Wow, what a week on True Blood. The episode starts with a bomb going off. Jess thinks about eating Hoyt's mom. Eric cries like a little girl, Godric bursts into CGI flames, and Lafayette opens up the whoop ass can. So make the jump and let's get to the good stuff.
Our episode starts, well about two minutes before last week's ended. Luke is telling Jason to go away, and Bill is telling Lorena the same thing. Bill tells Lorena she is dead to him, but seeing as she doesn't have a pulse, she is sort of dead to everybody.
Anyway, Old Bloody Eyes finally takes the hint and super duper fast vampire runs off into the moonset. This finishes up right as Luke hits the button on the bomb strapped to his chest and the house goes hooie kablooie.
Bill zips into the house and we find out that Eric shielded Sookie's body with his so she is stunned but okay. Eric tells Bill to catch the two doofuses who came with Luke, but who somehow didn't end up going all explodo with him. This is actually a cool scene as these two jugheads haul ass to their car and just when it looks like they are going to get away Bill pulls one of the doofuses out through the car window and chomps down on him for blowing up Godric's house.
There are people wandering around inside the house trying to figure out what just happened. Hello, an abstinent wingnut just blew himself up. We do find out that Jason is okay, and Sookie is no longer stunned so she pushes Eric off of her.
Eric is a little mopey and not his usual happy go lucky self. Wait it's Eric, happy go lucky isn't really his thing; what I mean is he's just kind of flopping around on the floor. Sookie asks what the problem is and he tells her he's dying. Sookie then asks why he doesn't just use his super duper vampire healing to make himself all better and Eric tells her the silver in the bomb is lodged in his body and he can't heal. He tells Sookie he needs her to suck the silver out of his body or he'll die. Sookie treats this news like she just got asked to, well suck silver out of Eric, but she does it, because he's tall, blond and super hot, he just saved her life and she's a good person.
Bill doesn't eat the wingnut because he wants him to tell the other wingnuts that a vampire showed mercy when they didn't. The wingnut takes off like a bat out of H=E-Double-Hockey-Sticks to send this important message, but I'm wondering if maybe a good brisk run is what this guy really needs right now, considering he seems to be bleeding from his neck like a stuck pig. Well I guess we can cross personal trainer off of Bill's best suited for job list.
After not finishing his food, even though vampires are starving in Africa, Bill comes into the house to see the one thing every guy wants to see right after a suicide bomber has struck, his girlfriend sucking bits of hot metal out of another guy's chest. Sookie explains she is saving Eric's life. Is that what the kids are calling it now? Bill gets a look on his face like somebody put a True Blood empty in the trash can for paper, and has to explain to Sookie that Eric just fed her a load of rich creamery butter.
Yeah it turns our Eric wasn't going to die, he just wanted Sookie to drink his blood, so he could always know where she is at and what her emotions are. Hmmmm, that's a little stalky. Sookie is mortified that Eric acted like such a conniving underhanded butt-hole. Have I mentioned lately how much I like Eric?
Godric finds out from spicy Latin vampire Isabel that big cowboy vampire Stan went to that last roundup in the sky. Godric shows less emotion then I do when somebody eats the last bran muffin at work (honestly, who eats a food whose best feature is how quickly it exits your gastrointestinal tract?), and tells everyone to head over to the hotel for the night. Everyone bails because when a religious extremist wingnut blows himself up, you just have to admit the house party is over.
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Comments (5)
Great recap yet again, Waffleboy. I'm loving Lafayette so much right now!
BTW: I don't know if you noticed it, but Sam (in the form of a fly) witnessed the incident with Tara/Eggs/Maryanne/Tara's mom/Lafayette at Sookie's house, and he also saw Maryanne's crazytown act at Merlottes. Now, what are he and Andy going to do with this knowledge?
1 of 5 | Posted by zbird | Posted on August 22, 2009 5:26 PM
"hey are sort of the trailer park version of Jess and Hoyt."
Wait, aren't J & H trailer park versions of themselves? :) Hmm, I had such a crush on LF last year, but this year, they're dressing him more 1980s drag queen than wife beater wearing, street builder doing, Merlott cook I loved.
Also, I'm starting to wonder about M's interested in Tara. Is she trying to make T into another Manead b/c she's slightly lost? If so, why'd she kill Daphne who was willing? Granted, Daphne was a shifter, but I'm shocked she didn't kill D with more of a ceremony. Or is she interested in Tara and Eggs, in the hopes they'll give birth to a little Manead?
2 of 5 | Posted by anicho01 | Posted on August 22, 2009 9:10 PM
Am I the only one who thought it was a bit creepy when Bill told Sookie that she would now be thinking about Eric sexually. Basically Bill was saying that is how he has kept Sookie all this time? It made me mad that Sookie didn't pick up on this.
The Sookie and Eric scene was great, Eric was sooooo different from the bad-ass Eric.
3 of 5 | Posted by carol | Posted on August 22, 2009 10:38 PM
Lafayette rocks almost as much as Waffleboy. =)
Alexander Skarsgård is a phenomenal actor! The crying scene was some of the best acting I've seen on the show. Eric is HOT - in a pale, skinny, evil way. He should bite me. I ain't "Suckie" but I can wear a blonde wig.
Bill is losing his mojo, I think. Godric dead... Good riddance! He was a wet blanket! Sort of like a vampire Geebus. I was waiting to hear some REM during his combustion. Lol. Screw that, I like my vamps mean and hungry.
Tara is a silly bitch. I get it - Poopyeyes = do bad things under a trance, but there was no poopy-ing of the eyes when she agreed to let the Satanic Partridge Family stay in SUCKIE's house. Lafayette should chain her stupid ass to a radiator.
Ok, random comment over. =)
4 of 5 | Posted by Good Lordy Shorty | Posted on August 23, 2009 2:26 AM
Hi everybody,
zbird, ugh, I did notice Sam doing that I just had a brain fart and didn't get it in to my recap, sorry about that. Of course I spent both those scenes thinking what would Sam do if somebody reached for a rolled up newspaper?
anicho01. well I don't think of Jess and Hoyt as being trailer park, because Jess lives in a crawlspace and Hoyt is at his momma's which the last I checked had a permanent foundation, but I can kind of see where you're coming from. How about we call Arlene and Terry Trailer Parkier?
As for what is going to happen next on this show, I'm sorry but I do not have a friggin' clue. I gave up trying to guess what happen when my elaborate theory about how Maryann's pig was Godric blew up in my face; since then I'm just along for the ride. That being said I think that murual Maryann showed Tara back at the swimming pool of the god Pan mating with a human and the fact she gave Tara a wedding cake for her birthday probably mean she wants to get a bun in Tara's oven. Maybe the god who comes? Still your guess is as good as mine.
carol, I noticed that too. There might be something to it, but Sookie seemed pretty attracted to Bill even before he gave her a taste of the old Compton blood, as opposed to Eric who she treats like poop on the bottom of her shoe.
Good Lordy Shorty, awww thank you for the compliment. I agree with you on Alexander Skarsgård, and especially that scene. He really showed us a part of Eric we had no idea was there.
Granted Tara was a nitwit supreme when she let Maryann into Sookie's house (just say no to dirty hippies), but let's leave the Partridge Family out of this. They weren't satanic, sure Danny has had his problems, but's that just because of the blow, steroids, and VH-1 contract.
Thanks to everyone for their comments and I'll get my next post up as quick as I can.
5 of 5 | Posted by waffleboy09 | Posted on August 23, 2009 10:16 PM