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August 24, 2014 8:51 PM - Season 7, Episode 10 - Subscribe

Series Finale.

"Sookie weighs a future with and without Bill. Eric and Pam embark on a new enterprise, while Sarah faces the consequences of her actions. Sam embraces his new life. Andy comes upon an unexpected inheritance." -- HBO site description
posted by brina (78 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Vampire Bill remains, to the end, the worst.
posted by yellowbinder at 9:00 PM on August 24, 2014 [12 favorites]


Ok I called the flash forward (as supported by nothing) also Sookie's still fairy so Eric lost interest because of what?
posted by miss-lapin at 9:07 PM on August 24, 2014 [4 favorites]


My expectations were really, really low, but I liked it! I am a huge Jessica/Hoyt fan though.
posted by desjardins at 9:08 PM on August 24, 2014 [1 favorite]


Either Sookie has a new man and I missed it, or she and Jason have embraced the Targaryen tradition in order to preserve their magic bloodline.
posted by homunculus at 9:12 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


The wedding wasn't legal. The writers went out of their way to emphasize that; what then was the point? I'm not a fan of the hairstyle for the wedding. It didn't really suit Jessica and the lipstick was too heavily done. I've been to real weddings where the officiant didn't take that damn long. I kept imaging Bill croaking in the middle of the speech.

The infomercial with Eric and Pam was amusing. Eric looked like he was a bad salesman though. His attempt at a toothy smile was very funny. I guess Newlin got what she deserved? I think without all the padding in the show, I might have appreciated the good bits more. That was all of 12 minutes of story and the rest was just endless, boring, pointless filler.
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 9:19 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


Her hubby is the guy she embraced last. They only showed a side profile, homunculus.
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 9:20 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


So all that fairy courts, old gods, Vampire authority, ghosts, ifrits, Hep V, Religious fervor and witches means nothing.

No really, it meant nothing.
posted by The Whelk at 9:23 PM on August 24, 2014 [7 favorites]


WEAK SAUCE
posted by The Whelk at 9:23 PM on August 24, 2014 [6 favorites]


Sookie's still fairy so Eric lost interest because of what?

I guess Bill's speech in the last episode convinced him to leave her alone.
posted by homunculus at 9:31 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


The Whelk, it did all mean something. It was all meant to lead Sookie to her ultimate destiny as a mom and waitress, married to a human (after a brief period of vampire experimentation).

It's all about Sookie. Don't you just love her? Well, don't you??!!!
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 9:33 PM on August 24, 2014 [12 favorites]


Her hubby is the guy she embraced last. They only showed a side profile, homunculus.

Since they never gave us closure on Felix, I'm going to assume that Sookie's new hubby actually is Felix who was really a were-armadillo all along.
posted by homunculus at 9:34 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


I give Sookie credit for not giving up her fairy and actually staking Bill. It was kind of disappointing that she didn't then go on to do much with the fairy stuff but maybe that's the point. And as much as I love Hoyt and Jessica that was a SNOOOOOOZER of a wedding.

Also: no nudity? C'MON. One more butt shot for the road?
posted by marylynn at 9:50 PM on August 24, 2014 [2 favorites]


Every moment up until Bill's death was unbearably boring although the wedding was cute. And then he was a big puddle of goo and I clapped like a giddy seal.

Eric and Pam were glorious and tbh the entire series should have just been Eric And Pam's Hairdos Across The Ages, with special guest star Godric In Pajamas.
posted by elizardbits at 9:53 PM on August 24, 2014 [12 favorites]


Eric driving while bopping to techno was hilarious (although why he would ever drive is beyond me when he can just zoom places). And Pam stands in for the audience; she skipped most of Bill's book except for the parts about her.
posted by carmicha at 10:02 PM on August 24, 2014 [8 favorites]


Why they'd spend such a huge chunk of the finale on Jessica and Hoyt? And Lafayette got not a single line yet Tara's stepfather the preacher got to deliver a whole speech? WTF?

Bill asking Sookie not only to kill him but to give up her fae-bomb power was just the way I expected that dickhead to go out. It had to be all about him right to the very end. Ugh. Thank you for nothing.

So, anybody up for a spin-off dark comedy series about the globetrotting adventures of new business moguls, Eric and Pam?
posted by fuse theorem at 10:20 PM on August 24, 2014 [3 favorites]


It was very a very meh ending in a season of meh stories. I honestly thought they were going to have Bill become human at the end (fairy magic or fairy-boosted hep v) and while I was glad they didn't, it also felt the actual ending lacked anything interesting.

The whole season felt like it was fanfic, but not very good fanfic. I was sad they didn't have Jason and Jessica end up together; they seemed to really be growing together as people and friends. So Hoyt coming back and Jason getting all this personal growth with a Jessica stand-in was lame.

Also not fan of: Tara/Letty Mae "redemption". Alcide's unemotional death, Lafayette's last minute chance for true love. So much seemed to be going backwards.

I really wanted it to end after the staking with a fade to a table that as the camera pulls out, we see a group of people rolling ten sides dice and a couple "Vampire: The Masquerade" books on the table, character sheets in hand. Ideally cast consisting of Felicia Day, Vin Diesel, Chris Hardwick, and Stephen Colbert with Will Wheaton GMing.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:34 PM on August 24, 2014 [9 favorites]


I'm going to assume that Sookie's new hubby actually is Felix who was really a were-armadillo all along.

I'm assuming she's hooked up with Arlene's Dead Husband, Captain PTSD whose name I cannot recall. It looked a lot like him from the back, insofar as it was a dark-haired beardy whiteboy.

Sigh. I'd been hoping that the last season would do something like KILL ALL VAMPIRES, or have Sookie somehow destroy all the supernatural creatures on the Earth with her magical fairy vagina, or end up with the entire world under the rule of the Vampahr Authoritah. [lana] Noooope. [/lana]

OTOH, devoting half the episode to the Hanby/Fortenberry wedding was at least a lot better than the depths they could have sunk to.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:36 PM on August 24, 2014 [1 favorite]


And Arlene's "Edward" knock off vampire lover. No.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:36 PM on August 24, 2014


Wow. That was just terrible. The only redeeming part of it was Eric and Pam at the end. This entire season was just so pointless. I didn't think there could be a worse ending to a tv show than Dexter. Thank you True Blood for proving me wrong.
posted by Arbac at 12:17 AM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Welp. I'm glad I skipped this season from the sound of it.
posted by Justinian at 1:11 AM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


It seemed like if they did anything but the staking, Bill may have ended up human, so I'm not sure how I feel about the staking or what the intent was. If Bill had somehow survived and let her think he was dead-- nah, can't even try to think a way around any of this. It is not last season of Dexter lumberjack bad, though, which I watched because I had to see what the uproar was about, and it really lived up to it. Surprise lumberjack bad is not a bar that is going to be met often if ever again. It's the new shark jump. But I don't think I can measure this on any scale of good to bad because I stopped judging it a while ago. I just let it happen, hoping for a head bopping drive home here and there, wondering what all the fuss was about with the OUTRAGE because that's like someone using the word "classy" not turning out "classy"-- really, what did you expect--

Still, that end with preggo and the mystery man? It's not a pointless "huh?" it's like someone asked someone's least imaginative grandma to fill in mad libs. I thought they might have been going for the classic "if it ends with a wedding it's a comedy" thing but no, nothing comes to mind that has anything to do with actual writing. It's all fifty shades of fan fiction from here on out.
posted by provoliminal at 2:20 AM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


I haven't watched True Blood regularly since Season3 or so, but tuned in for the last two episodes and finale.

That was astonishingly meh. At least the Battlestar Galactica finale managed to piss me off, but this? All I could think was "Well, at least I paused to make a good cup of coffee, so it wasn't a total waste."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:37 AM on August 25, 2014


The wedding wasn't legal. The writers went out of their way to emphasize that; what then was the point?

Gay marriage metaphor/allegory. Particularly with Andy's line about "this marriage may not be legal in every state, but it should be."

I don't get the staking, at all. Bill was going to die anyway. (Or, at least he was supposed to die soon. Every other Hep V vamp dies, but I noticed that after a couple eps of Bill's case advancing super fast, it has stopped advancing because plot reasons.) There was absolutely no point in putting Sookeh through staking him.
posted by dnash at 4:49 AM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


"I've got, like, an hour left to live, but I'm going to insist that the woman I love kill me by literally bathing in my blood".

What an ass. Right to the end, a useless sack of crap. Fuck you forever, Bill Compton.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 5:15 AM on August 25, 2014 [20 favorites]


Eric driving while bopping to techno was hilarious (although why he would ever drive is beyond me when he can just zoom places).

He needed to move the three corpses out of Sookeh's front yard, and leaving the Yakuzamobile there wouldn't exactly have been inconspicuous.

If the episode had just ended after Pam and Eric's infomercial, it might have been barely OK. I mean, that one bit was pretty great.

And hey, years of torment for Sarah Newland. Yay! Given that Eric and Pam are apparently billionaires now, it looks like they're keeping Fangtasia open for the sole purpose of torturing Sarah Newland. I mean, yeah, torturing someone for years is pretty hard work, but running an entire business to do so? That's dedication to your vengeance.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 5:26 AM on August 25, 2014 [9 favorites]


The wedding wasn't legal. The writers went out of their way to emphasize that; what then was the point?

I may be biased since this is actually something that has happened in my family in the recent past, but having the ceremony earlier than ideal [and can we talk about whyever the fuck they decided to do it in the middle of the day?!] in order to include a parent (or Maker, I guess) on his deathbed is not unprecedented. That it wasn't legal was less important.

Jessica's arc is one of the saving graces for the series overall for me. She was essentially going through young childhood, puberty/adolescence, and adult self-actualization simultaneously; the weaning onto TruBlood, the learning to control her powers, the first relationship, the fallout of the mishandled first relationship, the discipline to not eat four entire faeries (oops!), the pain of release from her Maker, and on and on, she was really the heart of the whole thing... and (I believe) the only major character who never appeared in the books. I'm not ecstatic about the suddenly-getting-back-with-Hoyt of it all, but she's achieved some stability and learned to be an adult. So good for her, I guess.

That's dedication to your vengeance.

Perhaps you are not aware of how thousand-year-old Viking vampires operate.

Hint: vengefully.
posted by psoas at 6:34 AM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Absolutely awful.
posted by codacorolla at 6:48 AM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


I'm surprised at the hate for this episode. It was the best episode of the season, imho. I'm probably projecting a lot due to Recent Personal Life Events - the wedding, the loss of a loved one, etc. It's like they wrote this ep with me in mind. It mostly avoided the ridiculousness (except for Bill's staking). I felt Anna Paquin actually did some acting for once, there wasn't as much of the wide eyes and exaggerated lip quiver.

Then again, I watched it without subtitles so I missed a lot of the speechifying (I can pick up the gist of things and the emotional tone/volume, just not all of the words). Apparently I didn't miss much.

Random notes: the girl who played Tara was spot on in her voice/accent. I thought maybe they'd dubbed adult Tara over her!

Sam's kid is utterly adorable. I wish they'd told us if she was a shifter or not, that would have taken 5 seconds. Jason and Bridget wasted no time - 3 kids in 3 years, yikes. Hopefully he's curtailed his womanizing ways.

I mentioned this in the last thread, but the set design was awesome, especially Bill's house. I wonder if there is some site where you can buy all of that stuff; I know they often have sites like that for clothing featured in film/TV. If I had endless amounts of money I'd hire the designer for my own house.

How can they spend so much time outside in Louisiana? I follow a NOLA person on twitter and whenever she posts a weather update it's like the surface of the sun, if the sun were also a swamp.
posted by desjardins at 6:56 AM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


He needed to move the three corpses out of Sookeh's front yard, and leaving the Yakuzamobile there wouldn't exactly have been inconspicuous.

Also he wanted to bop.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:00 AM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


> How can they spend so much time outside in Louisiana? I follow a NOLA person on twitter and whenever she posts a weather update it's like the surface of the sun, if the sun were also a swamp.

Similarly, a few seasons ago someone reached through Lafayette's open, screenless living room window to grab at him and having just moved to the South, I said to my husband, "oh, hell, no." Nobody in rural Louisiana is going to have screenless windows! It's the little things, HBO.

Anyway, I quit watching when Alcide died and I have no regrets.
posted by something something at 7:08 AM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Man its a good thing they didn't get attacked by Hep V vamps again or else plotlines might have consequences
posted by The Whelk at 7:15 AM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


It mostly avoided the ridiculousness (except for Bill's staking).

This is the show with naked sex vampires who explode into clouds of blood when they die, and who move around with a bad CGI blur effect and a "whoosh" sound effect. A show where every mythical creature of the night was at one time or another concentrated in a small Louisiana parish.

Not having ridiculousness isn't a mark in the show's favor.
posted by codacorolla at 7:16 AM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Oh man, this finale pissed me off. Granted, I've been saying since Season 3 that they should have just spun off to the Pam and Eric Show, but... How on earth does Hoyt fucking Fortenberry get more to do in this finale than Lafayette?

At least Bill went out true to form, as a whiny, passive-aggressive jerk. Why not just lay down in the grave during sunrise and go out in a fireball. Godric did it right. (So once again, all things related to Eric are a zillion times better than anything Bill's come up with).
posted by TwoStride at 7:24 AM on August 25, 2014 [11 favorites]


I dunno you guys I'd be pissed if someone erased a huge chunk of my past even if I asked them. Hoyt was literally retconed
posted by The Whelk at 7:27 AM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


The whole "Is Bill becoming human?" plot line, um, bites because the characters with questions (Jess, Sookie and Bill himself) do nothing with it; it existing for the sole purpose of jerking the audience around.
posted by carmicha at 7:27 AM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


it existing for the sole purpose of jerking the audience around.

That was the point of the show. The writers would get high and then see how much they could get away with, it's the only thing that makes sense.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:39 AM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


I keep wondering why Sookie didn't offer to reverse the glamouring. We know she can and Hoyt does seem a bit...put off by interacting with people who have known him since childhood, but he can't remember. Sookie has an easy fix but no one even mentions it. I could buy him not wanting it but they don't even say "Hey this is an option."

Also we needed more Lala. He really got shafted.

I still don't buy that Eric would be convinced by Bill's argument to leave Sookie alone and what about Bill's forecast that there would be a line of vampires after her for her blood without some vampire protection? The easy answer would be that Eric extends his protection over Sookie from a distance thus protecting her and letting her have a human life. Incidentally her husband may not be human. He could be were or shifter. It's hard to believe after all this time, and even in the last episode they emphasize this, Sookie SUDDENLY becomes attracted to a human being. Where would you even find one in Bon Temps?

When Sarah Newlin asked to be the woman behind the woman instead of the woman behind the man.....that was pretty special.
posted by miss-lapin at 7:46 AM on August 25, 2014 [8 favorites]


Now that we've reached the end, I'm even more irritated by the many minutes devoted to boring, repetitive Confederate Bill flashbacks; the writers had many other ways to convey Bill's growing sense that he wanted to live like he were dying or die to be like he were living or whatever.

Also, Tara's post true death shenanigans imply an afterlife even though former Vampire GodTM Bill claims he doesn't know what's coming next. Does he watch over Sookie still, protecting her fairy blood from hungry vampires?
posted by carmicha at 8:02 AM on August 25, 2014


> Eric extends his protection over Sookie from a distance thus protecting her and letting her have a human life. Incidentally her husband may not be human. He could be were or shifter. It's hard to believe after all this time, and even in the last episode they emphasize this, Sookie SUDDENLY becomes attracted to a human being.

Yep, this for the win. Perhaps Sookie's mystery dark-haired babydaddy could be ol' Barry the Telepath? In any event, not even showing the dude's face was a bit of an odd choice in a sea of odd choices.

Young Sookie seems to have been played by Lilac Emery-Haynes - and I believe she's Stephen Moyer's daughter IRL.

"Humans are slow." ha!
posted by hush at 8:25 AM on August 25, 2014


I was kinda hoping that Bill would implode into a mess of bloody goo at Jessica's wedding.

Also, the first thought I had when Sookie was going to kill Bill (pun intended?) was, "Noooo! You'll ruin that dress!"
posted by astapasta24 at 8:53 AM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


However you feel about the finale, I think we can all agree that our long national nightmare is over.
posted by desjardins at 8:55 AM on August 25, 2014 [10 favorites]


Sookie climbing into the coffin had me thinking "Noooo, Sookie! You're going to get Bill all over your shoes." I skipped through that scene, for the most part.

Pam actually laughed. FTW! Glad I watched it now.

The Charlaine Harris cameo was cool, but I think if I was her, I'd have opted out of that.

What was going on with Jessica's eyelashes this episode? I couldn't stop staring at them. Are they usually that, um, pronounced?
posted by Solomon at 9:02 AM on August 25, 2014


I still don't buy that Eric would be convinced by Bill's argument to leave Sookie alone and what about Bill's forecast that there would be a line of vampires after her for her blood without some vampire protection?

What about Andy's daughter? Isn't she a magnet as well?
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 9:04 AM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Adilyn is under Jessica's protection still. But what about her and Wade and their quasi incestuous love? Was the death of Violet enough to make them stop? That plot issue was abruptly stopped.

Barry the telepath is out of the running because he ate the light fruit. Remember what happened to granddaddy stackhouse? He ate the light fruit and died when he returned to this plane. Presumably the same would happen to Barry. Of course this doesn't mean mystery husband isn't a telepath he's just not THAT telepath.
posted by miss-lapin at 10:00 AM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Sam's kid is utterly adorable. I wish they'd told us if she was a shifter or not, that would have taken 5 seconds.

They should have also had a brief scene where Sookie's belly started to glow because the baby was kicking.
posted by homunculus at 11:36 AM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


I would say that Sam's kid probably has an unique type of shifting talent which allows her to look 2 to 3 years older than she should chronologically be by the standards set in the plot.
posted by codacorolla at 12:27 PM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Jason's kid looked older than 3 as well.
posted by desjardins at 12:49 PM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


They jumped forward six years, right? So Jason's eldest is about that?
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 1:29 PM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


How on earth does Hoyt fucking Fortenberry get more to do in this finale than Lafayette?

Lafayette sucked this year. They clearly ran out of stuff for him after that witch doctor boyfriend dude and he pretty much became gay bestie utility character.

The whole "Is Bill becoming human?" plot line

Did that ever actually get hinted at other than fan speculation? I can't recall that ever being on the table.
posted by Hoopo at 3:26 PM on August 25, 2014


They jumped forward six years, right? So Jason's eldest is about that?

I think they did one skip to one year later for Pam and Eric's infomercial, and then another skip 3 years later to the dullest picnic ever.
posted by codacorolla at 3:37 PM on August 25, 2014


The whole "Is Bill becoming human?" plot line.... Did that ever actually get hinted at other than fan speculation? I can't recall that ever being on the table.

Yes. In the season finale, the following occurred:
  • Jessica observes that Bill feels warm to the touch. "I know," he replies.
  • Later, Bill observes that he's feeling more human than ever.
  • Sookie discovers that she can read his mind, a skill she has heretofore only been able to apply to humans.

  • posted by carmicha at 3:46 PM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Her hubby is the guy she embraced last. They only showed a side profile, homunculus.

    He has a beard so I approve. *mourns Alcide*
    posted by Sayuri. at 4:00 PM on August 25, 2014


    But what about her and Wade and their quasi incestuous love?

    I think they were sitting together at the table.
    posted by halfsquaretriangle at 4:20 PM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Yes. In the season finale, the following occurred:
    Jessica observes that Bill feels warm to the touch. "I know," he replies.
    Later, Bill observes that he's feeling more human than ever.
    Sookie discovers that she can read his mind, a skill she has heretofore only been able to apply to humans.


    I was really hoping that Bill would become human but they wouldn't find out until Sookie drove that stake through his heart. Instead of exploding into a pool of vampire guts he would have just died normally after both Sookie and him realized what was happening. YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN HER BABIES HUMAN BILL. TO BAD SHE JUST STAKED YOU TO DEATH ANYWAYS!

    Then Eric and Pam could have kidnapped her and sold two different types of special blood. Drink bottle A to stay a vampire and cure your hep V. Drink bottle B to be turned back into a human.
    posted by Arbac at 4:28 PM on August 25, 2014 [10 favorites]


    Yeah, Arbac, that's exactly where I thought it was going. Can't decide whether I'm disappointed or not.
    posted by olinerd at 4:39 PM on August 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


    I also would have accepted Sookie realizing that she just killed human Bill and responding by sadly using her ball of light on herself so that she exploded in a hilariously bright fairy explosion. Frankly, I'm pissed that she's still alive. Sookie sucks!
    posted by Arbac at 4:49 PM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


    Also: no nudity? C'MON. One more butt shot for the road?

    Alexander Skarsgard Is Cool With Being Naked
    posted by homunculus at 6:04 PM on August 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


    How come Hoyt couldn't shave for his own damned wedding? I would have turned my husband right back around if I'd come up the aisle and seen that hot mess. Jason was always scruffy, but wasn't Hoyt clean-shaven in the first couple of seasons?
    posted by desjardins at 6:18 PM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


    Alexander Skarsgard Is Cool With Being Naked

    I have never clicked on anything faster. And been more disappointed.
    posted by desjardins at 6:37 PM on August 25, 2014 [12 favorites]


    Since today is Alexander Skarsgard's 38th birthday, desjardins, here are shirtless gifs-o-plenty.
    posted by carmicha at 8:22 PM on August 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


    So much suck in a single episode, the mind boggles.
    posted by signal at 8:22 PM on August 25, 2014


    Good night, True Blood.

    Eric and Pam were the only bright spots this, last, season.
    posted by porpoise at 8:24 PM on August 25, 2014


    Toodles!
    posted by homunculus at 8:31 PM on August 25, 2014


    The very last True Blood pro/con recap: True Blood Dies As It Lived—With A Lot Of What The Fuck
    posted by homunculus at 8:42 PM on August 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


    I was totally wrong about the ending. I was positive that Sookie would use the ball of light on Bill and it would kill his vampireness, leaving human Bill in its wake, alongside freshly unpowered Sookie. Possibly Jessica would have returned to human too since her maker got unvamped.
    posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:34 AM on August 26, 2014


    That "Cash only!" bit with Pam was bullshit. Are you telling me Pam gets $100k a minute to feed on Sarah Newlin but she doesn't take the money up front?
    posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:36 AM on August 26, 2014


    That "Cash only!" bit with Pam was bullshit. Are you telling me Pam gets $100k a minute to feed on Sarah Newlin but she doesn't take the money up front?

    I'm assuming he paid upfront for the time he spent and then wanted to pay again for more time, and she booted him because he didn't have another 100k cash with him. (plan ahead dude!)


    I was totally wrong about the ending. I was positive that Sookie would use the ball of light on Bill and it would kill his vampireness, leaving human Bill in its wake, alongside freshly unpowered Sookie.

    This is what I thought as well, and they could have all the behbehs the wanted, and I was sooo sure, and then they yanked that away with the grizzlyness of the true death. I'm glad they did, which is why I call that whole business"realistic."


    Shame on you Jessica for that lipstick and makeup with that vintage-inspired dress.


    Alexander Skarsgard Is Cool With Being Naked

    Why is the fact that Stellan cooked naked completely unsurprising to me.
    posted by Sayuri. at 7:48 AM on August 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


    grizzlyness

    heh. (In case English isn't your first language, it's spelled "grisliness," but the image of Bill being ripped apart by bears was very enjoyable.)
    posted by desjardins at 7:57 AM on August 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


    grizzlyness

    I think that's the second time in a row I did that on MF but at least last time was accidentally a bear pun.
    posted by Sayuri. at 8:01 AM on August 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


    but she doesn't take the money up front?

    No, she had that briefcase full of money that presumably he gave her beforehand. The 100k mention was, as Sayuri said above, for MORE than the minute he'd just taken.
    posted by elizardbits at 11:37 AM on August 26, 2014


    They should have also had a brief scene where Sookie's belly started to glow because the baby was kicking.

    Or because someone was lighting her on fire.

    It's over!
    posted by inigo2 at 12:58 PM on August 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Sookie's husband and Pam returns to Once Upon a Time.
    posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 5:48 AM on August 27, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Sookie's husband

    Link.
    posted by homunculus at 9:54 AM on August 27, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Is it possible that Sookie ended up with Rich, or are you playing a completely different guy?

    You know, I was thinking about that, and I don’t think it’s terribly far-fetched that it’s Rich!
    Fuck that. She's married to Felix and they're going to have glowing halfling were-armadillo babies together, and Terry is going to be their ghostly godfather.
    posted by homunculus at 9:58 AM on August 27, 2014 [1 favorite]


    Some of you are trying to make sense of this and that is not possible. True Blood operates on a kind of logic only found in the worst of soap operas. Logic so devoid of reason and sense it makes even Uwe Boll and Roland Emmerich say, "that shit's fucked up". Plot holes so large Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof and Alex Kurtzman can only shake their heads in admiration. This is ineptitude on a scale that makes Italian bureaucrats weep. One can only step back and consider its magnitude.

    That said, I would pay an advance ticket for anything that would feature Kristin Bauer van Straten and Alexander Skarsgård. Unless it were directed by Michael Bay...
    posted by Ber at 2:06 PM on August 27, 2014 [3 favorites]


    They should have also had a brief scene where Sookie's belly started to glow because the baby was kicking.

    also acceptable: xenomorph
    posted by elizardbits at 6:26 PM on August 28, 2014 [5 favorites]


    Long overdue footnote, I was sad by the whole Tara storyline, because I thought she was going to be the new Lilith.
    (She was one of the vamps to drink the Billith power from Bill, and then possibly the first to die, then a whole Jesus-cross Lilith-snake motif which seemed to indicate some kind of resurrection was afoot.

    Ending was not nearly epic and crazy pants enough. Oh well.
    posted by Elysum at 12:40 AM on February 14, 2015


    Apparently the writers, in interview, were like "whether Sookie ended up with Bill or Eric, we'd make half our fans mad, so we came up with a great solution!"
    posted by corb at 11:21 AM on May 7, 2016


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