True Blood 2.08

[bop_radar]

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

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Godric + Eric 4EVA!!!!!!!

They are my favorite thing in a long, long time. And I so agree with you. Godric better not die!

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

The Godric/Goddfrey thing is similar to the books, but adjusted -- Eric only mentions his maker in book 9, whereas Godric is book 2. This entire season is a mash-up of book 2 & 3. They are making a point about Makers, about the ability to love and be loyal, or how to betray, and how that is passed down through generations. Lorena was a horrible maker and so is Bill, whereas Godric inspired loyalty in Eric and he inspired loyalty in Pam.

Also, the flashbacks with Lorena pointed out how much Bill has been lying to Sookie from the beginning with his "I only killed by accident when I was turned, but stopped once I knew better." As for what it might be foreshadowing for the Bill/Sookie relationship... I can only hope; I .. ummm... have BIG issues with how he treats her.

I too hated the Jessica/Eggs scene. awful, awful, awful. Though it was kind of funny how that was immediately followed by Lorena making comment about there being no excuse for domestic violence.

I loved how amused Eric was by Jason and by Bill attempting to pick a fight with him. GO ERIC! \o/

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

Godric and Eric are FTW.

[taragel.livejournal.com]

Godric fangirls REPRESENT!!

And Eric was finally, finally interesting (and the wee bit hot) to me this week. I actually even liked his chemistry with Sookie for a change.

Bill/Sookie still bore me. And I think the Maryann plot is dragging on without much change for far too long.

[starryeyedmagic.livejournal.com]

There were some really interesting Jesus comparisons to Godric made. Someone in a TB community brought up how every character in the story line represented a different biblical character and it all kind of made sense. Even including Jason's paintball marks on Steve representing the people who were marked as evil in Revelations.
And the fact that Godric was dressed like Jesus Christ superstar, lol!

I think next week everything regarding Godric will make a bit more sense. Hopefully.

I cracked up SO hard when Bill ran in screaming "SOOOKEHHH!!" and then was just totally useless. Oh typical Bill. I'm sure even though Eric was in agony at the time he was still rolling his eyes.
Bill does amuse me by doing things like this but Eric is right, he's totally irrational. And not in a good way. It's like when he walked out into the sun to save Sookie last year. Seriously? Wtf would that do? You need a plan. I know he has good intentions but it always seems like he's trying really hard to make a "statement" without actually accomplishing anything. I doubt he realizes he's doing it though.