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True Blood 4x10 - "Burning Down the House" (spoilers)

How do you rate this episode?

  • 5 Fangs - Fangtastic!

    Votes: 9 69.2%

  • 4 Fangs - Almost there, but not quite

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • 3 Fangs - Just OK

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • 2 Fangs - Was Jason Directing?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1 Fang - What were they thinking?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    13
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From zap2it -

Sookie summons her powers to save Bill; Jason urges Jessica to glamour him; Terry drags Andy to an intervention; Alcide reconsiders his allegiances; Bill leads a brigade of vampires in an attack on Moongoddess Emporium.
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Programming note - In a big time change from years past, there IS a new episode on the schedule next weekend. In previous years, they had a marathon on Labor Day Sunday of the most recent three episodes, before coming back with episodes 11 and 12. Not this year.

Make sure you set your DVRs appropriately!
 
I wonder if this is truly the end of Tommy?

So much good stuff in here, from Terry and Andy to Jason and Jessica, to Hoyt and Jason hooking up ... what? That last part was just a V-induced hallucination? Dammit.

My, but Nan is getting full of herself. Is Bill really going to "end her" as he promised?

Marnie is in charge, eh? We'll see about that.

Why does it seem like Sookie pulls out that Fae glowy light stuff whenever the writers back themselves into a corner? "How the hell are we going to get out of this? Oh, right. Boom."

Glowy stuff aside, I enjoyed this one ... They're keeping their streak going.
 
This was a pretty good episode. The season is really picking up steam for the finale. I liked how Antonia had second thoughts and its really Marnie that's pushing for war. Nan is great. I loved the look on her face after Sookie revealed her powers and then how she tried to restore calm and her other attempts at damage control. I hope she sticks around for next season.

Everything else was cool too. I guess that Tommy is done for, and it was more effective with him dying at Sam's side than him dying alone. Glad that Lafayette and Jesus have been pulled back into the main storyline and how everything has organically led to Marnie's magic store.

The closing shot was just okay for me, as was the song. I generally like the music they select, in part because they are songs I've never heard of. Granted this was a version I never heard of Burning Down the House, it didn't feel as special to me. Though I doubt they would ever do it, I wouldn't mind them using Hugo's "99 Problems", it worked so well at the end of Fright Night, but it felt like it would fit right in on True Blood.
 
whaaaa? Marnie's the psycho one? I didn't see that coming!

Terry and Andy in the woods was funny and heartwarming...kinda...lol

I thought it was hilarious when Nan was threatening everyone with "true death!"
 
I like that Sookie's "attack" isn't really an offensive power so much as a disenchantment/disruption spell, and one she has no real control over. Keeps it from being a get-out-of-jail-free card for every situation in the show (as opposed to the ones the writers feel like using it for).

An enjoyable episode all around. Looking forward to seeing how Eric's actor (I can't be bothered to learn their names) blends his pussified personality with his old personality.
 
First time this season i gave it a 5!

Fantastic episode.. everything clicked so well together and the stakes have been raised higher and higher.

- really loved Terry's intervention on Andy's behalf.. i always loved that little psycho Terry from the beginning. He seems like a good guy to have around and a true friend which he demonstrated today when Andy needed him most.

- "old" Eric is back.. kinda. He's still a pussy when it comes to Sookie but i guess he got his viking vampire god mode back and i'm glad he did. I didn't like pussywhipped Eric much this season so i hope the writers find a way to balance him out in the next season because otherwise the show will lose a truly great bastard

- i can't stress how much i like Bill this season.. he was good while in a relationship with Sookie but badass King of Louisiana suits him very well and makes him so awesome

- Marnie is the real psycho.. well, no news there but the extent of her lunacy seemed limited until now. She is so well played by Fiona Shaw and really comes off as very creepy

- Hoyt.. well, we've all been there when a relationship has ended badly but gladly few of us had to endure our best friend fucking your ex mere days after the breakup.. that one will blow up really nasty i guess.

Well.. shit has hit the fan again and i absolutely love the end shot of the Vampire Special Force squad assembling to do battle.. might even turn it into a desktop background :lol:

I'm so glad that True Blood is firing an all cylinders again after the quite boring first half of the season.
 
Indeed, this was a pretty epic episode setting up for "The War" next week at the magic store. Jessica is already hot, but her with a bazooka? Good Lord.
 
Sookie is becoming unlikeable to me these days. I mean, she basically rejects Eric after he gets his memories back like that suddenly erases everything that happened between them prior to this episode. She told Eric she loves him but it seems that she loved a part of Eric, a part that she could control and fits her image of a fairytale romance. To love someone, you have to love all of them, the good and the bad. Sookie claims she is capable of that but whenever she sees the not-so-good side of Eric or Bill, her actions speak differently.

I think, at that moment, she can't love Eric fully and now she suddenly has lingering feelings for Bill which only came to the surface because of him giving her his blood to heal from the gunshot wound. I rather Bill and Sookie don't get back together at all. I feel that chapter has been closed for good. They can be friends and comrades-in-arms but I feel Sookie needs to move on from the days of their relationship and I think a part of that is her growing out of this naive mentality of hers and embrace the changes her life has undergone instead of trying repeatedly to be the person she was before all these things happened. And if Sookie and Bill do get back together (God forbid!), she just find herself in the same situation she is in with Eric, embracing the good but struggling with the bad in the man she loves. It's about time Sookie does some major growing up and nothing fleeting or spur-of-the-moment.
 
Sam suddenly realizing that Tommy may have been an enormous asshole but still didn't do anything to die, especially after living such a miserable excuse for a life...
is exactly the kind of too late to do any good realization that can hit people. Very sad, the only time I remember this show actually showing any real humanity.

I guess I'm just a horrible person for wondering if Tommy's death meant we'd find out whether there's a dog heaven.

Other random thoughts: The V Squad? Things do hit people differently. My thought was, I'll never take any of those nitwits seriously again.

Why do they think we care about Sookie's love life?

Fiona Shaw is making the rest of the cast look like no talents who've gotten by on their looks. Not to name names, mind you.

Who are Jason's real parents? He's obviously not related to little Miss Glowsticks-for-fingers.

Vampires aren't winning yet and I'm loving it. I'm with the New Marnie so suddenly revealed. Kill'em all.
 
The season dragged a lot after the first couple of episodes, but these last few have been standout.

Why can't the show be this tight all the time?
 
Well, now that Tommy's dead they'll relegate Sam to the backburner again. sigh. I just knew it. Plenty more of Eric and Sookie, though, I'm sure. :rolleyes:
 
Actually, I'm starting to imagine a thread between Sam, Alcide, & control for The Shreveport Wolfpack. Basically Shifters and Wolves united and somesuch.
 
Awesome episode. Everything is coming together nicely and it's tremendous fun. For stj, who complained about not being able to take them "seriously": where have you been? Are we watching the same show? You can't take True Blood seriously. :lol: It's more or less B-movie/soap opera plotting but with a bigger budget and better actors. Those over-the-top moments like the "V-Team" at the end are why I watch this ridiculous show. :lol:
 
^^^Well, you certainly have a point. And I generally laugh at, not with, large parts of True Blood. Upon reflection, I think the shot didn't work for me because the vampires are getting me nauseous. Kill, blood, kill, fuck, kill, fuck, kill, kill. But also I think, coming after Tommy's death scene, which was a rare serious moment, I just felt we were expected to take that scene seriously too. So it came across as one of those moments where straining for a cool effect produced a raspberry instead.
 
I actually thought the one line in Tommy's death scene, where Sam was says: "This is so sad!" was actually kind of funny. Came out of nowhere and I chuckled. I'm a horrible human being.
 
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