Recap: Season 3 Episode 8- Night on the Sun
By CitizenErased on Aug 11 2010 | 52 Comments »Unexpected Floor Sex
This week on True Blood, a Deadbeat Daddy makes amends, Shit Scared Tara is now Angry Tara, Eric does more fake smiling and whoring of his fine ass, Sophie Anne is a crazy bird collecting lady just like moi, and Sookie gets busy living, gets a tan, gets into a bitch fight and gets laid all in one day. Go the Sooks!
Dear readers, I have finally plucked up the courage to ski down that scary ass black run I accidentally and stupidly found myself on two weeks ago (um, I got sidetracked on my way to rescue Bill), having grown bored shitless with being stuck on top of a chilly mountain and gone and finished all of The Nest’s precious booze stash. Apparently I had some faithful minions who missed me in my absence, so I have hobbled into our sleek and glamorous offices to get back to work. I think latbfan did a super skilful, acerbic and erudite job of reviewing episodes 6 and 7 in my absence, so an enthusiastic Kermit from the Muppet Show hurrah for her. Raaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Anyhoo, I promise I won’t be unexpectedly fucking off or having skiing accidents the next few weeks, so those masochistic detractors who read and fume and shake your fists at the screen at my mouthy bullshit will just have to suck it up until the end of Season 3. The faithful minions will be stoked, er I guess? Thanks y’all for your patience.
Sorry romance fans, there's only so much a plucky heroine can take *sniffles*
It seemed some exciting events happened while I was AWOL. I’m sure you’re just dyin’ to know what I thought of that sparkly fairy nonsense last week and the gore splat death of my nemesis Lorena, hmm? Man, the last episode was an explosion of WTF, and you know why? Those fucking fairies. I dreaded them, and lo and behold, the writers decided to make them as lame as possible. I’ve read more than one commentator say (with great wit) that sequence was like a tampon commercial. It reminded me of a much gayer version of Galadriel’s woods in Lord of the Rings. With no arrows and cool knives and shit, and more klutzy dancing. Pshaw, I say. Please, PLEASE don’t defile the cool Bon Temps cemetery with that soft focus, campy bollocks again *facepalms * And while I’m on a rant, why the fuck couldn’t Sookie off Lorena herself? I can’t abide the books and I generally approve of Bill doing heroic, undead-threatening deeds, but that was one tiny thing they could have kept intact for chrissakes. The weird thing is, I feel kind of bereft now the founding member of Team Bill and nastiest chica in the Sookieverse is gone, acting like an undignified psycho jealous stalker to the end.
Anyways, Lorena is toast and the fairies are unfortunately here to stay, so I’ll shut up for now. I’m surprised everyone isn’t a traumatised, catatonic, straightjacketed mess, the amount of horrible shit the writers have put them through for the last two weeks. Hoping and praying there would be more laughs and no fairies this week, I sat down in front of my screen to witness our heroes and villains munching on the shit sandwich of life, muttering to myself that they should include free Prozac with each DVD boxset. And so fearing mucho angst or lameness or both, I was pleasantly surprised by all my favourite things about this hot mess of a show. I hereby declare the episode the BEST of the whole season. Everyone involved deserves a fun spanking and a bonus, though I am mildly sad about Talbot. He was such a delightful house husband. But that was nice of Eric to kill him just at the right time so Bill could escape a distracted Russell, run to Sookie and get great floor sex. Mmm, fun to watch make up/break up love/hate sex. Oh yeah, I’m going to relish that shit for a long time. Just when the show had become a series of naked people that make me go ‘meh’, they throw me a bone like that. Thank you, Raelle Tucker.
I’m getting all pervy already and jumping ahead of myself, and so let’s begin. We open in the hospital, where Sookie is screaming her tits off and Bill is standing there all limp and shattered like his whole world has just been destroyed, which indeed it has. Sook then chills, and tells her hostile friends and relatives to GTFO so she can dump him, as gleefully predicted by book readers and impatient fans of the Blonde One. But instead of clinging to her like a life raft and begging for forgiveness, Bill swoons me out of my sensible panties and just lets her go, nobly and selflessly, offering her a normal life without blood and death and drama and bad guys, which alas she’s never going to get. Sookie howls very effectively, I sob and blow snot disgustingly and pretend he’s saying he will love ME forever…le siiiiiiiiiigh. It’s looking like I’m gonna be needing that free HBO Prozac…please, quickly, something funny!
'I pinky swear I am NOT plotting your demise.'
Thank fuck, the Queen is at Russell’s pad with her mad collection of screechy parrots and is complaining loudly. Talbot is in a fruity rage about the wreckage and detritus of Tara, Sook and Bill’s escape. The King, newly arrived home after getting married and offing the Magister, boasts about his dire deeds and does a half assed job of soothing his Honourable First Wife. Oh and Debbie the skank is there too, all mad about the loss of her Cooter and wanting to kill Sook and Nice Wolfboy.
Eric hovers around smiling that fake, smug ‘yeah I’m totally on board with this shit’ smile. Despite the Viking rightly saying Sook’s powers aren’t all that useful (wow, some evidence he’s looking out for her), Russell wants to snatch her back anyways for his War on America, but doesn’t mind Debbie beating her ass first. He then has a face-off with Eric, for the first time noticing his loyalty act is kind of crap, but the sneaky Sheriff gets down on his knees and does a good job of sucking up, even dissing Godric in the process, his eyes on the revenge prize.
Hey, remember him? Arlene worries about her potential psycho sprog.
Back in the temporary safety of Bon Temps, Arlene is having a guilt-induced freaky dream about the real father of her baby, and it’s surprisingly cool to see Rene the Faux Cajun again.
Gran’s house is full of people rallying around Sook, including a doe eyed, admiring Alcide. Across the cemetery, Bill only has Jessica for comfort. His self-esteem at nada and knowing Russell will be calling on them soon, he releases her and tells her to flee, but wee Jess isn’t having it. She sobs and tells him she’s all lonely and useless as well, and she needs him to be a decent Maker, and somehow she gets through to him. It’s totally satisfying, so more Daddy-daughter time please. Over at Sook’s, an outraged Jason drags Andy in to get his sis to charge Bill with ‘domestic…something’, and Tara is upstairs with Laffy doing her mad starey eyes thing, still bugging out over fun ole Franklin. She’s not inclined to talk about her recent vamp horror, and neither is Sook.
Daytime comes, and Sam’s Momma turns up to pick up her shit from the Mickens apartment, knowing there’s no way Sam will tolerate her around after the whole exploiting her child through dog fighting thing. She scuttles off like a roach, probably to resurface later, and cutey pie Tommy bursts into tears. Meanwhile, Tara is having a dodgy bean-flicking Franklin dream while her sparkly cousin wakes up to find his schizo yet awesome Momma on his doorstep, muttering dire warnings about vampires and witches, cats and dogs…witches? Noooo! I love Laffy’s Mom, so hopefully they don’t kill her off like they did Cooter and…sniff, Talbot. On the Stackhouse lawn, Sook is crying whilst sunbathing when bitter n’ twisted Tara flops down and tells her what a dumb country song bitch she is for still being in love with Bill. Sookie defends her ex, takes umbrage at the dumb bitch crack, rightly notes that Tara is projecting her Franklin-rage, and Tara storms off in a huff, noticing Alcide’s hotness as she goes.
Tara is not so good at the comforting BFF stuff.
Over at Jason’s man-cave, which defo smells of rank socks and old pizza, the dopiest Stackhouse is getting out his gun to shoot Bill when Crystal Meth turns up with a massive shiner, demanding his truck so she can get away from her creepy six toed family. Jason is simultaneously sweet and forceful and kind of sexy actually, getting the story out of her and convincing her to stay with him for safety/couch sex. In Merlotte’s, Arlene is interviewing a new waitress who is probably a witch (damn it), and Tara is doing more PTSD jumping and staring. Lovely Sam gives her a cuddle as she finally breaks down. Fuck me, everyone’s either crying or boning this week. Back at Laffy’s, his Momma is barricading the door against the vamps and witches that are coming for her son when tasty Jesus turns up, in search of his runaway patient. While Ruby Jean waves a knife around and mutters mysterious things about Lafayette’s power and then settles down to watch the crapbox, the two boys forget their little spat the other week and make goo goo eyes at each other.
Randomly, we then cut back to Jackson to see a wide awake Eric ambushing Sook’s trashy, traitorous cousin in the hall of the palace, programming her with a message for Sook, and then we’re back at our gal’s still defiled and shit smeared house. Debbie and her feral mates burnt down Alcide’s sister’s salon so he’s gotta go and leave Sook to defend herself. But they still have time for a long, touchy feely goodbye where they both regret their bad taste in partners and finally create some chemistry. He’s a nice manwolf, but needs added spice and pizzazz. Night falls, and at Merlottes little Tommy is wondering what it would be like to be kicked around the bedroom by Angry Tara. Sam warns him off, and then warns him off again when he gets up in nice boy Hoyt’s face about Jessica. Tommy clearly has aggro small man syndrome and it’s kinda annoying.
'This is awesome, but tomorrow you're totally taking me to Harry Potter Land!'
At the Compton residence, Bill is teaching Jess how to kick dopey werewolf ass by confusing them with superfast fun zoomy moves, which is totally adorable. Then it all goes sad again as they have a wee talk about their respective humans and how they have to stay away from them for love but protect them from afar. Speaking of sad, poor, poor Sookie. She’s sitting at the kitchen table with the most heartrendingly pathetic scrapbook with only one picture of her and Bill in it. So much pink, girly, misplaced hope…blame the sadistic writers, honey. Then Cousin Hadley turns up with her ‘duh, knew that already’ warning about Russell and Bill courtesy of Eric and promptly runs off into the night, baffling Sook and everyone with her pointlessness. As she leaves, she is furiously thinking about this all being her fault in the first place. Hmm, dodgy dossier + Sophie Anne + Hadley+ Bill= wait and see.
Returning to nasty ole Jackson, Russell is leaving for his expedition to capture potentially useful Sookie when Talbot throws yet another heirloom tossing tantrum about being left behind. Eric is hovering around in a bad shirt listening intently and offers to ‘entertain’ the dramatic Greek with some manly fun for the evening that may involve Talbot getting impaled in a bad way. Just so you haven’t forgotten about his parents, he rescues that crown from being flung across the room. Back in Bon Temps, the disturbing Norris family is menacing Merlottes in their search for Crystal. Sam and Tommy get their hackles up and have a good sniff of these strange folks before rudely sending them on their way. Over at Lafayette’s colourful digs, the boys have managed to get Ruby Jean settled for the night. Jesus warns Laffy about the drug dealing being dangerous because of his ‘power’ and then they have a tasteful face sucking session.
Alas poor Talbot...what a way to go, eh?
I surely do appreciate how this show has increased my lusty appreciation of man on man, though it sends my hapless hubby bolting from the room in a cloud of cussing. More man love is going on in Jackson after Eric beats Talbot at chess. ‘I’m bored…take off your clothes.’ LMAO, I’m totally going to use that line one day, I swear. Still playing obedient, Eric sheds that nasty shirt in a suitably seductive fashion and they vamp-snog. Meanwhile, in a much less visually stimulating Hotshot, Jason is prowling around with his gun looking for trouble when he chances upon a dude devouring a deer carcass feline-style. Poppa Norris then comes home and Jason threatens to sic the ineffective Bon Temps cops on him if he doesn’t leave Crystal alone. Calvin is totally unbothered.
And now we come to the most exciting 8 minutes of True Blood this season. Sookie is lurking in her bedroom with a shotgun, waiting to fight or die, when pissed off Debbie turns up with two furry friends. Jess and Bill are on hand to deal with the werewolves downstairs, but Sook is on her own with trash talking and fighting off Debbie, which amazingly, she’s bloody good at. Bellowing a line from the Three Little Pigs (LOL), the Pelt kicks the door down and they start smacking each other around after trading a few insults, both supercharged on Sang de Bill. It’s dirty, messy and Sookie’s bedroom gets TRASHED, adding to the long overdue clean up job. In the front yard, a lurking Russell has got a hold of an overexcited Jess. Drawling super cool lines in his yummy voice, Bill mocks him and hands over his own ass for death to save his kid, who he knows will be able to deal with Gus the werewolf easily if she can just get the fuck away from the mean ole vamp.
Russell does that super villain thing of spending too much time talking about how evil he is/useless Bill is, while stomping all over Bill’s face and not killing him straightaway. This means when Talbot gets staked by Japanese porn scrolls whilst having the most awesome Viking sex in centuries, the King is immediately distracted and grief stricken and flies off, leaving Bill free to dash upstairs, where Sook has just slashed Debs across the face, threatened her with the gun again and seen her off the premises. Feeling pumped and awesome and totally in the mood for life affirming sex, both of them fall into each other’s arms and totally forget about the mess and that depressing break up shit for the rest of the night.
'You're bad for me but I don't give a shit at the moment...ooh, down boy!'
Because they love each other, and Bill is real sorry for all his bullshit, and Sook wants to vent some spleen in an orgasmic way and maybe show how good she is at dominatrix sex as a big fuck you to Lorena. Whatever the reason, I’m glad they end up on the floor going hard at it carpet-burns style, as it means I will probably go and stalk my hubby around the house for a re-enactment of chokehold cowgirl sexytime sometime soon. Just sayin’. Aww, you crazy kids, wuvs you so much in all your dysfunction. And while this chicka bow wow is going on, Jess is eating Gus with great gusto somewhere in the woods while Hoyt cries in his pickup. Aww, wuvs you guys too. The end, see you next week for more squeal-inducing television of campy, silly, filthy, gory awesomeness.
Note: 3 weeks have gone by and I haven’t gots me a single decent question for my Advice Column for Deranged Fangirls. I’m gonna need me a couple non-bullshit questions from real fans to get my creative juices flowing so if you want to read another instalment of sage advice before the end of the season, act now and send ‘em in to wikid@trueblood-news.com, or put them in the comments. You know y’all need help…or not. If you aren’t bothered, I’ll just go back to being lazy and decorative. You can see previous installments here: Fangirls Speak Out
Apt title CE because i certainly wasn’t expecting THAT ending…..and LMAO at your opening summary and your take on the f***ing fairies who i also hope don’t make a re-appearance anytime soon .
I absolutely loved this episode too for all the reasons you have stated …Daddy and baby vamp moments were just part of the awesomeness ! Sad to see Talbot go too but a vengeful Russell will make excellent viewing for us . And it’s actually the one and only time that i have had kind thoughts about Eric this season as he saved our lovely VB from a serious ass kicking or worse – although am sure Eric will do something soon to bring me back to my senses .
Brilliant recap CE …wonderfully witty as usual and a brillantly entertaining read . Br carefull with that choke-hold !!!
I agree about that choke hold. Remember to stop when the heart slows down. ;-D
Thanks for the recap. I couldn’t agree more on the staking of Lorena. It belonged to Sookie and taking that away from her has severely weakened her character in my view. Yes the chick fight with Debbie was good and sort of made up a little, but why couldn’t they have given Sookie two awesome fights in two days/episodes. She doesn’t always need to be rescued.
You’re right CE, the best episode of the season. And except for the Bill/Jessica training session it was the last 10 minutes that made this epi great.
The most unexpected, lovely, jaw dropping, do it again scene? Bill and Sookie making up. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Bill not being able to say “I’m sorry” enough just melted my heart and I think I said “I love you” more than Sookie did. : )
GREAT, AWESOME, WOW! I could go on and on with descriptions of their sex scene. You go Sookie!
Welcome back, CE!!!
::APPLAUSE::
Excellent recap, darlin’. Glad to have you back!
carpet burn on vampire ass? yeah doesnt happen. Sook can dominatrix cowgirl bill all night and nope…no burn!
thanks to eric for warning sook about russ. The warning about bill; well we dont know the full story about what hadley told eric about bill so I wont comment on the bill warning. But I will say that bit sucked! thank you thank you eric for unknowingly saving our bill!
i feel i have 2 acknowledge theo and alex for doing that scene. I havent seen anything like that on tv in my short life, and was anxious beforehand to see it, as we all assumed it was going to happen. But when the scene came around…there was chemistry and it was hott man on man action. (I wonder if we will see more sam and bill fantasies that kinda abruptly stopped…come on TB revisit that a little :))
the bill/jessica stuff was nice to see finally. I have been waiting to see bill really take on that responsibility as his number one priority.
Any1 else think the show is gonna make lafayette fae? the fairy world goes through a water portal. Lafayette explained to jesus that his mother told him he could breathe under water when he was a kid. Lafayette definately grabs peoples attention! hmmm we will see!
Have to say; anna is lucky she is small chested. Wearing a bikini big chested and lying down, they tend to gravitate laterally! Bastards! lol
Huh, Lafayette? Fae? Inneresting observation – that water comment surely meant something. But if I have to see Laff fluttering around in fairyland, well… let’s just not go there right now is all I can say.
Thank you CE for another fabulous recap! Also, kudos for saying that Bill knows Jess will be able to handle Gus. I’ve seen it all over the interwebs people are saying that Bill chose Sookie over Jess after Russell left, but as Bill can feel both of their wellbeing via the blood, I’m of the belief he does indeed know that Jess is OK and simply eating dinner.
yeah only an observation that popped in my head. Linked the whole water aspect. I doubt he is fae!
A to the MEN Liv and CE. Ole Gus went a running outside because he couldn’t handle Jess and then was begging for his life at the end there. Plus, Jess was very nearly orgasmic with her feeding. So yeah it’s about 1000% safe to say Bill knows she was ‘aight.
It made me love my vampire Bill so much more that he put his life on the line for wee Jess. Oh my vampire Bill!
Lame, so many pissed off people trying to paint Bill as a bad guy at every opportunity. He does enough stupid sneaky things on his own without making up shit as well. Fucking hell, I’m sick to death of arguing about the motives of fictional vampires with cretins.
Yeah, Jess was really into chomping on old Gus. I guess weres and shifters don’t taste all nasty like they did in the books.
best episode of the season for sure CE and your recap is just as STELLAR.
I was trying to look busy and mildly under control ( a stretch for me even on a good day) but your genius snark and incisive observations just near got me thrown out of the library (I am supposed to be researching … shhhh)… I nearly choked from repressed laughter
six-toed family…. chokehold cowgirl…
CE YOU’RE THE FREAKIN’ BEST!!!!! totally stoked at your return, as the good minion that I am!!!!!!
CE YOUR BACK!!!!!!!!!! And like gattopardo above, i’m trying my best to look serious at work and franctically scroll past the Sookie/Bill on the floor but keep scrolling back for a peek. i agree, BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON! Just hope this season doesn’t plummet like the last episode of Season 2. and YAY to see the Light of Day Institute Kit! Hopefully those crazy Newlins will show up again!
Good point about the pointless Hadley message! I was wondering why Eric stayed up and got the bleeds for that! Does he really think Sookie is so stupid that she didn’t realize Russell would be coming or is that just Eric’s way of saying, “Thinking ’bout you?”
Thanks for the recap. I’ll try to come up with a deranged fan girl question, but mine’s a quite level-headed kind of obsession! :-)
Thank you CE for a fab recap! I love your take and the pics/captions, especially the last one! Anna/Sookie sure has strong legs, which come in handy for strong woman on top sex!
I just got done with my review when I read your recap…and my self esteem did a Talbot and died.
I keed. It is great to have you back! Loved the episode and loved your recap just as much.
Nicely done CE! Your vacation and death defying mountain escape have only sharpened your wit and tongue. Clever and wonderfully entertaining a usual.
“Night falls, and at Merlottes little Tommy is wondering what it would be like to be kicked around the bedroom by Angry Tara. ” LOVE THIS!
Christ alive I missed your snark, excellent recap!
It’s hard to describe, but this ep kept a strong consistent buzz, with punches of watt going throughout its whole span. It was like getting surprisingly good ganj at a steal, and not knowing till you screw yourself by lighting up the night before the work week begins. I was already full of a few lemon drop cocktails, and Night on the Sun added endorphins and adrenaline to the mix. Very good Sunday.
RIP Talbot, have to say again. You knew exactly how much hair product to use, which neatly explains all the reasons we loved you. Curse Eric for his eye-for-an-eye approach. Hopefully there is going to be an uncut version of the gay sex scene, and a Making of. Would be a DVD essential, not an extra.
Bill and Jessica are just such a brilliant and beautiful father-daughter duo, bless’em. The dynamic comes from Bill having been robbed of his human children and left without any object for that kind of energy and affection left inside him, and Jessica having had more of a master than a loving human papa. That baggage, carry the 1, over to this new family, results in what the 2 finally are beginning to realize is a second chance at parenthood, and being lucky this time ’round with what dad your born to. I look forward to seeing these two respect and cherish one another, with some hilariously hijinky head-butting thrown in of course.
Been missing Franklin, glad to see a return next week. Makes me wonder though. They said Crazy Frank’s brain matter mess was about 2 bitches and a half to try and clean, but it would appear vampires can regenerate organs? I know they can rapidly heal surface wounds and third degree burns, but oozing bludgeoned heads? That’s a wow. Anyway, onto my black sistah, it seems the Sookie effect of bringing people together for her sake has worked once again: Tara and Alcide act like friends (and Tara already feels totally comfortable enough to drag him into her stomp-off last words). I remember Franklin saying Tara’s blood tasted “magical” (not in the exceptional way Sookie’s is, but still); and now we got Laffy’s daffy mother calling him “powerful” among the other lovely things she calls her son. Jesus is also surrounding him like an echo, and seemingly wanting to teach him things about himself other than he should let that fabulous guard of his down. All suggestion aside, there’s something supernatural about yet another clan of Bon Temps. Being on best-friend duty for others won’t be their only major function soon.
Glad Sookie and Alcide finally established that ever-unlikely romantic chemistry lol, though by my sarcasm, all can tell I’m quite bored with Sookie being the center of the sexy penis universe. But such is the case with anchoring heroines. It’s overdue for Alcide to come into his own as a character, so I hope they feature him in upcoming episodes by letting us follow him like a primary as he wolf-sprints back to Jackson and assumes pack command. Want more of his gorgeous hair-stylin’ sister too. Their super-sized sibling resemblance is a nice touch of good casting, so hopefully it hints at a great family chemistry for them.
Jason’s heart isn’t as retarded as his good sense is, so that coupled with his puppy-eyed, goofy-grinned boyish adorability, gives him the powers of a Captain Planet heart ring. He just emits those feel-good hopeful vibes when he means to comfort someone. Soak it in Crystal, while Sam and Tommy are there to first-platoon Daddy Norris’s pride of mangy cats.
Sookie n’ Bill, what can I say? They eclipsed an earlier sex act that should of been hotter, but noooo. I did have a little fun blocking out Sook and sitting on Bill myself. That man sure can buck, ooooo lawd.
And my brave Pam. A real Valkyrie, if ever my wit colored within the lines. She’s one of the few things Eric ever did right, and I fear for her being so devoted to her Maker and thus compelled to protect him from the retaliatory risks of his revenge. If ever there was anything worse than a woman scorned, it’s Denis O’Hare in character, and angry.
Awesome recap CE, wanna give you a great big hug from behind. Bet your hair smells nice. Till next week!
Nice recap yourself, Iclabon! Loved what you had to say.
wow lclabon, I loved reading you!
“Sookie being the center of the sexy penis universe” LOL touché darling! I call it the “Stackhouse Stud Stable” myself.
And after seeing her with Bronco Bill, well, I think the name is amply justified. And you’re right, he sure can buck.
“(Frank’s brain matter mess) was about 2 bitches and a half to try and clean” that my dear lclabon has just made it into my top ten favourite expressions of all time. Freaking brilliant! “if ever my wit coloured within the lines” AH!
thanks for sharing :)
Thx Aemac and gattopardo, I try. Happy that you liked reading.
“Stackhouse Stud Stable” – nice one! She’s got stallions in there to capacity. And I hate her.
you and me both girlfriend…
Ah welcome back – love it! Now WHERE were Russell’s spurs when a girl needs them, huh?
CE – oh how I have missed thee. Excellent, excellent recap. You got skills that I’m sure you could pay some bills with. Somebody pay this woman. I can only pay you by adding you to my long, but selective, line of girl crushes.
Welcome back, CE. You were missed, girl. This was a brilliant recap of my favourite episode so far this season. You have done yourself proud. Thanks to Latbfan for filling in as well. Now when I find Mark Blankenship’s Huffpost update for the Sucker Punch for this episode, my life will be complete. Naaah, I have to watch the episode a few more times, just so I know what I’m talking about when I comment. That’s the only reason, really! OK, OK, if you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida for sale on eBay for y’all. I have so missed Bill and Sookie doing what comes natural. Finally!!!!
CE welcome back!! As usual your recaps are awesome and make me laugh out loud so that people look at me funny from across the room (more than the usual strange looks I mean). I cried in the begining and was red faced breathing hard at the end. Who can ask for more from a TV show I ask you?
My husband runs out of the room too whenever there is man-on man stuff, He could have beaten that Jamacian guy running out of the room when I watched “Brokeback Mountain”.
I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat during the last 10 minutes of the show….I’m still re-playing certain parts so I can comment on them in an a accurate manner. Really …that’s why I keep watching Sookie ride Bill and Bill totally being into it (hehe) . In fact I havent seen my husband since May ( I”m taking care of sick family) and he “comes” tomorrow to get me. Sighhh
LOL sassylassie …..my husband just tuts during man on man stuff but he has watched Brokeback Mountain all the way through !
What more can you ask of a programme …need for tissues at the start and a fan and cold shower at the end ..
OOh you said it sister!!
Just wondering what we will need this week sassylassie ….unfortunately betting is on tissues !
awesome recap!!
I have to admit my dislike of Eric and my love of Talbot had me fast forwarding through that man on man session……….no interest whatsoever.
Skål, CitizenE! I see that your wild ride down the mountain and Sookie’s wild ride on Bill have reinvigorated you wonderfully.. How excellent to have one of the Golden Eggs back in the Nest.
Endorphins haven’t clouded your fashion sense. Yes, isn’t it amazin’ – they finally found something in all the world that actually looks terrible on Mr Skarsgard. (Team Bill take note: if you win the Battle of the Fang, that shirt is a real candidate for Eric’s Shamewear).
About the scene itself: I know that many Eric fans – fans in general – thought the Eric/Talbot sex just didn’t go on long enough. Me, I think that it went on long plenty long enough, because it was never, ever going to be pure erotic revelry.
We knew in advance what was to come: a ritualistic execution. And from the Judas Kiss to the heavily symbolic sodomy, every sexual beat was a dire, grim death roll. (Did the Japanese scroll work for everybody? At first glance it looked to me as if Eric was staking Tal with as a very large cocktail umbrella. )
Inventively cruel: Eric stays his hand just long enough to terrify Talbot with the truth of the situation, and to give Talbot that split second more of life to convey his terror to Russell. Now THAT’S putting a spin on this revenge business. Let the parent hear his child’s death scream.
The whole ep was more or less Parent-and-child night: the sins of the fathers (Russell), the Hamlet revenge (Eric), , the father-daughter reunion (the divine bill and Jessica scenes), Crystal’s Cooter-replacement dad, even Rene’s Demon Baby (and god knows where that’s going). But this episode I give it up for the sub-plot Mothers: J Cameron Smith as Melissa and Alfre Woodward as not-entirely-cracked Ruby Jean just blew everyone outta the way with their performances. God, these experienced pros are such a cut above some of the younger, rawer leads.)
And on the subject of sub-plots, the Sam and Tommy stuff just gets better and better and better, and the writers don’t overwrite – YAY! (Would someone put a moratorium on any further Tara-Sookie gabble?This is a three-month season, not a daily soap. No time for such frizzbat go-nowhere girly bubbles.
Okay, enough of my own bubbles: Moment of Truth
Most Adorable Couple: Russell and Talbot. I wanted them to adopt me.
Most Adorable Parent and Child: Bill and Jessica,
Best Candidate for Architectural Digest: KRE’s Wedding Cake mansion aka Talbot’s Topkapi Plantation
Most Consistent Storyline: The werewolves lose. Again. To everybody. Again.
Best Wordless Take: The wolf-hybrid, when Jessica flashes her fangs ( it does Wiley Coyote to perfection)
EB White Award for Maximum Eloquence, Minimum Words: Sam to Tommy ” Get that?’ (paraphrase)
AHAHAHA Loved your comments! I thought your take on Eric’s erotic staging of the revenge killing of poor Talbot was particularly insightful. I dont know if I wanted it to last longer, as we all knew where it was heading so it was all a matter of waiting for the blow, so to speak. but at the same time, I didnt want it to end, for the same reason.
It was eerily entrancing, like watching one of those Feline Predator Specials on Discovery Planet.
I take the liberty of adding these to your excellent list:
Best 6 Grader Moment: Bill and Jessica’s “No Way” – “Way”
Miss Manners Honorary Mention: jessica’s very polite and dainty little finger wave and “Hi” at the wolf she’s about to turn into supper
Best Mother-in-Law wrangling – Jesus and knife-wielding Ruby Jean
Pot-calling-the-kettle-black shocker – Jason asking sookie “are you brain damaged” while he gets her scalp a thorough look-see
Cowgirl Gold Saddle Prize – Sookie Stackhouse riding Loose-ianna Bronco Bill
Country-Western Fashion Statement Award – King Russell and his silver spurs
One-liner most likely to succeed in the adult entertainment industry – “I’m bored, that of your clothes”
Queer Eye for the Dead Guy Intervention Emergency – Eric’s horrid brown shirt
Ok with baseball cards, not with women Awareness Moment- Russell’s “I’ll trade you the red one, for the blonde”
I’m loving your list, gattopardo. Now, what I thinking is: When we come to the final nominations for Eric’s BotF Loser T-shirt, I am going to vote for “Bill’s Other Blondie” , but instead of a T shirt, I want it emblazoned on that striped shirt number
*gasp*horror* oh acanthus! talk about adding (sartorial) insult to serious ego injury.
You’re cruel… :D
Acanthus – I have to say, you dissected the Talbot execution with literary surgical precision. I want to be your vocabulary when I grow up.
And gattopardo – I so can see based miniature statues and gilded certificates getting shipped out for your awards list. Too funny! So you get the title of.. of… I’m no good at it! WAAAHHHH! :(
LMAO. The terrible two…you guys are amazing and I love reading your comments every week. Some seriously disturbed, genius minds y’all got there. I’m glad you liked the episode, and my humble ramblings.
Awesome !!
you said everything… ;P
Nice to have you back CE! I totally agree about Lorena. And agree about episode 8 being the best show of the season. How could it not after episode 7 and the total ruination of the lead female character?
Loved this Episode~ have watched it 4 times.
Had to cause I just didn’t beleive what I saw at the end~ I thought Sookie kicked Bill to the curb
and the next thing that you know they’re having mind blowing sex with her ON TOP!!
What gives????? I thought they would be broken up longer than 7 hours~ more like 3 weeks.
Now I so want her to End UP WITH ERIC!!!
Bill Compton HAS GOT TO COME CLEAN~ He HAS TO TELL HER THE WHOLE TRUTH.
While I agree about Bill telling Sookie the truth, whatever that truth is (and note Bookies, we still don’t know yet hmmm?), I do not agree about Eric. When that shit happens as it probably will, I’m taking an extra long skiing holiday. This love triangle currently only exists in PR, I havent seen any evidence in the show yet. They have a fuck of a lot of exposition to do to make that pairing in any way convincing to the story. I thought it would be much further along by now but no, Eric is all about doing Eric stuff and his interest in the Sook is peripheral to that. Alcide is a better bet for a new love, even if he is kind of dull.
I wonder what Eric (bookie) fans will do if the truth is revealed and Sookie STILL loves Bill over the Viking. Everyone is clamoring for the “truth” as if that will send Sookie directly into the blonde one’s arms, but you may be completely wrong about this.
CE is absolutely correct, I can imagine what the writers would have to do to send Sookie into Eric’s bed this season. Perhaps he could knock her on her head and drag her by her hair.
im pissed off with sookies character
bill had accepted that he and sookie were over and was moving on
then sookie turns around and says “hang on i wanna fuck you and mess with your head”.
Personally i wanna see bill end up with another female character so the sookie and bill bullshit will finally end, i mean im team bill for life i think he’d be betta off wit some1 else
oh my god people. calm down! who is the writer of the show? ALAN BALL not us. let him do what he does best. no matter who the Sook chooses, half of the world will be mad about it. i am a staunch Bill supporter (even after reading the books. Darn you Charlaine Harris!) and want them to be together forever. BUT………how boring a show would that be? sookie needs to get out there and get some experience even if it’s with nasty Eric (gross!) But wouldn’t you rather Sook CHOOSE Bill then STAY with him? that doesn’t make sense but i know what i am trying to say. and how come no one is asking why Sookie’s blood makes Bill Sun resistant? no one has broached that subject.
Because we collectively refuse to acknowledge the lameness that is Fairy Land, fae powers or super-duper fae blood.
It has been mentioned on this site in different threads.
Wonderful comments, all! CE, you have the most literate readers around. And welcome back. You did a great job of (almost) saving Bill. If you hadn’t been way-laid by the mountain you could have been the cowgirl…mmmmm.
Do any of you remember that Clancy was killed by a mace to the head in the fae war? Why wouldn’t it kill Franklin (other than we wouldn’t get to see his crazy “fuckedupness” again)?
Dr. CE-I need help real bad. I watch the week’s episode every night for the week and reread the books. I am even dreaming of the characters. What can I do to get out of Bon Temps and Jackson during the week? Help.
Does anyone know what song was playing and who does it during the floor sex and Hoyt’s ride? It doesn’t sound like the “Night on the Sun” in the series index.
Thanks for the info.
The song is called “Head” by Otep. After scouring the Internets and my trusty music downloading site, I was forced to purchase it from iTunes. But fret not, tis only $0.99 and was worth every penny. :)
CE, loved the recap, as always. Best b-day gift ever.
Thanks so much. The song is haunting.
CE, that recap should have come with a “pee first” warning!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR RECAP, CE!!!
Hi there!
As promised, here I am in my hangover after watching last night’s episode Night on the Sun.
Well, sometimes I wonder if TB in Portugal is the same as TB in the US
It was another great episode, although I already spoiled everything as I know a lot of how S3 ends and watched a lot of scenes in youtube and in other blogs, but still, here’s what I think about it:
1.Loved and LMAO with RE’s scenes, specially the one where he watches Talbot throwing and breaking things away, like a spoiled child
2.Loved Bill/Jessica doing some Karate Kid lessons – delicious
3.Loved Sook/Debbie scene at Sook’s, only missed the mud
4.Have some hard/mixed feelings about Talbot and Eric having sex-scene…still don’t know what to feel about that…but it was worth if only to see that gorgeous Eric’s naked body
5.Last but no least (and here’s the thing), I loved the final sequence with Otep’s Head of Medusa, including Hoyt driving and crying, Jessica “eating” the were and Bill/Sookie having hard sex on the floor (loved it)
I think that scene is hard and violent because of all Sook’s adrenaline and blood she had from Bill. I think Bill, once again, is there when she needs him even after they broke up the day before at the hospital (he “releases” her because he loves her as he wants her to have the life she deserves). My eyes and my heart saw honesty in Bill at the hospital and while talking about his feelings with Jessica. And, by the way, where was Eric, once again, when Sookie was in danger? Oh yes, he was once again busy with his own business, first (last episodes) with Pam and after that, with his personal revenge….then maybe, he’ll start concerning with Sookie….What’s with Hadley’s message to Sookie? Was there anything new that she wasn’t already expecting?
I’m still eager to see Eric/Sookie together, really, loved book nr 4, specially because of them, and I think B/S reaaly need to break up to have things arranged in their heads, but I don’t think Bill’s love for Sookie is fake or even obsessed, I think their love is deep and real!
Oh, almost forgot…I loved Sook and Alcide, there’s something nice there…