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by Matt Fowler
That being said, I did like the Debbie/Sookie bitch brawl, and of course, most of the action pieces this season. When everyone stops talking and people actually feel enough bile and rage to attack one another, I feel like the show's more vital. That's not to say that the series doesn't have other aces up its sleeve, but on a show like True Blood, strangely enough, it's the violence that actually helps glue the series together. I enjoyed the return of Lorena and the corkscrew vampire hate-sex (who wouldn't?) and I felt like, even though I didn't know where it was headed, the beginning of the season, in Edgington Manor, held promise.
But then Eric killed Talbot and Russell waged a fruitless war on humanity that amounted to little more than sulking around in a trench coat and flip-flops. I wasn't sure what Russell wanted at the outset, since he wanted to both marry Sophie-Ann and investigate Bill – and then those mini-missions, due to the arrival of Franklin and Eric at the manor, turned into uncover Sookie's magic/kill everyone on the planet. But Russell's giant murder on national TV hardly caused a stir across the world, and his venom against all of humankind subsided and melted into boring, unproductive grief. It's one thing to have someone's grief turn into anger, but then it all becomes wasted when you just turn it back into doleful mourning again.
Jessica continued to be absolutely wonderful, which is something that I never expected to happen seeing as how annoying she was at the end of Season 1. She, out of any other character on the show (Sookie included), has become our "in." Our surrogate. By watching her fumble her way through being a new vampire we got a much more effective and pleasant journey into the Bon Temps chaos. Sookie doesn't serve that purpose anymore. She's become so stubbornly tough that you almost now have a hard time relating to her. I did like how, in the end, Sookie decided that she didn't want to have anything to do with any vampires anymore. That'll last about all of five minutes, but it was still a fairly level-headed notion for a Southern spitfire. It's just sad to know that since Jessica is a side character that I'll probably never really see as much of her as I want to.
As for all the stuff going on back in Bon Temps, away from the muddled vampire soap drama, Jason inexplicably fell in love with a dirty, unlikable hillbilly were-panther and uncovered a "V" plot that went nowhere. Likewise, we were promised a DEA raid on HotShot and then never wound up getting to see it. Lafayette's story with Jesus was fine, but business didn't really pick up until the end and we still got left with very little. Arlene never followed up with Holly about the fact that Holly's witch spell (that was supposed to cause a miscarriage) failed, and Sam entered into a very jumbled storyline with his birth parents where everyone shifted back and forth from being an pathetic loser to unsympathetic a-hole. In the end, it was all meant to turn Sam into a darker character; much like how Tara's horrifically violent story was meant to turn her into a sunnier gal. But that's all to be continued. True Blood doesn't just give us one or two cliffhangers. They leave everyone's story hanging mid air. And with Bill's case I mean that literally, since his story got stopped mid-vampire fight.
There was a point, halfway through Season 3, when it looked like the stories were leading us somewhere but all we got were hints of things to come… next summer. What was the point of having Andy looking longingly at viles of "V" if he never wound up making a decision about whether or not to drink one? I just hope that the writers, and the viewers, don't keep getting so excited about "what's to come" -- since there's a long book trail ahead of us -- that they forget that the here and now still needs to make for worthwhile TV
SEASON INFO
Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity--ushered in by the Vampire King of Mississippi and his mutant werewolf followers--in Season Three of the hit drama series based on the novels by Charlaine Harris.
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