Yes, Terry is excellent.

(When Jason rescinded Bill's invitation, I remembered that Sookie did rescind Bill's invitation in season 1, didn't she? Still, not as amusing as Sookie rescinding what'shisnames' invitation in the books. . . amusing or as dramatic.)

You know, in the book when they called the werepanthers "panthers", I pictured mountain lions. I guess because they are also sometimes called panthers. But a black leopard or jaguar is more dramatic.

I'm hoping that Eric has come up with a plan.

How can Sookie be so stupid and still remember how to breathe?

Where was Russell? Was he in Shreveport? Jackson?

I wish they'd give Pam her own storyline. Especially because I'm not that interested in some of the other's storylines (Sam, I'm looking at you). Oh, and I totally called the faerie thing and I'm unspoiled! I just happen to be reading a book called Ash, a YA retelling of Cinderella with a gay girl angle. There are faeries all through the thing and I thought of Sookie and Claudine and thank God I mentioned it to DW yesterday before the show aired. Otherwise I would have been all, "I KNEW IT!!!" And she wouldn't have believed me. I loved that they opened the show with the reveal. Funny.

I really like Sam and I've been on his side since the first season, but I feel like some of the current revelations should have occurred in Season 1.

It would have helped explain why he is so damaged.

I'm feeling like I wish that they had stuck with the Sam storyline from the books at this point. I'm not feeling like we're gaining much from what we've seen so far.

what is the story in the books?

Book Sam: Not an orphan. In the military sometime before arriving in Bon Temps. I think Dad was in the military too. Mom was remarried. Shifters and weres in the books can only pass on their shifting to the firstborn in any "pureblood" coupling, i.e., Sam is a shifter is younger brother and sister are not even though both of their parents are. When the weres and shifters reveal their existence - with an announcement and public nation-wide shape changing: his step father shoots his mother.

Terry Bellefluer, you are way too good for Arlene. I'm just saying.

Jessica and Hoyt are love. I am so rooting for those two crazy kids. Does this mean we'll get a Hoyt sex dream starring Jess soon? Because I could be down for that. Also, those two need to get together and whoop ass on Tommy Mickens. How much did I love Jessica picking that fool up and tossing him into the woods like so much garbage? So, so much. The Sam backstory payoff is still not enough to justify foisting the horrid Mickens clan on us all. I feel like there was a better way to get that out than to have us sit through several episodes of soiled underpants and dog fighting and incest vibes and various and sundry other trashy tropes.

Crystal is a panther? Cool. I think Jason will be more OK with that than she or her dad suspect. Maybe she will bite Jason and turn him into a panther, too. (Or maybe that just works for werewolves. Or does it even work like that for werewolves in the True Blood-verse?)

Russell Edgington is so supremely, beautifully fucked up. I know as this season's big bad he will eventually have to die, but dang. I would love for him to hang around for a little bit just being crazy and menacing, pulling out spines, stabbing greasy male hustlers through the heart. He's fun.

LaLa and Jesus and their Magical Mystery Tour? Eh, but I suspect it's going to take us somewhere more interesting.

sumi, interesting. that sounds like less angsty Sam though.