True Blood Season 3 ep 4
Jul. 12th, 2010 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI don't know! Seems to me that every time I go away, no matter how quiet LJ is the rest of the week, it suddenly explodes with posting. I've been offline for only two days and I already know I shall never catch up. :(
Anyway, some thoughts on the latest ep of True Blood behind cut, with spoilers, obviously
That was definitely the creepiest episode of True Blood yet, mainly because of James Frain having a whale of a time as the obviously deranged Franklin Mott. I suppose the writing was on the wall about the character from the moment his eyes lit up when Tara started hitting the rednecks, plus that he wouldn't bite her when she offered and got that rather unpleasant look in his eyes when he said no. I had a slight hope that he would turn out to be a tough, but okay-ish in vampire terms, private eye, but no. He's nuttier than a whole lorryload of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut (to use appropriately British comparisons). The one good thing about it is that he's no nuttier, and no nastier, than all the other vampires in the show. Which I am still enjoying enormously, btw, though increasingly getting the feeling that doing so is frowned upon. :(
Elsewhere, the Jason/Andy love affair hit a rocky patch, Sam's family continued to be annoying and Jessica made a very good waitress. Her "It's not fair! I'll never be 18!" was one of the highlights of the episode, along with Eric's dream about Sookie, the Eric/Lafayette scene (sadly, I fear, nothing will happen between those two, though it should, but Lafayette is just too smart), and Eric throwing himself on the Magister's non-existent mercy for Pam's sake. Aww!
In fact, of all the vampires in this episode, only Eric and Pam came out of it with any credit. Oh, and Jessica. The rest of them were enjoyably yucky and deranged. Even Bill, who didn't exactly cover himself in glory here. Quite the opposite. :switches to Team Eric for the moment:
Have to admit that so far, where the main Sookie plot is concerned, Alcide the werewolf isn't doing a lot for me, but the werewolf plot in general - or at least how they're connected to evil vampire king Russell - is quite interesting. Looking forward to seeing where that goes, and to what happens when Sookie finally catches up with Bill. One thing's for sure, no matter how tolerant she might be of his former bloodthirsty ways, I don't see her being too impressed with what he did in this episode, no matter what his motives turn out to be.
As for the other plots - well, I think possibly there are just too many of them and it would be better to concentrate on one or two per episode instead of trying to give every character just a little bit to do every time. Also, it would be nice to have an episode where Tara wasn't being traumatised in some way, even if in this instance, I am rather enjoying the character doing the traumatising, the creepiest thing about him being that I think he means what he says. :shudder:
Anyway, some thoughts on the latest ep of True Blood behind cut, with spoilers, obviously
That was definitely the creepiest episode of True Blood yet, mainly because of James Frain having a whale of a time as the obviously deranged Franklin Mott. I suppose the writing was on the wall about the character from the moment his eyes lit up when Tara started hitting the rednecks, plus that he wouldn't bite her when she offered and got that rather unpleasant look in his eyes when he said no. I had a slight hope that he would turn out to be a tough, but okay-ish in vampire terms, private eye, but no. He's nuttier than a whole lorryload of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut (to use appropriately British comparisons). The one good thing about it is that he's no nuttier, and no nastier, than all the other vampires in the show. Which I am still enjoying enormously, btw, though increasingly getting the feeling that doing so is frowned upon. :(
Elsewhere, the Jason/Andy love affair hit a rocky patch, Sam's family continued to be annoying and Jessica made a very good waitress. Her "It's not fair! I'll never be 18!" was one of the highlights of the episode, along with Eric's dream about Sookie, the Eric/Lafayette scene (sadly, I fear, nothing will happen between those two, though it should, but Lafayette is just too smart), and Eric throwing himself on the Magister's non-existent mercy for Pam's sake. Aww!
In fact, of all the vampires in this episode, only Eric and Pam came out of it with any credit. Oh, and Jessica. The rest of them were enjoyably yucky and deranged. Even Bill, who didn't exactly cover himself in glory here. Quite the opposite. :switches to Team Eric for the moment:
Have to admit that so far, where the main Sookie plot is concerned, Alcide the werewolf isn't doing a lot for me, but the werewolf plot in general - or at least how they're connected to evil vampire king Russell - is quite interesting. Looking forward to seeing where that goes, and to what happens when Sookie finally catches up with Bill. One thing's for sure, no matter how tolerant she might be of his former bloodthirsty ways, I don't see her being too impressed with what he did in this episode, no matter what his motives turn out to be.
As for the other plots - well, I think possibly there are just too many of them and it would be better to concentrate on one or two per episode instead of trying to give every character just a little bit to do every time. Also, it would be nice to have an episode where Tara wasn't being traumatised in some way, even if in this instance, I am rather enjoying the character doing the traumatising, the creepiest thing about him being that I think he means what he says. :shudder: