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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

True Blood 3.2: King and Wolves

The main event in True Blood 3.2 is the introduction of a King of vampires - the King of Mississippi - analogous to the Queen of Louisiana we met last year.   The King kidnapped Bill, via a pack of werewolves.   The King has a proposal for Bill.

First, as I mentioned last week, it's clear that most werewolves in this story are lot less potent than what we've been seeing in 1940s movies.   Bill dispatches most of the pack, with just a little of his blood consumed by the wolves to show for it.   According to Eric, however, these wolves may be stronger than most werewolves, being part of a secret, ancient sect of the beasts.

In other news, Sam finds his brother, also a shape shifter, and they both run off into the woods.   But the bro is no friend, and does his best to put Sam as a dog in the way of a fast-moving car.  Sam escapes, but apparently sibling rivalry between shape shifters can be deadly.

James Frain arrives in Bon Temps to play a new vampire with who knows what motives.  Last seen as a major character to good effect as Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors, and as a guest star in just about every show on television from 24 to the short-lived Miami Medical, it should be fun to see how he plays out vs. Bill vs. Eric.

At present, he's going for Tara, who under Lafayette's tutelage may be coming back at least a little from Egg's loss.  If Frain's vampire is a good guy like Bill - not very likely, but hard to say at this point - he could be the best thing that ever happened to Tara (other than Lafayette, which is something different).   She deserves a break.


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See also: True Blood 3.1: Oxygen vs. Phone

See also from Season 2  True Blood Pours Back In and  Love and True Blood in the Air and Likes Coming Together in True Blood and True Blood Boiling and Godric, Eric, and Sookie on the Roof and Maryann vs. the Good in True Blood and Illusion, Eisenhower, and Texting and True Blood Season 2 Finale

See also from Season 1  True Blood Calling ... Penultimate True Blood ... Last Bite of the Season



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2 comments:

Andreas said...

The werewolves were so weak and lame its stupid. I want some equally strong as vamps supes to show up and be in mass. A vampire race rivals or something. Its so lame not having such.

dawn said...

you forgot about Jesus , I think Lafayettes mom and her aide will be important

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