Lammastide said:

And for the record: Lafayette only called her bitch and hookah one time each. I just counted.

And how the hell did Eric get to Dallas from Louisiana that damn fast??? That's about a 3-4 hour drive. Can these vampires really fly? And if so at what altitude? Do they need to check in with the FAA and shit???
[Edited 7/13/09 17:51pm]

SCNDLS said:

Yeah, well I thought the "bitch" right after the "hooker" thing was harsh ... though I'm sure Tara can get just as fly.

I also wondered how Eric was moving like that! They're fast, but geez.

SCNDLS said:

Eric (and vampires in general), in the books, are known to drive very fast.

I'm on the 3rd book and I think Eric has exhibited levitation powers before.

How fast did he make it there?

errant said:

How can being a vampire propel a mechanical vehicle faster? And wouldn't it be problematic to have vampires floating around willy nilly at night with planes flying around?

I'm gonna guess it took Eric less than an hour. Bon Temps although fictional is close to Monroe, LA which is about 300 miles from Dallas. Sookie, Bill and Jessica arrived at night, interrogated dude in the hotel lobby bar, called Eric while he was at Lafayette's house, then next thing you know Eric's knocking at their door and Bill and Eric go back to the bar in the lobby to talk.

I think that Ensign Ro/Admiral Cain wants Eggs & Tara's lovechild. Nice to see Doctor Phlox get his freak on though. Maybe Troi will show up soon for some reason.

Gawd, I'm into the show yet reading this thread still makes me feel like I'm high trying to decipher some crazy shit!

SCNDLS said:

I think they mentioned Bill and Sookie landed just after sunset, so that's fairly early. I was wondering how Eric got there so quickly but was thinking it was either an aspect of his vampire powers that they haven't show yet or else he was moving really fast, which they always show the vamps doing (but the idea of him running 300 miles seems a little silly). The other thing I thought was that it would be fairly easy for him to glamour his way onto a flight to Dallas, so maybe he just did that.

Question: At the birthday party Maryann threw for Tara, Maryann seems upset at watching Eggs and Tara dance. She takes her present to Tara from the gift table and throws it in the bushes outside. I assumed she wanted the two of them to get together.

What's up with that? Am I understanding something wrong?

Lammastide said:

You missed a part - that gift was from Tara's mom. Tara's mom dropped by the bar & asked Sam to deliver it for her. That's how Sam ended up @ the party, he didn't wanna go.

CalhounSq said:

Ahh... That's right! I remember that part now.

Lammastide said:

I think Tara is the key to something that Maryanne is trying to accomplish. She went into the woods and started doing her vibratin' thing, I thought, to push Tara and Eggs into fucking, so Maryanne could get her hooks into Tara thru him. She's purposely trying to isolate Tara from anyone, (Sookie, her mom), who might challenge Maryanne's power. Also, I'm thinking Tara might end up having some kind of powers herself. Didn't she do something crazy last season when she was in the woods with ol' girl that got killed? Or was that only the peyote?

Efan said:

I was really hoping that someone who'd read the books would have some explanation for how they travel. I know we're talking about vampires which aren't real but the show is going to great lengths to normalize/humanize them so it's odd to me that they'd have such a gaping hole.

SCNDLS said:

I think its going to be the old Anne Rice kinda stuff, as one gets older they get more vampy powery, Bill is only bout what 140 ish? Eric is 1000 right?

SCNDLS said:

It's probably already answered, but at Lafaytte's house he says something to the effect of "I have to fly to Dallas." Thing is, he doesn't mean by airplane. He can fly. :bat:

CalhounSq said:

SCNDLS said:

All the vampires in the Sookie books can move lightening fast. They are super-strong and can jump very high or off buildings and be fine. Some have other "gifts". I won't go into who has what gift except to say that, as mentioned before, Eric can levitate and actually fly.

I wouldn't put it past a vamp to glamour their way onto an airplane, but in the books that doesn't happen. They all travel by the special, vamp security, airline mentioned on the show. Anubis (sp?) Airlines. In the book, they also stay at a hotel that specializes in vampire needs, but it is called "Silent Shores."

Nothinbutjoy said:

So these muthafuckas can turn into bats??? Lawd! I was picturing grown folks flying thru the air an' shit causing havoc with air traffic control.

lazycrockett said:

That is true. The older the vamps get the more powerful they get. And the ages are correct. Bill is about 140 ish and Eric is 1000.

Nothinbutjoy said:

Thank you, ma'am. I totally got the whole Anubis reference to the Egyptian god of the afterlife. That was a nice touch.

lazycrockett said:

SCNDLS said:

This is part that is all Alan Ball, so the books are no help here and it's anyone's guess!!

SCNDLS said:

No! At least not that it says! He just flies. Like Superman.

Nothinbutjoy said:

Unacceptable. I must know how this is possible.
So on top of everything else, we're supposed to believe that vampires can fly around en masse, unchecked, and unregulated??? Nope, someone needs to investigate this further.

SCNDLS said:

I thought so to!

Nothinbutjoy said:

How cool. I wanna see Eric levitate or see a vamp turn into fog or something.

Okay, I'm watching this shit AGAIN, and I've decided that Tara has to be THE most unsexiest character on the show. Between her annoying, fake ass accent, neediness, and bad dancing I just don't know 'bout this hookah. And why's Lafayette trynta fuck the chair and hollering about Vegas??? That boy a fool!

Also, am I the only one who thinks the special effects on here are really cheesy? They couldn't come up with something a lil more high tech for Maryanne's vibratin'???
[Edited 7/14/09 21:26pm]

SCNDLS said:

I stopped watching the first season cause it was embarrassingly cheesy, Honestly I thought Alan Ball had laid a rotten egg. That being said I'm enjoying this season and am getting drawn into it against my will. Why? cause it suppose to be cheesy. I get it now, at first I was expected a six feet under type of show, now I get its just to be watched and enjoyed.

N what the hell is maryann by the way? A Venus/Bacchus combo goddess or something?

lazycrockett said:

Okay, so are you saying I need to suspend reality all the way and stop trynta understand how in the hell Eric travelled 300 miles so damn quick???

In another thread, someone explained that Maryanne is a Maenad:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad

In Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication.[1] In this state, they would lose all self control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear animals (and sometimes men and children) to pieces, devouring the raw flesh

SCNDLS said:

Funny you mention Tara's dancing. Rutina Wesley was the lead character in a Canadian movie called "How She Move" released last year. She plays a competitive stepper, and folk went on and on about how well she danced in the movie! I haven't seen it, though, so I can't vouch for her.

Tara is a bit much for me, though. She's works in the show, but I could never be bothered with her in real life. (Unless she needed some sort of pastoral help. ). Rutina, however, is sexy, I think -- she's cute enough and she's got a great athletic build. Hell, I wouldn't fight her!

The special effects? Yeah, they're sketchy. Some are decent, but it looks RIDICULOUS when Sam morphs into the dog, for example, and those fangs can look really silly sometimes. But I love the hokiness of the show!

Lammastide said:

Well I just looked her up and she was born and raised in Las Vegas, both her parents are professional dancers and she's apparently studied dance for years. This trick even graduated from Julliard. All this yet her scene dancing with Eggs looked awkward as hell and she's incapable of doing a simple Southern accent. She does have a nice body even though she's angular in a boyish, "dancer's body" kinda way. Nothing sexy about her IMO but I do think she's cute. I think the accent and how she's playing Tara is making it hard for me to like her.

Okay, I was starting to think I was the only one unimpressed with the effects cuz no one's mentioned them. So, basically the show is being cheesy intentionally? Alrighty, then.