S6 - EP10 "Radioactive" [*SPOILERS WITHIN*]

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Jason feels a vampire attraction firsthand; and Bill finds that salvation isn't free. Meanwhile, Sookie considers her future with Warlow as a new crisis poses a threat to humans and vampires alike.

Kirby

Better.........

tvnutz

What was that? Jaysus.

CastorTroy

Random wee girl on her own in church can't just be random wee girl on her own in church.

Is that the first big jump they've made since the series started? Up until that 6 month gap, if I remember correctly, there has been no jump in time.

Oh and how could Eric get out of that one? They couldn't have just killed him off like that.

And poor Jason.

oxygen

Did anyone else think the last segment of that was awesome? Everything past the 6 months later part. Hear me out.....

I really hated this season, but still watched all 10 episodes just in case it got good. It did not It had a vampire concentration camp, an evil pixie Suckie has been promised to etc but it just felt goofy. The original very dark premise of this show has been gone since season 2 or 3. But it looked like in the last segment they were setting up a way more serious and dark coming season. There were two scenes I was very impressed with.

- The scene between Terra and her mother was true blood getting back to some proper characterisation, acting and great writing.

- The scene between Andy Bellefluer and Jessica was excellent. I havent seen Andy Belleflueracting properly since... well since The Wire really. The acting, directing, cinematography, soundtrack in that scene is better than anything I have seen on the show in years.

I hope they handle the packs of vampire zombies attacking small towns in the next season allot better than they have handled any story line over the last 3 years. I say this every season but I think next season will be a return to form for this show.

iguana

CastorTroy wrote: »

Up until that 6 month gap, if I remember correctly, there has been no jump in time.

There was a year long gap between series 3 and 4 while Sookie was in fairyland for a few minutes.

CastorTroy

Ah, yeah. Forgot about that.

charlietheminxx

I cannot BELIEVE they killed Eric off that way. It was so anti climatic. Great episode in general though.

maik3n

charlietheminxx wrote: »

I cannot BELIEVE they killed Eric off that way. It was so anti climatic. Great episode in general though.

We didn't actually see him burn to ash, so I wouldn't count him out just yet.
I'd say it's a safe bet that SuperPam will probably come to the rescue. :P

Getting back to the finale, is it just me or is anyone else a bit surprised about how cavalier all the scooby gang are with Jason becoming Violets pet, lol.

While you could argue, it is a ''marriage'' of convenience now, what with the hep V outbreak, I thought Sookie, Tara, Jessica, maybe even Andy included might kick up some bit of fuss about it?

After Sookie being nearly every vampires pet for the past 6 seasons, I thought she of all people would be livid to think that Jason was in the same boat now.

Liamalone

maik3n wrote: »

We didn't actually see him burn to ash, so I wouldn't count him out just yet.
I'd say it's a safe bet that SuperPam will probably come to the rescue. :P

Will SuperPam not be NormalPam now though. Poor way for Eric to bow out though.

tommy2bad

I really hope that not the end of Eric, he was my favorite. Posibly Goldric and Eric to sort things out in the end?
Best episode of the season tho the bar was low to begin with.

Zombie Vamps gota love em!

maik3n

Liamalone wrote: »

Will SuperPam not be NormalPam now though. Poor way for Eric to bow out though.

You could well be right, although depending on how fast SuperPam is and how much of a timeframe their is/was between Pam leaving the scooby gang and the final showdown with Warlow happening, I'm thinking she could well reach him just in time to fly them both underground. :P

iguana

How are those with Hep V zompires? Nora just became weaker and weaker until she died fairly shortly after infection.

Jofspring

I think they are just normal vampires but with no supplies of True blood the vampires have been feeding off humans again. I am taking it that since the Hep V outbreak that the vampires are staying away from True Blood and there is a bigger divide now between the Humans and Vamps.

Redisle

It actually seemed kind of underwhelming as a finale. I thought the last few episodes leading up to this weren't bad but this felt very rushed. The 6 month jump in particular. Warlow killed off nice and clean.. the grandfather coming back.. Sookie and Alcide... Sam with a new job. Just wrapped everything up in a neat bundle / reset it all and then the introduction of what seems like a single plot for next season (open vampire attacks), Not sure if I'll be too bothered about watching season 7 really.

iguana

One thing I thought at the end was that it's very shortsighted of Andy to answer the door at night. If it's vampires looking to eat his Adaleen, they'll just glamour him, make them invite him in and she'll be dead. If she answers the door, she can't be glamoured and can just close the door and sit tight 'til morning. It might seem safest to keep her away from the door but it's the opposite.

CastorTroy

iguana wrote: »

How are those with Hep V zompires? Nora just became weaker and weaker until she died fairly shortly after infection.

Buffy comic reader as well?

I wondered that as well, but then remembered the tv mentioning how the virus was mutating. This combined with Sam's announcement about having healthy vampires to take on the weaker infected packs that were forming leads me to think they're infected.

Thargor

Jofspring wrote: »

I think they are just normal vampires but with no supplies of True blood the vampires have been feeding off humans again. I am taking it that since the Hep V outbreak that the vampires are staying away from True Blood and there is a bigger divide now between the Humans and Vamps.

No, 1/8 of vampires are now infected, Sam says that clean vampires are stronger than these zombie types etc. Those are infected not hungry.

Jofspring

Could be an interesting season ahead so. Unless they nip it in the bud early.


So Basically if you take the last two seasons together the first one with the whole council/Lilith story line was really just a build up to saving a few vampires from dying in the next season.

Bill getting his powers was pointless enough in the grander scheme of things as he didn't really ever use them barr a little bit on Warlow.

To me the last two seasons have fairly pointless over all and there certainly was better potential there with bill getting these powers by drinking the blood of a vampire god. For them to end up just being used to save a couple of vampires seems silly.

Syferus

Very enjoyable episode, time jump and all. They really have given up attempting to blend seasons into an over-arching storyline at this stage, the whiplash of the jump doesn't exactly scream top class writing.

The Warlow turn seemed sudden, though, even if it tied up one loose end. I think we can safely assume Eric is still alive.

A little generic to end the season on that note, how many times have we had a mass vampire attack now? Maybe a non-red-shirt character dies in episode one but I doubt it.

Liamalone

Syferus wrote: »

I think we can safely assume Eric is still alive.

Why might I ask?

Thargor

They didnt show him burst into goo, Im guessing he'll super-speed burrow down into that glacier.

Syferus

Liamalone wrote: »

Why might I ask?

Rule #1 of television/film is if you didn't definitively see someone die they ain't dead and will certainly reappear in some form in the future.

It's actually such a cynical attempt to elicit a reaction that it is objectively poor writing. In the moment Eric is burning you think it's possible it's going to happen but the moment they cut away without him dying you know they're pulling a fast one.

Liamalone

Poor writing indeed as anybody able to save him (Pam) should be suffering too and burning in the sun surely incapacitates vampires enough so that self rescue is improbable if not impossible.

oxygen

Didnt Bill get staked turn into a pile of goo and still rise from the dead, as Bill(ith)

Eric is so going to be back the next season. He will just turn up at episode 6 or 7 I think

tommy2bad

I'm thinking as a spirit, like Goldric or Obi Wan!

Yakuza

iguana wrote: »

One thing I thought at the end was that it's very shortsighted of Andy to answer the door at night. If it's vampires looking to eat his Adaleen, they'll just glamour him, make them invite him in and she'll be dead. If she answers the door, she can't be glamoured and can just close the door and sit tight 'til morning. It might seem safest to keep her away from the door but it's the opposite.

They have contact lenses that counter glamouring now. I'd imagine any law enforcement officer would be issued them and wear them at all times (waking times at least).