After Antonia’s Suck-on-Sunshine spell, King Bill calls the Moongoddess Emporium, and he and Antonia agree to meet alone at midnight in the Bon Temps Cemetery to peacefully resolve their perspective differences. Everyone is entitled to his or her own grievances, but a secret graveyard rendezvous is never a safe or wise decision. Once there, both sides reveal that neither one lived up to their end of the bargain, and the King and Antonia have backup ready and willing to fight. Sookie “hears” Antonia casting a spell and warns Bill, which causes Antonia to get all grouchy with Sookie for wielding unholy powers of telepathy. (Does that make any kind of sense, coming from the spirit of a burned witch who’s possessing someone else’s body? Maybe she was just upset that an almost-human was siding with the enemy?) Both sides’ deceptions outed, the tension erupts into violence.
It’s difficult to decipher exactly what happened in the ensuing melee because of the darkness, mystical fog, and battling armies of characters we’ve never met before. But it appears that someone should’ve grabbed a firm hold of Eric, who starts the altercation while under the influence of the witch-version of glamour. (Ironic, really, given that one of Antonia’s vocalized complaints against the vampires is their ability to take away a human’s free will.) An animalistic Eric savages a young woman brandishing a sliver platter to start the battle, and later he kills a witch-man, proving that Antonia doesn’t have a problem with collateral damage. At least one vampire meets his final death thanks to Tara, and Pam would’ve killed Tara if Bill hadn’t stopped her (we all know that was for Sookie’s benefit and not because of Tara’s sparkling personality). Sookie was shot, although it’s hard to tell by whose bullet, but Alcide was there to whisk her to safety since Bill was being silvered and Eric is now under Antonia’s control.
For all those who died, and for those deaths I missed, rest in peace.
Tara was awesome in his first vampire kills count :) I don’t like the fact of Eric killing innocent people, maybe he was being manipulated, maybe not.
Thers that idiot with the serving platter. Just proves my point that she should have chosen the pie server or the perhaps the tongs from the silver set, rather than the platter. Not that a lot of things could save you from Eric Northman, but I think the serving platter was damn near suicide. Thanks for the nice obit! Love them.
And so begins one of what I anticipate will be many obituaries for crowds of nameless extras this season. As always, great write up and I wish you much luck in the coming weeks.
Great obit/recap (a two-for-one latbfan special!), and damnfine try at sorting out the blur of casualties. I’m as mystified as to why Antonia put her power circle of Summoners in the firing line armed with tea trays and salad servers, as others are why Sook guilted Eric into coming along. Bill wasn’t even distracted by the pitiful humans, and Eric was, well just witchbait despite yummy blood.
And why did Antonia just laugh her trademark throaty Laugh of Doom when the laser sights were trained on her? If she’s now impervious to bullets, why did she need her witchy accolytes? Ah, the confusion (writers? mine?)
Who did Tara shoot, I wonder?
Maybe she brought them along as cannon fodder. If the vampires are busy killing them off it gives her more time to do something against the vampires. If she really cared about the other witches she would not have brought them along to fight against the vampires when she is the only one with any real powers.
Thanks, everyone, and a special shout-out “THANK YOU!” to both Liv and my peep Twitche for helping me try to sort out who died and when and by whom. It was a daunting task. The end-credits are overflowing with names I didn’t recognize, so I assume these folks are named characters. Much like “Ensign So-and-So” on the Star Trek away team, those poor people never stood a chance.
I, too, am baffled by the entire sequence of events. If Antonia is that powerful, there was no need to bring along a coven of ill-equipped wanna-bes toting their grandmother’s silver pieces. And I do believe Eric wasn’t acting of his own free will, and if that’s the case, why didn’t she have him kill other vampires, rather than her humans? Bill should’ve had his people swoop in at vampire-speed and tranquilize everyone, Antonia first, and sort it all out back at the house, with locked doors and well-lit holding cells. It was entirely messed up on both sides, as if the entire incident existed just so Eric could make Sookie cringe before she nearly died.
Agree, it was a mess. I think Antonia wanted a vamp to kill one of her group, so that then she would have the excuse for a full out war. She wanted to be able to say the vamps struck the first blow and she used Eric to do it.
I do enjoy your obits and yes, you are going to be very busy the way it looks..lol.
I think Bill saving Tara wasn’t just for sookie. I felt as if that was him settling a debt from season three when he refused to assist from that incident.
If I was going to use the silver serving platter defense, I would channel Marty McFly, channeling Clint Eastwood, and wear it under a festive poncho!
Lol! Hopefully wearing a gigantic sombrero (over the appropriate sized silver serving bowl of course)!
LOLOL! And don’t forget the cheroot! (mini wooden stakein disguise)
A cheroot. Im still laughing. Does anybody know what the woman/man held up to Sookies neck? It looked like a giant dental mirror to me. See, I would have wwwaaayyyyy too much fun with this as a writer of this series.
Great visual!
The writers must get all their sarcasm and snarkiness out by setting up these scenes. It makes me think of Terry Bellefleur in season 2, when he tried to stake 1 of the vamps that came into Merlottes, and he yelled “Jihad this Mother F**kers”! Some of this stuff makes me giggle more than it should. I gotta get out more.
I was a little stunned to see the strongest vamp (Eric) immediate head for the weakest girl defending herself with a serving tray. Then, he stopped for a snack with the next guy. WTF???
So no other vamps killed anyone?
Eric could have wiped them all out if he hadn’t stopped for a snack?
I hope the final confrontation with the witches is better, because this little cemetery brawl was kinda lame.
I felt bad when the actress from Sons of Anarchy got killed, she is so good and I wanted her to be on longer, like her way more than the Holly actress.
E:Online spoilers said that Bill did the bad and killed witches, but it was Eric. WTF – can’t even get spoilers right, E:Online.
Eric was not cool doing what he did. I don’t think any of the other Vamp Team killed other than Eric? Though Tara did kill a Vamp.
I don’t think Eric was under a spell when he killed – he did it because he likes doing it. He has not control AE or just E. Remember Royce?
I think Bill saving Tara was a debt thing.
If Marnie can control the dead, why didn’t she just summon some zombies?