True Blood: best episode climax
2010-Aug-16, Monday 02:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerTrue Blood (what with it being cable-access television from HBO) is all about the sex. Passionate, violent, weird, abusive, nameless, deadly, or compulsive... it's all about the sex. Every once in a while, though, they throw a curveball that is altogether different. Tonight's episode was all about psychopaths and politics. You always suspected that combination would work well together, didn't you?
The closing minutes of this episode (season 3, episode 9, "Everything Is Broken") were suspenseful enough to be a season cliffhanger. But we have 3 more episodes to anticipate!
WARNING: violent imagery ahead
I leave you with the words of Russell Edgington, meant for the American Vampire League (AVL):
"Does that help you decide, America?
Do NOT turn off the camera!
You've seen how quickly I can kill.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Russell Edgington,
and I have been a vampire for nearly 3000 years.
Now, the American Vampire League wishes to perpetrate the notion
that we are just like you and, I suppose, in a few small ways we are.
We are narcissists.
We care only about getting what we want, no matter what the cost, just like you.
Global warming, perpetual war, toxic waste, child labor, torture, genocide.
That's a small price to pay for your SUVs and your flat screen TVs,
your blood diamonds, your designer jeans,
your absurb, garish McMansions.
Futile symbols of permanence to quell your...
your quivering, spineless souls.
But, no, in the end, we are nothing like you.
We are immortal, because we drink the true blood.
Blood that is living, organic, and human.
And that is the truth the AVL wishes to conceal from you because,
let's face it, eating people is a tough sell these days,
so they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA,
but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires.
Why would we seek equal rights?
You are not our equals.
We will eat you, after we eat your children.
Now, time for the weather.
Tiffany?"
I'm impatient to see how this bombshell gets resolved.
Russell's story is well made for this fictional universe, and Denis O'Hare plays well the many moods of this character.
The closing minutes of this episode (season 3, episode 9, "Everything Is Broken") were suspenseful enough to be a season cliffhanger. But we have 3 more episodes to anticipate!
WARNING: violent imagery ahead
I leave you with the words of Russell Edgington, meant for the American Vampire League (AVL):
"Does that help you decide, America?
Do NOT turn off the camera!
You've seen how quickly I can kill.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Russell Edgington,
and I have been a vampire for nearly 3000 years.
Now, the American Vampire League wishes to perpetrate the notion
that we are just like you and, I suppose, in a few small ways we are.
We are narcissists.
We care only about getting what we want, no matter what the cost, just like you.
Global warming, perpetual war, toxic waste, child labor, torture, genocide.
That's a small price to pay for your SUVs and your flat screen TVs,
your blood diamonds, your designer jeans,
your absurb, garish McMansions.
Futile symbols of permanence to quell your...
your quivering, spineless souls.
But, no, in the end, we are nothing like you.
We are immortal, because we drink the true blood.
Blood that is living, organic, and human.
And that is the truth the AVL wishes to conceal from you because,
let's face it, eating people is a tough sell these days,
so they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA,
but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires.
Why would we seek equal rights?
You are not our equals.
We will eat you, after we eat your children.
Now, time for the weather.
Tiffany?"
I'm impatient to see how this bombshell gets resolved.
Russell's story is well made for this fictional universe, and Denis O'Hare plays well the many moods of this character.
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Date: 2010-Aug-16, Monday 06:27 pm (UTC)This season has been really frustrating for me. Its made me envy the people who haven't read the books because I imagine that they are enjoying it a lot more. The first two seasons followed closely, more or less, the plots of the first 2 books, but season 3 has been very, very loosely based on the third book, and more and more as the season has progressed its become more of a mish mash of about 8 different Sookie books along with just made up content. That might be ok with me if the show had been that way from the beginning but I feel tricked in that the show led those of us who read the books to believe it would generally follow the books but have no pulled the rug out from under us.
One particular thorn in my aide has been Alcide. He is so crucial to the plot of the third book and the dynamic between him and Sookie is so important for all future stories and the show just got him and his relationship with Sookie so wrong, I was really crushed. In the show, Sookie was so focused on Bill that Alcide could have not even been there and it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Sigh, the Alcide thing gets me so disappointed because I am a huge Alcide fan and was looking forward to this season almost exclusively because Alcide was gonna be introduced and they botched it :(
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Date: 2010-Aug-16, Monday 10:55 pm (UTC)I've read about lots of disappointment among book fans that tv-BillCompton got the scene in the shower that belonged to book-EricNorthman. I imagine it's hard to break that love attraction when so many fans approve of it (and the actors themselves are romantically involved).
On the plus side, though, it looks like the "relationship" (I don't know the appropriate word) between Eric and Pam might turn out to be something with redeeming qualities, worth the time to explore in the tv show. Since he won't have Sookie as a love-romantic interest, maybe he'll get Pam as a love-family interest to replace his lost human family.
I have to say that Jesus has crossed my radar and is climbing up my scale of approval. I'll be disappointed (but not surprised) when he turns out to be a serial killer... or something worse.
Ambivalence of things to come
Date: 2010-Aug-17, Tuesday 06:25 am (UTC)I loved the final speech, particularly with the cuts to the "hip-hypocrisy" of I-only-drink-TruBlood, Nan Flanagan... it was a great scene, but it was sooo over the top they have made a mockery of Russel. He is now fallen into the realm of a comic book supervillain and thus my suspension of disbelief is really shot. I think they jumped the shark.