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True Blood Season 4 Ep 10: Burning Down the House
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Antonia and Roy are enjoying their triumph as Eric throws Bill around the room, trying to kill him. Sookie gets in between the two of them but Eric just shoves her aside. Bill shoots him with a silver bullet but he recovers and is about to stake Bill when Sookie uses her fairy powers to break the witch’s spell, allowing Eric to recall everything.
Eric gives her this smoldering look as he realizes all the sexin’ they’ve been having while he lost his memory. She’s looking at him like she’s not sure what’s going to happen. She never liked arrogant Eric before and that’s who she has now, the arrogant vampire back with his memories of them sharing her bed, and the kitchen counter, and the woods, and the rug, and the…..well, you get it, they were having lots of sex.
Antonia vanishes with Roy back to the Moon Goddess Emporium where it looks like she’s having some kind of fit and suddenly Antonia’s spirit bursts out from Marnie’s body. Antonia wants the killing to stop but Marnie convinces her that it’s a necessary evil – yeah, right – that’s what all the good tyrants say.
Eric tries to convince Sookie that they can pick up where they left off but she’s not having it. She loves both her vampires – Eric and Bill – and she has to have them both in her life. Wow girl, selfish a little bit? Anyway, Eric’s not liking this new twist at all and he tells her that she belongs to him. No more Mister Nice Guy. You can tell that the wheels are turning on how he’s going to get Sookie back into the Eric hammock on a full time basis.
Lesson learned by Tommy – don’t do your brother a favor by fighting his fight for him, it will just kill you. And that’s exactly what happens to Tommy after Alcide helps him home to Merlotte’s where they meet Sam. He tries to talk to Tommy about the white light and seeing loved ones but Tommy’s a realist to the end, he disparages Sam’s words and simply asked not to be forgotten. Sam vows to kill Marcus for what he has done to his brother.
Marcus is at Alcide’s house putting the moves on Debbie. He’s plays up to her insecurities and like the idiot she is, she appears to be buying it. Really? Leave Alcide for Marcus? I don’t care how much you want kids, that ain’t happening. She must be seriously high on V to even consider it.
Andy got caught doing drugs by his cousin Terry. Being quite familiar with the detox process, Terry takes Andy out to their old stomping grounds in the woods and forces him to come to grips with his addiction. Terry shows a lot of personality in these scenes, more than I’ve seen from him to date. Apparently, he holed up in their tree house out in the woods when he first came back from the war to deal with his PTSD. That lets him connect with Andy but the two of them have to fight it out first over who had the hardest life growing up. It seems that Andy is one of those rich but unloved kids who had everything but really had nothing. Or so he thinks anyway. I find it hard to feel sorry for rich people who think they have it so rough.
Holly and Tara are going to try their spell casting skills and supposedly outwit Antonia. I doubt any good will come of this and they’ll probably get transformed into a mouse or something. Sookie begs Bill to not attack the Emporium because Tara is inside it. He basically says sorry, this is war and there will be causalities. Which causes her to run out and take matters into her own hands….again….and put herself in the middle of danger….again.
Sookie is joined by Lafayette, Jesus, and Jason outside the Emporium and Jesus says that if he can just get in, he can save Marnie from Antonia. Little does he know that it’s Marnie who has gone into full dictator mode. He is able to breach her protective spell by doing his demon-face thing which always freaks Lafayette out. Who really wants to see their lover wearing an ugly demon-face? That will kill the romance in a heartbeat.
Once inside, Jesus realizes that Marnie is part of the problem, not part of the solution. At this moment, Tara and Holly’s spell works and they can open the doors without burning their hands off. Running outside, they are greeted by Sookie and Lafayette just in time to be spelled back into the building. All that effort for a little run in the street only to end up back where you started.
Jason stands in the middle of the street with his mouth hanging open as everybody disappears – although I consider this a standard look for him. This episode wraps when Bill, Eric, Pam, and Jessica go all Matrix and show up at the Emporium in all black outfits ready to kill something. It’s like an undead Mod Squad.
True Blood Season 4 Ep 5: I Hate You, I Love You
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What’s going on with your favorite vampires, shapeshifters, and fairies in episode 5 of True Blood? Read on to find out!
Alcide: The hunky werewolf is disturbed from a peaceful night at home by a knock at the door. It turns out that werewolves cannot just move into new territory without registering with the resident pack. The local packmaster reminds Alcide of his responsibilities.
Marnie: Captured by Bill, the vampire king, Marnie starts to have visions in her cell of the ancient witches. From the visions, she can see that all is not as she learned in history class because the catholic priests were all vampires. What a perfect cover for the vamps!
Eric: There seem to be mixed opinions in the fans of the show about the new and improved Eric but, whether we like it or not, vampire Eric is now a good guy and, in episode 5 of True Blood, he just seems nicer and nicer with every scene. He dreams of Godric, his maker, who tells him to drink from a sleeping Sookie. He’s about to do it but then wakes up in a guilty sweat. He regrets the dream and tells Sookie everything as they spoon with each other in her bed.
Hoyt and Jason: These two best friends are having a boy’s night out at Merlottes discussing their problems. Jason is still freaked out from his kidnapping and rape by Crystal’s family. Hoyt is tired of Jessica acting like they should not be together. Their problems seem light years apart and Jason ends up irritated by Hoyt’s lack of sympathy about the rapes. Jason has pretty much decided that everything that has ever gone wrong for him has been because of sex.
Lafayette, Jesus, and Tara: These three try to get Marnie to reverse the spell she put on Eric but she explains she was only a conduit for another witch. There is nothing they can do but run from Eric and his vampire revenge before he figures out what they have done. So off they go, leaving Marnie stranded in the woods. Lafayette and Jesus end up taking off to Mexico to find Jesus’ brujo grandfather. If anyone has enough power to reverse the spell or kill vampires, it should be him.
Marnie: Captured by Bill, the vampire king, Marnie starts to have visions in her cell of the ancient witch who she keeps channeling. From the visions, she can see that all is not as she learned in history class because the catholic priests were all vampires in that time. What a perfect cover for the vamps!
Pam and Bill: Pam’s rotting face drives her to the brink and she accidentally blurts out that Eric has lost his memory. Bill pounces on that immediately and orders her to tell him where Eric is. To which she replies…”at Sookie’s house”. The shocked look on Bill’s face is priceless.
Sam and Tommy: Tommy had been duped by his father last week but the tables are turned when Tommy awakes and wreaks revenge on his father. The worst part is that his mother keeps defending Tommy’s evil dad and he ends up killing them both. He feels so guilty for killing his mother that he runs to the only family he has left – Sam – for help.
Sookie: The fairy telepath has fallen hard for Eric’s new boyish charm. When he tries to leave to save Sookie from anything bad he might ever do to her, she calls him back. This decision proves to be Sookie’s undoing as far as Eric is concerned as she lets go of all barriers and finally gives us all what we have been waiting for…a kiss with Eric that is not part of a dream. With Bill on his way over at vampire speed, it’s a safe bet that things won’t get much farther. Can’t wait for the big confrontation!
True Blood Season 4 Ep 2: You Smell Like Dinner
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True Blood starts out this week with Jason tied to the bed. He feels somebody licking his head and it appears to be Timbo, which is pretty disgusting. Jason says he just uses band-aids. Jason persuades Timbo to let him go but then Felton, the super redneck werepanther, comes in and sends the kids away.
Last week left off with Sookie standing there naked, clutching a towel to her body as Eric looks on – might appreciative of the view. He’s arrogant and demanding but you can also see that he wants to protect her from the other vampires who will come for her fairy blood, which is why he bought her house. And he can now come and go as he pleases. He proceeds to explain why having his protection is the best thing for her, to which she asks – does he think she will magically open her legs for him now that he owns her house? He likes her saucy side.
Bill gets an update from his witch spy who tells him that the wiccans were able to bring a dead bird back to life. This concerns him because he fears necromancers, they might be able to control vampires and he cannot have that. Bill and his witchy woman are finishing up recreational sex in his bedroom when Sookie storms in – she had no idea that he was the vampire king. She has come to ask for help in getting Eric off the deed of her house. But, Bill has no ideas to help her and they just stand there looking uncomfortable around each other.
Baby Mikey is still creeping Arlene out – she swears that he stared at her and hurt her eye. Terry defends the baby and tells him to ignore his momma. What’s with this baby? He’s starting to creep me out.
Sookie comes home to find that Eric has made a few changes. He’s left blood in the refrigerator, he’s bought her a new microwave, and he’s built a “cubby” under her living room so he can have his vampire rest during the day. It looks like Eric has truly made himself at home but what he’s actually done is make Sookie very mad. She heads to Fangtasia to demand that Eric leave her house. Pam is there instead and she cannot understand why Sookie won’t simply accept Eric’s offer of protection. After all, he’s rich, he’s handsome, and “in his way”, he cares for her. Jeez, what more could a girl want? Perhaps a little romance?
Sam’s potential love interest, Luna, tells their shape-shifting group about the time she shifted into her mother. It was pretty traumatic for Luna and you can tell that this woman has some secrets. The group is interrupted when Sam smells another shifter nearby – it’s Tommy – and that’s when he finds out Tommy has been faking his hurt leg to gain sympathy. That guy is such a schemer. Once again he asks Sam to trust him but how can he do that when he just caught him spying and lying?
The wiccan coven wonders where to get a human body to reanimate. Eric zips in, freaking them all out. Lafayette is especially distressed to see Eric, the vampire who chained him in the basement at Fangtasia and tortured him.
In his own arrogant way, Eric tells the witches that he won’t kill them all if they promise to never meet again. Marnie is having none of it – she stands up to Eric and demands to know why he is harassing them. Next you see Eric in full vampire mode chomping down on Marnie’s neck. You think she is dead until the chanting from the other witches causes Eric to stop his killing and stare at them in fear. Marnie starts to yell at Eric in another language and he runs out of the room.
Poor Jason – he’s still tied up on the bed and he does not know why. But, he finds out when Crystal and Felton tell him that he is going to be their stud for new baby werepanthers. He’s totally mystified but it all becomes crystal clear when they tell him they are going to make him into a werepanther and the way to do that is to bite him, over and over and over – he lies there screaming in pain as the two shift into panther mode and start the transformation.
Episode two of True Blood ends with Sookie driving her little car home at night and she sees Eric shambling down the road. He has no shirt on, his hair is messed up, and she is going to give him a piece of her mind – how dare he build a cubby in her home? As she pulls up next to him, he does not appear to recognize her. In fact, as she presses him, he doesn’t seem to know her at all. However, what he does know is that she smells good – too good – and that’s where we are left, wondering if Eric will be able to resist the pull of Sookie’s fairy blood.
