True Blood Recap - Russell & Steve! A match made in heaven ** spoilders **
This had to be one of the best episodes this season for True Blood and really setup the show for what looks to be a great 3 episode arc that will be a battle between the Sanguista Vampires and everyone else. The writers did a great job of wrapping up two major storylines and even setting it up to bring a few of those characters into the main event. I suspect that the next 2 weeks will be mostly about the upcoming war with very little extra stuff clogging the storylines.
Let’s start with those storylines wrapped up.
Patrick we hardly knew ya and it took 9 weeks for me to finally remember your name but honestly good riddance. The Ifrit storyline never really worked because it involved background characters and had absolutely no connection to any of the man stars of True Blood. Back in season #2 Terry and Arlene gave us some fun storyline to watch but they only worked because they were part of the core storyline of the Maenad storyline. Maryann was possessing all the humans in Bon Temp where Terry & Arlene sorta became the ringleader. They were fun to watch because they added to the overall main storyline. But what happened was that somewhere someone decided that these two could carry their own storyline and after 3 season I think we can all agree that these 2 really aren’t meant to have their own storyline, they need to fit into other major storylines that include headline characters (Headliners are the first 6 actors listed before they do the alphabetical list of all the other actors in the show – Sookie, Bill, Sam, Jason, Tara and Eric). After Lafayette finally channeled the Afghani woman that cursed Patrick & Terry she laid down the ultimatium – either Patrick dies or Terry does. Well after that we pretty much knew that Patrick was a goner. It wasn’t a bad scene with the final showdown but after the Ifrit spirit carried away Patrick I’m sure millions of True Blood fans were like ‘Thank god that’s done for’.
The better of the 2 minor storylines was the Hate group that was killing Supes and Vamps. Once again I was incorrect by suggesting Maxine Fortenberry was the ringleader but I was also disappointed. See, for those of us who read the books (and I’m not one of them), the ultimately ring leader was Sweetie Des Arts. In the book she was the one killing them because a were had bitten her and she was turning into a partial were – only her hands and face would partial turn making her a freak. They actually bit a bit of storyline in the book with Sweetie so it built interest in the story. But the show kinda ruined her. We got a glance of her when Andy visited former Sheriff Bud Dearborn, seems her and Bud were getting it on while Mrs Dearborn was out of town. But next week all we got was a 1 minute flashback of Sweetie losing her boyfriend to a shifter and now she wants to kill all shifters and Vamps too. Who cares? Maxine Fortenberry could have really made this a powerhouse storyline because we got to know her really well and the gal that plays her is an amazing actress. Maxine had connections to the town, had reasons to hate supes (and knew about shifters thru fostering Sam’s brother Tommy) and I think she would have been a hoot to see her getting busy with Bud Dearborn. But in the end we found that the Grand Dragon was Sweetie and Bud was just an old man happy to finally be getting laid again. In the end the bad guys were caught and Luna slapped the shit out of Sweetie for shooting and her boyfriend and daughter. That was funny as hell.
It’s good to see the wolves getting involved with Russell again. Werewolves were always more interesting when they were high on V. I mean hell, even Debbie Pelt knew that when she ditched her hunky boyfriend Alcide to hang with the cool weres doing V. We did see a bit of backstory with Alcide and finally met Alcide’s father played by a former T100 Terminator (Can’t remember the Actors name). But the highlight of the weres was when Emma was taken by Russell and given to Steve as a gift. Any week with Martha Bozeman or Steve Newlin is a good week and this week we saw the 2 of them together. Martha was cursing the vampires and weres who were taking V-blood. Russell, impressing his new boy toy former Anti-Vampire Preacher now Vampire Steve Newlin, decided to punish Martha by taking the cute were puppy from her and gifting it to Steve Newlin. You have to question why Martha even brought Emma to that Were gathering, I mean geez would a mother take a child to a crackhouse even if she has no plans of doing crack? But it was a beautiful setup – it was teaming up 2 charismatic vampires with Russell and Steve plus it was bringing Sam & Luna, now free of the hater storyline, into the vampire wars. And Steve Newlin – have you seen bigger puppy eyes? You can tell he’s smitten with Russell but then again Steve Newlin is smitten with anyone that can give him more power. I really hope that the writers find a way to keep Russell and Steve alive for season 6.
Finally the big storyline of the week is the vampires. It’s odd how Eric seems to be the sensible one and Bill has gone off the deep end. I thought there was a moment when Eric got Bill back on track but I guess a 4-way fantasy sex with Salome, Lilith and Sookie was enough to keep Bill in line with the Sanguistas. I mean clearly they aren’t going to kill Bill off but it will be interesting to see how this will all turn out and bring Bill out of the dark back into the wayward path. There’s been great chemistry with the bromance between Bill and Eric – it should be a doozy in the end. My guess is Salome and Nora probably won’t survive after this season and somehow Bill will be made leader of the Authority with what I hope season #6 will be a rebuilding of the Authority along with finding Russell & Steve.
Also around town – I’m glad to see Lafayette embracing his inner medium. I just hope that when Don Bartolo was finally killed that it killed off the Brujo spirit. I didn’t like that side of Lala.
It was good to see Jason & Jessica talking to each other but you could see a lot of hurt between them. Classic line was Jason commenting the benefits of being a vampire that includes no need to take a dump. You could see the sparks fly between those 2. But I have to ask this – when Hoyt was unconscious and Jason was trying his best to revive him why didn’t Jess sense Jason’s fear? Hoyt was doped to the hilt so she couldn’t sense him but heck, when Andy was talking about searching Sookie’s house for clues to who murdered Debbie Pelt, Jason barely registered any fear and yet Jessica came running. It was dark out and in 2 seconds Jessica could have saved Hoyt right there on the spot. Maybe we’ll have a good hospital bedside scene between Mama Fortenberry and Jessica when Jess comes to save Hoyt.
What can I say – Pam & Tara. Wasn’t enough of them this past week but they are still one of the best new pairings in True Blood.
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