Monday, August 9, 2010

Recap: True Blood, season 3, episode 8 – ‘Night on the Sun’

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I can’t recall the last time the True Blood Twitterverse was in such rapture. Within seconds of the ending of last night’s episode, “Night on the Sun,” #AwwSookieNowNow could have been a trending topic. Was it really all that sexy? Maybe, maybe not. But there’s nothing better than fast and furious makeup sex. And Sookie got her some of that. (Bill was just trying to keep up.)
All told, there was a lot of skin this episode. Franklin turned up in Tara’s shower fantasy. She drank his blood, so, with any hope, we’ll be seeing more of him. Even wet shoulders up, Franklin has more charisma in his left fang than most. Jason, well, he’s accustomed to showing skin, but his got busy with Crystal’s. (Is there anything sweeter than Jason in love?) Heck, we even got to see Terry in bed with Arlene, tenderly singing to their baby on the way right before he turns into an imagined Rene, the real baby daddy. Personally, I think this story line has so much potential. It’s old school Rosemary’s Baby and deserves a big pay off.
But let’s talk about the sex we didn’t see. There were two missed man-on-man opportunities. And not just any men. Uber men! Three seasons in, Lafayette finally looks like he’s about to get some, and they back out of the shot? (“Where are they going? Where’d the hot guys go? Why aren’t the hot guys doing it in the frame? Where’s my hot guys?”) Sure, it wasn’t as obvious as panning away to a vibrating mantle of religious goodies, but c’mon. Is there anyone watching this show who doesn’t want to know how Lafayette is in bed??? He makes The Old Spice guy look like a junior leaguer! And while it pains me to say that the chemistry between Lafayette and Jesus is at its best with suggestive small talk, I still want the hotsie-totsie!

True Blood Inside the Episode – Night On The Sun Episode 3.08


Seeing Red: Does 'True Blood' Have Too Much Blood in Season Three?

Pop-Ed: 'True Blood' fans can remember back to that first season when a campy gem was born. The fangs were shorter -- almost Ricky Gervais-sized -- while plots focused around the social strife and political tensions between vampires and humans, with overtones of heated 1960s race relations. We met a motley crew of characters, lovable, hated and some in-between. Alan Ball's HBO creation was funny and dark in that deep south way where danger seems to lurk behind the kudzu and Spanish Moss. Love interests, requited and not, sprouted. We marveled at the raunchy 'vamp speed sex' (a ramp up to this season's vamp speed texting!) and lurid human copulation set a standard. But gore was almost more inferred in Season One.

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Mad Men's Don Draper vs. True Blood's Bill Compton

Who’s the biggest screw-up on cable TV: slick ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) or lovesick vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer)? Let the battle for bad boy supremacy commence!
Bill Compton
Vampire Bill has a complex past. Before he became a vampire he was just a regular man, a devoted father and husband. Then came the war and the Southern gentleman answered the call to arms. The only problem: he fought for the South, which doesn’t exactly win him hero points with a contemporary audience.
But human Bill didn’t escape the blight of war unharmed. An encounter with a strange woman on his way home to his wife and family changed him forever. The woman turned out to be a vampire. She was hungry and lonely and not only made Bill a vampire, ending his human life and robbing him of his beloved family, but she also made Bill her consort, her partner in crime.  The 100-odd years he spent with Lorena make the Battle of Antietam look like a trailer park dustup. The lusty vampire pair left a trail of carnage behind them.

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Charlaine Harris and the Secret to Writing Success

As an author, I read a variety of publications for writers with avid interest. The July/August issue of Writer’s Digest published an insightful interview with Charlaine Harris. I recommend reading it. Ms. Harris talks about how she reached her stellar position at the top of the bestseller list.

She started out by taking a creative writing course after finishing college—something other successful writers like Sara Paretsky have done. Ms. Harris’s several mystery novel series were successful and reached mid-list status. But pushing fifty, Ms. Harris wasn’t satisfied with this. She wanted to write a book that was unique, the kind of book that only she could write. So she tossed aside the usual rules of mystery writing and simply wrote what she really wanted to create. And this is the secret to her superstar success. Charlaine Harris wasn’t afraid to be different in style and subject and actually have fun with her writing. She enjoys her work and it shows.

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Babyvamp Jessica: Guess who's home ?


True Blood-Bath: We’re All Just Pawns in a Game of Chess- Vanity Fair

There’s a scene in last night’s episode of True Blood featuring Eric Northman and Talbot playing a game of chess. The chess game is an obvious allusion to the strategy of the characters—or chess pieces, if you will—in the bigger picture of the entire season. And Eric and Talbot are just pawns in the greater scheme—kings and queens do battle while pawns are simply sacrificed. Ah, who am I trying to fool? Obviously everything that I’ve written so far is, well, bullshit. I’ve got nothing. Honestly, the only halfway enjoyable event up to the chess match scene was when Talbot, during the game, said, “I’m bored.” Because, when he did, I immediately spoke back to my television, “Yeah, me, too!” Soon after I vocalized my displeasure (the people inside the screen can hear me, right?), events got a lot more interesting. But interesting isn’t always a good thing.

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True Blood - S03E08 - Night Of The Sun Post-Mortem : Vampires Survival Guide

What did they say ? True Blood S3E8 " Night on the Sun " subtitles

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True Blood - Episode 3.09 - Everything is Broken - Promo

Blood lust TV has long had a taste for vampires

It seems you can’t watch a prime-time show that doesn’t feature a bloodsucker of some sort. Romantic vamps, brooding vamps, secret vamps, psychotic vamps: Anyone who looks good with pointy teeth is probably haunting your tube.
Here’s a look at the top 10 fiends, past and present, who had a hankering for hemoglobin.
10. Harmony Kendall, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”: She might not have been a threat to humanity, but Harmony (Mercedes McNab) had one thing that lands her on this list: minions, who were more like Keystone Kops with a penchant for murder.
t seems you can’t watch a prime-time show that doesn’t feature a bloodsucker of some sort. Romantic vamps, brooding vamps, secret vamps, psychotic vamps: Anyone who looks good with pointy teeth is probably haunting your tube.
Here’s a look at the top 10 fiends, past and present, who had a hankering for hemoglobin.

10. Harmony Kendall, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”: She might not have been a threat to humanity, but Harmony (Mercedes McNab) had one thing that lands her on this list: minions, who were more like Keystone Kops with a penchant for murder.

9. Mick St. John, “Moonlight”: Mick (Alex O’Loughlin) refused to hunt women, children or innocent people, which makes him one of the least threatening creatures on this list - unless you were a criminal. In that case, it was best to run.

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'True Blood': Is Bill Sookie's biggest threat?

Sunday's (August 8) episode of "True Blood" took us another step forward in Sookie's (Anna Paquin) evolution into whatever she is. And from what we can tell, whatever that is, it's going to rock.

We appreciate when a TV show doesn't rush a character arc. "True Blood's" writers have definitely been evolving Sookie slowly, so that whatever seemingly powerful being she is revealed to be is believable to us the viewers.

We've already seen she has a tremendous ability to love. The male characters are naturally drawn to her. We've witnessed her bravery. We've witnessed short, but well-placed, bursts of her "microwave fingers." And in this episode she showed off her sheer physicality (without using any of those cool powerful bursts of energy we like so much) in a fight against Alcide's (Joe Manganiello) were-ex, Debbie (Brit Morgan).

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'True Blood': What would we do, baby, without us?- LATimes

"Family ties" may as well have been the theme of tonight's "True Blood," "Night on the Sun," which slowed the plot way down in favor of scenes where characters who haven't spent a lot of time together this season got to check in with each other, while other connections were forged and broken. It was also quite a come-down after the last two blisteringly paced episodes, though I suppose that sort of thing is inevitable. I just wish that the whole episode hadn't been a long journey to a place we already knew we were going back to and that it hadn't undid one of its most interesting plot developments within the same exact episode. It makes it seem like the writers don't have a great deal of confidence in their characters to sustain interest, outside of the way we first came to know them.

Here's what I'm complaining about, less obliquely: In the first scene of the episode, Sookie breaks it off with Bill. Then, in the last scene, the two are back together again and having ravenous sex. I suspect that this is a part of a general motif in the episode, of people going back to things they should know are wrong for them, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating to have the show dangle a potentially interesting storyline -- let's see what Sookie and Bill are like apart, instead of together -- then take it away from us within the same episode. Anyone who's ever watched TV ever is going to know that these two are going to end up back together again by the end of the series. It's just the way the medium works. But along the way, we should get some interesting stories of what they're like both separate and apart. This episode is frustrating in that regard, though, again, it seems possible that this is all set-up for a more permanent break-up down the road.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: A Party At Bill Compton's

I thought this would be fun as we digest from last night


A Party At Bill Compton's (Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries)
Thanks Aislynn815