This World Is Not Enough: The Racialicious Roundtable For True Blood 5.9
This week, I asked Arturo what it was like recapping Heroes near the end. He said in the beginning, all of his friends would head to the bar after the show because they were eager to discuss what had happened. When things spun into a decline, they stopped going to the bar afterward. Considering that I had to browbeat the Roundtable into putting in comments for this week, I think adding a bar to the mix might improve everyone’s mood. This week, Joe, Carly, Alea, and Tami try to hold on for the last few eps.
Will Russell Edgington Please Report For Duty?Latoya: Please tell me Russell is up to an EPIC betrayal. Because I am about to start changing the damn channel or painting my toes or something.
Carly: He has to be. There is just nothing about him that equals “follower.” And I may be wrong, but isn’t he the only one comparable to Salome age-wise?
Alea: I believe so. I’m still utterly baffled by why she thought freeing Russell was a good idea, but the look she gave him and Steve after the latter’s attempt to say grace makes me think that she’s beginning to see the ideological chasm between them. Love the pantsuit, though.
Gratuitous Aside, #1
Alea: Tina Majorino. Siiigh. Such a freaking dreamboat.
Joe: I hope, after this is all over, she isn’t a pile of goo and somehow becomes the leader of the authority. I could really get behind a technorati vamp president.
Lala The Fly MediumLatoya: Wow, an actual normal conversation between Sookie and Lafayette. Like actual people.
Alea: But she only asked him over there because she needed help.
Carly: Thank you, Ghost reference!
Joe: His mirror vogueing was the highlight of my Sunday.
Alea: It was blue steel times magnum to the infinity plus one power, and those eyelashes are fierce. Werrrrk.
Latoya: You know, Lafayette’s control of his power is awfully specific to plot needs…
Tami: He has become, literally, a magical Negro. At least he’s trying to get paid.
Carly: I do appreciate them leaving out apparitions and sound effects for when he hears people. I feel like that would just make it silly. OK, even sillier.
Joe: Save for that very Harry-Potter-type-ghost-thing last week.
Alea: “Gmail for dead bitches”–I wonder just how many dead people are in that room besides Gran.
O Hai, Kenya!Alea: I very much appreciate the real talk that Kenya is giving Jess about Hoyt’s actions. Not shooting an ex in the head does not actually equal still loving her.
Joe: I appreciate that Kenya had more than one line this episode.
Tami: I hate when Kenya pops up–only because it reminds me that, if life and the Sookieverse were fair, she would be sheriff or at least Andy’s deputy. Instead, Andy bumbles about and Jason wins a sidekick spot by shooting a black man in the head.
Well…At Least She Got More Screen-time…Latoya: You know I really had high hopes for this Sam/Luna subplot, but it is just not going anywhere.
Alea: I found their exchange a tiny bit endearing (even if the lit major in me got stuck on the fact that Sleeping Beauty would have been a way more apposite reference than The Princess and the Pea).
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