True Blood - It Hurts Me Too, S03E03

Although nothing in this episode had the impact of the disturbing last few minutes, every individual plot line brought forward new concerns for the fate of the inhabitants of Bon Temps. Frankly, despite the fact that the entire population is abnormally attractive, I would never want to live there. Then again, in vamps and such were real and out of the coffin, what would my own home town be like?

Tara (Rutina Wesley) has terrible taste in vampires as well as humans, and is equally incapable of relating or communicating with them. As amusing as that is, I have to say I'm quite concerned about the results of her allowing Franklin (James Frain) into Sookie (Anna Paquin)'s house. Not that this was her choice, since he glamoured her. My only hope is that the havoc he will wreak will not equal what Maryann got up to.

Meanwhile, life has been continuing with some normal occurances. Hoyt (Jim Parrack) is still mooning over Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), Jason (Ryan Kwanten) is still a mess who can't figure out what he wants to do with his life, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) still has to put up with the stresses of dealing drugs (though he is doing it for vampires rather than the mob), and Arlene (Carrie Preston) is pregnant. The baby, though, it likely Rene's, which is not exactly happy news.

But, True Blood isn't about happy normal lives. It's about vampires and such. And moments like when Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) killed a werewolf in Sookie's front hall and then observed that he'd gotten her rug all wet, and like when Sookie tried to mind-read Bill (Stephen Moyer)'s location and required Alcide (Joe Manganiello)'s protection from another werewolf.

Still, Bill had the most important story. The flashback scenes, where we saw how dearly he had loved his wife and family, where we began to understand how dearly he loves Sookie. His humanity was taken from him, and he could never do that to Sookie, even if she wanted him too. He would not love her as a vampire, he would not love what he so clearly hates in himself. When you consider that his teacher was Lorena (Mariana Klaveno) and how disturbing she is - professing to love him as he twists her neck 180 degrees while having sex with her...well, both have their issues and I can't imagine any fetishes more bizarre than that right there.

I was surprised though. I would have expected him to take her up against the silver door. Now that would have been sadism.

Where the silver lining is in this season, I have not yet figured out. But I am still desperate to see next week's episode and annoyed that I have to wait another week even though it does give me more time to catch up on my blogging.