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True Blood Season 7 |OT| The Final Season

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Tucah said:
Fun flashbacks but pretty mediocre everything else.
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Basically this.

Strange enough, I'm finding that I'm actually enjoying the flashbacks and the self-referential callbacks. If you're going to go extreme camp for your final season, that's exactly how you do it. Everything Eric/Pam/Ginger tonight was gold.

I literally could not care less about anything having to do with Sookie, Bill, Jason, Jess or any of the new characters who were introduced just last season but for some reason the writers think we should give a flying fuck about.
 
I'm convinced they must had fired all of their writers, and let some film students write this season's episodes. Just kill everybody off, and be done with it. And this IS on par with Dexter's final season of lameness.
 
Main thing hurting this season is focusing so much on Sookie and no main over-arching villain. Now these hep-v chumps were dominated and wiped out making the last few episodes of that story arch pointless. I still say Eric is going to be cured by Sookie's fairy goodies. They will probably draw it out a couple more episodes first though, so we can put up with the dumb Bill/Eric/Sookie drama. The flashbacks were good, because it's pretty much the only thing in the episode that didn't revolve around Sookie. I thought it was a step back from the last episode entertainment-wise, just because Sarah Newlin added some much needed life to the show last week.
 
Drake said:
Another shitty episode. Only 6 more to go. The only reason I'm still watching is because I've stuck it out since the 1st episode back in 2008 and I want to see how it ends.
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Best episode this season. Of course, that's not saying much.

There were some really good moments throughout. The flashbacks with Pam and Eric were wonderful, especially with Ginger. Although, you gotta love Eric's connections where he was selling and renting DVDs in 1996, before they were publicly available in US. At least he was keeping the Laserdisc hope alive.

The scene between Jason and Hoyt was fantastic though. There was more emotion in that few moments than pretty much the entire series up to that point.
 
Crimmy said:
I think Hoyt ends up killing Violet which causes Jason to end up killing Hoyt.
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Yeah, when Jason said she was killed by a vampire... I was thinking he should have left the vampire part out. Now Hoyt is going to have to come back and start something with vampires, I'm sure.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Best episode this season. Of course, that's not saying much.

There were some really good moments throughout. The flashbacks with Pam and Eric were wonderful, especially with Ginger. Although, you gotta love Eric's connections where he was selling and renting DVDs in 1996, before they were publicly available in US. At least he was keeping the Laserdisc hope alive.

The scene between Jason and Hoyt was fantastic though. There was more emotion in that few moments than pretty much the entire series up to that point.
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Pretty much my thoughts...
 
OMG that eric strut in slow motion with the music from 1996. That was amazing. Great episode.

"Pam told me you wrote a book where you claim to not be an asshole anymore"
 
Wow, more callbacks! Actually really enjoyed this episode. Poor Kenya, but they finally got rid of all the auxiliary townies.

And bless Ginger.
 
That was by far the best episode of the season. I focused episode that gave us more backstory for Pam, Eric, and Fangtasia and also a direct mission of all of the surviving players to participate in.
 
That was way better than the last few episodes. Very enjoyable all around. Hopefully the rest of the episodes are on par (or better). And hopefully it will be now that the inert infected vampire arc is over with.

I'm genuinely curious to see what the next phase of the show will look like. Pam, Eric, and (ugh) Willa (and maybe Ginger :) are going to go after the Japanese True Blood makers, but I have no idea how the other characters are going to factor in.

Other thoughts:

Robert Patrick! Hoyt!! The Magister! Terry!

So many old returning characters this week and yet...somehow...they were all used effectively?! Whoa!

True Blood doesn't do "emotional" very well, or at least it hasn't for years, but I thought that opening scene was surprisingly affecting.

lol @ Eric casually infecting the stewardess with Hep-V.

The flashbacks were so great. Some of the funnest stuff the show has ever done. Ginger is a gem and I'm super glad she's been promoted to regular this season.
 
I loled when Eric said he went to Sweden but accidentally caused an avalanche.

So all the diseased vamps in the area from the season opener are dead. The crazy townsfolk are dead. Are the Yakuza the main enemies now along with Sara Newlin? Why is Eric weak as hell when the other Heb-V vamps still held their own........
 
NateDrake said:
Why is Eric weak as hell when the other Heb-V vamps still held their own........
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Guess is because the infected are constantly killing and feeding a ton; while Eric hasn't...as much (outside the plane and the end of the episode) and only a few amounts.
 
They still didn't explain how he survived Eric's burning in the mountains, unless he caused that avalanche and somehow survived.


This episode was okay, as okay as an episode of this show can get.
 
...is it just me, or did Alcide's dad put on a lot of weight during the off season? He practically needed help getting off the couch.
 
I liked the stuff with Ginger, and that they are giving a lot of the background characters more stuff to do. Still feeling meh towards the whole direction of this season though.

It feels really sloppy.
 
Did somebody die in 7x04?
Anyway I forgot to comment on last episode when Sam actually remembers out of nowhere that his girlfriend pregnant with his child was abducted LOL
He didn't even reference it for the first two episodes and then the writers remembered about it, what a fucking mess.
 
I was absolutely HOWLING when Pam walked in to the video shop
This episode balanced the grief of characters with general humour quite well I though
Me and my housemate aren't sure where they seem to be heading from here though. If its going to be another Sookie love interest I am so done
 
Hep-V neutered Eric makes me sad. :( In times past, he would have wiped all those Fangtasia vamps out himself, since he's like 10x older than all of them.
 
That actually wasn't too bad an episode, mainly thanks to the flashbacks. Was hilarious finding out that Pam stole the idea for Fangtasia from Ginger.

And goddamn at the death count. I thought three was going to be overkill, but they damn near killed at least half a dozen.
 
Miles Quaritch said:
That actually wasn't too bad an episode, mainly thanks to the flashbacks. Was hilarious finding out that Pam stole the idea for Fangtasia from Ginger.

And goddamn at the death count. I thought three was going to be overkill, but they damn near killed at least half a dozen.
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I'm just glad they got rid of the two annoying groups(town people and hep-v vampire group)
 
BoboBrazil said:
I'm just glad they got rid of the two annoying groups(town people and hep-v vampire group)
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Yup. I hated the idea of the Hep-V vamps, but the vigilante group was even worse. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Wonder what direction the last six episodes will go now. Search for a Hep-V cure?
 
Miles Quaritch said:
Yup. I hated the idea of the Hep-V vamps, but the vigilante group was even worse. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Wonder what direction the last six episodes will go now. Search for a Hep-V cure?
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Yep - this show's got to end with a cure of some kind, without it all vampires will eventually die. The Yakuza seem like they'll be the big bad of the season, but you'd think they would be just as motivated to find a cure as the vampires.
 
Eric and Pam are the only good things about this season. Then again they've always been the best things about the entire damn show.

I think the curve ball will be that Eric survives (these little plot dangles of a cure in development by Konami will lead to something or Sookie will develop a new ability despite her supposed to have ran out of Fairy juice) but Bill doesn't. I'd be surprised if both survive the entire season.

Pam could be fair game too. A lot of focus on her and Eric's relationship to not have some form of negative payoff in the end. Though it could just be as simple as Eric dying after all. This show isn't too clever.
 
hateradio said:
They still didn't explain how he survived Eric's burning in the mountains, unless he caused that avalanche and somehow survived.


This episode was okay, as okay as an episode of this show can get.
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I think that was telling us that that Eric went to ground, thus causing the avalanche. It was pretty much the only way he was going to survive.
Matt_ said:
I was absolutely HOWLING when Pam walked in to the video shop
This episode balanced the grief of characters with general humour quite well I though
Me and my housemate aren't sure where they seem to be heading from here though. If its going to be another Sookie love interest I am so done
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OMG me too. That was hilarious. I thought this was the best episode so far this season. Hopefully it just gets better. I'm not happy about the really sickly Eric though.
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
So who wants to bet Sarah Newlin knows the cure for hep-v.
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Good call - making her a 'good guy' would validate Jason's decision to spare her last season, and give the story some tension with Pam/Eric wanting to kill her despite the fact that she's the key to a cure.
 
Plasma said:
Anyone else get the feeling that fairy blood is going to cure the disease?
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Contemplated it but I think that would be too straight forward


Talking of Hep V vamps though, I don't like how weakened Eric was yet the other Hep V vamps who were all clearly further along in the illness seemed like some big threat.
Bill and Pam should have been able to go in and clean them all up without a problem, Violet as well considering shes over 1000 years old
 
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