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[Wynbish]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 9:28am

Since the end of last season, it has seemed like the Reverend had his hand in things without getting his hands dirty, if that makes sense.

Maybe it's because I am subconsciously readying for True Blood being over, but again, this was another "well... that happened" meh episode for me. Better than last week, for sure, but still meh, in my opinion. We have four episodes left, and some of it seems to be cruising and some of it seems to be grasping at straws to find something enticing. I know that Eric and Pam finding the cure for Hep-V will eventually affect Bon Temps (he sacrifices himself and lets Bill have it so Sookie can be happy?), but right now, their story, while entertaining enough, seems disjointed. The odd man out of the "we're going to focus on Bon Temps!" direction of this season.

Speaking of the Hep-V cure, is it a virus, as well? If it was something that just got in her blood stream, wouldn't it be mostly gone in 6 months?

[lovepuppy]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 9:58am

Haha, Wyn...I thought the exact same thing. Just like if you ingested a drug...surely within the 6-month timeframe everyone keeps harping on...wouldn't it be out of her bloodstream?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/28/14 at 12:06pm

The great closing credits song: Karma by Lady

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/29/14 at 11:22pm

I have mostly spent this season trying to make myself not look for anything resembling sense or continuity. And I resent having to spend so much time with characters like Holly, Adilyn, and Sarah Newlin's overbite, while my beloved Tara wanders in every once in a while to speak in tongues and dig holes.

I just noticed Hoyt's name in the credits tonight, but I assume it's been there all season? I wonder if he's coming back again.

Did the Hep V awareness people HAVE to use a pink triangle?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/29/14 at 11:40pm

I couldn't decide if I found that reprehensible or kinda cool. Or to put it in Ira Glass: amazing or suck.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 12:33am

How does Violet have a purpose now? She's SO awful of a character, and like Phyllis said, I really resent having to spend time with characters I couldn't care less about. I mean, for God's sake, there's 5 episodes left! Why do we need to see Violet blow Jason as part of some silly manipulative plan? (and yes, I resent that the show has gotten me so little invested that I now complain about Jason's sex scenes). And an Adilyn/Violet storyline is pretty much an insult to long term fans of the show.
Why is Sookie not doing anything? Like, she got tested for Hep V this episode...okay. And still, I think it was my favorite episode of the season so far mainly because I laughed (thank you, Arlene, can you get your own spinoff with Pam and Eric?). I just don't get why the writes decided this is what the last batch of episodes should look like.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 12:46am

Haven't there always been things we weren't interested in. It's kind of how the show has always paced itself.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 10:47am

Oh this terrible show. But I'm in it till the end. I shall see this through!

I think the choice I would have made for the Silence = True Death would have been to reverse the colors: black triangle, pink circle.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 11:21am

To quote Gentleman's Guide, "That horrible program. That contentable show."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 11:49am

They should have made the triangle red, for blood. I thought it was way too "obvious" to show that though, considering the HIV/HEP-V similarities are so obvious as it is.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 11:56am

Maybe we'll get a PrEP debate in that last 5 episodes! Won't that be so cutting edge...something this show hasn't been in...well...maybe ever?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 11:57am

Can Larry Kramer make an appearance as the oldest surviving Vampire?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 12:01pm

^ HA!

[javero]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 12:35pm

"How does Violet have a purpose now?"

Hell hath no fury like...

I'm somewhat disappointed that the writers dragged out that tired trope and in such a heavy-handed way. A couple of episodes back the issue of Violet not being able to give Jason children was put into play. I got the sense that Violet could handle that given that she has so much else to offer him including the prospect of immortality. But, she found a much younger lady vampire beating her time and that is unpardonable. Jason's world is simply no longer big enough for both Violet and Jess.

Just think of Violet as Lorena 2.0...man-crazy, literally A few feminists at work hate the way female vampires are depicted on the show. According to them, only Lilith was her own person figuratively speaking. Come to think of it, I tend to agree.

Pam is lost without Erik; Lorena couldn't imagine life without Bill; Sophie-Ann ended up betrothed to Russell against her will; Fran was a tool of the male-dominated Authority; Nora was a religious fanatic who did the nasty with her more powerful vampire-sibling; Salome was outsmarted by a male vampire thousands of years younger; Tara was dissed by her maker and former paramour Pam to save Erik; Willa is a lost puppy; Jess moves back home with her maker Bill the minute a relationship doesn't work out; and Sarah Newlin's vampire sister has been kept in hiding by their parents.

I could see all the lady vampires hating Sookie. Hell, her fae milkshake brings all the vampire boys to the yard.

Updated On: 7/30/14 at 12:35 PM

[lovepuppy]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 10:00pm

Hm, will have to give some thought to the "women" issues you're bringing up. However, plenty of male characters have been jilted or have had arcs depicting them "at sea" emotionally, just the same.

As for Jess "moving home with Bill," I don't believe she ever left. I believe James was staying with her at Bill's. Most of their scenes were in her bedroom. James is a hippie musician; they never show his place but it would not likely look as classy as the bedroom they have shown them in.

[javero]

Posted: 7/31/14 at 2:55pm

Weren't Hoyt & Jess shackin' up at one point. I vaguely recall his momma Maxine having a conniption fit over his moving in with her, or more like his moving out period.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/31/14 at 7:26pm

It's funny how this thread has sucked the life out of a discussion of vampires.

[lovepuppy]

Posted: 7/31/14 at 9:57pm

Yes, Hoyt bought a house for him and Jess to live in.

And then began the subplot of the "mysterious doll" that some idiot gave to Arlene and Terry's infant son, Mikey. Like anyone would let their infant play with a dirty old doll.

But anyway...

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 7/31/14 at 10:21pm

So, Billy killed a prominent lawyer and then her vampire guard when she had a waiting room full of people. Are we to believe there would be no repercussions from that?

[javero]

Posted: 8/1/14 at 1:08am

"It's funny how this thread has sucked the life out of a discussion of vampires."

Whenever we veer off course, the threads seem to be self-correcting. It's magic.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/1/14 at 1:22am

No, it's the true death.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/3/14 at 10:59pm

I can't decide if Jim Parick just can't remember how to play Hoyt, or if Jessica glamoured the good parts of him.

I can't tell you how glad I am we spend so much htime with Holly and Adilyn this season. I can't tell you that cause it's a lie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/4/14 at 1:37am

Maybe the part of Hoyt's brain they took out will figure in the final episodes?

I'm looking forward to the final three and for things to pick up to a fever pitch. But I am *not* looking forward to the half dozen multiple paragraph posts to come in this thread before it happens.

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 8/4/14 at 5:33am

The only storyline I find remotely interesting in this last season is Eric and Pam's.

Hate to say it but I'm looking forward to this show's true death to make room for something else.

Anyone know what's taking it's place?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/4/14 at 9:36am

Maybe the part of Hoyt's brain they took out will figure in the final episodes?

I was thinking something like that last night. I do expect Sookie is going to suck the glamoring out with her fairy light. Is her fairy light still finite? Remember when that was a thing?

It's also ick that Jason seems to be infatuated with Hoyt's girlfriend. I just never understand why we have to keep going through the same kinds of nonsense with Jason's sexuality and that no matter any growth he shows for a second, it's always going to be rolled back.

I really really don't care about Noomi Newlin. I don't care if this a redemptive arc, and I don't care if she's going to be murdered by Eric or the Yakuza or Sookie or anyone. I have never thought her character was worth the amount of time the show continues to spend on her.

I have that same Light of Day Institute t-shrt that unnecessary imaginary cameo Steve Newlin wore last night.

As always, I bitch because I love. But this sh*t is off the rails.