True Blood

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- Oh man, this show is just a rollercoaster ride of fun, sex, horror and blood, isn't it? I ♥ it so.

- I adored the scene with Pam and Lafayette in the kitchen at Merlot's. Both of them have such strong presence, and such a way with words that watching them play off each other was emotionally hypnotizing. I was just utterly blown away by Pam's nonchalant smackdowns ('I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I wanna hear their problems ... Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember, I can rip out your throat if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker; that was a long, long time ago,' all delivered in the most beautiful, dangerous throaty purr you've ever heard in your life), and then the bottom of my gut dropped out when I saw the disproportionate affect it had on Lafayette, suffering from his PTSD. All in all an amazingly wraught scene that gave a great showing of both characters' lighter, wittier sides, and also their darker, nightmarish ones.

- Similarly, Eric and the Queen gave a great showing first as guilty schoolchildren hiding a note from the headmaster, and then as feral animals, fighting for status. I especially loved Askars' vicious little snarl at the back of the Queen's neck; a vain, pointless gesture, because she had already won the power struggle, but one that speaks to the animalistic instinct riding vampires. I just loved that we got the shiny, aristocratic sheen scrubbed off for an instant, and then snapped back on.

- Sam's vampire sex dream! OMG! They've hit their stride in third season, and hopefully they'll be more willing to pull out the stops when comes to queering up the screen. So far, they seem to be dipping their toes into the pond with the really restrained, but utterly blatant, masculine sexuality of the dream, and the touches of Pam's bisexuality being treated more and more as just a day-to-day facet of her character. I hesitate to include the two New York Uni girls making out, because that trends more to the whole 'two girls kissing for a boy! Pull in the ratings!' But still, if this episode was an indication of the more varied sexual directions they'll be branching out into, I'll be very glad.

- I'd forgotten how gosh-darn pretty everyone is. Askars is so looooong and ripple-y, and Ryan K.'s tan is beautifully golden both their asses are insanely cute. Jessica is just transfixing in everything she does and Pam! Oh, Pam! With her silky, curling blonde hair and the fine silhouette she cut in stilettos down in Eric's ~SEX DUNGEON~.

- Speaking of, Eric has a ~SEX DUNGEON~. This could have been the entire episode, and I would still be clapping my hands with glee. His satin red Hugh Hefner shirt was amaaaaazing. As was Pam's little severely less than half-hearted, 'Oh, no, please, stop,' as Sookie went charging through.

- Goddamn, Askars does inhuman so scarily well.

- I'm unsure how I feel about Tara' storyline at the moment, probably because it's meant to make me feel highly uncomfortable. Her mother's religious fervour, the unsettling complacency of Tara in the second half of the episode, coupled with her single-minded determination to commit suicide; it feels like she's being drained of agency by her mother's overwhelming, self-righteous kind of love and her own misery. This is tragedy, and it's aftershocks well done, but I do hope her storyline doesn't wallow in it, because I adore Tara so much, and watching her like this is like a punch in the gut.

- I would like to see Pam and stripper lady having girly chats. Yes indeed. And Eric being unsettled by it and trying to eavesdrop. I just want backstage Fangtasia shenanigans!

- My irritation with Sookie and Bill as characters has faded. I think first season it was probably warranted, and last season was more hangover from the first and being affected by the dislike of other people. Now, though I prefer to watch the Fangtasia!Show, I find Bill very compelling, and Sookie fun to watch as this little blonde force of nature that runs around throwing everyone's noses out of joint.

- Oh, Jessica's storyline is pure horror, and is creepifying, morbid and brilliant to watch. I was really hoping that she would turn to Eric and Pam for help, and thus be set on the Primrose Path for her season arc, but watching her flounder and learn to be a vampire, learn all her grotesqueries and dark limits all by herself is even more compelling. Hoyt is her one bright spot, she's Hoyt's.

- Query: Is the magistrate higher status than the Queen, or simply dangerous to her by way of being pure Law?

- Also, I almost forgot. Thank bloody hell they're giving us proper werewolves and not those horrible gangly half-human weird looking things that have been the trend lately.




















'The blood is sacred. Wasting it on anything other than procreation is blasphemy.'
'Madness.' 'Desecration.'