I agree, I don't think Tara has met the "true death" yet. I posted on twitter that night something to the effect of "I predict Tara isn't really dead, that the vamps took her and someone else wound up a puddle of goo on Lettie Mae. How likely?" and someone replied to me, "VERY. I can't say anymore." Upon doing some research, that person is a talent manager in LA, and I believe, that of either Rutina's or Adina Porter's, but can't find any confirmation on that. Anyway, Rutina has been saying post-mortem-types of things in interviews since this episode, esp. "dead doesn't mean gone on TB," which we know is true, as with Godric. And, some other poster said "most characters are dead," which is also true. AND, the thing that makes the most sense to me is that someone pointed out that Pam seemed totally unphased by the whole incident, so...was there really a (death) incident for Tara? As someone else mentioned, her name is still in the credits. Even if we purists are wrong, looks like we'll still get plenty of flashbacks of Tara, if that's the direction they're going. I don't agree with those who say "the show runners never knew what to do with Tara." Rutina is such a dynamic actress they probably figured, "what CAN'T we do with Tara?" But I'd miss her if she's really dead this season.
I like how Reverend Daniels put up little baby vamp Willa in their shed, since she has nowhere to go, with Tara and Eric (her maker), missing. Too short of a scene, though. that stuff with Pam in Morocco bugged me. I was thinking, "really?" There was no explanation as to how she thought to go there.
Loved the stuff with Jess and Adilyn (save for Adilyn's stupid name), and that young actress who plays Adilyn is pretty good, actually.
The one thing that really bugged me though, was the re-casting of James. When I saw that actor, I had to do some googling, because I was really looking forward to seeing Grimes and Jess after all their tender scenes last season. This new actor is a hottie, for sure, but his acting is so...stilted, wooden. And he paused in weird places. (People are always bugging about how Julia Roberts pauses in weird places, but that doesn't stand out to me as much as this guy's delivery did.) I, too, read the article that said Luke Grimes read scripts and asked to be let out of his contract because he originally wanted to work with Woll, and apparently they're shifting to a gay storyline with him, thus removing him from probably most scenes with her. The way he told his backstory was cryptic (not helped by the pauses in weird places), which would have been weirder had I not noticed the way he looked at Lafayette right away in the bar, when someone "assigned" him to Lafayette in the vampire-human-protection deal. They kind of made eyes at each other right away. But then--why bring him in as Jessica's love interest last season? I don't usually bug about semantics like that, esp. in hindsight, but this particular arc bothers me. Not sure if anyone else feels that way. Plus, Lafayette's kind of a multi-culti guy. He's suddenly going to fall for Typical White American Beefcake? A Vietnam vet, to boot...?
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
Updated On: 6/24/14 at 11:19 PM
