Oh, those silly Vampires. True Blood’s second season came to an end on HBO last night with the part-goddess (wannabee) and part vibrator Maryann meeting her long overdue and much deserved end, and things finally getting back to the Bon Temps whacked out version of normal for a few minutes before Alan Ball and company unleashed a pack of cliff-hangers designed to assure we tune in next season. In case you missed it, here are a few bullets from the True Blood finale.
- Eric’s trip to the vampire queen suggested a few things. First, Sookie’s fairy cousin [no that is not a gay slur, she really is a fairy… I think] helps the queen cheat at Yahtzee. I think. Most importantly, the blood Eric is peddling comes from the queen herself. Wowza. So she is trying to become a sort of psychic big brother? Unfortunately, Eric’s season two story-line came to an end right there and we didn’t get to see him participate in any of the Maryann stomping.
- About Maryann. Okay, first of all let’s get full disclosure dealt with. I thought this arc was thoroughly boring. The vibrating thing was just odd, and the constant orgies were passe. The revelers were plain old annoying. So her death was highly anticipated for this fan boy, and long overdue. Sam was able to trick her by drinking some of Bill’s blood after being ‘sacrificed’ and turning into a giant white buffalo, or something, and then drove his horn through her heart – promptly squishing it. Seemed a little too easy, but at least it is over.
- The Hoyt and Jessica sub-plot got a little more complicated when Jessica decided to start killing truck drivers. Hoyt was waiting at Vampire Bill’s house to apologize to Jessica, so there is hope – I suppose.
- Eggs recovered his memories from the blackouts – with Sookie’s help – and discovered he was Maryann’s knife boy, performing all of the open heart surgeries on her victims. Later he tried to confess to Andy, but Jason saw it as Eggs about to murder the detective and wound up putting a bullet through his head. Andy took the gun and is going to say that he fired it, but now Jason has to live with having killed an innocent man. Ouch.
- Sam is on the road to try to find out his parents, and it turns out that his blood parents are pretty evil – or so it seems.
- Sookie and Bill. That’s what it is all about, right? Bill proposed to Sookie, but was kidnapped before he could hear her say yes. The ‘person’ who kidnapped Bill was wearing gloves to brandish the silver chain, so it’s a safe bet it was a vampire – and a safer bet it was Eric, since he the Queen had instructed him to take care of Bill earlier before the southern dead man exposed their v-dealing shenanigans.
Overall, it’s been a great season for True Blood. I would have rather seen the Maryann arc put to bed earlier, but it’s pretty much impossible to dislike the series. I will say there seemed to be a massive shift in the storytelling style of the show to more fantasy or action dominated threads. I found myself missing the glimpses of Bon Temps everyday life. On that note, the scene at the end of the finale, when the camera just crept through Merlotte’s eavesdropping on the locals as they gave the events a country-bumpkin download, turned out to be one of my favorites. What did you think of the True Blood finale? Sound off in the comments.
