switchbladekiller:

“So if I have to kill Bill tonight or any of the rest of them, I’m gonna do it. You better be prepared to do the same, time for tolerance is over”

True Blood Stills ☆

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imhereforsookie:

True Blood | A Sneak Peek at Episode 6 - Autopsy

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“You thought this person was good, they’re not. You thought this person was bad, they’re not.” - Allen Ball

I love this!

askarsswedishmeatballs:

With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood – and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgard told HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.

“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”

We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.

“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”

http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/05/21/true-blood-eric-evil-season-6-spoilers/

Yes please.

mametupa:

Authority Confessional (from S5 BR’s extras): How Nora got involved with the Authority.

cookietookie:

imhereforsookie:

in your face..Billith is coming…!

omg the Billith name became canon

we won, tumblr

we always win =D

ohiogurl:

thinkingbox:

switchbladekiller:

I really love her too. :)

with all my heart

TB’s Sookie anyway =]

Oh Charlaine, it didn’t have to be this way. Sookie was so engaging, so hopeful, so feisty in the beginning of the series. Then it all went to shit.

maggiesview:

ohiogurl:

thinkingbox:

First I would like to refer this post back to AP’s answering my question on a different subject…

http://ancientpythoness.tumblr.com/post/50683381213/thinkingbox-exitpursuedbyasloth

I confess I never gave this scene much thought. I always thought the V trips were kinda silly and pointless. Another thing I get to smack my head for.

But… watching this just made me realize Bill + Lilith ain’t the first “fusion” to happen in True Blood;

Lafayette presumably “absorbed” Jesus’s demon half through Marnie when she was possessing him. So are we to assume Lala isn’t entirely just himself anymore? Last season, his demon-half took over Lala and nearly caused Sookie to die - it was also the demon-half who kept reacting so negatively to her.

Now Jesus was originally the one who was part demon. Going back to season 4 when Lala and and Jesus visit grandpa in Mexico (was that Mexico?) and they want help to fight against the vampires, grandpa says “you don’t even know what you need” and he was referring to spirits.

When grandpa steals Jesus’ head in season 5 he wanted to do something with that baby didn’t he? The one his wife was carrying. But he needed Lala because he had the demon half now.

All these stories about things that are half another thing… Jesus, Lala, Bill, Sookie (who apparently is now a halfling), Warlow seems to be half something else too. I just wonder where all of this is going.

I always thought they wrote TB as they went along. I know I should give TB writers more credit than I do - it’s becoming clearer and clearer to me now. Apparently my re-watch will be more useful than I thought….

Sorry for my random thoughts! Just wanted to put these out there in case there are people better equipped to theorize around this.

Oh, the rewatch is always helpful. The writers are tricky. They like to draw parallels that tend to get lost in the rapid flow of the episodes. It took me until Marnie and Nan to be sure that they were specifically letting Bill kill all the powerful women on the show. This was a meme that started in season 3, with Lorena, but I didn’t catch on until the end of season 4.

True Blood likes to have several stories with similar themes running at the same time so we can compare and contrast. So season 4 was the season of the love triangle (for obvious reasons). Maybe season 6 will be about possession?

Sookie’s part fairy, Lala is part demon, and Bill is part vampire god. They are all controlled in some way by these hidden parts of themselves. Those parts also give them special powers. Each of the people possessed by these new powers must learn to control them. Sookie needs to control her light to escape her contract with Warlow and stop being a target. Lafayette has to learn to harness the demon before it kills Sookie (I wonder why the demon hates her?). Bill also has an opportunity for redemption if he can control the blood god inside him (it looks like he’s not fighting it right now). Each of these characters is suffering from a type of possession.

This theme goes all the way back to Tara’s “demon” possession in season one. The maenad also made the townspeople act possessed, and Marnie was possessed by Antonia to become the villain of season 4.  I like how they’re picking up strands from previous seasons and weaving them back in.

Perhaps this idea of a Possession theme is a metaphor for the secret buried part of ourselves that we mostly hide from ourselves. for Sookie it is a hidden strength and power that is a far cry from the good little southern small town girl she was raised to be. for Bill it is the hidden evil in his nature and for Lala it is a darker, wilder side that only came to light with his relationship with Jesus. He hides his anger and rage. for Tara it was all her abusive childhood and feelings of being unloved and unwanted that she masked with a tough smart ass exterior. The same could be said for Marnie who was hiding the the small petty side of her nature until it manifested in megalomania. the towns people in the Marianne maenad segment all sucucummed to their hidden darker sides when they were possessed. Even Eric was possesses in S4 when Marnie took him over. Here we see all the killing machine that Eric can be if he does not control this side of his nature.

ancientpythoness:

thinkingbox:

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filmchick3:

imhereforsookie:

you really believe your god…

I think in season 6 Sookie will bring some humanity back into Bill. She did it before, and she can do it again. 

Give Bill back his humanity?

But he’s already a petty, vindictive, selfish, raping megalomaniac with an over-inflated sense of self-importance and righteousness.

Humanity does not mean just the nice, altruistic aspects of our nature, and it really rubs my fur the wrong way whenever its used thus.

But if you mean bring some good qualities back to Bill, like kindness, empathy, altruism, self-sacrifice, charity, love, yeah, not only did he never had any of those qualities (he was a dick while human, and simply became a dick with stronger powers after death), but it’s not Sookie’s job to bring those out in Bill. She’s not there to be his Manic Faery Dream Girl. She’s not there to redeem Bill, to be his salvation, his miracle.

No, really, Bill was a dick when he was human. Do you remember the flashback to the battle he was in? He wanted to shoot the injured boy because his moans MIGHT attract enemy attention, whereas his friend refused to leave a comrade behind. Not to mention he was a slave-owner (and wouldn’t own up to it either, tried to deflect it and put it on his father, and that they only owned two, bullshit does a house that big have only two slaves), and he couldn’t even remember the female house slave’s name, despite the fact that she probably helped raise him (or, as I suspect, she’s Lala’s and Tara’s common ancestor Mae, whose owner made attempts at raping her, and Bill couldn’t risk his prey finding out).

And even if Bill wasn’t a dick when he was human, he’s spent his entire vampire existence being a dick. A sadistic raping dick who abducted people for a living and sold them into slavery (that’s what procuring is).

Bill Compton is not a hero who needs saving from himself.

Bill Compton is not an antihero.

Bill Compton is not a morally grey neutral.

Bill Compton is a villain.

Bill Compton is a rapist.

Bill Compton gets off on the struggles of his victims.

Bill Compton is a slave-trader.

Bill Compton is a mendacious bag of dicks.

Bill Compton is a fucking rapist.

Bill Compton has lied to, drugged, beaten, raped, mutilated, deliberately endangered, abused, isolated, psychologically manipulated and gaslit Sookie, the female protagonist (and that’s only the shit we know for sure).

The only thing Sookie needs to bring to Bill is a stake through his fucking heart.

amen to all that but…

when did we learn all that stuff about Tara’s ancestors? o.o

Lala and Jesus’ V trip! Mae and Winnie sprinkled a magic conjuring powder around their bed to keep out the ‘master’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBr3IqTSxIE

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maggiesview:

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hsm7:

switchbladekiller:

stillhidden:

switchbladekiller:

filmchick3:

imhereforsookie:

you really believe your god…

I think in season 6 Sookie will bring some humanity back into Bill. She did it before, and she can do it again. 

It’s not Sookie’s responsibility to restore Bill’s so called “Humanity” or acceptable. Especially when said person has been labeled an abomination, and now considered just food and nothing more. Who was left to die at the hands of a powerful crazed vampire, without even so much as a warning. If and that’s a very BIG if, Bill is to be “redeemed” to his former psychotic self loathing self. I expect it be through a sacrifice/death, without being propped up to do so by external means.

More broadly, it’s not anyone’s responsibility to stand guard over anyone’s humanity. That has always been one of my biggest problems with Bill: The fact that he forever puts the onus of that on others. It’s always someone’s fault that he did X/Y/Z. It’s always the circumstances. It’s always “Sookie, you are my miracle.” 

No one can do this for anyone. He either reaches for his own humanity — such as it may be — or he does not. Sookie, even if she were so inclined, cannot accomplish that. 

Yes exactly, it’s up to Bill and Bill alone.

Why? Why? Why? I don’t understand the dogged hope that Sookie’s going to give Bill his humanity. When does Bill get to own who and what he is? When does Bill get to own what he has done? When does Bill get to own responsibility for who and what he can become? Why does the onus always fall on others..women, mostly, and Sookie, in particular? If Bill’s going to get his humanity back, then he better damn well find a way to do it himself. He better dig deep and find some inner strength, inner character. That will be the only way there will be any true meaning to whatever transformation he undertakes…good or bad. 

Yep.

Being someone’s “miracle” can be a burden. Especially if that someone is Bill. 

It’s a freaking death sentence with someone like Bill. :) 

But more importantly, damn! What a shitty thing to impose on someone: You are my miracle! And if you don’t perform your miraculous whatever, I am going to run to shit …. The HELL of a burden! No one, but no one should have to carry that! :)

s Well that’s what Atlas Shrugged” was essentially about. Ayn Rand was philosophically against Bill and his kind and in favor of Eric and his kind when it came to this issue of taking responsibility for self.

Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. NO!

This is not comparable. Yes, personal responsibility is important. But Ayn Rand’s “survival of the fittest and to hell with the weak” stance is the antithesis of what I think is in play here. 

Yes, we are all responsible for ourselves. But we do not throw out the baby with the bath water. We help others, too. This isn’t about not carrying anyone if you possibly can. This is about not carrying someone who will manipulate you into feeling responsible for their nonexistent goodness,  while being a giant bag of dicks.

(I am sorry, but I can’t abide Ayn Rand in general, and “Atlas Shrugged” in particular. Not trying to get into a debate here, just stating this for the sake of full disclosure).

We all know, much to our dismay, which side of this fence CH came down on. It remains to be seen where the TB writing team and show runner are on this point. Sookie has always taken too much responsibility for others on her shoulders, particularly for Bill.

And this is where the specifics and context help. Taking responsibility for helping others is what makes Sookie the person we admire. Blatantly abusing and manipulating that side of her character is what makes Bill the giant bag of dicks. 

Let’s see if she grows and learns or if we get some kind of ” but Bill needs me to save him” response out of Sookie this comming season. Not that I don’t expect her to try again to reason with him but I do expect her at some reasonable point to leave him to save himself.

Or realize that there is nothing to save there. And let him rot. That would work, too. 

Because Bill Compton is a giant bag of dicks.

If not, then the writers are philosophically on the same side of this issue as CH. I am hoping not . By the way, I do realize there were quite a few other issues with CH and DEA than just this one point.

Oh, plenty.