‘True Blood’ season 7 spoilers: Alexander Skarsgard’s Eric to get new love interest
For those of you hoping for whatever reason that Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse could somehow be endgame on “True Blood” season 7, we have a pair of things to tell you. First of all, we don’t know where there was any evidence of that happening in the first place, and secondly, you can probably stop believing it anyway. Based on the new information that is coming out now, it looks like Eric is going to have his attention focused firmly on somewhere else.
According to a report from E! News, the HBO series is currently casting the role of Sylvie for the final season. There is not too much known about the part yet, save for that she is described as “gorgeous” and can speak French.
The last we saw of Eric (and we saw plenty of him), he was sunbathing in the Swiss Alps only to discover minutes later that he was no longer able to stay in the sun. While the show made it appear as though he was going to be dead before season 7 even began, the show’s producers have already confirmed that Alexander Skarsgard will be back to continue Eric’s story. Given that he is one of the most-popular actors on the show, this is a cause worth celebrating. The only reason that there was probably any doubt over this at all is simply because Skarsgard is in demand for movies, and there are several other projects that he will be working on soon.
The final season of “True Blood” will begin shooting over the coming weeks, and should premiere on HBO in June, as it has for many other seasons. After airing 12-episode seasons for many years, season 7 will follow the pattern established earlier this summer and only be ten episodes long.
Are you happy for Eric getting a new love interest, and is there a part of you also hoping that this will lead to Pam having more of an opportunity to focus on her relationship with Tara? Share below! Also, click here if you are interested in reading some of the information that is already out there about the start of the final season.
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Heather Noble
November 26, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
Well, there goes my reason to tune in, Season 7. I’ll just watch the Eric clip compilations on YouTube. After CH dropped the ball in DEA, i held out hope that TB would listen to reason… and the fanbase. My own fault for hoping.
Amber
November 27, 2013 @ 2:47 am
You are not alone…me and several of my friends had hoped the show would allow Eric and Sookie to be together, after the disappointment that was Harris’ DEA, Hopes dashed yet again.
Tara Conley
November 26, 2013 @ 11:01 am
Obviously you didn’t do your research. A simple Wikipedia search on the books will tell you that Eric and Sookie get married in the books.
For season 5 and 6 I watched the Eric parts on (5-10) you tube. I plan on doing the same for season 7.
Ricwash
November 26, 2013 @ 12:46 am
Season 7 is shaping up to be FUBAR to the point of being unwatchable. Rather than finish storylines and clean up characters, they are determined to play to the lowest common denominator. Nudity and sex INSTEAD OF a cohesive story. smdh
Jen
November 26, 2013 @ 2:14 am
Exactly. I don’t plan to return, and I was a fan. It’s sad to see the show trail off into incoherence and stupidity, with only nudity and violence to keep people watching. I always hoped Sookie would get together with Eric, and wake up to Bill’s abusiveness, because it made sense. It made the long-term plotlines work. It’s a classic reversal–Bill looks like a hero, but he’s really a villain, Eric looks like a villain but he’s really a hero.
Eric had all the actual good qualities, while Bill had the appearance of them. Bill was just a really good liar. It would have been satisfying to see Sookie finally figure this out. That appeared to be the story they were telling for six seasons. But the writers seem to have abandoned it at the end of season six.
Abandoning that storyline six seasons in leaves the show floundering. If the writers had at least tried to substitute new, interesting stories for the Bill/Eric/Sookie conflict it could have worked. But every new storyline they’ve introduced has been completely wasted. Luna shifting on national TV was supposed to out the shape-shifters and make the werewolves and shifters interesting (at last!). Nope, that was conveniently forgotten. Warlow was supposed to make Sookie’s fairy ancestry relevant–that didn’t happen. He was an incredibly lame villain, and eventually just became another excuse to get Sookie naked. Lilith’s possession of Bill was supposed to be exciting, and there were all these prophecies that went . . . nowhere. Now we’re supposed to get excited about zombie vampires? I don’t think so.
sara
November 26, 2013 @ 12:29 am
Yes hopefully now pam and tara can work on their relationship like they started season 5 and pam will be out of erics assmfor once….hopefully but I doubt it
Marie
November 25, 2013 @ 11:42 pm
There is no telling just yet what is up with this character, I am just hoping that is not someone being shown in his past. I want an alive (well as alive as a vampire gets) Eric not some ghost or flashback or figment of Pam’s imagination. Considering the clusterfook that was last season, I don’t trust anything that Fookner and his group of idiot writers can come up with. And with all the back stabbing going on behind the scenes, it explains a lot of how Eric’s character was treated in the end.
Sass Peterson
November 26, 2013 @ 9:45 pm
What back stabbing?
michmighty
November 25, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
this show is only watchable now because of Eric. Its time to end it so good decision. It should have been more mysterious like American Horror story, and the fairies were really stupid. Now we look to have vampire zombies. Its really gone down hill. First season was the best. If Eric wasn’t in it I wouldn’t bother.
Emily
November 25, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
I want Eric and Pam to get back to where they were. before he released her!