Monday, August 19, 2013

Ep 6.10 "Radioactive"


SPOILER ALERT:  This is a recap of the episode, so if you haven’t watched it and don’t want to know what happens, exit now… 

QUICK LOOK:  Bill regrets pushing Sookie into giving herself to Warlow, Eric reads naked on a beach chair in the snowy mountains, and Merlotte’s is now Bellefleur’s Bar and Grill.

My chin has hit the floor and all I can think is, well, I don’t even know what to think.  The season finale was touted as a blood bath that would take us down in the amount of characters and back to the roots of the show.  I’m still processing everything and almost feel I need another viewing.

After Terry’s funeral Sookie sticks around to watch the men fill the plot with dirt.  Alcide accidentally sneaks up on her.  She decides they should go for a walk.  She worries about Jason not showing up for the funeral, but Alcide tells her that Jason is a survivor.  He then tells her he sometimes wishes he were a telepath so he could hear her thoughts.  All of a sudden Alcide picks up a smell and they hear people celebrating.  They walk to Bill’s house and see the vampires basking in the sun.  They are burning their camp uniforms and decide they need to make a Target run so they can play croquet and volleyball.  Sookie tells Alcide she needs to go over there and see her friends, but she wants him to stay behind.  He is concerned, but she assures him she is a survivor too.

Sookie finds Jason and Violet kissing by a tree.  Violet is giving Jason her blood.  Sookie calls out to Jason and Violet gets territorial and freaks out.  Jason and Sookie promise they are brother and sister until finally Violet believes them.  She tells Sookie that if she is Jason’s sister, then she is her sister too and plants a big wet one right on her lips.  Pam runs up to Sookie and hugs her and Tara follows.  Tara tells Sookie what Bill did and says she will never hate him again.  Bill watches from the inside and sulks about asking Sookie to give herself to Warlow.

Sookie goes back to fairyland to check on Warlow.  He has been busy constructing a maypole for their marriage ceremony.  I’m not sure who was supposed to be officiating.  Warlow seems to have a God complex so I guess he was planning on being the official and the groom.   She appreciates what he has done and tries to talk him into dating her for a while and them really getting to know each other.  She knows the people of Bon Temps would accept him.  She says she will keep her promise, but she wants more time.  After all, they have eternity.  He back hands her and asks her “who the fuck do you think you’re talking too?”

The vamps are playing couples volleyball.  Jason and Violet against James and Jessica.  Violet can tell that Jason and Jess have a past and she decides to knock Jessica as hard as she can with the ball.  Pam is hanging out on the sidelines so Tara goes to check on her.  Of course she is upset that Eric is gone and she is worried about him.  Tara doesn’t understand why she is so upset and starts to tell her off, but Pam says she will release her if she doesn’t shut up.  Pam has decided that she has to go find Eric.  She tells Tara to take care of Willa who doesn’t even know that Eric has gone.  Tara tells her that she and Eric are “the worst fucking makers ever.”

Bill is still sulking inside.  Since he gave the vamps his blood, he no longer has his powers.  He can’t feel Lilith, he is just Bill.  Jessica comes in to check on him.  He tells her that in order to save them, Sookie had to promise to become a faepire.  At the time, Bill didn’t care, but now he is worried about Sookie.  Jessica tells him to do something about it.  He thinks it’s too late, but she reminds him that the real Bill Compton would never abandon Sookie.  Jess gets Jason (and Violet of course) and they tell him what is going on.  Bill tells him they need a fairy in order to get to the plane where Sookie is.  The only one around is Andy’s daughter Adilyn.  Jason heads to the the Bellefleurs to try and get their help.

While they take care of that, Bill takes Hido Takahashi out into the middle of the woods.  He no longer needs him.  Hido believes he is dead for sure, but Bill glamours him to forget everything and to go home to his wife and kids.  He also leaves him a bag full of cash.

Jason and Violet arrive at the Bellefleurs.  Jason wants to come in and talk and asks Andy to invite them in.  Andy doesn’t get it until Violet explains she is a vamp.   Andy freaks and tells Adilyn to get upstairs.  Jason tells Adilyn that Sookie is in trouble and needs her help.  Adilyn couldn’t save her sisters so she wants to help Sookie because she is the only other person she knows who is like her.  Andy is still hesitant, but finally concedes.  They decide to “go in heavy” and they ammo up.

Warlow is bonding Sookie to the maypole.  He is not interested in dating her and hanging around with her low life friends in Bon Temps.  He is fae royalty after all.  Sookie’s hands are free so she gets her vamp blasting light ball ready.  Warlow says she will never use it on him so she threatens to throw it and not absorb it back.  Warlow wants the fairy in her so she’ll just take that away.  He overtakes her and ties her up more.  He confesses that he wants to use her to fuck and to feed, to own her.  He smiles because he knows that it is night, and time for them to get married or whatever.

Bill meets up with Andy, Jason and Adilyn.  Warlow is feeding on Sookie.  Adilyn projects her thoughts telling Sookie they are there and will help her.  Adilyn is not sure how to use her light to get them to the other plane.  Bill explains that she may need to be in fear for her powers to work, so Violet starts to attack her.  She lights up and they switch planes.  Bill tells them he will take care of Warlow, they should just get Sookie and go.  They do as he says and he and Warlow fight.  The others go to Sookie’s house.  They tell Adilyn to stay in the hidey-hole so she will be safe.  Bill and Warlow come out of the fairy plane and Warlow flies off.  He flies to Sookie’s house and Andy sees him and shoots.  He calls out to Jason and thinks he’s killed Warlow, but he hasn’t.  Warlow gets in the house and is about to fight Jason, but Violet intervenes.  She gets hit with a ball of light.  Bill gets in the doorway, inches from were Warlow stands, but he can’t get in the house since he is no longer Billith.  So he can’t stake Warlow.  Warlow blasts him with light as well and throws Andy and Jason in the hidey-hole with Adilyn.  He seals it with his light.  Adilyn attempts to open it.

With no one to protect Sookie, Warlow goes upstairs to find her.  He gets to her bedroom and doesn’t see her.  She is in the shower trying to get her ball of light up and running.  He says she will learn to love him in the next 1-2000 years and grabs her.  Then out of thin air Niall comes out of the other fairy portal and into the bathroom.  He grabs Warlow and holds him down while Jason stakes him.  This stake takes and Warlow turns to goo, then dust and then a little flicker of light goes out.

Of course, now that Warlow is dead all of the vamps lose their ability to walk in the sun.  We pan to Eric who is sitting in the middle of snowy mountaintops reading a book without a stitch of clothing on.  The light flickers through him and he starts burning.  He is in full flames screaming when they cut from the scene.

6 months later…

The news is on talking about the plan to control Hep V.  Bill has written a book called “And God Bled”.  He is on the news promoting the book and his story.  The journalist is a little confused and doesn’t believe that Bill was a god and everything else that allegedly happened in the book.  Bill tells him he ripped off Governor Burrells head and what they were doing at the vamp camp and with the Hep V infected TruBlood.

Sookie is watching Bill on TV when a short-haired Alcide walks in, sans shirt.  They are together now!  Alcide teases Sookie about Bill and then they go upstairs to do a little something.  Over at her brother’s house, Jason is doing his damndest to pleasure Violet.  She is pleased and he thinks she’s going to have sex with him, but she says not yet.  He is frustrated because he has gone down on her 178 days in a row and she has done nothing for him.  He hasn’t even looked at other women.

The next day, Sookie and Alcide go to church.  Outside, Sam is trying to convince Andy to come to the service and the gathering they are having later that night.  Sookie and Alcide  go into the church and find Jason.  Everyone is there taking a blood test to make sure they aren’t carriers of Hep V.  They have invited the black congregation and the white congregation together for a special sermon.  Reverend Daniels sees that the blacks are on one side of the church and the white people on the other.  He tells them to get up and sit by someone they don’t know.  Alcide and Sookie sit by a little black girl named Crystal who seems a bit shy and scared.

The Reverend continues his sermon and brings up the problem of the rogue vampires attacking the humans.  Especially a lot of infected vampires with Hep V, which is why they had to take the blood test to see if they are carriers.  Then Sam the Mayor gets up and invites them to Bellefleurs Bar and Grill to get free food and booze and socialize with vampires.  Then he tells them to seriously think about finding a monogamous vampire that will feed off them and promise protection.

At the party Lettie Mae asks Tara if they can talk.  She tells Tara about her downfall after Tara’s father died.  She confesses she used to forget to feed Tara for days at a time.  She apologizes and then offers to let Tara drink from her.

Jessica decided to go to Andy’s.  He answers the door with a gun.  She offers him protection and he is appalled that she would expect them to feed her.  She says her protection comes with no strings attached.  She wishes she could give him back her other daughters, but she can’t.  He raises his gun to shoot her, but instead closes the door.

Sookie and Alcide decide to leave the party after making appearances.  Bill stops them on the way to their car.  He wants to offer Sookie protection.  Alcide says he’s got that covered, but Bill says he’s not enough.  Alcide growls and his eyes light up.  Bill calls him “bright-eyes” and tells him he knows he is right.  Then Alcide and Bill smell something.  It’s a horde of zombie looking vampires heading straight to Bellefleurs.  End credits…

First of all, Eric better not be dead.  For many reasons, but mostly because if he is dead, he deserved a better death than that.  I mean he just took down the vamp camp for gosh sakes!  I have to say I’m a bit surprised about Sam being the mayor and Merlotte’s now being Bellefleurs.  (Neither things happen in the books.)  I’ll go with it, it’s just a big change.  I’m glad we’ve got nice Bill back.  The one that stops and thinks before he acts and loves Sookie.  And Sookie and Alcide are together.  Kind of glad, but I still think she moves a little fast.  Guess I don’t blame her, though I am going to need her to stop trying to go from dressing slutty to dressing like an 80 year old woman complete with a hat. I guess we have to wait until next June to find out if Eric’s okay (I mean come on, there had to be a cave, or Pam got there.  Something.)  And also to find out what happens with the mob of vampires closing in on Bellefleurs.

Until next June, Bon Chance!

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