In a year-later epilogue, we see Pam and Eric appearing in a cheesy infomercial for New Blood, a Hep-V-curing tonic synthesized from a sample of Sarah Newlin's blood that they say they obtained when she escaped. They release Sarah, but not without first feeding her Pam's blood, so they can track her down when they need her. In the same way that the roving bands of marauding Hep-V-positive vampires seemed to disappear overnight, Pam and Eric dispatch with the Yakuza with an efficiency only seen on TV. It's an inauspicious death, as most vampire offings on this show have been (so gross). Jeez! Instead, he tortures poor Sookie, who finally agrees to mercy-kill him not by using her big ball of light - "it's who I am," she protests - but by staking him with a broken shovel handle. It's characteristically selfless of him to want to "free" Sookie, but isn't it a little selfish of him to expect her to play Kevorkian for him? Just go sit in the garden and get some sun, Bill. I understood Bill's explanation for why he wanted the true death. (And I think that Charlaine Harris fans might have stormed HBO headquarters with stakes and pitchforks had Sookie actually been turned.) Other than Sookie becoming a vampire to be with him forever, there really was no other option. I think it's fair to say that, while some of the details of this series finale were different than we expected, we ended up pretty much where we expected we would. Let's "put it all in prescription" and see how we did: You've surely seen by now what we thought was going to happen. We're finally here, fangbangers, the end of True Blood.
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