remember it's pretty easy for humans to overpower vampires if they can get some silver on them first. i think vampire strength is insufficient to pull a sliver chain off one's neck.

i also liked maryanne saying, "that's hitting me. you're not committing to this at all."

interview w/ Ball:
this dealie lets people post links, right? read this if for no other reason than the final question and answer. probably contains some spoilers, i suppose:

yeah, you gotta lock that down.

yeah, i didn't think it would be physically impossible for a vampire to use silver as a weapon—something about the idea just struck me as unlikely. like it would be too "unseemly" or they have a psychological as well as physical aversion to it. their world has some funny unwritten rules. of course a vampire could…

now wait a minute: didn't bill say, just one episode ago, when talking to the queen, almost verbatim, "when she thinks she's completed the ritual, that's when she can be killed"? i cannot understand why anyone thinks this part of the finale was confusing.

it seemed more to me that it wasn't the sparkly bling that changed sookie's mind; it was just the symbolic reality of seeing it on her finger and thinking about being mrs. bill. made sense to me.

i liked this more than anyone else, apparently.
i'm surprised by the negative review and the negative comments; i thought this was a surprisingly solid end to the season after a disappointing penultimate episode. i really enjoy the convention of wrapping up a climax half-way through, allowing some decompression time…

(re the queen…) yeah, i just wish they'd picked someone else to portray her. Wood was better than last episode (in which she was *terrible*), but still pretty bad.

yeah, i think we knew from hoyt's mom (during zombie mode) that maryanne was planning on being devoured. and we definitely knew, from the queen, that this was the one moment when maryanne would allow herself to be injured. no WTF necessary.

yeah, i can appreciate what they're doing character-wise with the queen, but ERW portrayed her terribly. she's not doing good acting!

"Todd thinks that because the show occasionally makes a connection that the connection is always there."
we definitely have different interpretations of Todd; i consider him to be assuming that "gay culture" is simply the most forward representation of the overall "vampire = persecuted minority" concept that was…

apparently i don't know my way around the internets as well as you do (and avclub is the only place i ever read about television), but i've been around enough to know that all caps = shouting. you've been shouting at me since pretty early in this conversation, and now you've called me a jackass. you're clearly very…

you might find it less exhausting if you tried to calm down a bit before you post. seriously, you sound like you have some sort of anger problem.

ok, you lost me when you said basically that trying to give an opposing argument the benefit of any doubt is "pussyfooting."

ooh, maybe eric foresaw what maryann was about, and wanted lafayette to drink from him in order to give him some sort of immunity.

but it seems to me that both Emily and Todd have written in a pretty complimentary way about the show, criticizing what they dislike while freely admitting—unironically—that they enjoy the other stuff.

i hope you're not about to argue that true blood is a masterwork of subtle genius.

@belgium: agreed! i also thought the part about jessica being unable to produce biological offspring was evocative. every mom's mind immediately springs to "what, no grandchildren?!"

"why bother comparing when the show isn't asking us to?"