It makes me wonder what the endgame is. Because it can't just be the reification of order, that goes against this whole show. You can't have some Apollonian force come in and put her down, because that's worse than what she's doing -- as Sookie and Bill will soon demonstrate -- and besides, we already know supes are incomplete in their immunity against her. So no vampires, no Sam, no Sookie I think. Which leaves what sort of force or personality? It can't be somebody crazier than her, because ain't nobody fits that description.

Maybe poor Terry, whose madness keeps him sane and vice versa, and has our sole experience of wartime. Or Lafayette, who lives at the boundary of every division like Mercutio. Or Jason, who holds onto every set of opposites even when they burn him, because he's too dumb and too good to let them go. Maybe Sam, if he'd stop being such a closet case and allow himself to live on the line. Or Tara, who got us into this shitstorm.

It's hard, because you're talking about a Person who is also a Thing, and the only people we know like that on this show, that require that bifocal vision, are the vamps, and I would just puke if they stopped her. Normally I would say play bomb against bomb, let the Fellowship blow themselves up along with Maryann: that's a union of opposites all right, Apollo and Dionysus together. But then, that's essentially what Luke and Godric did, by killing each other without ever meeting, across the night: United life and death into salvation for everybody.

Which brings a whole other parallel opposition into focus: Luke's death brought Eric and Sookie together through the blood, and Godric's through the heart that pumps it. If Sam is the sacrifice (The Chariot?), then has that double-operation made Sookie the Star, the girl bringing water to the river and the shore? I can see that for sure. Tara and Eggs are already the Lovers, and the chained lovers at the Devil's hand, but they're not opposed in any way. They're just people, cracks in the dam; they're not forces, not like Sookie or the vamps. I feel like I'm missing something.