True Blood Finale And Next Season Thoughts

First off, I feel so bad I couldn’t recap this last week’s True Blood finale but my financial analyst class was kicking my ass from here to Timbuktu and back. I literally was having nightmares of yields, cap rates, investment properties and cash flow models. Ok, I digress. But for those who have seen it, we can all agree there were definitely tons of WTFs. Am I right? It seems we lost characters and old ones reappeared. But what do we make of all the havoc?

To be honest the death toll was shocking. I have to admit I was a bit sad when Marnie/Lafayette stabbed Jesus. I sorta liked Lafayette having a love interest. Jesus is one of the additions that had tons of potential with his practice of dark magic. I’m panda sad. RIP Jesus.

“Lafayette is distraught,” Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette) says. “He wasn’t the one who killed Jesus, but it was by his hand. This is possibly Lafayette’s first real meaningful love, and he wasn’t strong enough to protect Jesus – even though Jesus has been able to protect him all season. It was a hard scene for me because I’ve been working with Kevin for two years and we’re best of friends. We’ve done some real intimate stuff … So it was hard really for me to stab him.”

A coworker of mine asked if Lafayette now possessed the dark magic since Marnie inhabited his body. That’s an interesting thought and I might be inclined to say yes. Remember, he was just sleeping upstairs in Sookie’s guest bedroom, so it’s quite possibly that Lafayette could come running down and perform some sort of spell on Tara.

But speaking of Tara, I was shocked that Debbie’s demise left Tara dead as well. In the book, it’s Eric that kills Debbie, is it not? So, this twist took me by surprise and shocked me that a long time character was killed off. As much as I don’t like Tara, I think I will be sad to see her go. UNLESS, she becomes a vampire!

“I don’t know what they have in store for next season. I haven’t seen any scripts, so I have no idea what’s going to happen. I’m either at death’s door, or I’m gone. That’s scary for an actor, but if my time has come, then my time has come – and what a way to go, saving your best friend’s life. It’s pretty cool that everyone’s going to be going, “Is she, or isn’t she?” I’m excited and terrified all at the same time. I could be a ghost, I could die – it’s in the hands of our wonderful writers and the creative mind of Alan Ball.”

I’m leaning towards Tara not really being gone. I think she’s at death’s door, but the key is, who will save her? Lafayette? Eric or Bill? Russell? Hmmm....

“Shooting that scene was very hard and emotional. I think everybody on set shed a tear that day; it was really tough to get through. When you see someone that you’ve lived with and breathed with for four years come to some kind of end, it’s very powerful – and sad. It’s really hard to play dead when you’re about to cry. All three of us went out afterwards – me, Brit [Morgan] and Anna [Paquin]. We had some food and kind of celebrated the end of a killer scene. Brit bites it too, so we were kind of just loving up on each other and supporting each other.”

Damn, now I feel sad. Tara, you were not my favorite character but I do hope you are not D.E.A.D. Actually, I hope you get turned into a vampire. You’d be kick ass as a vampire. 

And really, that’s just the surface of my comments and questions. 

1) What happened with the crystal meth gang from Hot Shot? Why is that literally what they are? A crystal meth gang? I just made that up, and then realized they WERE selling crystal meth. Fuck, I crack myself up. 

You know next season cat woman is coming for Jason’s ass. And she will have to cat fight Jessica for him. How exiting....

2) AND Obviously, Russell is now loose and free due to the big hole in the parking garage. First, let’s listen to his theme song, shall we?

Russell has broken the “chains of love” and now he’s ready to fucking party!! What type of awesomeness will he get into next season? I think he will be like the Predator, and Eric and Bill will be like Arnold Schwarzeneggar, running from his little ass, covering themselves in mud. 

3) Last, I present the biggest WTF moment from the finale. Pastor Steve Newlin showing up at Jason’s door with some new teeth. Steve Newlin is a vampire? How lame. He’s lame. Is he still a Christian? WTF!!! 

And then there are the honorable mentions: Ghost Rene telling Arlene that Terry has some shit that will come back and haunt them--Pam breaking down over Sookie and her fairy vagina and Marnie saying fuck as she agrees to cross over to the other world. 

I won’t even comment on Sookie deciding not to be with anyone. That ain’t going to last. 

Best character all season: Pam and her one-liners. 

Grossest scene: Eric sucking the heart like it’s a V8. 

Best concept: Amnesia Eric.

So until next summer, waiting sucks! Any thoughts on next season?

Source: Inside TrueBlood