True Blood 1.08 and 1.09

[bop_radar]

I didn't get a chance to post on last week's True Blood episode but I did natter in taragel's journal about it. And I'm still besotted with this show.

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Oh, ITA on wanting Lafayette to come down on psycho Amy like a ton of bricks - that woman is truly scary. At first I thought she was just a V junkie, but Eddie's right - she is a psychopath.

And my only problem re: Sam is the dog is - for heaven's sake, we have seen them together! Or was that a decoy doggie? That really threw me off the scent.

[giggleloop]

I'm thinking it's either a decoy dog, or that there's more than one of them (dog people, that is). Either way, awesome. :)

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Yeah, Amy has the psychopath's total lack of empathy. Also, in her story about bad things having happened to her therefore she deserves love, I think we saw a hint of how she justifies the attrocities her hedonistic lifestyle demands. It may be true that she's suffered, but she's definitely turned it round on others and her sense of entitlement is huge.

I'm going to have to go back and see again... I'm thinking decoy dog, and maybe it really WAS Sam's brother? *lol*

[elzed]

Yes, clearly he comes from a naturist family. Of canines.

And yes, that bad things happened, I deserve love - methinks bad things happen around her for a reason - like, perhaps she makes them happen.

I wouldn;t be surprised if her family had perished tragically, you know, in some mysterious fire.

God, she really creeps me out now.

[callmeonetrack]

This was one of the first eps I didn't immediately have a hundred things to say about. I really liked it though

[bop_radar]

I am still not loving Eric or Pam. They need to do more.
Yeah, we get tantalising glimpses of them but it's not enough. I do like Pam but in a very superficial way.

and THEN TOLD HER (this bit was the problem). Why would you tell her you did that?
Honesty? I guess I understood it from the perspective of Bill thinking it's better he tell Sookie upfront than have her find out after he left and be mad at him in absentia. Also, this way, she can't take it out on Sam so I saw it as gentlemanly.

I'd never really thought about the age difference between the actors--but I also don't have a strong age gap squick so it may not affect me.

Still annoyed/confused as to why Sookie should be beholden to Eric just because. The hierarchy and politics of Sookie being something he can just take because she's Bill's is both offputting and somewhat baffling.I'm more confused/chilled by it. I don't think we're meant to think it's a good thing, so I find it successfully creepy. But I DO want a proper explanation of how these things work soon. Is this

[bop_radar]

The intricacies of vampire politics are being kept away from the audience as well! It works well for taking us on Sookie's journey but I'm beginning to be frustrated with it. I just want to know what the real deal is so I can understand what the hell is going on.

I would like to know if I was considered fair game because I belonged, in any sense to one group or another.
Absolutely! Bill seems really deluded to think that he could keep that from her.

Hee re. you loving Eric and Pam! I'm not really finding Eric attractive yet, but Pam seems very cool. However they've also successfully grossed me out so I'm in a weird place with them.

[bop_radar]

It's like belonging to a really well organized gang, and having gone through the initiation WITHOUT HAVING BEEN CLUED IN
Ha! That's a cool description. It's beginning to feel a bit like that... I really don't like how it disempowers Sookie and combined with Bill's hyper-protection approach to boyfriending in the first place it's pretty dreadful of him to have left her in a position where she doesn't realise what she's getting into. I don't quite understand why he hasn't told her--does he really believe he can escape the greater vampire community? is it just that love has overwhelmed him? is he a naive idealist? I'm not completely sure.

I've gathered that Eric and Pam have more time and space later on. I look forward to that! I'll be interested to see what Alan Ball does with them.

I saw a music video for Twilight at the U today and I almost choked on my drink. PAIN AND LOVE AND OMG, SPARKLY VAMPIRES.
HAHAHAA! Oh lord, it's going to be EVERYWHERE soon. Well, it is already, but the movies will make it ten times that...

[alissabobissa]

I am coming round to liking Jason.
Me too, though I feel like an idiot for saying it. Half way through this episode I realized that I was actually concerned for Jason's safety, which made me realize I actually care what happens to the dumbass, so I must like him a little. And damned if I don't feel sorry for his little boy lost routine now when I was determined to hate him! Agh!

I have very conflicted feelings about Eric and Pam.God, they are all kinds of fascinating. I really think Eric is being underplayed, but it's making the non-mainstreaming vampires seem that much more creepy. Pam was always creepy to me in the books whereas Eric was fun with creepy undertones, mostly when he wanted to intimidate someone. But the comment Bill made about Pam living so far up Eric's ass was pretty priceless and so true. Vampire politics are too frakking fun

[bop_radar]

I realized that I was actually concerned for Jason's safety, which made me realize I actually care what happens to the dumbass, so I must like him a little.
Same! I couldn't believe it. I blame the actor. He's too uncannily brilliant at the role. Whyyyyy did I fall for the little lost boy? I don't view that as an excuse--he has a brain, he should fucking well use it. And yet... ;)

Eric is being underplayed, but it's making the non-mainstreaming vampires seem that much more creepy. Pam was always creepy to me in the books whereas Eric was fun with creepy undertones,
Oh, that's interesting. I do feel Eric is underplayed because Pam comes off as the stronger character so far. Also, I'm finding her cooler than Eric and don't really understand why she's up his ass (though that line was pretty funny). I hope Eric kicks into gear some time soon. But yes, I'm finding them conceptually VERY very creepy.

Am I the only one who felt like Sookie had no business being huffy after she discovered Sam and Tara in the back room?Oh me too. I am glad