My Beautiful Disaster

We start off in a dream sequence of Sookie’s. She’s had a little bit of blood from Eric Northman and now she wants to bone him. I guess the reason her desire is stronger for Eric than Bill Compton is because Eric’s blood is supposedly 900 years older. Okay, I can go with that but tell me why Lafayette, the gay black dude that drank a BUNCH of Eric’s blood, doesn’t fantasize about getting jiggy with him? I know, I know I’m being too technical.

The trio come back to Bon Temp to find it ravished and the people roaming wild with big, black eyes. It’s chaos and they head to Bill’s. They find Hoyt, his possessed mom, and Jessica holed up there. Speaking of Hoyt and Andy, why are they the only two unpossessed in that town? Anyways, Maxine is talking dirty and whatnot so they entertain her with the Wii. Ha, imagine vampires owning Wiis. Anyways, that’s when they figure out it’s Maryann and they start to piece together she’s the one that attacked Sookie. (Since they’ve been out of town the whole time and apparently never get a phone call.) Also, she’s shacking up at Sookie’s house. Of course they go over there only to find it is infested with jungle shit. Her house is ruined for all intents and purposes. I’d be PISSED! Who does that? Ah, well it is fiction. Whatever. There they have a dramatic meet and greet with the maenad herself. Bill bites her and immediately becomes sick from her blood. Sookie tries to act all tough but gets bitch slapped against the wall. In the meantime she saw some of Maryann’s thoughts and confirmed she was the one that clawed her. Then she used some sort of power to shove Maryann away. Is Rogue coming back? Ha, I’m kidding! That stunned Maryann but more by intrigue than anything else. We hear the familiar line “what are you” a few times from her mouth. They run off to go to Lafayette’s. I’m trying to figure out what Sookie did. I hope they don’t give her any more special powers. Mindreading seems a little weak but that’s all that she is and that actually makes her very special to all the supes. Giving her more powers seems to degrade that. Blah.

At Lafayette’s they have this whole little sequence where Bill has to glamor Tara while Sookie reads her thoughts simultaneously and once she gets those memories, suddenly Tara snaps out of it. Riiiight. She babbles something about Eggs but Lafayette is wisely keeping her there. Bill and Sookie discuss the incident and she mentions the Latin everyone keeps spouting and Bill remembers reading about maenads so therefore deducts what she is from that. He says he must go meet someone who will know while Sookie should just stay there. Okay, so they just now discover what she is. And she knows they’re after Sam Merlotte. Does Bill really think she’ll stay put? Can you say “disaster?”

Meanwhile, Sam and Andy Bellefleur get trapped in the cooler at Merlotte’s while a bunch of the zombie folk party outside. This scene is rather stupid if you ask me. They just kind of wait there and party which I guess is the main side effect of Maryann’s spell but you’d think they’d try harder. I guess not. Why doesn’t Sam shapeshift to get away? He’s tired of running he says. Jason comes with a chainsaw and nail gun as if that’ll do anything. He soon realizes that. It’d work if he was willing to use them but he was not. Weak. He releases Sam and Andy only to get surrounded again and Sam gives himself up. They take Sam to the roof of a car to tie him there. Uhhhh, why? Who knows. I guess these are stupid zombies especially if Jason can fool them in the next scene by pretending to be a god by donning a gas mask and work gloves and holding two flares. It was comical, I’ll give it that much even if it was dumb. I like Jason’s character in that regards. Sam turns into a fly to further the ruse. Okay, so if he was sooo willing to sacrafice himself for all others, why did he aide in his own escape? I don’t know. Jason and Andy are confused when he walks back in naught but an apron. Ladies watching might like that scene. I’ll admit, I didn’t like Sam’s character at first, he seemed too laid back like a Ron Livingston type. It works with the character and I do like it now.

One other new twist thrown in is Jessica feeds on Hoyt’s mom after the bitch keeps talking smack about her son and Jessica. AWWWESOME! I have no idea how that’ll go but I’m stoked!

The episode ends with Bill going to the Queen Vampire of Louisiana.

It looks as if the rest of the season is building up to killing off Maryann. That works for me. Maenads are supposed to be too hard to kill so perhaps they just scare her off. I’m not sure. In the books they just pay tribute for her to move on. So does this set up Bill to disappear to Mississippi for the next season? That means the werewolves are coming! What’s the queen look like? Does she give him this side job now if she helps him here? Quid pro quo, maybe?

I thought the zombie stuff is stupid and that’s the majority of the episode. Despite that, I did like this particular episode as they did seem to move the storyline along somewhat.

This episode starts off with a bang. Okay, corny pun… what-the-fuck-ever!

Bill tells Lorena to get lost and then Sookie’s dream sequence later on has Lorena saying Sookie doesn’t love Bill, etc. I see the start of the Mississippi plot going on here, where Lorena will kidnap Bill and the werewolves will finally come into play. Yay!

Eric finally forms the bond with Sookie in just about the same way as the book. Of course he is smiling and I laughed at the joke where he could tell her (angry) emotions. I still don’t like the fact that Lafayette dranks his blood but we’ll see where that storyline takes us. It may turn out pretty good. Kind of like having Bill stake Longshadow instead of Eric, it formed the Jessica storyline with Hoyt but I like that one. I wouldn’t think a torn hymen would be that big of a deal, I figured vampires don’t feel pain or they like it. Maybe because she is such a new vampire she still feels a lot of pain. I don’t know.

I liked the little dialogue the Newlins had on TV. Steve has a welt on his forehead from the paintball and then they bicker at each other. They’re both playing crazy very well. I’m impressed.

Lafayette started wising up in the last episode about Tara and Eggs. When he sees her bruised he goes off! It’s about time. He and Tara’s mom bust in on them later on and take Tara away. Maryann does her hummingbird thing and puts Tara and Eggs under that spell but for some reason she lets Tara get carted off. Not before Lafayette puts a beatdown on Eggs though. :-)

This whole Maryann plotline is getting dumb though. I wish she’d just move on. What’s the point? She has it in for Sam. Somehow Andy is going to help him. Then she busts in on the bar and puts them all under a trance. Ooookay. Tell me why she can’t sense another supe when Sam is crawling around on the table as a fly? It seems to me almost all the other supes can tell when another one is nearby.

I really liked the end scene where Godric goes to meet the sun. The dialogue was actually kind of touching. I thought they did very well. Him bursting into flames could have been done a little better I thought but I suppose being such an old vampire makes him go extremely quick.