Baby Vamp, Jason, Tara and Lafayette all get a ticket to ride. Plus props for animation legend Ray Harryhausen
True Blood may have taken the 4th of July weekend off, but "Snap and Fingerpop" had plenty of fireworks to make up for it. This week's orgy was -- gulp -- orgy-er; Lafayette is back to his catty, furniture-humping self; and Jason's Light of Day storyline is finally crossing paths with the rest of the fun.
If there was a theme here, it was folks finding themselves in over their heads. Tara is watching a news piece on the Pamploma Running of the Bulls at one point, and it's the perfect analogy for her with MaryAnn's lot, Jason with the Light of Day wackos, and even Lafayette with Eric. The Eric/Lafayette linking, in particular, brought a smile to my face. In fact, there were three specific things that made me especially excited for upcoming episodes.
Right off the bat, Sookie and Bill decided to take Baby Vamp with them to Dallas, ensuring that scenes with only Bill and Sookie will be kept to a minimum. Deborah Ann Woll has been a revelation as Jessica, and even her off-screen dialogue stole scenes involving Bill and Sookie. Whether from inside the travel casket ("How do I get this thing open?!") or from the adjoining room ("I'm on the PHONE!" -- no doubt with Hoyt), having Baby Vamp as teenage daughter is perfect comic relief.
Jason became further entangled with Steve and Sarah, in what is surely the oddest threesome one could imagine. Jason is really running with the bulls here, falling hard for the Madonna/Whore thing that Sarah (played with campy sweetness by the aptly named Anna Camp) is orchestrating. That barbe-cutie even made me like country music (Sammy Kershaw's "Louisiana Hot Sauce") kind of, sort of.
The other thing that has me excited is the aforementioned Eric-Lafayette pairing. How can you not be pumped to have your favorite two characters be forever linked via Lafayette ingesting Eric's healing blood? Lafayette may be running now with his own bull, in the devilish Eric, but at least it will be incredibly entertaining. After Lafayette got his "taste," that furniture-humping dance to Cazwell's "Watch My Mouth" was sure hilarious, especially Alexander Skarsgard's dry reaction as Eric: "How nice for you ... I must fly".
I was tickled to see Lafayette watching the classic The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, as the Ray Harryhausen animated films were a staple in my household growing up. Harryhausen's breakthrough work with stop-motion model animation, in this and later films, was inspiration to special effects masters like Dennis Muren, multi-Oscar winner and long-time head of George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic. Here's video of that scene (and if it weren't already enough, it's scored by legendary film composer Bernard Herrmann):
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