Great dialogue here and an important one to be having as the popularity of yoga grows.
Namaste

I've never seen these but I'll just never get over how a vampire can walk in the sun AND have a baby. Living dead that walk at night is the definition of vampire, oh ya and drink blood, so I hope at least they have that one. It's interesting how you can just change the well, well established "rules" of existence of such an infamous creature.

Why, why can't Hollywood leave well enough alone. The original Thing is a classic. Nobody could think of any original horror idea, nobody ?!?!

This is true! I can't believe in season 1 I was actually interested in what happened to her. She was like an underdog you could root for. She just seems completely unrelatable right now. Maybe the big fairy reveal so early and now having her fall for every supe intown undermined her every girl charm and took some of her spunk away.

This episode was ridiculous but Eric drinking from the aorta juice-box style redeemed the show for me at last minute. Scenes like that is why I watch True Blood. I'm in for the finale but not sure next year - maybe if the cliff-hanger is amazing. If it's a repeat of a Soul on Fire style episode, even with a Bad ass Eric move, that will be the final nail in the coffin for me - no pun intended or maybe just a bit :)

At this point, after this episode, after Sookie's whole dairy maid with lightening fingers trick and confused sofa talk with Eric, I've ceased to care about what happens to Sookie. Bottom line - the character is just sad; a girl who spends season after season unable to get over a romance gone sour is just dull tv. I'll tune in to the end of Season 4 to see what happens to the rest.

The witch battle was thrilling - loved old Eric's, or slave Eric's or who ever Eric's body-part-in-hand wicked wicked laugh!
So true that Alpha hasn't very big boots to piss on.
Blood bonding in the cubby hot!
Eric and Sookie go to Narnia ..meh (but as Alan Ball says we've had our honeymoon now everything goes to hell).
I wonder if the new game on the True Blood set is who can do Tommy best this week and then that person get's a scene.

This is Great! We'll never take old BAMF Eric for granted again!!!
"Sookie welcome to my dungeon."

re: real amnesia or not
Roth' s Theory this has been mentioned a few times. However, Eric as a character, no matter if he remained shirtless the entire remaining life of the show, would totally lose me because then that means he is absolutely forfeiting his relationship with PAM - his progeny. That means he dismisses her suffering, doesn't go and see if she is ok after getting his silver chains etc... That does not fit with Eric of season 3. Geez, don't you remember the "death of a chiId is the worse pain!" I can't believe they would write the character abandoning PAM just to get into Sookie's pants. If that were the case, it would just kill what is my favorite relationship of the whole show.

My theory is going extreme with puppy dog Eric is deliberate for the story arc because it will swing the other way and both of them will have to reconcile with that; plus typically Alan Ball giveth and he taketh away.

The team which is your favorite hot guy is silly but what is interesting is how different the relationship is with each. Bill is paternalistic with Sookie, always trying to protect her like a southern gentleman. Eric likes her warrior spirit and willing takes her as a partner in adventure - ultimately she saves him end of every season. Alcide is a good ole boy who is as predictable and faithful as the family dog. All the guys are hot, all the actors are good, I think viewers just chose the relationship that appeals to them.

Yes, Sookie has kind of a castrating effect on all males she encounters. Her character, in the show at least, is such a goody two shoes with her only interesting sem- flaw is her side penchant for dirty vampire sex. It would be hard for any real "man" or "supe" to be with her and retain their whole character. Having said all that she is obviously pretty forgiving ;)

For all those I've heard say team witch - really! Really, you want to tune in every week to a show about witches with all the vampires having met the true death and check in on who Martonina is sleeping with?!? There is no doubt the show I want to watch. I hope they shred that witch like confetti so all the blood suckers can continue on the seasons as "happy" tormented vampires.

I have never seen Eric as a warrior. Looking at subtler character nuances, if one goes back in episodes and seasons and does a character study, you will find that Eric is really a lover not a fighter.

He was born a viking, yes, and destined to be a warrior king but as we saw he preferred spending his afternoon in the maid's bosom rather than following his father around. Everything he does, offering to forfeit, his life more than a few times, he does for love. He's actually a pretty emotional guy who has spent a 1000 years building a lot of armor to survive. Even after 900 years Godric still had to remind him about dominating his emotions. It was a good choice for him I think to be a maker of someone a little more naturally hard-edged like Pam. I think that may be a reason he chose her.

This past episode, I feel in general, the writing was poor for the character but the character development over all, I feel is true. This is for TV Eric; the book Eric may be different but from what I've seen the story arc here rises above the script's weaker points.