I didn't care for this finale, but it's not even "the finale's fault"....the final season was completely directionless, and they left these characters with pretty much nothing to do. I kinda thought that *maybe* the finale would be about a final "showdown" at Sookie's house but the yakuza were such clowns...after Eric was healed it was obvious that he could kill them at any moment.
Season actually started out somewhat intriguing. I kinda dug the whole "Hep-V" vampire angle and thought that they could have really went somewhere with the "Bon Temps Forgotten by Government, Under Siege by Heps" angle. But than they kill one group of them and....it's pretty much completely forgotten. The whole "vampire protector" angle all but died. People out at night like it's nothing. Fucking Hoyt flying back in for a funeral. I thought it was supposed to be this world changing scenario....I guess it wasn't as big of a deal as we originally thought? Seems like after they cleared out the SINGLE hep-V nest...nobody gave a shit anymore.
Too bad, because between the hep-v's, Violet, and the Yakuza...they had enough pieces to really put together a good season. Unfortunately they handled all of these issues separately. In general, the early seasons brought the characters and storylines together better than the latter seasons did, but that aspect really fell apart this year.
Jessica : I really like the actress (I think I say someone say she was possibly the best on the show and I tend to agree), she can make Jessica very sympathetic...but I think people tend to give her a pass on all of the shitty things she's done throughout the program (Killing the fae sisters, random biker dude, breaking up relationships left and right). I kinda don't know if she deserved to be married with Hoyt at the end. Not sure what the significance of Bill releasing her was...feel like they just wanted an "emotional scene" so they said fuck it. She was only under his control for like 5 years and I don't think we've ever even seen him command her to do anything.
NO LAFAYETTE IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE CHARACTER AND TO THE ACTOR! I for the life of me can't understand why Hoyt gets to come back and get all of this focus...while a better, more important main cast doesn't even get a single WORD in the finale. Honestly...what the fuck? I understand that in-universe, Lafa recently stole Jessica's boyfriend, but didn't they make up? Didn't she admit that she didn't even know the guy? Oh and that whole SHE'S MARRYING ANOTHER MAN SO IT DOESN'T MATTER? Not even an invite to the wedding? That's stunning. They just shoehorned him into Lettie Mae's storyline....and didn't even have the sense of continuity to re-introduce his medium powers (And forget about the demon shit he has).
Eric and Pam were always fun but even their storyline ends up being kind of weird. So they go public with New Blood...presumably making a shit ton of money. But also decide to stay in Bon Temps and run Fangtasia? Oh and they also need to sell Sarah Newlin on the side? And I guess Eric doesn't give a shit about Willa because she's nowhere to be found (She's at the dinner at the end)? Speaking of Newlin, I was also kind of turned off by that...is the audience supposed to be happy about her life of torture in a dungeon? That felt off to me. And Eric and Pam have no reason to be vindictive about her role in hep-v because it's not like they are providing a cure, they're using the disease to wean people onto their product and profit.
Only thing I was happy about : They went through with Bills death. When she was able to hear his thoughts I was thinking here we go with that turning human crap...was happy to see it end with her covered in his blood. Both Bill and Sookie struggled with what they were. Sookie was on the line with whether or not being a fairy was really a good thing. Bill was for the most part this self-hateful, self-loathing vampire always bitching about "our darkness" and "what we are". I thought it was...thematically satisfying to see both of their decisions in the same scene with each choosing a different path. I think that one of his flashbacks this season should have been Lorena-centric....that would have helped usher that point
Season was *ugh* to me. RIP True Blood...you probably should have only went 5 seasons.
I sorta balked at the whole 'Sookie's life would never be complete without babies!' shit.
Because apparently women can only achieve true happiness through babies. And how focused on that Bill was for Sookie, but seriously, fuck Hoyt, no need for babies for him!
Yeah, that shit was cringe-worthy for me.
Sookie never even seemed to give a fuck about babies before (What was all this crap Bill was saying about "I've seen you around children, you light up!" ???) she spent most of her in-show life as a fang-banger where children were completely out of the question! She was with Alcide long enough to have children and they never went there. I dislike how that was shoehorned into the final two episodes of the series.
