YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?!?!

Russel invokes John McEnroe to open the week up when Bill attacks him.
"Are you serious? I am almost three thousand years old."
Even Eric was impressed with how easily Russel dispensed of Bill in the opening scene. Russel basically told Bill, "your Karate's a joke Larusso!"

Eric jumps on the Russel train for now, probably realizing his bid for "Vengeance" is not going to be as easy as he thought. He proves useful to Russel as he has no problem putting Sookie in her place..."It thinks we are equals."
Did you notice how Russel sniffs Sookie like some animal would? Maybe she smells like humans used to. Like a fine wine, as opposed to the Franzia Box-o-Wine's of today.

Talbot cracks me up with how domestic he is and when he screams about the house getting trashed. "Do you care nothing about opur home??? You never take me anywhere instead you prefer the company of sycophants!!!"

Sookie threatens Lorena and she revels in the opportunity to rip Sookie open and wear her rib cage as a hat now that Godric is not around to save her. "In the spring, we'd make meat helmets..."

Eric did not take kindly to her insulting his maker but he is staying focused on his ultimate goal. Loved when he tells Sookie to shut up. She was pretty unbearable this week I felt, but a necessary evil nevertheless. She did look pretty amazing I have to admit during her game of "quid pro quo Clarice" with Russel.

"A husband's work is never done..." Russel returns to question Sooki in the library whilst buckling his belt after repairing the state of affairs of his marriage to Talbot. The question session was great. "That's two questions...MY TURN!" Sookie was visibly upset to see the file Bill had been keeping on her and I forgot about the time she threw the chain and it wrapped around the guy's neck. It was back in the very first episode in season 1, when that guy and girl were trying to drain Bill in Merlotte's parking lot.
The dance going on between Russel and Eric is interesting. Eric clearly trying to win the affection of Russel to gain his trust and get him in a vulnerable position. In the meantime Russel opens up about his arrangement with the wolves and how he agreed with Hitler that there is a master race, it's just not human.

Sophie Anne playing the Deuces Wild scratch and wins was classic. Someone commented awhile back that she should just rob a bank, but it sounds like the vampires are not as free as we thought. They are monitored by their own governing body as well as human government agencies like the IRS. Apparently the Right Wing is fearful of Vampires running Wall St. My mind went nuts with this one.
Eric puts "The Queen" in her place reminding her that he is the older and stronger vampire and has submitted to her only out of respect up till now. He tells her he will rip her head off and throw it in the pool and to go fuk herself. I don't think she got all those pearl necklaces from fukking "herself" over the years though do you?
Lafayette asks Jesus, "Does the term Satan in a Sunday hat mean anything to you?" Turns out Laffa is the evil one in Jesus's mind when he finds out about the drug dealing life of his new man. It was a shame the night had to end like that. They had so much fun playing pool. Then Jesus tell Laffa about feeding shots of tequilla to "Jobu." They beat the crap out of Crystal's fiance' didn't they? Love when Lafayette gets fired up like that..."Go tell your momma two f-ggots whooped ur ass bitch!!!" Jesus though not so impressed.
Tara picks up where her cousin left off when she absolutely owns Franklin. I had a couple questions though about these scenes. Why is is when Franklin runs to jump on the bed to show Tara that he has shaved does he not use his vampire speed like all the others do. Instead he sort of awkwardly hops onto the mattress after telling her "I won't be policed Tara." Then we don't really see Tara feel the affects of the V. Am I wrong in remembering that Jason would be tripping for hours on end when he took it? And lastly do we really think Franklin is dead?

Jason gets all pissed off about Crystal pretending to not know him. I would be upset too if I dusted off my varsity letterman jacket and bought some flowers. I thought she never cries, but didn't we see her shed a tear back in the woods earlier? Jason rejected and ego bruised has had enough so he decides to take care of his case of "Kitch-lash" when he sees the new "QB One" running a "naked boot" in the back seat of his car.

Jessica's lessons with Pam paid off as she now knows when to say when and is able to feed without killing the annoying patron. Really can't get enough of her these days. She is just so amazing.

Tommy and his mom would have been first round draft picks for Michael Vick it looks like as we learn they shift and fight for Joe Lee in the dog fighting circuit out of Union Parish. Would have loved to try one of those corn fritters cooked in bacon grease.

So I have referred to him as Swayze Wolf before when he was at the bar doing shots with Sookie, but it turns out that Gus, who Sookie and Tara beat up is actually none other than Don Swayze the younger brother of Patrick. Patrick would have been ashamed of the fight his bro put up. Dalton from "Road House" would never have gone out like that.
There was a lot of talk this week about age and seniority. I have read on some other True Blood chats that the older a vampire the longer their fangs should be, but after doing a comparison I don't know if that is necessarily the case. If I'm wrong, does "Fang Envy" exist amongst vampires. Like do young male vampires go brush their teeth in the bathroom stall at sleep away camp? Can female vampires get fang implants? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Lastly Bill and Lorena take us back in time with the Billie Holiday music, the old classical language and the midievil torture tools. I think those tools she was using were the same ones they used on William Wallace at the end of Braveheart. Lorena never looked better though and I loved the dialogue between her and Bill. You really got a sense for how much history they shared. We finish the week out with Lorena feeding on Sookie and us the fans thirsting for more.
Here is a LINK to see some scenes from the second half of the season if you'd like. It's ramping up nicely.