(Season 3, Episode 10) - "I'm a fairy? How f**king lame." - Sookie

Well, there she is in the picture, all fairy-like. Was HBO trying to tell us something before this season even started via its promo-photo styling?

Forget any semblance of a lull or even a beat between last week and this week. It's as if there's no delineation of start and finish between the two pot-boiler episodes. Gotta love how fanboyish Bill seems as he recites, half-excitedly, half-"don't break up with me," the known details of Sookie's lineage. And why, exactly, it looks bad to Claudine for Sookie to be hanging around with a vampire.

I did gasp at the non-dream, real, actual, Eric kiss. That is, until I realized any semblance of a transgression on Sookie's part is pretty much eclipsed entirely by the fact that Bill nearly killed his girlfriend after having told her off on the phone. One intentional bad thing, one not. And a questionable but possibly intentional bad thing on Sookie's part, given her slew of Eric dreams. She can't have been glamored, right? We'll let her off the hook, though, yes? Still can't see Bill taking this well. Didn't even factor the whole gross Lorena scene in ... so yeah, I think Sookie's off the hook.

Getting a lot of clues into Sam's dark side here, even though this all seems sort of extraneous given the other plot lines. You can't blame his self-destructive tendencies for taking over since he, um, killed two people. Speaking of killing, while he is still rattled, Jason at first looks a little too comfortable in the truck after Tara tells him to dig. Especially because of Tara's history with Jason, for him to allow her to kiss him in the first place before he even mentions a word of Eggs is pretty low, and not likely to make her feel any better, as we see.

What's our (present-day) witch-and-sorcerer tally? Three? What do you think the "big plans" are that Jesus talks about his grandfather having for him during the V trip? Who else just really liked that whole scene? Would really like to have the show revisit Lafayette's mother and her quirky, ambiguous warnings, given their family history.

It's funny how even though Arlene's "evil" alert seems to go off a bit when Holly says she's Wiccan, she still seeks her advice. Poor, poor Terry. If it's not one Bellefleur, it's the other I'm pitying. His response is ideal and still Arlene is unmoved in her feelings. Is it her practice to always label people evil by association, even a child, someone she's supposed to treasure the most? Who is the real shadowy figure here, the serial killer in her past or her own self, precisely because of how she's ruled by her fears?

If Tommy tore Hoyt to shreds even more than he did I would have been super annoyed. Once endearing, Sam's brother is now scary (sort of a theme with the brothers this week), especially since Jessica running away only served to make him more intent. On the other hand I knew Hoyt would come around, which is good because Summer really does need to go far, far away.

Eric's speedy will-making turns his usually powerful character on its head. Won't he care to expand on exactly why Sookie must distrust Bill? No, he Lafayette-s her by throwing that big ol' shackle around her neck. Lovely.

Get the feeling Russell should have spent more QT with wifey? He's got some major, messed up guilt going on right there regarding Talbot, coupled with what I'm assuming is some ultra-accelerated narcissism, even for a vampire, or a king.


Quotes

"Dem f**kers is a whole new dimension of trash." - Lafayette, speaking about Crystal's panther-people.

"OK, we get it. You don't like vampires. Well I don't like narrow-minded skinny bitches with bad dye jobs but at least I got the courtesy to keep my mouth shut about it. Most of the time." - Jessica to Arlene

"Blah blah vampire emergency blah." - Pam to Eric