True Blood season 2 - the end

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Just finished watching the final two episodes of True Blood season 2 and...

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...I am sooo glad to see the last of Maryann. God, she was boring, and the last but one episode was the worst of the lot. The best bits of the ep were Sam taking Arlene's kids to Fangtasia and poor old Bill stuck playing Yahtzee with Queen Sophie Ann. Oh, and I liked the Jason/Andy team-up, but even the best bit of that was in the final episode, with Jason explaining how hard he has to work to get all that pussy. "I work out like a m***erf**ker and watch a lot of porn and stuff." Of course you do, Jason.

:pats his poor empty little head:

Actually, Lafayette's vision of Eric in Tara's mum's dress was pretty disturbing too. Heh!

Anyway, once they finally got shot of Maryann in the final episode, things looked up straightaway, with the lovely Bill/Jessica scene (bittersweet, considering she and Hoyt are on the outs :sob: and Bill doesn't know she's off murdering truckers while his back is turned. Kids today, eh?) Also, this episode confirmed me as a Bill/Sookie 'shipper - not to the exclusion of everyone else, but at base. It's odd. In some ways, they are like Bangel, but in other ways poor old Bill is very much stuck in the beta male position to Eric, like Spike was with Angel, so it's not as simple as Bill/Sookie being like Bangel and Eric/Sookie being like Spuffy. Anyway, I thought Bill's proposal was very sweet, even though you could see it was doomed to go down in flames.

Ultimately, I don't know if season 2 could be said to be a better story overall than season 1. Parts were better - the Godric/Fellowship of the Sun plotline - but parts dragged the way the serial killer story did in season 1. However, it continued to develop existing characters and introduced more, most of whom were very enjoyable indeed. Loved it (mostly).

I've also watched all the webisodes and chortled loudly over Jason praying to 'that lion from Narnia', and I've watched the promos and am hoping Tara won't have to spend the whole season being victimised again (it didn't look good for her in the bits they showed) and that Lafayette gets plenty to do. One thing's for sure, though, it'll probably be lots of fun.

Comments

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmm? Well, first I wish they'd stick a bit closer to the books. Secondly, Bill? He arrived with the hidden agenda from the start. Not the best recommendation.

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Really? I haven't read the books and probably won't, so I'm (mostly) happy with what we're getting. The major problem for me is one of pacing - ie. that the wrong storylines are being dragged out too long.

The character interaction is always first rate, though.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Well dang! So much for my vagueing that part up in my comment. I'm sorry you were spoiled, but then again, they're not sticking all that closely to the books and Bill seems to be AB's baby so there's a sizable chance they'll change that storyline.

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I suppose it was a spoiler, wasn't it, now I think of it - but only for the books, and like you say, it may not be the same in the show. Wasn't Queen Sophie Ann Bill's maker in the books? I wonder why Alan Ball changed that?

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

No. Sophie Ann was his Queen but not his maker. IIRC, that was always Lorena. He does have a link to Sophie Ann, though, but I'm not going to repeat it in case it carries over into the series.

The one major difference is that Bill didn't kill Lorena in the books and she especially wasn't killed in book 2. In fact, her role in book 3 was important enough that major plotlines for season 3 are completely up in the air as far as I'm concerned.

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No. Sophie Ann was his Queen but not his maker

Ah. Okay. I'm expecting Lorena back at some point in the show. After all, Godric's dead now and he was the one who said she should never come back.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

I thought Bill killed her. It's been a while since I saw season 2 but isn't she dead?

Hrm. Maybe I should rewatch season 2...

[calturner.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I was also under the impression that Bill had killed her, but found out that he hadn't when I rewatched S2 again recently. So I definitely think she'll be turning up again at some point.

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I agree. Unless they feel they have nothing else to say about the character/relationship.

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He definitely didn't kill her. She was last seen almost begging him to love her, being told by him to go and duly doing so. I felt really sorry for her, even though Godric's words to her were quite justified.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Yes, reeeeeeally! In fact, once in the series Bill was complaining to Eric that he had maneuvered Sookie into sucking out the silver and thereby taking in some of managed to give her his blood so quickly upon arriving. I assume it will come up sooner or later in the series. I agree with your comment on pacing, and the whole Maryann thing annoyed the hell out of me. Tiresome in the end. As I said, there is much to say for sticking closer to the novels, but the series is making the authoress a veeeeery rich woman. She, no doubt, sees the books and the series as separate entities, as do I. Wish it were less so.

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She, no doubt, sees the books and the series as separate entities, as do I.

She does. I just read an interview with her today in the latest SFX vampire special.