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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

True Blood Boiling

A powerful True Blood this week - episode 2.8 - with apparent resolutions to a number of situations and crises, including -

.Jason has finally snapped out of it. Sookie being in danger got Jason in motion. Great goodbye scene with him and Sarah...

.Godric's rescued - though it turns out he may not have needed to be. He's a transcendant vampire, seriously seeing the need for peaceful co-existence and cooperation between humans and vampires. He's also the oldest and most powerful vampire we've seen so far. But I have a feeling he's not long for this world (see below).

.Eric's attraction to Sookie is becoming more obvious - it's good to see him and Bill on a slow collision course over this.

.Godric finally sends Lorena packing. Bill steps out of the nest with her, to see her off, when-

And here's where everything might change in an instant. A suicide bomber from the Fellowship sets off a bomb in the nest. Everyone - except Bill and Lorena - is at risk of dying in the big explosion.

Of course, vampires heal very quickly - as we were reminded of this again in a delicate moment with Jessica and Hoyt - and vampires can restore even critically wounded humans.

But I'm thinking someone important is bound to die in this explosion, and my best guess is Godric. We'll see next week...


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4 comments:

Unknown said...

If the Micheal Savages, Sean Hannity's etc, are watching True Blood, they must be applauding the moral of the story - "That's what you get for being an appeaser"...

Paul Levinson said...

They're more likely watching Reagan reruns ...

I'm watching Obama in Portsmouth, NH right now ... he's excellent.

Nick Leshi said...

True Blood is a great example of the differences between print and visual media telling the same tale. I've only read the first book on which True Blood was based, but the changes the producers made from the original source material (often for the better) are really interesting.

dawn said...

Hello my friend, this show is my newest obsession, I do fear
Godric will take all the schrapnal for everyone in the house. I really liked him and loved to see how Eric had real feelings for someone, I'm a big get eric and Sookie together fan. I think it will happen. Not liking the maenard story so much

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