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truebloodwillpsychuout: nwalmn: unreconstructedfangirl: sunsetshark: stillhidden: sunsetshark: stillhidden: sunsetshark: hsm7: thatcolorfullights: Sookie’s face, nothing to say. Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart.  The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him. I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization.  Couldn’t have said it better. I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :) I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake: Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop.  HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill. Another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :) They, all of them, have been through something tremendous together just now. Less than have an hour before the men offered to lay down their lives for hers. There are all sorts of speculations I won’t go into about whether they had a plan, or would have gone through with it, or whatever. But I don’t doubt at least one thing: Eric would have. He already sacrificed himself once (if not more) for Sookie. She knows that, she has said so herself.  With Bill there’s always doubt. If he has proven anything it’s that his most altruistic acts could be a lie and hiding an agenda. Now that the immediate danger is over, it’s something to ponder. But I don’t think it’s what she is doing at the moment. In this instance, I think, if Sookie is pondering anything, it’s her own feelings for these two men. It’s how much she can trust those feelings, and how much of them is the blood talking. And her face kind of says it clearly how she instinctively feels in regards to both. It’s Bill’s bitch face that’s a bit of a mystery. Like, what is he so pissed about? They got Marnie, Sookie didn’t die, they didn’t die, and he’d just recently filled Sookie up with a fresh “tank” of his blood. You’d think the guy would be jumping with joy and anticipation. Instead, he really does look like a 6-year-old brat being denied toys. :) If I didn’t think Bill had a secret plan in motion outside of Moon Goddess before, I sure do now.  Just throwing another idea out there: It’s no secret Bill doesn’t like Eric, and if some other theories are right, he’s been gunning at Eric for over a year now. If the little suicide pact had gone down, how would normal bullets have killed him and Eric? Was Bill maybe a little to conveniently prepared with some wooden bullets, wooden bullets that Pam wouldn’t have (so Pam couldn’t kill him)? That would have to mean that Bill saw this coming… I’m not going to go any deeper into that, I’m just going to say thank Godric Pam intervened the way she did!! I’m pretty convinced there’s something we do not know about that scene. It just doesn’t make much sense without another layer. Bill is thinking: “Curses! Foiled again!” or something like it, and Eric is thinking “Can she love me?” I agree with SH — Sookie is thinking about her own feelings, and they are written all over her face. The things i miss when i sleep. Damn! This just confirms that I suck at interpreting people’s faces.  I could tell that Sookie gave different looks to Bill and Eric, but I couldn’t really understand them. She’s clearly thinking, but the emotion was hard to read for me. I think Sookie is always giving a mixed facial expression when it comes to Bill—just like in the sex scenes, it’s always a mixture of pleasure and pain. Here it seems like she’s trying to reassure Bill, but having to do so pains her. With Eric, it’s like she’s trying not to become emotional, but she can’t quite hide the wonder and hope and sadness that she feels. Bill is giving his drama queen/I’m a tragic victim of circumstances look, while Eric looks open and hopeful. That’s the best I could do.

truebloodwillpsychuout:

nwalmn:

unreconstructedfangirl:

sunsetshark:

stillhidden:

sunsetshark:

stillhidden:

sunsetshark:

hsm7:

thatcolorfullights:

Sookie’s face, nothing to say.

Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart. 

The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him.

I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization. 

Couldn’t have said it better.

I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :)

I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake:

Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop. 

HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill.

Another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :)

They, all of them, have been through something tremendous together just now. Less than have an hour before the men offered to lay down their lives for hers. There are all sorts of speculations I won’t go into about whether they had a plan, or would have gone through with it, or whatever. But I don’t doubt at least one thing: Eric would have. He already sacrificed himself once (if not more) for Sookie. She knows that, she has said so herself. 

With Bill there’s always doubt. If he has proven anything it’s that his most altruistic acts could be a lie and hiding an agenda. Now that the immediate danger is over, it’s something to ponder.

But I don’t think it’s what she is doing at the moment. In this instance, I think, if Sookie is pondering anything, it’s her own feelings for these two men. It’s how much she can trust those feelings, and how much of them is the blood talking. And her face kind of says it clearly how she instinctively feels in regards to both.

It’s Bill’s bitch face that’s a bit of a mystery. Like, what is he so pissed about? They got Marnie, Sookie didn’t die, they didn’t die, and he’d just recently filled Sookie up with a fresh “tank” of his blood. You’d think the guy would be jumping with joy and anticipation. Instead, he really does look like a 6-year-old brat being denied toys. :)

If I didn’t think Bill had a secret plan in motion outside of Moon Goddess before, I sure do now. 

Just throwing another idea out there: It’s no secret Bill doesn’t like Eric, and if some other theories are right, he’s been gunning at Eric for over a year now. If the little suicide pact had gone down, how would normal bullets have killed him and Eric? Was Bill maybe a little to conveniently prepared with some wooden bullets, wooden bullets that Pam wouldn’t have (so Pam couldn’t kill him)? That would have to mean that Bill saw this coming…

I’m not going to go any deeper into that, I’m just going to say thank Godric Pam intervened the way she did!!

I’m pretty convinced there’s something we do not know about that scene. It just doesn’t make much sense without another layer. Bill is thinking: “Curses! Foiled again!” or something like it, and Eric is thinking “Can she love me?”

I agree with SH — Sookie is thinking about her own feelings, and they are written all over her face.

The things i miss when i sleep.

Damn!

This just confirms that I suck at interpreting people’s faces.  I could tell that Sookie gave different looks to Bill and Eric, but I couldn’t really understand them. She’s clearly thinking, but the emotion was hard to read for me. I think Sookie is always giving a mixed facial expression when it comes to Bill—just like in the sex scenes, it’s always a mixture of pleasure and pain. Here it seems like she’s trying to reassure Bill, but having to do so pains her. With Eric, it’s like she’s trying not to become emotional, but she can’t quite hide the wonder and hope and sadness that she feels. Bill is giving his drama queen/I’m a tragic victim of circumstances look, while Eric looks open and hopeful. That’s the best I could do.

  • 29th May
    2012
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santress:

Excerpts from Alexander Skarsgard’s interview with Bullett Magazine…

On what being in the Swedish military taught him:

“I definitely complain less,” he says humbly, “and I appreciate more.”

On his values and growing up in a bohemian and artistic family:

“I grew up in a very secular society. I have atheist parents. My morality never came from religion or from scripture, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have the same values or ethics.” Instead of Sundays in church, family time consisted of playing in Dad’s dressing room while Stellan performed in local theaters. “He would rehearse one play during the day and then perform the other at night, so I didn’t see him much,” he says. “He was on stage working with Ingrid Bergman, and I’d be in the makeup room, playing with all the prosthetic noses and wigs.

On Generation Kill and the parallels between war and making movies:

“The writing felt so real. There are no cliffhangers—it’s not heightened at all,” says Skarsgård of the project, which required him to live in Africa for seven months. “War is 90 percent waiting, 10 percent action, the same as making movies. It’s the whole concept of hurry up and wait. ‘Get ready!’ And then you sit for hours.”

Alan Ball on why he cast Alex as Eric Northman:

 “Aside from the fact that he looks like a Viking god?” The True Blood creator, who recently announced that the show’s fifth season would be his last as showrunner, believed that Skarsgård had the rare ability to bring Eric to life, so to speak. “Eric’s a tricky character,” says Ball. “He’s done some really horrible things, but we still have to like him. Alex can make Eric ruthless but at the same time totally captivating and even sympathetic.”

Alex on doing Melancholia with his father and Lars von Trier:

“I was waiting for someone to come up and be like, ‘We were just kidding. The real guy is here now so you can just go home.’ It was surreal.”

On working with Rihanna:

“God, I thought I worked a lot,” says Skarsgård. “We would shoot until late Friday night and she would jump on a plane and go to L.A. to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards in front of a billion people, and then get straight back on the plane and fly to Hawaii, and go to set Monday morning with a smile on her face.”

On choosing acting roles:

“I spend seven months just playing Eric on True Blood,” he says. “But when I’m on hiatus, when I get my five months off, I’m not looking to play the same character again.”

(Source:  Bullett Magazine:  The Sin Issue, Photo credit:  Tim Barber)
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    2012
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santress:

Alexander Skarsgard discusses True Blood in the new issue of Bullet Magazine…

“Eric runs into someone very special,” says Skarsgård, referring to the new character, Nora (played by British actor Lucy Griffiths), Eric’s sister and a member of the Vampire Authority, a council of powerful bloodsuckers who control institutionalized vampire-dom across the globe. “There aren’t a lot of human people who Eric really cares about—he’s only loyal to a few,” Skarsgård says. “We saw his passion with his maker Godric, with Pam, and with Sookie. Nora is definitely just as important; she’s played a significant part in his life. She still does.”

— Alex on Eric and Nora

“Bill and Eric have to set aside their disputes and team up. They bond in the process; they have no choice. There’s definitely a bit of a bromance going on there,” says Skarsgård, smiling. “It’s a little like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” referring to the Wild West outlaws immortalized on screen by Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

— Alex on Eric and Bill’s bromance in Season 5

(Source:  Bullett Magazine:  The Sin Issue, Photo credit:  HBO Facebook)

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stillhidden: sunsetshark: stillhidden: sunsetshark: hsm7: thatcolorfullights: Sookie’s face, nothing to say. Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart.  The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him. I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization.  Couldn’t have said it better. I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :) I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake: Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop.  HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill. Another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :) They, all of them, have been through something tremendous together just now. Less than have an hour before the men offered to lay down their lives for hers. There are all sorts of speculations I won’t go into about whether they had a plan, or would have gone through with it, or whatever. But I don’t doubt at least one thing: Eric would have. He already sacrificed himself once (if not more) for Sookie. She knows that, she has said so herself.  With Bill there’s always doubt. If he has proven anything it’s that his most altruistic acts could be a lie and hiding an agenda. Now that the immediate danger is over, it’s something to ponder. But I don’t think it’s what she is doing at the moment. In this instance, I think, if Sookie is pondering anything, it’s her own feelings for these two men. It’s how much she can trust those feelings, and how much of them is the blood talking. And her face kind of says it clearly how she instinctively feels in regards to both. It’s Bill’s bitch face that’s a bit of a mystery. Like, what is he so pissed about? They got Marnie, Sookie didn’t die, they didn’t die, and he’d just recently filled Sookie up with a fresh “tank” of his blood. You’d think the guy would be jumping with joy and anticipation. Instead, he really does look like a 6-year-old brat being denied toys. :)

stillhidden:

sunsetshark:

stillhidden:

sunsetshark:

hsm7:

thatcolorfullights:

Sookie’s face, nothing to say.

Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart. 

The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him.

I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization. 

Couldn’t have said it better.

I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :)

I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake:

Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop. 

HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill.

Another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :)

They, all of them, have been through something tremendous together just now. Less than have an hour before the men offered to lay down their lives for hers. There are all sorts of speculations I won’t go into about whether they had a plan, or would have gone through with it, or whatever. But I don’t doubt at least one thing: Eric would have. He already sacrificed himself once (if not more) for Sookie. She knows that, she has said so herself. 

With Bill there’s always doubt. If he has proven anything it’s that his most altruistic acts could be a lie and hiding an agenda. Now that the immediate danger is over, it’s something to ponder.

But I don’t think it’s what she is doing at the moment. In this instance, I think, if Sookie is pondering anything, it’s her own feelings for these two men. It’s how much she can trust those feelings, and how much of them is the blood talking. And her face kind of says it clearly how she instinctively feels in regards to both.

It’s Bill’s bitch face that’s a bit of a mystery. Like, what is he so pissed about? They got Marnie, Sookie didn’t die, they didn’t die, and he’d just recently filled Sookie up with a fresh “tank” of his blood. You’d think the guy would be jumping with joy and anticipation. Instead, he really does look like a 6-year-old brat being denied toys. :)

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sunsetshark: stillhidden: sunsetshark: hsm7: thatcolorfullights: Sookie’s face, nothing to say. Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart.  The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him. I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization.  Couldn’t have said it better. I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :) I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake: Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop.  HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill. In both sets, Sookie’s tone matches that of the man she’s looking at. So it’s just another instance in which Bill is dragging her down, and Eric is bringing her up. This also serves as another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :)

sunsetshark:

stillhidden:

sunsetshark:

hsm7:

thatcolorfullights:

Sookie’s face, nothing to say.

Her face speaks volumes.  When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head.  When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart. 

The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him.

I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric.  She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying.  Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization. 

Couldn’t have said it better.

I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :)

I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake:

Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop. 

HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill.

In both sets, Sookie’s tone matches that of the man she’s looking at. So it’s just another instance in which Bill is dragging her down, and Eric is bringing her up.

This also serves as another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :)

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I think i started to loose my interest on Trueblood… but why??

alexericskarsman:

The first time i watched TB i find it as an ordinary tv series, the one that didn’t really get my attention. I just played it if i’m run out of movies or series to watch. But when i saw this on season 2, things changed..  

Trueblood or should I say ERIC NORTHMAN, becomes my world. I was blown away by Alex portraying Eric. And the story line of the bad guy fell in love with the good guy’s girl, really hooks me up. and oh not mention how hot that villain is. After finishing S3, and since I read the books no word can describe how excited i am for S4. Although i’m a bit disappointed on the last season because i expect more than what they did especially to the story line of Eric and Pam. 

Yes, i am excited for S5 but not that excited unlike on S4. I don’t want the bromance between Bill and Eric. There’s nothing best to watch Eric mocking Bill!

To make it short, i want the BAD ASS ERIC! the Viking Vampire who doesn’t feel but there’s love for Sookie… ;)) 

I miss the Eric I fell in love with..SEASON 2 ERIC!!

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ohiogurl:

imhereforsookie:

must be Thursday….

I love this scene. Anna’s great sarcastic expressions strike again! 

But let’s probe a little deeper, hmm? Look who she’s talking to-Bill and Eric. They’ve no doubt come to persuade Sookie to help them. Judging by what she’s saying, the strategy is to convince her that Russell threatens her, too, so she should pitch in.

The other promo had Bill coming up with the idea to use Sookie, Eric sadly saying she didn’t want anything to do with them, and then Bill coldly asserting he wouldn’t give her any choice in the matter. Bill did seem awfully intent on getting Sookie’s assistance, by any means necessary, while Eric had qualms about using her. Is that scene a prelude to this one, or does it come after?

(Source: askarsswedishmeatballs)

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