Andy gives us his view on what's really going on in Bon Temps.
HBO On Demand posted Episode 301 (titled “Bad Blood”) with enhanced viewing from last season of True Blood. “Enhanced Viewing” means they provided Hints, FYIs, Flash Forwards and Flashbacks and also character perspectives where a character pops up and provides their own commentary. (Flashbacks include the minisodes and scenes from previous seasons).
We recorded just the commentary bits from Andy (Chris Bauer), Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) and Tommy (Marshall Allman). If you do not have the Blu-ray and are thinking about purchasing it, you should. Alcide (Joe Manganiello) also does commentary for Season 3, but his comments do not start until he appears in the 3rd episode.
Alexander Skarsgård is referring to his grand (not to mention deliciously bare) entrance as Eric on the Season 3 premiere: “I love that scene,” he told Access Hollywood. “It’s a fun scene. I think it’s a good introduction to Eric in Season 3.”
Although he had to bare his backside (“Do you mean ass when you say backside?” he asked Access Hollywood), Alex is sticking to his story that the nudity on the show doesn’t bother him: “I really don’t care about that stuff. There’s some – there’s much more graphic stuff coming up later in the season. So that doesn’t really bother me. If it makes sense when I read it, I’m happy to throw my clothes off.”
Well, this fan(g) is happy that he’s happy… So very, very happy… *smiles blissfully*
Hey y’all, I’m CitizenErased, you might remember me from such recaps as um, the one with the egg, and the one with Vampire Jesus. Anyway, I’m back bitches! And so is True Blood, wayhey! Here come Bill and Eric to save us from the sheer boredom of our non-supernaturally sexy lives! Some sweary, colourful townsfolk! Sookeh ‘Magic Hands’ Stackhouse and her nice but dim brother! Some more bad guys to shake our fists at for 12 episodes! Did I mention I was fucking excited? Thank you, Aunty HBO for saving us from crap television and even crappier vampire movies. I pinky swear I won’t be as snarky this season…now go ahead, impress me!
This week on True Blood…a bunch of thrills and dire deeds, an even more fucked up Tara, groan, assorted pissed off vamps, an exhausted yet cheerful stripper, and Jason having problems with his johnson. But before I begin, a moment of respectful silence please, for Bill’s trashed BMW * bows head *
A bad day for Tara
Since they helpfully did a quick round up of Season Two just before the show started, it saves me the job of reminding y’all about last years various jump-off points, and we can just cosy up on the couch with more fancy True Blood-based cocktails and get down to it. For nine goddamn months I’ve been wondering what would go down. Would Sookie run out of the bathroom, stamp her pretty feet and go ‘OMG Bill totally had a hissy fit and ditched me cos I didn’t say yes!’, and then go home and clean the skankass house? Would the camera pan out dramatically to show Lorena on the balcony, all slinky and louche with a cigarette holder, doing the ‘MWA HA HA!’ villain’s laugh? Was Eric getting his hair done while Bon Temps was being nobly saved from Maryanne? Would the whole town go dance on her grave to make sure she’s like, properly dead? And most importantly, would Sam have a sexy dream about Bill after drinking his blood, and make me very happy indeed what with the consistency and general hairy horniness?
That was only half of it. Pshaw, I’m so demanding. So you see, fangirls and boys, I had to come back for Season Three, despite my misgivings about a patchy Season Two, too many ‘nekkid!’ and ‘crazy!’ spoilers, and endless worries about bad make up, bad hair and cringeworthy dialogue. With great trepidation I sat down with hapless hubby to watch, but I shouldn’t have worried. Like a bomb going off at a vampire party, the episode exploded straight into action, giving the exhausted and frazzled residents of Bon Temps no respite at all after their two weeks of drinking and fornicating, and making sure NONE of them would be in any way happy and content in the foreseeable future. You wanted smiles and sunshine and non-dysfunctional relationships and fewer super villains? Bullshit, you’re here for the angst and madness, and to take sadistic pleasure in other people’s misfortune while still getting lots of laughs and guy candy, just like moi.
Oh fuck...Daddy, a little help here?
With fabulous editing, the story threads for the season start to unravel within the first few minutes. Sookie runs out of the restaurant all in a panic, showing some common sense about the sudden disappearance of her patient (yet very hasty) suitor. Me likey when Sookie uses her brain, and she keeps it up throughout the episode, running around like a headless chicken and screeching a lot in indignation. Eggs is definitely dead, and only Tara is really bothered about that, but Jason is very upset that he’s just killed a man. Sam is on a journey into the scary wilds of Arkansas. Jessica’s dragged home the almost-dead sleazy trucker and Deadbeat Daddy is not around to help, because he’s in his car with the kidnapping Fuck You Crew being driven at breakneck speed into dire peril. They stab him in the neck, boo hiss. Credits roll. Skanks, snake, Klansmen, rotting fox, weird bugs, beardy men, crazy church folk…
They like us, they really like us! Else they wouldn’t keep giving us these little video treats, right? Here’s a quick recap of last night’s season three premiere episode, Bad Blood. Remember who loves ya.
HBO is winding us up and keeping us wound tight with all these great vids about the S3 premiere episode, “Bad Blood.” Here, Alan Ball talks about using CGI to make the wolves more fierce, adding actors to scenes with wolves “in post,” and more about our favorite baby vamp, Jessica.
The TV Addict offers this little morsel for those of us who simply CANNOT wait until next Sunday to see what happens on True Blood: “Okay, here’s the deal. Despite having already had the pleasure of sinking our teeth into the first three episodes of the new season, we are not the least bit interested in spoiling one of the summer’s true delights that is BLOOD’s trademark oh-no-they-didn’t-just-do-that moments by revealing, say… the circumstances surrounding Eric and Sookie’s first face-to-face of the season! What we will say is that creator Alan Ball may have spent a little too much time during his hiatus online because one particular scene from the premiere reads as if it was ripped directly from some very dirty wishful fan fiction.”
I have read some very wishful fanfic. Then again, I’ve written some very wishful fanfic as well… Speaking of wishing, why are they teasing us like this? It’s cruel, but in that it hurts so good kind-of way. Just a little over a week to go, fan(g)s!
