Well ... I was until I loaded the premiere episode of the new season of True Blood. Season Three left fans with a tremendous cliffhanger; Sookie had retreated into fairy world, Bill and Queen Sophie were getting into fisticuffs, Jason became the mayor of pantherville, Russell is at the bottom of cement grave, Sam appears to have shot his estranged brother and everyone's favorite queen Lafayette turns out to be a powerful witch - shocking. 

I anxiously awaited how the writers were going tie up all the loose plotlines of the previous season and give it all a wonderful conclusion. I could not have guessed nor anticipated the rather ridiculous path the creators have decided to take with this new season. 

***** WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS *****

The episode opens with Sookie in the beautiful and serene fairyland where she runs into her grand daddy - who mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago. Everything is going great until Sookie's spidey sense starts going off and she uses her weird telekenetic/lightening bolt ability to blast the queen of the fairies off of her feet. It is then that the veil is removed to show a desert wasteland and instead of gorgeous fey people we get goblin looking creatures that are harvesting humans .... weird

Sookie returns to the human world and realizes that 12 & 1/2 months have passed. I guess if you have a ridiculous season finale with disparate storylines that you don't know how to resolve, send your main character into an alternate dimension, allow a ridiculous amount to pass, whereby you do not have to explain how things were resolved ... just that they were. Throughout the episode we learn that Bill Compton is the new king of Louisiana - therefore I am to assume that the Queen is dead - although I am not sure how 140 year old vampire managed to slay a vampire who is over a 1,000 years old, but I digress. Lafayette's steamy boyfriend has been trying to get him to accept his witch identity, though Lafayette is not having it. The sheriff is addicted to V, Jason is captured by the were panthers, Tara is now a cage-fighting lesbian, Sam is hanging out with other shifters attempting to control his anger and Hoyt and Jessica are having a rough go at a monogamous relationship because she is a vampire and wants to eat people. 

I literally sat there wondering what the hell happened to a show that always seemed a cut above the rest. Now, audiences must spend half the episode watching these ridiculous side plots unfold when let's be honest all we care about is Bill, Eric and Sookie - and to a lesser extent Pam and her witty tactless humor. That's all we ever cared about. I believe that is why the books are so incredibly successful. An entire series of books focusing on Sookie Stackhouse and her sexual exploits with the supernatural world. It was like science fiction erotica with a better plot. I don't care about most of the people in the show and Charlene Harris, author of the series, had the good commonsense to either kill them off or make them appear one or twice over the course of a 400 page novel.

Knowing me, I will probably see the show through to its eventual cancellation. Here are the only reasons why I am sticking with this 4th season of True Blood

1) There are rumours that the 4th season is modeled after one of Harris' book "Dead to the World". If this is true, it will involve Eric loosing his memory and engaging in a lot of gratuitous sex with Sookie ... so YAY

2) I am waiting for Lafayette to say something sassy and then shoot a lightening bolt at somebody ... oh and I want him to hot gay sex with his boyfriend

3) Alcide, the hot muscley werewolf from Season 3 is returning

4) I am waiting for most of the cast to be killed ...

5) Did I mention Eric's ridiculous amounts of gratuitous sex with Sookie?