three to become bffs. Really. First, because then, Sookie would have to interact with Eric more than ten minutes per season (that is not an exaggeration, it's actually pretty indulgent), second, because then, Sookie could and would fully realize her badass potential. Also, it would be so much fun.

But back to the episode. When Jessica gets a call from Bill, and it makes her walk all on her own.

And vomit blood if she stops.

Of course Sookie, and her principles lean towards helping Jessica and not leaving her. I could never bring myself to fundamentally dislike Sookie. She's annoying and makes all the wrong life decisions, but in the little decisions, she's good. She knows what's fair, what can and can't be accomplished, what can and can't be done to others. She has an instinct of what needs to be done and she's not delicate about it. Most of the time. Anywho, she says she's going with Jessica with or without Eric's help, to which he responds "Be careful". Awww. Just kidding, but seriously if he didn't care he wouldn't have said that. 

And off they go.

But, of course, Eric wouldn't leave Sookie with a baby vampire to face a mother f*cking vampire god. And when it's not looking good for Eric, Sookie comes to the overconfident vampire's rescue. Which translates into staking Bill. Nice.

But it doesn't work, he's immortal blah blah blah Jessica chooses to stay blah blah the rest of them go, The End, who the hell cares right ?

Now with the good stuff. The "goodbye scene". Sort of. Hopefully not. If Sookie and Eric don't even see each other or have even a remotely common storyline before the end of the season, I'm done.

They talk, and talk and it's a little awkward and mostly pointless, but it's cute that he's walking her home, very season 3.

Blah blah blah you will always be that girl in the white dress thanks you too yeah fun blah.

I am sick and tired of those scenes. Sure they're Eric and Sookie scenes, but they're too frustrating. It's always I want my life back, yeah 'cause I love my normal boring life more than you, I wanna just close my eyes and pretend vampires don't exist and all's right with the world, well guess what ? A freaking biblical vampire is after you because your daddy sold you to him, you are not getting a normal life so just deal with it and learn to appreciate the perks. Like a tall blond sex god who wants you.

And Eric being so adorable and perfect and willing to do what it take to make her existence better, he gives her her house back. Awwww. For real this time.

And the stupid bitch rescinds his invitation in appreciation of what he just did for her.

I wanted a picture of Lafayette in this post because I love him more than life itself, and I wanted that one because it's the moment he offers a little orphan food and hair advice.

I love True Blood, always have, can't say that I always will though. That's up to the producers of True Blood. I am very patient, I have waited almost 2 years to see a good True Blood episode again. I will wait for the next one but please just stop caging your characters in separate, uninteresting storylines. You have created amazing characters and personalities, and renewed existing ones, giving them a path that wasn't originally theirs. All that is nothing but a freaking gold mine. Use it ! Mix them together, make them confront each other, look back, see the confrontations that have worked and use them again ! You have potential, realize it. Stop trying to always be new and inventive, there's a reason the old stuff worked.