Monday, August 19, 2013

'True Blood' Season Finale Recap: Up in Flames

Great, i believe that now buildup about among the principal characters not living through the growing season, I still are not certain if said character was Terry or Eric. In a very deliberately ambiguous plot twist, the Viking vampire's only appearance in "Radioactive" found him sunbathing nude using a snow-capped mountain in Sweden equally Warlow's light seeped out of all the vampires who ingested his blood. After Eric burst into flames as well as the screen faded to black – the action then jumping ahead six months – there seemed to be no further mention of the character who has played a huge role within this show ever since Sookie walked into Fangtasia in Season One's fourth episode.

If Eric really did match the true death in this scene, i then am officially finished with True Blood. For all of showrunner Brian Buckner's insistence that this season was about grieving and honoring characters that died, to then have somebody as vital as Eric snuffed out and instantly forgotten seems not simply disrespectful but incongruous: Terry Bellefleur garners the longest (fictional) funeral inside history of TV yet Eric is kicked to the curb à la Steve Newlin? It doesn't be the better choice. So in retrospect I've a feeling we haven't seen the last of Eric Northman. But, in the event it was indeed Alexander Skarsgard's farewell performance, I'm grateful he demonstrated his not enough use for your "privacy sock," and allowed us to discover every last inch of his sun-kissed body.