Monday, July 26, 2010
Recap City 'True Blood:' season 3, episode 6
Posted by Debbie Michaud @DebsMichaud on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:08 PM
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- Silly humans!
After being hauled back to Edgington's Mississippi manor, Bill makes one last attempt to thwart the vampire king's plans by staking one of the vampire guards through the heart. Talbot's pristine foyer now a mess of intestinal goo, Edgington orders Lorena to take Bill to the slave quarters and kill him. Devastated but left without a choice, Lorena follows orders ... kind of. Rather than shove a stake through his heart and get it over with as soon as possible, Lorena restrains Bill and slowly tortures him with a smorgasbord of plantation tools and medieval-looking medical equipment. Because she loves him. And then the wolf-people come and she allows them to feed, leaving Bill more or less catatonic.
Eric, intent on avenging the wrongful death of his parents, cozies up to Edgington and tries to earn his trust while destroying any that once existed between he and Sookie. On the eve of her vampire nuptials, in a white nightie circa 1890, Tara coaxes the batshit crazy Franklin into submission by ripping his neck apart with her teeth and drinking his blood.
There was a moment last night during Sookie's conversation with Edgington when it seemed as though we were about to learn something infinitely more compelling about her than the fact that she's a waitress. He begins prodding her about her powers and her circumstances, questioning her origins, "How do you know they were your parents?" Alas, she remains "just" a waitress, albeit a mind-reading, light-wielding one.
As the intricacies of the different supernatural hierarchies are slowly revealed episode by episode (and season by season for that matter — remember when Sam turning into a dog was the craziest thing we'd seen yet?), the show's able to maintain its shocking and frenetic pace. But the tourniquet might need to be tightened a little on season three; it's beginning to gush some tangential story lines that are starting to annoy.
I'm referring to Sam and his Mickens family drama, and Jason Stackhouse's semi-scattered narrative. What happened to all the guilt that only days ago was wracking Jason's conscience? And he wants to be a cop. And now a dick-waving contest with the current star high school quarterback. (How hasn't he caught wind of Sookie's dilemma?) His brief affair with — the presumably — shewolf Crystal appears to be his only current tie to the story at large. "TB's" fragmented Jason's story so much at this point it's becoming harder to care each episode. Except for the parts where he's driving a cop car without his shirt on. Those parts we care about BIG TIME.
Then there's Joe Lee, Tommy and Melinda — a collective pox on the house of Merlotte. Especially Joe Lee's midnight ragers. OK we get it. They're poor Southern folk prone to drinking too much and yelling. I liken these moments to the phone ringing while I'm trying to watch a television program, say "True Blood." Why are they calling? Doesn't this person know "True Blood's" on? So annoying.
It was revealed last night, though, that the Mickens make rent — when they make it — by dog fighting. But we're not exactly talking Michael Vick-style fighting. Tommy, and previously Melinda, actually shifts into the dog for the fight, thus all the scars.
Sam will presumably spend the rest of the season "saving" little bro Tommy, while I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Jason riding in on Crystal's wolfback during whatever climatic good vs. evil event awaits us at the season's end. Hopefully he'll be shirtless and in aviators.
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Is Crystal a ghost? Her voice really annoys me.
But watching Eric play gay is hilarious.
watching eric play gay IS hilarious. Also hilarious is Franklin — he's definitely not dead.
hmm if crystal's not a wolf or canine type i dunno...she sure was sniffing around like one.
Not a canine type, nor a ghost. I think you'll find out next epi. If you ever pay attention to what is on the cap that Jason wears when he's working the road crew, there's a hint.
Eric playing gay just reminds me how very ruthless he can be. I know Talbot is falling for it, but will Russel?
I want to think Franklin is dead b/c parts of his skull & eyes have painted the walls. I don't think he isn't dead b/c he didn't explode (lots of ppl are saying that's why they think he's still "alive"), b/c I think they only bloodsplode when staked...The only thing that makes me believe that he is NOT finally dead are the scenes shown for the next half of the season where Tara is looking up at someone who is white, male, and clearly terrifying--but they are very careful not to show his face.
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