Things are really starting to heat up in Bon Temps (and I'm not talking about the temperature, ya know?) - it's episode 8 and we're in the thick of season 4. Let's get down to business. First off, though, are we liking the Good, Bad and the Ugly breakdown? I feel like it lets me hit the highlights and make comments while not having to summarize the whole episode. Right? Okay then. I'll do it this way until I think of something else... Cool?
The Good:
1. Uhhhhhhh, do you have to ask? Sookie has a magic shower that is able to transport her to a magical, Narnia-esque place filled with snow, a fur lined bed, and a clothes-less Viking vampire, with no memory and lots and lots of time on his hands.
2. Jess not being dead (yay, Jason!)
3. Sookie's being able to use her fairy fingers to fight off one of the witches (and her looking at them, kind of astonished and going, "THANK you!"
4. Marcus (Leader of the Pack! Vroom! Vroom!) keeping out of the vampire/witch war. Good, yes. Way to have strong leadership and do something not stupid.
5. Pam's got her face back (for now?)
6. Sam and Luna are back on track.
7. Sam gets cat barbie to like him (ah, no, just kidding, this is so far inconclusive).
8. Bill saving Tara ("Yew know whahhh" - No Bill, yew really need to spell this out for her, since she is pretty much as dumb as she looks)
9. Sookie and Eric (looking kind of American Gothic-y) telling Bill they wanted to fight with him. YEAH! Let's kick some witch butt, y'all!! And Sookie reminding Eric that he's a warrior (so maybe next time HE should do the battle planning?)
The Bad
1. Andy's V Addiction is SO BAD, he'd be willing to scarf down melty vampire entrails in the middle of the street. GROSS. Get him to v-rehab or something - stat!
2. Tara. Still following Marnie/Antonia (Marntonia? Antnie?). Do you really not remember what it's like to be possessed? Remember Eggs and Maryann? Yeah. Crazy. Not fun. Stop this madness!
3. Poor Jessica. Getting her invitation recalled from not one but two homes. What's a girl to do? And Hoyt, what a meanie. What happened to him? Why can't we have one happy, decent character without them getting irreparably scarred?
4. Marcus (vroom! vroom!) busting in on the cozy domestic scene involving Sam, Luna and Emma. Yeah. Way to not make rational decisions. Apparently his packmaster mentality doesn't spread to his personal life (no wonder people think werewolves are thugs!). And while I'm thinking about it, isn't it weird that he would have been married to a shifter in the first place? Aren't they all about preserving their were-ness?
5. Debbie telling Alcide to stay away from Sookie. Yeah, right, as if.
The Ugly
1. Bill Compton. I have a feeling that you and your "leadership" are part of the reason why the South lost the Civil War. What.Were.You.Thinking? Hey Antonia, let's totally meet. We can have peace! How does that sound? Good? Rockin. See you in the cemetary at midnight!
Did he really think that one phone call laying on the vampire smarm would be enough for her to suddenly turn rational? Instead of talking, they should have shown up in force, with maybe one or two other witches (duh! you guys are vampires! find some friendly witches and have them help you out!), and ambushed her. Shot her, exorcised her, whatever. Take her down. Without her, the other witches in the coven wouldn't be as powerful. They could have been glamoured to forget. The "Authority" wouldn't even have to know. Now as it is...
2. Sookie gets shot. Arrghhh! And then she's saved by Alcide, who is being watched by Debbie. Yeah. Someone hasn't kept his promises - to Debbie about staying away from Sookie, and to the new pack, to stay out of the vampire/witch thing. We knew he wouldn't be able to stay away, of course, but it's just going to lead to more trouble.
AND
3. Antarnie HAS ERIC! Someone's gotta rescue him fast (my guess - Pam or Tara will intervene)
So good job, Bill. That went well.
4. Lafayette getting, I don't know, visited by? Possessed by? That strange lady singing to baby Mikey in Merlotte's kitchen. Who is this chick? Do we even care? And LaLa's going to get into SO.MUCH.TROUBLE for kidnapping the baby. I thought maybe he'd be the one to go up against Martonia but now it seems like he's been sucked into a secondary storyline (that sucks!). And what happened to Jesus?
5. Tommy skinwalking as Maxine Fortenberry to get that money. Once again, Sam, you should not let this one out of your sight. Home skillet can TURN INTO YOU. No good can come of this. (What we were thinking is maybe Tommy will be posing as Sam when Marcus finds him. That would neatly and quickly get rid of him.)
So. I think that's it for now. Until next week - remember to take something warm into the shower (because you never know when you might end up in Narnia, with Eric. And living in Chicago, I can tell you. It's no fun to be outside in the snow.),
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