NOTE: This blog assumes that you have seen Seasons 1-3 of True Blood. If you haven't seen any of them, this will make no sense.
NOTE 2: This is about the show, but the main points could be made just as easily about the books.
I've got one major point to make in this blog, and that is that Bill and Sookie may have been doomed as a couple from the start. In their relationship, each had ulterior motives that blocked them from really seeing the other for who they were.
In Bill's case, Sookie represented humanity. If Sookie loved and accepted him, he could be successful as a mainstreamer. This led him to an ultimately futile attempt to keep her in the dark about vampires. (And no, constant warnings about how dangerous they are don't count.) He never told her about rank or title, or Jessica, among other things, until after it would have been helpful. This not only put her in danger, it was patronizing. (I won't even go into the lies about his real reasons for being in Bon Temps.)
In short, he acted like she couldn't handle the truth, devaluing her as a person.
In Sookie's case, Bill represented the kind of boyfriend regular people could have. Because she couldn't read his mind, she could go on the kind of dates she always wanted to. This blind spot was a doozy; Bill is not the kind of boyfriend regular people have. Unfortunately, by trying so hard to keep her out of vampire culture, he only reinforced this notion. By the time Sookie realized otherwise, she was traumatized by what she had seen and unable to process it in any kind of reasonable context.
These false expectations set them up from the start. When Sookie throws Bill out of her house at the end of Season 3, none of us should have been surprised.
More later, probably. Season 4 starts on June 26.
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