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I think tight storytelling can be accomplished even having one book = one season.

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I think Maryanne is one of those entities that Sam referred to when Sookie asked him what all is out there and he replied something like " more than you know". She does not have Sam's shape shifter powers but was trying to shift with the pig.

Jason's new religion is going to clash with Sookie's lifestyle.

I thought it was a good episode, it certainly left me wanting more, however, I do feel like a glaring plot hole was when Sam and Tara were sitting around when Sookie awoke, as in "the gangs all here" when I get the feeling Maryanne wouldn't let Tara out of her house that easily. She is evil I just don't know what kind yet.

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Well, it could be anyone, really, unless the books say it was definitely Lafayette. I hope not, I thought he was hilarious. And, even if that were him in the car, he doesn't have to be dead...

Now, a more interesting mystery: did Bill feed off Lafayette (or indeed any other human) to get better?

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I think she's a demon or something along the demonic lines. Or that's the vibe I got when she laughed at Tara's suggestion of her being "a Jesus person" or referred to Sam as her pet (I know he can transform into a dog but I was thinking it had more to with her being an evil master) or even a simple thing like that she drives a bright red car.

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She could just be a plain old-fashioned witch. The pig being her "familiar".

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Well he did tell Sookie that he "fed" didn't he?

I was thinking that it was a bit too obvious when it showed those scenes back to back...

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Called it. Along with some others I think.

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I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Eric arrive with the "annoying" vampire girl after Bill had recovered and Lafayette had gone missing?

IIRC, we saw the scene where Lafayette was attacked, followed by Bill showing up at Sookie's, saying he was recovered.

Then, wasn't there a "two weeks later" title card or something?

Following that, we saw Jason in the church, and then the scene with Eric dumping the "annoying" vampire girl on Bill, and then finally the last scene at the bar where they find the body.

This is all from memory, so it could be wrong... and of course they could be deliberatly messing with the timeline... but it seems to me that the annoying girl didn't even show up in town until after Lafyette had been missing for a week or two.

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I just hope whatever got Lafyette was something pretty formidable. He was a strong character and didn't seem afraid of humans or vampires. Seemed like he should have put up some kind of fight. I guess they don't want to give away what happened.

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Good One - or a Female Louis Cyphre (De Niro's Lucifer from Angel Heart)

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Bill showed up healed awfully quick.

He did mention that he fed.

They showed Lafayette getting attacked by something that did not seem human.

I'm putting 2 &2 together.

I think that's what most likely happened to Lafayette

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"I think tight storytelling can be accomplished even having one book = one season."

After the heartbreak of Deadwood I said no more HBO shows. But like it or not, due to my Anna love, I am watching this weekly.

Yes they can do one book a season,but theres alot to cover. I doubt the show will run for 8 or 9 seasons. I dont know how long some of these characters appear in the books and such, but I hope we can at least get some resolution to the characters we're seeing now - in case the show gets the axe down the line.

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There are to many changes from the book to make me totally happy about this series. The show telegraphed who the killer was well in advance which the book did not. There was no Tara. Jason was not such a huge idiot. No crazy Jason's girlfriend. Andy Belfluer wasn't such an a#$hole. Casting, IMHO, hasn't been that good.

And yet, I'm still watching.

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That's exactly what the writers want you to think. It's Mystery 101. Relate two distinctly UNRELATED events (Lafayette getting attacked, Bill saying he fed in the next scene) in the audiences' mind.

It's traditional misdirection. Bill absolutely did not feed on Lafayette. Lafayette was almost certainly killed because he "threatened" the local politician. They showed that in the "Previously on...", meaning that it has relevance to the current episode. I assume it is relevant in the attack.

I can't say I'm too thrilled with the show. 13 episodes for Rene to be the killer?!? Not sure I'll be back for S2. I do appreciate the attractive woman quotient, though.

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Yeah, I seem to be running on the same train of thought as others. No one character or story thread really stood out for me yet I watched the entire show. Maybe because its so atmospheric, I dunno. Must be the pretty woman quotient.

Love the opening credits and song though.

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I agree that there is a misdirection on about Bill feeding on Lafayette, however the "Previously on..." is little indicator of relevance to an episode. On HBO, these tend to be recaps of highlights from the immediately previous episode, instead of refreshers on important details from everything that came before.

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I am well aware of that of that.


Normally I would agree with you. Bill is a bit obvious though It is possible that it could be something other than Bill. The reason why I say "something" is because of the way it was shot.


The jittery motion of the camera.
The POV prospective.
The speed at witch the camera was closing in.

Lafayette looking horrified with "Oh my god.." reaction or something to that effect.

These things suggest to me that it was something that was not human that killed him.

I have also seen this "Classic misdirection" used to make you think that it's not the obvious person and it turns out that it is.

Weather it was Bill or not I agree is debatable.

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i think it's the new vampire that bill made that bit lafeyette .

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This is my thought also. The politician looked pretty pissed after LaFayette left. Seemed odd they would build that up just to have LaFayette killed in an unrelated incident.

Also, considering Bill was buried in the graveyard between Sookie's and his houses, it seems unlikely he would go all the way to the bar to feed, then back to Sookie's place. More likely he found an animal or hit the fridge at his place for some Tru Blood.

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I've never read the books so I may be way off. I think Lafayette was too cool a character to kill off. I could see him being turned rather than killed...if it was in fact a Vampire that got him.

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i just found out that this episode was s1 finale? oh man, =P. does this mean the next s2 will be pickup where this story left off?

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I ended up DVR'ing this show and just watched all the episodes over a span of a few weeks. Another winner for HBO (enough with the "HBO isn't what it used to be" nonsense).

First off, this is one of the few shows where I actually watched/listened to the opening theme song all the way through every episode, even though I had the option to fast forward. I wanna do bad things with you.

I'm not into the whole vampire thing at all, but it didn't matter. 'Six Feet Under' was one of my all time favorite shows, and the Alan Ball influence is very apparent here.

If I had one complaint, it would probably be the whole Tara/Tara's mom story line. When they were on, that was the only time my interest waned. I did like how the exorcism deal turned out to be hoax. With everything else that goes on in the show, it wouldn't have been out of the realm of possibility that that was real.

PLEASE PLEASE don't let Lafayette be dead. He was probably my favorite character. I agree with whoever said he may have been turned. One thing that I didn't see mentioned was that it appeared Lafayette knew whoever (or whatever) was attacking him, that's why I don't think it was the new vamp. Is it possible the body in the car was Tara's mom?

I liked Sookie's observation that Rene's thoughts didn't have an accent.

Glad to see we only have to wait until Summer '09 for the new season.

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Yea, I didnt think that was true, because it seemed like such a short amount of time.

But I guess its been confimred, Season2 this summer.

Just watched the first season on DVD and don't have access to HBO to view the new episodes, so forgive me if some of these issues have already been addressed in the first eps of S2.


I was also waiting for the reveal of how Jason was connected to all this, as the killer seemed to be targeting just the women in his life.  It was pretty disappointing that the killer was just some generic vampire-phobe and that, apparently, the connection to Jason was just coincidental as he sleeps with every woman in town.

I also didn't buy Jason's immediate conversion to the anti-vamp church, especially after making his connection with Eddie.  Though Jason is dumber than dirt, so he may have already forgotten that he actually met at least one vamp that was a decent guy.


I didn't get the impression that Lafayette recognized who (what?) attacked him.  He seemed to recoil in true fright/surprise.  Seems like he would not have reacted that way if he recognized his attacker. 

It sounds like we're going to have a variety of "supernatural" creatures revealed in upcoming seasons, so it could have been almost anything that attacked him.  Not sure if there's any connection to the Senator, though.  Is the Senator really going to risk searching out another boy toy and V supplier?

I was also disappointed that we wouldn't see Lois Smith (Adele Stackhouse) in future eps. She was a great character. I don't quite understand why Rene felt he had to kill her?  He kept screaming, "You weren't supposed to be here," but couldn't he just have invented some other cover story instead of killing Adele ("Hi Ms. Stackhouse.  Sorry to barge in like this, but I really need to find Jason.  Is he here?").

Just watched through the entire first season over the weekend. I was immediately hooked. Fun and creative show with plenty of odd ball characters to keep you entertained. I could see how all of those cliffhanger ends would get annoying during the initial run, but watching them back to back, I liked it. Made me want to just continue watching the next episode, which I kept doing.