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True Blood Season 5 |OT| - Everything Is At Stake

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I'm excited to see Stephen Moyer's directorial efforts tonight!



What happened to it?
Oh wow, didn't know he was directing an episode. Let's see how he does. No pressure Bill!

@ teiresias, I agree in that the scene in the barn with Emma, JD and Martha probably wasn't set up in the best way. Maybe had they shown Emma poking around the barn and JD says something like "come on in" or something similar.

It's like they're having a meeting, Emma's just there and then Martha just pops up out of the blue. I understand the purpose of the scene was to have Martha discover that JD is using V. It just seemed set up a little clumsily.

I also want to know what happened to the vial of V too, I haven't watched the episode since last week.
 
The only way this scene with Lafayette, Terry, and Arlene will be good is if they are all killed. My god, their story lines are boring as fuck.
 
So Warlow or whoever is obviously Russel, right?



I doubt it. I'm hoping he is even older than Russel. Like the BOSS of vampires. Don't think that will be the case, but it would be awesome.
 
Another highly entertaining episode, brought down by Terry and the Fairy crap, as usual. I have to say I actually like Vampire Tara.

The only way this scene with Lafayette, Terry, and Arlene will be good is if they are all killed. My god, their story lines are boring as fuck.

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Why bring Russel back and immediately marginalize him?

Boo.



His character pisses me off a little. He's the oldest known vampire and he's more immature than Bill, or even Jessica. Eric is 1/3 the age Russel is and is much more controlled. Russel doesn't come across as some ancient being... he seems more like a kid in a candy store every time they show him.
 
I thought the whole point of Russell was that he was a Joker-type character. Powerful, but immature and gleefully murderous. I actually think it makes him a bit more threatening.
 
Powerful, but immature and gleefully murderous.


That's exactly how he is written to come across and what makes him somewhat non-believable. All the older vampires in the show seem to be controlled and calculating there every move. Their impulses don't get the best of them. Russel, is the oldest of them all and flies by the seat of his pants.
 
His character pisses me off a little. He's the oldest known vampire and he's more immature than Bill, or even Jessica. Eric is 1/3 the age Russel is and is much more controlled. Russel doesn't come across as some ancient being... he seems more like a kid in a candy store every time they show him.

How is Bill even immature? He's one of the most mature characters on the show.
 
I thought Eric was an asshole for a long time but this season has proven that he's at least more decent than Bill, even if he's not what I'd call a good person.
Well in this case, Eric is pretty much only doing the right things because Godric snapped him out of his high. Bill doesn't have a Godric.

But still, dat Bill heel turn. Good idea on destroying the True Blood factories.
 
How is Bill even immature? He's one of the most mature characters on the show.


I didn't mean to say that he was. I was saying that you would think a vampire that is significantly older than him would act in a more mature manner.



Edit: Russel is 3000 years old and is one of the most immature vampires on the show....
 
I didn't mean to say that he was. I was saying that you would think a vampire that is significantly older than him would act in a more mature manner.



Edit: Russel is 3000 years old and is one of the most immature vampires on the show....

Like Eddie said in S1, "We are what we were when we were turned." That's the lore of the show and pretty much any Vampire lore actually. Vampirism is not a cure for being a psychopath.
 
Edit: Russel is 3000 years old and is one of the most immature vampires on the show....

Maybe after 3k+ years he is bored and just doesn't care. After that amount of time, I would be like a kid in a candy store until someone pissed me off. Maybe it's just his personality amplified over the centuries.
 
Like Eddie said in S1, "We are what we were when we were turned." That's the lore of the show and pretty much any Vampire lore actually. Vampirism is not a cure for being a psychopath.


Yeah, but we've seen changes in vampires over the course of the show. Just because they were a certain way when they were "made" doesn't mean they are condemned to an eternity of being that exact person. Russel doesn't seem to have evolved AT ALL in his 3000+ years on earth. The way he comes across, to me, isn't of that of some ancient creature (which he is suppose to be).
 
Yeah, but we've seen changes in vampires over the course of the show. Just because they were a certain way when they were "made" doesn't mean they are condemned to an eternity of being that exact person. Russel doesn't seem to have evolved AT ALL in his 3000+ years on earth. The way he comes across, to me, isn't of that of some ancient creature (which he is suppose to be).

I think that his flippant nature is a natural progression from being so old. The vampires who are younger than him are still for the most part, playing the game. Russell is bored with that and lives to please his ID. It makes sense that he is taking that route, why waste so much energy on trying to control everything when you can just enjoy the moment?
 
Maybe after 3k+ years he is bored and just doesn't care. After that amount of time, I would be like a kid in a candy store until someone pissed me off. Maybe it's just his personality amplified over the centuries.

But there isn't anything in the show that points to boredom being the cause of his actions. Even his buddy Talbot stated several times that he is someone that is constantly going after things, and I think he questioned his behavior.
 
I think that his flippant nature is a natural progression from being so old. The vampires who are younger than him are still for the most part, playing the game. Russell is bored with that and lives to please his ID. It makes sense that he is taking that route, why waste so much energy on trying to control everything when you can just enjoy the moment?


He isn't "just enjoying the moment". He has an agenda. When he ripped that reporters spine out he stated as much.
 
He isn't "just enjoying the moment". He has an agenda. When he ripped that reporters spine out he stated as much.

I don't believe he has any agenda at the moment aside from hanging out with the people who let him indulge in whatever he wants to do at the moment. He may get an agenda, and soon, but at the moment he's just having a hell of a lot of fun.
 
I don't believe he has any agenda at the moment aside from hanging out with the people who let him indulge in whatever he wants to do at the moment. He may get an agenda, and soon, but at the moment he's just having a hell of a lot of fun.


I respectfully disagree. He was very much against the authority before this season and made it known that he believed that vampires were superior to humans and that humans were a source of food for him. The show has done a pretty good job of documenting Russels motives. He doesn't wan't to co-exist with humans. He thinks humans are his food.
 
I respectfully disagree. He was very much against the authority before this season and made it known that he believed that vampires were superior to humans and that humans were a source of food for him. The show has done a pretty good job of documenting Russels motives. He doesn't wan't to co-exist with humans. He thinks humans are his food.

You're confusing two different things now.
 
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