True Blood 6.4 "At Last"

SPOILERS  (if you don't keep up with YouTube...)

After a conversation with a co-worker on his choice to give up on True Blood this season, I have decided not to watch episode 6.4 and possibly the next five episodes. Last season I returned for the season finale since that's when plot mysteries are revealed. After watching four clips for the upcoming episode "At Last" I already have a pretty good idea of what this episode will entail. It's not looking good.

1. Ben apparently gives Jason some of his blood in order to help him heal from all of his head injuries. Jason then proceeds to have a dream, with the sultry sounds of Miguel playing in the background, of Ben shaving his face and vice versa. When he nicks Ben's face, Ben invites him to drink the blood. Jason abruptly wakes up clutching the sheets in confusion and anxiety à la Sam's homoerotic dream, after consuming Bill's blood, from the premiere of season 3.

2. Sookie taps into her inner floozy, for reasons I couldn't care less about; a departure from her usual put together, sweet appearance and character.

3. Eric appears to warm up to the boring, unappealing Willa in what appears to be a new "love" story for the brooding and hunky Viking vamp. Not feeling it...or her.

4. Andy's four fairy daughters have aged into half-dressed teenagers, a plot point I'm guessing writers  went with in an effort for viewers to not be disturbed by Bill and Jessica hurting/draining/killing little girls.

Additional predictions for the episode: 

The werewolves will be running around like D-bags ignoring Alcide.

Lafayette will probably only be in it for 3 minutes reiterating to Sam how he didn't need to get tangled up in Nicole's affairs.
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Dear True Blood writers, 

Look hookahs, y'all need to get ya act together and stop playing like Lafayette isn't one of the best things y'all got going for True Blood. 
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The end.


Will you be tuning in this Sunday? How do you feel about season 6 thus far?

True Blood Season 6

So here are a few of my random musings as I’ve been watching True Blood season 6:

Who else was waiting to hear “Dude looks like a lady” in the elevator as Eric and Sookie were running away from Billith in episode 6.1?

 

There has yet to be any Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill references or quotes.

• For Ginger, having sex with Eric would probably end up like the scene from Drive Angry where Eric would be doing his taxes or something while utterly blowing Ginger’s mind.

•  Speaking of Drive Angry, True Blood episode titles are also real song titles. Episode 6.5 is titled “F**k the Pain Away” by Peaches from the Drive Angry soundtrack. That should be a VERY interesting episode!

• Sam is this close to rescuing Emma while donning only his birthday suit, and she just really doesn’t need any more mental scarring right now.

• Jessica’s new daddy is just as sanctimoniously creepy as her old daddy.

• Robert Patrick is not utilized nearly enough.  

 

• I think I the creepiest point of the show would be if they actually showed the hungry vampires scratching at people's windows and doors at night.

• I bet if Pam and Tara roll their eyes at Eric a few more times, they could start a fire.

• Did Ginger’s coffin have an overhead light or something? How was Willa able to see Eric had the bleeds? If the coffin is not sealed to keep light from coming in, doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

• Why, why, why couldn’t they have Jessica whisper, “told ya so” after Bill went up in flames, cockily standing out in the sun, faster than a jheri curl?

•  Lafayette and Tara haven’t called each other “bitch” in a while. I miss that…

• I’m thinking Jason has had about as many concussions as Rocky Balboa.

•  Alcide should probably just take his bone and go home because NO ONE is listening to a word he says. Not even with his shirt off.

•  After seeing Sam shift into a mythical, white bull at the end of season 2 in order to kill Maryann, I’m just waiting for him to shift into a dragon next and light everybody up. 

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True Blood Season 6 Premiere: A Threesome, 20 Second Screen Times, and Benjamin Buttons

SPOILERS:

"Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!"

I had thrown up my hands on True Blood but opted to watch the season premiere tonight with my dad for Father's Day. Nicely played, True Blood. Nicely played. Picking up right where the season 5 finale left off, Billith, resurrected in his birthday suit covered in blood, chases after the mixed posse of Eric, Sookie, Jason, Pam, Tara, Jessica, and Nora. Having wasted her powers shouting at the sky, Sookie is now a glorified night light when times are tough. Jason is the redeeming, comedic genius in a scene that had everyone running around like chickens with their heads cut off randomly stopping at the beach to...clear their heads? Bill practically rips Jessica apart in his summons of her, but she still opts to stay by his side and be his "good guy anchor". However, that task may prove difficult since absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Bill's mood swings now trigger earthquakes, he can catch glasses of blood with his mind, bend spoons...sorry, wrong guy on that last one. Anyway, during a stake-off, Sookie chooses Eric over Bill and stakes Bill through the heart only to find out that he is seemingly invulnerable.

Luna didn't last a full minute onscreen before her Reverend Newlin transformation resulted in her death in front of her daughter and Sam. 

Lafayette wasn't in the episode nearly enough. 

Eric's range of emotions onscreen was hard not to drool over. So hot.

Between Pam and Eric, Pam is the only one who seems to feel that their 100+ years together, which she makes a point to mention often to Tara, means mutual respect, considering she still lets him talk down to her like the perfume "salesman" in the Walmart parking lot. 

Alcide got his "Magic Mike" nudity on...again, but this time had a threesome thrown in the mix spewing puns right in our faces. 

Rutger Hauer made his first appearance as Niall, but we shall see if the writers leave him as a protective fairy grandfather figure to Sookie and Jason, or turn him into Warlow's alter ego or some crap like that.

Andy's four fae babies, delivered last season in a gymnastic display of orgasmic proportions, went from baby to about 4 years old in the span of a night. Considering the elder fairies in the land of Fae still look like Old Navy models, I think the kids are alright. 

Also, True Blood is a show known for naming its episodes after song titles, and Mikky Ekko's song :Who Are You, Really?" has been on repeat on my phone for days. 

Who knows what the next 9 episodes will bring. What did you think of the premiere? Will you be watching this season?