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True Blood Throwback Giveaway


Truebies, the end is near! I've gotten my hands on some magazines from the show's seven-year run and you all now have the opportunity to win them! Remember this bloody piece of art?


How about these gems?




Or what about this one of our favourite Swedish meatball?


**Updated: I've gotten my hands on more goodies to give away for all you True Blood/Eric Northman/ASkårs lovers!**




- First place will win: 1 copy of the True Blood Rolling Stones magazine, 1 copy of each of the three Details covers (Alexander Skarsgård, Ryan Kwanten, Stephen Moyer), 1 copy of Alexander Skarsgård's VMAN magazine, **Updated**: 1 copy of Alexander Skarsgård's GQ Magazine, and 1 copy of Alexander Skarsgård's Men's Journal Magazine.
- Second place will win: 1 copy of the True Blood Rolling Stones magazine, **Updated**: 1 copy of EACH of the three Details covers (Alexander Skarsgård, Ryan Kwanten, Stephen Moyer).
- Third place will win: 1 copy of the True Blood Rolling Stones magazine.


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True Blood Recap S0704: Death Is Not The End

Jackson gets a call from Sookie. She breaks the news of Alcide's demise to his daddy, who takes it hard. Jason has to make an even harder call to his former best friend Hoyt, who doesn't remember him after Jessica's little mind wipe. Jason tells him that his mother was killed by a vampire, and slips up by calling him "Bubba." Jackson plans to come in a couple of days after tying up loose ends, and Sookie warns Jackson not to come at night. Jackson confesses that Alcide loved the fuck out of her. When Hoyt comes in, Jason tells him to call the station, and he'll provide him an escort. Jason breaks down a bit more, Hoyt thanked him for callling to tell him about his mother. Sookie tells Jason to man up, he's the law with Andy out of commission with Holly. She wants to cry too, but there's no time for tears. Big boy pants on, it's go time. Sam comes to collect them for their next task.

Cue the Intro. Everytime Bad Things plays it'll be bittersweet knowing that its all ending.

On the plane Eric feeds off his very willing stewardess. When he hears the destination, he has the plane's flight course changed. Eric wants to go to Shreveport much to Pam's dismay. Pam tells him that there is nothing left there for them. Eric wants to see Willa before he dies, and Victoria the stewardess is horrified to hear that she is now a Hep V carrier. Eric feeding from her thigh should have been totally worth losing her job. She tells the captain the new destination, and Pam and Eric take a trip down memory lane. Pam really hates Shreveport.

1986. The Magister arrives, pleased to catch up to Eric and Pam. Pam is snarky as ever. He introduces himself, and sentences them for that little incident in France. He gives them a small business to run. Eric would rather take a stake to the heart. He was warned, but he didn't listen, and now they get a grand tour. To Pam's horror it's a video store. They both look stunned. It has all the genres, and candy to boot, but they aren't impressed. What's to later be the dungeon, holds the largest porn collection. There's even a small tunnel thats a part of the underground railroad. And better yet, Eric gets the title of Sheriff of Area 5. The Authority doesn't trust Eric, but they can keep him close. The Magister warns that they are being watched day and night. He tosses the keys to Pam, and she lets them bounce off her chest.

Sam, Jason and Sookie head over to Andy's. Sookie checks in on Colby and Lisa, Arlene's children who are no longer teacup humans. Lisa is a little mad with how everyone has been treating them since their mother was taken. Sookie isn't sugar coating things for them, but she does reassure them that their mother is fighting to get back to them. She promises to get her back, and she's going to use Holly to find her.

Andy tries to turn away Sam and Jason at the door. Holly remember anything, doesn't want to remember. Sookie wants to make her. She made a promise to the children and she plans to keep it. Against Andy's better judgement he lets them in. Holly has been better, so has Sookie. She's not ok, but she has to be. Sookie asks her the last thing she remembers. Holly remembers the mixer, and then nothing until she was found. The memories aren't lost just locked away. Holly is scared to remember, but she's willing to do it to help Arlene. Sookie takes her back to the woods, and she freaks out when she remembers the vampires feeding on her. Sookie gets flashes. She takes her back to Fangtasia, and Sookie sees that Arlene, Nicole, and Jane are still alive, but Kevin didn't make it. Holly is a crying mess, and Andy is left to pick up the pieces. Sam tahnks Holly for what she did.

Sam drives erratically, and Jason tries to pick his brain. Sam is tired of waiting around, wondering if Nicole and the baby are okay, and there's no way for him to know for sure. Sam turns the truck around, headed for Fangtasia instead of Rosie's. Jason is forced to pull his gun out on Sam to get through to him. They can't go against the Hep V vampires, they need their own Vampire muscle, which means they have to wait until the sun goes down. Sam pulls over, he can't be the one driving away from them.

Jessica still isn't healing, and James tries to talk some sense into her. She has to eat, she isn't healing because she isn't eating. James loves her, and he gets Bill against her protests. If she won't eat for him, maybe she will for Bill, or at the least he can force her to. She hasn't eaten in about ten weeks. Bill asks if her hunger protest is because of what happened with the fairies. Things are good between Jessica and Adilyn, she admits that she's been protecting her, but not feeding off her. Jessica asks who Bill has been feeding off of. Sookie arrives, and adds to Jessica's mortification. Bill tells Jessica that she must eat, and Sookie offers to feed her. Jessica is horrified, Sookie is a fairy and she shouldn't trust Jessica with her blood, but Sookie trusts her. She sends the boys from the room for a little girl talk. Jessica thinks she knows what Sookie is going to say. Sookie tells her to eat. She doesn't give a shit about the reason why  Jessica isn't eating. The three dead fairies are the tip of the iceberg, and the bodies are piling up. Sookie has been god to Jessica over the years, and right not she needs her help to save her friends in Fangtasia. Jessica agrees to eat, just not Sookie. Sookie tells the boys to call Lafayette.

Past. 1996. Ginger strolls into the video store. She's looking for a few good vampire flicks, and Pam is pleased with her taste. Ginger is taking a college course on equality and using vampires and their treatment in cinema. Eric arrives, and literaly takes Ginger's breath away entering to a little Garbage "I Would Die For You." She's surprised to hear that he's the proud owner of the little shithole she happens to adore. After inquiring on their relationship status (permantly off since aquiring said shithole) she snaps at the chance to work there.

Sam and Jason pay Rosie a visit. She's suspicious, worried that she's under arrest. Sam offers to forget about the previous night, and that puts Rosie on edge, but she lets them in when Jason says he needs to talk to her about Kevin. Rosie refuses to sit until Jason breaks the news that he's gone. She wants to see Kevin's body, but they haven't recovered it yet. Sam tells her that they found Holly, that she and the others were being kept at the vampire bar. Rosie asks that they make the ones who did this pay, and they plan to when the sun goes down.

Bill will call all the vampires that he can, but warns that they will be vastly outnumbered when they go into Fangtasia. Many vampires have been killed, and the ones remaining may not come, since they have nothing to gain. Sookie asks why Bill is willing to go then, and he tells her he owes her everything. She offers him lunch.

Lafayette arrives, and notes that Jessica looks less than fabulous. Jessica wants to eat, but she feels empty inside. Lafayette shoos James from the room. Lafayette tells her that she has to eat, and he's goign to feed her. Jessica worries about immortality and needing to eat innocent people to survive. Good thing Lafayette is far from innocent. He confesses that he killed the man that he loved, that he still hasn't forgiven himself, but he has to keep on trucking. Jessica can be a whole lot deader than she is now, and he coaxes down her fangs. She falls down onto him a bit roughly, but begins to feed and heal.

Past. 2006. Ginger is looking more fangbanger than book worm now. She's even driving a hearse. Best of all, she's got Eric's future throne. She's late, and Pam isn't pleased. She asks Pam to guess what she's found, all Pam sees is a shitty chair. But with vampires out of the closet, Ginger has big dreams of a gorgeous vampire bar. She wants to expand, and place on the stage the throne. Porn is their biggest money maker because Sex sells, and Eric Northman is pure sex. Pam sees Ginger's vision of Fangtasia, and she likes it. Fangtasia is born, and after paying Ginger maybe the only compliment ever she takes the idea for her own, and wipes Ginger's memory.Now, Eric delights in Pam's bitchy confession. He still loves her.

The group of unaffected vampires ready to raid Fangtasia is very small. Michael, Keith, Violet, James, Jessica and Bill are all that are joining Jason, Sam, and Sookie. Jason tries to give a rousing speech, but bringing up the storming of the beaaches of Normandy doesn't make any of them ready to to storm into battle. A lot of lives were lost that day. Eric arrives, asking if it is true that Bill wrote a book, and claims to not be an asshole anymore. The gang's all here. Bill notices that Eric is sick. Sookie goes to see who is at the door, and flies into Eric's arms. She too sees that he's sick, and she's upset. Pam reminds him that they still have a Christian to kill. That doesn't tear his attention away, so Pam reminds him about Willa. Eric calls his progeny to him, and she's less than pleased to hear her master.

Bill leaves Sookie alone with Eric. They've both gotten tthemselves in messes since they parted company. She tells him that he can't die on her, and he asks how she is. She tells hiim that her boyfriend died, and he's surprised to hear that she hooked up with Alcide. He gave her her house back so she could take her life back, and he asks how a werewolf is doing that. She tells him that he died just that morning. He takes her into his arms, comforting her, telling her of his adventures. His sunbathing in the Alps set off an avalache and wiped out a small village. He went to South America, to Africa, Spain. He thought he would see the world one last time. He wipes a tear from her cheek, asking again what type of trouble that she's in.

Pam thinks the plan of storming the entrance is idocy. Willa arrives, pissed as ever, and Pam points the way to Eric, who's still inside with Sookie. Eric compliments his progeny, but she's not pleased. She doesn't care what Sookie needs, and if he wants her help then they're talking now. Eric uses the maker command to put his abandoning her aside for now. Eric plans to join the calvary, which doesn't please Pam one bit.

A rat navigates the tunnels, and the ladies squeel about the rat, who transforms into Sam. Arlene has a hard time wrapping her mind around the whole rat thing, but Sam tells her he'll explain later, right now they have to prepare for their vampire rescuers.  Arlene is worried since vampires but them in their current situation, but Sam reminds her that these vampires are good. Nicole begs him to hurry, and Arlene begs him not to turn back into a rat, but he does. The ladies are filled with hope that they may actually make it, but that hope is short lived, as one o the H vamps comes down.

Eric struggles to break through the wall. Bill asks to do it, and smashes through with one blow. Poor Eric is getting weaker. Sam gives the good news, he found the ladies. The vampires prepare to go in, and Pam stops Eric from going. He needs to conserve his strength, she insists. Eric is left to protect Sookie. Pam and the other vampires use their super speed to get to the girls, but one is missing.

They already have Arlene upstairs. Bill tells the others to get the two women to safety, and he'll go up after Arlene, who lets loose a banshee scream. Pam doesn't really like him, but she gives him some advice, don't be a hero.

Bill finds Arlene surrounded and being fed on. Eric knocks on the door, he tells them that he use to be sheriff of the area and he's diseased as well. They don't care, and don't wish to let him in until they get a whiff of what he's brought with him. One asks Sookie what she is, and she tells them that she's Eric's.

The group of dumb rednecks are planning something bad. They cannot believe that Rosie let Jason and Sam into her home. She claims a lapse in judgement as they ready their moltov cocktails in the car. They're crashing the Fangtasia party.

One of the Hep V vampires really wants a taste of Sookie, in a nasty place. Sookie sasses them, and they drop fang. Eric coos at them. He'll share, but Sookie is special. They won't drink her blood like the others, but sip it like a nice glass of wine. The H vamps are chomping at the bit, the other vamps are in place. Eric asks if one of them likes it rough, and he wonderrs what sort of a question that is. Beofre the vampires can attack, the rednecks have arrived and cause a whole lot of trouble. Violet gets Jason out, and the H Vamps goes to attack the rednecks, killing many of them. Fangtasia is burning. Sookie goes to Arlene, she needs to feed off a uninfected vampire, and Eric goes to find one in the fray outside. Bill stakes an H Vamp that was looking to ambush Eric, proving he's no longer an asshole. Pam puts out the flames in her club. A redneck goes to light the place up again, and Pam puts a stop to it. Before Bill can give Arlene his blood, he has to run to Jessica's rescue. Sookie sends Eric off again for a healthy vampire. Arlene sees Terry, and Sookie cries trying to get her friend to hold on. Sookie sees Terry too. Before an H Vamp can attack Sookie and get the drink that he desires Jason taakes care of him. A healthy Keith arrives and feeds Arlene as she and Terry catch up a little, talking about the kids. Terry tells her that she should stay, and she agrees. Arlene comes back tot he land of the living and meets her savior.

The rednecks and H Vamps are all gone or dead. Eric is missing. Pam freaks out a little, looking for him, and finds him snaking on Rosie, which is really better than she deserves.

Eric comes back in, and sees Sookie comforting Arlene. Without more than a little nod Eric leaves her.

True Blood Recap S07E03: Fire In The Hole

In LA, Sarah Newlin, or rather New-me finds her new self through a little yoga, meditation, and rocking some brunette locks. That’s great and all, but that little intro was a little overly long, we’ve only got some many minutes left. It’s time for some bad things.

Pam questions how long Eric has been sick, and he’s slow to respond. It’s been about a month since he’s been in St. Peteresburg, and Pam really hates the Russians. Eric feigns that he didn’t know Pam would come looking for him, as if. But he kept on moving to avoid detection, but she outwitted him, only because he’s unwell he tells her. She breaks the news to him that she felt Tara meet the true death while she was in Morocco, and all he can do is ask if she played the bucket game, which she did. He likes that game, but he’s such a Debbie downer, totally un-Eric Northman like. Pam isn’t ready to throw in the towel on him yet. Godric, Nora, and soon Eric too will die.

Flashback. He remembers a time in Rhone, France 1986. He seduced a girl in a vineyard. She thought she was seducing him. Sylvie knew what he was, and she liked it. She gave herself to him freely amongst her father’s wine vines. It was the first time he met Nan from the Authority. She got an eyeful, and although she had heard rumors she was still impressed by his… height. In private, she brought to him charges, failure to register with his sheriff, failure to pay taxes. Pam instantly dislikes her, although Nan thinks that under different circumstances they could have been friends. Nan tells them that they cannot be in hiding when they’re biting and fucking under the moonlight, and to get a room. Nan also tells them of Tru-blood, and mainstreaming is soon to be a reality. It’s big business and big money, so everyone has to fall into line. Although Pam understands, Eric would rather play with Sylvie. Nan isn’t so pleased with Eric’s answer, and although he tells Sylvie not to worry Pam sees plenty to worry about. Pam wants to leave immediately, but Eric has other ideas. Eric doesn’t like Pam’s tone, and he puts his foot down. Side with daddy, no matter what.

Now, a very wet Alcide finds the house empty. Sookie has flown the coop. He uses his super sniffer to find Sookie, which leads him straight to Bill’s door. Alcide kicks the door in, knowing that Sookie was there. Sookie and Bill are driving. Werewolves may be the best trackers, but Bill covered their tracks, and they have a pretty good head start. Bill asks if its too late for him to talk her out of her crazy plan, and it looks like that’s the case. Alcide slides into his wolf fur, and takes off after his stupid lady love. Sookie asks Bill why he can’t feel her anymore. She thought that after she had his blood it was forever. After feeding all the vampires in camp he was completely drained, and only Jessica and James feeding him brought him back. He has a clean vampire slate, how very convenient. He’s not the same vampire who did all the horrible things to her he says, although he has the memories, and Sookie seems satisfied with the answer. Bill tells her that if they are to go through with the plan then she has to take his blood or he won’t be able to help her. She agrees, but while he starts to enjoy the sucking, she reminds him that she has a boyfriend, which makes his fangs retract instantly.

Wade wonders if his brother Rocky is okay. While Adilyn is sure of Rocky, she isn’t so sure if his mother is okay. But Adilyn tells him a secret to cheer him up, that they made out once, but a vampire glamoured it out of him. He thinks it’s the best news he’s heard and when he tries for a 2.0 version, Jessica arrives on the scene, with Andy pulling up the rear. Adilyn asks that she not tell her dad what she was about to do, but there are bigger things to worry about. Andy wants to know who did this to her, and Wade tells him that they tried to stop the mob, but they took all the guns and ammo. The whole town has gone mad, and although Wade wants to protect Rocky, Andy tells him that they’re all in trouble. The mob is after anyone who’s different than they are.

Sam pour out his soul to the Reverend of the horrors he saw in the neighboring town. Reverend Daniels tells Sam that he’s going to get Nicole back but that he has to have faith. Sam tells him that they all had faith, and it got them no where. The Reverend tells him whether he sees death coming or not, spending all your time waiting for it isn’t a life worth living. Willa flashes in, trying to get to the Reverend ahead of Lettie Mae. She tells him that she’s freaking out again, that she gave her her blood. Lettie Mae is seeing Tara again. Willa explains that she was hurt, and she didn’t know what else to do. Reverend Daniels asks everyone to leave while he tries to get control of his wife.

Sam rides with Matt, who’s quite a little chatterbox. On the way home they run into the town mod blocking the road. Maxine stands out front, everyone has their gun raised. Sam asks what they’re doing, and Vince answers that they’re taking their town back. Sam’s secret is out of the bag, used as fuel to their fire, and when Sam points out that he cannot believe Kenya is a part of this craziness, it gets turned into a race thing. Sam tries to appeal to Rocky, that he’s working on getting his mom back, but one of the mob points out that they’re safer with their guns than with some fag vampire. Matt tries to stick up for himself, and Vince shoots him, killing him. Matt didn’t deserve that. Vince names Sam the devil, accusing him of tricking the people. He tells Sam to go home, or better  yet to leave Bon Temps for good cause he’s the mayor now. Sam isn’t laying down though, he’s the law there, and he takes off in the form of an owl.

Oh, no. Jason has been thinking again. If they make it through this, he asks Violet if she will have a baby with him, or rather adopt. Violet bristles, but Jason goes on. A man isn’t nothing without a family. Violet is speechless, and when she finally does open her mouth its nothing but scorn. She calls him a girl for getting sentimental, that in her day a town of dead was nothing, the men didn’t feel anything because they were warriors. Jason breaks it to Violet that he’s a modern man, he thinks and he feels. Violet thinks that he use to be, that he may have been broken when he was thrown in her cell but he was still a real man. Andy and Jessica come knocking, and Violet tells them to fuck off, but they’re not taken aback by her bark. Jason tells them to come in, and they do. Violet singles out Jessica, pinning her to the wall, reminding her that its her house. Andy gives Jason the update on Vince and his band of idiots. They have all the guns, and Kenya has gone to the dumb side. Jessica tells him that Adilyn is worried that they’re after Sookie. Andy leaves Adilyn and Wade at Jason’s with explicit instructions, they are not to open the door or go outside. Violet makes Jessica a deal that they’ll call a truce until they find Sookie. Jessica is fine with that as she wasn’t aware that they still had an issue. Someone please stake Violet already. Her death is one I deeply desire. Jason grabs his gun and he’s all set.

Lafayette has a one man dance party, which is cut short by James knocking at his door. James has come back for some weed, but Lafayette has none left. He offers him some pills, but James can’t swallow. James is looking to forget his beautiful redhead problem. They live together, they even occasionally have sex, but she’s just not there, and he wants more. Lafayette asks if he remembers the last pill he took, and he does. James reminisces about his last tuinol. Lafayette plans to mix up his own concoction, and once he’s swallowed for James, then they can both party.

At Fantasia, the body count is sky rocketing. They’re down to 4 ½ victims left, or two days. They’re going to have to go back out to hunt, or they’re all going to die. They’re weak, and the humans are being protected by vampires now, but they have little choice, they have to eat every hour. They’ll bring a snack out to hunt with. Holly tries to invoke a protection spell, but the lead vampire puts a stop to it, and takes volunteers Holly for their snack.

Bill understands the plan, but thinks its shaky at best he tells her up above in a tree. Sookie is open to a better one, but she reminds Bill that this plan is half his. He said no such thing, but she reminds him that the first time they went to Fangtasia he called her vampire bait, which isn’t something a girl forgets. That’s not what he meant, and she knows that, but now she’s just fulfilling her fate. He asks if they take the bait back to where the other are being held, does she want him to bring Alcide along to find her. She wants him to bring Alcide and anyone else willing to help. She hopes that there are a whole lot of people that need rescuing. He asks if she loves Alcide, and she tells him its none of his business. Bill wants to be friends though, and friends talk. Sookie admits that Alcide wants kids. He asks if that’s what she wants. When she doesn’t answer he tells her that when they were together, and she interrupts. She loves Alcide she really does, but she fears that she doesn’t love him as much as he loves her, and she knows she should because he’s decent, and handsome, grounded and good. But when they say I love you she can hear it in his voice and in his thoughts that he means it more than she does and that makes her feel awful. Love isn’t always equal Bill admits, and maybe that she’ll grow to love him more. She’s settle for him loving her a little less.

Jessica, Andy, Jason and Violet head out to look for Sookie. Jason gets her voicemail, worried since they stopped by her house and found the front door open. They come upon Sam’s truck. They get out to look around. The mob makes their presence known. Andy asks where the mayor went, and they tell him that he flew away, but Vince asks what he can do for them. Unless they can un-lock up the Sheriff’s daughter, or unsteal their guns, Jason just wants them out of the way or he can practice his shooting skills on them. Kenya complains that Adilyn struck her with lightening. Andy is a proud papa over it, but that’s besides the point. He wants through. The mob plans to hold their ground. Maxine guns for Jessica. She’s still upset that Hoyt left her, and she shoots Jessica in the arm. Violet rips her heart out, and everyone is kind of shock. The mob breaks apart, and scurries away. Violet goes to fetch Rocky for Andy, alive on his orders, and Jason goes to see why Jessica isn’t healing.

Holly sits in the middle of the HVamp hunting pack. They tell her to stay still, to say nothing. A pair take the two that they’ve found while the rest go looking for more.

At Lafayette’s he and James sit in a drug haze listening to music, enjoying the bass. James says goodbye to the past, since now is all that matters.

Alcide scours the woods. Sam catches up to him and the two shift back into their luscious human skin. Alcide tells him that Sookie is missing, that he lost her scent at Bill’s house. Two of the mob members fidget with their guns, and take a pop shot at the pair as they shift and run off.

Sookie sharpens a stick, waiting for her prey. She thought she smelled special, but so far no one is taking the bait. Bill assures her that she does. Sookie asks if Bill has ever been to Six Flags. She describes one of the rides there, and although immortal, Bill thinks it would scare him to death. Sookie tells him that it wasn’t the fall that was the scary part, but the waiting. You knew you were going to fall, it was just a matter of when. That’s exactly what this feels like she tells him. He tells her she should try to go to war, but this is war she reminds him.

1862 Bill’s daughter Sarah doesn’t want to take the picture, but her mother tells her that its for her father while he’s away. He asks what she’s frightened of, she doesn’t want him to leave. She asks why if he’s coming home why he needs the photograph. Bill wants the photo since it would be better to have something rather than nothing at all. Although the photos are expensive, Bill asks for one of him and his daughter for her to keep. Mr. Fortenberry takes the Compton family photo second.

Sookie stabs herself bringing Bill out of his memory. Danger Whore is sick of waiting. She makes the announcement that she tastes like sunshine and flowers and she’s right there.

Reverend Daniels finally has Lettie Mae calmed down. Willa wonders if she burned herself on purpose. He asks if she’s hungry, but she doesn’t want to be an inconvenience. He’s willing to open a vein for her though. She asks if he’s sure, being a reverend and all, but he’s sure. She hesitates, before taking her meal. He tells her that he moved to this town after the worse period of his life. He and his first wife lost their daughter six months prior. His first wife strayed and he lost all faith in god, his wife and self. His congregation would come check on him and he would pretend he wasn’t there. He hid afraid someone would talk to him. One morning he woke up put on his collar and headed out to the boarded up church outside. On the steps he saw a beautiful woman clutching a bottle of Captain Morgan. She told him that she had been waiting for him. Everyone said that he saved Lettie Mae, but she saved him just as much. Willa finishes her meals. Reverend Daniels points out that there is no liquor in the house, because Lettie Mae is a good woman, but she has a disease that’ll eat up booze, pills, drugs, gambling, sex, or vampire blood. Willa is a nice girl, and he’s so very sorry for all she’s been through, unfortunately though to Lettie Mae she looks like a bottle of Captain Morgan’s and he can’t have her around anymore. Lettie Mae manipulated her once, and she’ll do it again. Willa understands, but worries who will protect them. God will. Reverend Daniels thanks Willa for all that she has done, but he rescinds her invitation.

James wakes up, up Lafayette is slow to wake. James worries that he OD’d on him. He didn’t. Lafayette teases that James was worried about him, thinks its cute. James offers to fix his neck for him, and Lala lets him. With a quick bite of his fingers, and a little rubbing of his neck, Lafayette has to wonder if James is grooving on him. Lala didn’t misread the signals, but James maintains that he’s with Jessica.

Past, Pam feeds on some French food. A troop of sword carrying men arrive. Eric screws Sylvie in the vineyard when Pam interrupts. The men have Pam. The man in charge likes what he sees in Sylvie, and orders her to be taken. When Eric struggles, they threaten Pam. They’re from the Nakamoro corporation, the Tru-blood makers, and Eric understands the point. He will be more careful in the future. One of the women have to die, and Eric get to choose. Eric offers the man money, offers to double, triple the money, but he’s not taking it. Eric offers himself up instead, but the Authority wants him alive. Eric chooses Pam, and Sylvie gets a sword through his body. The men take silver chains to Eric and drag him away.

Now. Pam asks if Eric contracted the virus on purpose. Not on purpose, but he didn’t tread with caution either. Pam tells him that with an ample blood supply vampires are living longer and longer, and a cure is being worked on. She will help keep him well. He asks why, and she asks if he regrets the choice he made that night. He made the only choice that he could. She asks him not to make her watch this as he watched Godric. He tells her that she is free to leave as blood tears fall. For more than a thousand years the world has been his oyster, and he’s lost the taste for oysters. He tells her again to go. Pam rises to leave, but she stops. She tells him that Sarah Newlin still lives, and she’s still out there. No one has seen her, she’s in hiding somewhere. That has his attention. Eric rises, and wants to go find her.

At the moment Newme is screwing her yogi. She’s riding him hard, but he wants to climax together. She follows his instructions to fruitation.  He has made it his life’s work to steer his students to the right path, never thinking that a student could show him the path. She came five months ago thinking that life on earth was an audition to get into heaven. He tells her that there is no life on earth, there is only now, and now he tells her to go pick a nice bottle of red. She leaves bed. Outside walk the guys with swords and guns. Newme is in the cellar picking out her bottle of red while the guru is asked if he knows Sarah Newlin. At sword point he tells them that he does know her, but he will not give her up. They kill him, and she watches his blood creep into the room.

Bill alerts Sookie that a human approaches. It’s Holly. Sookie is happy to see Holly, but she doesn’t know where she’s been, she’s in a daze. Bill is taken by surprise by the HVamps. Luckily Alcide, Sam, Jason, Andy, Violet and Jessica are there. They take out the vampires around Sookie. Alcide asks Sookie what the hell she was thinking, but he doesn’t really want her answer. Sam unchains Bill. Alcide gives her the once over, asking for help to wash her off , which Violet takes care of while he give Bill the third degree for going along with her stupid plan. Bill has known Sookie long enough not to try to make her change her mind. Alcide tells him to tell him about Sookie like he doesn’t know her and he’ll kill him. Gunshoots ring through the air. Packmaster down, I repeat Packmaster down. Alcide is riddled with bullets. Jason and Andy shoot at some stupid rednecks, but its too late the damage to the beautiful flesh is done. Jessica offers to turn him, but Sookie refuses. She’s been down that road before, and Alcide is gone. It was Lou, and Andy leaves him to die as Sookie cries over her wolf.


I thought I was prepared for it all to end, for everyone to die. I couldn’t have been more wrong. That death was a low blow. Although I get Alcide had to die to make way for the Bill and Sookie ending that they seem intent on ramming down our throats making him go out like that was just wrong. And with the death of Alcide, another item on our wishlist goes up in smoke.

Summary descriptions for the episodes 3, 4, and 5 of True Blood!

TRUE BLOOD
JULY EPISODES

            Episode #73: “Fire in the Hole”
            Debut: SUNDAY, JULY 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
            Other HBO playdates: July 6 (11:30 p.m.2:00 a.m.), 7 (11:30 p.m.), 8 (12:15 a.m.), 9 (8:00 p.m.12:35 a.m.) and 11 (midnight)
            HBO2 playdates: July 7 (9:00 p.m.), 10 (4:20 a.m.), 12 (9:00 p.m.) and 13 (8:00 p.m.)
            Sookie (Anna Paquin) hatches a dangerous plan to take down the H-Vamps, even as Vince (Brett Rickaby) and his armed vigilantes pose an equally serious threat. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) gets high with James (Nathan Parsons); Jason (Ryan Kwanten) eyes a family future with Violet (Karolina Wydra); Willa (Amelia Rose Blaire) is forced to find a new place to stay; Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp) sheds her past. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) offers Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) a compelling reason to return to Louisiana – and be the vampire he used to be.
            Written by Brian Buckner; directed by Lee Rose.

            Episode #74: “Death Is Not the End”
            Debut: SUNDAY, JULY 13 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
            Other HBO playdates: July 13 (11:30 p.m.2:00 a.m.), 14 (11:15 p.m.), 15 (12:15 a.m.), 16 (8:00 p.m.12:30 a.m.) and 18 (midnight)
            HBO2 playdates: July 14 (9:00 p.m.), 17 (3:40 a.m.), 19 (9:00 p.m.), 20 (8:00 p.m.) and 31 (3:00 a.m.)
            In the aftermath of yet another bloodbath, Sam (Sam Trammell), Sookie and Jason find themselves the bearers of bad news in Bon Temps and beyond. Pam recalls the events that led her and Eric to Shreveport and Fangtasia. Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) get nourishment from unexpected sources. Following a new lead, Sookie enlists a band of vampires and humans to track down the H-Vamps.
            Written by Daniel Kenneth; directed by Gregg Fienberg.

            Episode #75: “Lost Cause”
            Debut: SUNDAY, JULY 20 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
            Other HBO playdates: July 20 (11:30 p.m.2:00 a.m.), 21 (10:30 p.m.), 22 (midnight), 23 (8:00 p.m.12:30 a.m.) and 25 (midnight)
            HBO2 playdates: July 21 (9:00 p.m.), 24 (2:00 a.m.), 26 (9:00 p.m.), 27 (8:00 p.m.) and 31 (4:00 a.m.)
            Exhausted from her recent travails, Sookie finds herself the unwilling host of a festive mainstreaming party in Bon Temps. In search of an elusive adversary, Eric and Pam head to Dallas and attend a gala fundraiser. Andy (Chris Bauer) makes a life-changing decision; Jessica and James reach a crossroads; Bill loses himself in remembrance of human days.
            Written by Craig Chester; directed by Howie Deutch.

            TRUE BLOOD was created by Alan Ball; based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris; executive producers, Alan Ball, Brian BucknerGregg Fienberg and Angela Robinson; co-executive producer, Howard Deutch; supervising producer, Kate Barnow; producers, David Auge and Bruce Dunn; co-producers, Christina Jokanovich, Ronald Cosmo Vecchiarelli and Sunday Stevens.

True Blood Recap S07E02: I Found You

Eric goes to a hotel, and someone watches him as he faces the window, unbuttoning his shirt. Eric is surprised that he found him. It’s Jason. Eric tells him that he needed space to think. He’s still thinking. Jason can’t stop thinking, but Eric didn’t need to get away from him. He knew Eric would play the whole lone rider island thing. Eric makes his drink, shaking it. He asks about Violet, as Jason drinks the drink down. He’s crazy about Violet, but he can’t get Eric out of his head. The push, his words. It’s not the first time Eric has heard them. He’s been a sexy beast for a long time, and people desiring him is nothing new. Eric pushes him down onto the chair and walks away, but Jason isn’t taking that. He leaps at the Viking, stripping away his own shirt. He pushes him down onto his stomach, taking control. The pair kiss in one of the steamiest scenes in True Blood history, and just as Eric kisses his way down Jason’s body, and things set to get really interesting, Jason awakens in the church. Now that is how a vampire sex dream should be.

Cue the Intro music! And cold showers for everyone.

Jason tries to shake the dream off. Sookie continues to hear the negative thoughts swirling about her. Andy wonders how to narrow the search, but Sookie does. Sookie stumbled over a dead body that she didn’t recognize. She thinks that if they ID the dead girl they can find out where she came from, and maybe who the H Vamps are. They’re stretched thin, and the Feds are not being much help, so it’s the only plan. The reverend knows what the people will do to survive the evening, but he turns to Sam to see how they can survive the day. Sam isn’t so sure, but he rally’s the people to pitch in, to put Bellfleur’s back together for Arlene when she gets back. As long as they’re inside by sundown they should be safe. Lettie Mae plans to pay Lafayette a visit since he wasn’t at church the night before, and she’s worried that he’s gone to a dark place.

Adilyn wants to go with Andy, but he thinks its too dangerous, so she asks if she can stick with Rocky and Wade, it being their time of need and all. Andy is hesitant, but he lets her go, with the promise she will be inside before nightfall, and she will not let Jessica in.

The HVamps are in a bit of a pickle. The one who killed Kevin got a little out of hand. They thought that their rations would last longer, but his hunger cut it down. They make a new game plan so that the food can last longer, and they can go out and get more. They send the teacher down to retrieve the food. Nicole’s labor progresses. Betty chooses a blonde, and Arlene recognizes the woman as the teacher of her and Holly’s kids, she thinks that she can use that connection in the future. Arlene knows that she has had some bad luck, but that luck is about to change. She has survived too much to die now in a dingy vampire bar, but Holly doesn’t look so assured.

Sookie points out the location of the body. Jason finds that the animals have gotten to the body already, but her wallet is on her. The woman is only from two towns over, from Saint Alice. Sam reached out to that Mayor, but he never got back to him. Andy tries to call the Sheriff, but no luck. It’s road trip time.

Lafayette is none too pleased to find Lettie Mae banging on his door. She’s come to see how he’s holding up, and he’s holding up fine. Lettie Mae puts on a brave front. She lost Tara long ago, but last night she made peace with Tara finally, but then she was taken away. She wants more though. Lafayette wishes she could, but she can’t. Lafayette refuses to channel Tara for her, he won’t do it again. She doesn’t want that, she asks Lafayette for some V. When she was high she could see Tara. Lafayette tells her it was the V, but she doesn’t believe him. She’s an addict through and through, and using the thought of her dead daughter for a chance to get high.

Adilyn and the others clean up Bellefleur’s. Vince cannot believe that they’re sweeping up like Sam Merlotte told them to. He tells them that he saw Sam drove off, leaving them unprotected. Maxine Fortenberry finds a bunch of bodies in the fridge. They aren’t sure if the vampires eat fresh or if frozen will work. Vince tells the people that Sam is a shapeshifter, and the people fall into a mob mentality. Maxine remembers a time when she saw a bear digging in her trash, and when she turned around again it was a naked Sam. Vince convinces them to start making stakes, to protect themselves against the vampires, all vampires. Adilyn overhears Rosie think where some guns are held, and she takes Wade out to safe guard them as the people make their stakes before things get worse.

Betty comes back down, and Jane gets Arlene’s and Holly’s attention. Betty tells them that she cannot show mercy. Arlene points out that she’s going to die anyways. Betty knows that, but even still she wouldn’t know how to save them anyways. Arlene didn’t mean it that way. She and Holly go on about what a great teacher she was, and she admits that she’s so scared. Betty falls into Arlene’s arms and she comforts them. Betty looks at the held women, and tells them that she cannot help them. Arlene pleads about her legacy, begs that she help them get out. Betty vows to figure something out.  Betty takes her male morsel up to feed the animals.

The car ride is silent as they find an empty Saint Alice. Sookie, Sam, Alcide, Jason, and Andy get out of their vehicles. The town is utterly deserted. Buildings are boarded, spray paint is everywhere asking for help from FEMA or anything. Sookie calls out when she finds a giant hole full of bodies. There’s no one left, all are either killed or taken.

Adilyn tells Kenya that she heard Rosie say that she was going to take the guns from the supply room. Kenya is hesitant, but Adilyn makes her case that the mob is coming, and there is only one place left with guns. Kenya springs into action, but it may be too late, as the mob pours in. They think its their right to bear arms, that if they were more would be alive. Kenya knows that more would be dead if they had been. One of the mobees points out the misdeeds of the sheriff department and their wrong doings against Kenya herself, and she plans to hand over the weapons. Kenya goes to handcuff Adilyn, and Adilyn’s microwave fingers shoot on their own accord. Jessica awakens as Adilyn is put into danger. She’s stuck up in the attic. She calls the station but gets no answer. Adilyn and Wade are handcuffed and taken to a cell. Jessica even tries to call Sookie, but Sookie’s phone is somewhere in the woods. There’s all sorts of mayhem at the sheriff office as the mob plays with their new guns.

The group goes to the woman’s house, but finds it empty. They were taken in the middle of a pizza dinner. Jason takes a bite of the pizza, and determines when the family was taken with his pizza forensic skills. The HVamps hit a town and stay until its dried up. They group split up and see what they can find. Andy plans to make an honest woman of Holly when he gets her back. A man is nothing without a family, and he plans to rectify that. The revelation hits Jason. Upstairs Sookie finds a diary, and she’s hesitant to read it, but Alcide encourages her reading. Reading it, it sounds a lot like Sookie’s diary as she reads about a vampire named Henry. Sookie remembers when she asked Bill to take her to Fangtasia for the first time, and tries to make him believe that it wasn’t a date as she runs upstairs puts on pretty red lingerie, and an adorable dress. She gets all mushy thinking of Bill as the girl declares that she is Henry’s. Fast forward, everyone is dead or disappeared when the H Vamps attacked after a wedding. It gets worse as the girl slips into hopelessness.

Lettie Mae burns herself, it’s not too bad, but she plans to make it worse. She burns her palm really good, and goes down to Willa. She has a hard time awakening Willa, and Willa goes on the attack. Willa feels horrible, and Lettie Mae shows her the burned up hand. Willa thinks that she should go to the hospital, but  Lettie Mae isn’t sure that a doctor could help. Lettie Mae was hoping that Willa would heal her with her blood. Willa isn’t sure that’s the best idea since the Reverend specifically ask that she not, but Lettie Mae complains of her pain, and Willa is quick to help by opening her wrist. Lettie Mae falls into her V trip, and she sees Tara in a jungle. Dressed in white Tara is up on a cross with a yellow python wrapped around her. Tara speaks to her in tongues, rapidly repeating her words, pleading, but Lettie Mae can’t understand her as she begs for answers. Willa gets to only experience one side of the V trip.

As Alcide drives Sookie back, he tries to assure her that she isn’t like the girl in the diary, that they won’t have the same fate.  She fell in love hard and fast like any other girl for the first time. It isn’t her fault that there are vampires in Bon temps, or that the HVamps are eating the town. As happy as Sookie is to hear him say that, the fact still remains that the HVamps are eating her town. Alcide tells her that they can run, save themselves, but Sookie won’t go.

Betty asks to be the time monitor. She knows that they’re all waiting for her to die, that she’s the weakest one, and she fears that Ronnie won’t continue to wake her. Ronnie is willing to give up the position, and Betty takes up the timer. 15 minutes are set, as the rest snooze. Down in the basement the girls await their fate. They have 12 minutes to get out. Betty needs to feed before they start the getaway, and Arlene offers herself up. Betty takes blood from Arlene’s femoral artery, but its too late, she succumbs to the Hep V virus.

Andy comes home to an empty house, and Jessica has no choice but to give up her hiding spot. Jessica calls out to him, and Andy assumes that Jessica killed her too. Jessica makes him see that Adilyn is not there, but she is in trouble. She tells in that once the sun sets that she will find her, and she asks if he will be by her side.

Alcide and Sookie make it home. He’s exhausted, but before he can fall into bed she sends him off into the shower. Incased in the running water, and shower’s warmth, Sookie makes a run for it, sneaking out of the house. She passes through the graveyard, and straight to Bill’s. He’s surprised to see her. She asks him if she was scared, if she was in trouble, if he could still sense her. Oh, danger whore what sort of madness are you planning?

Pam cannot believe where she’s found Eric, but she has found him, and he’s refusing blood. He looks at his only child, and her heart breaks. Eric is infected. 

Break my little heart, they are messing up this final season with that little revelation! I believe that's strike two against our wishlist

True Blood Recap S07E01: Jesus Gonna Be Here

It’s been a love affair from the beginning, and now its all coming to an end. Excuse me while I get some tissues. Ah, the disappointments of season six, the rise (again) of Bill Compton and the quick death of Warlow. There was also up points: Vamp Camp, Sarah Newlin, Eric changing Willa, Jessica’s downward spiral and quest for redemption, along with Lettie Mae’s and the Hep V vampires.

Now. The Hep V vampires tear apart the BBQ. Vampires are working along side of humans trying to get them to safety away from the Hep V vampires. One Hep V vampire gets a good whiff of Sookie, and wonder what she is. Tara saves her mama. Kevin is ripped away by vampires. Sam loses his Baby Mama, and goes all canine after her. Before Sookie can be attacked, a piercing whistle sounds as Bill arrives, and the Hep V vampires are called away. Jason tries to deliver the casualty report, but she can’t stop to listen, as she hears Lettie Mae’s wails, her baby Tara is gone. Oh, tissues. I know I’ve said that I could handle losing everyone, but losing Holly and Tara in the first five minutes, wow. That’s a season opener.

 Andy is called, and Jason relays the news. Holly and Arlene were taken, Tara is dead. Andy tells his daughter Adilyn to stay inside no matter what, as he heads off to the rescue. He delivers the news to Jessica, his outside sentry, and warns his daughter not to invite her in no matter what. Jessica has a breakdown.

Inside Merlotte’s, which has become command central, Sookie overhears all the nasty thoughts of the townspeople, and what they really think of her. Many of the people think that it’s her fault. Sam and Alcide tried to find the missing, but found no one. Willa asks Lettie mae to drink her blood to help her heal faster, even if she doesn’t like vampires. Andy is a little upset that Sam was having his little human/vampire mixer. He sends Jason and Violet to hunt for the Hep V vampire nest. Sookie hears Alcide’s thoughts, if Sookie hadn’t loved the dead, if she had walked away then none of this would have happened, and it’s the last straw, she has to get out of there. Jessica calls in to James, who’s at Merlotte’s. He’s fine, just shaken up over the attack, and he tells her just how bad it is. Jessica tells James that she’s going to protect Adilyn, and James tells her that she has to feed, but she cuts him off.

Vince is shocked over learning that Sam is a dog. Sam and he campaigned against eachother, but Sam tries to reason with him that if outs him, that people will lose their shit. He asks that they keep it between them for now for the sake of the town. Sam tells people that it is not safe at Merlotte’s tonight, and Bill asks that the people take home their vampires, feed them and hunker down. The town clears out, and Alcide tries to call Sookie, but she ignores her man, tossing her phone away. Danger whore is at it again. She stumbles over a body, and keeps going.

Pam is Morocco, looking lovely as ever, no matter how bad tempered she is. She engaged in a little game of Russian roulette against a Jew, who has a long standing streak of good luck. He thinks God is on his side, Pam knows her God is not. The world is ending he tells her, but with death all around her. She tells him that his God and hers can have a circle jerk while she’s having a threesome with the devil for all she cares. He doesn’t make it out of the game alive, and Pam gets her information.

Adilyn tries to read, but can’t. She opens the blinds and watches Jessica, then opens the window. Her sweet smell drifts to Jessica. Adilyn apologizes about her friend, and makes sure that Jessica can’t get inside. She cannot. Adilyn’s heard what Jessica said about wanting to protect her, and she admits that she has nightmares about that night that Jessica killed her sisters. Jessica has had nightmares too. Adilyn wishes she could hate Jessica but she doesn’t. Jessica sheds more tears, and Adilyn asks about Jessica’s boyfriend, and Jessica tells her about James. The girls are chumming it up, when a figure appears in the distance, interested in Adilyn. Jessica drops fangs, and announces that Adilyn is hers.

Alcide finds Sookie at home, and he’s more than a little upset that she walked home all alone. The Hep V vampires are no longer a threat in the distance, they’re up close and at their throats. Sookie knows that, but she couldn’t handle the fact that he’s suppose to love her, and he was judging her and blaming her just as much as everyone else in the town. Everyone is blaming her for what is happening. He loves her, and she knows it, but what he thought didn’t hurt any less. She sends him away, needing to be alone.

Jason and Violet drive over to the nest, he reminisces over Tara, remembering her when they were kids. They make it to the nest, but Vince is already there with a small group of people. They aren’t one to sit around and for the sheriff department to do their jobs. Violet gets all vampy when they cross the line, and Jason sends them  off before Violet makes their heads into candy dishes.

Lafayette brings James to his home, as his appointed vampire. Lafayette tries to get into a calmer state of mind. He  drinks some whiskey and James has some bong rips, and Lafayette admits that he’s relieved that she’s dead. He grieved the first time that Tara died, but not this time. James opens up, tells him that all of his friends are dead, most died during the Vietnam War. He was a draft dodger at the time. When his best friend died he went to pay his family condolescenes and his father beat him and left him for dead. He was changed that night. Pain for those lost is pointless, they’re gone. Lafayette opens up a vein for him.

Jason pulls over on the side of the road, and gives Violet a piece of his mind. He treated him like a little girl, and he’s tired of it. She won’t let him have sex with her, she won’t let him do his job, and she feeds off him. She asks him what he’s going to do about it, and he tells her that he’s going to fuck her, and her him, and she’s going to like it. That’s what she’s been waiting to hear. She rips his clothes off, and they get down to it.

Jessica faces off against the Hep V vampire. He wants a drink of Adilyn, taunts Jessica over her. Jessica warns him off, but he wants a taste. Adilyn thinks that she’s safe, and although he cannot get inside, Jessica knows that she’s not safe. She asks Jessica to drink her blood so that she can always find and protect her, and although hesitant Adilyn does. The vampire is dying and he wants to feed from Adilyn before he does.

Lettie Mae is freaking out, high off Willa’s blood. She thinks that she sees Tara. The Reverend gets Lettie Mae to lie down, and sleep it off. Willa has no where to go now that Tara is dead. She’s been rooming with her, and she can’t go home with all of her stuff there. Eric is gone, everyone is gone. She’s a lost soul. The Reverend gives her a place to stay in the church cellar. It isn’t much, but its light tight.

Pam goes looking for Najat. She hands over money, and the man gives her his daughter. In South Africa the only clean blood is child blood. Although she looks delicious Pam passes, only wishing to get the information. Pam is given a map. She thinks it must be wrong, that he would never go there, but the information is accurate. The map is of Rhone.

Sookie slips off towards bed, where a sleeping Alcide lies. She removes her robe, and crawls into bed naked and cuddles up next to him. She murmurs a soft apology, and Alcide forgives her. They tell each other that they love each other, before the kissing starts.

Andy and Bill head to some abandon warehouses, where kids use to party all of the time. There are signs that vampires had nested there. Andy calls out for Holly as they continue their search. The smell is putrid. He finds a group of people hanging upside down, dead. Vince and his band of idiots arrive, guns drawn. He’s upset over the vampire/human pairings, blaming them for the deaths. Bill takes responsibility for the debacle at the mixer, pointing out that Andy was not at the mixer in protest. Vince is willing to let Andy go, but Andy isn’t willing to. He and Bill have a long history. Vince hands over the gun, and Andy points it at Bill before turning it onto Vince’s followers. Only Lou holds his gun at Andy. Andy tries to reason with him, telling him that killing another person isn’t as easy as he thinks it is, but that he’s done it before, and is willing to do it again. They cannot believe that Andy would let the H vamps do this to the town. Andy isn’t letting them do this to the town, but it’s over for tonight.

At Fangtasia, the vampires are feeding on the humans one by one. They have Arlene, Holly, Nicole and Kevin chained up in Eric’s basement. Arlene frets over the fact that she has kids, Holly tries to calm the group, knowing that Andy will find them, but Kevin is sure that the bumbling Bon Temps sheriff won’t find them in time. Nicole can’t feel the baby. A vampire heads downstairs, and takes Kevin for a snack, and the girls take a cue from Ginger.

Andy takes Bill home. He thanks him for what he did. Andy reminds him that there is nothing he can say or do to make it up to his family. Bill says that he understands. Bill has a flashback of saying goodbye to his family as he heads off to war.

Dawn approaches, and Jessica and the Hep V vampire continue their Mexican standoff. He warns her that she will have to die to protect Adilyn. Adilyn begs Jessica to go to safety, but she will not leave her post. She invites Jessica in, over Jessica’s protests. On the porch she asks her in again, and Jessica rushes to pull her to safety before the Hep V vampire can get her. She pulls Adilyn into her arms the door shutting behind them, fangs out, and releases her. She fought the temptation to feed for now.The sun comes up, and fries the hep V vamp as Jessica goes to find safety.


The Reverend delivers his message of hope with the morning coming. Sookie slips into church, taking a seat behind Lettie Mae. Lettie Mae tells her that it is her fault that her daughter died, that Tara always turned to her, and she lead her down a path of wickedness that got her killed. She tells Sookie that she is not welcomed. All of the hateful thoughts get directed to Sookie as she rises to leave with Alcide at her back. She tells the town that she loves, that at least Lettie Mae is honest in her hate, and says it to her face. They can’t go back to how things were, and some of what is happening is her fault, but she knows the most about vampires, and she wants to make things right.

True Blood Season 7 Wishlist

So our wish list for season 6 of True Blood wasn’t exactly answered, we did get some of the things we asked for. You can see how we did here. Still, we’re optimistic for Season 7. It’s a new year, and with this being the final year of True Blood, it’s time to put all of those wishes on the table! So with that being said here are our 10 wishes for Season 7!

Eric. Just quality Eric.
Sue: There are so many wishes for Eric. For a great storyline, to not draw out his recovery, because we all know he’s not dead, and above all a fitting conclusion to this beloved character. Last year we wished for Eric to get his balls back, and he pretty much did. We got some great scenes out of it, but for the most part they were Sookie-less scenes that were the standout moments. This season, I would love to see the Eric we all fell in love with in the beginning, the one that stole every scene he was in, whose beauty was almost overshadowed with his brains and cunning. I want to see Eric back in fighting form, with his progeny by his side. Out of all of the series characters, Eric has been the most shafted. Charlaine Harris, crafted a pretty wonderful story for Eric, though she shafted him in her own way in the end, and Alan Ball took that beautiful journey and smashed it to pieces with his Bill loving way. The Eric storyline needs to be redeemed. I’m not saying give him a happy ending, because he’s the Anti-hero and that rarely means running off with the fairy princess in the end. But don’t make him play second fiddle for all eternity.
 
Brad: You covered him to a T. We both have the same feelings for Eric.

Jasmine: I completely agree with Brad on this.  You are absolutely spot on about this one. What more can be said.

Jenevia: Eric has undergone more character development than almost any of the other characters and it’s been one of the most fun parts of watching True Blood all these years. I can’t definitively state what I want most from him in regards to the main points of his arc but what I do want is more of the little Eric Northman moments that make him stand out as one of my favourite vampire characters of any franchise. Remember the time that he was fiddling with his wind-tousled hair after flying to Sophie-Ann’s mansion, or some of his most hilarious, classic lines such as “teacup humans” or “Is there blood in my hair?” I want there to be humor and life (if you’ll pardon the pun) back in Eric. We’ve seen him lose loved ones over the series and have his heart broken, but he’s over a thousand years old! He wouldn’t have made it this far if he didn’t have it in him to rise from the ashes and continue strutting his vampire self wherever he pleases.

Jason and Jessica sitting in a tree…
Brad:   I want to see Jessica and Jason to finally have the true happy ending. Since Jessica arrived it has been the two of them off and on. If there are two people that should have the TRUE happy ending it's Jason and Jessica and not Bill and Sookie. Sookie and Eric would be the ideal conclusion to this series. 

Jasmine: Jessica with Jason or James...hmmm. We have seen Jessica “grow” a little bit in each season, especially as a vampire. Our baby vamp is no baby anymore! I would like to see more of what’s next for Jessica now...Is there a future for Jessica and James? Or like Brad mentioned...Jason and Jessica?

Jenevia:  I can’t honestly be bothered to care quite so much about the Jason/Jessica pairing. For me, the best ending for Jessica would be her truly coming into her own as a woman (especially since she was turned as a teenager), being more independent, and self-assured. Jason has always been a bit of a mess, but the humor with which the writers and Ryan have portrayed his story has been great fun. Jason has a great heart, but seeing as how he’s a bit thick, Jessica may very well be better off with herself or simply on her own. My favorite couple on True Blood was Lafayette and Jesus. No one had me squealing, flailing (and eventually sobbing) more than those two. We should all know by now that if there’s a pairing we like, they’re either going to break up or at least one of them is going to die.

Sue: As much as I would love to see Sookie and Eric as the HEA, it’s never gonna happen. Or if it does it’ll be like a last resort option, everyone else is dead so Sookie has to be with the guy she should have been with all along. It definitely won’t be satisfying if we get it. Our last year's wish list can attest to that, be careful what you wish for. As for Jessica and Jason, should they be together yes! Will they, probably not. I know James is semi out of the picture, Luke Grimes left his contract. He's been replaced by Nathan Parsons. Rumor has it Luke thought he’d get more Jessica scenes, and when he found out he wasn't he bailed. So, I’m guessing that means there’s trouble in paradise for James and Jess. Hopefully Jess breaks things off with James, and Jason stakes Violet. I’ve never seen Violet as the character that tamed the manwhore streak in Jason, but rather the one that mindfucked him into submission.

Give Pam and Tara More Screen Time
Jasmine: I would like to see more of Pam and Tara. Granted we saw their maker/progeny relationship progress last season. Just like the Eric/Pam relationship, these two are such strong characters that I would like to see these strong characters have a strong close to this series.

Jenevia: I never would have predicted that Pam and Tara would be a couple but once I saw it, I really enjoyed seeing the combo-dynamic of maker/progeny and lover/lover. True Blood has so many characters on it and it becomes a double-edged sword. There’s so many interesting dynamics ready to be explored but someone’s story always gets sacrificed at the cost of others getting time to shine.

Sue: I'm all for the ladies getting more screen time, especially now that Tara has her fire back, but let’s not toy with coupledom if it's not going to get its fair shake. Sookie's magical vagina is always going to take the main stage, I get that, but I would rather see a more flushed out story than some half baked sex scenes between the two, and that's all I feel they're gonna get. In this final season I don't want to see a complicated relationship between the two. I want to see them go full momma bear mode and protect their love ones. They're never more fierce then when someone threatens their family, so when an army of Hep V infected vampires come to town they had better be pretty bad ass. No more pulling punches, I wanna see Pam assassinate some folks like she did in the books.

Brad: Pam and Tara should have more screen time but I wanna see that fire we thought we were going to see. Like Sue said now that Tara is back. Not so much whiney annoying please some one shoot her but that fierce diva. Pam and Tara have so much potential for more. Two absolutely strong beautiful and full of spunk ladies could seriously make for a power couple. Pam has so much to teach and Tara so much to learn. Just don't make it creepy like woody Allen and Soon-Yi father adopted daughter creepy.

More Lafayette!
Jenevia: Lafayette is my favorite character, hands down. “Aids Burger” is an iconic moment of television. It’s understandable that Lafayette was more somber after the devastating loss of Jesus but I want Lafayette’s sparkle back. His story has been put on the back-burner and I want him back in the spotlight in all his shining glory. With all the talk others have done about the strong mystical powers he has within himself, it’s about time we really see him really come into his own, magically speaking. He’s had time to grieve and now he can even talk with Jesus by using his abilities as a medium so let’s see him back in action and have him go out with a bang! (I can hardly bear to write this, but I have this creeping feeling that Lafayette is going to end up dead/reunited with Jesus. Perhaps I should start stocking up on tissues now.)

Sue: Lafayette, like Jessica, is a deviation from the source material that I love. He used to add sassiness and flare whenever he's sashayed on screen. But he’s also another character that has been missing more than hitting lately for me. But I agree with Lady Jenevia 100%. There is no more dragging this one out, I want to see Lafayette in all his glittery glory. Bring on the Hookah we all know and love, and let’s really see what he can do. I don't want to hear about his powers anymore, I want to see them in action. And, if you must kill him off, which I’m sure we’ll lose more than a few beloved characters, let him go out with a bang rather than a whimper.

Brad: Yes MORE LaLa. I love the development of Lafayette throughout the series. I really hope that he never gets another strong lover. Jesus was and is Lafayette's one and only true love. With his abilities Jesus is not truly gone. He makes love transcend the physical to the ever after. I love how he is coming into the southern big mama who everyone seeks out for advice and his maternal/paternal love for all. He is not conventional and that makes LaLa timeless.

Jasmine: I absolutely agree! Season after season all we got was talk of Lafayette’s abilities. Well...let’s see those abilities in ACTION. Enough with the telling….and, I think it pretty much applies to many of our favorite True Blood characters.

Give the Hep V Vamps Some Real Teeth
Sue: I think one of the biggest let downs last year was Warlow. Not because of anything the gorgeous Rob Kazinsky could have done differently, but rather because his storyline sucked. Warlow was made out to be this super badass hybrid, some practically unstoppable force with super daywalker powers and he turned out to be a lovesick pushover, with psycho tendencies. I’m all for a good psycho, but he lacked bite. One little temper tantrum does make for a good villain. Now for a final season I want a big bad that is a real threat rather than a story we’re gonna take a season to build up and then be resolved in a disappointing 15 seconds. The perfection of Russell Edgington as a villain was that he was unpredictable in his grief. Did anyone expect him to rip the spine out of a newscaster and then ask about the weather? No, and that was delightful. I don’t want to be able to guess the endgame, I want shock and awe.

Brad:  I love me a good crazy pyscho . Russell tops the list of great villains. I want to be shocked out of my chair. This season needs less predictability. I want to be guessing what's next. I don't wanna be all sappy and crying because they killed off the entire cast but I want shock and awe. I want nail biting yelling at the tv because I was not expecting. If you need a good example of holy shit what the hell happen go and watch the red wedding on game of thrones. That was EPIC.

Jasmine:  I would agree with every this last season didn't have that shock value that we have had in the past seasons, so yah, in this final season, give us something that will keep us "at the edge of our seats!" The season ended with the threat of Hep V infected vampires...giving us the feeling that there is something dangerous and ominous is coming. My reason for wanting to see that suspense-filled and gripping factor in this season is that the whole Warlow build up just fizzled out...really!

Jenevia: The best villain moments from True Blood have had tremendous shock value. Whether it was Maryann feeding Eggs and Tara a human heart cooked into a pie, Russell ripping a man's spine out on live television, Eric staking Talbot mid-sex, or Sookie sending Talbot's remains down the garbage disposal while laughing like a maniac, that is more of what I want to see from the show's villains or even the heroes when they've gone off the deep end. Shock value can lose its edge if it's used too frequently, but I'd like a couple more this season to add to the list.

Bring Hoyt home
Brad: I am not asking for a big screen development but bring him home. I want my sweet southern gentleman back. But give him a more grown up edge to his southern good boy charm.

Jasmine: I absolutely agree with Brad! We did see some growth with Hoyt. It would be great to see him come home “all grown up.”

Jenevia: I don't thinking bringing Hoyt back would contribute anything to the show. They would have to rip apart all the closure he had in having his memories wiped of his best friend and ex-girlfriend, and leaving Bon Temps for a fresh start. I'm not necessarily opposed to him having a cameo, perhaps to visit his mother, but there's already so many characters that the show has to juggle that it may be better to simply leave him out.

Sue: I don’t necessary want Hoyt back. Jim Parrack was great, but well, his story was kind of done. He was great with Jessica, until he wasn’t, and really his character is better off being off the canvas. With this being the final season though I’m sure more than a few faces will show up for a final goodbye.

Alcide and the wolf pack
Jasmine: Alright! We have seen Alcide as lone wolf and become packmaster….then , at the end of Season 6, he’s with Sookie (Aye! Her magic vagina is at it again!) So which is it….I thought the whole wolf storyline was somewhat “a mess.”  What’s next for Alcide!?! I don’t think it’s with Sookie for very long...hahaha!!! I certainly did enjoy Alcide’s struggle to figure out “where he belongs.” I also could see that Joe Manganiello’s character has the potential to lead...I would like to see a more definite storyline for Alcide in the close of this series.

Jenevia: There's a lot of segregation within the supernatural community. Werewolves keep away from shifters, fairies stay away from vampires, but I think what would be good to see is Alcide's pack being more incorporated into the main arc. If the werewolves are by themselves the whole time, then it begs the question of why that isn't simply its own show. There was a bit of overlap with Luna's baby-daddy Marcus being a werewolf, but that storyline is mostly dead now (as is Luna) and I'd like for the pack's integration to not stem from who people are sleeping with.

Sue: I think the Wolves have to find a way to integrate themselves more within the storyline, and not just within Sookie’s magic fairy vagina. With everyone having to band together to take on the Hep V vampires the werewolves could be a great asset. Now whether or not they’ll actually be utilized to their full potential is a whole other story. With Bill hot on Sookie’s trail, she and Alcide aren’t likely to last long, but I hope he’s not just tossed aside the second the coast is clear, or worse because Sookie thinks she’s protecting him. And above all I hope that the panther aspect is left completely out, that’s one shifting group that was horribly done, and there’s no time to go back and fix the wrongs.

"I'm so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina"
Jenevia: Pam summed it up quite nicely with that line. I don't care who Sookie is sleeping with. I could not be any less interested in seeing hot (often naked) supernatural men fighting over her. Don't write a storyline where the conflict is coming from people wanting to sleep with her. All the build-up with the threat of Warlow belly-flopped into a petulant supe wanting a fairy bride. Give me a storyline with the conflict stemming from political scheming, religious zealots, social injustice, etc. Making Sookie's love life the show's focal point is lazy writing and plays into the incessant tendency of male writers making a woman's end game settling down with a man. What is this, the 1950's?

Sue: Yes! I could not agree more. While I was unhappy with the way that the books ended, guess what, they actually had a plot other than the ever present game of just the tip. Sure even in the books, plenty wanted to sleep with Sooks, but there was also plenty of manipulation that had nothing to do with getting off. With the focus taken off of Sookie with it not being strictly from her view point, you would think that her lady parts wouldn’t be the main focus of the series. 

Jasmine: OMG! I could not have said it better myself, Sue and Jenevia! Really! I was already so over...everyone wants Sookie, a few seasons ago! It really annoyed me that the storyline(s) revolved around Sookie and who's sleeping with her. Not all the character's lives revolve around Sookie...C'mon! Give us a storyline that is gripping and thought-provoking beyond Sookie's vagina!

A Happily Ever After That Does Not Include Bill
Sue: We all know this is the last season, and the good thing is with Alan Ball it doesn’t mean Sookie needs to end up with Bill. Rather than staying on the path that Ball envisioned, chose a different ending. Ball had always been adamant that Sookie and Bill were soul mates, and rather than force an ending that no longer fits since as, like Charlaine Harris did with her series ender. All of the characters have evolved over the seasons; let’s have their endings reflect that as well.

Jasmine: True that Alan Ball has made a point to "push" that Sookie and Bill were soul mates, but people always change...and that's what we saw in each season. Every character has grown in one way or another, and has impacted storyline(s) that took off in different directions. It's not just about Sookie and Bill anymore. In this final season, I would like to see an "ever after," be it happy or not, for several characters such as: Lafayette, Eric, Pam, Tara, Sam...so on and so forth. We need to see some kind of ending for them all.

Jenevia: I don't care one way or another if she ends up with Bill. Just don't eat up so much screen time on that storyline when you could be focusing on more interesting characters, Lafayette in particular.

Let’s Bring It On In
Sue: It’s the home stretch, the final ten episodes before our beloved show is no more. Rather than branching out on some wild tangent, let’s not. I don’t want to be introduced to a bunch of new characters I’m suppose to care about, because that takes away from the ones I already love. Destruction, mayhem, deaths, bring it on. I can handle watching the cast plunged into a dystopian environment, I can handle every single one of them dying, if it’s done right. I cannot handle any of them missing out on screen time because there is a lame character that has to be introduced because he’s über important but turns out utterly disposable because there isn’t enough time to develop or wrap up his story. Bottomline if it has to end, I want to feel satisfaction with the way it did rather than regret.

Jasmine: I absolutely agree Sue! We are coming to the final season, there shouldn't be any new storylines! This should be all about bring a close to all the current characters' storylines. We should see them either die or survive and then see where they go from there. Do not make a cliffhanger ending either. For example, the last season of the short-lived Syfy series Being Human was a FINAL season. They brought the characters storylines to a close...be it happy ever after or not, but, most importantly, the show ended with the characters surviving their plight and revealing where they are after it all. Another great example is Syfy's Battlestar Galactica! I was not disappointed with these endings at all! That's what I can say are great examples of final seasons! Let's see this season with us cheering them on or crying our eyes out.

Jenevia: I agree with everything Sue said; no more new characters that are going to take away from the ones we've already spent years getting attached to and kill whomever so long as it's done right. On top of all that, do not screw up the ending. From Dexter to How I Met Your Mother, it's been one flop-finale to another. It's difficult for me to not have high standards for this show's ending, particularly because of Alan Ball's magnificent work with the Six Feet Under finale. To this day, that's still one of if not my absolute favorite ending to a television program. Since this show has been more action-oriented, I'd love to see it go out with a bang!


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