True Blood Season 6

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 12:57am

OMG. Tara!

OMG. Steve Newlin!

OMG. The Authority!

Great episode, right?

Updated On: 6/16/13 at 12:57 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 3:39am

Sure is nice to have it back! I admit, a part of me wishes this was the final season--with Alan Ball stepping down as showrunner after this season if it's renewed (and we know that it will be renewed), it seems like a good place to end. At any rate--great premier. A bit of a mess, but in the way I love True Blood to be a mess.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 6:21am

The Tonys were on last night?!!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 9:00am

Let the summer of Vampire games begin!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 10:28am

Pam - "What's to say she won't rise up out of the ground tomorrow night completely and utterly F*CKtarded?"

LOL!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 1:49pm

Jordan i laughed out loud when she said that line.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 1:54pm

When TRUE BLOOD ends, Pam and Sookie should have their own "Laverne & Shirley-esque" spinoff.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 2:01pm

I'm really hoping Tara and Pam form a bond (now that Pam is Tara's maker) and become a couple of fierce vamps. But if they make Tara into some sort of brainless vamp that just goes around killing things I'm checking out this season.
Too bad Tara didn't wake up and rip Sookie's head off. That would of gotten rid of the most annoying character on the show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 2:29pm

I want a Pam/Jessica spin-off.

"Doin' it our way!'

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 2:37pm

Give us any neck we'll bite it
Give us any rule we'll break it
We're gonna rise up from the dead
Doin it our way!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 3:26pm

We'll avoid the true death now
Selling V like it was meth now
We're gonna rise up from the dead
Doin' it our way!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 3:52pm

Ryan Kwanten standing in the doorway. Nothing else needs to be said.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 5:22pm

A quick perusal of various recaps and whatnot has me concluding that the internets pretty much hated the episode, which shouldn't surprise me, since I always tend to go against the grain. As long as the werewolf and Hotshot stuff can be kept to a minimum (or in the case of Hotshot and the werepanthers, just never rear its ugly head again), then I'm good with a million new characters and stuff.

Were people icked out by Steve Newlin saying he was in love with Jason? Jacob, Televisionwithoutpity's resident sourpuss, sure thinks its homophobic.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 5:38pm

I don't think it was homophobic. But I do agree with this regarding Tara...
"I don't know how to feel about that. I don't know what it says that the most intelligent, verbal character on the entire show has come back from the dead ****tarded."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 5:44pm

Except no one really knows what she's going to be like yet. There's been no indication what her mental state is going to be like (unless there was something in the previews for next week, but I don't watch those).
Updated On: 6/11/12 at 05:44 PM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 5:47pm

There WAS a glimpse in the previews of what's to come this season. But it was brief. And I'm hoping it isn't the direction they choose to go.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 5:49pm

Except no one really knows what she's going to be like yet. There's been no indication what her mental state is going to be like.

Exactly! I took that moment as Pam just being her bitchy self, rather than some comment about how Tara is now gonna be incredibly dumb or something. My only complaint is that I wanted a more visceral reaction to Tara's death, whether she's a vampire now or not, her human self died and I felt that it merited a more emotionally-charged reaction from Sookie and Lafayette. That scene at the beginning was a bit too rushed for me. But I think they found a really interesting way of giving new material to Rutina Wesley who by the end of Season 4 didn't have much to do.
I haven't read the recap but how is Steve Newlin coming out as gay and telling Jason he loved him homophobic in any way? If anything, it was another way in which the show attempts to reveal the hypocrisy of the extreme Christian right. Maybe it was more against people who are in the closet than homophobic towards gay people as a whole.
I'm with you, Phyllis, I thought it was a very strong episode and I liked the story lines they set up. Also, Anna Paquin can do no wrong in my book so I'll keep watching the show.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 6:02pm

Tara was in danger is of becoming REAL boring as one of the last main characters without any sort of "power". So we'll see what happens now.

As for the homophobic thing, I can't believe that's even serious. Someone straight who doesn't want to have sex with a gay man is now homophobic? Bull to the shlt.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 6:04pm

It's more nuanced than that, but I think the point is that it's a homophobic trope to be a gay man in love with a straight man or something. I dunno. I gave up TWOP last year but I just wanted to check into today to see if they were as bonkers as ever when it came to this show, and indeed they were.

And thanks, Erik. I try to avoid "next ons" for all shows, because half the time I feel like they give away EVERYTHING.

Updated On: 6/11/12 at 06:04 PM

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 6:10pm

I actually tend to think Jacob on TWOP gives the show too much credit. But I still have to catch up on last season. It seems like this episode has a bunch of really divisive qualities, which should make it fun to watch. :)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/11/12 at 6:36pm

People were divided on last season, too. I know a lot of people here and other places were getting over it. I think that maybe my expectations for the show are lower than most people's because I almost always enjoy the hell out of it.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 2:39am

Pam likes the ladies. Tara has been known to like the ladies. It could be some hot vamp girl on girl hate sex.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:33am

I thought that, too, especially after caving and watching the previews for the upcoming episodes.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:02am

"Pam likes the ladies. Tara has been known to like the ladies. It could be some hot vamp girl on girl hate sex."

Yes please! That will keep me watching.
PRS...I'm curious what you took from the previews that made you think that might happen. All I remember them showing of Tara is her grunting or moaning or attacking someone.
I think Tara and Lafayette are the only two characters on the show who are never boring. And Tara not having powers is one of the things I liked about her character. I'm growing very weary of Sookie and Bill. And I think that's going to be my main problem with the show moving forward.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:10am

Oh, I could have just been seeing things, but it was when Pam was stroking Tara's hair and said "No human can hurt you any longer." Not that I thought that seemed overtly sexual, but I just thought of both women's propensity for the ladies and wondered if the show would take it there.

One thing I'm dreading - and this is kind of book spoilery for those who haven't read past book four or so - is the shadow of Debbie Pelt hanging over the plot forever as it does in the book. And I liked TV Debbie! It's just the subplot that never freaking ends in the books.