A lovely reader here (thanks A.Wynne!) pointed out a new promo video for the season three finale. There are a couple REALLY interesting spoilery scenes. The first shows Sookie using her fairie “hand” powers… whatever they are exactly. She is outside during daylight and wearing the same grey t-shirt from the last episode (11). So it would appear she does make it outside before the vamps can get fully cooked in the sun and she uses her powers to subdue Russell and then help them inside. Alright Sook!

The second scene of interest, and probably my fave, is the one where it appears Beel has been banished from Sookie’s house. He is clawing the doorway to stay inside but alas he is flying right out the door and hopefully out of Sookie’s life forever. Mwwwahaha!

Also interesting is Alcide’s face. He looks mighty upset about Sookie being a vampire chew toy.

Woot! True Blood, season 3, episode 11, “Fresh Blood”… mark this one down. FINALLY Eric gets to be the hero. I LOVED this episode sooooo much and that is saying a lot, after the fuckery from last week. But at least we can stick it to all the Beel fangirls who called our Viking some horrible names after the basement imprisonment seen. The man had a plan bitches! AND unlike Beel’s poor attempts to save Sookie this season, Eric’s plan was smart and it worked.

The episode began with Bill coming to Fangtasia to save Sookie, who he knows is there.  Pam is standing guard and he threatens to kill her like the Southern gentleman he is not, and a fight ensues with several lovely scenes where Bill is sprayed in the eyes with silver. LOL. Then in some truly bizarre writing, or perhaps a plan to let them escape, Yvetta frees Sookie and then takes a silver chain to a distracted Pam. This whole scene bothered me. Why would Yvetta help Sookie and why would she and Pam be on such bad terms all the sudden? And why was Pam down in the basement with Sookie when Bill arrived? Does Sookie know of the plan? If she does, then she deserves props for her acting.

Eric is busy finding Russell at a museum where he is grieving Talbot. Russell asks Eric “Why” and then sneers at Eric’s desire to get vengeance for his slain human family. Eric insists that they are even now but no KRE is going to kill Eric. That is when the Viking dangles a carrot in front of Russell.. the ultimate vampire dream… daywalking. Eric convinces Russell to come with him and learn the secret to walking in the sun. This is where Eric’s plan begins but a snag (planned or not, I am not sure) changes things. Sookie and Bill have escaped and are driving back to Bon Temps.

While driving Sookie admits that she does have some feelings for Eric but of course always follows that up with her proclamations of love for Bill… gag. Eric and Russell quickly find them and take them back to Fangtasia, in Sookie’s crappy yellow car too, which was hilarious.

On the way into the bar Eric whispers to Bill “Hit me”. And Bill, who actually does show some common sense sometimes, obliges. Either that or he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to hit Eric without getting his behind handed to him. I think it was a combo. Eric and Bill brawl while KRE escorts Sookie into the bar. Sookie seems completely and bizarrely unconcerned about Eric and Bill fighting. Once alone, Eric tells Bill he has a plan and Bill is all for it if it means Sookie will be saved.

When they all convene inside Eric tells KRE about Sookie’s fae heritage and that she may be the last of her kind and his only chance to walk in the sun. Sookie scoffs and responds that she is NOT vampire sunscreen but Bill (who is tied to a chair) intervenes and tells her that indeed she is, he never told her. KRE become suspicious when Bill seems willing to share this damning secret but Bill actually plays this well and tells Sookie that the value of her blood may keep her alive, which KRE swallows hook, line, and sinker. KRE agrees to take Sookie’s blood for a test drive IF Eric goes first. Eric agrees.

Before the test drive though we are treated to another sweet and tender seen between Pam and Eric. She is crying about this dangerous game he is playing and Eric comforts her and kisses her on the forehead, telling her jokingly that he loves her much more when she is cold and heartless. This may be the best scene in the whole episode.

By this time I am getting suspicious that Eric is not planning to get out of this alive. I am thinking this is a plan to ensure Pam and Sookie’s safety by sacrificing his own. He walks up to Sookie with the intention of biting her but we can clearly see from his facial expressions that he is hesitating and does not want to bite her against her will.

Bill gives them a last warning that draining Sookie will result in a world with no fairies. Sookie berates Bill for his role in this scheme which confirms that Sookie is just plain dumb sometimes. She always believes the worst about people without ever considering their motives. KRE loses patience and grabs Sookie roughly and bites her arm. Eric follows suit and bites her neck. Sookie screams as Bill looks on.

After their snack Eric walks outside and as predicted he does not start to burn right away, giving him time to walk around like he is heaven and wave to the parking lot camera for KRE to come outside so they can frolic in the sun together. Then he turns away from the camera and tries to concentrate on not letting the vamps inside see that he is burning.

KRE is crying in joy as he watches Eric. Pam is crying with a broken heart but she encourages KRE to go outside and walk in the sun ignoring Bill’s pleas to be freed so he can heal Sookie.

He goes outside and saunters up to Eric. Eric turns to face him with his face badly burned and smoke emitting from his body. KRE is about to run when Eric grabs his arm and handcuffs the two of them together with silver cuffs. KRE screams that Eric is a madman and Eric tells him to be brave, they will die together. Hence we finally see that Eric is sacrificing himself to avenge his human family, kill Russell, and save Sookie and Pam. Eric Northman finally gets his moment in the sun.. literally. He is our hero.

So what will happen in the finale????? Well, from the preview we see Sookie running from Fangtasia. Does she come to and try to save Eric? We also see Sophie Anne lookingly gleeful about fairies, and Bill fighting someone as well as telling someone that Eric and Russell are dead. Does QSA present herself as the true mastermind and does Bill have to save the day? Yuck. Godric and Alcide are also in the finale. Can’t wait!! 2 weeks!!

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This episode and season are loosely based on Book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series:

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Loved the title of episode 3.10 “I Smell a Rat”. While we can certainly see a number of potential rats in the show this title seems more indicative of the rat in Sookie’s love life. Bill professes to love Sookie despite his unwilling admission that her Fae blood is what initially drew him too her. It was disingenuous at best… sort of like a crack addict saying that the crack has no real influence. Eric and Sookie also shared their first kiss and BOTH were quite into it.

So who is the rat?

Is it the rat she can see? Eric has always been interested in Sookie and has made no secret of it. He tricked her into a blood bond by faking that an injury was worse than it really was. He also admitted that he was in fact keeping Lafayette prisoner and made no apologies. He also bit Sookie’s cousin Hadley to obtain information. He doesn’t try to hide his nefarious ways… he owns them. You can always count on Eric to find some way to get what he wants. In episode 3.10 he chains her in the basement to use her in his plan to take Russell out. This will likely end up protecting her, as well as one can be protected when a psychopath is after you, and saving his own bacon too. He saw the opportunity and took it. You can count on Eric to stay true to his wily and sometimes wicked ways.

Is it the rat she can’t see? Bill cannot offer assurances that his love is genuine and he has lied to Sookie numerous times of late. He is still keeping a big secret from her too. Possibly that she was an assignment from the Queen of Louisiana and his arrival in Bon Temps and his pursuit of Sookie was no mere coincidence, but a planned event. His Sookie file has yet to be explained honestly either. And let us not forget that he cheated on Sookie only days before this episode aired AND almost killed her (by accident of course).  We ALL have those little “ooopsies” right? When things go dark and we make up next to body parts or next to the shriveled husk of our lover whom we have just drained of almost all their blood? It can happen.

Bill has also had numerous opportunities to come clean and he still insists on lying to the woman he claims to love. And his early blood bond with Sookie that ensured a relationship was due to a convenient tussle with a couple called the RATtrays. Hmmmm…

In my mind he is definitely the bigger rat and the title should be dedicated to him. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

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This episode and season are loosely based on Book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series:

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It is about damn time!! We had to wait until season 3, episode 10, before we got a real kiss between the two.

And then… they had to go and screw with the Eric/Sookie shippers AGAIN.

The episode was a dream up until the end. Eric found Sookie and Bill hiding out at Jason’s and he confronted Bill about his lying ass and Sookie overheard part of it. Bill was already losing luster in her eyes after she found out she was a fairy and that her blood was like a drug to vampires. Now she rightfully questions if Bill ever really loved her. THEN what she heard Eric say plants more seeds of doubt. Sookie demands to know why she should trust Eric and he tells her something no other vampire has.. “You do whatever you want to do”. She looks shocked and then he follows that up saying he won’t be around much longer and that he wishes her well. We saw a truly selfless Eric in that scene and one who actually DOES care about Sookie.

Later Sookie dreams about Eric and he (via her subconscious) tells her that she has feelings for him, despite the blood bond and that blood bond or no she knows she can’t trust Bill. Following her intuition she visits Eric at Fangtasia and confronts him about Bill. Instead of telling her, he kisses her and she is happy to return that kiss in this delightful scene:

As you can see, he is adamant that Sookie not be used in a plot to save himself from King Russell. BUT Pam begs and invokes Godric’s name and you see his mind change right there. He can’t do to Pam what Godric did to him. Pam basically said he was choosing Sookie over her and this hits him like a tons of bricks. He then decides to use her in some way and chains her up in the basement.

I understand it but I don’t like it. I just hope he has a plan and if AB is making him go this dark I can only hope he will have Eric be the redeemer in the end. I also have to remember that Eric truly doesn’t believe Sookie cares for him at all.. he said as much in the bar.. aka you are just here about Bill. So when it comes down to it how can he choose Sookie over Pam? Sacrificing himself and breaking Pam’s heart for the person who claims she would rather have cancer than be friendly with him? Yeah logically it wouldn’t happen. But either he has a plan so she will be okay in the end or he will see what he has done and be so guilt ridden he has to make things right. I hope, I hope.

What I fear is that they will keep Eric as the villain and make Sookie hate him all the more so that when season 4 rolls around and she falls for amnesia Eric it will be 1) only the stark contrast that appeals to her and 2) it will be easy to have her go back to Bill because after all she never had a relationship with the “real” Eric and when he gets his memory back the man she liked is gone. I will be soooo pisssed if it goes that way and would likely quit watching after season 4.

One thing is for sure.. this season has been a roller coaster for me. If it ends on a good note and Eric is not made out to be the big bad villain and he does get to save the day…. then it will all be worth it. Will I get what I am hoping for? We shall see.

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This episode and season are based on Book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series:

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Wow! Hot! More photos from the True Blood Rolling Stone issue. Love the brown and black colors on Eric and Sookie’s shoes are to die for. The one on the left makes it look like Bill is grasping for Sookie and trying to hold on to her. On the right Eric looks cool as a cucumber. Love these!

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Why so quiet about the last two episodes? Well, I guess it was because I don’t know what to say about the roller coaster that is True Blood season 3.

In episode 9 I fully expected there to be a big break-up between Bill and Sookie. And in the beginning of the episode they did in fact break-up, after she woke up in the hospital after he almost killer her. I was sooooo happy that their relationship was dead and buried and then the rug got ripped out from underneath me as the episode ended with Bill and Sookie professing their love and having primal sex on the floor.

In episode 10 they are cleaning up Sookie’s house with nary a word about their break-up… as if it never happened. She does ask Bill about the file he kept on her but he lies (like the pond scum he is). Sookie asked him if he knew the Queen and he said he was merely a subject of hers when we know full well he was a right hand man.. a procurer of whatever miss Sophie Anne wanted. And oh so ironically he moved to Bon Temps and acquired the person QSA was so interested in. Hmmmm….. He also told Sookie he only kept a file on her to deduce why Eric Northman was so interested in her. Bill Compton is a BIG FAT LIAR!

The preview and spoilers for future episodes have me biting my nails. Pam asks Eric why he doesn’t hand Sookie over to Russell as a bargaining chip, which is alarming.  But he does have a moment with Sookie where he tells her that if he dies he will always regret not having kissed her… sweet.

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But will he turn around and use her as a pawn? The Eric from the books wouldn’t but Alan Ball seems to enjoy tearing the book character apart and making him the villain.

From the episode 11 description we have this tidbit: “Knowing he’s no physical match for the King, Eric tempts Russell with the “ultimate vampire dream.”

Could that be Sookie and her “powers”? This spoiler photo seems consistent with that.

What the Freakin Heck????? Alan Ball if your life had a face I would punch it.

Anyway, Sookie doesn’t seem to be struggling or surprised. Maybe she and Eric devised this plan together… I hope, I hope??? But the episode 12 description tells us Eric has something to feel guilty about: “Eric grapples with his conscience while plotting his perfect revenge against Russell.” Ugh.

Alan Ball has already said that the season 3 finale will be mostly about Eric, Sookie, Bill and trust and that it will go some place unexpected. The suspense is killing me. I just hope I won’t be throwing darts at my TV because it turns out that Bill is the hero of the day and Eric is the stuff you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.

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LOVE this fan video and the song, Yowsa! It perfectly captures the attraction and heat between these two. Get the song at Amazon.