PS Let me just add that I love your reviews and I'm so glad I came across this site. Even better, I'm glad to see a fellow female fan of the sci-fi comic genre. Yeah!

I read that Alan Ball is not really that steeped in vampire lore, I find the current approaches with Bill (he's self-loathing) and Eric (he's bored with being 1000 years old, which they mention WAY too many times -- OK we get it!) to be well-treaded ground. Nothing really new from a vampire lore standpoint, besides the exploration off vampires coming out of the closet. But self-loathing is too common a character approach with vampires, and Eric's ennui doesn't really cut it with me. Hey, Eric is "full of life" in the books, and if you are 1000 years old, you have to have learned flexibility with changing times and developed interest in the constant change of life. The TB "bored" Eric approach is not really a convincing direction, in my opinion. (PS I'm making many references to Anne Rice's vampires, where she has explored these dynamics through her characters already. The ones that last the longest are full of life. The ones that become bored will end up committing suicide).

The show could also continue to play up Eric's humorous cat-and-mouse side, which fans loved earlier in season 2 with the Eric-Pam-Lafayette dynamic. It's an important part of Eric's charm, but more importantly, it would serve to continue to make us love-to-hate and hate-to-love the charismatic charming Eric.

I totally applauded the evil Bill glimpse, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the writers manage to develop that.

I felt that the writers could have made the meeting between Eric and Lorena more subtle, and Eric's motivations more ambiguous. One of the ways I think the Sookie-Bill-Eric love triangle has continued in the books is the constant debate over Eric's true nature and motivation. HBO has made Eric's motivation too upfront, setting up an obvious good vs evil approach. Instead, if Eric and Lorena had met, and Eric acted unsurprised that she's there, there might continue to be more mystery/ debate among the fans of the show - did he do it, didn't he do it, what's he up to, maybe there's a rational underlying reason, etc). In fact, there are many moments where I think HBO takes too simplified an approach to setting up the characters, and it's starting to wear on viewers.