Did Eric Die
Presumably Eric bursting into flames after some full frontal flashing means that fan favorite Alexander Skarsg rd has indeed been killed off. Or was he While we sure do see all of Eric Northman s body what we don t see is that body fully disintegrated. When the camera pans away Eric is on fire but still alive writhing in pain.
Related Frederick's Flying Dog beer makes it to 'True Blood' 'True Blood' recap 'Dead Meat'Then there s Pam. She left early on in last night s episode to go find her maker. She never reappears in Bon Temps and we aren t made privy to the reason for her absence. This is obviously meant to suggest that she might be busy tending to a recovering Eric s burns. Or she could just be taking her time mourning his loss. That s why they call it a cliffhanger kids.
Also why was Eric even in a lounge chair in his birthday suit on a mountaintop in Sweden He s too smart not to have considered that the faerie blood might wear off at some point. Was this a terrible accident or was it a planned suicide Either way Eric s death would be a very unwelcomed change to the True Blood universe.
Ain t No Party Like a Daywalking Party
The most enjoyable scenes from the finale happen right at its start. The daywalking vampires return to the Compton manor and celebrate their escape from vamp camp and ability to be outside without burning up. It s one part vampire orgy one part spring break vacay and all parts good old fashioned True Blood fun. Jason and Violet square off against Jess and James in a jealousy infused volleyball game set to the tune of The Breeders Cannonball. Later Sookie meets her brother s new lover slash master and Violet enthusiastically plants a wet kiss on Sookie s mouth. It s cause Violet s European Jason explains to his confused little sis.
The wet blanket of course is Bill. He s sulking in his office and when Jess asks why he explains that his powers have disappeared. He can t feel Lilith anymore and is back to being plain ordinary Bill Compton. Jess isn t sure why this is a bad thing until Bill explains that their freedom came with a price tag named Sookie Stackhouse. She s about to be turned by Warlow and those Billith powers probably would have helped stop that. Nevertheless Jess prods Bill into action. They go to Jason who gives them all the Warlow dirt he has. Despite being ticked off that Bill encouraged Sookie to agree to Warlow s ultimatum Jason wisely decides that the priority is saving Sookie. Looks like the party is over.
Danger Whore No More
After Terry s funeral Sookie returns to the faerie dimension to find that Warlow has built her a maypole so that they can perform a faerie wedding ceremony. When Sookie protests that she needs more time to decide about eternity now that her friends aren t facing their imminent demise Warlow turns into the evil vampire we first met back in Sookie s bathroom. As Warlow so sweetly puts it to his intended It turns out that I do just want to f you and own you and use you for your blood.
Luckily with Adilyn Bellefleur s help Bill makes it to Sookie just as Warlow begins to feed on her. Jason carries his sister home to safety leaving Bill to finish off Warlow. Except he doesn t and Warlow escapes faerie land and shows up at Casa Stackhouse where he finds a weakened Sookie futilely trying to make her vampire killing ball of light appear. Warlow is ready to finish what he started when Grandpa Niall shows up via black swirly portal and grabs Warlow as Jason runs in and stakes him through the heart. Unlike Eric Warlow is absolutely definitely dead he turns in a puddle of gooey blood on the floor.
Six Months Later
After Warlow s death we (abruptly) jump six months into the future. A lot has changed in Bon Temps and almost none of it makes sense.
Sam Merlotte is mayor despite having zero qualifications for the job. And seeing as mayoring takes up quite a bit of time Arlene now runs Merlotte s which has been jarringly renamed Bellefleur s Bar Grill. Bill is on television being interviewed about his bestselling book about his time as a god. Sookie is watching the interview from her house and although she gazes at the screen longingly it s a shirtless Alcide that she s shacking up with. Also shacking up are Jason and Violet although Violet still won t let Jason have sex with her. He even built her a lux girly basement lair Super unfair.
Hep V has mutated and no longer destroys infected vamps. The virus now turns vampires into murderous zombies prone to nighttime killing sprees. United by this new common enemy humans and uninfected vampires are pairing up in a mutually beneficial arrangement thought up by Bill and Mayor Merlotte the vampires get to feed and in exchange they defend the humans against the zombie fangers.
Not everyone is on board with this plan. Andy and Adilyn aren t interested in help from vampires not even when Jess shows up at their door and begs them to let her protect them no feeding required. She just wants to assuage her guilt over killing Adilyn s sisters. Justifiably still pissed off about that Andy slams the door in Jessica s face. But he doesn t shoot her and the camera lingers on Jess as she stands guard over the Bellefleur house despite Andy s refusing her offer.
Also without a vampire protector is Sookie and Bill would like to change that. Alcide growls at Bill s offer to assist Sookie but doesn t exactly deny that she might be better off with Bill around. It s Sookie who firmly refuses Bill noting that even at when he s at his best she can t trust him. That s when Bill and Alcide both smell something funny it s an oncoming swarm of infected zombie vampires. Will the uninfected vampires and humans be able to fight them off We ll have to wait until next season to find out.
Loose Ends
The finale mostly managed to bring all of the season s different storylines together setting up a Season 7 that will be focused on a battle between the infected zombie vamps and the humans and uninfected vampires.
But questions abound What happened to Grandpa Niall after Sookie and Jason yanked him out of the portal Why is Sookie playing house with Alcide when she s totally into Bill again Is Nicole going to give birth to a half shifter and why do I care And zombies Really Technically the writers didn t introduce a new species but c mon. And then there is the most pressing question of all is Eric dead Where is Pam Can I stand to watch a True Blood that doesn t include these two
Despite some serious reservations about where the show is headed I ll be tuning in to Season 7 to get some answers. Will you Let us know in the replies.
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