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Normally we would never consider asking you to click away from HNGN to go elsewhere but we really must insist, if you haven't watched this past Sunday's episode of "True Blood" you're not going to want to keep reading. Not only are there scary stories about Vampires and Werewolves but there are even more frightening spoilers ahead. You have been warned.
This week's episode of "True Blood" had a couple of twists and turns in the plot but mostly centered on Sookie getting ready to make a hard decision; should she agree to be Warlow's wife for eternity in order to save her friends or not?
It seems as if fans have spent the entire 6 seasons of this show waiting for Sookie to make one decision or another involving the men in her life. Some of those men have been vampires, some shape-shifters, some werewolves and now we have a faery-vampire hybrid. She seems to be on the verge of make the decision to be with Warlow forever but it wouldn't be "True Blood" if that decision didn't get dragged out a bit and see at least a twist or turn so of course once she went to tell Warlow Eric had already gotten to him.
It was a bit disappointing, although certainly not surprising, to see the team of Eric and Bill broken up in record time. It would have been pretty awesome to see the two of them show up at vampire camp and wreak havoc but it's no surprise that the two of them couldn't work together for more than, oh, about half an hour.
Things are going full on crazy over at the vampire camp. Quite predictably once James told Steve Newlin not to drink the Tru-Blood it took about 15 seconds of making him run on a hamster wheel to get the secret out of him and Bill's vision started to fall into place. Soon afterward the female vampire contingent that wasn't drinking the Tru-Blood joins them in the big round room waiting for the roof to open and reveal the sun. They should be there for at least a little bit longer before meeting the sun since Eric is not in the room yet as he was in Bill's vision.
There was a little bit of action in the storylines that no one, including the writers, seems to care about. Alcide has decided that pack life wasn't for him anymore after he finds out the pack had captures Nicole and her mother. After having his leadership challenged and getting into a pretty crazy fight with Ricki and two other women one is left to assume he decided to leave instead of killing Ricki. They left it a bit open ended as to how he left with Nicole and her mom so don't be surprised if this comes back to bite Alcide, most likely literally, in the end.
Nicole looks like she's going to be around for a while. Not only did she tell her mother that she planned to stay in Bon Temps with Sam but it turns out that she's pregnant with a little Merlotte. At least, that's what Sam and Alcide smell. Also, how great would it have been if Sam shifted into a silver fox right after Nicole's mom called him that?
The high point of the episode would be when Sarah Newlin took crazy to a new level by bashing in the brains of the CEO of Tru-Blood. When the CEO shows up enraged looking for the governor she ends up discovering the extra additive that is being placed in her product and goes even further off the rails. Eventually as she is chased by Sarah through the camp her ridiculous high heels get stuck in the grates and she gets killed by the former wife of a preacher. It was a good bit of camp watching the vampires below the grate trying to catch all of the blood on their tongues like little kids during the first snowfall.
For the most part this episode dragged and dragged and was a bit difficult to watch. Sure, some key parts of the story fell into place but it seemed as if things really could have been sped along somehow. One of the issues with having a linear season fixed at 10 episodes is that sometimes there is only enough story for nine episodes, last night's episode definitely felt like it was a space filler.
Luckily, this was pretty much the only episode this season that was a clunker and with only two more to go things should get pretty crazy. If "True Blood" ends up following the same formula that most HBO shows seem to follow next week's episode should be insane. The best HBO shows ("The Sopranos," "The Wire," "Game of Thrones") tend to use the second to last episode of the season as the one where everything blows up, than use the finale to start to make sense of things and end with a minor cliffhanger. In other words, don't be surprised if that roof opens up and Bill's vision comes true next week.
