Fresh Out of the Oven: True Blood 2×12 the Finale
by Altaira on Sep.14, 2009, under True Blood
Season 2 is over!! Let the theories for season 3 fly. *SERIOUSLY* Do NOT read this if you don’t want spoilers from the book!
Season 2 is sadly over, but left us all wanting more. The show happily tied up every loose end it had, even if it took it’s sweet time doing it. The twelfth episode, “Beyond Here Lies Nothing”, was a very powerful close. After turning everyone in the town upside down, it was all made right again, in just under an hour.
Mary Ann is dead, which I’m sure made many fans of the show happy. In the book, she is never killed. But in the book she also didn’t have as big a part to play in Bon Temps. The maenad, Calypso, shows up only twice, once to hurt Sookie as a message to Eric Northman (her employer), and the second time to visit an orgy she inspired and kill them all with a madness. Of course, she only kills several people instead of almost killing the whole town.
The death of Mary Ann was very fitting because of how much more was going on with her character. Mary Ann was the character from the book times 10 and on crack. She messed with everyone! Sookie, Bill, Sam, Tara, LaFayette, Arlene. It made sense to kill her off, instead of letting her just choose to walk away.
This episode also had a great cliffhanger. Not as intense as last season, which ended with Sookie and Tara screaming bloody murder. This season left a half way engaged Sookie wondering, “what has happened to Bill?”. Along with everyone watching. Now anyone who has read the books, knows who took Bill. But do we actually know? The show has taken an increasing amount of liberties with the material that it is inspired by.
In the books, Eric is not selling “V” for the Queen. Could he have “taken care of Bill”? The Queen also was none to thrilled about Bill knowing anything. She clearly has the means to kidnap Bill. Let’s see, who else. I suppose the Fellowship of the Sun has to always be a suspect in vamp-napings. But not many other people come to mind, but the one who is responsible in the book. STOP READING if you don’t want to know…
That the person who kidnaps him in the book is none other than Lorena. To be honest, I’m really not to worried about them changing this up. Lorena was prematurely introduced in season 2 for 1 reason and 1 reason alone. So that people wouldn’t think, “who the hell is this!?”, when she shows up to randomly abduct Bill. Which was a really good idea.
Now that it’s over, I can definitely say that season 2 was better than season 1. I can’t wait until season 3. And not to mention the next installment in the Sookie Stackhouse series is due out in May 2010.
