Sat. July 20, 2013
By Danny Bernardo
Started with a preview trailer of the second half of this season, which showed SPOILER ALERT all of the major vampire characters in dire straights in the vampire internment camp while Sookie stood giving a eulogy at a funeral, continually drawn to half-vampire, half-faerie Warlowe, then ended with a shot of Bill falling comatose to the floor, covered in blood.
While the actors remained coy on some of the details with their characters' development, Kristin Bauer van Straten gave this insight on last week's cliffhanging episode where Pam and Eric were forced to fight to the death: "When I got the script, I didn't know what to make this. The great thing about these writers is that they find so many layers of conflict, fighting for our lives against the people we hold most dear."
Newcomer Rob Kazinski, on his character Warlowe, the long feared vampire whose destiny is tied to Sookie's: "Is he evil? He's fay, he's a creature of light, but he's mixed with the darkness of the vampire."
New show runner Brian Buckner said that for the rest of the season, fans could look forward to the show "getting back to its roots. We're going back to the world of Bon Temps and condensing the number of stories we're telling. It will really feel like we're coming home."
Attention turned towards fan favorite heartthrob Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse.) Referencing the homoeroticism previously portrayed between Jason and Steve (Michael McMillian) moderator Huhn asked if Steve still had feelings for Jason. "Oh yeah," McMillian mused. "That flame is never gonna burn out."
Kazinsky recalled one of the first scenes he had to shoot, which was a homoerotic dream with Kwanten's Jason: "Ryan really treated me like a lady," he joked. "Real gentle."
During the Q&A, a fan asked if any other supernatural creatures would make an apperance. Buckner answered: "Ultimately this show is about the relationship about humans and vampires and about this town."
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