Who is the better vampire for Sookie: Bill or Eric? VOTE!
Book spoiler in the post is marked and preceded by eye-candy 
So who do think is the better vamp for Sookie: 
Eric the Viking who seems to be on a mission to distribute his precious blood among the nation’s finest this season? Eric seems to get another darker side of Sookie
that she herself isn’t aware about.
Or do you think Sookie should stay with Bill? He didn’t put any blame on Sookie after she fell into Eric’s trap and took his blood.
Some eye-candy… DON’T FORGET TO SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO VOTE! 
********BOOK SPOILERS ********
Sookie and Bill’s relationship
I really liked the solution in the book that Sookie and Bill broke up, because of what Bill did and not because of some external force.
Considering myself team Bill I nearly did not read the books because I feared I might shift my alliances after reading the Sookie Stackhouse series. I love that the author Harris always kept it open. Having just begun to read the ninth book my money is still on Bill.
I see that readers might think otherwise, but I love that Charlaine Harris has managed to keep Bill interesting- at meast for me.
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227 Responses to “Who is the better vampire for Sookie: Bill or Eric? VOTE!”
I haven’t read the books yet, (I’ve only just bought the first one) so I don’t know what happens between Bill/Sookie/Eric.
(Thanx for the spoiler warnings by the way! It’s great that I’m able to skip over them.)
At first I could only imagine Sookie with Bill and didn’t want her with Eric, but after seeing episode 9, (btw, WOW! Eric looked smoking!) I don’t think I’d mind the story going down that road.
Would feel really bad for Bill though.
I am the same. have not read the books. Both vampires are really hot but I have to say I am Bill Biased. Really feel for the guy and what is coming.
I too am Bill biased Judy………I mean look what Bill has done. Would Eric walk through the sun for Sookie? Nah….maybe for Godric…no YES for Godric he would…but for Sookie, doubt it. I’m not saying he’d suck as a vamp-lover but as her “man” ….Bill wins the humility award and I beleive he would treasure and protect Sookie in a very different way than Eric.
Actually – Eric got shot shielding her. (when the bomb went off)
Thus far in the series (tv) Bill has lied to Sookie repeatedly.
1. His whole reason for being in Bon Temps (which I HOPE will remain in the story and will be revealed. If the TV Sookie has any sense she will dump him when she finds out like she does in the books.)
2. That he wasnt in trouble for staking Long Shadow (in the book it was actually Eric that saved Sookie from Long Shadow (btw)).
3. Jesica’s existance.
4. IF what Bill said is true and Loraina has NO hold on him – I wonder why she was able to keep him from Sookie for two solid days in that hotel room. I wonder why Sookie hasnt questioned that.
AND – although they are dead – I am stilling wondering WHY Bill who is portraying himself as a mainstreamer was associating with Malmolm, Diane and Liam. They were at his house with two humans clearly doing non-mainstreaming things. Somehow I dont see Bill as being upfront on his true feelings or intentions.
ERIC – lied to Sookie once.
1. He told her the bullets would kill him.
That one lie is of big consequence , though. H said ” I am part of her now.” He never would have gotten through her wothout lies and he knows.
Plu he didn’t care at all about her safety when he had her walk into the arms of the FOTS, cutting off the one connection to her: Bill, by pathetically calling in Bill’s maker.
Then he set there moping about having lost Godric. When he finally graced the cellar where Sookie was kept, he only had eyes for his maker. His behavious clearly shows that he doesn’t care for her.
He is so dead inside and hope for an rival through a new kick like Sookie. He is a bullet-shitter, suck a pathetic creature. I guess his looks hepls that he is liked. I can#t see any other reason.
I mant “such a pathetic creature.” *lol*
Btw, I always enjoyed watching Eric. He is quite interesting before he starting f**king with Lafayette’s and Sookie’s lives. His need for control is simply disgusting,
Lorena was able to hold bill in the hotel because she is older so that means she is much stronger than him. She did release him but she will always be stonger. And BTW, eric led sookie straight into a trap at the church. Eric is selfish and only wants to control people.
Eric all the way… I mean wow did you see that dream?! And he just lost his maker so he really needs Sookie!
What about the dream? Him talking about her being a vampire. He doean’t have a clus who she is . Of course, it is her dream, but it shows Sookie thinksEric sees her dark side.
I really like Alexander Skarsgard, bu the poor guy had no change with that dialogue. And what the hell was Lorena doing there?
Someone please stake her.
Lets all remember one thing from season 1.
Eric was physically attracked to Sookie BEFORE he knew she was a telepath — we cannot say the same thing about Bill.
Just keep that in mind.
So true! I disliked Bill in the books AFTER the you know what scene. I think Eric is better for her hopefully in the end the books will agree! Or maybe she’ll get with a human lol
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Eric only was remotely good for her when lost his memory and separated from his position in vampire hierarchy.
I think Bill fell for her – in the books that is – after everything went wrong, him being attacked by drainer, Sookie rescuing him.
Whatever went wrong in the beginning, it is pretty clear that Bill is willing to take more risks for Sookie than Eric.
If after Eric can remember his liaison it takes him over two months to pop up at Sookie’s. That doesn’t show much dedication in my world.
***Spoiler***
Actually Eric was the one that wanted too give up everything, get a regular job and have what would have been like a marrage with her when he lost his memory, and he wanted her too stand by his side and share everything with her as well at one point in time when they were lying by next too each other by the fireplace…When he got his memory back of the time he had with her, he had no choice to leave her,he had a new King to deal with and he did tell her in her room right after he remembered everything that his time with her in that house had been the happiest time he had in hundreds of years… He was not forced to find her, and court her from the Queen, he actually loves her. Yet being as old as he is that in its self is a struggle… He also told everyone that he liked being blood bonded with her… Yes he does not show up every night but he also has area 5 to take care of as well as Fangtasia, he loves her. Bill feels guilty for being forced by Eric to tell Sookie the truth and he should after all he put her through, yes he does love her… but not the same love that Eric has for her… Eric has felt something for Sookie from the start and told her many times he did not like to feel, yet he loves her and at the end of Book 8 he calls her his Lover in front of the whole bar… Eric took bullets for Sookie many many times, when Bill was off with his maker cheating on Sookie, Eric was the one that was by her side… That shows more dedication in my world than anything Bill had ever done for her, for Bill, everything else comes first…. with Eric Sookie came first and yes it did make Eric mad, but that is why we love him so much, his is used to being in complete control of himself, not falling for a simple human.
I have read the books and I think Eric is the Vamp for Sookie. Eric is amazing!!!! I will be disappointed if she ends up with Bill.
I totally agree, eric all the way. how hot is book 4. and book 5 really shows how much he does love her
I 100% agree with you! Eric has to be the one she ends up with or I’ll be SO disappointed! P.S. the books are amazing I recommend them to anyone who hasn’t read them yet!
OMG book 4 is AMAZING… freekin hot!! i just reread (and then reread certain parts LOL) again to enjoy it once more…. hmmmm
Lol same
You got that right…lol right now I am reading about a almost naked sexy vamp running down the road!! Woohoo to read that again, and again, and again!!!
Book 4 is hot hot hot!! The first “encounter” they had together in the shower was the best part! I was sooo upset that book 5 hardly has Eric in it at all. I was really looking forward to him remembering everything and them being together. I guess I need to keep reading and find out. Although I LOVE the show, I wish it stayed on track with the books more in the sense that her and Eric did have a few moments together for real instead of in her dreams.
*possible spoiler?*
I freaking cried at the end when he forgot… what happened during the time he was with sookie, am i the only one?
I would feel so sorry for Sookie if she ended up with Eric. He never consults her, tricks her all the time, supposedly for her own good. To me he always is too chicken-shit to have a relationship between equals.
) but not feeling respected as an equal partner
If Sookie chose Eric she would be in the same situation as Hugo wih Isabelle: having great sex (well that’s a plus
I totally agree i mean eric is yammy and all but bill is the real deal eric would only use her and besides he only want her becouse he can`t have her!!! AND even if sookie was to become a vampire he would never be able to treat her as equal… Keep wanting eric its sexy to see u in need….
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Actually Sookie repeatedly defies Eric through out the series in both the books and tv. I mean he slaps the man! I think that is a HUGE part of why Eric is attracked to her — her balls.
Although in the books initially she is intimated by him – that is quickly remedied and she comes to trust him by the end of book 2.
**SPOILER**
Me too! After all that Eric has done and sacrificed, I think I will never read antoehr vamp book as long as I live if they don’t end up together now.
He defied Andre even for her! And, I can’t wait to find out why he wasn’t there for her at the end of the latest book.
I AGREE!!! If they don’t end up together i will never forgive the writer! I absolutely think Eric is better for her than anyone!
I haven’t read any of the books yet and I’m all for Sookie and Eric. I don’t know why, but Bill’s character gets a bit annoying sometimes.
I agree. Bill seems moody and weak but Eric is much deeper and so YUMMY. READ THE BOOKS!!! They are so much better than the show and I love the show!!!!!
Idon’t mean to put a wrench in this but I think she should end up with a were or a shifter. Vamps are to iffy! lol
Weres are warm too, imagine having sex with a cold sack of blood… o_o
Nah…..vampire sex? You’ve got to be kidding me! I WANT SOME !!! LOL…. I mean, you remember watching, well shit…I’m not gonna get all graphic here, lol, but the vampire I wanted to see get dirty was GODRIC!!!
Something super sexy about vampires…. That part where we got to see Bill and Lorena kill that chic then go at it in that bloody mess WHILE she was dying….ohh…..sooooooooooo damn hot! I must admit I was even turned on by that!
i’ve read all the books, and what can i say, Eric and Sookie looks graet together on the book and the screen.
In the last book however does not tell if they kept together, but i wish they do.
Bill is weird i dont like him for sookie, all that stuff of “i have to protect sookie no matter if i die” sucks.
I prefer a strong, hard and mysterious man to her as Eric.
I totally agree with all of that and I hope Eric will stay with Sookie during the 10th book cause i just hate Bill for keep saying that he still loves her and he would die for her, the only reason Eric wouldn’t say that is because he knows she is only human and also that she does not want to be a kept woman for the rest of her life/existence. x
Sookie HAS to end up with Eric, she just has to.
I think Sookie will end up with Eric. The writers played it out well, at the end of this last episode when Godric asks Sookie to watch out for Eric really gave it away. I think Sookie will comfort Eric because of what Godric said.
hopefully she will come to have more deeper feelings for him!
sookie’s too naive. she’ll probably think she’s doing the right thing and being all good by looking out for eric and comforting him but he’s the type of person..thing..being to take her for a fool and trick her, then she’ll probably end up with him through his games and her foolishness, which you see a clip of when she sucks the bullets from him. sure he protected her but it’s still aggrivating to see it happen.
Yes… but did you see who Bill went too in the last of this episode? with blood tears still running down her? Bill is a complete jerk, whom you will likely see in this next episode (I hope) and Eric is being what he is, a mischevious vampire that will go to any extreme to get what he wants, and he wants Sookie.
I don’t think those were tears, and I’m fairly sure that’s the queen of louisiana, if you are implying it’s lorena.
All I have to say is that Sookie can have her Bill because I’d love for Eric to be all MINE!!
OMG!! That steamy dream from episode 9 has me hooked on Eric!! Gosh he is soooo unbelieveably HOTT!!
It’s not that I don’t like Bill, I mean I really do. He’s just as hot too =) Especially in real life. YUM!!
All I have to say is that Sookie can have her Bill because I’d love for Eric to be all MINE!!
OMG!! That steamy dream from episode 9 has me hooked on Eric!! Gosh he is soooo unbelieveably HOTT!!
It’s not that I don’t like Bill, I mean I really do. He’s just as hot too =) Especially in person. YUM!!
Bill is better for her. At least he doesn’t try to talk her into becoming a vampire in her dreams.
My estimates exactly
He wasn’t talking her into becoming a vampire at all, just old-fashion seduction.
and IT WAS A DREAM!!!!!!!!!
dreams are not real( i cant believe i have to tell full grown people this)
not only was it a dream — IT WAS HER DREAM – lets not forget the vampires cant plant images / ideas / or glamor her. THAT was HER subconscious.
Geesh!
Eric challenges her in ways that Bill doesn’t. Bill is too much of a pushover and Sookie doesn’t have to fight for his love at all. Eric plays harder to get (not in the sexual way) but intellectually and emotionally. Eric would be the kind that is cold hearted and doesn’t feel anything for anyone, but her, that feeling would be amazing on her end!
The thing is “if” they can’t glamour/influence or plant ideas, then why did Eric say, “This is only the beginning”, in Sookies first dream? Why should the blood bond be any different? Control is still control.
Because she drank erics blood!
I really think she should stay with Bill because she really loved him, she gone after him and was not dazzled by is blood or smoking figure.
Everyone knows that Eric is atonishing and a babe, Bill as very charm to but is this ways he loses to Eric, in another matters Bill don´t play tricky silly games to get Sookie´s attention, even he don´t need it because it was love at first side when she looked into him, Eric is more immature is this love things, he appears to doesn´t at all what love is and he as also said it too… but, before this episode I am becoming divided and I hate it! Just by Bill being so boring and not surprising at all, Eric ever as something hide on his sleeve.
yea i rlly likd bill b4 seein da latest episode but now im team eric all da way!!!
I’ve always loved Eric more. And in the books, he’s just so hilarious! The scenes with him and Sookie, especially in book 2, are just so great.
And in the books, Bill can be just a complete jerk. He’s always doing things for Sookie that she doesn’t want him to do and seems to never listen to her.
While watching the show, it seems different though. In the show, it seems very much a Sookie/Bill love story and she seems to be resistant to Eric (until just recently–things seem to be changing a bit), but in the books, ever since Eric is introduced into the story, the books become a very Sookie/Eric love story, even though she’s still with Bill for a while. Even though at first she doesn’t like Eric, they have these hilarious scenes together and really start getting along, especially in book 2 and on.
Anyways, I totally think Eric’s the vamp for Sookie. And with his character developments recently in the show, it seems he’s becoming more irresistable to her.
**Spoilers**
I Know what your saying they keep playing out bill being the good guy. Him sending away lorena wtf? I mean sookie didn’t even find out that eric tricked her into drinking his blood until the 8th book. And she wasn’t even made at bill after the bombing. How could they kill stan! I think he is a nessasary componet. You know? I mean he isn’t a main character in any of the books but i liked a geeky stan better. And omg i so wanted to see isabell and hugo tied up to the walls. Psh the books are way better. But i do love the t.v. show. Ewww how could they make Chow ugly!!!!!! Ugh. Alcide and Quinn better be good looking.
YES!! would have loved to have seen their punishment! also, dont you reckon the godric storyline was weak in the show? made way more sense in the books why he wanted to die. agree re the looks on the show. would have liked both bill and eric to be younger – not saying that they are not hot, they totally are! – but i cant imagine how they are going to hold up, not ageing, for many seasons to come. i cant buy that they are supposed to be late 20s, early 30s…. seriously. i do think they chose a perfect Sam tho!
I think that they got the perfect one for Eric, he has the right look has all of the adorble expressions, but I wish they would have put more of the Eric and Sookie funny stuff in the series, that is what makes the books so great! I think they should have stayed more with the books than what they have but I still love the series as well…
i really wish they had done a better job with the eric/ sookie scenes. but i really still dont think i will ever look at the show eric as i ‘look at the book eric- simply because he kidnapped laffayette(sp?).
Eric’s the vamp for Sooks
you´ll see.
If I say Bill and Sookie 4ever…..can I have Eric? Please Please Please!!!!!
LOL I’m really totally an Eric/Sookie fan TOTALLY!!
I Think Sookie Should Be With Eric Because They Are Really Cute Together And The Way They Look At Each Other…..Like They Are Supposed Be Together Or Something Ya Know So What I’m Saying Is Sookie And Eric Are Definitely Great For Each Other.
The Bill on the True Blood TV series is def. the one for Sookie-there is real chemistry in the scenes they have together-chemistry that was lacking in the dream scene with Eric no mater how gorgeous Eric is. In the dream scene Eric appears to be playing the lover rather than being the lover. In the TV series unlike the books Bill truly loves Sookie and will do anything for her. It’s a real love story and gives the series a heart. I’m crossing my fingers and toes that Allan Ball goes back giving the Sookie and Bill relationship a good story arc and scenes together. Eric is funny but in the TV series does not really appear to care for sookie for who she is. In the book version I’d opt for Eric-the Bill in the books is the more self absorbed, boring vamp and Sookie is not that really into him other than some nostalgia because he was her ‘first.” I’m really hoping the tv series doesn’t follow the books too closely. It’s more fun not knowing what will happen and I love the Tara, Jason, Sam and Lafayette in the tv series.
I agree, they had no chemistry on screen even though they were both naked in a bed.
I agree, they had no chemistry on screen even though they were both naked in a bed. There was just nothing between them, it was awkward to watch in my opinion. But with Bill it’s way more intense because he really loves her.
I didn’t see any awkwardness, but if there was any it might have something to do with the fact that Anna Paquin was seriously involve with Stephen Moyer at the time (now engaged). It could take a little while for the chemistry to pop i.e. when the actors relax a little.
I agree completely, plus in the dream she’s supposed to be thinking about Bill as Lorena says things and that also could reduce some of the “chemistry”.
I agree…I loved their scene together, I kept thinking FINALLY we get to see the eric I loved in the books….
Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin are engaged now, I don’t see any Eric/sookie sex scenes coming up…
OMG – LOL if they dont do love scenes because those two got engaged they need to quit acting.
Like ALAN is gonna write a story plot based on two actors real life relationships.
Face it — Sookie and Eric do enter a sexual relationship — it wont happen until after Sookie finds out about Bill’s deceptions. But it will happen.
Again i agree u see erica does not really know what love is, he is just jealous that sookie is not his. Just like a man after he get her what then do you all really think he have the love to substain her, I mean sex should be good but still after the act the show is pretty much dead-its the hunt we enjoy not the death. Sookie have some one who loves her even from the start.
How can eric give her love when he don`t understand it. AND BY THE WAY IF U HAVE TO TRICK SOMEBODY TO MAKE THEM LOVE YOU AND COME ON THEIR DREAMS TO MAKE THEM CARE. IT`S not love its obession. Billn is inlove not obessess maybe all bill need is a slight mystery to his character and a mischief to his appeal something that would not disturb sookie and his realationship but evolve it
there is so much more to bills character that has yet to be revealed….
*SPOILER*
I suggest you read the books.
Bill is not Mr. Honorable.
and the show is not following the books… lmfao
Agree, but I think we are going to get too see that very soon… Bill is a jerk!
**** BOOK SPOILER****
Just started reading the nineth book “Dead and Gone”? Don’t you think Eric is way too manipulative to be the right partner for Sookie?
Someone mentioned that Bill never ‘dazzled’ Sookie. Thing is when Bill and Sookie met she ended up drinking a good amount of his blood. Now go back to Bill’s explanation of what the blood does and how it makes one feel toward the Vampire who you drink from. Then think about Bill and Sookie and how possessive Bill actually is of Sookie. I think Eric in a way is a good amount more honest and true toward Sookie. He is also just a better character, while Bill had to always be like “I am Vampire” Eric never really had to make that statement you just knew, felt how deadly he was. I think Sookie and Eric would just be more interesting and Bill without Sookie more interesting in turn. I mean, how far will Bill go to get Sookie back? =P
I do think Eric is the better match for sookie in alot of ways beacouse all bill has done for her is keep her in the dark about everything she should know
Eric lets sookie know where she is most of the time were bill never does
I never read the books and I think that! People only like more Eric cause he is a lot more handsome then Bill, is just that… so childish!
I agree. The majority of the readers seem to favour Eric. I have read all the books so far and I can’t see this fascination with Erix. At least not when he comes to being the perfect fit for Sookie.
He is way too much involved in vampire politics and too maipulative, at last in my opinion.
J fully agree that Bill seems to be more appropriate for Sookie. It seems that most of the Erik lovers are of a younger age (just my opinion). Erik is a snake in the grass, Bill detests Vampires and everything about them. If you felt that strongly about an issue, you would take care to shelter the ones you love from something you deemed so awful. (just like your own children) I believe we are going to find a similarit between Sookie and Erik’s past love, someone he left behind by becoming vampire. By the end of the series it seems that Sookie will gain the power to remove the vampire “curse” for better word, and restore Bill to his idea of humanity.
i really dont think that eric is the right choice for sookie- i just think he is a better choice than bill. eww( the thought of sookie and bill ending up together made me vomit a little
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and about sookie reminding eric of someone from his past- not the case in the books (at least im pretty sure)
i really think that sookie will end up with someone completely different- maybe someone in the books maybe not.
Bill is the obvious choice for sookie because he was forced into being a vampire and he knows what its like to lose those around you. He doesnt want the same thing to happen to sookie which explains his over protectiveness with her plus he doesnt mess her around like eric does. I also think that thats y bill plays a boring vampire because he knows that he doesnt have to act a certain way around sookie and he can be himself around her because he does love her.
Great explication…
*claps*
BRAVO
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These opinions are based on the tv series — if we were using the books you would have never made that statement.
Allow me to chew your observation to shreds:
“Bill is the obvious choice for sookie because he was forced into being a vampire and he knows what its like to lose those around you. He doesnt want the same thing to happen to sookie which explains his over protectiveness with her plus he doesnt mess her around like eric does.”
Ok, IF you recall in season 1 – when Bill was at Malcolm’s house – they were having a heated conversation about “hands off Sookie” and Bill threatens to go to “her” that “she” wouldnt be pleased if something happened to Sookie. How would “she” have any knowledge or even care about Sookie’s health. **KEEP THAT IN MIND**
As for not messing her around like Eric does?
Bill lied about: Being in trouble for staking Longshadow (he has no choice but to come clean because he had to go to magistrate, Jesica (and he only confessed because she showed up on his door step), Loraina not having a hold over him (if she didnt have a hold on him WHY was she able to keep in the hotel for 2 days?) Bill asks Sookie on one of thier first meetings “what she was?” seems odd for a passerby chance meeting doesnt it? **KEEP THAT IN MIND** Eric was physically attracked to Sookie prior to finding out she is a telepath (The first meeting in Fangtasia when she was looking for the killer – Eric asks bill if he is attached to his friend.)
I also think that thats y bill plays a boring vampire because he knows that he doesnt have to act a certain way around sookie and he can be himself around her because he does love her.
Bill HAS to be less threatening – more blending into mainstream. If Bill is so mainstream WHY was Malcolm, Diane and Liam at his house with two humans clearly doing non-mainstream stuff? I mean it was Bill’s house — WHY were they there?
Eric was attracked to Sookie prior to knowing about Sookie’s talents. He isn’t all lovie dovie hold your hand in the dark kind of guy. But he is honest. Brutally so. He doesn’t continuously use “I am vampire” as an excuse for his brutality or odd non-mainstream behavior.
If anyone is TRULY being themselves it’s ERIC. Bill seems to be hiding something – acting like something he is not – and more often than not he gets caught in his deceptions.
I think Bill’s true intentions have not been revealed yet. I think with Eric – what you see is what you get. Bill on the other hand – layers — lots and lots of layers and none of them pretty.
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Plus those three were his NEST mates. I’m sorry I’ll take Pam any day (especially from the books) over Bill and his vampires – malcolm, diane, liam and Lorena. What type of life was Bill leading?
Eric has Pam – and others you come to meet that he surrounds himself with that are funny, etc. They are dangerous and Eric has a very low tolerance for bullshit, but Bill is the one who is leading a life of lies.
Also, my God, Bill and her fight constantly! You don’t get that with Eric – once they are together. And, their sense of humor – it is like he tells her in the dream…I thought you had no sense of humor. And, she thought he was unfeeling, etc.
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I totally agree with everything I think Eric like Sookie right from the off! He truely does like her even if he is a bit manipulative, he never lies to her plus there is so much more to Bill than you know, one you find out his real agenda it is real hard not to hate him!
And another thing,
IF Eric was sooo mischievous, evil or all other bad things that have been named, why is Pam sticking by and continuing to be very loyal to Eric? Chow too. And if you wanna talk about the relationship between a vampire and his/her maker, Pam is not even required to serve Eric. She willingly works for Eric even though Eric has let her go.
Compare that to Bill’s situation, does Bill have anybody who’s loyal or willing to do things for him? I can’t think of any.
People can say bad things about Eric yadda yadda yadda…
People can say nice things about Bill…. wtf
At the end of the day, I don’t give a shit if Eric was evil, if Bill loved Sookie more. The only thing I care is that I L LIKE ERIC SOOOO MUCH BETTER AND IT IS ERIC WHOM SOOKIE SHOULD END UP WITH.
IF by the end of the series Sookie is not together with Eric, I would have my own personal vendetta with Charlaine Harris. That’s how much I want Sookie and Eric together.
When Malcolm and his nest were in Bill’s house was he not extremely upset at them? He didn’t want them there at all, but Malcolm made sure that Bill knew how powerful he was and rubbed it in his face. Bill had to use every kind of threat he could muster just to make them leave Sookie alone. They were also not afraid of Eric or the Queen. Would it not seem they could go where they wanted as Bill is a single vampire and they are a nest?
if any1 doesnt agree with what i wrote please tell me why
no, i completey agree. well said
i dont agree
eric didnt exactly know what he was getting into- how would he?(even less so in the books)
and eric also did not have a maker who made him kill people like bill(LORENA IS A B****) he also has had 7 1/2 centuries to get used to the idea of being dead that bill hasnt had
I disagree only because I when you listen to Bill explain things about Vampire blood you start to realize how it might have effected Sookie from the get go. Add to that the fact that I think Eric is a deeper character and you have to go with Eric.
Although seeing Bill pull all the stops to try and get Sookie back would also be a plus for me as it will broaden the character even more.
I agree with the last phrase!
yeah, if worse comes to worse and sookie ends up with eric than it’ll be great to see how far bill will go to get her back.
Eric 100% !!!
What do you mean with -Eric is way too manipulative- he loves her
He manipulates all things to get to Sookie is not in a spontaneous way ever, Bill never done that, he gone to the Merlotte´s and Sookie get interested on it at first sight!
I totally agree.
Sookie only begins to be attracted to Eric after she had his blood. And he devously tricked her into it.
If he was playing fair he would stand no change. If h loved her he would accept her decision. He could still try to win her heart, the hard way.
I agree. Eric is manipulating Sookie. Bill states in pisode 9, that eric was determined to bond with Sookie and it was probably inevitable. He is resigned that he may loose her.
!APPLAUD! Eric he is manipulating, becouse maybe he is not willing to work at it, so he`s taking the easy way out into her heart. Or shall i say between her legs………………hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
***Spoiler Alert*** Kind of
Why bill went into Merlottes in the first place will hopefully be revealed in the show and it changes EVERYTHING!
Eric is the man for sookie and in the books, he shows his emotions more and you know he (lover)s him
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Nope. Bill relunctantly agreed to that before he even knew Sookie. He definitly fell for her and he will be the one in theend.
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he still should have told sookie the truth (even if it was only after he fell for her) would have made all the difference in my opinion. instead he waits 6 books (3 years? maybe)
I haven’t read the books but if she gets with Eric then i feel bad for Bill because he’s nice and gets screwed over so in a way the message is: the dick head always wins and the nice guy will finish last. I think Eric is hot too but Bill seems like the good guy and he’s done so much for Sookie while Eric just sees her as a prize to piss off Bill. I don’t care, that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
Well… You should read the books, you might think differently about how good Bill is to Sookie…
That doesn’t change the fact that Eric si selfish and manipultive in the books.
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You can vote for Eric as much as you want.
He only gets lucky with Sookie when he looses his memory and stops being the threatening vampire sheriff. On second thought, he was about to have sex with Sookie and then luckily Bubba intervened.
I do have the feeling that Charlaine has a suprise for the still triumphing Eric fans.
But you haven’t read the last book yet…. He does love Sookie and the last book written (so far) shows how he does care for her.
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tHat must be in the second half then. I am in the middle of the last book and I only see more manipulations so far. *shrugs*
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Eric is just too man to show his emotions. In the show they totally killed everything by haveing it say that eric had lorena come fo bill. And for him tricking sookie into drinking his blood, hey? Don’t you wonder why he’d like to know how she is feeling, were she is, if she feels love, pain, despair. Come on he feels for sookie. But he is the big boss man. Mr. Sensitive would totoaly kill his moe joe.
i’ve read all the books and i’m an eric fan
but quite a few people say how the last book really shows how he loves her, but nothing’s standing out majorly. can someone please explain?
Mine opinion too.
Bill said in Dallas that he feels like a waitress and has no control over what is happening and I have to agree. He is riding a wave that has already decided its path and he is falling off fast. Eric knows exactly what he wants and that is Sookie no matter that in Vampire law you do not hit on another vamps human. he does it any way
Why does it always have to end up in voting?
I have no idea. *shrugs*
Didn’t you write the post? *confued*
By now, I really regret haven written that post. The whole question was meant as I joke.
I have no idea how the poll got added in the first place. I hate polls.
A post result just doesn’t maker a character better or worse, for all I care.
Kimmy-the books and the series are way different. Who protected Sookie from Longshadow in the book and in the TV series? Bill in one, Eric in the other. The TV series would be way boring if they stuck too closely to the books. I think this is the first series I’ve felt that way about. I’m now on the 6th book and really enjoying it.
I agree. Plus the book series is written with Sookie as first-person narrator. If they kept that up in the TV series it would seriouly limit the way of narrating, I think.
I agree also, Alan Ball as changed the things, as so we don´t have to stick up to the books cause this is a a way different scene… The books are one thing, the series another!
Who didn´t read the books could not make an opinion based on that, we only could be based by the TV series.
I agree with you. But I still think Eric does really like and care for Sookie too in the show, but just doesn’t let it show. I think it will sipp in when there will be situations where the rock solid Eric does something completely out of his character, because he cares for her. Why did he want to know how she feels by letting her suck out the bullot? He wants to be a part of her because he cares, and because she’ll feel more attracted to him he can let it show. Hope this makes any sense
I also think Bill knew that the effects of his blood in the beginning would make Sookie feel more attracted to him also, which he didn’t mention to her… He’s not innocent either.
yeah but the chick was gonna die, his blood or death so i hardly think he was tricking her more trying to save her life when he could of just let her die and drank from her. and i think we could all see the attraction she felt to him before the blood.
I agree with you that she needed it. But she was just curious about Bill before she had his blood. Afterwards she couldn’t stop thinking about him. He could at least have mentioned this was an effect of the blood, so she didn’t attribute these feelings entirely as her own.
I am not sure that drinking blood from a vampire necessarily makes you sexually attracted to the vampire. Look at Lafayette, he is into men and he has way more blood from Eric than Sookie. Still, he Eric seems to be the stuff of nightmares to him ( when he gets questioned by Andy Bellefleur). Lafayette doesn’t seem to have sexual phantasies Eric. I wonder if Eric can influence the feelings his blood arouses.
Maybe when vampire blood is used for healing the bonding effect lesses because the body takes all the energy.
Mmm true. But it’s already been said that the blood only influences their sexually feelings towards that vamp, not love, etc. So even though Sookie drank from Bill and if that made her feel more sexually attracted to him they both love eachother anyway despite their sex lives. And isn’t it a bit curious that Sookie only becomes interested in Eric (and interested as in her sexual dreams) after drinking his blood when before she had no preference to him and infact despised his character.
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Another thing to remember is that we are only in Book 2/season 2. I didn’t find myself really liking Eric until book 3. Book 1 – the brief pictures we have of him (like season 1) showed us he was someone not to be trusted because Bill didn’t trust him. Sookie let Bill influence her (rightfully so, think about it. Who hasn’t been influenced by a good friend – which Bill was at the time). In Book 2, Eric/Leif had the more expanded role but I remember reading it the first time through annoyed that Eric came to check up on her. Even when he is nursing her wounds after her escape from the FOTS, I was annoyed with him more than turned on – his tasting her while cleaning her wounds, suggesting to help her bathe. YUCK! But, then he took bullets for her and the whole orgy thing and I could not help be sucked in because Sookie’s perception of him changed. It is happening in the series, but differently. She asked Bill to have Eric help, which of course Bill doesn’t want to do. In Book 3/season 3, the exposure to Eric will help if they follow the same story line as they have been with the books (loosely I know). By 4 and 5, I was fully converted. 6 & 7, even with Quinn, I never wavered. And now even with 8 & 9, I feel as if Bill was the “first” love a girl has – you know the guy, the one that teaches you – the immature relationship (the fighting, back biting, Bill bringin other girls around to make jealous). Eric is the mature relationship. he calls her on it coming home from MS – “You always seem to run away when there is trouble in your relationship with Bill.” Anyway that is my nighttime rambling on the situation.
i love eric and he not a bad guy and billl is like the opposite of eric. i think eric is way better he’s sexy,dangerous and ERIC. billl is calm, beautiful, and is a loving creature who like supports human rights even though its alll riduculous. i hope alan ball sticks to making sookie and eric get together and stay with the book but still add things if he doesnt make them together, now this is my opinion but i think that it willl be kinda reckless with all the crap just adding on and on but alan ball is very creative and i support whatever his actions are.
I agree with the last part. I love Alan Ball.
I think it would kind of be boring if Sookie ended up back with Bill. I’ve only read a few of the books but that’s honestly how I feel. If Sookie ended up with Eric, I think it would be more interesting.
YES! Thank you! See, there you go! Lets add some excitement to the story!
I love Sookie w/Eric but I haven’t watched the series yet. I’ve only read the books. Even though Eric is controlling, he cares for Sookie despite himself and he really listens to what she says. Bill was alright but Eric is the one who appeals to me.
*Spoiler*In dead until dark bill was much more nice and sweet and tender hearted then he was just a dick.
Team Eric. I think she should have given Alcide a chance though.
***Spoilers*** I don’t know what everyone is getting so worked up about! Why does it have to be ERIC or BILL. If you have read the books, there are so many more men that Sookie has romantic interactions with! Plus BILL is not even a major character for quite a few of the books! I personally love SAM! I feel bad that he and Sookie never really got a chance to explore any type of romance! I don’t think that the question “BILL or ERIC” is going to be relevant for very long, maybe a few seasons. If that!
I think people want Sookie to end up with BILL because he is her “first love” and that they are destined to be together or some bull crap like that. If the story goes that way I would just be so dissapointed with the conventional-ness! Being able to predict these things just makes the story boring just like any other mushy love story! ie: “The Notebook” UH…. PUKE!
That being said, if I had to choose, I would choose ERIC just because I think any man with power is just super sexy. I also think that the BILL and Sookie relationship is a little too cliche and a little “Romeo and Juliet” which makes it completely lame and kind of OLD NEWS! But thats just my opinion!
“I don’t know what everyone is getting so worked up about!”
I am puzzled myself. I did that post the ask the question teasingly like in the style of “dating game”. Then to my absolute astonishment someone added the poll.
It would be remiss not to tell you that I m one of the persons that are rooting for Bill. (Yes. I have read the books. Btw, Sam would be my second best bet. ) The fact that Bill is Sookie’s first love has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion.
I would find noting boring or mushy about Sookie chosing Bill. I think it be be quite a surprise for some. I guess we will see.
**Spoiler**
Sam And Alicide The Two Almosts. Those Are Who I Root For. But I Love How Sookie Ended Up With Eric.
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I am always surprised when people who have read the books like Bill. Bill as a character has been dead to me since I read Club Dead. Not because of his betrayal with Lorena. Not because he planned to leave Sookie. But because he forced Sookie in the trunk of that car. Rape is inexcusable even in a fictional character.
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That at least is a valid argument.
When Debbie threw Sookie in the trunk with a vampire, who’d been starved and tortured for days, said that it was attempted murder.
I find it interesting that Sookie never hold that against him.
I really didn’t like the excuses Sookie made for all of Bill’s behavior in the trunk because it reminded me of the things battered women say.
Still, I think she knows that Bill in his right mind would never hurt her. Bill’s attack in the trunk is so completely not him. I always love it when he makes an apearance in the bookks.
There can be no doubt that he loves Sookie. It remains to be seen if she feels the same for him.
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I dislike Bill because
he drags his other women out in front of Sookie – in an attempt to make her jealous.
he leaves her in book 2 when the shooting starts instead of making sure she is fine
in book 3 – the whole ignoring her for the book, not telling her about Lorena, willing her to Eric (go to Eric if I leave), the conversations with Eric at teh beginning of the book indicate Bill was going to pension her off. YEEK! Even if bill cared for her, why “give” her away. It was as if he viewed her as a possessoin and not someone valued.
I can’t remember which book it was in now (the one where she goes to New Orleans to settle her cousin’s estate), when Eric FORCES Bill to admit the truth. Bill can’t even be honest when they aren’t together.
Eric buys her things she needs – Bill did not offer to buy her the driveway, did not provide her a cellphone, did not complain about her car, etc.
Eric defies Andre. Not Bill.
Eric shares with her and tells her things. They don’t fight and break up. He is frank with her and honest with her and mature with her.
If she doesn’t end up with Eric, Bill would be my last choice. I would hope she would end up with Sam because he has been a loyal friend to her. I would hope she would end up with Quinn over Alcide because Alcide just creeps me out major (especially the whole manipulation to come to see his father fight for leadership).
Pam humanizes Eric for me and it is interesting that Eric has so many vamps around him. You can see the respect others feel for him. His loyalty and willingness to put Sookie’s needs ahead of his own – Bill had the same opportunities and did not do that.
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Quote: “Eric FORCES Bill ..”
Yep, forcing and manipulating is what Eric does best.
Actually, I am glad Eric did that in “Definitly Dead”. I think unkwowingly he did Bill a favour. Sookie get really mad but she would have found out eventually. It is better that way.
Quote: “Eric shares with her and tells her things.They don’t fight and break up. He is frank with her and honest with her and mature with her.”
Honestly, I find it hard to argue with that. I don’t even no what you mean. He constantly does not share things with her. I mean what was the whole stunt with the knifw. How can they break up, when they are not really together? LOL
I’m totally agreed with you !!!!
team Éric
I will be stunned if Sookie ends up with Sam in the books — my reasons:
Sam states in the books he has NO interest in getting involved in anything vampire/political.
There is no way in heck Sam can protect her in the situations she gets into.
The vampires arent suddenty just going to go away and leave her alone. They will always want to hire her for her abilities.
Personally — I like Quin for her. I think she unfairly dumped him. So he wanted to protect his mother and sister. Quin put up with Sookie bonding with Eric, and all her baggage with Bill.
I think she needs to revisit her relationship with Quin.
ok I love Eric *don’t shoot me*
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I find his relationship with sookie funny and a little child like with the banter and little tricks…it reminds me of when your a kid and the boy next to you pulls your hair.
I didn’t really like bill from the start honestly. Then when we found out his true intentions I really didnt like him. He fell for her yes but he should have been honest with her once he was in love with her. Obviously sookie(in the books and show) can handle it. Seems to me like he has his own form of manipulation and games with sookie.
I second the comment above about the blood….Sookie and bill exchanged blood many times I find it odd he didn’t tell her about the blood exchange issues with theirs ony when she exchanged with eric.
As for the other men sookie is onvolved with in the books…who knows what they will or will not show in the series…I didn’t really dig any of them maybe Quinn but Eric has always been my favorite.
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The books and show are so different still so its hard to choose for sure but I think i will still end up being an eric fan no matter how bad they try to make him on the series.
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I agree with you. I am an Eric fan as well. Yes, he’s shamelessly manipulative at times, but so is Bill — he just keeps it to himself whereas Eric is up-front about it. Eric admits that to Sookie and doesn’t apologise for it, he also tells her that he tells her the truth — maybe not all the truth, but what he tells her — is true.
Apart from Quinn, Sookie has had only 2 significant ‘others’. I think if Charlaine Harris gave the book fans a different relationship outcome for Sookie other than Eric or Bill — or no-one at all (it better be Eric) she would be taking the easy way out like a lot of other series authors have done. I think choosing Sam or Quinn would be taking the easy way out and I don’t think Charlaine Harris will do that.
Sookie needs to help Eric especially now, he needs it. Just like Godric said. So I want Sookie and Eric he is just what she needs, they both love life.
I don’t think Godric meant Eric needed Sookie physicaly, but mentally. She exudes compasion and free will. This is what Eric needs to soften his attitude. Eric hasn’t evolved yet and it seems Bill is further along with his own evolution. Everyone keeps trying to compare the “books” w/the series. Seems y’all are comparing oil and water, very little has been the same. If you change this person, if you change this scene blah, blah, blah……. I personally wouldn’t want them to be exactly the same. WAY TO BORING. The thing with a book, you can imagine anything you want, when put before you on screen: everyones view of characters is different. I haven’t seen an Alan Ball production yet that I haven’t fallen in love with.
When you put it that way though doesn’t Bill also need Sookie? Living in a small town alone trying to sustain a life of humanity isn’t exactly an easy choice or a happy one when he has to pursue it alone is it?
I would think of nothing boring or mushy about bill and sookie ending up together. They are perfect together…
Bill was her first lover so she feels a strong emotional connection with him. They both love each other….all the incidents they’ve been in, prove that they both care very much about each other to risk their own lives ( Bill going out in the sun to save Sookie, Season 1, Disobeying Lorena to save Sookie at the church. Sookie keeps risking her life to help bill, who keeps getting orders from Eric)
Eric I also think equally is good for Sookie because she’s re-awakening his feelings that were probably dead for 1000 years. I don’t think he is jealous of not having Sookie but that he feels as if she makes him feel more like a human then a vampire. Maybe he keeps tricking her into drinking his blood because he wants to feel what she feels to better understand her. If Sookie didn’t mean much to Eric then I think he wouldn’t care to keep protecting her as well. He’d probably just let her die all those times.
Either way I like Bill and Eric.
SPOILER SPOILER
“Bill going out in the sun to save Sookie, Season 1, Disobeying Lorena to save Sookie at the church.” -Julez2485
In the books Bill never comes to help Sookie when she discovers who the murderer is. And Bill LEAVES Sookie and CHEATS on her with Lorena. Sookie saves him from Lorena torturing him and STAKES LORENA. .
Also: ERIC stakes Longshadow. NOT BILL.
This makes me fear that the TV writers are going to force the story in a whole different direction. I would be very very disappointed.
Not sure I would even want to watch anymore if they keep making Bill into such a saint. LOL JK… as if I could stay away
I heart you lolos…I will still watch but I feel the same way about what they have done to the story.
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Its one thing to add characters and story lines but I cant stand that they changed important parts of the story to make Bill the good guy when in the books he is clearly not.
Im so tired of hearing “oh it would be boring bla bla bla…” I don’t think it would be boring at all, I don’t need it to be word for word on the books but it would be nice if they could keep the pivital points in the story.
People want to get on the book lovers for comparing but I think they forget that without the books there would be no true blood AT ALL.
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My friend and I had this argument the other day. She said she is glad the shows are different than the books – of course she has only read one and has the attention span of a knat at times
However, if the book’s plots were not good – how did they develp such a fan out of Alan Ball?
Now to be perfectly honest, I don’t mind certain liberties. I love the fact that Tara was in Season 1 – she is a rich character and the actress that plays her is ‘da BOMB! I love Layfayette and I am glad they went in another direction with him in Season 2 than Charlaine Harris penned. I likewise enjoy Jessica – though at first I could not stand her. Hoyt and his mama and the others not really primary in the books have been great in the series.
I even enjoyed the dream sequences which also are sadly missing from Book2. However, I do agree that Alan should have left Eric to stake Long Shadow. What will this mean in Season 5 when Long Shadow’s sire seeks revenge from a distance?
i think eric is much better for sookie.
bill is not that hansem eric is whahhaha okay.
i did read the books but i still like eric more beacs he is hotter and he is a bad boy i dont like good boys
No i’ve not yet read all the books and i’m only moving onto the second. Accidently read a spoiler that says Bill cheats with Lorena, before i was 100% Bill supporter but hearing this and the way people seem to obsess over Eric I shall have to read all books and form my own judgement. However my current opinion is if Bill’s done that much wrong to Sookie, than screw both the vamps, she should just go off with someone else
Eric annoys me to much, from what I’ve seen and read so far he only seems to want Sookie for his own personal gain. Yet we shall see.
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Guys can someone tell me if Eric and Sookie will get closer in some other book appart from Dead to the World? And by closer, I don’t neceserily mean intimately, just you know, telling each other how they feel or just being in some kind of relationship. I konw they have some moments together but they’re small and not very significant. I just finished Definitely Dead and I have the other books so I’ll be reading them as fast as I can, but I just HAVE TO KNOW!!!
And in my oppinion, Eric is not manipulative or sth. I think that he just can’t admit to himself that he feels sth bout Sookie. He (and Sookie also) blames the fairy blood, blames his amnesia and the blood bond they have not quite facing the truth… But I just think he thinks it’s humiliating to admit ur in love cuz being in love means being weak to someone and Eric’s pride would never let him be weak to anyone and anything. I think it’s just a matter of time before he understands what he truly feels and learns to live with it. <3
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I think you pegged erics character to a t!
He has saved her quite a few times, done things for her over and over and never lied to her…one of my favorite things he said int he books is something like…I don’t tell you everything i know but what i do tell you is true…
and yes to answer your question they do get closer emotionally and IMO the blood bond is not what holds them together later on. By the end of book nine I was a true eric fan. Don’t get me wrong bill lovers…I think by the end of book nine I was at the point where I felt he deserved forgiveness but as for getting back together….I don’t think so. I feel like they are past that by now…
You might want to check the meaning of the word manipulative in a dictionary.
read the books
Will they change the meaning of manipulative? *at a loss*
Oh, I should mention I have read the books. Sometimes I wonder if they are two versions of the books. Anyone with an open mind will see that both, Eric and Bill, are still in the game.
Everyone has the right to an opinion.
I so agree with you.
I am confident, Eric himself wouldn’t mind being called manipulative.
Meaning of manipulative: “skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage”
Now that’s Eric through and through.
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At the end of “Dead and Gone” the effect of the blood bond seems to have worn off. Sookie is wise to wait and find out if there is more than the blood interchange between them.
lol… i agree… in the books he seemed to rather enjoy it when sookie called him “high handed”.
so true I loved how he said high handed I don’t know this term explain it to me….it was funny because he is through and through but really aren’t all the vampires in a way?
Uh – wrong – at the end of the book – Sookie tells her great great great grandfather that she cant take anymore blood from Eric to continue healing because they are fearful she is about to reach the point of being a “servant” to Eric. So clearly, she fed off of Eric AGAIN after she was rescued and has been in contact with him. Also, her great great great grandfather tells her “the vampire loves you”. The only person he refers to as “the vampire” is Eric. He never uses his name in the entire book.
Sookie does realize that she “loves” Bill NOT that she is “IN LOVE” with him at the endish part of the last book too.
So clearly Eric and Bill are still in the running. Would love to see Quin re-enter the scene. I think she judged and booted him unjustly.
Not saying Charlaine will allow Eric to stay with Sookie – simply because the story would turn boring if she finally settled with one man.
oh – and the blood bond wearing off? The book stated that “perhaps the blood bond had warn off OR she was so physically and emotionally drained from being beaten nearly to death that nothing was working as it should in or on her body”.
her and Eric had just refreshed thier bond prior to her getting abducted.
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) but not quite in that really annoying and bad way. He’s not manipulating her just to use what she can give and it’s not as if he wouldn’t care if she got hurt. He might have manipulated Sookie at the beggining, when he needed sth from her, but as the books go on it seems that more or less he tries to understand her instead of manipulate her.
I think I did not express myself correctly. Of coures Eric IS manipulative (no doubt about that
Anyways, I still haven’t finished the books so maybe there’s sth I don’t know yet. That’s just the impression I got until now.
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in the books eric and sookie end up together and she hates bill b/c the reason he came to her in the first place. he was sent by the queen to use her and her mind powers he does fall for her but she finds out the truth and hates him for it and its like that till the end of the books so far there could be more in the future
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by the end of book nine though she doesn’t so much “hate” him anymore as she is just over it…
do you think her great grandfathr was speaking of bill or eric at the end?? I have always wondered other peoples opinions of this. As much as I love sookie and eric together I think he was speaking of bill
I think he was talking about Eric because he said “the vampire”. Niall always refers to Eric as “the vampire”.
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yes but do you remember when he said to eric “off her vampire” it seems with a touch of haste…then Bill came to her rescue…IDK I hope she sticks with eric. I really feel like her and bill are past the point of no return…
“off her vampire” said my gread grand father in a very soft voice. (book 9)
“do you have another man beside the vampire (eric)?” asked nial when sookie asked him to look for Quin. (book8)
So i strongly believe that nial was talking about eric.
Me too! He was totally talking about Eric. He has been “the vampire” in all the dealings with Nial. If he was referring to Bill, I think he would have said something like “the other vampire, etc.”
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I don’t think she hated him for the reason she came to him.
I think she was heart broken that he never told her the truth. TRUTH is very important to Sookie. If you read the books, think back to the conversation she has with Eric in Book 3. She tells Eric to stake Lorena for “hurting” Bill not for luring him away. Sookie has her own sort of Justice and I always got that Eric got her – meant more. Charlaine never says stuff like that about Bill..
I don’t like the idea that Sookie to be with Eric, only because you can’t have trust in a man who is doing whatever it takes to catch Sookie in his trap… I will not have trust in a man who is not fighting right for his love and he’s trying all the tricks in the world to possess Sookie… When she will need his help, he will be there for her?? How Bill was there when she really need it… Eric’s Ego is more important than Sookie for him and i think he is only using her to make Bill gelous… Bill is there for her when she really needs it, but Eric is not… That is saying everything about a man… May be Bill is not saying all the truth to her all the time, but he’s trying to protect her about things which will affect her, because he loves her too much to loose her….
I really really want you to read the books…badly. I think you would really enjoy them and get a kick of your thoughts afterward.
You’re argument will definitely support Eric if that is really how you feel by the end of Book 3.
I constantly wonder about whether or not the alliances would shift back to Bill if Eric was found doing something douchey like Bill was. I mean, would his following still stay faithful? Would Charlaine even take into consideration that the fans have a strong preference for Eric? Or would she just make it SookieXBill again? Maybe not knowing all that is the reason the books are still exciting.
Personally, I’d be pissed if Bill and Sookie ended up together. I just don’t like him as a character. Hes gotten so boring and unattractive to me, that I don’t think its redeemable. I just think its getting to the point that Sookie needs to just walk away and never look back.
After re-reading all of the posts on this subject, it almost seems ludicris. I almost feel as if we are in China, or one of those countries where the government body suddenly jumps up and beats each other with chairs. My god, we are talking about fictional characters written and made up by an author. Then low and behold to make a TV series several other writers butcher the characters, add some traits from one take away a few here, make this that and the other the way they want to suit an audience. Never the less, I am just as adament about my opinions also and the characters with whom I have fallen in love with. The hard thing is to try to view the “BOOK STORY” from the “TV STORY”. This reads like two different discussions boards swallowing each other sometimes.
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Hi everyone, I enjoyed reading the posts. Three quick comments with my two cents:)
1) Niall SHOULD be speaking about eric. reason: sookie knows bill loves her. the last line in “dead and gone”, when she wonders which vampire niall meant, is only there to keep us tuned to the next book. Unless Ms. Harris chooses to defy literary and real life logic, there is no mystery here.
…finally, an interesting twist – in my opinion only – would be sookie finding a way to once and for all get herself from under the influence of the supe world (all vampires included) and getting back to her life on her own terms, i.e. an open ending for a new life path on her own terms – regardless of what happens with the other chAracters. would definitely fit who the writer wants her to be. whatever then choice of man, it would be stripped of past influences and manipulations.
2) I personally think the show is better than the books (having read all books and seen all episodes)…definitely well built for its respective media (TV).
3) For a “book story” ending regarding sookie’s love life: settling with either bill or eric would be narratively a bit boring (although I would be heavily biased towards eric – more complex character in general than bill); killing off eric or both eric and bill would be more dramatic, both for the narrative and for the fans
Then again, literary critique does not always make for good writing ideas:)
****possible spoiler****
After all she is a half Fairy, I still think somehow she will be able to help remove the vamp curse if one so desires, or any supe power. We will see w/Maryanne if Sookie actually helps defeat her. She may be able to absorb/drain the negative powers.
In the books its a lot more humorous when Eric tricks Sookie into doing things for him. When you read them you just laugh, where as the t.v show (I’m not hating I LOVE the t.v show) makes it come across like he’s doing something really evil.
It’s really not! Total misunderstanding in my opinion!
Book 4 = THE BEST, it so better be in the series somewhere!
Though you gotta love Eric tricking her into sucking the bullets out of her in the TV series. I am hurt though that she did not keep the bullet like she does in teh book
I smile every time I see him laying on the floor and acting like a real ham, “I’m dying” and then smiling while she is doing the deed and telling Bill afterwards how great she was. Too Funny! Alex is definitely a very talented actor!
I vote for Eric from books
Remember what we tell the guys, think with your head not your ….. We have all had an Eric and a Bill in our lives. You know EXACTLY what I mean, the one to play with and the one to love with and live with on a day ( or nite) to day basis. Play with Eric and get him out of your system Sookie and remember the attraction was induced and seduced and introduced by Eric not by your love for each other, IF A VAMPIRE CAN LOVE. Remember, Bill saying Sookie is his miracle and he has found his humanity again. Eric seems to be just racking up posessions and can put away things and people quite easily.
**********SPOILERS!!!!!!**********
Found these spoilers on the web… Straight from the mouth of Mr. Stephen Moyer himself:
“You can’t watch two characters be happy in love for 12 episodes,” Moyer says. “That would be extremely dull. I do know that [a separation is] going to happen. The writers will do what’s best for the show. And who’s to say they won’t create a character for Bill to love? I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the writers’ room.”
So that means either this episode or the next we are going to see an end to Bill + Sookie! Whoo hoo! (I’m all for Eric if you cant tell…lol)
If Eric will be the next love interest of Sookie I will puke my gutts out. *urgs*
And rewatch the first season.
unfortunate for you.
(excluding the books)
Erics the cool Badass character, so its just pure win =).
Sookie only liked bill because
1. She couldn’t read his mind oblivious to the fact she can’t read any vampires mind.
2.She drank his blood.
Eric and Bill are in even terms for sookie atm =P who can seduce her more is the question? =P.
omg that is a really good question.
book wise i think eric. i really like him and he seems like in the last couple of books he really cares for her but just doesnt want to show it because his meant to be an asshole of a vampire. but i think he loves her and she loves him.. and he always tells sookie the truth never hesitates like bill.
ong i totataly get what you r saying.
I think that Stephen Moyer (Bill) was so awkward it made the show embarassing for me to watch at times. He’s not a bad actor but him and Anna Paquin both had a few moments that made me question their acting skills. On the other hand, the first dream with Eric and Sookie was HOT. They go back and forth with eachother and I think it’s great. Eric doesn’t let his guard down and neither does she. Bill, however, always does and that can get boring.
i think bill is better for sookie he has protected her and he loves her and he was in love with sookie before eric new her eric wants her because she is bills and coz she is telepathic and he will use her i think bill and sookie make a great couple and if sookie ends up with eric i will be very dissapointed and i think i may even stop watching the show as there my fav charactors and there the main reason i watch it and i think that goes for a lot of other people too and i realy do love this show and dont want to stop watching it tbh .
but what the heck stephen moyer [bill] and anna paquin [sookie ] are engaged in real life so that means they make a good couple better than eric and sookie .
*possible spoiler?* i suggest you read the WHOLE book series, if you do then you shall understand why bill is just a butt head and needs to go away. bill sucks end of story.
You do realise that this a a website for the TV show.
I am sick of reading this know-it-all comments. *rolls eyes*
Btw, I have read the books series and I disagree.
The world cannot always be seen in terms of good and evil. Watching an Alan Ball series you should know better.
I realiZe that perfectly well. I also understand the tv show is loosely based on the book, MEANING in a round-a-bout way it follows the story line of the books so the main plot elements in the books are going to be in the show. so telling me not to talk about the books is like telling someone on any forum site about book to movie/tv shows not to talk about the other which is ridiculous
It wasn’t a know it all comment it was an opinion.
True blood is the only series from him that I’ve watched and i haven’t looked into his other stuff so I wouldn’t know.
& wtf lighten up it was JUST a comment I did nothing to you.
um wow… here’s a quote from book 8…
“You don’t have to be a bitch about it. I’m putting you on hold!”
oh… and the was aimed at u, samjune, seriously. I keep running into ur negative comments on here. Lighten up.
By all of my posts I am obviously a Bill fan (per TB standards). I do believe that the TB writers are playing up the Eric bad side and Bill’s good side so that the resulting/inevitable relationship w/Eric is more shocking to the non-book read audience. by reading the books, everyone knows how things are supposed to be playing out (wishful thinking.) They do continue to throw a wrench into many of the things which are taking place which makes watching TB such a terrific experience. The books are excellent as is TB the show. Most people are basing their ideas on who is better for Sookie on ALL of the information they have from reading ALL of the books. If you base an opinion on what we have kearned so far on TB, Bill is the obvious choice. Well, as we all know, tv series are based on suprise/deception and just plain nasty twists so that we are always wishing for what we can’t quite seem to have. Hmmm, sounds a bit like Eric doesn’t it? Sookie has already been through several men on the show and will obviously need to experience more in life and love b4 she can ever choose a mate. I am sure it will take every one of her relationships for her to evolve to the point where she cna make her own unclouded judgment. Whomever ends up treating her the best is who I want in the end…………..
I read the books before the series…it’s not a romance format since the author does not wrap up with Sookie gets her man at the end…it would be BORING for the books and tv. Most the vamps/supes in her life try to manipulate her one way or another for vamp or were politics. She’s just a human in a world of supes so of course they want to push her, but she grows a little wiser each time. It’s not so far fetched…ever been in a relationship with an older guy? Don’t they want to “educate” you, etc….what if he’s 1,000? I am Team Eric…Sam is best choice (no political fallout, and he does not crisp up in daylight). Sookie’s love life will always be a cliffhanger until they end the books or tv series. We’ll have years to worry about this.
me i havnt read the books yet but will.I dont think she sould be with eric.I think. cuz she is her normalself around him, mean but still cute as a botton. i mean i no that eric,is a jerk and other thing alotof the time but i really think he might actually love her, even if he deosnt know it yet. And somewhere in sookies huge heart, she might actually love him back. but we wont no for a while, and that might kill me, but give it time maybe it will turn out for the best.(as in her and eric.)
sorry i meant to say she sould be with eric.oppsies
SPOILER: If I’m correct, it’s that Bill was sent by the Queen to find out more about Sookie, right? She get’s angry and leaves him? I’m not sure, who has read the books and knows?
i found that on the site here and used it to my advantage cuz im am all athe way team eric.
spoiler
jaja yep is true, kinda, sookie breaks up with him because he CHEATS on her with Lorena and then after that eric find out about bill’s reasons and make him tell sookie. The queen send bill to seduce her if it was necesary to get her into vamps politics.
JERK I’M TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY TEAM ERIC
I can understand than she loves him, after all he was her first love and has save her life, as long as she is not IN love with him, besides eric is good for her he chalenge her to be better, to be stronger he doesn’t hold her back
SPOILER
If I’m correct, it’s that Bill was sent by the Queen to find out more about Sookie, right? She get’s angry and leaves him? I’m not sure, who has read the books and knows?
i found that on the site here and used it to my advantage cuz im am all athe way team eric.
I think its Bill!
Because, everything it’s soo intense, when sookie and bill are together!
And Sook, loves Bill!
And Bill love sookie, more than Eric!
It’s just my opinion!
I agree that everyone set out to manipulate her directly or indirectly. But:
both have a good set of reasons why they are good for her. Its debatable about manipulation and position. I think Eric did start out on one foot but he is clearly stuck on another one. Bill started off ’sweet’, then had bad luck/did things she didn’t like. he proved himself last book or two as a whole man, now lets see if eric can-and I mean all out at Bills level. Eric does look out for her, but not as she wants at times. He says what he wants her to hear ‘i wanted to offer it before u asked for it’ (living with him, dead and gone)
I find i liked the Eric mystery, chemesty, but i see the manipulation and wish they could just be. But part of his power is what protects her as well. So it works for and against him. he has to let go on some level. I do think he loves her and cares for her…just differerntly. Each person who reads interprets it on some bias ;P In the show they are doing right so far…at first I felt it was a bit too tough, but i see the manipulation, now I want to see him grow. This si why we love the books!
I think Bill has it easier since he is not as political and closer to his humanism, yet he is alot less able to help her. I believe he took his position in the book, to aid them both. i do think he grew to love her, I also think he is much closer to his humanity which is a stark differernce than the power of position. Neither man expected to fall for her regardless of attraction AT FIRST. This works for him… I think he is waiting her her to come back to him (as in let it go it comes back), while Eric is further from that in many ways. Yet sookie refers to him as a good mate protection wise. So it depends on what she wants from what they offer.
In the show, very similar though depicted differerntly-same concept. And I love tv bill more.
I think stephan and anna are comfortable with each other, and it enhances their moments. Still loved her and Erics scene.
I think she is put off by not staying with her first. She refers to this often and compares bill and eric constantly. this goes with her timing on rebound. What stands is that if eric can let go, they could pair well, but that letting go will put her in danger more. Bill has the same issue…she is so well known and desired among the vamps for various reasons. For him he has first love on his side. So Eric may stay in place to keep her safe, and make that sacrifice. Can he do that at her side without political ties?
All this of which she could have stopped by walking away-she hasn’t. So if she allows manipulation-its on her now. Tv wise Alan likes bill….lots of bill love will come around. Eric hasn’t pushed her enough or the BB is in the way. We will see. If it is real…wow. if not sad, but still awesome ride. And same for Bill. I think they both got something very special from her. Lets see if this is captured in the show. I think Eric is where he was still trying to seducce her in book 2. They have not grown yet in books 3, 4 and forth.
Eric has tried to force things-either by chance or not, most have worked out ok. He does say this up front and calls them “truth” but not the whole truth. Bill has stopped doing that and been good. he does not dilly dally. I think part of them is manipulative, but she sees it as a human whereas they sees it as a vamp-so alot of conflict. I can imagine i’d be a bit put off if i set out to seduce a woman at that age, who i could not control, and ‘fell’ for her. Being political makes this worse. Same for bill sent to seduce a girl and falling for her unable to tell her. Eric can’t tell her either lol.
Ironically both men have a balance of good and bad things both for and against them. For him to win her heart, he will have to lesson the BB, lighten up manipulation, and be a man as she needs one. it is possible but so far Bill has shown alot of growth. (I am an Eric fan). I think its even if you feel Eric ‘loves’ her. I think Bill is closer to getting “love’ as he remembers it. If Eric lessens the bond they will know, and with her feelings of Bill i think he would let her go. It really depends on what she needs at that time, for a life time. Sometimes that is the best love. and the best gift. I just want Eric to grow-i do love his play.
And all three are childish lol!
forgot spoiler, sorry!
Team Eric !!! I just finished book 5. I’ll be heartbroken if they do not end up together. Bill is boring and dud with NO sense of humor.. Eric is hilarious, cocky, and they challenge each other… Eric all the way !!!!
Lets say Bill texts Sookie. What do you think Bill’s text looks like?
“SUUUUKIE I WILL BE RETIRING AT THE PALACE, I WILL RETURN UPON NIGHTFALL. I WILL REQUIRE RELATIONS. ERIC IS EVIL. XO – VAMPIRE BILL”
SEE???? thats why Bill is no good for Sookie! LOL
(thanks Meredith @ io9 for the funny text message!)
haha. that’s amusing:P
OOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric is so f**king hot!!!!!! And there chemistry is so perfect together.Oh God I hope they end up together!!!
good news for future…just found out that that the next Sookie novel was finished by the author; is called Dead In The Family..you can read the comments of the writer at
http://www.charlaineharris.com/bb/bb_current.html
so maybe we will see it in stores by Spring, just before the beginning of season 3
do we know if the 10th book will be her last?
and when will it come out in england?
according to Charlaine Harris, she has signed up for 3 more books after book 10. that means up till book 13. I just hope the story isn’t dragged on too long.
Book 10 should be out in May 2010 in the US, but i have no idea when it will come out in England. I live in Indonesia, so if the book doesn’t come out by June 2010, i’ll purchase it from Amazon.com
hope that helps.
yes it did, thankyou!
You can order it from Timesbooks. the store is in Pacific Palace jalan Sudirman.
i dont get what all the arguing is about. the solution is simple. if the fans are so equally divided then sookie should simply have both of them! i mean sharing is caring right? the boys should just learn to share and be good little sexy vamps.
ERIC.
To me, Eric and Sookie are like a pair of magnet that kids always try to pull apart but eventually will always end up together.
Eric and Sookie’s relationship is just so alive, vibrant, full of zest, so much more interesting than the other suitors, and frankly I wish Quinn’s character had never existed. I’m on the 6th book now and every time I read the book, I always search the page where Eric appears. That’s the only thing that kept me going. The prospect of Eric and Sookie together. I thought of skipping book 6 and 7, but I am desperately hanging on because I seek a better future for Eric and Sookie.
*SPOILER*
I read somewhere that Charlaine Harris has known who Sookie is gonna end up with since she was done writing the 2nd book. If I deduce correctly, end of book 2 is the beginning of Sookie’s attraction to Eric. And Eric seems to be getting more and more caught up in Sookie’s charm. That being said, I do believe that the direction is pointing to Eric and Sookie ending up together. The other suitor characters, like Quinn, Alcide and Calvin Norris are what you could call cooking spices, not entirely essential, but nonetheless added to add variety to the taste.
As for Bill, I guess Charlaine initially planned to write Sookie to be with Bill, but along the way, maybe, she too, got sick of Bill and made a turn. And that turn is Eric.
Oh God, I could write an essay about this. Why Eric is so right for Sookie, and why the rest are so wrong. Based on common sense and fiction.
book 10 is coming out october 6 th
ok the book series- i will be extremly dissapointed if sookie ends up with bill.
the show- im not sure (this is complete and total blasphemy in my mind-see above) if i would mind if bill told the truth as soon as he can with out someone forcing him to
though i have to say i also think sookie should end up with a shifter – maybe sam- not quinn, alcide or calvin. maybe even a magical being not mentioned yet.
sookie can stay with eric if she want! i have noo problem..
and i can take bill without a problem too!
he is so f**king hot! haha i really like very much the serie! i just finish the first book and i am more excited that when i saw and read twilight!
i dont care with who sookie stay! i want bill for me!!
team edward plus bill 4ever bitches yeeah!
Question:
*SPOILERS* Maybe…?
I’m only up to book 4 in the series (just finished 3) and I want to know, in the TV show Bill walks through sunlight for Sookie, but does he do that in the books? I’ve noticed the series so far has loosely focused on books 1-3 so I was just wondering if that was a TV series specific moment. Or if anyone knows.
Thanks
No, in the books Bill doesn’t walk through sunlight for Sookie. Bill and Sookie’s relationship in the show is different from the books. When you read book #6 Definitely Dead, you’ll see what I mean. Keep reading the series, it only keeps getting better!
nah it’s way earlier then that.
Sookie and BILL is a true SOUL MATE MATCH!! Eric is still wonderful, but bottom line he is still out for #1. think about it you don’t get to be 100 yrs. old by NOT placing your guarded self as #1.
I mean 1000 years old!!
*Spoilers*
Does anyone know of a poll (Bill vs Eric) where everyone has read the books? I read up to book 9 (I am waiting for book 10) to find out there was even a show. I watched the show and was very dissappointed in how they changed things. I was really hoping to see Eric dress up and go to the orgy with Sookie and see the conflict when Bill showed up. I understand them changing some things but changing who staked Long Shadow, showing bill walk out in the daytime??? Like he could have done anything anyways when he got there. I just feel that they are completely betraying Erics charator in the show. I know personally after seeing the show I would vote for Bill via tv (even if later on they have the betrayal and rape) Now if we were talking about the books, I liked Eric before even Bills big betrayal, he was a lousy boyfriend and that just put it over the top. I mean how many of you would want a boyfriend that you have to keep asking out, never get any presents, I felt he was assamed of her and was just using her. I really hope in book ten Eric learns how to be a boyfriend as in dates and such, he’s good with the listening and presents but is he going to be taking her out? Now Quinn was great, I wonder if he might make a reappearance (not sure how that could happen) at least he treated her right, yes there was some issues but I think they could be worked out.
Well back on topic is there a poll that is just for the books as I would love to see the results of such a thing.
*SPOILERS*
clearly you people do not understand.
Bill- killed a vampire to protect sookie knowing that it was against the law. and while dealing with his punishment he wanted nothing more then to return to her. he even begged eric to watch jessica so he could return to sookie. Every night they have together is romantic. anytime sookie was in trouble he came running. even in the daylight he tried to protect sookie. he truly loves her. he proposed to her. and you could tell how nervous he was when she had not said yes right away. he had a look like his heart had broke. and yes bill is possessive, but only because people like eric try to break him and sookie up and if i was him i would be possesive too. Eric is older then bill and so bill can do nothing to him. so how does bill protect his and sookies relationship?
eric- did not love sookie, but saw her as a valueable item if turned vampire. Her telepathic ability proved to be unique. he never showed loving her one bit. like bill says, eric has had years in decieving. Eric’s act of loveing sookie is nothing more then when he tricked sookie into sucking his blood. its all an act. He wants sookie to willingly become a vampier, so that she can be his and he can use her telepathic ability to her advantage. As for the dreams, eric had just lost his master and was terribly deppressed as any vampire would be, especialy of his age. I know from personal expierence that when something terrible happens in your life you want nothing more then to be held and loved.
*SPOILERS*
SARA
You put \spoilers\ but you are talking like you don’t know the books, cause Eric killed the vampire to protect Sookie not Bill, he NEVER walked in day light for her and… Eric promised her never turn her in a vamp.
But… I think Quinn would be a good choise for her since she wants a family