'True Blood' recap: Death Becomes Her

Now, we can get into Sookie and Eric. At nightfall, Eric told Sookie to pull the chains off his neck quickly, and the wounds were tough to look at. He hadn’t fed since her fairy godmother. A Tru Blood wouldn’t help, so he was prepared to just rest and wait it out since there was no one around to drink. (I know Bill had a lot on his mind, but I'm surprised he didn't send someone over.) Sookie offered her blood, which Eric told her not to do unless she really meant it. She did mean it, she said, and he licked his lips. Eric told her to hold silver in her hand and use it on him if he did anything unwanted. “I’m trusting you, Eric,” she said. “I won’t betray you… ever,” he said. "I may remind you of that someday,” she laughed. Then, she raised him and pulled back her hair to expose her neck.

You think he could have kissed her first, but he just sort of smelled her before popping his fangs and sinking them into her. I hold all male-vampire-biting-a-mostly-human-woman-for-healing-purposes situations up to the Angel and Buffy test of sensuality. This was like a quarter as sexy. Pity. Eric broke the embrace soon after it began, and he was healed. That was quick! He bit his own hand and wanted Sookie to drink from him. She hesitated -- she’s not injured. “We will be one,” he said. And there was no more hesitation. She drank, and Eric made it sound nearly orgasmic. (But still, nowhere as hot as Buffy and Angel.) How do we feel about Sookie doing that so eagerly? I guess after nearly losing Eric, and having him give her a supernatural hickey, all bets were off and she was turned on.

We finally got Alan Ball's much-anticipated ode to the shower scene that’s in book four of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, Dead to the World (listen to the audio version here WITH HEADPHONES IF YOU'RE AT WORK). Ball's shower scene is very different, though I think the shot of Sookie sliding her hand along Eric’s naked butt (an R-rated version of what Baby did to Johnny in Dirty Dancing, if you need a visual) was a nod to Sookie commenting on Eric’s butt in the book. They stepped into the shower naked and caressed each other like both their blood was laced with ecstasy.

Sookie, still with Eric’s blood on her chin, tried to start the shower. There was no water. There was just... snow. Truth be told, I've never enjoyed V sex scenes. The setting is usually beautiful, but the people always sound like fools and it's a waste of perfectly good nudity. Eric and Sookie stepped out of the shower and into the middle of the snowy woods where they saw a bed. "Why is there a bed?" Sookie asked. "Can we make love in it?" Eric said. "Like, maybe never stop," she answered. "Why would we ever want to?" he replied. They hit the fur blankets and started having sex. Snooze. When we returned to them, it was still snowing and the annoying V sex-scene dialogue kicked into high gear. In short: If they managed to fall in love, all is possible. I was happy that Eric could feel the sun on his skin in this dream, but this is when I started wishing they'd put some clothes on and do something productive. Enough with the strategically-placed blankets.

We next saw Eric putting another log on the fire in Sookie’s bedroom, normal but still naked. The writers have officially succeeded in desensitizing me to the sight of Eric's ass. I am both happy and sad. Sookie said she wished Eric could stay Nice Eric forever. He said he could, if they ran away together now while they still can. Sookie said they had an obligation to fight alongside Bill after he let Eric go so they could be together, and besides, Eric is a warrior who doesn’t run from a fight. (Maybe Nice Eric does, Sookie.) Eric said he just wanted to be with her, and only her, forever. "There’s no such thing as forever," she said. FORESHADOWING!

NEXT: Antonia creates... fog.

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