Truly, Madly, Deadly_ The Unofficial True Blood Companion - Becca Wilcott [86]
Kristin Bauer, I would lay my coat across the swamp lands to keep your Betsey Johnsons clean.
Where you’ve seen Kristin Bauer: Seinfeld, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, That’s Life, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, Boston Legal, Bones, Private Practice, Three Rivers
If there was a doctor in Bon Temps, somebody would have something to say about all the fried items on Merlotte’s menu. It’s not the vampires killing the citizens! (Jodi Ross, courtesy of The Vault www.trueblood-online.com)
2.03 ~ Scratches
Original air date: June 28, 2009; Written by: Raelle Tucker; Directed by: Scott Winant
Sookie: The more open my mind gets, the more evil I see.
Sookie is attacked by a mysterious creature, and Bill is forced to ask Eric for help. Jessica and Hoyt meet. Tara starts to question Maryann’s motives.
“Hating evil is loving good.” To survive, Steve Newlin says we need hate. In the war against evil incarnate — vampires — Jason comes up against his first challenge: Steve’s wife, Sarah. Jason has had no shortage of forthright women in his life, so when Sarah divulges that she was once a vampire sympathizer he has every reason to believe that she’s a kindred spirit. This purging is also easier to accept than the dream Jason had about a naked Eddie gearing up to feed on him. However, Sarah’s a parasite who draws her energy from sheltering herself in others, taking more than she offers in return. Sarah tells Jason that everything about a vampire down to their blood is seduction, yet she employs her own seething sexuality in a way that will soon start to suck energy from Jason, especially as he commits deeper to abstinence and a pure lifestyle.
Sookie is attacked by a half-human/half-creature that looks like the Minotaur. In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus, who battled foes that subscribed to primitive religious and social order. Could there be a Theseus among the citizens of Bon Temps, willing to take on a creature so mysterious that even Eric hasn’t heard of it? Sookie’s wounds are parasitic. The scratches are intended to weaken her, allowing the hunter to reserve his energy while his victim perishes, making it ultimately easier for the creature to complete its task. We get a good idea of what that might be when we see Carl and Maryann preparing a soup containing organs, later fed to guests of Maryann’s backyard party. What could the purpose of this be, other than to enjoy the feeling of manipulation that comes from feeding people one of their own?
That only a few of Maryann’s guests’ eyes have blackened suggests that some individuals are either more prone to influence than others, or less inhibited to cross the divide between humans and gods. It appears the adage is true, that dancing leads to sex. But to what end? Who is Maryann and why is she in Bon Temps?
The storyline with Eggs and Tara is at a standstill. As Tara starts to clue in that things are not right in Maryann’s world, leaving the party to go up to bed isn’t the answer — getting as far from that house as possible is. In the books, Eggs’s part is much smaller, so his storyline with Tara sometimes feels as forced as Amy’s with Jason from season 1. It’s not the most enthralling writing, perhaps because the sexual tension and debauchery are a distraction from real character development.
Bill continues to straddle (or confuse?) his own line between good and evil, even after he sees what Eric has done to Lafayette while held in captivity. Bill has seen and possibly done far worse, so anything about Eric that is less than evil is a kindness. While Sookie sees mostly good in Bill, she knows there’s darkness. By the end of this episode, he appears to have come closer to understanding what she needs — a simple shoulder