My Beautiful Disaster

• The first half started off slow. Anna did a good job acting in this episode but little things bugged me here and there. She was showing anger but there was no stubbornness there. I would have thrown that stupid headdress thing off immediately. I would have tried to kick the egg out and definitely not licked it. Whose blood was that anyways?? I find it humorous that Jason and Andy got taken over but I wonder why it hadn’t happened much sooner? I can see her being more subdued after the threat to her brother but she didn’t seem as spunky as she should have been before that moment. 
• That whole queen scene was shown just so Erik and Sophie would be in the episode and probably had to do with just the actors getting a paycheck as there wasn’t a real need for it. Also, my initial thought was the crazy vampire bitch kidnapping Bill like the books have it but it could be Erik… that makes more sense. Why? Well given that scene and Erik “taking care of Bill” that would likely fall into play nicely with Ball wanting to keep the viewers guessing. It had to be a vampire, Bill didn’t sense whoever it was and they were wearing gloves to protect from silver. Erik could hire out too but I see him doing it personally. 
• Moving on, I’m glad Mary Ann is dead FINALLY. I’m not sure why Alan kept that up unless he was working his way up to something or just needed filler. I can’t imagine that since there’s plenty of material to work with. I was worried she might live on just because Sam morphed early and Tara saying she thinks it’s not over. Ugh. But I think it is done with. Eggs thankfully gets killed off. He annoyed me in every episode. He reminded me of a monkey, one that cries a lot. The one thing that will bite both Andy and Jason is the fact that he used someone else’s gun to kill Eggs which Andy now has even though he has no holster and no one saw him carrying a weapon and we’re not even sure he got his own weapon back yet… leaving potential gaping holes in his story. There is an implication here with Jason killing Eggs but no one knowing. I won’t say what it is but it’s actually quite obvious. 
• I wanted to gouge my eyes out when Hoyt’s mom was dancing and singing. “What the fuck” went through my head immediately. But the second half of the episode is where it is at because it sets everything up for season 3. Yup, I still wonder why the screen went black… to denote the second half which was more like a separate episode? Was it an introduction to Charlaine Harris’ cameo? Is there any significance behind it? Oh, if you didn’t notice, the writer of the Southern Vampire Mysteries herself makes a cameo midway through the show. The screen goes black and then it goes to Merlotte’s. Inside at the bar we see a red headed woman with glasses say “Well, I certainly never expected anything like that to happen here.” I didn’t notice the first go around and probably would have missed it on the second go. Ms. Sexy X pointed that one out to me. She’s sharp as a tack, I tell you. 
• I was glad to see Hoyt stomp out on his mom finally but sad to see him get stood up at Bill’s house. I really thought Jessica was going over there and to see her at the truck stop… damn. Not unexpected, she’s a young vamp and will feed uncontrollably. She didn’t have sex with the guy so maybe she’ll still stick with Hoyt. I’m not holding my breath here unfortunately. I hope they keep her on but I can see them killing her off next season. Hopefully I’m wrong on that account.
• My favorite part of the episode was Sam going to find his parents. I’m super curious as to what that is all about. The whole adoptive parent scene was okay but I was getting built up for the rest. Obviously that’s next season. Oy. But so are the werewolves. :-) 

So we FINALLY see the end of Mary Ann and the Mississippi plot now brewing. This season was alright, I don’t think it was as good as the first. I hope Alan doesn’t change up the 3rd season too much or if he does that it’s better. I’m really excited to see it but it’s mooooonths away.

I’m going to take a different approach here. I don’t think my “review” was very good last time. It was more of a summation with comments sprinkled in. I’ll admit it wasn’t written for a stranger as there were spoilers and junk in it. Whatever. So I’m sticking with a similar format, it’s just more pronounced now.

• Evan Rachel Wood plays a wimsical, happy go lucky queen. I know this is only the first episode with her but it seems to be a character mismatch. I envisioned a more refined queen and she was supposed to be really young. Honestly, I’m glad they made her older (though ERW still looks young) but it is a difference.
• Erik flew in this episode. They didn’t make it look fake or anything but they didn’t focus on it either. I’m glad they added that element in as it comes in handy in the books. He also had a funny line asking if Sookie has asked about him. Unfortunately, we didn’t see much of him.
• Sookie inquires about any side effects of drinking Erik’s blood after she learns from Lafayette that he had some. Lafayette mentions vivid fantasy/dreams which address a question I had earlier.
• This episode was very slow and had a lot of filler dialogue that didn’t do anything for me. They made Jessica’s part small which sucks because I wanted to see what happened after she bit Hoyt’s mom. (Nothing happens!) Instead we get to see Maxine’s horribly crooked teeth and a pointless rant and rave between mother and son. Jason and Andy team up and have more boring dialogue though a few gems were thrown in like Jason complaining of Andy cockblocking him with a zombie woman. Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are! Tara flips her mom into letting her go and she goes back under Mary Ann’s control along with Lafayette and that’s how the episode ends (with Sookie screaming, of course.)

That’s pretty much it, I really don’t have anything else. It was all about Mary Ann which is a boring storyline to begin with. I’m surely getting tired of this. Luckily, the season finale is coming up and hopefully they settle this and bring on the werewolves!

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.

Where to start on this one?

First let me review the whole Maryann plot. I’m not sure where they’re going with this hummingbird. In the books the maenad just moves on. Here she’s just staying. What’s with Tara and Eggs just eating straight from the pot? What the hell? And how are they not going to question the blood (would there even be that much left after cooking??) Okay, I get that she makes people mad but that plot line is just getting stupid. I can’t stand to see those two doing it again either. He reminds me of a big gorilla which isn’t too becoming for a black man. Oh well. And let’s lance that mole off, mmmkay? I can’t take her seriously if that’s all I’m staring at.

A few things got me in this episode. I understand they’re branching from the book some as Godric didn’t meet the sun here. Stan is supposed to be sheriff and then king of Texas eventually but the power structure is the same, lest that bomb takes Godric out. How does a nest of vamps not sense that guy coming in? They have superior hearing and smelling and vision so they’d know if a human came in. And what’s with Jason not only being there but being all lovey with Bill? They didn’t punish Hugo or his vamp… okay fine. But she’s showing way too much emotion. Even Bill who loves Sookie is still unemotional in some sense. Vampires are supposed to be like that and she’s crying just like Lorena. Don’t turn this into a soap opera.

I think the guy that plays Steve Newlin is doing a damned good job. He plays the crazy nut perfectly. Sara does too but not nearly as good as he.

Just get me to the werewolves already. :-) I bet that’s end of this season or in the next season.

There’s a lot of things different from the books. That’s understandable, generally speaking it is an adaptation. There is a lot of material in the books and I’m not sure why they can’t stick closer to it. I know they need filler. But keeping Lafayette? Okay so he’s popular. But having him drink Eric’s blood? According to the books, no one has done that in close to a thousand years except for Sookie, so there’s big significance behind that. Offering it up to him wouldn’t have happened.

We’ll see how this goes. I’m guessing the bomb doesn’t detonate or if it does perhaps Godric is so fast he takes him out that glass door and takes the explosion and that’s how they kill him. 6 more days. Ugh.