This week’s True Blood had Vampire Tara on her own, scared, hungry and angry at her friends for making her what she is. Tara is not my favorite character, but her anger in this case is understandable. Sam, Lafayette and Sookie try to help her, but to no avail, so she tries to commit suicide by tanning bed. Surely there are less unpleasant ways to go? Anyway, this was the episode’s cliffhanger; will she succeed? I am guessing not, since Pam sensed what was happening and, it turns out, knows a thing or two about suicide attempts. I hope we see Pam step up to really be Tara’s maker, since I think it would be a lot of fun.
We find out via flashback to 1905 that Pam was so desperate as a human madam that she was willing to risk suicide to get Eric to turn her. These scenes both explain her bond with Eric and how much she just seems to enjoy being a vampire. Unlike Tara, Pam doesn’t feel she lost anything when she became a vampire. Quite the opposite, in fact — it saved her from dying of TB or something. Also in the past we get a cameo from Bill and Lorena. This was back in Bill’s “young,” wild vampire days, so to see the role reversal with him as the bad one and Eric as the voice of reason was pretty fun.
Now Eric and Bill are on an equal footing. So equal, in fact, that Salome goes at it with both of them to figure out if they are Sanguinistas! All this campfire theology stuff could be interesting if it hadn’t come from out of nowhere; I’d have liked to have more time to become curious about it. It seems too embedded in vampire culture now, with all the talk of factions and apostates and so on, that it seems to be kind of a ret-con, because we didn’t hear about the Vampire Bible and so on before. That being said, Chris Meloni is appropriately chilling as Roman, the whole idea of Salome as a vampire is fun, and soon they will be dealing with Russell Edgington. Where is he by the way? Stop teasing us, show!
In other news, the Pelts come looking for Debbie, which bodes very ill for Sookie. Sookie is a surprisingly calm liar when Andy questions her; it’s good to see her in trouble rather than as the damsel in distress. She’s even zapping people with her hands again. Anyway, she’s worried that Alcide will turn her in, even though he’s angry, I doubt it. Everyone has a soft spot for Sookie-except for Pam, who keeps pointing that fact out in hilarious fashion.
Jason has sex with his ex-teacher, who was his first; but he realizes that is where his life started to go wrong. Is Jason going to try to be serious now? I suspect many fans will miss sex addict Jason, if that means we see less of his butt. I think it’s time to try to do something different with him, though, and Jessica trying to be just friends with him was cute.
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I have been a faithful fan of the show although I realize it’s tv and fiction I was very very disappointed to have the writers say vampires were in Gods image!! I know the show has a lot of twists and turns and crazy things but it could still have been awesome without having that.
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You know, I am not religious at all, but it bugs me too in a way I didn’t want to get into in the review proper aside from just saying it came from nowhere. I just kind of feel like they chose to do it because they haven’t taken on religion yet rather than because it would make good storytelling.
I am in full agreement with you also. I am not an overly religious person but I do see a trend in genre shows like this that they all seem to do the religious thing.