True Blood’s Season 5 Finale Was Bloody Insane & Just Really Bloody

So disappointed in this show this season. It’s always felt a bit disconnected. Ball and his team did a great job fleshing out the ensemble that stays relatively flat in the novels, but once they’ve been fleshed, they’re ignored and tossed in an out without anything linking them together. In previous seasons, most of the ends at least get tied into the same mess for the last few episodes, but this never hooked back together. 

And how much better would Russel’s death had been at the end of the last episode instead of the beginning of this one? 

i loved season 5! every episode was intense, there was something going on, nothing dragged, nothing felt stupid to me. although i honestly don’t give a gorram about alcide and his werewolf drama, i’ve lost complete interest in them. and the maurella birthing scene was a little ridiculous, but alan ball is a little ridiculous. there were so many scenes and lines i really loved from this season. and i feel that they really kicked it up a few notches after s4. s4 was a complete disappointment. i don’t know, it can’t please everyone i guess!

Billith….funny.  This season was a disaster, dumb and all over the place.  Pam, Tara, Russell and Jessica were the only things interesting. I couldn’t agree with you more.  Now, if only we could Lill Bill.

This show is like the inverse of Buffy. Where as in Buffy every side story was told in such a way that it supported the main story of the season and all the minor characters were there to help Buffy complete her task.

In True Blood it’s the exact opposite, at least since the beginning of season 3. Every minor character has their own story which if excised from the show would not make a difference to what’s happening to Sookie and her story.

Alcide. Terry and his war buddy. Tara. Jessica and Hoyt. Sam. Jason. Andy. Arlene. You remove them all from this season and it would not affected the whole Lilith story not one bit.

I’ve read all of Charlaine Harris’ books that the show is based off of. With S1-S3 the show has diverged from the books, but still managed to remain in the same universe. I had some problems with S4, but thought that bringing Russell Edgington back in S5 would fix them. It didn’t. There are way too many characters with independent story lines to have a cohesive season that works well on its own. 
Sidenote: in the books Bill ends up being a big dick, so that hasn’t changed much.

I thought it was great!
This season really kept me entertained for the most part vs. last season which I really am not fond of. 

I agree that this season was a big setup for season 6, but I like that. Season 1 & 2 had arcs that ended when those seasons ended l. Starting with season 3 it seems that they began to create arcs that bob and weave for longer intervals. At first I thought that was weird, but now that I am seeing the results of such planning I dig it. This lends itself to more depth but just not as compressed. And with a show that has such a huge cast of character & new ones that come in and sometimes die, having them around gives them something to do. A lot of this season took place outside of Merlotte’s so without Terry’s interaction with the Ifrit, we would have seen very little of him & Arlene and by extension less of Lafayette. I also like that storyline because it payed off the fire action that was seeded in season 4 and diverted the idea that the baby was inherently evil (an idea I didn’t like at all).

Also, Russell ate the oldest fairy in the area. Remember she was like 500 yrs old or something. I like the idea that fairies gain in strength over time just like vampires. The older you are the stronger you are. So I guess a vamp eating an old fairy is like a wolf drinking from an old vampire. 

So next season we can assume that the mystery of Sookie’s affinity for vampires and Warlow’s purchase of her will be revealed. Hopefully Lafayette’s magic will be put to use in helping defeat Billith (that is GENIUS btw), and hopefully finally we will see the Wolfs take the center stage somehow in the middle of this with Alcide in charge. His speech (while still hopped up V mind you) was good, I hope he can stick to it.

One more thing, I hoped that Bill was going to stay dead too. Oh well :)

The big question is:  Did Billith inherit Lillith’s merkin along with her robe de blood?

Oh I forgot something!
During the fairy baby birth scene all I kept hearing in my head was Anita Sarkeesian’s episode on Mystical Pregnancies lol. Although, this really was a mystical pregnancy… It was still kinda weird though. The comment’s from the spectators were worth it!

Agreed – I’m maybe 3 episodes behind.. or maybe I skipped a couple and…. don;t really care.

And I *like* this show!

LOL I cannot with Billith. I’m at work cracking up!

The authority craziness was the only part of this season I enjoyed. And even then I felt like they left a lot of loose ends in that underground lair. I just can’t become emotionally invested in all these side stories, especially when they don’t make sense. And I don’t mean tying into Sookie’s stories. That’d be nice, but I’d really appreciate it if they followed up with plot points they started in the previous season. Guess we’re all supposed to just forget about baby Mikey, the werepanthers, Lafayette’s V dealing past and the fact that no one could possibly be running Merlotte’s with how Sam’s ass is never there.

That merkin is so bizarre. It would be less trash if she just had a big pube-fro, but the perfect felt triangle looks like a cat ear that fell off a stuffed animal.

I thought that they answered the who is Warlow mystery when Sookie first met the Elder. When Sookie kept asking who Warlo was… she said, “Warlo is?” and the Elder cut her off with a sentence that started with “Russell Edgington.” They did that moment rather oddly so I think that’s whats up. I may be wrong though. 

I enjoyed this Season too! I found the the Authority storyline wonderfully twisted and interesting. Nora and Eric are great, I can’t wait to see more of those two. I enjoyed everything with Lafayette on it and it was nice seeing Tara return a bit to her badass season 1 roots. I’m not sure if I like the Pam-Tara coupling yet, but it’s sure gonna be fun! Every vampire death in this episode was awesome, btw. 

Didn’t care at all for Terry and Andy’s storyline, though the fairy birthing was hilarious and I really want to know what happens with those babies. Hoyt was annoying as all hell and I hated his guts for what he did to Jess. Shame she’s too caring to rip his neck out after what he did…but her connection with her feelings is, at the same time, one of the things that make her such a wonderful character.
Alcide’s story is FINALLY nicely wrapped up and now we gotta deal with hallucinating Jason. Hmm.
Stephen Moyer was fantastic this season, the guy deserves major props for directing one of the best episodes while flawlessly showing his character spinning into crazy darkness. I enjoyed every scene of his. I hope they find a really crazy way to pull him from Lillith’s…entity?Sookie was poorly used this season, and it saddened me. I love Anna Paquin.

I invented Billith in my living room RIGHT WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE BLOOD.

p.s. I hoped he was dead too. I was also really let down by Russell’s death. It was so anticlimactic!!!!

Tara and Pam were the only good things about this season, and I don’t understand why they just dropped Lafayette’s storyline. What even happened?!

So basically it was like the last three Sookie books: really long and pointless wrap up sessions from the last book when Anything Actually Happened.

agreed, this season was just a mess. And it had a lot, a lot of potential.  The idea of a vampire religion was interesting, although what they did with it was very predictable. This show needs to remember who the main character is, and that Sookie is sort of eyes in this world. The show runs a lot tighter and steadier when she is our cornerstone. And every time I saw Godric this season he just reminded me how amazing and surprisingly deep and emotional this show used to be…not so much anymore.

I was really bored with this season. Haven’t even watched the last two episodes. They killed off Meloni’s character way too soon.

Last night after the finale I said to my Mum, “Well that was a stupid episode!” and she replied, “You’ve said that about every episode this season!” Yes, yes I believe I have. (insert rant about dull plots, irritating characters, and overall plain lazy writing here)

Basically I don’t even know why I’m still watching this show. But, as embarrassing as this is, I’ll be looking forward to seeing how much lower they can take it next year. =/ My cthulu! Have I really become one of those people that enjoys nothing more than a good spectacle? >_<

Did anyone else expect more from Lafayette’s special drink? They made such a big deal about it that I thought, perhaps, he was possessed again or…you know, anything meaningful, really.

Don’t get me wrong, most of the season (and finale) sucked, I was just particularly put off by five minutes spent on fruity drinks in the middle of an orgasmic birthing scene.

I mostly view this show as a guilty pleasure and I totally feel that the more the show doesn’t take itself too seriously, the better it is. This episode was the best of the season.
It was a mess of a season though.