Was one of the worst hours of the show ever, worse than the last season finale which at least was entertaining in its batshit awfulness.

He grew up in Bon Temps, where everyone is stupid. I graded him on a curve.

I am SO thankful this is the last season. Other than the inexplicable interlude of two decent eps in a row a few weeks ago, watching has been excruciating. I could barely make it through the last two weeks.

I cannot celebrate a character who has literally done nothing but stupid things being fleetingly not stupid.

I quit reading the books after #8, but I did read what the last one was about and I wondered that too. It would be so totally random it would piss me off, but probably no more than any other ending they could dream up.

Did all of those people get eaten up outside of Fangtasia though? I don't guess it matters. Bon Temps will just crank more out.

Like many new characters, her existence is baffling. We don't care about her, she only exists to keep other characters apart, now she's kidnapped other characters we don't care about. Although those two kids don't really bug me. Couldn't she have at least had the decency to kidnap Sam's meatsack girlfriend and Lettie…

He shot Tommy, he didn't kill him. I think Tommy became a skinwalker to save Sam and got killed by one of what has been many gross, redneck werewolves. I'm truly sorry I remember any of this.

And with the testing centers and the stickers? yeah, the comparison is pretty clear, although I don't know if they mean it to really be allegory or they are like, "You know, like HIV stuff except different."

Yeah, I pretty much fast forwarded thru Tara speaking for a season or better, but when they vamped her out, she was surprisingly tolerable, and had several interesting directions to go in: friendship with Jessica, romance with Pam, mentoring, uh, that girl that Eric turned.

It's true. If only she could have died on a bender in S1 like God intended, how much better the world would be now.

They've been using that vamps as an allegory for homosexuals angle since the beginning. But since vamps tend to terrorize and murder people on a regular basis, the allegory has been less than ideal. Or maybe they are just borrowing memes from the culture without having any deeper meaning attached. I doubt much thought…

I agree, except I didn't even ass with TVD when it first came on. I'm still catching up on Netflix and watching The Originals live. But the show is so meticulously put together and and for the overwhelming majority of the time, well-acted.

I agree it was awfully slow. They've got some pacing issues, and as usual too many characters no one gives much of a shit about. Is anyone really worried about what happens to Holly's kid? I seriously do not recall his name.

I didn't watch Dexter, but it's not as bad as The L Word final season (I would say, "Speaking of shitty Showtime series…" but I think Dexter was genuinely good at one point.)

Tara wasn't always the most popular character, but she's been a major character since S1 E1. You don't kill her off-screen, jagoffs. Did they learn nothing from X-Men 3?

Actually, I Googled this and found video from PaleyFest of Stephen Moyer talking about they mostly stick to the script but Nelsan is known to improvise (for example, "Ring, ring hooker" which damnit, why have I not made that my ringtone yet.)

They've diverged pretty vastly from the books. Many characters are on the show only-and most of them are quite terrible other than Jessica. Violet, Willa, and Sam's horrible gf are not in the books. Lafayette was killed in the second book, Tara's role was different and much smaller, I don't believe Lettie Mae existed…

Violet has always made me uncomfortable. I'm unclear how the writers expect us to view her. The way she and Jason hooked up was downright rapey, and it's never been made clear that he is with her by choice, other than when he needs her for muscle in a supernatural fight.

yeah that was deja vu of Tara's murder, I had to rewind and thought, "That's it?" If anyone on this show is going to have an explicit all-male sex scene, clearly Eric needs to be involved.