True Blood (HBO Series) Spoilers OK, with Warnings!

[Zudos]

Thanks Oilgun...

It was really weird at the end of this episode for Sam was writhing on dead Dawns bed wearing surgical gloves! I am sure this will be explained in subsequent episodes!!!!!!!!

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Thanks Oilgun...

It was really weird at the end of this episode for Sam was writhing on dead Dawns bed wearing surgical gloves! I am sure this will be explained in subsequent episodes!!!!!!!!

I'm biting my tongue to the point of tasting blood!  Yes, his bizarre behaviour will be explained

[Passion]

I remember wondering about Sam!  That scene in the bed was a mystery to me!  Those were fun days....when the show was just getting started!  Now it is obsession time!!

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I remember wondering about Sam!  That scene in the bed was a mystery to me!  Those were fun days....when the show was just getting started!  Now it is obsession time!!

I am so excited... So much obsession to come!

I wonder whether they will show series 2 back to back! We are so far behind!

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I watched the latest episode (2. again last night.

My favorite quotes:

Sookie:  [Godric] is your maker, isn't he?
Eric:   Don't use words you don't understand.
Sookie:  You feel a lot of love for him.
Eric:  Don't use words I don't understand.

Sarah: You're no better than Judas!
Jason: What did he do to you?

Q: Why was Eric wearing a tank top?  I'm not complaining, mind you, it's just that he looked under-dressed for the occasion.

[Passion]

I watched the latest episode (2. again last night.

Q: Why was Eric wearing a tank top?  I'm not complaining, mind you, it's just that he looked under-dressed for the occasion.

What was Godric wearing?  I haven't really figured out the clothing choices yet on the show.  Do Vampires mostly dress up?  Remember Pam and her heels?!  I think that it kinda showed that Eric is Godric's muscle.....hence he was the one that escorted the traitor out of the house. 

The quote you had from Eric and Sookie's interaction is what made me feel differently about Eric.  Maybe made him more human....his acknowledgment that he doesn't know certain things where as before he seemed to act like he knew everything. 

[oilgun]

OMG! A movie with both Alexander Skarsgard (in a dress!) and Andreas Wilson!  Why was this 2006 film never released here?  Or was it, and I missed it?

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xrYYlD9Lg8&feature=related

Alexander Skarsgard Plays Transvestite in Kill Your Darlings
August 13, 2009 by Janie Logan

With Alexander Skarsgard’s growing popularity as Eric on True Blood, Star Magazine did some digging into his past work. What they discovered was that he once played a transvestite in the 2006 movie Kill Your Darlings.

A small independent film from Swedish director Bjorne Larson, Kill Your Darlings features a motley crew of quirky characters on a road trip to Las Vegas to see a celebrity TV psychiatrist (a “Dr. Phil” type). The adventure soon becomes a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the group of misfits. Alexander plays Geert, a 6′4″ transvestite with suicidal tendencies after a string of relationships with cruel men.

Star spoke to the movie’s costume designer, Gina Hendrix, about what it was like dressing Alexander:

“It was a real hunt to find things that fit him. We finally found his main outfit, a dress and camisole, in a plus-size store for ladies. And let me tell you, the only women’s shoes out there that can fit a man’s size 13 foot look like they belong to a prostitute.”

The ensemble cast includes some other familiar faces, including Dexter’s Julie Benz and Boston Legal’s John Larroquette. The film was praised for its wacky, dark humor and was selected for the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

It’s nice to see some of Alexander’s depth as an actor. Most of us have probably only seen him playing the Viking vampire, Eric Northman, on True Blood, and perhaps as a Marine sergeant on HBO’s Generation Kill. His role in Kill Your Darlings certainly shows his softer side! Fans of Alexander might just want to take a look at a particular scene from the movie in which he shaves his chest and legs while wearing very little clothing.

http://truebloodnet.com/alexander-skarsgard-plays-transvestite-kill-your-darlings/#tvg

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Last night's was probably my least favourite episode, even though it was kinda sexy and a tear-jerker.

Here's a recap with spoilers, of course:


“True Blood”: Episode Nine Recap
By Michelle Kung
Team Eric fans must be frantically fanning themselves after the latest episode of “True Blood.” The Putin of the supernatural world, as a colleague describes him, basically hijacked the otherwise sleepy installment of the Southern vampire series, between his manipulative conning of Sookie into drinking his blood — consequently giving him the ability to feel her thoughts, and make buck-naked appearances in her dreams/nightmares — and his genuine shedding of tears for the death of his man-child maker, Godric. (And yes, for those who care, the black tank top is back.)

Overall, Episode Nine — entitled “I Will Rise Up” — only inched the plot forward. Picking up with Luke’s suicide bombing of Godric’s Dallas lair, we quickly learn, to no one’s surprise, that everyone important is still alive — or at least, for the vamps concerned, not permanently dead (RIP Stan). As Godric sorrowfully looks at the debris that was his home, Bill rushes in, after his tete-a-tete with Lorena, calling Sookie’s name. He discovers her leaning over Eric’s body, sucking silver bullets out of his chest, to “save” his life. He forlornly informs Sookie that she’s been had: Eric was never in any danger and was probably already healing, but the damage is done. Eric will now be able to sense her every emotion and know where she is at all times. Sookie: “You A-hole!” Eric: “Bill, you’re right. I can sense her emotions.”

Bill later explains to Sookie that not only is she now metaphysically connected to Eric, but she may also find herself sexually attracted to him. This being “True Blood,” a show that never met a sexual fantasy it didn’t like and want to depict in all its graphic glory, Sookie consequently has a dream about spooning — in the buff, of course — with Eric. Dream-Eric tells Sookie he admires her ruthlessness in defending the people she loves, and says, “This is the beginning.” “In the real world, Sookie finds herself empathizing with the Viking vamp after Godric, his maker and long-time friend, decides that his time is up. Forced to resign his post as sheriff by Nan Flanagan, vampirekind’s in-house PR guru (who knew?), Gordric orders a teary Eric not to stop him when he chooses to meet the sun — and thus, his own mortal maker. He does this even after Eric drops to his knees and begs his pal o’ thousands of years, in their original Norse, to “please, please” stay. Godric, who is in the process of finding God, is unrelenting. Sookie, who has overseen this exchange, offers to remain with Godric until he is gone.

When not involved in her vampire love triangle, Sookie, who was surprisingly not annoying in this episode and adorably attired, in a pink gingham dress to boot, also gets in some quality time with brother Jason, who apologizes for falling under the spell of the Fellowship of the Sun and generally being a “dumbass.” In a genuinely touching heart-to-heart, Sookie tells her brother that he’s not dumb, just lazy, and the two of them need to grow up and be each other’s family. (In a nice touch, a quarreling Steven and Sarah Newlin appear on television, and Jason dismisses them as “a witch and a “sonofabitch.”

Meanwhile, Hoyt introduces his own spiteful witch of a mother — and hater of vampires, Methodists, Catholics, ladies who wear red shoes, and, well, just about everything — to Jessica, whom she drives away from the dinner table in tears after telling the perma-virgin she’ll never be able to give her human boyfriend babies. And in Maryann world, in an increasingly annoying plot line which seriously needs to pick up the pace if it intends to be the big show-stopping finale, the Dionysian worshipper continues to encourage Tara and Eggs to drink shots, be merry, and beat the crap out of each other in the name of chaos (a concerned Lafayette manages to kidnap a black-eyed Tara and throw her into his car). Maryann also gets screechy when she discovers Sam — who shape-shifts into a fly to escape his jail cell — has slipped through her fingers again. No longer playing games, she enters Merlotte’s bar in a huff and uses her ability to tap into people’s emotions to order all the bar’s patrons — including Hoyt’s mother — to bring Sam to her.

When will Tara see the light? Will Sookie soften to Eric? What’s in store for Hoyt and Jessica?

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SPOILERS

Some comments about last night's episode:

1- I was very disappointed that the supposedly oh-so powerful Godric turned out to be a self-loathing wimp of a vampire suffering a crisis of conscience.  Last week he seemed so wise and confident and this week, after one little set-back, he gives up and kills himself?  What a wuss!    

2-   How old is that Nan Flanagan that she can have  power over the 2,000 year old Godric and have the authority to fire him from his post as sheriff?  I thought she was just a media spokesvampire.  

3-  A human suicide bomber blows himself up inside a vampire lair.  How is that "a major national Vampire PR disaster"?  Seems to me it qualifies more as a Human Christian PR Disaster.  I mean the vampires were the  victims.

4- Is silver debilitating to vampires or not?  In a previous episode, Bill is completely incapacitated by a silver necklace, yet in this one, Eric is riddled with silver shrapnel and we find out that his healing body can just "push out" the silver? WTF?!


All in all, a most disappointing episode.

[Zudos]

Nooooooo I can not believe they just killed off the grandmother!!!! I loved her character... 

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Well I'm late to the party, but I'm a fan of True Blood too.

Wayne -     I'm getting a kick out of your reactions to the first season, knowing already how it plays out.  I hated to see Grandma go, too.  Do you have any suspects, yet?   

SPOILER

I thought last weeks episode was weak, too.  Godric, I guess after 2000 yrs, just gave up.  It was odd to have him talked about as such an all powerful vamp, that he went out like that.  And I agree about the inconsistencies with the silver.  ??  But - it can't be counted all bad when you get to see Eric laying in bed naked....

Got a good chuckle from Hoyt talking to his Mother, describing the people she hates.  The actress playing her has some great facial expressions.  lol

And, I'm glad to have the story going home to Bon Temps (sp?) next week.  It looks like the different story lines (Sookie, Bill, vamps and Mary Ann, Tara, Sam) are finally (FINALLY) going to merge.  Should be good.

terry 

[Zudos]

Well I'm late to the party, but I'm a fan of True Blood too.

Wayne -     I'm getting a kick out of your reactions to the first season, knowing already how it plays out.  I hated to see Grandma go, too.  Do you have any suspects, yet?   


terry 

OMG! Terry. Its so cool that you are a fan tooooo. I have no idea... Was not sure if it was Sam, as he seems v weird... All that stuff rolling on the bed! But he was with Sookie...

I looked at Gran, and saw her in Fried Green Toms at the Whistlestop... Miss Threadgood... ahhhhhhhhh

 

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OMG! Terry. Its so cool that you are a fan tooooo. I have no idea... Was not sure if it was Sam, as he seems v weird... All that stuff rolling on the bed! But he was with Sookie...

I looked at Gran, and saw her in Fried Green Toms at the Whistlestop... Miss Threadgood... ahhhhhhhhh

 

Poor gran!  It was a big deal in the blogosphere when she was killed off.  I found it very unsettling, all of a sudden no character was safe anymore, not even the main ones.  Visiting other TB forums is dangerous.  Invariably one of the "bookies" (those who read the books) will drop a spoiler-bomb without warning.

Last night, I watched the episode yet again, and was able to enjoy it more.  I guess I'm getting over the Godric thing.   

[Passion]

Spoilers for this season-

Do you think as vampires get older they become less effected by silver?  Maybe that is why Eric could help himself?  The media vamp must be old because it seems that everything is based on age in the vampire world!

I really can't wait for the two main storylines to come together.  Bill has to off Maryanne!  Or Sam does somehow! 

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OMG! Terry. Its so cool that you are a fan tooooo. I have no idea... Was not sure if it was Sam, as he seems v weird... All that stuff rolling on the bed! But he was with Sookie...

heh, heh, heh.   

terry