What’s Coming for True Blood Season 3?
Written by Robin Brownfield on November 4, 2009 – 9:55 am -
True Blood may not be airing again till the summer, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t hot spoilers for the third season of the supernatural series. What does executive producer and writer Alan Ball and company have in store for blood-thirsty fans next summer? WARNING! If you don’t want to know what is in store for you yet, please stop reading here. If, however, you are among lovers of spoilers, read on.
• Bill and Sookie will be separated for a while.
When last we saw vamp Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), he was abducted while Sookie (Anna Paquin) pondered his proposal of marriage. Ball confirms that Bill’s kidnapping will last “about six episodes.” That doesn’t mean we won’t see Bill, but we’ll probably see him deal with his captors in the first five episodes.
• Sam Seeks His Roots
Shape-shifter Sam (Sam Trammell) will find his family this year. According to writer Raelle Tucker, “They aren’t the brightest people, maybe. At least they appear that way. They’re fairly dysfunctional, but like anybody else, they have their good things about them and not-so-good things. They’re still getting to know each other. Sam’s still getting to know them, and so are we.”
• Werewolves!
Werewolves are finally coming to True Blood. Ball reveals what his werewolves will look like. “They’re just wolves. It’s just people who can turn into wolves, but they’re slightly bigger and much stronger. Their eyes glow orange a little bit.”
• The Supernatural World Gets Bigger
Writer Alexander Woo explains “The entire world is going to get a lot bigger. Not only the human world, but in Sookie’s eyes, she’s going to see the whole supernatural world. Luckily, since this show is through Sookie’s eyes, as an audience we’ll get to see a much larger supernatural world.”
• Sookie’s powers
Tucker confirmed that Sookie’s powers continue to expand. “I think that Sookie is conscious of her abilities more this season than she’s been, and she’s questioning them more,” Tucker said. “We’re going to be exploring that more this season.”
• The Vampire King
The Vampire King of Mississippi is coming, and he’s nothing like Vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne (Evan Rachel Wood). Ball said. “She’s kind of crazy. To me, she’s kind of like Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan, where she has a very short attention span and she’s very, very egomaniacal and very self-obsessed and doesn’t really think about her actions, whereas the Vampire King is very much an adult. He has an agenda. He has things he wants to achieve. I think he’s much more formidable than she is.”
• Jason will not be joining a cult
Season three will find Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) keeping a low profile. “I think Jason’s path this season is actually about not getting into trouble,” Tucker said. “It’s about trying to stay out of trouble. I think it’s going well for him.”
• The Vampire Queen
“Well, Sophie Anne, when last we left her, she was sort of behind this selling of V as a recreational drug on the streets, pretty much,” Ball said. “That’s not something a vampire authority figure should be doing. If higher-up vampire authority figures figure that out, they’re not going to be happy.”
• The Biker Gang
A biker gang called Coot’s F–k You Crew comes into town. “The one thing I will say is that they are very mysterious,” Tucker said. “They’re a group who’s been around a lot longer than you think. I don’t want to say too much about them right now, because I think that we are in the early stages of figuring that out.”
• Tommy Mickens
“Tommy Mickens is someone I don’t want to reveal too much about, because I don’t want to ruin the surprise,” Woo said. “He’s a completely new character, but he plays very prominently in the emotional life of at first one and then, later, several other of our characters. He’ll be the first domino to push the rest.”
• Helmets
“There’ve been several moments that we’ve been pitching things and thought, ‘Oh, well, maybe she could be wearing a helmet, and that would protect her. Maybe he could wear a helmet in that scene,’” Tucker recalled. “Suddenly we realized we had a whole bunch of characters wearing helmets for no particular reason. So we thought, oh, that’s the theme of the season.”
• Too Little Eric
Though fans demand more screen time for Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), the writers won’t indulge them. “You know, what’s funny is that he’s in the first two books; he’s a fairly minor character in Sookie’s universe,” Tucker said. ” I think part of the magic of Eric is some of the mystery of Eric and the inaccessibility of Eric. I think you don’t want to turn them into the nice romantic love interest who’s in every scene. I think his danger is important, so not just throwing him up whenever somebody wants to see his bare chest is actually a more disciplined approach.”
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