The True Blood Dumb Gossip-Head Weirdo Bitches thread — Page 7
#152
Posted: 7/20/14 at 11:46pm
Was that Bess Armstrong as Sarah Newlin's mother?
#154
Posted: 7/20/14 at 11:59pm
And it's kind of rude to throw an enormous party for the entire town in the house of a woman in mourning who doesn't want anyone around and then leave the mess for her to clean up.
#155
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:05am
You liar, it was so her.
I wish Sarah had been killed tonight. So over her.
I wish Sarah had been killed tonight. So over her.
#156
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:09am
It wasn't her. Trust me, I know what Bess Armstrong looks like. I even went to her IMDB page to prove that I was right.
#157
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:21am
I need more of Sarah's sister and much less of Violet. Just what does the Violet character bring to the series? She's still the most random vampire of the lot, with no real ties to the rest of her species. There are much more interesting shaite stirrers among that group.
One nit was Violet's ease in close quarters with Andy's daughter Adilyn? They were only at arms length at the party. Jessica along with every vampire in Bon Temps can supposedly sniff out her azz a mile away and lose complete control.
Gosh, I <3 Pam with all my heart & loins
Al Skarsgard really looks like his dad Stellan this season.
Nelsan Ellis and Deboran Ann Woll delivered the goods in this episode.
Another nit was Bill's protracted civil war-era back story. I just don't give a rat's ... if it doesn't involve my favorite vampire Lorena.
One nit was Violet's ease in close quarters with Andy's daughter Adilyn? They were only at arms length at the party. Jessica along with every vampire in Bon Temps can supposedly sniff out her azz a mile away and lose complete control.
Gosh, I <3 Pam with all my heart & loins
Al Skarsgard really looks like his dad Stellan this season.
Nelsan Ellis and Deboran Ann Woll delivered the goods in this episode.
Another nit was Bill's protracted civil war-era back story. I just don't give a rat's ... if it doesn't involve my favorite vampire Lorena.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
Updated On: 7/21/14 at 12:21 AM
#159
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:39am
Ditto, quit with the Violet stuff already. However, it appears she's a (long, protracted, contrived, annoying) plot device to get Jason back together with Jess. Ditto, wth is up with Bill's continued flashbacks? I thought that, with all his daydreaming and flashbacks, and ex-boyfriend-turned-platonic-friend-caretaker-of-Sookie this season, they might be setting them up to get back together. But now he has... *************SPOILER ALERT***********
...a new strain of Hep-V?
I'm rooting for James and Lafayette. But what is up with him and Jess having a supposedly serious relationship and her not knowing...the things in his past that Lafayette pointed out?
And--what is up with this "Yakuza" storyline with Sarah N and introducing and killing off her parents immediately...? That's supposed to bring closure to the Eric/Pam storyline?
...a new strain of Hep-V?
I'm rooting for James and Lafayette. But what is up with him and Jess having a supposedly serious relationship and her not knowing...the things in his past that Lafayette pointed out?
And--what is up with this "Yakuza" storyline with Sarah N and introducing and killing off her parents immediately...? That's supposed to bring closure to the Eric/Pam storyline?
"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: 7/21/14 at 12:39 AM
#160
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:40am
Well then I'll be a monkey's uncle. That looks NOTHING like her to me. And it's not listed in her credits. WOW.
#161
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:42am
See, I thought it looked just like her. It hats why I asked in the thread. I had gone to imdb, too, but sometimes they take a little while to update credits, especially minor ones.
#162
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:51am
Another great episode! This week's and last - the two best of the season so far. Love how they're bringing back around to Bon Temps and getting back to the personal interactions that made the show's first season so good. It appears to be building towards a very satisfying series finale!
#163
Posted: 7/21/14 at 1:27am
Apart from some great lines (REPUBLICUNT and Arlene's "I'm going to tinkle, because I am human" or whatever she said), this episode.... well, it happened. Moving on.
#164
Posted: 7/21/14 at 7:55am
Yeah, I thought it was a pretty terrible episode--especially after last week's. I liked Pam and Eric. I thought the James/Lala stuff was mostly well done though Lafayette's speech woulda been a lot better if it wasn't directed at James' *girlfriend*. The party was random and made no sense to me.
AND THOSE BILL FLASHBACKS. Ugh. I found them borderline incomprehensible, at least in terms of what we were meant to get out of them--but worse than that, they were sooo dull. I'm sure all of these flashbacks to his past are meant to lead to Bill learning the cure to Hep V or something like that but. Ugh. And I used to LOVE the flashbacks on this show.
Oh but nice to see Angela Chase's mom back on TV :)
AND THOSE BILL FLASHBACKS. Ugh. I found them borderline incomprehensible, at least in terms of what we were meant to get out of them--but worse than that, they were sooo dull. I'm sure all of these flashbacks to his past are meant to lead to Bill learning the cure to Hep V or something like that but. Ugh. And I used to LOVE the flashbacks on this show.
Oh but nice to see Angela Chase's mom back on TV :)
#165
Posted: 7/21/14 at 9:09am
Eric, I thought the same thing about the Jessica/Lafayette/James triangle. Like, I'm with you that you deserve love and all, but taking it out on Jessica was a little cruddy. But, then again, this whole Jessica/James thing (as well as the Jason/Violet thing) seems to have been constructed just to make us happy to see Jason and Jessica back together. I guess everyone (should they live) is going to be paired up by the end of the show, even Arlene and her new vampire friend.
And OMIGOD those flashbacks. I loved the retconning of making Bill and his family doing a Civil War Sound of Music thing. It's all just so dumb. I agree that the point of them seems unclear (and unintriguing, too). I know they will eventually let us know why we're being subjected to them, but for a final season, there just seems to be a lot of unnecessary crap.
And OMIGOD those flashbacks. I loved the retconning of making Bill and his family doing a Civil War Sound of Music thing. It's all just so dumb. I agree that the point of them seems unclear (and unintriguing, too). I know they will eventually let us know why we're being subjected to them, but for a final season, there just seems to be a lot of unnecessary crap.
#166
Posted: 7/21/14 at 9:16am
One of the Bill Flashbacks was a near total ripoff of a big scene in GONE WITH THE WIND, there Clark Gable's Rhett Butler shocks the Confederacy by explaining that war with the North is a seriously bad idea because the Yankees are better equipped. It even directly referenced a line of dialogue, "I'm sorry if the truth offends you."
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#167
Posted: 7/21/14 at 9:41am
And OMIGOD those flashbacks
Too much for a final season. We have had Bill Compton on our screens for seven years. If we don't know him by now, we will never, ever, ever know him.
Too much for a final season. We have had Bill Compton on our screens for seven years. If we don't know him by now, we will never, ever, ever know him.
#168
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:43pm
That opening with Ginger, though. That might just be the best opening ever of that show.
#169
Posted: 7/21/14 at 12:44pm
A sex slave without the sex
And just because we need the gif, too
And just because we need the gif, too
Updated On: 7/21/14 at 12:44 PM
#171
Posted: 7/21/14 at 3:12pm
Color me surprised at how Lafayette and James fit together sexually. I was expecting Lafayette to be on bottom.
#172
Posted: 7/21/14 at 3:41pm
Ha! Everyone I was watching with had that same reaction. I can imagine Lafayette being a switch hitter (we certainly got the implication that he topped some of the guys when he was "working.") Re his speech to Jessica--I liked that it pretty much said what audiences have thought about Lafayette's lack of a sex life post Jesus (I've seen some fans say it makes sense because Jesus was the "love of his life," but this is a show where the "love of [insert character name here] life" can die at the start of one episode and they're p*ucking someone else by the end.) It seemed spot on. But, exactly Phyllis to direct it all at the woman who JUST saw you with her boyfriend buried some of that for me--oh well, as you say, it's not like we really were given any chance to see if James and Jessica worked together (the most I remember really, this season, was in one of Jessica's online vlogs where she helps James look for his lucky socks.... yeah.) It does all seem constructed just as a convenient way to get everyone paired up--and as a loyal soap opera viewer I should be used to this.
I'm glad everyone else seems to find the Bill flashbacks as vague and annoying as I do. :P I actually felt like I had missed one last night, but, no...
I'm glad everyone else seems to find the Bill flashbacks as vague and annoying as I do. :P I actually felt like I had missed one last night, but, no...
#173
Posted: 7/21/14 at 4:14pm
I was reading another board (I think the HBO board, actually, which I rarely go to), and someone's opinion of the flashbacks was to draw a parallel between the fact that Bill felt a) forced to fight in the war in order to keep his family safe from the vigilantes in his town and b) the guilt and shame he felt over the promise that he would return safe and sound to his family, but didn't, even after he went to war to "do the right thing," and Sookie likely feeling some sense of trying to do the right thing, but feeling guilty herself over how Alcide died.
Contrived, maybe, but not impossible, and it made me feel a little less bored by the flashback that there's some kind of intent behind showing us all of this, obviously.
I still didn't know how Bill had come to have hep-V, except another poster somewhere said that some "blood must have gotten into Sookie's system" the night they killed the H-vamps and it splattered on her, and Bill fed from her.
As for Jess and James, I don't feel so bad for her, as they've been showing her being cold to him all season, so obviously it's not all there, for her, and she shouldn't feel so suddenly protective of their relationship when she saw him clearly moving on with Lafayette.
Contrived, maybe, but not impossible, and it made me feel a little less bored by the flashback that there's some kind of intent behind showing us all of this, obviously.
I still didn't know how Bill had come to have hep-V, except another poster somewhere said that some "blood must have gotten into Sookie's system" the night they killed the H-vamps and it splattered on her, and Bill fed from her.
As for Jess and James, I don't feel so bad for her, as they've been showing her being cold to him all season, so obviously it's not all there, for her, and she shouldn't feel so suddenly protective of their relationship when she saw him clearly moving on with Lafayette.
"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
#174
Posted: 7/21/14 at 5:26pm
Oh, I get that (although I don't think they really showed her being cold to James so much as told us that she was--aside from that one scene when she was starving...) I don't feel bad for her in this situation, per se, but I still think it's a beyond stupid move to *that same night* go over and yell at the girlfriend of the guy she just found you sleeping with. :P Then again so much seems to happen in just ONE day in Bon Temps, that I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
Those explanations for the Bill flashbacks still seem vague to me, especially for a show which traditionally makes every parallel, metaphor and allusion crystal clear... :P
Those explanations for the Bill flashbacks still seem vague to me, especially for a show which traditionally makes every parallel, metaphor and allusion crystal clear... :P
#175
Posted: 7/21/14 at 6:05pm
"One of the Bill Flashbacks was a near total ripoff of a big scene in GONE WITH THE WIND, there Clark Gable's Rhett Butler shocks the Confederacy by explaining that war with the North is a seriously bad idea because the Yankees are better equipped. It even directly referenced a line of dialogue, "I'm sorry if the truth offends you."
Yes, Roscoe! I was like 'WTF?'
Yes, Roscoe! I was like 'WTF?'
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