true blood finale - pam rules, sookie drools

although this episode was seriously lacking some yummy alcide eye-candy, it certainly made up for it in "holy crap!" moments.

i bet if alcide could have found an excuse to take off his shirt, sookie would've said "yes, yes, yes!" to his proposition.

noel crane is on true blood?  awesome sauce!  this is what happens when you don't have time to read spoilers or ausiello - you get to be surprised every once in a while.  truth be told, i've always thought noel was kinda lame, always pining after felicity when felicity was clearly in love with ben...especially since noel already had a girlfriend!  but since then i just love seeing scott foley pop up in the least expected places.  fun!  but if creepy ghost rene was telling the truth, seems like he spells trouble for arlene.

pam and eric had the best lines tonight (as usual) and marnie gets an honorable mention.
eric: hi nan and...gay storm troopers.
pam:  i'm so over sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name!
marnie:  oh, this f*ckin' sucks!  (but at least she gets to rock that awesome leather jacket for all eternity)

how does marnie not see holly pouring a huge ass circle of salt?  it's a good thing sookie fairy-lighted marnie just outside of the circle.  can you imagine if she was stuck inside the circle with them?  whoopsie!

i don't like that zapping/screen skip thing they do when spirits appear and disappear.  it reminds of the stupid video from the ring that people kept watching.  blah. ick.

holy crap, sam gets attacked by wolves!  really?  did he not think a wolf or two might show up at his doorstep?  i mean, it's not like he was involved with the death of their pack leader or anything.  how does a skeevy, unattractive, weak guy like marcus become pack leader?  i would never follow that coward.

holy crap, reverend newlin is a vamp!  uh oh jason, it's really too bad you screwed his wife.  it's ok, jess will return to save him, right?  right???  oh wait she never drank jason's blood!  she won't know when jason's in danger!  rut ro jason - just don't invite him in.

holy crap, tara gets her head blown to bits!  so did they just run out of story for tara?  couldn't they have let one good thing happen to her?  she had such a tough four seasons and now she's dead.  that's ok, now that lafayette is a medium any of the dead characters can come back to visit whenever they like.  i really think it's time that sookie find a new place to live, don't you?  her kitchen as seen way too many brain bits and to top it off, she can't control which vampires are allowed in her house since she is not technically the owner.  not good.

holy crap, russell edgington has escaped!  holy crap!  the next thing you know they'll be resurrecting franklin.  double holy creepy crap!  so who dug him out?  bertha* speculated that it was possibly pam and in her current state, i might believe she'd do it.  but what does alcide know about russell being buried there?

dawson or pacey?  edward or jacob?  angel or spike???  in a total st. elmo's fire leslie hunter move, sookie chooses herself.  *yawn*  i'm with pam on this one, i'm afraid.  it was fine for dopey eric to fawn all over sookie when he couldn't remember his badass days but now that he's back in his leather wardrobe it just seems so out of character for him to be so soft.  it's a good thing that we have all these other cliffhanger moments to look forward to next season!

what was the deal with the fairy/andy encounter?  why introduce that but never follow up on it?

what happened to jesus' super brujo mojo?  did it go with marnie or is lafayette now demon-head?  oh yeah - and jesus is dead!

TOT (totally off topic) but i was so bummed to see daniel negreanu's 2011 WSOP main event run come to an end tonight.  and i agree with him, we do watch to hear the table talk but thanks to idiot jamie gold, that's been taken away.

is it me or is tyrion lannister a hottie?

ok so i know i'm showing up late to this game.  admittedly, i have a (bad) habit of letting tv shows pile up on my DVR because i can't find time to watch them.  usually if i don't watch them right away it's because i really don't care for the show but have already invested the time to get to know the characters so i force myself to continue, afraid i may miss that one episode that everyone is buzzing about (yes i'm talking to you big love, hawaii 5-0, and glee).  it makes it really tough to blog about tv and still be relevant when you're talking about it 10 weeks later.

but there were a few reasons why i didn't watch game of thrones right away:

1.  i didn't know if i was going to like it.  the series premiere with the white walkers really freaked me out.  if i never see another white walker again, it'll be too soon.  i was assured by friends that they did not play a big role and that i should keep watching.

2.  no time. have i mentioned that already?  i don't know how i think i'll even have time to blog.  and the fall tv season is about to descend upon me and i am SO not ready!  need to do some preventative maintenance with the DVR!   i'm at 85% capacity and that's just not going to cut it.  delete, delete, delete.

3.  i started watching the episodes and became so involved and completely enthralled that i stopped after episode 8 because i was afraid if i watched it all, i wouldn't have any more new game of thrones to watch until next spring.  so i saved the last two episodes until...i have no idea when.  apparently i picked a hell of place to stop.  !!!

as i'm typing this, i am watching adam richman on man vs. food eat half a cow in 5 minutes.  i could SO go for a brisket right now.

***WARNING - MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD***
so to my detriment, my refusal to watch the last two episodes led my friend bertha* to accidentally spoil the BIG EVENT that takes places in episode 9 - baelor.  she thought i had watched it all and mentioned it while discussing which characters might die on true blood.  *sigh*  i mean really - who knew that was going to happen?!?!?!  i'm speaking to the non-book readers, of course.  honestly i don't know how i would've have reacted if i hadn't been warned.  i probably would've thrown something, hopefully something soft and not aimed at anyone.  then i probably would have forced my husband to watch every episode from the beginning so he could share in my outrage/disbelief.

ned stark?  really?  how could you?  sean bean can't catch a break, can he?  first boromir, now eddard?  :( all around.

the books:  i'm loving this series so naturally, i've decided that i should read the books.  but now that i've started, i'm wondering if i should continue past book one?  will it take away from my enjoyment of the HBO series?  they've been pretty true to the books so far so i'm sure if i keep reading, it will reveal what happens next.

dany has dragons!  i was always rooting for dany for some reason but now that the crazy lannisters have taken over the throne, i'm rooting for her more than ever.

incest:  ok, in reading the book, it seems that incest is a pretty common thing, especially in the interest of keeping bloodlines pure.  even dany says that she had expected to marry her brother (ew.  and EW.)  so why is the cersei-jamie relationship such a shocker?  is it because it means that joffrey not the rightful heir?  why does robert deserve the "honor" any more than joff?  not that i like joff, and he's already  proven to be a pretty crap-tastic king.  but ok, i get it - this creates the conflict and drives the storyline.

sansa:  it's nice to see her finally grow a pair.  i hope she finds a way to really stick it to prince children of the corn.  hope that her insider position will serve a purpose.  btw, am i the only who did not think joffrey was remotely attractive?  he definitely has that "i'm inbred" look going on.

favorite scene:  by far, one of my favorite scenes is the verbal (and physical) beat down that joffrey gets from his uncle imp.  how awesome is tyrion and peter dinklage?  i hope he wins that emmy because it is so well deserved.  although i'd be almost as happy if alan cumming took it for his role on the good wife!  as mentioned previously i definitely find tyrion appealing and truthfully, it's wigging me out a little bit.



so many questions and such a loooooooooong time until the next installment.  will they find uncle benjen kenobi?  and if they do, will he alive or blue-eyed?  will theon greyjoy develop any redeeming qualities?  will arya survive the march north?  so glad that robert's bastard is there to help her.  will they develop a (b)romance?  will creepy little, snot-nosed robin finally wean himself off the teat?  what will arya say when she finds out her mom sold her out for a trip over a bridge?  is joffrey in for more bitch slapping now that tyrion will be acting as hand of the king?  (oh please say yes!)  will the rest of the khalasar come running back now that dany has new pets?  when will the stark children finally reunite?

see, this is the reason i really shouldn't read the second book.  hm.  i can't imagine if i had read the books when they were published and then had to wait SEVEN YEARS for the next installment.

if you've watched, please comment. if you haven't watched, you totally should...so you can come back and then comment!