Before I read other places, my impressions from last night's show. I think I'm going to have to watch this show a couple times and read some background material to make myself comprehend much of the vampire storyline though.

Roman is really dead. I did not think that was going to happen.

Most of what is going on in the show re religion went way over my head and  I know there will be tons written on Lilith this week, which I probably won't get around to reading.  I'm not entirely convinced there's not some drug-induced trickery going on with it all. Mostly I focused on the obvious--drugs and/or group psychosis + religion = mass slaughter of innocents.  

The two non-religious vampires still come down on opposite sides of treatment of humans.  It is obvious Russell believes none of the religion, but he'll go along for the ride so long as it is in his self-interest, and he truly loves killing people, only regards them as something for his use and satisfaction (as he does everything else, wolves, other vampires, antiquities, etc.). Eric may well be the only genuine mainstreamer in the bunch. Even when participating in the massacre in a drug-induced state Eric is still not capable of blinding himself to the wrongness of it all, and Eric still mourns his human family. I feel Bill is an increasing non-factor here, he and Steve Newlin float whichever way it's convenient. It's becoming about Eric and Russell representing which way vampires will go.

I LOVED the scene of the vampires tripping out walking the streets of New Orleans, one of the great TB moments.  Those gifs BB posted here are classic. Alex does a great stoner!!!!!!

I love watching Sam sniff. Other than the vampire story line, it seems to me they are staying closer to story lines from the books this year, and doing it effectively for once. I think they tried to stay closer last year, but it felt flat. I love wolf pack grandma, she's a great actress.  The hate group story line reminds me very much of the books, and it interests me on how they are going to play Hoyt and Jessica into it.

I love the actors playing the characters but don't care about LaFayette or Terry's story lines.  Pam and Tara are great comic relief. Pam had better watch it, she's developing maternal feelings. She never had those even in real life.