I want to know how it is that the grubby stepfather has such power over Sam's mother and Tommy - how can he "make" her dogfight? Is it just that she has been brainwashed since she was a teenager?

I had to fastforward the dogfighting bits. i'm not happy that the show went there.

also unhappy with the Claudine reveal. way too cheesy and over the top. does this mean that Claudine is only ever going to be seen when Sookie is unconscious? i hope not.

i'm unsurprised that they just had Bill feeding on Sookie and not {book spoiler} also raping her. since Alan Ball has such a hard-on for Sookie/Bill. it's kind of a point of no return for the character.

this was probably my least favorite of the eps this season. Pam, Eric and Tara notwithstanding. Sookie is pretty much too stupid to live.

tiggy, (re:spoiler) WTF...?

can you explain in white font WTF Bill did that?

it was the same general idea from the show, le n. {book spoiler} Sookie saves him and is in the trunk of the car with him. he wakes up filled with bloodlust, attacks her and while he's in the frenzy he rapes her. i think she eventually gets through to him and he realizes what he's done, but she's done. she breaks up with him at the end of that book and rescinds both he and Eric's invitation to her house.

sidenote: the description of what happens in these books when a vamp's invitation is rescinded while they're still in the house still makes me giggle. would LOVE to see it depicted onscreen.

He raped her and fed on her when Debbie Pelt locked him and Sookie in a car trunk together.

That was one of the big changes that Alan Ball made and I'm sure that it's for just the reason that tiggy stated. Although, I am sure that for many people attempting to murder you is also a point of no return, you know?

Oh, maybe Tara will rescind Franklin's invitation. (Because I can't believe he's actually really, most sincerely dead.)

oh...there's no way he's dead! that would be fun to see! i can see him kicking and screaming while it's happening. hee!!

Maybe it will happen the way it happened to Mickey in the books - because he is kind of like that character, isn't he? (The book Franklin is kind of a cypher.)

tiggy is the book after this one the one where a spell is put on Eric and he winds up at Sookie's house and Jason is kidnapped ?

sumi (not tiggy), but I think so because I read spoilers of that elsewhere.

sumi & tiggy - thanks for the explanation. Can you indulge me? What is the author's intent with that action re: Bill & Sookie?

was it to make Bill a less sympathetic character and thus remind the reading audience that vampires are not sweet and cuddly? Or did she have another intent like: getting Sookie together with another character?