True Blood

[ashrik]

Double hottie combo megaslam of Sookie stepping out of that plane and the preacher's wife cooking.

[shiznitz]

Watching season 1 on Netflix now. I really like this show. The scene in 102 when Sookie drank Bill's blood was great and really set a good tone for the show.

[Slayerik]

S2E04 - Ummm...Yawn. I feel like nothing progressed.

[Bunk]

Actually I really liked S2E4  - was one of the few times I've liked Sookie/Bill's thread. I think it's all about the involvement of their red headed stepchild though.

I'm worried that they are making me like the character as a setup to killing her off down the road.

[Bandit]

Plot definitely dragging out a bit.  Not sure how many parties we need to see with eyes glossed over etc.  Just wish they would move the story along a little faster...bust still a great show imo.

[gryeyes]

Seems to be building, the various plot lines are about to intersect.

[ashrik]

it felt like a non-reveal in that the camera was the last one to figure it out. If they show another orgy party without some meaningful development I'll be (even more) pissed.

In terms of subplot interests, I'd rate them as
1. Jason and The FoTS
2/3. Sam and Daphne
2/3. Maryanne
4. Layfayette and Eric

With later numbers reserved for the Detectives, Tara+Eggs, and the Sookie/Jessica/Bill adventure.

[Tale]

With later numbers reserved for the Detectives, Tara+Eggs, and the Sookie/Jessica/Bill adventure.

I'm with Bunk, the Sookie/Jessica/Bill adventure was the best bit. Jessica is my favourite new character.

[ashrik]

Don't get me wrong, I love Jessica- specially her scenes in episode 3 at the bar and with Hoyt, and Bill's anachronisms and accent are hilarious, but I don't really like Sookie's character one bit.

[Hayduke]

I agree the Bill and Sookie plotline seems the most interesting, after dragging for a long time.  I'm curious what they're going to do with the bellboy character Barry.  All the stuff with Maryanne, Tara and Sam are dreadful though, I wish they'd get over the boring orgies.

[gryeyes]

Given the intensity of the last orgy i doubt very many more are going to occur before something explodes. Bill,Sookie,red head,Eric adventure is the highlight for me. Followed by Jason at the cult.

[Tale]

I'm curious what they're going to do with the bellboy character Barry.

[lac]

Heh, just ran across the website of the Fellowship of the Sun. Make sure you catch the video of the preacher's wife explaining how to detoxify your marriage.

[Riggswolfe]

Jessica continues to grow on me. I was worried when she first came on the scene because they acted like they were taking her down a road of "ex-preacher girl goes bad, really bad" but they seemed to have backed off of that now and made her more nuanced.

I kind of hope she and Hoyt continue to have some kind of relationship. It'd give Hoyt something to do in the show if nothing else.

And

[gryeyes]

So very close to seeing jesus chick naked!

[Tale]

So very close to seeing jesus chick naked!

[Rasix]

For some non spoil-y material, two set up episodes in a row.  Woo hoo. 

[Stewie]

And this episode was another one where nothing progressed

I totally disagree.

To me a filler/nothing progressing episode is an episode that can be completely removed with no loss of continuity of the show. This was not one of those. I thought it was generally a good episode.

[DLRiley]

Eric is a 1000 year old viking  

[Sky]

I thought it was a great episode, though I'm about fucking tired of Maryann and have been for a couple shows now.

The Erik making story, fucking cool and wish there had been an expansion of that, Highlander-style. Wish they had shown the battle leading up to his injuries, etc. Also nice to see Erik and Bill interacting outside their jurisdiction, changing up the normal dynamic.

I do wish Sam would ask "Why the heck do you have massive scars on your back?" Seems like a pretty natural question, and if he knew it was Maryann-related, he'd avoid the chick.

++Jason leadership and close to preacher woman boobs!

[Bunk]

I did have to laugh at the guy from Eureka falling in and out of his Texan accent throughout the scene.

[Sky]

I did have to laugh at the guy from Eureka falling in and out of his Texan accent throughout the scene.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if he was using the accent to mock Bill and Sookie or if he was just being sloppy as an actor. The end of the scene when he left in the cowboy hat made me think the latter.

[gryeyes]

The other female vampire mocks the "Texan" for being a fake cowboy or something so I would imagine its intentional.

[sidereal]

No, I think he's just a shitty actor.  His Eureka work was. . uh. . Eureka-level.  Shame, because he has some chuhrisma.

Preacher wife is quite probably the smoking hottest chick on television right now, and I'm glad that they recognize her whole faux purity thing is at the heart of it and don't have her strip down and get buck wild and ruin it.  Her boobs are a slow reveal, as they say.

[Tale]

Nah, it was just lack of sleep. I'm working 11pm-4am plus 11am-4pm every day due to my TV network employer covering live sport from bad time zones. Following True Blood plot is hard Just as long as the vampires stay inside the screen, it will be OK.

[angry.bob]

So they're starting to move away from the books a little more now. Eric's "maker" was so some roman vampire who who got him on the way home from looking for a new wife and then forced him to follow him around in order to "catch his pitches".

[Reg]

Oh they started moving away from the books a while ago. In the books LaFayette was a minor character who was murdered almost as soon as we met him and Tara was minor as well.

[ashrik]

Minor and white

and that was 100% Bill's maker. She was directly outside the room they were having their interracial romp, so I'd doubt she'd have to be telepathic to smell or hear what was going on. Specially since it wasn't given to us in  whispy telepath-hearing mode.

[Bunk]

Or you could do what I did, and confirm it through the character name on IMDB... yes it was Bill's maker.

[lac]

[stray]

Wow, this show/story has potential to explore just about every aspect of vampire shit. And then some. I thought it'd be mostly southern focused at first.

No, I'm not new.. Just kind of re-appreciating it. 

[Ookii]

I want to meet the King of Texas!

Or the Queen of the Vampires! 

[gryeyes]

What rank was the vampire who judged Bill and made him eat the redhead?

[Ozzu]

Just got caught up with this series over the last few days. I dig most of the characters. However, Sookie annoys the hell out of me on a somewhat regular basis and the Tara and Eggs relationship just sucks the life force out of me. Still though, it's been pretty excellent to this point.

[Rasix]

What rank was the vampire who judged Bill and made him eat the redhead?

Magister.