True Blood 2.08

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Godric: Aiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!!!! BEST. THING. EVER. (is absolutely NOT allowed to sacrifice himself to save vampires from suicide bombers)

Eric's love for Godric: :D (Sookie ships 'em! Woot!) Eric kind of mutually PWNed this episode--I feel like Eric + Godric = greater than the sum of their parts!

Tara: :((((((((( NOT HAPPY. Cannibalism-enduced domestic/sexual violence very rapey. NOT HAPPY.

Jessica: Oh, darling! My heart bleeds for you! Most moving part of story all season and beautifully played (also I heart the writing that allowed that to be a problem).

Godric: You know... other than totally PWNing the whole show... I do have one question: what the fuck was he doing at the Fellowship all that time? Treating it as a zen-retreat? o.O Writing seemed sloppy (Church!dude seemed to be on good terms with him but then he was all 'will not negotiate'?): suspect this comes direct from books?

Sam: Bored. Don't care.

Lafayette: They need to give you a plot, dude!

Jason: Rocking back into form: hooray! Loved the cathartic rage against being taken in by cult. Loved 'let her go, fuckwad!'

Bill: Also rocking back into form after boring!Maker let him go. TOO hilarious in his growliness and Bill/Jason hug hysterical.

Boring!Maker I am oddly sad to see you go. Combined with Bill you bring the boring, but on your own you intrigue me and frankly I feel like your plot raises some legit. issues about Sookie's relationship with Bill that were somewhat lost thanks to the Boring you brought with you. *conflicted*

As you can see, it was an episode that provoked some violent extremes of emotion in me.

Godric better not die. :( Eric alone = more boring. :(

Comments

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Yeah, the religious parallels were very deliberate (I loved the panning shot of Godric in the Church--visually he was far more commanding than the little white-suited leader)

Jason's paintball marks on Steve representing the people who were marked as evil in Revelations.
Ohh! That one I'd missed! Thanks. I was puzzling over the significance of that for ages, because it was so very deliberate.

I'm SO NOT happy about martyr!Godric. I don't care if it makes sense or not.

I'm sure even though Eric was in agony at the time he was still rolling his eyes.
:D Absolutely! I love Bill's complete hopelessness. I love Eric's snark about it. And no, I don't think Bill has any self-awareness at all about the way he screams around trying to be the big hero when he's unable to be one. I find it hilarious/amusing to watch in the same way I find Jason hilarious to watch.