True Blood season 3 - ep9
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shapinglightA quick review before I have to rush off out.
Spoilers within, of course.
Just watched the ep and was completely riveted by it. Some wonderful stuff, though everything, apart from Eric's tender little scene with Pam, paled into insignificance next to King Russell's wonderful piece of TV grandstanding, which has probably put the kibosh on the Vampire Rights Act. His last line - "And now to Tiffany for the weather," - was just brilliant. I would not like to be Eric when Russell finally catches up with him, because Russell is very powerful, very, very angry, and possibly slightly insane.
Speaking of insane - though 'slightly' doesn't come into it - I was sort of sad to see the final demise of Franklin-Just-Call-Me-Psychopath Mott. However, after the turn Tara's story took in this episode, with the scene in the support group, there was no other way it could go, because the character wasn't really fun any more. Tara's angry words to Franklin stripped all that away, laying bare what he really is. After that, he had to go. I'm just glad Tara got to say her piece first.
A terrific scene with Arlene and the weird new waitress too. I'm hopeful that this character will turn out to be something benevolent, in spite of the fact that the actress looks so odd. She has such a huge mouth and eyes. I keep expecting her to turn into some kind of giant lizard.
Other minor characters also got great scenes, including Hoyt and Jessica (loved Hoyt's confession that he 'can't fucking stand' Summer. I can't either. She makes my teeth hurt). However, I'm still very miffed with Bill for not making sure Jessica was all right after Russell's visitation last week, and the trailer for next week has me worried about her all over again. Bill is really not a good vampire parent if he leaves her to face up to that all by herself.
Elsewhere, Lafayette and Jesus had some wonderful scenes, including the one with Lafayette's mum. I know there's more to Jesus than there seems, though, just as there is more to Crystal (though I'm afraid I find Crystal really boring and can't understand what Jason sees in her). It was nice to see Kenya again too, though she didn't have much to do. And has William Sanderson left for good? His name is still on the cast list.
Not a lot to say about Bill and Sookie this ep, though Bill's little trip to Fairyland(?) amused me. Still as cheesy as a 1970s porn film. Oh, boy was it! And maybe next week we'll finally learn what Sookie is, since it seems like Eric is going to have to use that knowledge to get himself out of a very tight situation.
Something tells me that the Eric/Sookie 'shippers among the people who prefer the books to the show will not like what Alan Ball does with this plotline. We'll see.
A fun episode, which brought one plotline (the Tara/Franklin one) to a close, and sent all the others spiralling towards the finale. It will be interesting to see which plots get resolved and which are left hanging fire for a whole year! Aaargh!
Spoilers within, of course.
Just watched the ep and was completely riveted by it. Some wonderful stuff, though everything, apart from Eric's tender little scene with Pam, paled into insignificance next to King Russell's wonderful piece of TV grandstanding, which has probably put the kibosh on the Vampire Rights Act. His last line - "And now to Tiffany for the weather," - was just brilliant. I would not like to be Eric when Russell finally catches up with him, because Russell is very powerful, very, very angry, and possibly slightly insane.
Speaking of insane - though 'slightly' doesn't come into it - I was sort of sad to see the final demise of Franklin-Just-Call-Me-Psychopath Mott. However, after the turn Tara's story took in this episode, with the scene in the support group, there was no other way it could go, because the character wasn't really fun any more. Tara's angry words to Franklin stripped all that away, laying bare what he really is. After that, he had to go. I'm just glad Tara got to say her piece first.
A terrific scene with Arlene and the weird new waitress too. I'm hopeful that this character will turn out to be something benevolent, in spite of the fact that the actress looks so odd. She has such a huge mouth and eyes. I keep expecting her to turn into some kind of giant lizard.
Other minor characters also got great scenes, including Hoyt and Jessica (loved Hoyt's confession that he 'can't fucking stand' Summer. I can't either. She makes my teeth hurt). However, I'm still very miffed with Bill for not making sure Jessica was all right after Russell's visitation last week, and the trailer for next week has me worried about her all over again. Bill is really not a good vampire parent if he leaves her to face up to that all by herself.
Elsewhere, Lafayette and Jesus had some wonderful scenes, including the one with Lafayette's mum. I know there's more to Jesus than there seems, though, just as there is more to Crystal (though I'm afraid I find Crystal really boring and can't understand what Jason sees in her). It was nice to see Kenya again too, though she didn't have much to do. And has William Sanderson left for good? His name is still on the cast list.
Not a lot to say about Bill and Sookie this ep, though Bill's little trip to Fairyland(?) amused me. Still as cheesy as a 1970s porn film. Oh, boy was it! And maybe next week we'll finally learn what Sookie is, since it seems like Eric is going to have to use that knowledge to get himself out of a very tight situation.
Something tells me that the Eric/Sookie 'shippers among the people who prefer the books to the show will not like what Alan Ball does with this plotline. We'll see.
A fun episode, which brought one plotline (the Tara/Franklin one) to a close, and sent all the others spiralling towards the finale. It will be interesting to see which plots get resolved and which are left hanging fire for a whole year! Aaargh!
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Date: 2010-08-16 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-16 05:30 pm (UTC)Scary icon. It's very...pink.
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Date: 2010-08-23 04:28 pm (UTC)Awesome Vampires are Awesome! And Bill kinda sucks. He is not awesome.
Date: 2010-08-16 05:31 pm (UTC)everything, apart from Eric's tender little scene with Pam, paled into insignificance next to King Russell's wonderful piece of TV grandstanding
In an episode with so many pieces of awesome (Lafayette and Jesus! Jessica and Hoyt! Nan Flanagan! Russel talking to Bloody Urn!Talbot!), these were the two stand-out moments. Pam and Eric had the most tender of many tender moments in this episode, and really showed how vampires are still so capable of human emotion, even if the way they go about expressing it seems off to us ("you need to become a maker" has the same emotional resonance as a dying man finding his immortality in his children, though it does entail the death of some random person). This is actually in direct contrast to the point Russel's grandstanding made: they do have things that equate to humans.
Russel's grandstanding by itself? The definition of the TV Trope Crowning Moment of Awesome.
The brief return and final demise of crazy Franklin did indeed put a lid to his being fun. I am constantly impressed by how a show with such silly, OTT plotlines can have such serious, heartwrenching moments such as Tara in the support group and Arlene talking to Holly, though I hope Holly is benevolent, too. I have a theory about her, and expect her to play a large, Maryann sized role next season, because it feels like the same set up to season 2 Maryann got in season 1.
Still curious about the truth about Jesus and Crystal. Jesus and Lafayette were the far more entertaining couple, but you know there's more to both love interests than meets the eye. With three episodes left this season, we should find out what's up soon.
Really, really disliked Bill's venture into the 70's porn fairyland. Allowing him there felt as inappropriate and as full of white-washing as allowing Twangel into the Twilight dimension. Can't see two more undeserving twats. And how gross was the shower scene! For gosh sakes, I was eating breakfast, and I found that a more disturbing morning meal accompaniment than the Dexter opening credits!
I kinda wish the show revolved around Hadley, if Hadley had been a bit more developed into an awesome character. Would have been a bit like The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but with Vampires.
Jessica was heart breakingly awesome this episode. Jason kinda sucked. Was actually bored by him, and wanted to go back to the more emotionally resonant scenes than my go-to guy for fun.
And can Tommy please go away? If he takes Bill with him, I'll be very greatful.
And I still think Sookie could evolve into a far more interesting character if we got her away from Bill.
Yep. Bill's on my shitlist this week. Still so not cool with him, if you hadn't guessed.
Re: Awesome Vampires are Awesome! And Bill kinda sucks. He is not awesome.
Date: 2010-08-23 04:31 pm (UTC)I really loved Pam and Eric's scenes together in ep 9, which continued in 10. I like the way TB manages to make the relationship between vampire 'parent' and 'child' so complex in the show. I know you're not keen on Bill, but I love his scenes with Jessica. They're probably my favourite Bill scenes of all.
And Jason was -unusually - a bit boring in ep 9. Not so ep 10, though.