Eric Northman flying like Kal-El? I thought he could only levitate. OK, "levitate up" to a 3rd floor window. But Superman-style? Or am i forgetting a mention of this from the Books?
YES, more Pam please! Doesn't anybody else think Pam/Kirsten Bauer is underrepresented in both airtime, and mention in the credits? And TV-sites mostly only call her "recurring guest role". Reading about Pam in the books was/is one of my reasons for watching TB. In the Books she is much more present and important.
Is Lafayette going to be the new Bubba? To me it seems like they are constructing Lafayette to fit into Bubba's shoes. Think about it:
- He already likes Sookie Stackhouse as a friend, and cares for her.
- He's not interested in Sookie the way all other Supes are.
- Lafayette is alive, when in the books he is dead.
- Bubba would soon make an appearance in the storyline.
- Conversion going bad because of drug abuse history? +1 for Lafayette
- Bubba was an artist. Lafayette did some dancing (and other "performances")
- Bubba is not too bright, but has a good heart.
- Bubba is under Eric's command, as Lafayette'd be, if Eric "made" him.
- They brought up turning Lafayette Reynolds in the TV-series already.
So, here is my suggestion, on how they could play this out:
We know, Lafayette has come to Sookie's/Maryanne's house with bags of party snacks. I guess he could get apprehended, turned into a party-animal with bug-eyes and gobs down some colorful ones too. Add some music and orgy, True Blood style.
Then the big guns (Bill Compton, Eric Northman, hopefully Pam, and Sam Merlott) show up. I hope we get to see Sam as some big, sleek, fast and deadly animal. Unfortunately, with Karl (the previous companion to Maryanne) out of the picture, the only bug-eyes left are the local, possessed people. So Sam will probably not gruesomely tear any bad guys to shreds.
Well, then mayhem ensues. Lafayette gets banged up pretty bad, and is fatally wounded, while still filled to the brim with his own party favors. Sookie comes over, starts crying, "I'm so, so sorry" (We see a scene like that in the S02E12 promo trailer). She really is, she feels like she dragged him into this, as if this had been entirely her fault.
Sookie turns to her men. "Heal him!" Both say something like "Too far gone". Lafayette -dying- joyfully suggests being turned. Sookie goes with it, turns to the vamps again. Bill refuses to turn Lafayette for some reason, like "way to far gone, and full of drugs -> Will not work" . Sookie gets emotional, then angry with him.
Eric then offers to turn Lafayette, under the condition, that she should not be mad, if this becomes very messy, and still doesn't work.
Bill is fuming at Eric's attempt to "resuscitate" Lafayette. Emotional music cues in, eventually we get to know Lafayette "made it". But, he is now more like the Bubba from the books, because the conversion did not work optimally. This effect may not be clear at this point.
Tara is shell-shocked, she just wants to get away from Bontemps, and later we find out she opened her own clothing store in that nearby bigger town. We don't see her for a few episodes, and she turns more into the Tara from the books.
Sookie looks at Eric like he is her hero, while Bill retreats with a strange expression on his face.
The End. ('Till Summer 2010)
Thanks for reading!
So, what do you say? Workable? Ridiculous? Let me hear it!
Edit: Upon searching for Bubba / Lafayette I found a thread over at http://www.ericnorthman.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=732 from 6 weeks ago that hinted at the same idea, but did not elaborate much (7 Posts).
Here is another one with slightly more posts: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=69144888562&topic=9424, but also from some time ago.
Post-Finale-Edit: It didn't turn out like described above. I liked their version better too, so Kudos to the Script Writers :)
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