True Blood - Season 2 Finale - S2xE12 (24) - Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - Screen Caps.
This is the sequence in which Maryann has gathered everyone in Bon Temps to witness her marriage to "the God Who Comes." She has hexed them all and they all have "bug-eyes" and have no will of their own. For "The God" to come, he needs a "vessel"-- and an offering, in this case many kinds of meat and an ostrich egg--and a human sacrifice. Sam Merlotte is the unlucky guy who will literally give up his heart to Maryann. Eggs is tasked with first stabbing Sam, allowing Maryann to determine that Sam meets the requirements--which he does. From there, due to a plan known only to Sam and Vampire Bill, things get very unpredictable
After the jump: To the Disgruntled True Blood "Fans"My view of True Blood hardly jibes with what many fans and some critics have rendered as a verdict of Season 2 of True Blood.
Is anyone familiar with Alan Ball's previous cable television series work--did you watch Six Feet Under? Mr. Ball himself keeps reminding us that TB is _not_ Six Feet Under but Alan Ball _is_ the same guy and you either like how he does a story treatment or you don't. (I'm a big fan of his, obviously.) Both he and Charlaine Harris, who did not _give_ Alan Ball the rights to the Sookie Stackhouse stories, she _sold_ them to him, have repeatedly implored the watchers of True Blood to stop expecting it to be a mirror of the books. Do you understand the phrase "loose adaption?" (Seriously.)
And what's with the threatening? If you don't get "this," then you'll stop watching. Is that all the faith in the show you've got? If it is then stop watching, please! This is where I'm going to come off a snob but whatever. The show is pulling in really high viewership for premium cable--about 5 million, plus a bunch more who record it or buy it online. I think probably half the viewers shouldn't be watching because some of them for one thing, are too young. I try not to read comments (in other blogs or media) too often but I like to gauge where audiences are coming from and the comments on True Blood are so very juvenile sometimes that I must conclude that they are made by 13-year-olds. This show is not age-appropriate for you. And another thing...Evan Rachel Wood as Queen Sophie Anne Le Clerq is plunked down near the end of S2 and you want her to knock your socks off. She was better I think in her second appearance featuring Eric than in our introduction to her where she toyed with Bill. There was a lot of hype about her appearance and I'll admit I wasn't bowled over. However, Alan Ball says she's just getting warmed up and the character of Queen Sophie-Anne in this adaption is meant to be quite literally insane--which definitely gives insight into what we've seen of her thus far. What I think is nuts is to keep expecting something will change about her not being as the character was in the books. Ball will do with her what he wishes. All the moaning and you have only seen her in 2 scenes! I did not even like Lafayette in all of Season 1, would have been fine with him dying. But I'm SO glad he did not as Nelsan Ellis has brought depth to a character which seemed to have none. I don't know if y'all are going to change your mind about Queen Sophie-Anne, dunno where AB is ultimately taking her but I'm willing to keep her in the game especially knowing that ****SPOILER*** she's going to be teamed up with the King of Mississippi.The Whole Proposal Thing - Yes. That. Bill has secrets as the book readers will attest, there have been various hints throughout the TV adaption, and he's very obviously got a working relationship with the Queen. His timing of the proposal was horrible no doubt, but since when is Bill the perfect man (OK, vampire)? Anything could happen but I'm 90 % sure that he loves Sookie--did you forget the scene where, nearly in tears at the thought of her leaving him, voice cracking, he declares his love? We've seen over and again Bill's internal tug-of-war not only between his animal instincts to kill and the shred of humanity that Sookie enlarges, but the war within him being rooted in the Civil War times and living in modern day.
Marriages happened quickly back then as people lived much shorter lives. Sookie has entered a world of danger and there's no turning back. Bill knows this just as Sam does. The only reason we are confident that Sookie does not die is because this is her show--but the character of Bill does not know this at all. Why can't Bill be cut some slack and be forgiven for wanting to make her happy and in his miscalculation, jumping the gun on the proposal? And gang, it was only a _proposal_ not a call for a shotgun wedding. Yes, I know he bought airline ticket s to New England where there is legal vampire-human marriage--but airline tickets can be bought and kept for sometime before use. He never said let's leave in the morning!
People do have engagements of a year or so, right? That is all that ring was in my estimation--an agreement that "someday" they would wed. Certainly it was an Alan Ball plot device as Sookie will now be on the hunt in Season 3 to find her missing "fiance" versus just plain Vampire Bill, but in Bill's world proposing after a few months of dating is not weird. And I'm guessing he naively thought this would help take her mind off all the nastiness that she's been through during the past months.
With Season 2 finished it's easy enough to look back and note that I've really missed Pam (Kristin Bauer) and hope that Alan Ball and the True Blood writers will give her more to do in S3. I grew to really appreciate Sam (Sam Trammell) in this season as well as the previously-mentioned Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis). I’m a total fangirl for Michelle Forbes and though I did not dig her storyline at times–her performance never failed to enthrall.
I'd love to see the Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) and Hoyt (Jim Parrack) story continue. Obviously their love at first blush was doomed to be short-lived but it might be fun to watch them try to find their way back to one another. They both have a lot of maturing to do. Hoyt's last scene with his mother in the S2 finale may have been his strongest performance of the season. He was fantastic--and you couldn't help cheering for him. I do agree that season 2 got a bit wobbly in places but that's Alan Ball for you--a risk-taker. When it pays off, the experience is sublime.
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