Jess ScheulerTrue Blood: New World in my View
August 24th 2009 22:43
Category: True Blood (Recaps, News & More), News
True Blood
Or
Jason Stackhouse is my Heathen God!
Or
Jason Stackhouse is my Heathen God!
We begin with another smoking hot Eric fantasy. Sookie has a dream about "comforting" Eric due to the death of Godric and kissing away his bloody tears. Sadly for her and all the female viewers, the dream was over much too quickly, there were no satin sheets involved this time. Sadder still are the lack of Eric appearances for rest of the episode. But the question becomes, how long can you emotionally cheat on your boyfriend before it manifests itself in real life?
Sookie and Jason return from Dallas to a post-apocalyptic zombied out Bon Temps. Shocked by the wasteland that was their backwater southern town, they stop at Vampire Bill's to drop off his coffin. Instead they find a zombied out Maxine Fortenberry (Hoyt's Mom), who I thought couldn't be more awful, but I was wrong. Hoyt and Jessica are attempting to keep her from the rest of the Bon Temps Mob or BTM, while dealing with even worse insults and slams then she was throwing at them before. Only this time she can be amused with a Wii and she did try to make out with a horrified Jason, so she can't be all bad. Jason runs off to find Sam and fight the war he's been training for. Also, the look on Bill's face at Maxine playing Wii like the possessed woman that she is awesome.
Sam is hiding out with Andy Bellefleur in his hotel room, where he tries to explain who and what Marianne is. What I want to know is how Any Bellefleur isn't also black eyed and joining up with the BTM like everyone else in town. So far, Daphne said that supernatural people are immune to Marianne's power, so does that mean that Andy is also supernatural in nature?
Sam gets suckered into saving Arlene at the bar, only to find that she's led him into a trap. Fleeing the BTM, Andy and Sam are chased into the freezer in back, where they lock themselves in. Curiously, Zombie Terry Bellefleur leads the pack of BTM like a controlled, effective leader, however he delegates calling in their capture of Sam to Marianne by Jane Bodehouse. Fortunately for Sam, zombies are easily distracted and she forgets to call Marianne, instead calling the phone number for some guy named Peanutt, scratched into the bar wall next to the payphone.
Sookie shows up with Bill at her home, only to find that Marianne has turned it into a bacchanalian nest, complete with a sacrificial platform. What is it with the sacrificial platforms? Between the Fellowship of the Sun in Dallas and The Stackhouses in Bon Temps, everywhere you go, there is a sacrifice being offered. Sookie confronts Marianne, who Bill immediately tries to show who's boss with his "amazing" vampire powers. He bites her, while she giggles manically and he comes up spewing black blood in the process. Sookie steps in to protect her man, only to have Marianne grab her face, provoking Sookie, causing her hand to glow and shoot off sparks, causing Marianne to IMMEDIATELY back the eff up. Bill and Sookie run from the house while Marianne runs after demanding what Sookie is. Good question Marianne, when an immortal, several thousand years old doesn't know, then....yeah.
In the car, on their way to LaFayette's to find Tara, Sookie offers to call Eric for help, injuring Bill's pride in the process. He nearly spews more blood in anger at the mere suggestion. Snappily demanding (which i kind of find disturbing) her wrist to heal himself, they arrive at LaFayette's where he and Tara's mother have her bound to a chair. I find it ironic that all last season Tara was terrified that she had demons and might be possessed, only to actually find herself possessed. Only the combined efforts of Sookie and Bill glamoring/mindreading her, we get Tara back minus the black eyes. Unfortunately, she is still Tara. She's still bent on destroying herself, so her first impulse is to go help Eggs.
On the other side of Bon Temps, in the back of a pickup truck, we find ourselves with two tickets to the gunshow. Jason Stackhouse, in the first of many hilarious moments, arms himself Rambo Style in a black knit cap, with his cordless air gun and chain saw. He enters Merlottes to finally witness the orgy's first hand, and when Jason Stackhouse: sex god, is horrified, you know it has to bad. Not really knowing what he's dealing with, he tries to shake them out of their zombieness by chainsawing the cd player in half, only to have them continue screwing/drinking. He takes Arlene prisoner with the air gun to her head and has Terry lead the BTM outside, awesomely, Zombie Terry gives the orders to retreat proclaiming "we will Un-f-ck this situation at a later date". Jason gets Sam and Andy out of the freezer, just to get all three of them captured by the BTM again. This time Sam gives up and allows the BTM to have him, and as they begin to strap him to the roof of a car to send to Marianne, something beyond awesome happens.
Shirtless Jason Stackhouse Holocaust Cloaks it out Fezzik Style! He McGuyver's himself into appearing as the god that is coming with the aid of Andy Bellefleur, flares, a really bright light and a gas mask. This proves once in for all that with the right lighting, you can do anything. In a zombie haze (and what god wouldn't have amazing six pack abs) he really appears to be the god they are going to sacrifice Sam to "Oh yes, he is the best offering ever", except for the horns (ever astute zombie Terry calls bullshit, their god needs to have horns). They demand to see some horns, so Andy whips out a tree branch and the crowd is satisfied. Sam climbs out of this bonds and gives himself over to the "god who comes" begging to be smited. After a couple of false starts on Jason's part, he pretends to smite Sam who takes the opportunity to turn into a fly. The crowd is satisfied, under zombie Terry's order, a "debriefing at Marianne's" they run in a merry haze to the Stackhouses. Seriously though, how cool must it have been to be one of the actors playing a member of the Bon Temps Mob? All of their scenes this week look like they must have been a blast to shoot.
Funniest scene the whole episode goes to Sam Merlotte this week for mysteriously reappearing wearing nothing but a cooks apron after the mob leaves, nonchalantly using a fire extinguisher to put out the flares on the ground, to the horror of Jason and Andy. Andy declares that he will never take another drink.
Bill leaves Sookie AGAIN, in order to go find help from a vampire that might know how to defeat Marianne. I'm sure I won't miss him while he's gone. Finally at the Compton house, tensions boil over for the last time as Maxine makes one too many vampire whore of a girlfriend remarks and Jessica goes for her jugular. This is not going to endear her to her future mother in law. Maybe she won't remember when she comes out of her Marianne induced stupor.
Reminding us just how cool slow motion can be combined with the right music, Bill Compton strolls into the house of her majesty, the Queen of Louisiana, Evan Rachel Wood.
Stay tuned next week.
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