While possessed Lafayette tries to drown Sookie, her
distress rings Bill’s Sookie alarm – he lets Warlow go so he can zoom to the rescue,
slamming Lafayette against a tree before using faerie light as an exorcism.
Post exorcism, Sookie gets to curse her father out.
Unfortunately, having saved Sookie, Billith then summons
Warlow back; Sookie grabs his hands and they do a sunlight faerie teleportation
thing (that’s new) to parallel faerie soft-focus world. Billith is not
impressed and tries to find Jessica to ask her about the pull when he summoned
her, but she’s missing. Billith realises his visions of vampires dying are
happening and starts angsting
Solution! Induce a coma so he can talk to Lillith. Yes this is the level of logic Bill is working under now. I agree with Takehashi, Bill you are out of your ever loving mind. Bill glamours Takehashi into draining nearly all of his blood, leaving him for a day, then putting it back
In the land of saccharine twee, Warlow asks Sookie to
engage in some bondage. It seems with
the sun sinking Warlow’s vampire nature comes out to play and he can’t always
control himself, especially when he’s hungry. So they tie him to a stone which
Warlow binds to the Earth with his light (I’m less worried about him moving the
stone and more concerned about the fact you’re using VINES to try and pin a
vampire, even with the knots sealed). Also Sookie sucks are tying knots and did
Warlow deliberately choose a stress position?
They make small talk about Warlow being born in 3500 BC
and how Sookie is special enough to be worth waiting for. Sookie asks why she
thinks the contract was ok and he points out it was written in the 1700s,
arranged marriages were hardly taboo at the time. It seems if Warlow turns
Sookie it also helps him immensely with his hunger and pain – because they
could both live just off each other’s blood. Just them together forever – which
is totally not creepy coming from someone he just met.
At the vampire camp, Eric and Pam square off and Pam is
not amused that Eric has made another vampire. They levitate into the air
looking awesome – before blurring into motion, opening the gun ports at the
side of the cell and killing the guards prepared to shoot them. The
psychiatrist loves the show (I kind of like him in a deeply creeped out
fashion) everyone else watches the show except Steve Newlin who is scared. Pam
and Eric impale the guard with one of the stakes they’ve been given – driving the
stake right through the bullet proof, one way glass separating them from the
spectators. Eric looks through the hole and sees Steve who duly starts
whimpering.
Truman and Eric engage in mutual taunting and Truman
rolls out Nora information he got from that “vamp queen” Newlin. They inject
her with a new plague they’ve created – hepatitis V, contagious, lethal and
anti-vampire.
And Jason is volunteering to join the LAVTF – the anti-vampire
police and he actually interviews really well because his long experience
around vampires has given him a whole lot of experience and knowledge. He plays
the part well and the enthused recruiter goes to get the boss, while Jason
disgustedly mutters about them being “racist.”
He joins easily and begins regaling his fellow LAVTF
members with tales of his exploits when he’s introduced to Sarah Newlin he
pretends to be a stranger to her and she the same - after all, she’s hardly going
to want to reveal she slept with Jason while with Truman. Which is exactly what
he threatens her with which would work if he didn’t call her a “whore for
Christ” which is wrong on many levels.
In solitary confinement Willa confronts her father and
demands to be let into the general vampire population;. She wants no preferential
treatment so he can salve his conscience. She blasts him with some quality
contempt.
To motel pointless where Nicole brings some sense to Sam
asking what he’s doing running to nowhere in particular, dragging along a
little girl who lost her mother and her father. And Alcide’s dad, who happens
to be staying in the motel, tells Alcide where they are – but also to leave
them alone. Alcide ignores him even if he is speaking sense. Can something eat
Alcide now, please? The room is empty when they arrive, but both of them pick
up a scent from the mattress.
At a petrol station, Sam meets up with Martha, Emma’s
grandmother and hands Emma over. He listened to Nicole – it’s best that Emma be
with her family – but not with Alcide’s pack. Martha agrees, she’s left the
pack anyway. And Emma runs to Martha’s arms (she was screaming to escape not a
few episodes ago). Emma and Sam make their goodbyes.
Alcide catches up with Sam and growls and rages because,
well he’s an arsehole. Sam asks what his problem is and it seems Alcide is
trying to blame him for Nicole – but with Nicole no longer wanting to go near
werewolves why is that still an issue? Seems Alcide is on one big power trip
and warns Sam he won’t protect him from the pack if he’s found in the area.
Fine, Sam’s a shifter – not a were, turn into a tiger or a polar bear or an
elephant and start eating wolfies. Nom nom wolfies.
At the Bellefleur house, Andy and Holly sit with the
remaining fairy girl – number 4 – who asks for a real name, Adalind. And so she
can remember her sisters he names them as well; and takes her sisters’ names as
middle names (or hyphenates) to remember them.
Back to Lafayette and another pointless Bellefleur –
Terry – who wants to give Lafayette his safety deposit box key. Lafayette is
suspicious and isn’t sure he wants Terry’s key, though he takes it. Why do I think
someone else is pulling Lafayette into their issues? And terry uses the excuse
of his friendship with Lafayette – have we even seen these 2 interact?
Lafayette calls Arlene and she talks to Holly about
worrying about Terry committing suicide. Holly has a solution – make a vampire
glamour Terry until he can’t remember the war that caused his PTSD! And Holly
has a gay vampire to call to run to their rescue.
Wow, they’re shipping in GBFs for every damn thing. They
call in Holly’s gay servant who they don’t even bother to make a character of
to glamour Terry and erase vast chunks of his memory – including the marines,
the war and a whole lot of this-is-going-to-bite-you-in-the-arse-later.
The next day, Terry is bouncing around all happy and
gleeful – goes outside and is shot in the neck. Terry already arranged his
suicide ahead of time, getting one of his army buddies to shoot him. Y’know I have
to say maybe I’m a terrible friend but if an old friend came to me and asked me
to murder him I probably wouldn’t say yes.
Arlene holds him while he dies in her arms.
Arlene holds him while he dies in her arms.
Bill meets with Lillith and complains at how cryptic she
is being, again. Bill also complains that he didn’t ask for this – and Lillith
isn’t putting up with that lie, Bill fought Salome tooth and nail to be the one
to drink her blood. He most certainly did ask for it. He blames Lillith for
embracing a fae in the first place but she says he has to act if he wants to
stop all the vampire burning
He wakes up from his coma to the news that Truman has entered
a partnership with the True Blood Factories – ominous considering the new
plague they’ve designed. He locks up Takehashi and drinks the remaining Warlow
blood they have, allowing him to go out in the sun.
Sarah Newlin gets her revenge on Jason by letting him
watch one of their studies – a copulation study. The scientist explains they’re
studying vampire relations, psychology, libido, etc which Sarah sums up as “watching
vampires do it.” And they’ve chosen a vampire man – and Jessica. The vampire, James,
explains to Jessica what’s going on and he’s not thrilled by the whole thing
either. He refuses to have sex and they zap him with UV light, he protests that
he isn’t a rapist. They zap him again and Jessica intervenes saying they’ll do
it. He still refuses and Sarah orders them to keep zapping him.
Billith goes to see Truman and his bodyguards are
woefully incapable of dealing with a daywalking Billith. After killing his
bodyguards he makes a vague attempt to question Truman before ripping off his
head. Literally.
In the camp, Eric watches the disease spread through
Willa. In general population, Willa plays connect 4 with Tara (vampires playing
connect 4, that’s just wrong damn it!) when she feels odd – Tara explains that
Eric is summoning Willa and that she has to go. Tara protests about the guard
and his contacts – Tara tells her to rip them out and keep moving. It’s sleazy
guard who threatened to sexually abuse her before.
One glamour later and the guard punches out the doctor examining Nora and Willa’s let into the room. Willa stoops to rip the doctor’s throat out but Eric stops her – he needs the white coat clean. Take it off then rip her arm off.
They sneak out, Willa as an inmate, Eric in the guard’s clothes and Nora as the doctor, though she’s fading. They use the doctor’s severed arm for fingerprints to get through the locks. As Eric plans his escape with Nora and Pam, Willa makes it clear that escape needs to include Tara and Jessica which Eric grudgingly accepts. While exploring Eric discovers the bottling factory where, yes, the True Blood is being contaminated with the Hepatitis V
Back in twee fairyland Sookie tells Warlow that from reading
the town people’s mind, most people think she’s a “danger whore.” Warlow
protests that they’re wrong, Sookie’s not entirely convinced – her boyfriends
are dangerous and now she likes Warlow who is more dangerous than any before.
Maybe she should accept it – she reinforces his vines with more light and goes
to him, offering him her neck to feed on, after which she bites his neck and drinks
his blood. She undresses him then herself and they have sex – causing a
supernova of light
Aaargh the parallels and appropriation continues. Hey if they want to show the LAVTF as prejudiced and hating vampires irrationally, that works find – even call them bigoted. But not racist – racist draws direct parallels between real oppressed people who are persecuted unjustly and supernatural beings of immense power that eat people; on top of the 8 squillion other parallels that True Blood has already drawn it’s tiresome and needs to stop.
Since when did “light” become a swiss army light? Tie
someone up – seal it with light. Want to hold down a statue? Seal it with light! Light is glue
now?
True Blood has always been a lot less gay friendly than
it was billed, but it’s reaching new heights of offensiveness. Steve Newlin
walks around as a joke to be mocked and derided – often homophobicly – by everyone.
Lafayette is everyone’s servant. And now Holly pulls out a GBF
The women are no better: Tara is there to comfort and
support Jessica and now Willa? What did she do, open up Tara’s school for lost
sad straight white girls? While Pam follows Eric around like a lost puppy
Also – to fight the vampires these people have engineered a contagious, lethal plague? Really? And it’s a governor doing this? Is not the federal government concerned about their governors engaging in lethal chemical weapons programmes?
They killed Terry – I did not see that coming.
I have to say True Blood seems to be doing an excellent job this season of keeping everything compact - terry storyline resolved, Andy Bellefleur taking a back seat, even Sam may have had his storyline settled. Much more focus on thr action
