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Sookie wakes up to find Bill standing next to her. Still freaked out by what happened in the back of the van, she is sent in to a screaming frenzy. Tara, Jason, and Alcide tell Bill to leave, but Sookie stops them, she feels that her and Bill need to talk about what happened. When they are finally alone, Bill looks a little appalled that Sookie is afraid of him now. Sook understands that Bill couldn’t control himself when he was attacking her, but she doesn’t know if she can ever forgive him.  Bill also understands this, so he lets Sookie go. All he ever wanted was for her to have a good life, where she could grow old with someone who would also grow old with her. They say their ‘I love yous’ and then part ways.

Sophie Ann begins to move in to Russel’s house, complaining the whole time. Which upsets Talbot, the King starts talking about how he killed the Magister, this makes things even worse with Talbot. Debbie Pelt comes to the King and asks permission to kill Sookie, while the King thinks it is a good idea. At the moment it isn’t, he needs her too much right now. Debbie seems satisfied with his answer and leaves. But Eric believes it would be a very bad idea to bring Sookie in to the picture right now, because Russel is going to be in a lot of trouble soon. Russel thinks differently though, he thinks Sookie just might be the ticket he needs, a secret weapon. Eric’s comment about Sookie has the King believing Eric may turn on him just like he did with his queen, but Eric puts on a good show and convinces the King otherwise.

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I liked this episode, I don’t really care for the ending with Bill and Sookie, I am so tired of them now. Bring on the Eric is all I have to say.

Anyways what are your thoughts on this Episode?

‘True’ love?

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Team werewolf.

As HBO’s “True Blood” reaches the midpoint of its season, this viewer wants to go on record as being totally down with the new resident furball.

Joe Manganiello as Alcide, protector to telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and occasional lycanthrope, has been the best addition to the series.

If only Sookie would notice.

Series creator and writer Alan Ball has dug a grave so deep that the Bill-Sookie romance seems doomed. Tonight’s episode (9 p.m. on HBO) marks a major turning point.

Good. Stake it, burn the remains and scatter the ashes.

Bill (Stephen Moyer) is not worthy of Sookie. Even beyond his hate sex with Lorena (Mariana Klaveno), his actions this season belie his courtly manners.

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Rutina Wesley, Kristin Bauer, Charlaine Harris True Blood Interviews

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Here it is two weeks after Comic Con and I’m still not finished posting all my interviews. Give me another week and maybe, just maybe, I’ll be caught up. One of the best events to cover at the biggest gathering of comic book and movie fans didn’t even take place at the San Diego Convention Center. No, it was the off-site event – the annual Entertainment Weekly/Syfy Party – that was the most fun to cover, just due to the fact so many random celebs showed up that it made it totally worthwhile to stand on a red carpet for three hours catching interviews.

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JOE MANGANIELLO PROMISES TO SEAL THE DEAL WITH SOOKIE

Joe Manganiello, who plays nice-guy werewolf Alcide Hervieux on True Blood, faced the daunting prospect of bringing to the screen a character already beloved by fans of Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries novels.

Viewers haven’t yet seen much of the romance between Anna Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse and Manganiello’s Alcide, which takes up much of the third book, Club Dead. But, as Manganiello tells us, more is on the way.

Mike Ryan: In the third book, Alcide and Sookie’s romantic relationship seems more advanced than it does in the series.

Joe Manganiello: Well, the way that it’s been depicted so far in the series is almost exactly in line with the way that the book is. Alcide is in all of the books from the third one on, so the relationship builds from there.

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SAM TRAMMEL ON LENO

True Blood‘s Sam Trammell was the second guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tuesday, following Betty White. After Leno showed a clip of Trammell’s shapeshifter Sam transforming from a dog into his naked human form, White cracked, “Oh, I wish I had a dog that could do that.”Trammell apologized to White that she had to see that. “Oh, I loved it,” she said.

Trammell then went on to describe the experience of having body makeup applied for those nude scenes. The makeup artist comes to his trailer for privacy, and he focuses on the surf videos he has playing to avoid thinking about the fact that a beautiful woman is rubbing his body. I’m calling it now: True Blood makeup artist — best job in Hollywood. Watch Trammell’s two-part interview (which also includes him recounting the comedy of having to kiss a good male friend in a play — well done, Tonight Show pre-interviewer).

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TRUE BLOOD RATINGS HIT AN ALL TIME HIGH

The vampires on True Blood aren’t getting any warmer, but the ratings for HBO’s supernatural soap have boiled over.  True Blood hit a season high this weekend achieving 5.2 million warm blooded viewers.  Ironically, as Sookie clung to life in a coma, True Blood also went on to dominate the 18-49 year old demo for the night most coveted by advertisers – a hoot since HBO does not sell advertising during the program.

Various outlets have reported that it was Jersey Shore that actually won the most individual ‘sectors’, but the faux tanned ‘reality’ program was neck and neck with True Blood in total viewers, despite an availability advantage that arguably gives True Blood a win after handicapping.

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Betty White is a trip! What a treat to have them both on. Did you get to see the show?

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Making Squid the Meat of a Story

If your idea of a science fiction writer is a scrawny guy with computer-glow pallor who’s a little too interested in whether warp speed is a realistic rate of travel, China Miéville is not that person.

Tall and buff, he has a shaved head, a row of earrings curving sharply around the edge of his left ear, a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and a mind that skips easily from “Jane Eyre” to welfare reform to the joys of bicycling around London. He is also a serious Socialist who ran for Parliament in 2001. The Evening Standard called him “the sexiest man in British politics.”

Mr. Miéville’s novels — seven so far — have been showered with prizes; three have won the Arthur C. Clarke award, given annually to the best science fiction novel published in Britain. And his growing fan base has come to include reviewers outside the sci-fi establishment.

Entertainment Weekly, for instance, recently gave Mr. Miéville’s new novel, “Kraken” (Ballantine Books), an A-, praising the way he “lobs a grenade into the urban-fantasy genre, remaking it into wild comedy.”

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Charlaine Harris talks ‘True Blood,’ new Sookie stories and more

“True Blood” would not have existed if not for Charlaine Harris, the coziest writer you’ll ever meet who has some of the most disturbing ideas.

At the author’s spotlight panel at Comic-Con Thursday (July 22), Harris gets a surprise of her own out of the gate: The officials at Comic-Con have awarded her their Inkpot Award for Achievement in Fantasy and Science Fiction.

1:21 p.m. – BEST NEWS! The next short story will feature Sookie and Pam and the stripper pole. Due out Aug. 3. In February, the “Sookie Companion” will be published. It’s a compendium of all things Sookie, which includes: original interview with Alan Ball, an FAQ, recipes (“this was not my idea”), synopses of the books, secret emails between Bill and Eric and an original novella about Sam and Sookie going to Sam’s brother’s wedding. Also, Quinn’s in it, so can life be better until next May when the next Sookie novel is out? No, we don’t think so.

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Science Fiction – The Only Genre That Embraces Both Optimists and Pessimists

by Rebecca Baumann

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are those who think that humankind will transcend our current follies, we’ll clean up the planet, and travel the galaxy aboard stylish spaceships, and then there are those who think that life on this planet will become so miserable that it’ll be us and the cockroaches until the bitter end. It doesn’t sound like there’s any gray area between those two points of view, however I tend to fall in the middle myself. I think we’re going to muck things up – badly – but I haven’t lost hope that we’ll find technologies to make life bearable, if not better.

Since I tend to straddle the fence between the optimists and the pessimists regarding humankind’s future, I appreciate the science fiction genre for catering to my moods, depending on how I’m feeling that day. Sometimes I need a big shot of hope, and other days I want to imagine the worst-case scenario. Sci-fi has always been there for me, whether we’re talking books, movies, or television shows, and so I thought it’d be fun to pit the sunny-side-up visions against the Oscar the Grouches, and see who comes out on top.

The Aliens will Befriend Us
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The Aliens will Behead Us

The friendly alien trope is probably my all-time favorite fantasy. I grew up watching movies such as E.T., Close Encounters, and Cocoon, where the aliens were sweet, peace-loving creatures who just wanted to help us stupid humans. I even had a brown, faux-leather E.T. doll with red paint splashed on his chest and finger to simulate his magic glow power. Needless to say, I grew up thinking that the aliens will not only befriend us, but in a way, they will save us too.

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What do you think about today’s book news? Are you excited for the new Sookie Stackhouse short story due in August?

Top 10 books made into movies – by EmJ

#1 Lord of the Rings

#2 Harry Potter

#3 Twilight

#4 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

#5 Eragon

#6 Interview with the Vampire

#7 X-Men

#8 Bram Stoker’s Dracula

#9 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

#10 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Top 5 books made into TV-series

#1 True Blood

#2 Alice in Wonderland

#3 Smallville

#4 Vampire Diaries

#5 The Little Vampire

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True Blood this week begins with Sookie Bandaging up Alcide. They start talking, when Sookie gets a call from Bill. He lets her know that he is fine, actually more than fine. Bill has decided to leave Bon Temps and her behind, so that he can be with Lorena. Bill tries to let Sookie know that it is all for the better, he tells her to look back on her life since she has met him and realize how chaotic it has become. He warns her not to come looking for him, that he doesn’t want to be found. Alcide tries to comfort Sookie, but he doesn’t seem to know what to say. He thinks Sookie should just try and forget him.

Sam runs off, gun in tot to look for his brother Tommy. But instead he finds his Mom and Dad living in their van, in his parking lot. He learns that they have no house any more and when they fall on hard times Tommy tends to start stealing so they can make their way. Sam just met these people and even though they are his family by blood, their problems are not his. His Mother understands this and tells Sam that they will leave as soon as Tommy comes back home.

Franklin Mott is using Tara to find out as much information as he can on Sookie and Bill. When Tara tells him that he doesn’t know where they are, he physically makes Tara call Sookie and try to get her to tell Tara where she is. He gets inside Tara’s head and tells her exactly what to say to Sook, but because Bill just broke up with her, she doesn’t want to do anything but sleep. And tells Tara to stay at the house.

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What a good episode. I’m glad it was back to normal instead of like last week where it seem to focus on each character individually.

Oh and how the heck did Eric know that Bill left Sookie, if he just imagined the whole moment he had with her?