True Blood Scoop: Alexander Skarsgard’s Season 7 Fate Revealed! Plus — EP Talks That Nude Scene, Bill-Sookie-Alcide Triangle and More
Although I know all you True Blood fans are all still busy mourning Eric’s (apparent) demise, I suspect you’ll want to take a break from your weeping to read what showrunner Brian Buckner has to say about Alexander Skarsgard’s future involvement with HBO’s monster smash.
For that matter, you’ll probably also be keen to read in this exclusive Season 6 post-mortem/Season 7 preview how the boss explains the lack of Sookie-Alcide sex in the finale and how he plans to reset Bill now that he’s no longer the godly Billith.
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And yes, just for good measure, he’ll also reveal how much prodding it took to get Skarsgard to go full frontal for his “final” scene (hint: none at all!), and why Season 7 will not be taking a page from The Walking Dead.
TVLINE | The big question coming out of the finale, obviously…
Let me guess. [Laughs]
TVLINE | Alexander Skarsgard — will he be back for Season 7?
I can tell you that Alexander Skarsgard is going to be a part of the next season of True Blood. He will be a series regular.
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TVLINE | That will be a huge relief to fans.
I am aware! I’m not going to take Alex Skarsgard out of people’s living rooms.
TVLINE | I’m guessing Eric won’t suddenly be alive and well in the Season 7 premiere.
No. That would be a cheat, wouldn’t it? That would be an incredible cheat. Pam has gone off in search of Eric, and maybe she’s going to be the one to find him, y’know?
TVLINE | Let’s talk about Alexander’s nude scene. Full-frontal nudity on a guy is not something you see often on television.
Correct.
TVLINE | What kind of behind-the-scenes conversations took place prior to shooting?
Alex Skarsgard was the coolest camper in the world. There’s no conversation with him. He’s Swedish. They’re naked all the time. As a matter of fact, when I saw what we had on camera, I sent him an email that said, “We’re going to lock picture. Are you OK with this?” He said, “No problemo.” That was the conversation. It couldn’t have been easier.
TVLINE | Did the reaction surprise you — or him? Probably not.
I think sometimes we are impressed by how much people care. But I don’t think that people care was a surprise. He knew the gift he was giving everybody. [Laughs]
TVLINE | Moving on, talk to me about the decision to jump ahead six months.
Look, we’re going into a seventh season. I’m aware that people like the familiar, but we have to change. We have to be able to pivot. There were bits of story in there that I didn’t necessarily, nor did any of the other writers, want to show. The fallout from what Bill had done… Ours is a show that is so constrained by [our narrative structure]. We’re not 24, but we’re damn close – and sometimes it’s really refreshing to be able to shuffle the deck. For me, it’s fun. We will obviously pick up some of the pieces and explain how certain things happened. But what I think some people found jarring, to me was really refreshing. It was that: The world has changed, this virus has mutated, and this is the way the world is going to look now. Meanwhile, life beats on in this small town.
TVLINE | The show has flirted with a Sookie and Alcide romance for years. Why was now the right time to pull the trigger on that?
In a world where almost everybody is a creature of some kind, Alcide is the most human of all of our creatures. Now, that’s not to say that it was his most human season. We all felt the same thing that the audience was feeling, which was that Alcide needed to come back to center. So it was that as much as anything else. And it was also that Sookie’s going to put her money where her mouth is and say “no more vampires.” She got into it with Warlow without knowing he was a vampire, so she was trying. But this shows growth for Sookie. I mean, I suppose he’s a hunk, so at least she’s still getting her piece. [Laughs] He’s the most normal, most human, most down-to-earth of any of her suitors. To me, with Eric gone and off on his own story going forward, I think it’s a pretty obvious triangle we’re setting up between Bill and Sookie and Alcide.
TVLINE | The time jump deprived us of their courtship though.
Well, yeah. We skipped stuff, which is not to say that the audience is going to be deprived of love scenes [between them] going forward. But truthfully, the Jason/Violet love scene that the audience did get [in the finale] – or, just shy of love, I suppose – if I had those scenes back-to-back, it would’ve been really pandering. The Jason/Violet [sex scene] was more on story, because that was set up between them. She promised that she was going to make him work for it, and that was the payoff.
TVLINE | Are you looking at Season 7 as a reset of sorts for Bill?
Absolutely. We don’t want Bill to be an a—hole. Whereas the show that I love watching most right now, Breaking Bad, Walter White is on a downward trajectory with the consequences of his actions. The question we’re going to be asking this coming season is: Can Bill be forgiven? Because he made his intentions clear. One thing that I noticed – and I probably shouldn’t read as much as I’ve been reading, but I have been, in terms of audience reaction – is the idea that characters can’t change. I will put to bed one thing for you: this idea that Lettie Mae is trying to poison Tara? It’s absurd. That is genuine. And I realize that on our show, because it’s been so incredibly plot-driven for the past several years, you insert a Big Bad and then have the characters react in the way we expect them to react. That’s sort of what’s been going on. When we let characters change, when we let the show be character-driven, I think people don’t know what to do with that. So with Lettie Mae and Tara, not to say that everything is going to go great, but the conflict is not going to be she’s poisoning Tara. By the same token, I think Bill doesn’t have a trick up his sleeve this time. I think he’s genuine. The real question is about forgiveness.
TVLINE | What do you see as the theme of Season 7?
The show started out as, “Let’s see if vampires and humans can get along.” We’re returning to that original promise of the show. And because humans and vampires are being forced together, we’re going to be examining that with all of our characters. Everyone’s going to come under the umbrella of that main story. These are complicated relationships now because they’re feeding – it’s not necessarily sex, but things get confused sometimes, especially in vampires’ minds – so you’re going to be looking at a number of complicated three-way, four-way relationships.
TVLINE | All the humans will be paired with a vampire, essentially?
For every human a vampire; for every vampire a human.
TVLINE | The gang that appeared in the finale, they were all infected with Hep V?
Correct.
TVLINE | How do you explain the fact that some of those infected — Nora, for example — died quickly, yet others are wandering around.
We did say that the virus had mutated, and we get to decide what those mutations are. Perhaps the demand for human blood goes up and that’s the only thing that keeps vampires with Hep V alive. In seasons past – I’m not going to point to any one of them – we took some massive swings, not knowing where we were going. That’s the nature of what we do. In this case, I don’t believe we bit off more than we can chew. I’m not going to give answers to all these things, but the virus has mutated. That’s another reason for the time passage. Just like bacteria mutates and that’s why there are antibiotic-resistant strains. So what applied to Nora doesn’t necessarily apply to this gang. And they’re not zombies.
TVLINE | What are they? Is there a name for them?
In my somewhat limited zombie-genre experience, zombies are not organized. They’re just hunting-killing machines. So what was meant to come across there was that they’re organized, they’re in a formation, they’re hunting, they’re sentient, they can talk. They still have intellect.
TVLINE | There was definitely a Walking Dead vibe in that last scene. Was there any concern that people were going to look at that and go, “Ah, they’re jumping on the zombie bandwagon?”
Sure. Of course, it was a debate in the writers’ room. The logical conclusion to a season about Hep V getting out there in the world has to be [that] there’s Hep V-infected vampires… but we’re not going to do The Walking Dead season of True Blood. Truthfully, all of this is about forcing humans and vampires into relationships. It’s not going to be a plot device the way people are familiar with us introducing a Big Bad at the end of a season.
I’m shocked. I was actually surprised anyone actually thought that because it was so obvious he wasn’t going to die.
Well yeah. No bloody goo, no death.
No, because killing of Eric would mean a great loss in viewers
Attractive a-hole vampires are very popular.
To be fair, Eric is the patriarch of an impressive vampire dynasty: Pam, Tara, Willa they all depend on the viking to either learn how to fly, hunt werewolves on V or plain survive their first year as baby vampires,
Pam is capable of taking herself. And it would only be ‘fair’ if he actually taught them those things and didn’t abandon Willa.
Which must explain Bill’s continued popularity, especially with the writers. Bill on TB is a much more interesting character than in Harri’s books. But the continued attempt of TB’s writers to overlook what he’s actually done and ‘reset’ him to the whole gentleman vampire Bill illusion from S1 is more than a bit annoying.
Yes, yes they are. ;P
However true that would be, what I was getting at is that they did not show him melt into a pile of muck and it shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who’s been watching the show that he’s going to be back.
I heard in the media Skarsgard was leaving the show… Glad to hear he isnt… :D
Thank goodness True Blood is not having “Zombies” brought into the mix!! My husband and I watch True Blood religiously and while I was freaking out about Eric bursting into flames, he was ticked off when he thought there were going to be “Zombie Vamps” thrown into the mix. Now I have to inform him that there will be no “Zombies” next season so he wont stop watching the show with me! And I must say, It did bring tears to my eyes when Terry was killed off the show! :( But of course I cannot wait until next season!
Yes, I just knew Eric didn’t die, Pam will save him! I wish Alcide kept his long hair and stayed away from Sookie, or at least let us see them dating first! I still always want to see her with Bill. I thought Eric gave up on her too easy. I hope the show goes on for more seasons, and not just once a year! I also don’t like when TPTB kill off major awesome and entertaining characters so fast, I was so excited with The authority King from Law & Order SVU (I know this actor so well I am just blank right now to his name), then he was killed off so fast, and then Russell too soon, and now Warlow, was gone so soon? crazy and stupid! The oldest most powerful vampire plus part fairie? Ridiculous! I hope they give us a good triangle with Bill, Alcide and Sookie and stop making her say dumb things! And, please stop with the soft porn sex scenes, it’s disgusting and goes on too long. The best sex/love scene in all of True Blood’s seasons was in Season One with Sookie and Bill’s first time, it was so hot and romantic and so dangerous and hot. And, it didn’t drag on like this last one with Jason and his vampire! Yuk! True Blood does not need to waste time on porn!
Yes IT DOES! It is not a waste of time! Meaningless dialogue is a waste of time.
Well im sorry to tell u if you haven’t heard by now season 7 will be the last and final season of True Blood. I don’t know why they have to end the show after only 7 short seasons leaving fans very angry!
I am hoping if enough fans complain maybe the writers with come up with another season after 7 or change the show’s name and continue
When they showed Pam leave to look for Eric, that obviously meant she would find him and save him! I knew they wouldn’t just kill him off or remove him from the show. I figure Pam will find him in the nick of time and go to ground with him. I was just thinking if they did kill him, I hope they’re not going to hav him return as a ghost!
Now that I’m aware the show will end after season 7 I am deeply saddened . This show is a favorite to many of us, I surely hope it’s not ending bc they don’t know where to go next. Even with the story lines as they are, I can think of so much more to add to the show to make it thrive beautifully. I wish something would happen to keep it on the air a few more seasons.
Some say its bc they will age, vampires don’t age abviously. I don’t see that as a prob because 1. I’m so in to the show I don’t pay attention to that, there really aren’t any noticeable changes anyways. And 2.) they’re all young enough that its not like they will suddenly wrinkle up and look hideous!
I think if they listen to some of their viewers opinions and try this show could become even more popular than before, ik a few ppl who just started watching and I’m sure that number will increase.
I Agree with you. I can make up at least three more seasons of True blood without having to watch the show. I’d explore tara and lala’s family tree. maybe have a few hidden relatives pop up, like maybe tara’s grandma, and lala’s mom. Have them show where lala’s ability comes from, even hint at Tara having magic if she wasn’t turned.
I am so upset this is the last season. If it has to end, they better have it end with no lose ends, the way that Charmed ended.
I really don’t want Eric to die like he was the reason I kept on watching the show but although the person interviewed said he is a series regular he never said if eric will ba alive or not . maybe he can appear in flash backs or something :(
Glad to hear they aren’t killing Eric off. I don’t like sookie with alcide at all, they don’t have good chemistry. I would love to see her back with Eric or Bill. I have a feeling since this is the last season they will go back to the roots of the show and fix everyone’s relationships. As much as I hate to say this, I think it’s time for true blood to end because honestly the last few seasons especially season 6 was not as good as all the other ones. I can tell the writers have changed. Too bad Alan ball left. I think his vision was key to the success of true blood..
Alexander should tell his little brother to get with the program, then
What do you mean? Nudity? He’s done plenty.
We want to see Bill Skarsgaard’s c**k, is what we’re saying! :D
Bill Skarsgard did show his c**k, actually. He got it licked and everything. Look it up. xD
Your comment doesn’t even make sense>>>>>who the hell is Bill Skarsgard????? you live in a strange universe…Laters Taters
Ok…true that is off topic this one,but if you check a little about Alexander Sskarsgard you will see that he has a family also,actors too..if you want to know who is Bill, i recomend you a good series Hemlock Grove
I take it u haven’t seen Behind Blue Skies….. Bill has a full frontal nude scene in it within the first 5 mins of the show
Bill? Don’t you mean Alexander.
No, I’m sure they mean Alex’s younger brother Bill. He’s a real cutie.
Whats the point of his death as a cliffhanger if the writter already gave his fate away?
People have never watched television before and were flipping out.
Because Eric fans were not going to wait around for season 7 to see if Eric really survived. All you have to do is read the comments to see a lot of angry fans declaring they are done with the show.
Really? That’s sad. But that would have been among the most stupid and pointless TV deaths if they had gone all the way. Steve Newlin had a better death than that.
Please tell Bucky that he is on the wrong track and needs to do some real research about fan expectationss. I help run a blog plus one of my own and I can tell you what fans want because they express it. They want consistency within the plots and a good well-driven story that makes sense when all is said and done. We never really get that from True Blood.
What we got in season 6 was a long drawn out plot(s) that went nowhere and had an unsatisfying ending(s). Example: Bill had the power to free the vamps at the camp in episode 4 and did not nothing but sit on his butt and wait for Sookie to hand over Ben so he could get his blood. Bill already had drank that allowed him to enter the camp during the day and he could have done what Eric ended up doing long before episode nine. Sookie did not have to make the deal she did.
Then Bill’s job was supposedly done and Liltith was gone. Also I though Ben was this uber strong vampire and they let him waste that away tied to a gravestone for most of the season. Email me Bucky or any member of this fandom that runs a blog (or even a person who does not run one) and we will tell you the truth about where this show goes wrong. First thing is continutity and believability and your writers suck at both but tthat is only the tip of the iceberg.
All it takes it research to know what fans want and it is definitely not what this show is selling. Eric possibly are not the only reasons people are done with this show and it seems impossible to me that the powers that be are not aware of what bothers fans. Seeing as they keep doing the same things that turn people off, the obviously just cannot comprehend it.
Example: “REACTIONS FROM FELLOW HBOWATCH WRITERS: Tamara: I could have eaten a box of Alphabits and crapped a better script than that.
Side note: I can’t believe all people can talk about is the size of a man’s penis when they should be talking about the crappy finale we just watched!
Couldn’t agree more!!! This season finale just sucked in so many ways that is impossible to say it in one post only!
Yeah I could write twenty more blog posts about it but as it turns out the powers that be simply do not care. We write fangpinions about it that evidently fall on deaf ears for the same things keep on happening.
Oh and don’t get me started on Sookie and Alcide. Where did that come from? I hate triangles and was tired of Eric Sookie Bill one and now they want to make it a Sookie Alcide Bill one. Please spare me! I felt more of a connection between her and Ben than her and Alcide. I am so not interested.
What I am not interested in is another producer/runner of this show giving me crappy storylines and not making an effort.
Don’t even get me started on the writers obsessions with the character of Bill who has gone past his due date and it is starting to stink up the place.
Agreed here also. I don’t like Sookie and too much is made of who gets to be her boyfriend. I cared more about the smoke monster story than who gets to cut their tongue on those buck teeth.
YEAH, SO THERE WHAT SHE SAID!! I’m beyond frustrated and disappointed in the juvenile, sloppy, simplistic NON RESOLUTION to all the major plots. Especially Bilith and Warlow. If you weren’t into the ball storylines you inherited, why on earth did you drag them out all season and then tie them up in 10 minutes while ignoring your own mythology (really? Oldest vamp ever, Warlow could be held by Niall that long? Bill is magically tragic hero ala season 2 cuz everybody drank his blood, and now right back to mooning over Sookie). I’ll tell you something else, Buckner doesn’t pay attention to fans at all. Any website, magazine, or show I check, Bill doesn’t even RATE at suitor for Sookie–but here we go again! The great love of her life, who she dated for about 4 weeks, w/ all he did Pre Warlow–and she’s back to cow eyes. I won’t tune in for it and I’m sure the majority of fans agree w/ me.
But you know what? That’s okay. After the way Mr. Buckner and his team dumbed down Sookie from inexplicable danger whore to frump whore in gran’s homely hat–there is no way that character should be paired w/ Eric. She is not worthy, she has never cared for him as he does her, and turns out, she makes Jason look like a genius. So by all means, let the 2 top Douches in the land fight over her. She deserves that. Cow eyes at Bill again, Sookie and Buckner have strange taste in men.
If you sold these storylines, if they were engaging, original, shocking, twisty, clever, the fans would go on the trip w/ you! But you went NOWHERE. And for some reason I can’t fathom, you are really proud of yourself. Juxtapose this sh#% show against say, season 2 episode 9–Godric’s death, Hoyt’s mama hate speech, and Eric seductive dream. Or season 3, w/ Russell and Talbot insanely serving up the young thai boys blood in 5 star style. It used to be addictive because you injected the absurd into the everyday. Now it’s just stupid storytelling, but the stories are just dropped (wolfpack, anyone?) or tied in a ridiculous bow resting on the mother of all sharks.
The only surprise of the finale was that it was so much worse than I thought it could be. and that’s sad. But how can we expect better? You think you did a great job apparently.
The only thing I can say is he can keep patting himself on the back while ratings and dvd sales plummet.
That is what I don’t get, Bucky and Co. are actually patting themselves on the back like what they fed to us what actually good. For me, it not about the triangles and who should be with who. It is about good story telling and fantastic plots that have a point and are leading somewhere and actually have a point. They could have continued the Ben/Warlow stuff into season 7 but apparently this show like it’s one season at a time baddie. Rob is a good actor and the show wasted that talent. I agree with you there was no resolution to Warlow or to Bill. He should have been up the WAZOO in trouble, instead he writes a book about his time as God.Please spare me the convoluted plots, humans should have been like who is this guy and why is he claiming he was God? As far as I can see, he saved no one as they are all still in danger.
He also apparently thinks all woman care about is seeing Alex’s wanker. Keep patting yourself on the back Bucky and I will keep knocking you down a peg or two.To think he was involved with Friends!
I actually like Bill and Sookie together. And I happen to know a lot of TB fans who also like Bill and Sookie together, so to say he doesn’t rate as a suitor is just wrong. Maybe amongst the people you know he doesn’t. Plus people don’t watch TB for just Bill/Sookie/Eric alone so I’m sure if they pursue a Bill/Sookie endgame they won’t lose any viewers.
“Bill doesn’t rate as a suitor”?? WTF? Did you even watch season 1 & 2? They’re the main pairing for God’s sake! Just because a bunch of 12 year olds post obsessively to say their “love” for Eric, doesn’t mean the rest of the viewers feel the same for your information.
The season final sucked badly. I don’t care what his explanation was. It was bad. And they ruined the show for a lot of viewers including myself. Awful stuff
See my comment under Morgan M’s post I replied under the wrong post lol
Eric’s penis was the most attractive thing about the finale.
Yes it was definitely the worst season finale in the history of season finales!
Which is what I am sure Bucky thought we would love and that it would make up for the other crap he was serving us. I hope his call the principles office was making his sweat.
yeah i Totally agree with u. shame it wasnt a close up…
Well talk about a close up with Eric. Do you have a DVR or on demand? Do you have an HDTV that you can change the size of the screen, well I do and I rewound, paused, zoomed to twice the size and then played and then rewound and played again in slow motion, yummy I did not miss a single inch of the scene. If you haven’t tried it you got to give it a shot…..just saying……..its not every day you will see Alex nekkid..I could live with seeing him nekkid everyday tho……how bout it who agrees?????? Laters Taters
You are absolutely right Nyms….I follow your blogs and have expressed my feelings on all of them…
My problem is that sometimes forgiveness is not an option with people who would never get off your backs. My problem with Mr Buckner’s logic is also that there is no reset button in real life…Real girls just don’t move from man to man based on eye candy factor alone and if they do, there are huge repercussions to those choices sooner or later…TB shows the choices and not the repercussions. That approach does not give a closure to anything.
Hi Sakshichopra! I have read your posts at ESL and my own personal blog! Exactly, this show has to put things in a real life perspective on some things. There is no magical reset button in some or any of these issues and there is no going back and there are repercussions and consequences to actions taken and Bucky appears as if he is going to continue to ignore them, especially where Bill is concerned.
I don’t run a blog or anything, but season 6 was a big disappointment to me. Myself, i just started watching the show couple months ago, about halfway through season 6, i got all the seasons from netflix and watched them. The first 3 seasons were great, pretty much followed the books and then it went all down hill. I absolutely love eric (the character, not the guy, bill is more to my taste) and would have been majorly mad if he didn’t survive, however that said, i already knew they wouldn’t have killed him off as he’s too important to the storyline. I just want to see him and sookie get back together again (they do in the books though he leaves her in the end). Writers, imo, need to listen to the fans more. I realise they can’t accommodate everyone but fans have some awesome ideas sometimes.
The question is when are they going to start respecting the fans and quit giving us the stupid crappy plots! They really should not be patting themselves on the back for job well done! You can email this fan too Bucky, she will give you an earful as well.
I so agree with you and Im a huge Bill fan myself :)
Cooldn’t agree more!!
I agree. Just watched the finale and honestly I was less than impressed. Sookie went from Team Non-Vampire to Team Warlow to Team Sam to Team Warlow to Team ALCIDE? Now we’re setting up Bill as the good guy again? I love Stephen Moyer as much as the next person but the character of Bill Compton is a conniving jerk. This season had so much promise! Turning Warlow into a dark sadistic jerk who was easily killed? I mean c’mon. We saw NOTHING of his duplicitous nature until the end. And Niall coming in at the end? I dunno. Reading this article I wonder if the promise of this season turned into the “maynad” season for next.. Or worse…witches. Ugh.
Yeah and he keeps patting himself on the back with every interview he gives. What gets me is that two days after the finale,he has to be doing damage control because they gave us a crappy finale and his bosses know it.
The best that Bill EVER was was in Season 1. That was the original Bill, and apparently cannot be replicated. :-/
Sookie ruined Bill from Season 1. *LOL*
Are you kidding? Warlow ate his entire village, all the fairies at Hot Wings, and Sookie’s parents. He also glamoured Jason and sent Niall to a Hell dimension just so he could have unlimited access to Sookie, who he basically bought from one of her ancestors centuries before. How does any of that make him a good guy?
Not saying the ending was satisfying (because it wasn’t), but pigs will fly before True Blood’s writers go to the owners of fan sites for ideas, criticism or approval. And you know what? Thank God for that, because if it were up to the “shippers,” we’d have an entire season of Sookie and Eric in bed together, whispering about how special their love is, in between nonsensical scenes of Jason and Alcide washing police cars with their shirts off.
Could you imagine DB Wiess and David Benioff asking fans how they’d want them to structure the upcoming season of Game of Thrones? Or Vince Gilligan offering up a fan poll to decide whether Walter White lives or dies in the final season of Breaking Bad?
And I’m sorry, but no one wants to follow fan fiction side plots about epic love between Mrs. Fortenberry and Mike Spencer. Even if the writers disappoint us sometimes, there’s a reason they’re professionals and we’re not.
Remember, guys watch this show too. If we didn’t, there would be no Jessica, Willa, Nora, Luna or 18-year-old faerie girls. We like our eye candy, and we’re fine with plenty of eye candy for the show’s substantial female viewership, but True Blood needs an engaging plot. I’m glad the show is returning to its roots because many of us fans first became hooked during the first season, when True Blood was an off-tilt Southern Gothic murder mystery show with some novel ideas about how vampires would fit into society,
I agree. I may not agree with everything True Blood does and I would like to see better story structure, but the producers and writers can NOT go by the whims of fans who have their personal favorites and their own little fan fiction in their heads.
If that was the case, Ned Stark and Robb Stark would still be alive on Game of Thrones, but we know what happened to them, don’t we? And George R.R. Martin has NO problem killing off favorite character and don’t care what fans think.
Like you said, Planetside, True Blood needs a better plot, more structured and about character strength since this is really a character driven story. They forgot this is a murder mystery story with Sookie Stackhouse as Nancy Drew. *LOL*
I must be one of the few people who actually enjoyed this season. First time in a long time that I wanted to see what happened next. Yes, it did fall short in many ways, but at least it kept me interested.
By the way, Sookie does sleep with a were, but it is not Alcide. It is Quinn, the weretiger, who they decided not to introduce to the TV show. Wish they had…
I completely agree, TB was great because it was an off-tilt Southern Gothic murder mystery show with some novel ideas about how vampires would fit into society, They have completely lost the quirky southern charm that balanced the crazy stuff. The writers need to go live in a small southern town to get back in touch with this essential part of the books & the show.
My advice to Bucky and Co. would be to simply give us a cohesive plot line that ends up making sense. There is nothing wrong with that and the whole Lilith prophecy was really made out to be this big deal and it turned out to be much ado about nothing. They simply could have walked out the door after the guards were nuetr
Returning to it’s roots is fine but you cannot seriously tell me that the finale made any sense when we were basically told nothing. Others might be okay with dumbed down contrived plots but I am not and I expect for my money.
There is nothing wrong with a little eye-candy I love eye candy of the male persuasion myself but it should come with well written well thought season plot. We did not get that.
“…in between nonsensical scenes of Jason and Alcide washing police cars with their shirts off. ” hahaha, I would watch these scenes with pleasure.
i personally watch true blood for the FUN of it…not for especially gripping plot lines, or for the eye candy (exactly, albeit i was pissed at alcide’s horrible turn into a jerk that i no longer wanted to bite his butt for a long part of this season) but honestly i don’t want it to turn into the BOOKS either…and neither does the writer of the books! I am glad that we get so many twists and turns and weird stuff that doesn’t necessarily make sense at the beginning but does keep me on my toes. I dunno about this Jason/Violet thing. i don’t need that much of her being gone down on and i certainly didn’t need lilliths BUSH as often as we saw it either. and i’m pretty sure that the MEN of our “society” that watch Tb needed it much either. however, i’m VERY glad that they’re the writers and we’re Not. I’m GLAD that they keep on taking on the writing of this show even tho there’s so much criticism. and frankly if there wasn’t so much criticism they wouldn’t probably keep taking on this show, because it would show that people didn’t CARE. So as often as people bch moan and complain, they keep watching, and complaining so isn’t that the MAIN idea behind a SHOW?? that people keep watching & keep caring about it?
I agree I’ve watched all six seasons and this is the season I can honestly say I hit blogs and was one of those people that moaned and complained and if Bill can have three near death experiences and come back unscathed then I believe Eric can too. I watch the show because he brings so many dimensions to his character. One minute you can have the killer, the next you can have a caring and loving person, and lastly you can have the prankster.
Well, I don’t know about people on your blogs, but people in my blogs watches True Blood mostly for the fun, the fanservice and the absurdity of pretty much everything. Almost as a summer guilty pleasure. So, maybe not all of the fans want those coherent plots you’re talking about.
When I want good, consistent scripts, I certainly don’t watch True Blood.
And therein lies the problem because people are content with watching dumbed down incoherent plots. Maybe this is the crowd that Bucky is paying attention to and why we get the crap we get. The show started out campy but still made sense in the grand scheme of things but at every turn the plots get more wild and thrown together on a whim. We will just have to agree to disagree but I want something more for my buck!
@When I want good, consistent scripts, I certainly don’t watch True Blood.
You just proved my point, thanks!
Reading all of ur comments is why they are ending this show ur so negotiate its just your opinion not millions of fans who watch this show. Season 7 will be the last and final season probably due to ur stupid comments! Yuck
It is not due to my so called ‘stupid’ comments, nor is it any other fan’s fault. Seven seasons is a good run for any show. If my or other fans so called stupid comments made any bit of difference then we would have seen changes with the over the top plots long before now and we are still waiting for changes. So please spare me the ‘it’s all your fault’ mantra.
The decision for the 7th season to be the last has been in the works for a long time and many have predicted it. I find this comment by you so hilarious I just might give it an award. Have a nice day!
nymerias who the hell do you think you are speaking on behalf of other fans, I don’t care if you do have your own blog, if you’re so great at writing I’d like to know how many people have been banging on your door for advice. I loved this series and the writers do not suck as you so nicely put it and I do want what this show is selling, I watch this show religiously and have read all the books and would watch this show if it carried on for 20 years so get off your high horse and accept this is your opinion not the opinion of us genuine fans.
I think I am someone who is entitled to my own opinion as are you. I never said I was good at writing but thanks for the compliment! I know what fans have complained about and I stand by my post! You have a nice night now and don’t forget to breathe.
Well, that’s oversimplifying it a bit. Eric’s my favorite character and his less than one minute appearance in the finale served no purpose except for TB to use the full frontal tease as a marketing ploy. But the rest of the episode was even worse, in terms of writing, character development, etc.
I figured that Eric wasn’t dead, nor that they’d kill him off even if Alex didn’t extend his contract. But with the S6 finale, the show jumped the shark.
I think a lot of the casual viewers, and even a lot of reviewers, don’t watch the show ‘seriously’ and tend to not notice things that the more detailed oriented fansites do. So maybe it doesn’t bother them that the Season finale was just incoherent and undid a lot of previous plot and character development.
I’m sorry but if you really thought they killed Eric like that, well those are not very smart people.
He never said that he survived. Just that he would be on the show as a regular. If they bring him back as a Ghost like Godric or in flashbacks, that is not surviving.
Being brought back in flashbacks would make him a recurring character. If they’re going to pay him the salary of a regular, you can bet they’re going to use him way more than that.
I think the way they extend there fangs are stupid i think they should be on the side where there k-9s are and im glad they didnt kill eric they need him for all the drama he makes
Drama, Snarky, Funny, and Smart the man with the plan. He lives life to the fullest and is very loyal never sulky with a constipated face even at his worst he gives you his best. I love his character because with his character “Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to get”.
Because the cliffhanger isn’t whether he survives or not – it’s HOW he survives.
Hallelujah!
Also, full frontal isn’t something you see from a guy a lot. Unless you watched Spartacus.
Except it wasn’t real nudity. The main stars who went full frontal like Manu Bennett and Craig Parker used prosthetics.
Well, if that was a prosthetic, he should have used a bigger one.
Wow a gorgeous man with a normal package, oh the horror. Get over it, geeeesh.
Hey, I’m not, uh, knocking it. Just sayin, if you’re gonna have a fake one…
Actually, they’ve confirmed that, for Manu at the very least, it wasn’t. And Craig’s junk looks a lot like the stuff from his other photos. Do you think he brings the prosthetic home for when he shoots nudes in the mirror with his camera?
Who care about his d*ck. get a freaking life.
Horny people care. Get a sex drive, weirdo.
That was probably because they were circumcised. It wouldn’t have looked authentic.
And with that all is right in the TV world.
Thank God it was his real penis and not a prosthetic! I’ve been worried ever since I heard Spartacus used prosthetic penises for the guys.
“Thank God it was his real penis”. Quote of the day.
I wish they had used a prosthetic. Poor thing wasn’t very impressive.
It was probably cold.
We must have been watching different shows. For the given situation, I thought it quite respectable. A “Gracious Plenty” even. LOL
You obviously did not pay attention in sex ed to not know the difference between a flaccid wanker and an erect wanker. I believe there is a drawing on tumblr about the differences between the two. As if this is the most important part of the finale!
Go to youtube do a search for a movie (its Swedish) called Om Sara. Alex does a shower scene full frontal. You can see that this episode of True Blood didn’t do him justice. You can just search Alex’s scenes from Om Sara and it will pop up the shower scene. Just saying it may have been cold the day they shot this scene is all.
…are you people insane and forgot how tall Alex is? if his dick was any bigger no orifice could resist! besides, he is not even hard… size-queens are ridiculous (or serious masochists who enjoy ending torn and bleeding in each intercourse…)
You’ve got to think of it in proportion to the rest of him. On a man of average height, that would have looked huge. Frankly, if it hangs at all, it’s a good starting size. Some men just have a little knob on top of their balls when they are flaccid.
I’m not shocked he’s not dead. I was worried that behind the scenes he may have been trying to negotiate out of his contract. This scene could have closed it out for him if it turned out they would let him out of his contract. So happy that we get to see that man on tv as a vampire for at least one more season.
What idiot actually thought they killed him off?? Duh.
That’s very rude. A lot of shows these days aren’t afraid to kill off characters for the emotional impact that it generates. So you shouldn’t be calling people idiots.
Still, we didn’t actually see him die. Don’t tell me you thought he was dead. The only time this show fooled me was when Tara took buckshot to the head.
And guess what? She didn’t die!
Of course Eric is still alive! I’m SO over Bill…not looking forward to a Sookie/Alcide/Bill love triangle. Jason’s new “relationship” is boring to me and I find the Violet character extremely annoying. I was hoping that during the time jump she and Nicole would magically disappear. I’m glad to see that Lettie Mae and Tara’s reunion was genuine because I was definitely in the camp that thought she was a Hep V carrier.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I’m so over their precious Bill!!! God forbid they give Sookie and Eric a real chance.
Eric is not a romantic lead character. What makes him interesting is his unpredictability and selfish a-holeness. Eric/Sookie as a couple would either equal him treating her like crap or totally neutering him as a character. Look at Damon on TVD, he started out as an awesome badass character and turned into a sniveling puppy dog because they wanted him to be the romantic lead. You can’t have the Eric you know and love and an Eric/Sookie relationship, you just can’t. I’d rather they keep him exciting and let Bill get bogged down in Sookeh’s drama.
Um no. On everything you said.
EXACTLY.
Dude, that’s not completely true. If you read the books, you’d know that Sookie and Eric DID have a relationship, and he was still his old self. Of course he cared for Sookie, but in his own way. He never stopped being the cold, plotting vamp he has always been. It was nice to see that he could also care, really CARE for someone other than himself and Pam. The problem with this show is, they just drove off on the opposite direction of the books. I’m not saying it’s that bad, but it isn’t good either. The books have so many other characters to explore, and none of this crap they are feeding us. I watch it for kicks, nothing else. It’s not as interesting as it could be. They should reread the books and talk to the fans and do something good. This show has been nothing but a letdown from season 4 and on.
You’re being very gracious by saying from Season 4 on… lol
Again, this is not the books!!!! I have read all the books, and from season 5 and on the show is totally different than the books. There is no reason to even compare them at all any more.
It doesn’t matter that Eris not the main romantic lead, I personally don’t care if Eric and Sookie get together. People are just tired of the character of Bill period and tired of any triangle!
If you look at their actions, Bill has always made douchebag decisions on everything. So for me Bill will always be the hole in the A….As far as Eric goes, it has been done before and it can be done again…A bad ass character can get a romantic angle too if the writers are intelligent enough to not turn him into a puppy dog….Develop the shades of grey and don’t stick to the black and white definitions of romantic and bad ass…
I totally agree with u. Love damon from tvd and eric from tb. I’ve read the books and he does treat sookie wrong when they got back together (would love to see that on-screen) or when he wasn’t treating her like that, he lost his edge. But in the end he remained himself and walked out on her for good, so who knows?
Exactly.
What makes Eric interesting is that he is not what you might have expected him to be from season 1. When I first saw him. I thought he was a selfish, conceited, evil vampire. But his tears from Godric, for Nora and the gulp he did just before he release Pam, convinced me otherwise.
True! Eric is well made…but also these screen writers can not write about a normal, not boring romance..actually in 4th season, they made Eric too sweet..i really liked him in the books…a funny, loving and not boring relationship between him and Sookie…and yeah, the made Damon that stupid pussy that now , in the next season, they will bring another for Elena…only cause it became too boring…these writers which didnt’keep with the books, in their purpose to keep longer the show, invent boring and out of ordinarily stories which kills it
Exactly!
mmmm Nicole isn’t that bad in the big scheme of things… right at this moment means the show is definitely not following the ending of the books :)
soooo relieved! I thought the nudity part was just a ruse to soften the blow of killing off Mr Northman…
So we’re just going to totally forget that Eric and Sookie loved each other and act like it never happened. She’d rather stick to her abuser and Alzzzzzide, that guy who was prepared to take advantage of her when she was drunk. Nice display of misogyny with a healthy dose of rape culture BS there, TB. Nope, not coming back, and I wish Alex would do the same. He’s better than this.
Bye Bye! Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
Amen. Alcide is a creeper. He takes advantage of her when she’s either emotionally unstable or drunk. Nice choice Sookie
Eric is awesome because he’s selfish and unpredictable. Selfish people don’t do well in relationships. I’d rather him be a free agent and do everybody everywhere. The Sookie/Eric love story is not epic and I’d rather do without it.
Yeah, because he’s a Byronic Hero. You might want to read about it. Byronics are ROMANTIC.
Oh and the “selfish” Mr. Rochester ended up with Jane just fine.
OMG!! Do NOT compare Eric to Mr Rochester!! One is a selfish vampire, the other one is a tortured, sexy and classic hero!
A selfish vampire is like the epitome of a Byronic hero…LOL.
Alcide hasn’t had any purpose since season 3, and even then he wasn’t an interesting character.
Srsly. I am so sick of the dog. He reminds me just way too much of car grease and fleas.
And what’s up with keeping Beehl around for ANY reason? I am SO SICK of Beehl/Billy/Billith.
Here’s a concept for the “writers”: ERIC + SOOKIE. Here, I’ll even spell it slowly for them: E r i c + S o o k i e. See? It’s THAT easy!
AMEN!
“Beehl”?? Seriously? Ok, you’re one of the crazies…
Sure, Beeehl and Sssoookkeh. Do you not watch? lol
Amen
Brava!
Please someone ask this man why Sookie seems to have amnesia when it comes to Eric! She did love him, did she not? He did love her!? I’m irritated by this massive plothole!!
Amen to that! There’s been what, two to three weeks between the season 4 finale and the beginning of season 6? And not one tiny thoughts for Eric? She said she loved him!
after the penis scene I was waiting for a caption to come onscreen that said “Your Welcome” LOL
An Alcide/Sookie/Bill triangle? NO! I’d much prefer an Alcide/Sookie/Eric thing.
An Alcide/Eric/Bill thing would be much better than both of those.
YES! Bill and Eric definitely have sexy feelings for each other.
I do enjoy when Bill and Eric get all snarky with each other.
No Alcide.
And the way the writers are developing Sookie, perhaps it’s better that Eric move on. Perhaps he can hang out with Jason. Or occasionally fly into Bon Temps from Shreveport and mock Bill and his book.
I like the idea of Eric mocking Bill about his book, someone has to.
Yes! I LOVED the Eric glamouring Alcide scene. So funny.
I have a question
A few seasons back we saw Sookie go to the land of the Faeries and barely escape from Maab. By the time she came back, a year had passed in the real world even though she had been away a few minutes. Assuming that the faeries were a minute or two behind her and the time jump affected them the same way, can we expect the Faeries to show up in the real world looking for Sookie as if for them it had only been a minute or two since she got away even though for her it’s been 18 to 24 months, give or take?
The fairy cemetery is not the same as the Faery land. There is no time difference in the fairy cemetery.
And why there is this difference? It is just sooo convenient!
Well, this is True Blood, where things are however the way they are to suit the plot. Like, fae blood. Sookie’s wears off after a while, but Warlow’s seems to stay potent until he dies. And for some reason, Warlow’s death neutralized the fae blood volunteered from either Braelyn or Danika (Bill apparently did not get a sample from Adilyn or Charlaine) and that blood remained potent after passing to other vampires well after the sisters had died. Sookie also grew up at a normal pace instead of jumping to young adulthood in two weeks. You kinda just have to say “whatever” to the inconsistencies and not pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
I think this can all be explained though.
Sookies blood wears off because she is only part fae. same with the half fae siblings…the difference is Warlow was a vamp/fae hybrid and had super fae vampire blood.
Sookie is not half fae, she only has a very small amount of fae in her, barely detectable. so that’s why she ages normally. (A lot of people get this confused because I’ve heard them say she is half fae in the show which was a MISTAKE, AND she is half fae in the books.) When Bill explains she has fae in her, he explains its just a little.
There are some things though, that do bother me, and I have learned to sorta turn the other cheak and enjoy it for what it’s worth. But i do wish the writers would be more consistent or take two seconds and explain things that might not make sense!
-How was Warlow able to eat real food? I understand why he could day walk, but he could eat food, WTF?
– Pam never really flew until season 6 and now all the sudden she can fly? I know some said she flew in the first season, but I don’t recall this. I thought flying was a unique vampire quality.
– How come Eric could cut his hair without it instantly growing back? I won’t complain much about this one, because i prefer his short hair, but still
– How come Tara isn’t missing half her head? When you are made a vamp, you are made as you are when you die.
– If Pam is coming to Eric’s rescue, please explain how she can find him, when he released her.
– Yes there’s more but i just can’t think of them at the moment!
WHY does eric have to be with sookie ? Iam a huge Eric fan and I dont care who he is with as long as I get to see him . I honestly cant believe why people want to keep pairing him up with sookie he is so much more interesting without her .. the show is fantasy its crazy it jumps from place to place you either get what its all about and like it or you dont its that simple . Vampires,warewolves,witches crazy senator’s, voodoo nurses , demons, faeries… its not meant to make sense its make believe ….
Fairy Land is where Sookie met her grandfather. She was there a few minutes and when she came back a year had gone by. The faeries were chasing her. IF they followed her, even one minute or two behind, that could be six months in the real world.
Good points Michael. I was also wondering if Barry is still in Faerie? I wish Bucky would address the time issue as well.
Alcide/Sookie/Bill triangle…really? I’m done.
Buckner is a moron. His own narrator is wrought with plot holes. Bill is now the hero? Please. Whatever happened to that comeuppance he promised? A king, then a god, then a best selling novelist. What’s next? Astronaut, president? Why not Bill’s invincible. And Alzzzzzzzide is normal? Ha! He let a bunch of kids get murdered. He’s a monster. Idgaf about a Sookie/alzzzzzzide/Bill triangle. It’s gross. They’re both monsters.
This season was the worst and it looks like next season is more of the same.
They’re staying with that tired, nasty “Al and Sookie” fiasco? Srsly?? I am SO sick of Al. He reminds me just way too much of car grease and fleas.
And what’s up with keeping Beehl around for…anything? I am SO SICK of Beehl/Billy/Billith. (Moyer is an awesome actor, but I’m butt-sick of anything Bill!)
Here’s a concept for the “writers”: ERIC + SOOKIE. Here, I’ll even spell it slowly for them: E r i c + S o o k i e. See? It’s THAT easy, no matter HOW many bikes they make her ride.
Geez. Try writing something the fans actually WANT for a change.
It’s never going to happen… It didn’t happen in the books, it won’t happen on the show. I don’t think they make a good couple anyway. I never felt they had good chemistry together.
If ur talking about the eric/sookie thing, it did happen in the books, he just ended up leaving her at the end to protect her life basically. And she could have stopped it had she really wanted to but she chose sam instead….
It happens in multiple books. You are a complete and illiterate, dumbass.
I agree with you Eric and Sookie’s relationship is so much more than sex and blood because they learned to be friends and nobody can refute this fact season 6 episode 1 and If Sookie gives Bill another chance she will always be waiting for the other shoe to drop. Although a lot of people know this fact to be true they got spoiled by the previous and former show runner, writers, and producers. A true independent and strong woman will not put up with it and because the show failed to allow Sookie to be that person Bill and Sookie single handily killed the show. A lot of people don’t realize Bill never embraced his inner vampire and he was a part of the civil war era women generally weren’t allowed to think and was often kept in the dark. Eric embraced his inner vampire and learned to adapt to the changes in time allowing him to be a more human whether he wanted it or not. When Sookie was around Eric the writing for her character came alive. When Warlow entered the scene her character appeared to be depressed. We won’t get Eric and Sookie. I vote for a recast of the Sookie character and a spinoff.
You posted the exact same thing above…. We get it, you’re an Eric fan.
So I haven’t seen the finale yet, but I couldn’t resist reading this article because Eric is my favorite. After this season the fact that Sookie will be in a triangle with Bill makes me want to puke. Makes no sense. And how come Eric got his few episodes with her some seasons ago and now it’s like he doesn’t even matter?
So are they really just going to forget that Eric and Sookie happened?!?! That Eric still clearly has feeling for her from season 6 episode 1 and now it’s….Alcide and Sookie? Eww. Alcide/Sookie/Bill love triangle??? Yep that’s it give the audience exactly what they don’t want.
They want to match up to the greatness of Game of Thrones. Do the opposite of what people want and expect critical acclaim. Laughable for this show.
If Alex is comfortable with it, I say more full frontal nude Eric next season!!! It’s about time the male/female full frontal scenes got equal air time!!!
Merkins don’t count.
If they plan on doing more full frontal, they need to make sure the male in question is not in a cold environment and they need to not be flaccid (so we can avoid underwhelming full frontal scenes.) Thanks in advance.
Alex is comfortable with it, he grew up like that! However seeing i usually let my kids watch what i watch, i’m not comfortable seeing it
You let your children watch True Blood? You’ve got more important issues than Alex’s dick.
It’s HBO, not the Playboy Channel. They don’t show hard-ons. If that’s what you want, why don’t you just watch free porn on the internet?
As far as the fact that Nora died quickly compared the Vamps at the end of the season… Nora was injected directly with that stuff. The Vamps drank a small dose of it. I would assume that’s a big deal. LOL
This hep V stuff has me confused. Wasn’t it in season 1 where sookie saved bill from drinking from a guy that was a carrier and he said then it wasn’t fatal that it just made them really sick? How all the sudden was it fatal to nora? Yes, i get that it’s mutated to affect the vamps now as it was 6 months later, but when nora got it i’m assuming it wasn’t
The stuff from the first season isn’t the same thing. Hep V was created by the scientists at Vamp Camp.
The virus from S1 was called Hep-D. It was a natural virus that temporarily incapacitated vampires. The humans took this virus and bio-engineered a new virus from it that became lethal to vampires. It didn’t just weaken vampires, it broke them apart, so that they disintegrated. This new virus is called Hep-V.
I’m glad they didn’t kill him but I’m not happy with the show in general. They ignore what the fans want but give us a naked Eric as if that would appease us somehow. They want to go the tired Bill/Sookie route again. I am not interested in seeing them together!!! I want the Viking with Sookie. That is the only resolution I want. I also hope that I do not see half a season of severely crispy Eric trying to heal from his injuries or ghost Eric being channeled via Lafayette telling Sookie that it’s ok to go for Bill. Buckner said he would be back. He just didn’t say how. Such crap would turn everyone off as well. And what! Zombie vampires but not? Good grief is there no originality left in Hollywood? I am going to move there and just hawk the same tired crap over and over again to producers and viola I will be a screenwriter too. Finally, TB should be ashamed of itself for pimping out its most popular star for such a misfire of publicity. Did fan outcry reach important enough people that they said you are not killing him fix this or was this all supposed to be a big tease (for 2 days) just to mess with us? Either way it smacks of bad story planning, writing, and abuse of your most precious commodity . . . the fans who keep you working.
Someone should start a petition for the Viking and Sookie.
This x10000000.
I would sign that…
Your channeling Eric thru Laf and telling Sookie to go to Bill idea just made me drop from my chair laughing …LOLZ
Hear hear bring that petition. Season 4’s relationship was a tease for us E/S fans. They haven’t had a real chance at a real relationship, like B/S and now A/S have. People have their own theories of how their relationship can be; some say it will never work yet others say that they’re soul-mates. In reality none of us really know this do we? I could say this; TB writers-AB put alot of time and effort into their scenes together. There was always an aire of specialness/sexiness about their scenes together. Allllll that effort to just completely dump that relationship without even really having had a chance at that relationship? Let them try at a relationship and if it doesn’t work then, we all chalk it up to that.