The Racialicious True Blood Season Preview Roundtable
Courtesy: Collider.com
Welcome back to another year of picking apart Everybody Loves Sookeh True Blood!
With the season premiere looming on Sunday, we’ve gathered together EIC Latoya Peterson, longtime friend of the R Tami Winfrey Harris and Guest Contributor Kendra James to get the ball rolling on the analysis–including their wishes, predictions, and issues with the trailers heading into this season.
Tami: Real talk. If Tara doesn’t come back as a ghost or zombie or some shit, Alan Ball is dead to me!
Latoya: Ball is out anyway–he must have lost interest when we did, and has spent some time developing ill-fated side projects. I really don’t want to see zombie Tara, but ghost Tara would be dope. Like a pissed off Jiminy Cricket. “Damn it Sookie, why you always running the wrong way?” But she’s back, for a bit. Maybe she and Jesus can haunt stupid people together.
Kendra: Ball’s absence probably explains why Sookie is suddenly repurposing Buffy lines. “Must be Thursday” indeed…
Latoya: Also, can we talk about the Sookie-centric trailers? No shade to Anna Paquin’s acting, but we are officially in “zero fucks were given” zone about her damn vampire soap opera. No, I am not impressed with you sticking Sookie in front of a fucking fan. Do better, marketing team. Can we please just get the threesome over with? Can we make Sookie’s dreams come true? (Because we know she can’t quit them.) This is one of those times when fan service would be worthwhile. If we aren’t going to flesh out the plot, I’m going to need to see some more flesh. A scene with Alcide chopping wood, perhaps?
Arturo: Hate to cut in, but you’re referring to this, right?
Latoya: Nah, I was watching one pre-Game of Thrones that was just Sookie for 10 seconds. I hate that one, too. And there is still nothing as awesome as the greatest fan vid of all time:
Tami: At least it looks like folks are gonna start calling Sooks on her shit. Example: the parts in trailer #2 when Laffy calls her “the angel of death” and Alcide says “I know you’re strong, but do you have to be stupid, too?” Of course, the same trailer leads me to believe that Sookie and Alcide get it on, so stupidity and dangerousness aside, it still seems like she’s still catnip to every man and supe in town. Meanwhile, my girl Tara is dead. *sucks teeth and issues sigh heavy with righteous indignance over the treatment of black, female characters*
Latoya: And what happened to the Faerie wars? Is that just over? We came, we saw, we blew things up? On the good news thing, Russell is back. But still sans Talbot. I miss Jar-Talbot. Church of Light rides again, though Jason has come too far to be caught in that again. (So we hope). I never thought I’d say this, but he needs another love interest. Yes, I know, they’re just going to kill her, but I like his development when he’s with someone. If he’s not in a relationship, it seems like his only cues are “run and look perplexed.”
Tami: Do not speak of the Faerie wars. I encourage True Blood‘s new showrunner to leave that where Ball left it. Having read all of Charlaine Harris’ dreadful Southern Vampire Series, I assure you this is a plotline that viewers are lucky to miss.
I’m much more excited by the return of King Russell and I have my fingers crossed that Denis O’Hare gets lots more scenery-chewing monologues like this one:
We want to eat you … after we eat your children.
Oh, your royal highness, we have missed you so.
Looks like the show is indulging in a wee bit of fan service by teaming Eric and Bill again to stalk the night in black leather on some mission or another.
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