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trillianastra) wrote2009-08-31 07:17 pm
trillianastra) wrote2009-08-31 07:17 pm
True Blood 2x11 "Frenzy"
Well, this episode certainly wins the prize for "Most Apt Title of the Season".
We pick up exactly where we left off, with Bill at Sophie-Anne's place, and the foot with the blood running down it and all...
except the foot and blood... aren't exactly a sign of anything being horribly wrong. They're more a sign of Sophie-Anne having her afternoon (evening?) snack. Just to push the blood/sex connection here.
Anyway, Sophie-Anne looks up, and makes Bill Very Very Uncomfortable. He still looks hot, though, so it's all right. He ends up spending that night, the next day, and part of the next night at her place, though. (and seriously, WTH is up with her interior design? it's hideous. Do vampires lose all sense for that kind of thing when they're turned?)
Oh, and btw... we now have another reason why Twilight is crap. See, vampires don't play baseball, they play Yahtzee. Which for some reason is hilarious. I wonder if they have, like, Monopoly marathons at Sophie-Anne's, too?
(....HADLEY. O.M.G, HADLEY. Er... yeah, I've read the books. Still, nice to meet you, Hadley, shame you won't be around long. And shiiiiiit, she doesn't know about Gran Stackhouse. Yet more Awkward for Bill, eep.)
Anyways, Sophie-Anne (eventually...) tells Bill more about maenads - like, them being immortal, their origins, what they want, and the fact that the Vessel needs to be supernatural, but not a vamp - i.e. a were, or a shifter. Bill then makes the obvious connection and realises that Maryann is after Sam.
Back in Bon Temps... the Resistance is, uh, doing its best. Over at Merlotte's we have Sam, Andy, and Jason, who thinks that Sam being a shifter is the coolest thing ever. Seeing as he pretty much doesn't shut up about it the whole ep, I really, really hope this is Foreshadowing for all the werepanther stuff in the books. *crosses fingers*
Then these two little faces peek in through the window, then disappear into the woods. Sam follows, and it's.. Arlene's kids. (Now, I know that their actual names are Colby and Lisa. I know that. But I keep thinking that their names are Cody and Astor. Possibly I watch Dexter too much. Er...) So it turns out the kids don't know where their mum is, and are starving, so Sam takes them inside and makes them some food, while Andy'n'Jason head off to the Sheriff's office to get weapons.
(Jason's read "World War Z". This makes me irrationally happy. Mind, he possibly though it was a textbook... but he read it. That's the important thing.)
Inside Merlotte's, it transpires that the kids know their mum's gone to crazy town. Their suggestions for dealing with this are, in this order: find a doctor, find Bill, find "another vampire". Sam's not happy about that, but realises that vampires are probably the best bet. Seeing as he thinks Bill is still in Dallas, he heads for the only other vamp hangout he knows - Fangtasia. Where he bribes Ginger The Skank into letting him in (did you see the closed sign - "Sorry, We're Dead"? Ah, vamps), so that they can wait for Eric to get there.
Over in the Thornton/Reynolds house of the Messed Up, Tara wants to go get Eggs. Sookie, Lafayette and Lettie Mae do not want her to, because it's too dangerous, which is a valid concern at this point. Tara ends up handcuffed to the table (with purple furry handcuffs about which we will say nothing), and says some really nasty things to everyone present. Then Lafayette goes outside to stand guard, Sookie goes with him, and Lettie Mae is left to watch Tara. That turns out to be a mistake, because Tara guilt-trips Lettie Mae into getting the gun, which triggers another PTSD flash for Lafayette.
As with the last time, it involves Eric. In Lettie Mae's clothes. Surprisingly, he is still hot. (shhhh...) At first Eric!Lettie Mae says stuff about Lafayette's mum hating him (in Lettie Mae's voice), but then he moves a bit closer and says in his own voice:
"I thought you wanted to be a vampire. How it feels with my blood inside you... being a vampire is like that... times a million." Pause, then very softly, "Goodbye, sweetheart"
At which point, my fangirly heart kinda exploded. This situation was not helped by the fact that Lafayette has the sexy Eric dreams too.
Anyways... Tara drives off in Sookie's car to go find Eggs, and then Sookie gets a five-hours-old text from Bill saying he won't be back 'til the next night, so she and Lafayette drive to the house formerly inhabited by Sookie, and currently inhabited by various Minions.
Tara gets back to the house, finds Eggs, and is trying to get him to leave when Maryann shows up, tells Tara that basically, she summoned Maryann in the first place by having the fake!exorcism, does that vibrating thing she does, and re-Minionises Tara.
Over at Fangtasia, Sam's talking to Eric, who is looking gorgeous as usual, and asking for help, even though Eric's response is basically "What's in it for me?". In the end, I suspect he went to see Sophie-Anne just so he'd have a marker to hold over Sam's head, and IDK, maybe he thinks he can manipulate Sam into getting Sookie for him. Before he leaves, though, he shows the kids his fangs, and talks to Pam about how, er... delicious... human kids are. He actually used the words "teacup humans". It was cute but disturbing at the same time. Pam wasn't impressed, though - she doesn't like kids and just wants the shoes that the maenad owes her. So yeah. Eric flies off to the Palace of Bad Interior Design, and Sam still has that perpetual worried look.
Meanwhile Andy and Jason are at the Sheriff's office, where Jason contributes by... keeping one of the Minions occupied... while Andy gets the weapons. There is a scene that involves Andy, Bud Dearborn and squaredancing, but I've blocked it out. Some things are too weird even for me. Then, loaded with guns and ammunition, they carbo-load on Special K bars (o-kay...) and head for The House of Minions.
Sookie and Lafayette do the same, only to be stopped by Minionised Terry and Arlene for trespassing. Lafayette distracts them with MDMA, and runs into Maryann and Head Minion, Carl. The encounter involves Maryann eating some poisonous plant, presumeably to prove her invulnerability, and Carl getting shot in the head, which invokes... no response from Maryann, other than looking hungrily at Lafayette in a Very Bad Way. Sookie, meanwhile, gets in the house and finds... Jane Bodehouse cutting her own finger off, a naked guy having a bath in her sink, and a guy wearing one of her dresses.
She also finds Minionised Eggs and re-Minionised Tara in Gran's old room, smashing stuff up and saying that it's for "the nest". Sookie has a WTF look, understandably, and then we see, on the bed... a nest. With one really, really big egg in it.
Random stuff:
Um, OK, so I get that Tara thinks Eggs walks on water. Except... yeah, he's not all that great. This kinda makes me wish they'd bring in JB du Rone, and she can get together with him like in the books. Even though Book!Tara and Show!Tara are entirely different people.
Er.... Hoyt/Jessica looks to be over, folks. *sigh* On the other hand, Hoyt really is awesome.
And, well... I just realised where I've seen Maryann before. She was Admiral Cain for about three episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Weirdly, Cain was a total bitch too. Not a maenad, though.
And then there's Sophie-Anne... um, I kinda like her. I suspect she may be one of those characters that looks nice and pleasant and whatever at first, but has a barely-contained Major Badass underneath. It was when she said "I look forward to meeting her [Sookie]", to Bill, with this tone that just said "You'd BETTER introduce her to me" that gave me the idea. Also she thinks Bill and Eric just need to shag and get all the angst and posturing over with, too. I suspect that she may be right (...yeah, I'd watch).
(I also have this feeling that in her free time, between Yahtzee and running Louisiana, she TOTALLY reads slash fanfic on the internet.)
We pick up exactly where we left off, with Bill at Sophie-Anne's place, and the foot with the blood running down it and all...
except the foot and blood... aren't exactly a sign of anything being horribly wrong. They're more a sign of Sophie-Anne having her afternoon (evening?) snack. Just to push the blood/sex connection here.
Anyway, Sophie-Anne looks up, and makes Bill Very Very Uncomfortable. He still looks hot, though, so it's all right. He ends up spending that night, the next day, and part of the next night at her place, though. (and seriously, WTH is up with her interior design? it's hideous. Do vampires lose all sense for that kind of thing when they're turned?)
Oh, and btw... we now have another reason why Twilight is crap. See, vampires don't play baseball, they play Yahtzee. Which for some reason is hilarious. I wonder if they have, like, Monopoly marathons at Sophie-Anne's, too?
(....HADLEY. O.M.G, HADLEY. Er... yeah, I've read the books. Still, nice to meet you, Hadley, shame you won't be around long. And shiiiiiit, she doesn't know about Gran Stackhouse. Yet more Awkward for Bill, eep.)
Anyways, Sophie-Anne (eventually...) tells Bill more about maenads - like, them being immortal, their origins, what they want, and the fact that the Vessel needs to be supernatural, but not a vamp - i.e. a were, or a shifter. Bill then makes the obvious connection and realises that Maryann is after Sam.
Back in Bon Temps... the Resistance is, uh, doing its best. Over at Merlotte's we have Sam, Andy, and Jason, who thinks that Sam being a shifter is the coolest thing ever. Seeing as he pretty much doesn't shut up about it the whole ep, I really, really hope this is Foreshadowing for all the werepanther stuff in the books. *crosses fingers*
Then these two little faces peek in through the window, then disappear into the woods. Sam follows, and it's.. Arlene's kids. (Now, I know that their actual names are Colby and Lisa. I know that. But I keep thinking that their names are Cody and Astor. Possibly I watch Dexter too much. Er...) So it turns out the kids don't know where their mum is, and are starving, so Sam takes them inside and makes them some food, while Andy'n'Jason head off to the Sheriff's office to get weapons.
(Jason's read "World War Z". This makes me irrationally happy. Mind, he possibly though it was a textbook... but he read it. That's the important thing.)
Inside Merlotte's, it transpires that the kids know their mum's gone to crazy town. Their suggestions for dealing with this are, in this order: find a doctor, find Bill, find "another vampire". Sam's not happy about that, but realises that vampires are probably the best bet. Seeing as he thinks Bill is still in Dallas, he heads for the only other vamp hangout he knows - Fangtasia. Where he bribes Ginger The Skank into letting him in (did you see the closed sign - "Sorry, We're Dead"? Ah, vamps), so that they can wait for Eric to get there.
Over in the Thornton/Reynolds house of the Messed Up, Tara wants to go get Eggs. Sookie, Lafayette and Lettie Mae do not want her to, because it's too dangerous, which is a valid concern at this point. Tara ends up handcuffed to the table (with purple furry handcuffs about which we will say nothing), and says some really nasty things to everyone present. Then Lafayette goes outside to stand guard, Sookie goes with him, and Lettie Mae is left to watch Tara. That turns out to be a mistake, because Tara guilt-trips Lettie Mae into getting the gun, which triggers another PTSD flash for Lafayette.
As with the last time, it involves Eric. In Lettie Mae's clothes. Surprisingly, he is still hot. (shhhh...) At first Eric!Lettie Mae says stuff about Lafayette's mum hating him (in Lettie Mae's voice), but then he moves a bit closer and says in his own voice:
"I thought you wanted to be a vampire. How it feels with my blood inside you... being a vampire is like that... times a million." Pause, then very softly, "Goodbye, sweetheart"
At which point, my fangirly heart kinda exploded. This situation was not helped by the fact that Lafayette has the sexy Eric dreams too.
Anyways... Tara drives off in Sookie's car to go find Eggs, and then Sookie gets a five-hours-old text from Bill saying he won't be back 'til the next night, so she and Lafayette drive to the house formerly inhabited by Sookie, and currently inhabited by various Minions.
Tara gets back to the house, finds Eggs, and is trying to get him to leave when Maryann shows up, tells Tara that basically, she summoned Maryann in the first place by having the fake!exorcism, does that vibrating thing she does, and re-Minionises Tara.
Over at Fangtasia, Sam's talking to Eric, who is looking gorgeous as usual, and asking for help, even though Eric's response is basically "What's in it for me?". In the end, I suspect he went to see Sophie-Anne just so he'd have a marker to hold over Sam's head, and IDK, maybe he thinks he can manipulate Sam into getting Sookie for him. Before he leaves, though, he shows the kids his fangs, and talks to Pam about how, er... delicious... human kids are. He actually used the words "teacup humans". It was cute but disturbing at the same time. Pam wasn't impressed, though - she doesn't like kids and just wants the shoes that the maenad owes her. So yeah. Eric flies off to the Palace of Bad Interior Design, and Sam still has that perpetual worried look.
Meanwhile Andy and Jason are at the Sheriff's office, where Jason contributes by... keeping one of the Minions occupied... while Andy gets the weapons. There is a scene that involves Andy, Bud Dearborn and squaredancing, but I've blocked it out. Some things are too weird even for me. Then, loaded with guns and ammunition, they carbo-load on Special K bars (o-kay...) and head for The House of Minions.
Sookie and Lafayette do the same, only to be stopped by Minionised Terry and Arlene for trespassing. Lafayette distracts them with MDMA, and runs into Maryann and Head Minion, Carl. The encounter involves Maryann eating some poisonous plant, presumeably to prove her invulnerability, and Carl getting shot in the head, which invokes... no response from Maryann, other than looking hungrily at Lafayette in a Very Bad Way. Sookie, meanwhile, gets in the house and finds... Jane Bodehouse cutting her own finger off, a naked guy having a bath in her sink, and a guy wearing one of her dresses.
She also finds Minionised Eggs and re-Minionised Tara in Gran's old room, smashing stuff up and saying that it's for "the nest". Sookie has a WTF look, understandably, and then we see, on the bed... a nest. With one really, really big egg in it.
Random stuff:
Um, OK, so I get that Tara thinks Eggs walks on water. Except... yeah, he's not all that great. This kinda makes me wish they'd bring in JB du Rone, and she can get together with him like in the books. Even though Book!Tara and Show!Tara are entirely different people.
Er.... Hoyt/Jessica looks to be over, folks. *sigh* On the other hand, Hoyt really is awesome.
And, well... I just realised where I've seen Maryann before. She was Admiral Cain for about three episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Weirdly, Cain was a total bitch too. Not a maenad, though.
And then there's Sophie-Anne... um, I kinda like her. I suspect she may be one of those characters that looks nice and pleasant and whatever at first, but has a barely-contained Major Badass underneath. It was when she said "I look forward to meeting her [Sookie]", to Bill, with this tone that just said "You'd BETTER introduce her to me" that gave me the idea. Also she thinks Bill and Eric just need to shag and get all the angst and posturing over with, too. I suspect that she may be right (...yeah, I'd watch).
(I also have this feeling that in her free time, between Yahtzee and running Louisiana, she TOTALLY reads slash fanfic on the internet.)