I will take a million lather/rinse/repeat black eyed orgy scenes in exchange for the Jason Stackhouse that was reborn in season 2. I think it's truly one of the great turn arounds ever. And Jason + Andy as the most clueless, crime fighting surrogate father/son team of all time? Classic! The show is really cooking on all cylinders through the first two episodes this season. Jessica and Hoyt are breaking my heart with the sobbing into the closed door separating the two of them. Poor woobies. And Sookie and Eric are hotter than the sun, due in large part, I think, to Eric's BBoC factor. Sookie is so much more tolerable away from Bill (and vice versa). When she did the whole overly dramatic "Suh-kay" in Bill's voice? I fell out. Pam is Pam and that is automatic fabulous. I do believe she is the one who copped Jessica's body and I look forward to her taking Jess under her wing. Lafayette is Lafayette and that is also automatic fabulous. He deserves a hot boyfriend named Jesus. Yes, indeed. And Alfre Woodard as his mom is genius casting. Tara's possibly evil and certainly shady new vampire suitor (because you know it's going there) is all kinds of crazy hot, and I thought so even before the fangs came out. I can't see that ending well, but it's par for the course for Tara. I, too, wonder if he's working for Eric. He doesn't seem the type. I love the re-enactment of The Birdcage going down in the King of Mississippi's home! Bring him the Thai boy by all means. And I knew that Bill was in cahoots with the Queen and had known all about Sookie before he ever set foot in Bon Temps. Sweet! I love to be right. I still kind of can't believe that the whole setting Lorena on fire thing is real 'cause what? Well, he'll certainly not be in a position to refuse to cooperate now.

Good, good show. I'm not really feeling Sam's storyline yet, but it has some promise, especially if the brother really was trying to get him killed on their run. Naughty, naughty.

And Jason + Andy as the most clueless, crime fighting surrogate father/son team of all time? Classic!

Really brilliant! Now all they need is for Sookie to stop being such a victim all the time...

but see, I don't think they (the writers) see Sookie as being a victim. Bad things happen to her, sure, but she is a fighter and she is trying to save Bill.

I don't think she always looks before she leaps. She needs to think 4-5 steps down the road.

Yeah, but Bill is always having to save her.

So much hotness in the first episode of S3! Bill has more chemistry in that scene with Sam than in all his scenes with Sookie put together.

And I know the books and the show are different, but in the first couple of books and therefore in the first two seasons, she's 23.

23, small-town, not a huge amount of human (er, inhuman, either) social experience.

Saving yourself is something you learn, whether sooner or later. She's developing, and I think that's realistic.

True - we're used to Buffy saving the world a lot before she was 23.

Yup, and Buffy had super-strength, not a mental power. And it's not even a blowing shit up power (so far, mostly) so yes, someone with superstrength has saved her quite a few times.

Let's not forget how (a little dumb) but how badly she fucked up the Rattrays with a length of chain and a serving pad.

Bill hot in a scene with Bill?

Bill hot in a scene with Bill?

Oops! I meant Bill and Sam. Sorry.

Kind of in-betweeny this week. Although, Franklin is the most vampirey vampire (well, aside from Pam) on the show, I think.

Poor Jason - trying to figure out where he fits.