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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this season of True Blood is blowing me away! Just when you think it can’t get any more awesome, it goes and packs a whole lot a story into 55 minutes. And what a 55 minutes it was. the title “If You Love Me, why am I Dyin’?” is so fitting. Poor, poor Jason. Won’t somebody help him? He just DOES NOT have any luck with women. I feel so bad for him. He’s in trouble… and it’s just getting started. As for Eric, all I can say is that I’m glad he has both Pam and Sookie to look after him, and boy, is he ever adorable!

“You just killed my Faery Godmother!” ~ this quote by Sookie is absolutely priceless and my favorite quote of the night.

We pick up where we left off with a shirtless, befuddled Eric standing on the side of the road. Sookie is not impressed and reminds him with a “You know perfectly well why I smell the way I smell” and an exnay on the mellsay tone of voice. Eric describes what she smells like out loud and we get a visual on just what Sookie smells like, and it’s no wonder the vampires go nuts for faeries. Wheat, honey… sunlight. As enticing as Eric’s description was, I couldn’t help but think of a Halsa Hair shampoo commercial with a picture of Sookie on it filled with viscous liquid that looks like honey. YUM!

Anyhoo, Eric’s fangs drop involuntarily and Sookie peels away in her little YELLOW car. (A car the color of sunlight? Now I get the color…) Thinking she is a safe distance away, she stops and looks back and there is no sign of Eric… because he is right beside her! He reaches into the car in a blur of movement and makes a grab for her.

Like any faery fearing for her life, Sookie takes off running and of course the enthralled and adorable Eric follows. Sookie being Sookie, she punches him in the face with a defiant “I am not your F-ing dinner!” Point taken. Mr. Northman is effectively cowed.

Eric hilariously calls Sookie “Snookie” (most definitely not! Bleh!) and reveals to Sookie that he has no clue who he is. But he does remember the sea, identifies it as being linked to his “home”. He breaks out his Mother Tongue and gets lost for a moment remembering the horrible events of the night. Namely Marnie’s cold empty eyes reaching into him and emptying him. How horrible! He also sees her face and the face of the spirit. Thank Odin he remembers that much! I’m actually surprised, and it’s vital info if Sookie and Pam are going to be able to help him.

He tells Sookie that everything he was was taken from him. He says this in such a forlorn manner that my heart actually squeezes with empathy. What Eric said obviously got to Sookie too because she decides to help him. She does lay down some ground rules though. No touching and no biting. Eric agrees and as they walk to her car he tells her he’s really grateful to her for her help. Awww! ‘I think Eric is absolutely adorable’ has become my favorite catch phrase for this season. Oh, and ‘Poor, poor Jason’. That’s another phrase running through my head, especially with this episode.

Back at MoonGoddess, Tara’s pissed about the whole Eric thing and so is everyone else. None of them know the extent of what happened to Eric yet. The coven wants to call the police and Lala’s trying to get them to see the stupidity of that move. “Eric is ancient, stupid powerful and he’ll kill all of us!” Well, Lala is right, Eric would kill all of them… if he was the old Eric.

Marnie is putting her own spin on what Eric did. She’s twisting it and turning it into a religion thing saying that Eric busted in on them unprovoked, tried to stop them from practicing their religion, and then attacked them. Again, all unprovoked. Oh, Marnie, you’re good. You should have been a politician. Jesus asks Marnie what she did to get Eric to high tail it out of there. Marnie claims to have no idea. I tell you, I’m not buying what Marnie is selling.

Poor, poor Jason. He’s all bit up lying on that dirty mattress at Crystal’s mercy. While he’s burning up with the fever that will turn him into a were-panther, the Hotshot crew is outside sitting around a campfire gnawing on raw meet right off the bone and talking about their origins and Ghost Daddy, Ghost Mommy and how the Sky People ruined everything. By the next full moon Jason will be a panther, Felton and Crystal will get what they want and then Felton won’t need Jason anymore. Crazy Crystal promises to keep Jason safe. After all she “loves” him, is grateful for everything he’s done and is going to do, and she wants to be with him. Sick. Sick. Sick and twisted.

Bill has just passed the sentence of the true death on a vampire who got caught on video feeding on a human when Jessica comes for visit. Even though she beats around the bush claiming to have come for Advil, Bill cuts to chase. She tells him about her feeding on another willing human that wasn’t Hoyt. Bill tells her to vamp up and tell Hoyt. Better he hear the truth from her than someone else.

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Back at Sookie’s, Eric waits for an invitation from Sookie to enter the house. He doesn’t know yet that it is his house and Sookie isn’t about to enlighten him. Sookie calls Pam at Fangtasia and Pam whooshes over. Sookie is washing Eric’s feet and discovers like the rest of us in another one of this episode’s adorable Eric moments that he’s ticklish. He senses Pam and when she busts in, Eric jumps up from the couch and shouts in a startled voice, “Who the F is she?!?” Totally hilarious.

Pam spills the beans about Eric owning the house which doesn’t make Sookie happy. Eric also finds out about biting Sookie.

This pleases Eric until Sookie succinctly puts him in his place and mentions going to Bill. Pam threatens Sookie and Eric shoves her to the floor and Pam slides across it. She gets up and Eric warns her to be nice to Sookie which is another LOL moment.

Pam is understandably afraid for Eric and believes this entire situation is all part of Bill’s plan to get rid of Eric for good. I agree. It’s decided that Sookie will hide Eric and for her services Sookie wants compensation.

Jessica tells Hoyt what she did and he’s pissed, but not for long because Jess glamours him into forgetting. Convenient and she doesn’t feel good about doing it but she doesn’t want to lose Hoyt. She’s definitely going down a dark path with that move. She’s definitely Bill’s progeny.

Meanwhile Sookie is making sure Eric’s cubby is safe. Here’s a clip.

Lala, Tara and Jesus are back at L and J’s place having talking over the night’s events. Lala’s in favor of going to Fangtasia and throwing themselves upon Eric’s mercy. Tara and Jesus aren’t. They talk Lala out of it, or so they think.

Andy is sitting in the Merlotte’s parking lot and calling Jason since Jason has been missing for 48 hours. Without Jason, Andy can’t stay off the V. Sam appears suddenly and Andy loses it, threatening Sam verbally and with a gun before speeding off with his siren’s blazing.

Sookie visits Alcide in Shreveport asking for his help. At first he thinks Sookie wants him to kill Eric, but before she can tell him everything Debbie comes into the room. She’s clean and sober and she’s found Jesus. In her defense, she really does clean up good. She also wants to earn Sookie’s forgiveness, but I don’t believe it. Caught off guard, Sookie leaves. Alcide follows her outside and isn’t happy when Sookie tells him to nevermind helping with Eric, but she does wish him and Debbie well.

Tara finds Sookie at Merlotte’s and asks Sookie to talk to Eric. Sookie claims not to have seen Eric and that he’s gone missing. When Sam comes up to talk to Tara, Sookie makes a quick escape. Sam and Tara go outside for a drink and to catch up when Jesus shows up and says Lala’s gone. So he and Tara hop in her car off to Fangtasia.

Bill’s at a restaurant trying to get a hold of Eric and having no luck and he’s not happy about it. He’s also having a meeting with Portia and she propositions Bill. Bill accepts after clearly stating that he will never love her. Ouch! Jess gives Mikey the haunted doll and Tommy trying to get Sam to help him swindle Maxine out of her house. Tommy’s got a get rich quick scheme and Sam wants no part in it. He’ll also tell Maxine about the natural gas gold mine she could be sitting on if Tommy doesn’t. This infuriates Tommy and he storms out and that’s it for Sam and Tommy’s truce.

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Sookie returns home to an empty house which is alarming considering the circumstances. Lala is at Fangtasia and Pam is roughing him up a bit in the cellar when Tara appears with a gun loaded with wooden bullets. They strike a deal with Pam who gives them 24 hours to bring Marnie to her and Pam allows them to leave.

At MoonGoddes Marnie is alone and inviting the evil spirit who possessed her to use her as a conduit. She seals the deal with a blood sacrifice by cutting into her arms. She doesn’t know it yet but the spirit is there watching avidly. This one offer the evil spirit won’t be able to refuse.

Things are getting worse for Jason and Crystal is using him against his will and I have a sick feeling she won’t be the only one. I feel so awful for him. He wishes that he never laid eyes on Crystal.

As Sookie is reading a book written by none other than Charlaine Harris a bright light appears outside and that can only mean one thing. Sookie goes outside to find Claudine and the faery is trying to convince Sookie to come back to Faeryland with her. Not a chance in seven hells Claudine! Sookie doesn’t trust Claudine even though Claudine claims to have helped her in the past. Suddenly, who should appear? It’s Eric and he’s hungry.

When Sookie says, “You just killed my faery godmother,” I couldn’t help but laugh. It was priceless! And isn’t Eric’s smile adorable? It’s my favorite scene of the night in an episode that was full of hilarious, shocking and adorable moments. My only complaint was that there wasn’t enough of Eric and Sookie’s storyline. True Blood sure knows how to keep us hooked. Next week should prove to be another whopper of a show too. Check out the preview and be sure to tell me what your favorite moment was tonight.

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The theme in True Blood‘s season 4 so far seems to be one about showing your true colors. It is something both mortals and immortals seem to grapple with no matter the time or place, and in Bon Temps, when a character decides to show their true colors it happens in a most dramatic way. Here is The Scribe’s Desk take on the true colors of our favorite sublime trinity on True Blood.

Sookie – We know she is a faery, we’ve accepted it, but has she? I think she’s still grappling with it. She aspires to be a paragon of virtue and morals, but underneath simmers the blood of the fae — impish, feisty, passionate and magical. If she would just embrace her true self as Eric suggests I think she’d be less conflicted. She needs to free herself from false ideals and just be. Remember when she dumped Talbot down the garburator at Fangtasia’s infront of Russell? That was classic faery behavior. When she laughed wickedly at his obvious rage and anguish she was allowing herself a moment of pure faery abandon. But even that moment was restrained as her human Sookie side wanted to censor such naughty behavior. And remember her saucy comment to Eric last week during their tete a tete about ownership? It’s that kind of Sookie this scribe wishes would come out to play more. She’s a lot more fun and honest.

Eric – Ah, what can I say about Eric? We love him. And we’re excited to finally see him and Sookie get together. The most exciting thing about all this is the fact that he is Eric, but he’s not. Watching Eric as he grapples with his amnesia will be interesting indeed. Thank goodness he’ll have Sookie and Pam to take care of him until he can either get a hold on things or come back to his senses. I think that underneath all his scheming, bad boy and ruthless vampire ways lies a heart that is capable of much love and an individual who once embraced life and all it had to offer. I think this is what the amnesia will reveal to us, a truer Eric. An Eric that resembles a new born vampire without all of Eric’s baggage, but still has all the killer instincts. It’s going to be quite intriguing and fun to watch him “explore” his new found self and his vampire nature as if it is all brand new. It’ll be even more fun to watch him when he comes back to his senses. How much of his true self will we see then?

Bill – Now Bill is an interesting character. On the one hand he is the epitome of the charming and decorum observing southern gentleman vampire. On the other, he is a cold blooded, efficient, duplicitous, deep cover, covert operations, master manipulator, who is as skilled as a procurer as he is as a killer. So which is the real Bill? I think Bill may suffer from a bit of a split personality syndrome. He’s a vampire Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and he certainly hides his baser self from Sookie, except he’s not quite adept at it and she always manages to find out the truth about and behind his misdeeds. When he thought Sookie was gone Bill gave the inner Bill, the part he worked so hard to hide from Sookie, free rein. I mean he would have to wouldn’t he if he was going to have a successful reign as the King of Louisiana. With Sookie’s return, Bill is back to trying to be something he isn’t… at least when Sookie’s around, that is.

Sound off! What’s your take on the true colors of True Blood‘s sublime trinity? Let me know what you think in the comments section!

Tune in next week for more True Blood Thoughts. Next on the true colors list we examine Jason, Tara and Pam.

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True Blood on Sesame Street? They’ll do a True Blood parody, they’ll even do a parody of Law and Order: SVU and nobody hears a peep about it. But there’s a huge hue and cry when Katy Perry shows a teensy bit of cleavage on the antediluvian children’s show? ESPECIALLY when her little video is so cute, funny and creative. What a shame. I don’t get it.

Anyhow, in case you missed it, check out this PG friendly bite of True Blood. It’s True Mud on Sesame Street. Enjoy!

I’ve also included the Katy Perry vid and the SVU vid for you to ponder.

A penny for your thoughts? What’s your take on it?

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