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This is GREAT news for us, because Eric and Sookie were picked! (Their photo is #3 in their gallery of pics!)

This is what one of their visitors said;

While watching the Eric/Sookie love scene [on True Blood], I found myself wishing that I had a larger screen TV. Wow! So loved that ending, I really hope they do continue it with a shower next scene…since the swamp can’t be a great place to lie down in nekkid! —Curly

I swear I read this last summer! Or, maybe I remember reading the post where they were asking visitors to write their favorites in the comments? I’m sorry, I can’t remember…and I couldn’t find it anywhere on E&SL.

Regardless, it appears the fans have spoken! If you would like to check out who else they picked on their list, please click here!

What do you think? Share your thoughts below!

Just for us…here’s some special Eric and Sookie lovin’ in celebration of this news!

For tonight’s (Day 19) fangalicious Fang-A-Thon 2012 post, I thought I’d share some spoilers TV Guide is revealing in their newest issue, which will be released on Thursday, May 31st. The issue is dated June 4-10, 2012.

WARNING: If you don’t want to know – don’t read below!

Below are the scans of Matt Roush’s article in this issue.

Special thanks to askarsgard.com for sharing these scans!

As an added bonus – TV Guide also revealed this little spoiler in their Mega Buzz article!

I can’t wait for True Blood to come back. Is Tara dead? Please say yes. I am so over her. — Denny
NATALIE: We literally can’t answer this question, lest Alan Ball has us all staked. But we can tell you that the title of the season premiere is “Turn! Turn! Turn!” which is a song of Biblical extraction about profound change, like, say, dying, becoming a vampire or declaring your true sexuality. All three of these things will happen during this hour, but the question is: To whom? (Answer: Not all to the same person.)

Hmmm…sure sounds like we have a lot to speculate on the next couple of days!

Not to worry though…Michael Ausiello will probably tell us more, once he’s finished watching the first four episodes of True Blood, which he received in the mail earlier today! Check out what he shared on his Twitter page!

ME=WANT *sobs* Wish we could receive these too!

Thoughts and speculations? Feel free to share ‘em below!

Alexander Skarsgard appears on the cover and inside the summer 2012 issue of Bullett Magazine, aptly titled the “Sin” issue, and today Bullett Media have posted an interview with the viking on their website, as well as some of the pictures taken at  his colorful photo-shoot.

Alex talks about most of his recent and upcoming movie projects as well as True Blood. 

 “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.

It’s a very interesting interview by someone who has read the books (there are no stupid questions) and understands the world Charlaine has created.

You can listen to the podcast here: Book Talk

I found it very entertaining to hear how Charlaine did her “research” of male strippers. *wink, wink – nudge, nudge” She should’ve taken the stripper up on his offer to watch him in action as part of her “research”. It’s interesting to find out the reasons why she created the cluviel dor. She mentions it will play a “big important role in helping Sookie discover her true feelings” at the end. Hmmm…I wonder what she means by that?

I also enjoyed hearing more details about her graphic novel, “Cemetery Girl” with Christopher Golden, and how she came up with the idea of “Bubba” in the series. There is so much more she talks about in this interview, but you should definitely listen to it yourself. It’s a really great interview, IMO.

What are your thoughts? Please share ‘em below!

This video was brought to us by Our True Blood Fan Club and we will be doing a lot of things with them this coming season of True Blood. One of the features we will be doing is their fan question of the week. They have some goodies planned for this season, so a little birdie told me! They are in the process of restructuring the way they do the videos but the banter between the two is epic!

So what did you think of the video? Sound off below!

E! Online shared their Hot Guys of Summer TV list, and guess who was the first person mentioned? (Somehow I don’t think I’ll be hearing too many objections to this!) If you guessed, Alexander Skarsgard (Eric Northman) as your reason to watch True Blood – then you’re in good company, because E! Online agrees with us too! This is what they said below.

What’s summer TV without some hot men to look at? Yeah, their shows are really clever and entertaining and they can act real good and blah blah blah…but we’re not here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about smoldering eyes, six-pack abs and amazing hair. Or hairy beasts. Or all of the above!

Enough chatting, more looking. Check out our Hot Guys of Summer TV gallery, and commense the swooning and face-fanning.

Alex isn’t the only one from True Blood to appear on this list – Joe Manganiello (Alcide) and Ryan Kwanten (Jason) were listed too! To find out where they ranked – along with who else made this list, please click here!

Of course, we’re extremely happy Alex was the first hot guy named on this drool-worthy list! Did you notice that a certain vampire is missing? Hmm…

Thoughts? Feel free to drool in the comments below!

For tonight’s (Day 16) fangalicious Fang-A-Thon 2012 post, I thought I’d share two True Blood promo videos which aired tonight on HBO! One is a brand new fangalicious trailer – the other is a recap of Season 4 with the cast of True Blood!

This first videos is the new trailer, featuring new scenes from season 5! Watch it below!

The second is “Conjuring Up Season 4″, where the cast of True Blood take a walk down memory lane of season 4! Find out what they said below!

Here’s a couple of screencaps from some of the new scenes in the first video!

While Season 4 had a lot of WTF moments in it, I did find it interesting to see what the cast had to say about it. Plus, Alex was looking particularly YUMMY in the video, and Anna was looking beautiful as well!

As for the new scenes in the Season 5 trailer; I’m not sure what to say. I think I’ll have to watch it again…and again…and again to form some thoughts! Don’t worry, Evie will be sure to write an analysis as soon as she can!

What are your thoughts? Feel free to share them below!

If you would like to see even MORE screencaps, please visit SkarsgardFans.com!

Last week we looked at the 5 bad things that we could most probably do without in True Blood Season 5, and now with just 2 weeks to go until the show returns, it’s time to look at the things we are looking forward to watching the most. Included here are the characters and story-lines that will make or break this season, and hopefully will make it, unlike last year, one to remember for all the right reasons. There is no “Sookie and Eric” in my list simply as I don’t expect there is going to be any. So in order to enjoy the upcoming antics in Bon Temps, we will need to take off our Sookie and Eric tinted glasses, get in a good bottle of wine, take a deep breath  and go with the flow:

5. The Odd Couple

 My favorite ever Jason Stackhouse moments all came in Season 2 when the hapless hero joined The Church of the Sun, and he sparred with the Reverend Steve Newlin. When he shot him in the forehead with a paint gun.  When he went to heaven inside his wife. And now the Right Reverend is back, on Jason’s doorstep, or should I say the Right Reverend Vampire Steve. I love Steve Newlin with his horrible attitude and his horrible hair, and I can’t wait to find out why he’s back to torment Jason and who his un-dead daddy (or mommy) is. Also it’s good to see that Vampire Steve’s journey to the dark side is not short lived, as he has been spotted during the filming of episode 11 in New Orleans. Because Steve Newlin’s right, they’re devils of the night!

4. When Eric met Pam

Firstly I need to confess that I am not at all outraged about Pam being a brothel madam, in fact I think this back-story completely compliments the Pam that KBVS plays so fantastically well, and I just can’t wait to experience her introduction into the un-dead delights of the nights. Let’s face it, however it happens Eric Northman is her maker, so in vampire terms it doesn’t get any better than that. True Blood always does extremely well with art direction, sets and costumes, and hopefully the 1905 brothel will be no exception. It even looks like there is going to be a little mini-mystery involved as according to the episode synopsis there will be “strange murders at the Comstock Brothel”. Will Eric be the hero or the bad guy? Will he save his Pam from death? Will he kick somebodies ass? (Please let him kick somebodies ass). Will Pam turn willingly or through necessity? How will we all feel seeing Eric and Pam in the boudoir together? Will Granddaddy Godric make an appearance? I really, really can’t wait to see this!

3. Respect My Authority

Being a complete out and out fang-banger (ever since Spike strode majestically into Sunnydale far too many years ago) I always say the more vamps the better. And this season we are getting a whole organisation full of them. In every vampire story I’ve ever read I have been intrigued by their politics and history, and I’m very much looking forward to what True Blood is going to give us with this. There looks like a good mix of vamps too, from the now obligatory child vamp to a biblical seductress, with Eric’s long-lost sister thrown in for good measure. Being from the UK, I had never heard of Chris Meloni until he was cast as Roman here, but I’m already mega-impressed with what I’ve seen of the Head of the Authority so far. Let’s cross our fingers and hope that this new bunch of fangers get the decent amount of screen time they deserve. And just remember every minute they are on screen is a minute the weary weres and shifty shifters are not. All hail the Authority! (Hopefully).

2. The Return of the King

If having Steve Newlin back doesn’t make me smile enough, the impending return of the King of Mississippi breaks out a Joker sized smirk on my face. Okay so he probably won’t be king anymore, what with  beheading the magistrate, murdering a newsreader on live television and declaring he is going to “Fu*k the Authority”. But these are minor details. Whilst Sookie was running around screaming in Season 3 and being brutally fang-raped in the back of a truck, Eric  Northman and Russell Edgington were doing Vampire Shakespeare and mesmerizing un-dead loving audiences everywhere. Welcome back Russell, let’s hope for some more stellar scenes between the viking and the ancient, and quite frankly unhinged, vampire king.

1. You are a viking vampire god and you bow to no one

If anyone disagrees with my number one choice, firstly you are on the wrong blog, and secondly I’ll probably delete your comment because I’m pissy like that where Eric is concerned. I’m not here to give all the seemingly cast of 100s their due respect I’m here for rampant viking worship. He’s back – in 2 weeks – the reason I’ll never stop watching this damned show. When last seen he had given his devoted progeny her marching orders, was still suffering from the aftereffects of a witch’s spell, had his heart broken by a waitress, and was left to team up with an irritating, infant vampire. It matters not, as Alexander Skarsgard will light up the screen with his completely awesome and now iconic performance as the viking vampire god. He will own every scene he is in. I’m starting to get that funny feeling in my lady parts just thinking about it. Worship him people, for 12 Sunday nights in a row from June 10th. Eric is back!

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So what do you think of my choices? I just realized every single one of them has a pair of rather large fangs! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Let us know if there is anything you think I missed that you looking forward to witnessing this coming season.

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As a part of our “Celebrating the SVM” series, we here at E&SL want to honor the books that have brought us to Eric and Sookie. We know a majority of us are avid book readers, so these will not be your typical review but a way for us to highlight each book and some thoughts around them.

What better way to start us off then the first book of the series: Dead Until Dark.

I previously asked the gang a few simple questions and this is where we stood.

How did reading Dead Until Dark make us feel? Could we put it down?

We (Erika, Evie, Nymeris, and I) all pretty much agreed that we were unsure how we felt when we first read this book. Of course with Sookie being in a relationship with Bill in this book, we all were looking for the umpf factor to go with our sassy Telepath. We also had just a few encounters with Eric… though they were all extremely memorable.

Evie, approaching it from seeing the show before the books, was surprised that Rene was not dead like he was in the show and did not think book Jason was a nice guy like Jason is as portrayed by Ryan Kwantan.

What moment made us cry?

Erika and Nymerias both agreed that the “Bill” factor is what brought them to tears.

For me, it was grans death. It’s extremely tough to lose a loved one… and Sookie’s loss was confounded since Gran was murdered. The Jason factor and having to deal with the Bartlett situation where about questions upped my tear jerk reaction to this moment as a whole.

What moment made us laugh?

There was a group consensus that one of the moments that made us laugh was when “Sookie meets Eric for the first time in Fangtasia. You know the moment; he calls her sweet and she replies with “Not especially”. Classic sass from our favorite Telepath the oldest vampire in the bar.

My morbid humor popped up with a second moment. It was while Sookie was in the hospital after Rene tried to kill her and Eric and sent her flowers… that looked like female genitalia. And the words “vagina flowers” entered my vocabulary, for how can you not laugh at that

Favorite moment and/or line:

With the Sookie and Eric interaction being at minimum for this first book, our options were pretty limited for what could be our favorite moment.

Erika and Nymerias both agreed that their favorite part was when Eric saved Sookie by staking Long Shadow. It was where you start seeing the Viking in a different light… plus we saw Sookie have to be creative to divert the bloodlust.

My favorite moment took us back to the hospital when Sookie looks out her window and sees Eric looking back in, and he smiles before flying off. He was checking up on her, on top of the flowers. Le sigh

What were some of your favorite moments from Dead Until Dark? Sound off below!

We are like a powder keg wondering what will happen with Eric and Sookie… ok, and everyone else.

So to let off some steam… here is a nice self explanatory picture that will allow you to do so.

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Now let it out, you might thank me for it.

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