Watching Monday

[brigdh]

I only watched one episode of TV last week! Apparently I was really busy reading? Actually, I don't even know what I did with my time. Anyway:

True Blood
So, it was kind of a boring and terrible episode.
Bill continued to be really determined to die, and decided that the only way to accomplish this was to get Sookie to help him commit suicide. Why? Because a dead Bill is the only way for Sookie to have a normal life: "How many times have you promised yourself, 'no more vampires'?" HAHAHA.
Meanwhile, Sarah Newman hits on Pam, and I briefly ship it, before Pam and Eric kill all of the yakuza and take Sarah captive.
Then, crazily, Hoyt and Jessica decide to get married, today, despite having dated for less than 24 hours. But Bill is dying! And he never got to walk his human daughter down the aisle! None of this makes sense!
Sookie realizes that she can hear Bill's thoughts, and I briefly was convinced that Bill's Super Hep-V was turning him back into a human, but nope. The whole thoughts thing is never addressed or explained at all. Instead, Sookie agrees to kill him using her fairy powers (which will take away those powers and leave her a normal human). But then she changes her mind! No, she still kills him, she just uses a stake to do it instead. Bill is dead! I wasn't sure the show was really going to go through with it.
In the one enjoyable part of the episode, Eric and Pam start a Hep-V Cure company based on Sarah's blood, film a hilarious infomercial describing it as "For vampires - By vampires" and Eric as "THE IMMORTAL VIKING GOD", open the NY Stock Market, and reopen Fangtasia. Sarah is still being held captive in the basement, and I actually feel bad for her. I suppose she was the show's biggest villain - certainly the biggest one still alive, maybe the biggest overall - but her situation is so terrible in the extreme that it's not enjoyable to watch.
Then we skip three years ahead and Jason for some reason is with Bridget (I guess Jason was always fated to be with Hoyt's girlfriend?) and they have way too many children for only three years having passed. BUT OMG ALL THESE BABIES ARE SO CUTE. Sam's baby! Sookie's baby bump! So many babies! Jessica/Hoyt being cute! Lafayette/James being cute (but not actually getting dialogue, ugh)! Arlene/whatever that vampire's name was being cute!
Sookie's baby bump is apparently from her Random Faceless (presumably human) New Boyfriend instead of Sad Vampire Bill, which I feel is very disappointing after all the foreshadowing this season.


And that's the end! I feel let-down.

Comments

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

That is how True Blood ends?! What the flip... Wow.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Apparently, yup! I hear the books went in a completely different direction though.

[somebraveapollo.livejournal.com]

... Hep-V? As in hepatitis-vampire? oh my god, that is amazing.

Why were there yakuza?

There is something particularly hilarious about the idea that Sookie should help Bill kill himself for her own happiness, because obviously the path to leading a normal life is partaking in your ex's suicide. I mean, like, maybe it made more sense in context, but, still, haaaah.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes. So, last season there was a whole thing where the state government of Louisiana was capturing vampires and putting them in what were basically concentration camps to do experiments of them, one of which was to discover new ways of killing them. And they invented "hepatitis V" (which is clearly an AIDS analogue, not hepatitis, but whatever) and then deliberately put it into bottles of True Blood to spread the disease. All of this was partly run by Sarah Newman, who was having an affair with the governor.

True Blood is a Japanese company (the premise of the entire series is that some Japanese doctor invented a way to artificially create human blood, thinking of it as a medical advance, but then vampires were like, "hey, we can drink this instead of people, let's announce our existence to the world" and so they "came out of the coffin" (THIS SHOW IS SO DUMB) and the True Blood company was founded to sell the drink in bottles and different flavors and stuff). Anyway, obviously the company basically went out of business when the news that it was spreading Hep-V got out, so they were hunting down Sarah Newman to kill her in revenge. And because they're Japanese, I guess of course the CEO has an elite squad of yakuza bodyguards? WHO KNOWS. But when they found her they realized that she'd drunk the last of the antidote to Hep-V, and therefore her blood was the cure, so they kept her alive to try and reproduce her blood to sell as "New Blood". But then they altered the blood so that it wasn't a cure, just a treatment, thus forcing vampires to have to keep buying more and more, and tried to pressure Eric into being their "spokes-vampire" to help get their reputation back. He and Pam went along with this for a while, but got tired of it, killed all the Japanese dudes, and claimed the "New Blood" company for themselves.

Exactly! It was particularly odd because Bill was dying of Hep-V anyway, so he could have just waited a few more hours and he would have died without any help.

Nothing about True Blood makes sense, in context or out of it. Which is sort of the trashy fun of it. I mean, they were trying to do something about how Sookie needed to have a normal, human life, but considering that the show ended with three other happy human/vampire couples, the message got kind of muddled.

[yan-tan-tether.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching True Blood a couple of seasons ago, but it's good (slash, baffling) to hear how it ended and THE IMMORTAL VIKING GOD made me lol!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Stopping watching it was probably the right decision. It really went downhill after the first few seasons. I still have an odd affection for it though, no matter how dumb it got.