TrueBlood Season 4 Episode 1 Roundtable – “She’s Not There”
It’s baaaaaaack!
Racialicious has been obsessed with True Blood since it began, and its teasing around modern politics, civil rights, women’s rights, and queer rights. Our crew is definitely Team Tara, Team Lafayette, and Team Alcide…but is Team Eric ascending? When we last left Bon Temps, Tara was getting the hell out of town after beating Franklin’s head in – unfortunately, that fool was still alive, and it took a wooden bullet from Jason Stackhouse to send him on. Lafayette and Jesus had been on a roller coaster ride to mystical points unknown, Sam reconnected with his dark side, Sookie was so through with vamps that she headed to the land of the Fae, and Russell Edgington pulled out someone’s spine on national television. Let’s just relive that last moment:
The season four opener did not disappoint. The roundtable this week is: Latoya Peterson, Jordan St. John, Amber Jones, Kendra Pettis, and Alea Adigweme.
After the jump – a FULL OF SPOILERS, minute by minute roundtable, plus some random Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer cross chat…
Warning: We talked for 90 minutes. This is an epically long roundtable.
Sookie’s Adventures in Fairyland
[9:04:38 PM] Kendra: Great! I have somehow managed to avoid every single preview//interview shown, so I’m like… completely in the dark as to what’s going to happen in the first 8 minutes.
[9:04:46 PM] Amber Jones: yes! hi!
[9:04:52 PM] Alea: Ah. I watched the preview
this morning.
[9:05:20 PM] Latoya Peterson: Fairyland looks like it’s in a bodice ripping novel? I keep expecting “Lord Bill” to come from the trees and ravage Sookie.
[9:05:54 PM] Latoya Peterson: Also, can I just say it looks like a set I’d see on Xena: Warrior Princess? Feels like somewhere Aries would hang out..
[9:05:58 PM] Jordan: did some people get the memo about the dress code and some people missed it?
[9:06:04 PM] Kendra: I think so
[9:06:13 PM] Latoya Peterson: My boyfriend goes: There are hipster faeries?
[9:06:16 PM] Alea: Yes!
[9:06:22 PM] Amber Jones: Lol! Yes–tuxedos and shirtless men? I don’t know. It doesn’t seem very consistent…
[9:06:26 PM] Kendra: Though one of the reasons I watch this show is because of the wardobe, tbh. I think it’s amazingly accurate to the average budget of the place– lower to middle class.
[9:06:28 PM] Alea: Hipster, English fairies.
[9:07:16 PM] Jordan: why does her fairy have an accent? Were there not enough authentic british faries to go around…
[9:07:24 PM] Latoya Peterson: Hey, it’s the bell guy from the Vamp Sex hotel! Heeeeyy! Just when we thought he was dead…
[9:07:26 PM] Alea: The foreshadowing is so over-the-top.
[9:07:34 PM] Latoya Peterson: @Alea, agreed.
[9:07:40 PM] Alea: This is so Biblical.
[9:07:43 PM] Latoya Peterson: Black fairy spotting!
[9:07:48 PM] Jordan: Gary Cole!
[9:07:53 PM] Alea: !!!
[9:08:19 PM] Alea: Love Gary Cole so much.
[9:08:25 PM] Latoya Peterson: Is that who that is? I just had a Kevin Bacon flashback, thought he was about to recruit Sook to the darkside…
[9:08:36 PM] Jordan: hahahaha
[9:08:45 PM] Amber Jones: Ha! The resemblance to Kevin Bacon is pretty serious! I definitely had a similar thought process.
The show cuts away from the scene and goes back to the intro.
[9:08:56 PM] Kendra: Hmm, stuff’s been added to
the opening. More 1960s-ish looking footage?
[9:09:16 PM] Latoya Peterson: Yeah, lots of people [being listed as regulars]…
[9:09:50 PM] Latoya Peterson: Can I just say I’m on Tara and Lafayette watch this whole season?
[9:10:06 PM] Kendra: I’m waiting to see if anyone decides to care that Tara was repeatedly abused all last season
[9:10:12 PM] Kendra: Aside from Lafayette.
[9:10:13 PM] Latoya Peterson: I was sooooo glad to see her with a gun in the promos. Girl, it is Louisiana, it had been time to get a firearm.
[9:11:03 PM] Jordan: I haven’t seen what tara’s hair is doing this season. It is wrong I’m so curious
[9:11:18 PM] Kendra: I assumed it was a long perm? It didn’t look braided anymore.
Amber: @Jordan It is never wrong to be curious! I’m also interested in the switch. I’m pretty sure it’s a long weave. Although, I don’t know how she’s going to maintain that between the heat and all the blood spattering…I’m just sayin.
Show returns to Sookie in Fairyland.
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