TRUE BLOOD Season 4: "Run" Review
After the previous episode of "True Blood", "Spellbound"...left us, well..."Spellbound". Episode 9, "Run". Made me want to do just that. RUN! This episode is a downturn in what has been a wavy season. Some episodes up, others down. This ep...is a down one. Some things are revealed in "Run". And the reveals are quite disappointing. When last we left everyone, Sookie had caught a bullet to the stomach, and was near death. Alcide managed to scoop her up though, and try and get her to safety. Bill however manages to beat Alcide to the punch, and get Sookie to a place where he can try and revive her. Sookie, as predictable as this show is...does eventually return to life. But not before she has some lame dream about Bill and Eric.
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Probably one of season 4's more if not most, annoying collection of scenes. And sadly, it goes on for close to 20 minutes of the episode. Which is even worse. I was really hoping that they'd have the guts to kill off Sookie for atleast the last half of season 4. And then move into season 5 with the grieving and stuff. But I guess I was asking for too much? Maybe the writers have become less bold as the show has gone on. We're in season 4 now. So the boldness should not be wearing off yet. It should be at it's peak actually if anything. At any rate, things go from bad to worse with what unfolds later in the episode. If there was one thing that would've made season 4 totally awesome for me, it would've been Tara vs. Sookie. |
Tara going totally evil, ala Willow in that one season of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". Only a more controlled frenzy. As in disposing of the vampires at any cost. Including the cost of her friendship with Sookie. Instead, "Run" gave us Sookie and Debbie (Pelt), plotting to get Eric back by going to Marnie )Antonia)'s shop, and Debbie distracting Antonia while Sookie snuck in the back to retrieve Eric. She eventually does have a confrontation during with Tara, but it plays out in disappointing fashion. With Tara mentally communicating with Sookie to help her plot her escape. Before Antonia could get her hands on her.
Atleast Debbie Pelt has some balls though. Debbie it seems, thanks to her seeing Alcide rush again to Sookie's rescue, is going back to her old ways again. Although I think it's a bit late. Things are just beginning to simmer now with the werewolves. The packleader long-hair seems to be joining forces with Alcide. But a scene later in the episode, where Sam (or who we think is Sam), shows up at the garage to meet with long-hair, shows that Alcide and long-hair are still having that decent guy vs. thug-redneck inner struggle. Which is sure to lead to a scenario where one of them will have to go.
And it seems like with Debbie going back to her old ways, that Alcide might be the one to go. Although you never can tell really. Maybe Debbie is formulating some sort of plot to eliminate Sookie. But in this ep, where Debbie acquires some "V" from a dealer. Then heads to Sookie's and from there, drives her to Marnie's. It's hard to see, atleast now...what Debbie is up to. Will she try and kill Alcide, so her and long-hair can rule the pack? And turn it into a group of villains? Or will she try and use long-hair to dispose of Sookie? Or will she lure in long-hair, and then help Alcide kill him off to prove to Alcide how much she loves him?
You never can tell with Debbie Pelt. But so far, for a menial character, she has been the most intriguing Bon Temps player this season. This might truly be the first season of the show where the intrigue and interest lies with the werewolves or wolves, instead of the vampires. And I'll take that. Especially after it looks now like Tara won't go evil.
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Antonia however, is hell-bent on destroying the vampires, and formulates a new plan to do so. This after most of her coven, with the exception of one...turns against her plans. It seems everyone has wussed out because Antonia simply scares them too much. Her hatred for vampires freaks them out. This kills me, considering they actually had a decent stand in the graveyard. They almost killed Sookie, albeit inadvertently. And they captured Eric. So for Antonia's coven to turn on her now just didn't make any sense. |
As for the Hoyt/Jason/Jessica triangle, well...just when things were cooling down, they've heated up again. It looks like Jason and Jessica might be an item now. Not sure how well this will go over with Hoyt. But I am not a fan of the Hoyt character. The only thing he could do now to change that, would be to become a werewolf, vampire, or maybe side with Antonia. Other than that, he's on that list of characters in "True Blood", going nowhere fast. Even faster than Andy Belefleur. Who has his own hands full in "Run". Still struggling with his "V" addiction, and also now having to retrieve his gun and Arlene and Terry's baby from a possessed Lafayette.
They manage to do so, but not without the help of Jesus, who arrives just in the nick of time to work some of his magic to free Lafayette, and reunite the ghost woman with her dead child. I was hoping the ghost story would have a much darker twist and ending that what we got but, too late now. This is one season 4 sub-story that's officially in the books. "Run" however does manage to end on a modestly exciting note though. As Bill is at a tolerance gathering when a spellbound Eric, and a few other vampires who have come under Antonia's control...go on the attack at the event. Granted, this will surely throw the vampire/human relations thing back into traction. And most likely, with Russell Edgington returning in season 5, that'll be the big story arc of that season. As for season 4...it has 3 episodes left. Hopefully, it can end and conclude with a bang.
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