Sunday, August 17, 2014

True Blood 2.05- "Never Let Me Go"

written by: Nancy Oliver
directed by: John Dahl

Preach!
WOODS
-Sam and Daphne go out for a 12 hour late nooner and Daphne claims that she could see the loneliness in Sam's eyes at the Lake the other night. He says she couldn't because it was dark. I don't think he realizes how sad that sounds.

-Would you look at that, Daphne is a shifter as well. Maybe she'll get more interesting. 

Nope.
OPENING CREDITS

WOODS
-Arlene and Terry interrupt Sam and Daphne. It's totes awks, but good for Terry for getting some!

HOTEL CARMILLA
-Apparently being glamoured makes your thoughts sound like disco music. I would think it depended on the vampire. My victims would have the Scissor Sister's "I Can't Decide" stuck in their head.

"I could throw you in a lake or feed you poison birthday cake."-Source
-True Blood really under-utilised Barry the Bellboy Telepath.

-Sookie is acting like the country cousin.

-Thank goodness Hoyt and Jessica are here to give us a mental pallet cleanser after Bill and Sookie.

It's like watching a bunch of kittens play.
-Pro: Hoyt answers the phone by calling himself "The Man."

-Hoyt suggests him and Jessica watch tv over the phone. I have definitely done that, though that might be because I don't want talking to someone to get in the way of my tv watching.

NEWLIN RESIDENCE
-New character: Gabe the Christian drill sergeant.

-"You pansy fangbanger."

LIGHT OF DAY CAMP
-Jason has to earn his privilege to go to the bathroom. What's the appeal of boot camp?

-Looks like Jason and Luke are having a pissing contest.

Guess who's winning?
STACKHOUSE HOUSE
-Tara and Eggs have some pillow talk and Tara says that Gran appreciated a handsome man. She was on the right show then.

HOTEL CARMILLA
-How long is Barry's shift?

-"The Danishes are Danish."

-Sookie is one of those people who cannot read when others are uncomfortable. You'd think she'd have an added advantage what with the telepathy and all. 

And Barry is throwing some MAJOR shade.
-Sookie insists to Bill that Barry wouldn't talk about her. Why would she think that?! She's talking about Barry right now with no regards to his privacy!

-If you haven't caught on to the terrible dialogue in the episode this scene does it for you. All this awful talk about waitresses. It's a shame, because overall I like Nancy Oliver's episodes, but this one is awful.

MERLOTTE'S BAR AND GRILL
-Arlene is lording over Daphne, because she finished up her closing duties last night. I'd hate to work with Arlene, because I'm pretty sure I'm exactly her when I get a job.

-"Hey good looking."
"Hey...you."

Hey.
-Terry is all of us about Lafayette's return.

-Sam is a really terrible businessman: taking up with employees, hiring someone who up and left for two weeks, all the murders.

-Is it cultural appropriation if I wear scarves on my head like Lafayette?

Perhaps, but it's also fucking fabulous.
LIGHT OF DAY CAMP
-Jesus camp extra wants to stop running and go back to being a bank teller. I don't blame him. Running is awful.

-Jason tells Luke to pace himself; "this is my pace!"-Fair enough.

STACKHOUSE HOUSE FOR WAYWARD TRAVELLERS 
-Maryann and Co. try to move in saying Sookie wouldn't mind. Oh she would.

-"Naw not cool. Not gonna happen."

-Tara it's too late not to be a fool.

Seen here: a fool.
LIGHT OF DAY
-Apparently defensive tactics means climbing over a fence. Pretty sure a vampire could do that better.

-Gabe asks Luke, "What's you name failure?" Jason answers for him, "Luke." Ha.

STAN'S HOUSE
-The fuck is Sookie wearing?

Sewn together handkerchiefs? 
-We finally get to see a cowboy vampire! It's something I never knew I wanted to see.

-"It's not a plan, it's a movie."

NEWLIN RESIDENCE
-Steve and Gabe embody religion by basically ignoring all of Sarah's concerns. We get the metaphor True Blood

-Steve takes Jason to his armoury where Jason calls an arrow "an itty bitty stake." 

-I'm not sure Steve knows how a guillotine works.

That's not right.
MERLOTTE'S BAR AND GRILL
-Maryann puts a spell on Merlotte's so that Tara will have a shitty night and make Maryann and Co. want to move in. It sounds stupid, and so, of course, it works.

NEWLIN RESIDENCE
-Sarah gives Jason a handjob while comparing herself to Mary Magdalene who she insists wasn't a prostitute.

Whatever helps her sleep (with Jason) at night.
STAN'S HOUSE
-All the vampires are arguing about the best way to get Godric back and Sookie volunteers herself as pretty much cannon fodder. Bill makes noises about it, but Eric realizes that Sookie is actually useful for more than Bill's romantic purposes. 

ERIC FLASHBACK
-We see Eric's final moments, who like Bill, was dying after battle. Eric, however, goes out with a bang.
-Fun fact: Alexander Skarsgård is speaking his native tongue, Swedish, for this scene. 

Hur mår du?
-If death looks like Godric it can't be that bad.

STAN'S HOUSE
-Eric admits that Godric was his maker and Bill looks like he's been bitch slapped.

Or antiqued based off all that powder on his face.
MERLOTTE'S BAR AND GRILL
-I'm glad everyone talks as much shit about werewolves as I do.

-Sam and Daphne have sex on the pool table using lines like "nice rack" and "nice balls." Seriously, Nancy Oliver were you watching porn while writing this script?

HOTEL CARMILLA
-Sookie proves she's toxic for everybody's work place, making Barry the Bellboy Telepath quit his job.

STACKHOUSE HOUSE FOR WAYWARD TRAVELLER'S 
-This whole scene is really ham fisted.

Do not urban dictionary that phrase.
HOTEL CARMILLA
-Sookie and Bill have the same argument that they've been having the whole episode only this time Sookie uses the phrase "easy-peasy."

-Thankfully Lorena, Bill's maker, enters the scene before we have to watch Bill and Sookie have sex.

END

There was no Musical Moment of the Night so instead enjoy Alexander Skarsgård in Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" music video.



SPOILERS
-Sookie asks Barry if he can hear vampire's thoughts. They both agree that they can't. In the books, however, Sookie occasionally hears vampire's thoughts, usually Eric's. This is never, ever explained.

-Sarah thinks Steve is going to far with the all the weaponry. Just wait until season 6.

-Wouldn't it be great if we got to see Eric flashbacks from when he was made to the 1900's. Too bad! Bill's the only vampire who gets those sorts of flashbacks and they're terrible.

This episode's screencaps were procured from True-Blood.net this time.

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