I'll stick it out until the end just for some closure, but I'm watching it now with complete detachment from what's happening. The Eric-Jason sex scene and the Eric reveal of last week left me cold.

Episodes one, two and three deserve a place on that list so far. And at this rate, the entire list might be populated with True Blood episodes.

It shows how much goodwill this show has used up that no one cares about the characters dying. Alcide has been badly written since he was introduced with a repetitive and cyclical plotline for each season, so his death caused me to celebrate. He has been useless since the beginning and has worsened every season. His…

TWIST: The Dome is actually an alien Kinder Surprise.

Imagine a good adaptation of Salem's Lot with One for the Road as the epilogue. IMAGINE.

That's exactly what this show needs: the man who gave us Touch and three awful seasons of Heroes. It would be a magnificent monstrosity to behold.

This show is much more enjoyable if you watch it as a 40-minute farce. I think Dean Norris recognises that now because his delivery in the premiere was hilarious in every line. I could have done without watching Dodie finger her hole, though.

I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and one-man band

Because we've been doing it since season one. Why break with tradition now?

I wish someone would just grow a pair and say this to Sookie.

Ah, I've just watched it. You might be right about Holly the Teenage Witch. I'm hoping she casts a spell on the writers to help them write better material.

I think it's a coincidence, but given this show's track record, it will probably turn out that Arlene is some sort of supernatural and her blood is the key to destroying all the H-Vamps.

YAY, BELLA. If it's that easy, she won't mind giving me her "real nice Ford Focus ST" and earning another one for herself. Right? RIGHT?

And also, why doesn't Sookie just use her telepathy like a supernatural lojack? She could drive up and down the streets of Bon Temps, then Shreveport, to seek out Arlene or Holly's thoughts. And why doesn't Holly use some sort of spell to escape? She seemed to do it quite easily in season four.

Look, let's be positive. This episode was marginally better than last week's, so we might actually have a decent episode by the end of the season.

The idea that the show can't kill her off because she's black and lesbian is as repugnant as the idea that they should kill her off because she's black and lesbian.

I was saying the exact same thing about the border collie. Could have been a lion, a panther, something with serious bite, but no. No, Sam decides to be a fluffy doggy.

Why are you/we still watching? Because, like the vampires this show is about, most of us seem to be masochists.

1. Good point. God, those shows are good. And they're even better compared to the mess this show has become.
2. I think they did. I may be wrong.
3. I don't think it was stipulated that he could only come back briefly.
4. She used her powers when she was scared. I would have thought that the onslaught of deadly…

I have some questions about the episode: