From what I’ve read and watched, True Blood’s panel at Comic-Con 2013 wasn’t very revealing as far as the future of this season, but new showrunner Brian Buckner did actually offer a glimpse into the recently-announced seventh season. Buckner told the hootin’ crowd of fang-bangers that the show will “return back to its roots” after this season’s vampire-human war eventually wrapped up, and the especially good news is that he said that the storylines would also be condensed.
But next season be damned, because we have plenty to talk about after the shocking sixth episode of the sixth season, “Don’t You Feel Me?”, which featured not one, but two character deaths. And these weren’t just a couple of nobodies getting killed off. We’re talking about an old favorite and a bigtime villain. Let’s chat about it, shall we?
True or False: Terry got a really raw deal.
I’m leading off with Terry’s death, because I feel like I was misled. I definitely didn’t dig the dark road they were sending Terry Bellefleur down last week, as he offered to pay Justin to kill him so he could finally end the pain of his past in the military. But it made sense and helped provide one of the deeper, more emotional characters in a show that has been lacking that for the most part.
So when Arlene agreed to have a vampire glam Terry into forgetting that which plagued him most – which I can’t believe didn’t happen until now – I found myself thinking that we might have a fun plot, in which Justin the sniper chases Terry around trying to kill him, and nobody but Justin knows why.
Wrong.
Terry’s just plain dead now. The bright side is that’s one less irrelevant plot line for the writers to worry about so we can focus on the war between vamps and humans in the final four episodes of this season.
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True or False: Alcide’s hunt for Sam ended in the most amazingly dull way possible.
Speaking of irrelevant plot lines ending… I hope I’m wrong here, and I would love for someone to fill in the blanks for me and show me that I’m wrong, but there was seemingly no point to this story at all. All we got from Alcide’s hunt was that Emma found her way to grandma, Alcide was pissed at his dad but now they’re cool again (kind of), and Sam is never allowed back in Louisiana, unless he wants to be destroyed by Alcide’s pack.
What on Earth was the point of this? Again, please fill in the blanks for me if I’m missing something here.
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True or False: Steve Newlin is going to have a fiery, gruesome and hilarious death.
I can’t wait to watch Steve Newlin die. I fully expect that the writers are working on something hilarious for him basically handing the entire vampire race over to the governor and Sarah Newlin.
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True or False: Almost making Jessica have sex with that random vampire was really mean.
I actually felt Jason’s pain while watching Sarah Newlin try to force Jessica to have sex with that random vampire. That was a very awkward scene and I think (and hope) that it’s indicative of what’s to come with Sarah’s personal war against the vampire.
True or False: Jason is finally cool.
For all of the unintentional laughter that Jason Stackhouse has provided us with, I’m very happy for him that he gets to pretend to be a badass now. I mean, we know he’s still a douchey weirdo, but it’s fun to think that he’s going to kick someone’s ass to help save Jessica. Someone better save Jessica, dammit.
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True or False: The governor’s death was awesome, albeit unexpected.
When the governor and Sarah were expecting Eric and Pam to have an epic battle in their little vampire gladiator arena, I actually said to myself, “I can’t wait til this guy is slaughtered.” Several scenes later, bingo bango, homeboy’s head gets snatched off by one pissed off, day-walking Bill Compton.
Now, I didn’t mind how the governor died. That was pretty awesome. I’m just surprised that it happened so soon and it wasn’t Eric or Willa doing the dirty work. Hell, I’m surprised it wasn’t Sarah Newlin simply making a power grab. Either way, it’s over and done with, and now a new leader must emerge to carry out the master plan.
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Hey, speaking of Sarah Newlin…
True or False: Sarah Newlin is going to be 1,000,000,000,000 times worse than the governor.
I assume that the lieutenant governor or someone similar will take over the state’s government in some sort of capacity, but I expect that Sarah will be the true leader in the war on vampires. And if she was a pissed off bitch of a crusader before, imagine how she’s going to act once she doesn’t have to use her sexuality to influence the decision-making anymore.
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True or False: Eric’s discovery of the bad Tru Blood forces everyone’s hand in the war.
I feel like the entire next episode should be set to “Yakety Sax” as the task force and vampires run around in circles trying to release the Tru Blood into the population and stop it, respectively. But what I’m curious to know is whether or not there’s like a vampire mass text or some sort of telepathic power that could be sent out to tell everyone to not drink the stuff. Because otherwise a ton of vamps are f*cked.
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True or False: Eric helping his sister escape was a really, really bad idea.
I know that he didn’t do it in this episode, but we saw in the preview for next week’s episode that Eric brings his sister to Bill after she’s been injected with the supposed vampire AIDS so he can save her. I’d probably do the same thing with my own vampire sister in the same situation, but isn’t that basically what the governor wanted? Now she’s out in the open with no cure, ready to infect everyone who comes into contact with her.
Between her and the tainted Tru Blood, the vampires are screwed.
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True or False: Sookie’s powerful orgasm changes everything about her special vampire nuke.
For starters, I like that Sookie was basically like, “F*ck it, I’m the town slut” as her justification for just going along with Warlow’s plan. Because, really, that’s the only way it could have made any sense for her to decide to get with this powerful vampire that she previously knew nothing about. So kudos for making the easiest solution the only one as well.
But one of the things that I always make sure to do when I’m reviewing and criticizing TV shows or movies is to apologize when I realize that I’m really, really wrong about something. In this case, I’m predicting that I’m wrong about my prediction that Sookie was going to use her special, one-time vampire nuke to take out Bill right when he thinks he’s so high and mighty and prepares to do something like killing all the humans or whatever his eventual master “I’m a god” plan is.
My new prediction is that Sookie will use the nuke on herself, which I think is a pretty obvious prediction, but whatever. I’ve never been the sharpest tooth in the vampire’s mouth.
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