If the rest of the run of this last season of True Blood is like this first episode, I'll be happy.
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2014 5:51:49 pm PDT #6032 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
sj - Jun 22, 2014 5:55:17 pm PDT #6033 of 7329
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
If the rest of the run of this last season of True Blood is like this first episode, I'll be happy.
Really? I thought it was horrible. I'm only watching because it is the final season.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2014 6:48:16 pm PDT #6034 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Really? I thought it was horrible. I'm only watching because it is the final season.
Apart from the whole Tara thing (and they didn't actually show her getting splatted, and I certainly don't trust her mom, so I'm not sure she's really dead-dead) and Sookie being the stupidest faerie ever by walking home alone, I loved Andy being an uber-mensch and ballsy as hell and Jessica REALLY trying hard and succeeding at doing the right thing. That stuff really worked for me. The rest made sense in terms of the world this show is in.
Rayne - Jun 23, 2014 2:18:13 am PDT #6035 of 7329
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I am so ready for True Blood to be over. I hated that episode!
The standoff between Jessica and the Hep V vamp was ridiculous. It's not like he could get in the house, so the whole thing was pointless.
sumi - Jun 23, 2014 7:57:51 am PDT #6036 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
So I marathoned True Blood last week and I think I liked the season better than I liked the prior season. And I did like the season premiere.
I agree that it was silly to have Jessica waiting outside. . .but they just wanted to show her being contrite about what she had done so I didn't mind it so much. (Although, really - if Adelinde (why is that name so popular on tv now? Okay, maybe TWO isn't that popular -but really? Adelinde?) had just gone up and locked herself in the attic and stayed away 'til dawn there would have been no problem.
So, how are people being infected with the Hep V that the vampires were given via True Blood? Did the bottling plant also infect regular soda with Hep V?
kat perez - Jun 23, 2014 6:12:48 pm PDT #6037 of 7329
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I'm just watching True Blood to be completist about the whole thing. We're all the way back to naked, sex toy Jason? Is that it? Not that Ryan Kwanten isn't very pretty naked, but we had so moved beyond that. And having Pam off on some Eric spirit quest while her progeny is murdered? And didn't she feel it when Tara got offed? Bah, humbug. And I never cared much about Sookie anyway but even less now when it's how many seasons in and she still goes off traipsing through the woods alone? That's what got her almost killed and entangled with Bill in the first place. And I don't care at all about Sam being caught up with Jurnee Smollet and her baby. I'm in it for Andy and Lafayette. And maybe Eric if he ever comes back.
Jessica - Jun 23, 2014 6:58:27 pm PDT #6038 of 7329
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just finished S2 of OITNB and all I can say is dayum. That was some powerful shit.
Theodosia - Jun 24, 2014 3:19:44 am PDT #6039 of 7329
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I just finish S2E8...I don't want it to be over.
-t - Jun 27, 2014 3:31:25 pm PDT #6040 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was thinking that there's nothing much I still like about True Blood, but I do still like Pam. Not necessarily her storyline right now, but I do enjoy the character. Also Lafayette, of course.
And I don't think Tara is really gone, since we didn't see it happen.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2014 3:42:07 pm PDT #6041 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently there are interviews where they sob like they'll never see each other again, some where she's gone but not GONE, so they seem to be playing us pretty hard. It's a slim and kinda rude death, even if she wasn't popular.
What was on Lala's head? That looked more complicated than hair, like he'd glued the scarf in a pattern to his head.
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