I know this can be considered “old news” but if you are like me, you like any news about True Blood that you can get. Life Story magazine put out an issue mostly about Twilight, but there are 6 pages of an episode guide to Season 2, complete with comments by Alan Ball.
Alan Ball’s comments about episode 209: “I Will Rise Up”. “My favorite episode of [the] season. I love the whole story between Eric and Godric, and Sookie gets to see Eric’s human side. Then there’s the whole choice by Godric to move on; his attitude of, ‘I’m done and I want to embrace whatever is going to happen to me now, even if it means oblivion, even if it means the end.’ That last sequence was tough to shoot, because we shot part of it on a building rooftop in Los Angeles – where we basically had 20 minutes to get it because of the light – and then we shot part of it on a stage with green screen, then we went to Dallas and shot background plates so that you would have recognizable landmarks. Then there were all the special effects technology questions of how we were going to have Godric go up in flames. So it was tough, but I thought it paid off.”
This week on True Blood, Hoyt’s momma rocks the Wii, Maryanne tastes like shite, Jason takes on the zombies with random stuff from his garden shed, and wins because they’re not too smart, Sam looks good in an apron, Sookie does more magic tricks and someone ‘s fired Bill’s sadistic make up lady. Smite Me!
Found last week’s episode a bit of a downer? Fed up with Dallas as much as Vampire Jesus? (RIP). Anxious for Sookie, Bill and Jason to get home tout de suite and find out how much their town has been trashed by the skankass minions of Maryanne? Have I got the episode for you! Surprisingly and annoyingly short, but still up there as one of the episodes of True Blood that made me laugh the hardest. Seriously, so hard I was still cackling at my desk at work the next day. You know how in zombie movies the zombies seem kind of miserable about their condition? All that mournful groaning and shuffling and sad, vacant eyes ?…At least the black eyed zombies of Bon Temps are having FUN while wreaking havoc. And having lots of random sex that will leave them with mysterious itches, rashes and mustard in weird places when someone finally gets around to killing Maryanne ‘I am really evil but kinda boring’ Forrester. Who will do the deed? Well, the menfolk in the town are doing their best, and I love them all, but it looks like its gonna take another crazy woman to sort out this bitch. I hope the Queen is in a good mood and Bill impresses her with his better makeup, y’all, because please, somebody help!
Sookie is having wet dreams again
We commence proceedings with Sookie having another soft focus smut dream about Eric. Sheesh, she seems to be having more dreams about ze Viking of sexeh than I do about her boyfriend, who’s asleep in his coffin in the airport bus while she dozes and drools. She wanders into weepy Eric’s hotel room in Dallas to commiserate about Godric and suck face, and ends up inviting him to bite her. This seems more of a ‘turn me’ invitation than a sex me up invitation, which would fit with the last ‘you’d make a great vampire’ dream, but whatever, they had to get him in the episode naked somehow, as the rest of the stingy 42 minutes is Eric-free. As Sook snorts awake they drive into the ole home town, and she and Jason gape out the windows in full WTF mode. There’s that classy, defaced Welcome to Bon Temps sign, which I soooo want for outside my house. And then some zombies faceplant the windshield and skip off happily in search of Sam. Even without all the trash, broken stuff and people randomly headbutting lamp posts this would be enough to start alarm bells ringing. Read More »
Jason, Bill and Sookie return from Dallas to find Bon Temps in shambles. Jason, all fired up on righteousness and adrenaline, swoops in to…save the day??
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