Alcide :(
WARNING: This post contains MAJOR spoilers about the July 6 episode of True Blood — read at your own risk.
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When Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) died barely 10 minutes into the True Blood Season 7 premiere, two things instantly became clear: The writers aren't messing around with the final season and every character is expendable.
But that offscreen staking paled in comparison to the blow fans were dealt in the closing moments of third episode of Season 7, titled "Fire in the Hole," as Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) was coldly shot in the chest — and then, the face! — by Bon Temps' bloodthirsty humans. A turn of events no one saw coming…except maybe Manganiello.
"I called it! I called it last year," the actor, who joined True Blood in Season 3, proudly declared to BuzzFeed. "As soon as I read the Season 6 finale and saw that Sookie [Anna Paquin] got with Alcide, I turned to my then-girlfriend right away and said, 'They're going to kill me — and if they don't, they're crazy.'"
And here's why: "Storytelling-wise, you have to get Sookie with Bill [Stephen Moyer]; that's the beginning of this whole story. That's the A plot of the show," Manganiello said. "The B plot is Eric [Alexander Skarsgard]. You also have to have her deal with Eric. I'm not even the C plot — because that would have been Sam [Sam Trammell], or Warlow [Robert Kazinsky] or something. I'm like indigo on the rainbow if Bill is the red."
To Manganiello, his character's death was a necessity because any other option could have painted Sookie — the show's heroine — in a negative light. "Alcide would be a smart choice for her inevitably, but you can't have me wind up with her at the end," he said. "So, what? They're going to have her break up with me? They're going to have her break the heart of the best guy she knows? The guy who would do anything for her? They can't do that because then the audience is going to hate her for breaking his heart. That's why they had to kill him."
