It’s been teased for weeks, and True Blood has finally delivered: Russell Edgington is back! Even though it’s only a few moments at the end of the episode, his return is glorious. Even sick in bed, he brings the snark. I can’t wait to see what craziness ensues.
I have to say that everything leading up to Bill, Eric, and the gang finding him was pretty good, from Sookie puking on Alcide’s shoes to the scary asylum (which Sookie rightly compares to a horror movie). It was kind of like a grown-up version of the Scooby gang, what with all the flashlights. They even had a resident coward like Shaggy thanks to Doug. Poor Doug: he didn’t ask for any of this. Earlier in the season, I was glad that Sookie and Eric and Bill were split up for a while, but I didn’t mind their reuniting here.
That said, I don’t know what this will mean for Snookcide, or Alkie, or whatever the kids are calling it. They didn’t quite get to consummating their relationship. I think Alcide may still want to after this, but how will Sookie feel when she’s sober? I like the new sassy Sookie who decides to accept her fate as a magnet for bad supernatural crap, though. And I’d like to see her with Alcide for a while, if not forever, but who knows what the show has planned for them?
The end of the episode, with the Guardian’s speech and Jason visiting his parents’ graves, seems to imply that the show is heading towards some big battle between humans and “supes.” I think this would be an awesome way to integrate many of the show’s plots … which seems like an impossible task otherwise, and perhaps one that the show doesn’t even care about taking on. I think Jason investigating his parents’ deaths could be interesting, but beyond that … meh. I am not feeling the Vampire Authority stuff, either. Give us more screen time for Russell!
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