Jess ScheulerTrue Blood Recap: Release Me
August 3rd 2009 23:55
Release Me
Or
Feeling sorry for things is just an excuse not to celebrate your own happiness
Or
Feeling sorry for things is just an excuse not to celebrate your own happiness
We join this episode in progress at the orgy. Sam is screaming his head off and about to be sacrificed to whatever god Mariann worships while she vibrates and basically begins to grow hooves and turn into a horned devil looking creature. Luckily, Andy Bellefleur stumbles into the party long enough to for him to break free and elude Mariann/Horned thing by turning into an owl.
Sookie and Hugo are locked in the basement at the Fellowship. Hugo stupidly tries to give Steve and Gabe any information they want to get out, including their names, which Steve instantly connects Stackhouse to Jason. So Sookie emergency mind 911's Barry the Bellboy with a cry for help. Assuming Jason is also a double agent (which would have been the awesomest doublecross ever, if he were that smart), he and Gabe collect Jason. Jason is of course thinking that Steve knows about his Sarah screwing the night before. After they sleep together Sarah wants to confess her sins to Steve, (which I really don't get), and Jason manages to talk her out it, which is shocking that JASON STACKHOUSE has more sense not to enrage a man with a huge weapons arsenal in his basement then Sarah does. Little to say, Jason is used to being attacked for sleeping with other men's wives, not for being a secret agent, so he's even more confused when they accuse him of working for the vampires.
Bill and Lorena get a little more acquainted and she keeps him in the room with her superior strength and speed so he cannot go aid Sookie. We learn nothing new here, except, he tried to leave her in the 1930's after he grew a conscience again and refused to kill innocent people. He demanded that she release him or allow him to commit suicide because he can never love her. Lorena, lets him go on his own merry way, if by merry you mean depressingly stodgy. Back in the present, Bill is trying to stay awake as long as he can into the daytime to outlast Lorena, so he can help Sookie. He begs her to let him call Eric to go to her aid, even if she won't let him go. Lorena laughs and informs him that Eric was the one who sent her there and that "he wants the girl, just let him have her". The look of betrayal and horror across Bill's face is almost heartbreaking to see, I think this is the moment he realized that he is going to lose Sookie, if not today, then tomorrow. If she survives.
Eric is truly confusing in this episode. He made it plain that he wanted Sookie in the last episode, even hiring Lorena to come to town to seduce Bill and break them up. But he and Isabel just stand outside the fellowship and simply wait for a signal of trouble, even when Sookie and Hugo haven't been seen in like 10 hours. While they wait, Eric asks her what she finds so fulfilling about human companionship, and Isabel basically replies that Hugo's like a fun science experiment that she gets to be a part of. What I think is interesting about their exchange is that he is in fact, getting advice on how to have a human/vampire relationship, which is kind of adorable. Some people might point out that Eric isn't putting himself in danger to rescue Sookie, but he's also not foolish enough to run in after Godric, who he is VERY loyal to.
Meanwhile, the CUTEST couple on television, Jessica and Hoyt, make out and confess to each other that they are virgins. Hoyt is at 28!! still a virgin, because he just never met anyone good enough. Jessica says her excuse is her Dad is a jerk. Either way, they decide to loose their virginity together, awwww. So when Jessica wakes up the next evening, Hoyt has decorated the room with blood red candles (literally) and rose petals in preparation for their first time to the sound of the song "Bleeding Love". Awwwww.
Eric, Isabel and Stan have a pissing match about their mutual ineptness of rescuing Sookie and Godric, but only Eric cries a few blood tears, proving his devotion and winning my heart. Oh blond sexy viking, come here, I'll make it all better.
Eggs and Tara wake up with no memory of the orgy, which they find strange. Eggs, of course, plays it cool, assuming the weed is to blame. Then Mariann walks in barefoot and filthy, dragging a dead rabbit which is bleeding on the floor and awesomely replies that she slept out in the woods last night to commune with her animal nature.
Daphne as a character has finally gotten interesting to me. Sam meets her by the pond and questions her about who and what Mariann is. And shockingly, she just tells him. Marianne is a Maenad. She's older than old and is as close as they will ever get to god. She harnesses people's wild passion and thrives on it. When people go black eyed, it's Mariann's energy inside of them, she's taking them over, but supernaturals like Sam and Daphne, who are shifters cannot be possessed by her because they have a natural resistance. Marianne loves a challenge, so for some reason she wants to kill Sam.
Sookie and Hugo are still trapped at the fellowship, when Sookie realizes that Hugo is the traitor. He finally breaks down and admits that Isabel would never turn him into a vampire, and that he realized that he could never be her equal, and this is the only way he could make her hurt the way that she hurt him. So he feels that he's just being used like a slave, so he's turned against her. What he isn't, is free. Even though he was helping the fellowship, he's still stuck in the same cell as Sookie.
Gabe takes Jason out to the woods to kill him, but when he insults Sookie, Jason righteously kicks his ass and leaves him unconscious on the ground. Aware that Sookie is somewhere on the fellowship grounds, Jason runs back to find her.
LaFayette the Awesome is back!!! Yay! We see him putting on his mask of courage in the mirror otherwise known as make-uping while dealing V on the phone. It's safe to say he's got his pizazz back!
Arlene confesses to Tara that she fed Terry a few beers to get him relaxed and in the mood the night before. But she wakes up in the morning and couldn't remember anything, all there was were tell-tale signs that they had had sex. This leads her to the conclusion that she has somehow date-raped Terry Bellefleur. Or you went to Mariann's and took part in an orgy/human sacrifice, whatever. And how is it that ditzy Arlene knows that she had sex but Tara doesn't? Meanwhile, LaFayette meets Eggs for the first time at Merlottes and proclaims him "Satan in a beautiful Sunday hat".
Jason meets up with Sarah in the woods, who has already been informed of Jason's traitor status by her husband (somehow I doubt that she filled him in with her part). She shoots Jason out of rage, and I'm hoping that it's only with a stun gun or something or else me and all the ladies who watch this show will be very upset.
Mariann has a zombied -out Eggs kill Daphne with a knife. For telling Sam all about Mariann? Or is it because she has a new shifter that's going to be joining the pack, Sam perhaps?
Gabe makes it back to the fellowship before Jason and flies into a rage while proceeding to kick the crap out of Hugo for his getting kicked the crap out of by Jason. Instead of running out of the open cell door during the crap kicking, Sookie jumps on Gabe to save Hugo. Stupid girl. For her pains, she gets choked.
Bill is still trapped in the room by Lorena, who has already grown tired of his whole Sookie loving thing and is about to stake him herself, but Barry the Bellboy comes to deliver his message about Sookie's plea for help. Eric hears the message and jets off to save Sookie. But poor Barry gets pulled into the room. God being stuck in room with Bill and Lorena, hopefully his ear drums don't bleed from their horrible accents and general awfulness.
Back at the cell, Sookie is almost about to be raped by Gabe when Godric saves her. Godric is looking much older then a teen and way taller then I originally thought, especially now that he's lost his emo dreadlocks. I'm hoping for an Eric like level of awesomeness. And hopefully next week, more Pam!!
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