Lol! That comment feels like it belongs on an "Erwin charge" video from Attack on Titan. I can't scroll down without seeing a million comments on the size of Commander Erwin's balls.
+Ian Davidsson Yes, and now they had to wipe him off of the floor. He was too cocky. Nothing courageous about it. Just plain stupid. They are vampires, not humans.
Darkest of Realms No, he actually won that situation. If Eric was actually siding with the Authority at that point, the general would have been fine. But Eric was there to destroy them.
I love how vampires think in ancient ways and assume they have power and this guy tells them the truth. They can't do shit about it if humanity decides they want vampires extinct. While vampires stay the same the humans adapt and I could only imagine the type of advanced weaponry humans could harness This scene is great because it was the first time vampires were slapped with humility. Maybe back in the pitchfork days they stood a chance but in the modern world? Nah they have no chance
This is when they should have realize Russel was right . For some reason the writers never expanded on it.The guy that play Russel was taking over the show, became a fan favorite leaving the Bill, Sookie story in the back burners.They couldn't have that so killed him off
Imagine tho being a couple thousand years old even 800 to just 1000 years is crazy that general isn’t even a twinkle in there lifespan if I’d been alive before technology and governments and laws I wouldn’t give af either it’s hard when you were there before there were even a thought there family wasn’t even a spec on the timeline compared to someone like them the audacity of that general to talk to them like that when he’s not a pimple on there ass blows my mind I would’ve snapped his neck to look at Russell yes he was killed off guard but it would’ve took an army to kill him and we know he wasn’t scared of the vampire authority’s little army if i was Eric’s age I’d take the authority over from that point other then Russel he’s the smartest and strongest i hate how the ended this season bullshit fuck bill
This never made sense to me. The government could've easily just bombed all vampire hideouts during the day and it would've been over with. As a matter of fact, in real life that's exactly what they would've done.
Perhaps the volcanic eruption in New Zealand destroyed a two trillion dollar hidden city built by 46% of the 1% to hideaway after causing a planned nuclear winter upon Niberu's arrival switching positions with our diamond core sister moon. Could Pluto be also Niberu? Who hacked their oxygen while they were hibernating, releasing all of their life-giving resources, causing a beautiful blue atmosphere. Bye. Bye.
You need pilots to drop bombs. Pretty hard to drop a bomb when the enemy pilot's are x1000 faster than you with thousands of years of training. A single vampire with a stash of weaponry could annihilate entire bases. Move in, fire, escape. There's nothing on earth that can defend themselves from a capable human, who can move 1000 times faster, and has even basic explosive equipment. Airfields would be decimated overnight and during the day... you have to find them. They won't hide in their homes. They'll hide in fields, hide in churches, hide in dense population centers. Their ranks are infinitely respawnable, they can convert any human they see to Vampire - and that's just to keep you busy. The top 50 vampires alone could annihilate the entire U.S. defense system overnight. Humans don't own the day - Vampires can do just fine in cities, hiding in population centers. They move faster than even machines can track. Vampire kind has every resource available to them that humans do. They have a critical weakness to the sun - but humans have to sleep too. Considerably less, sure, but depending on the time of year - if they attack in early December, they have considerably more hours to fight. We've seen Eric travel states in minutes. There's a reason the general here mentions, "Molotov Cocktail". He's thought about defense thoroughly, he's fully aware of at least most of the anti-vampire weaponry to date... yet he's here... risking his life to deliver a threat. A hollow threat meant to deter them with the fear of the unknown. Basic military strategy. Keep them guessing. When he is cornered by Bill he cries, "Oh god" and doesn't try a ploy, doesn't try to defend himself, doesn't lay down anymore threats. He knows it's over not just for him, but for everyone. "Molotov Cocktail" is a simple concoction of alcohol, a cork, a cloth and a fire. In a single night the entirety of L.A., NYC, Miami, Chicago and every major population center would be burning overnight. A single "Bill" level vampire could burn entire communities to the ground and increase their ranks 1000 fold. "Burn... or turn". By morning you have entire nests ready to go. Every civilian, man, woman, and child - all turned. Who do you kill then? Where do you drop your bombs? Vampires present opportunity for medieval warfare in a modern setting. They hide in caves, they hide in fields under the dirt, they hide in droves everywhere. Why doesn't this happen? Population control. If you had 1000 vampires and 1000 humans, they'd slowly kill off the humans starve. That's the real deterrent. Competition. Don't get me wrong - humans are tricky. They likely do have weapons of mass destruction worse than nukes. This would likely entertain notions of diseases, vaccinations against vampirism, blood diseases to control supply... this could likely cause vampires under 200 years old to suffer immensely. Tainting water supplies with silver so that civilian populations can't be turned. Sure. That could work. But against 2000 year old tacticians who have super speed, there's little true defense... and all it takes is 1. 1 vampire of that caliber could turn the entire government of Georgia overnight. They want to own the nuclear armaments in Montana? Not difficult. Worse... what if they attack Russia? U.S. Citizens throwing Molotovs in Japan? What about Russia? What happens when they arm a populace against another nuclear power? Vampires are too dynamic, too capable to be properly destroyed. If they WERE going to destroy Vampirekind they would have to strike first, strike hard, and strike with heinous inhumane weaponry. Tainting True Blood in the entire U.S. overnight would be an excellent start, and with something with a time delay, like a virus. If they don't have some kind of disease or chemical weapon, there's no way. The war would likely be decided in the span of a week - much of that would be simply a matter of hours. The first 100 drone strikes would decide the whole thing. Could they kill the greatest commanders of Vampire legions overnight? Can they kill ALL OF THEM? Doubtful. And if that doesn't all convince you, this will. Do you think these Vampires even exist on U.S. soil? We see the public figures for this movement, but not the real wheel turners. Characters like Russell show up out of nowhere, but he's a raving lunatic... if there's a single legendary Vampire in say, Australia, or Europe, or Asia, who are generating vampires and sending them to the U.S.... you've got a war of attrition that will outlive you. You can't drop bombs in Europe without their consent, and it's pretty hard to prove anyone is a terrorist leader in such a way that it's obvious to everyone in the world. What if these Vampires flee, every night, to Mexico, Canada, or into Submarines? Think you can find them then? Even if you do, the red tape around dropping bombs on them gets really messy if they decide to hide in population centers. Can't bomb your own cities. It sounds ludicrous, but U.S. borders are largely open, the tools to defend them are useless against someone who can travel like a mach 4 jet over land.... and they move faster than the eye can see. Sure, missiles are fast, but they need targeting systems - and ones that can beat any ingenuity thousands of year old vampires couldn't figure out... and haven't already prepared for. Satellites are fast to capture images but they need to be positioned and can be obfuscated. What targeting system can hit an individual man travelling at speeds faster than mach 4 jets, on the ground? If they just RUN, it's near impossible to kill a vampire like Eric... or track him... and he's mid-tier, we've seen MUCH stronger vampires. Don't get me wrong, I'm not underestimating the U.S. government here, and the ingenuity of the average american to develop a weapon capable of harming vampires. It's just that vampires ARE humans, they possess all the same ingenuity. Need for sleep, need for food, all the same needs - but incredible powers on top of that. .... if a single Vampire wanted to burn the U.S. food production, they could decimate it overnight. They don't even need to hit controversial targets. Burning wheat fields, killing cattle, poisoning fields with mint (it spreads like a weed).... there's dozens of ways Vampires can turn our human weaknesses against us. They could decimate the U.S. food supply overnight, just as well as the government could taint their food supply... At the end of the day, you're looking at a Civil War, but one side can infinitely grow their supply by slipping into a population center... and that's the real rub. You can nuke NYC when it becomes infested, but after a while... what are you even fighting for? At the speed in which they can turn humans, they can vote you out of office the next night. I'm all about this theoretical, but the U.S. government would need serious biological weaponry - and if they did, they wouldn't send ultimatums. They'd need to administer it pre-emptively, long before the vampires could contest it... and then hope for total saturation of the U.S. population... and deal with the global fallout when it naturally spreads beyond our borders. War is economy, and Vampires have EXCELLENT economy - they are a walking biological weapon. They're a virus in and of themselves. Humans would have very little chance unless they had equally heinous weaponry. Conventional bombing would not be enough - we have excellent tools for war, bunker busting, and eliminating embedded targets in unusual spaces... and we'd have to presume our ability to do so would be far more than what is known publicly today. U.S. armaments are state of the art and they would have planned for unusual situations. Major tactical figures would be behind thick walls, with automated defenses, and largely be able to keep a command structure. That isn't the problem. It's that they can't defend the populace at large, and while they could firestorm the whole U.S., that's a tactical option, even nuclear weapons take time to fire and detonate. It's a matter of minutes to get to low orbit where they do the most damage - you can even sneak them in beforehand into major population centers... but if you do so, and even 1 legendary vampire remains, it's all for naught. You'll be trapped in your tombs while thousands of vampires turn the human populace into cattle... and they will outlive you. 100 years isn't too long to wait holding up in Canada, or Mexico, as they study your methods. By then anyone who started the war will be dead, or dying, and their children may adopt their vehement ways... but maybe not. Children rebel... or are misguided. Unless you can stamp them out utterly, you will lose in the end.... and along the way the casualties would be immeasurable... And meanwhile... The government is a servant of the people. If they are all vampires, who funds you then? They can't win this one. They can strike blows, but without a major biological weapons that basically immunize the populace... there's no way.
The general was AMAZING! I was cheering at my screen I was so happy to see this dude in the show! All alone in a room full of ancient vamps calling them names, and treating them like a bunch of little children. This dude was the most bad ass character I've seen in the show to date. Then they killed him in the first scene. I was really looking forward to seeing a lot more of this bad ass dude.
There's plenty to dislike about macarthur, but doubting his badassery is seriously ahistorical. Check his service record in veracruz and ww1, his whole sheaf of service medals if you are unimpressed with ww2 and korea.
"I would advise you to be um, careful.. about what words you choose next." "You psychotic bloodsuckers." Okay, well Salome's advice clearly didn't help. The General was a badass. He was treating the vampires like the bullshitters they are. Too bad he got killed for it.
I love that one line. "We own the day." It shows in bleak, unforgiving terms why vampires have never, and will never, conquer humans. Why they remained secret for thousands of years. Why Roman was so adamant on maintaining peace. He was saving the vampires from a war they could not win.
@@jonny-b4954 Except the humans know glamour exists. By coming out in the open the vampires allowed the humans to study them. Precautions could be taken to compartmentalize command of the military to avoid glamoured individuals from wielding power and causing problems. Also vampires' overwhelming egos would get them killed most of the time. Jason Stackhouse takes out dozens of vampires in the end of this season on his own. Sure he doesn't kill any elders, but a well geared and trained team of people like Jason could. Yeah a lot of humans would die, but we would win in the end.
Even after all these years, this scene still sticks with me. The whole series was whimsical, campy, and romanticized the power and history of the vampires, then this scene happens and drops this tiny glimpse of reality into the show’s world. The whole show vampires are shown to be these ancient all powerful monsters, but the show understands that even they don’t hold a candle to the power of modern military. It was real interesting because all the rest of the characters in the show are emotional, horny, drama queens, but this guy is the most no bullshit character they ever introduced.
@@shawngillespie3532 very few people, especially high ranked military people, want immortality, especially at the cost that these folks paid for it. The chances are, in fact, that anyone who is in charge of said weapons, is probably protected by them as well. Obviously these are children, playing at an adult’s table, no rancher wants their cattle to stampede, and that’s exactly what the General hinted at, if any of them were smart enough to have understood it.
@@slis3578 and this shows how little you understand the politics of the matter. In his view, his life wasn’t as important as brokering the agreement. Since he did not make it out of there, all the plans started swinging into motion, and that be an limiting, and constraining the shield ten playing at politics, rather than the adult, they had dispatched. So … it led to their downfall.
@@darknight10000 they were probably thinking of the best way to break it to people that whole time. Who knows how long it took for them to decide on Tru Blood and then how long it took to manufacture. Also, the government are probably aware of other supernatural beings too. If they didn't find out themselves, then Roman probably would have told them.
When you think about it, we humans have spent the majority of our history fighting one another, designing new and more horrible ways to kill one another (Swords-Guns-Tanks-Aircraft-Nuclear Weapons-Biological/Chemical Weapons). Sooooo building weapons to kill Vampires probably wouldn’t be too hard for us.
That's because he was right. For all the power the Vampires possess, Humans have the numbers, they have the daylight, they have the silver. The greatest weapon the vampires had was their anonymity, humans thought they were make-believe monsters, the stuff of folklore and Anne Rice novels, and they gave that up when True Blood was invented and they came out of the shadows. Killing the General may have been momentarily satisfying for Eric but they were still fucked
And he browbeat those ancient vampires into submission. They didn’t know how to react. Eric killed him to cause problems for the new Authority not because he was shooting his mouth off.
I wish there was a tru blood where all vampires could day walk and immune to silver and staking by merging marlows and liliths blood. Its bs tht lilith blood magically dissapeared. Same with marlows. It was in bills then in 10 other vampires. Once he fed them. Those kind of vampires could obliterate all humans
"Six fuckin seasons of Humans kowtowing to the Vamps, and we finally see the tables turn." The Vampires were fucking nuts if they thought world governments were not orchestrating the means of their extinction the moment they learned of their existence.
The General should have been wearing a dynamite belt. His heart stops. Boom! I mean as long as you're going to go best to take an honour guard with you.
I always thought the council lady with the short red hair looks like Sharon Osbourne! I thought it was cool the way they made Salome from the Old Testament the first vampire.
We have the Hammer of Dawn (from Gears of War). I also wanna see them flex on Hellsing and face Alucard and Walter and Seras and Integra and Alexander.
This scene really solidified my thoughts on siding with the general. Fact of the matter is that vampires in this show are predatory parasitic creatures and it was only a matter of time until they turned on us. The last few seconds of the general presenting them with the very real threat of extermination that billions of humans from around the world who own the sun and command industries, supply chains and technological powers vampires aren’t even aware of was what convinced me that humanity was in the right to cleanse them from the planet.
I didn't finish Season 6 of True Blood yet but could someone please explain to me why Eric thought it was a good idea to kill the General, sparking a war between humans and vampires?
The general gave Eric an instant plan to escape and show the rest of The authority that he has sided with them. The ease with which he just squashed Generals head was funny. I so much liked Eric over dull and senseless Bill. He made a fool of himself by drinking Liliths blood.
Technocracy is worse. They nuked Bangladesh to stop an ancient vampire God from his hungry massacre. This unintentionally messed with the magic across the world allowing Demons to possess broken mortals and Ghosts to spawn in numbers not seen since World War II
All vampires would need is a Kevlar body suit and eye protection and they would be immune to silver, sun, stakes and bullets. Borderline invincible with god like speed and strength oh and can fly.
Kevlar doesn't make you immune to bullets, just semi-resistant. Let alone armor piercing rounds. This isn't some small millita but the entire US Military after all, they'd have a lot of armor piercing rounds including depleted uranium which would shred kevlar like nothing.
@@lazarustaxon7775 Yeah and they live in America.. The US military is extremely limited in what it can do on US soil. Also the national guard is a joke them vs Vampires nah they would retreat, quit and mutiny.
Dude they literally have infrared lasers on jets that can shoot something from two or 3 miles away and it can hit a moving target with heat seeking lasers I don’t give a fuck how fast something can move if we actually went to war with a secret society of vampires we would obliterate them in a matter of days they literally can make UV radiation bullets because that’s how they place trackers in some bullets now
@@aa-ron2917 You realize heat seeking lasers would not target a vampire right..... Oh and even if this pretend future weapon technology excited... The vampires would have the same technology...
Nah. Kevlar is nothing when it comes to armor piercing rounds. And it only stops 1 bullet. Vampires have no chance against billions armed with advanced weapons aimed at destroying vampires
I would have preferred it if they'd let the General win! Imagine if, say, Roman (the bald African-American vampire) had tried to kill the General, and the General took him out using a wooden stake that he had hidden up his sleeve. Then he turns to the other vampires and says, "It's THAT simple!"
Nah cause its not though admittedly they write themselves into plot holes endlessly with super speed.But that aside even if by some miracle he was fast enough to take out even a baby vamp let alone ones 180-2000 years old in this room the rest would immediately super speed him and crush his skull in a millisecond ya know. Was still lame to kill him this quick though or at least to not follow up on any threats after this.
He was clearly terrified, but knew he had to pretend to be alpha if he wanted to get out of there alive. The moment Eric stood up he dropped the act and knew he was going to die.
The moment Eric began his move, The General knew what it would cost them, and what it would cost humanity to do it to them, and he just didn’t realize, until that moment, that the “ancient vampires, and their council” were a bunch of children in clique wars for attention. Roman really sold him on the great intellect and mystique of the council, that never existed, except in a fiction to balance the powers.
I think the general wanted them to kill him. So that the video footage would get released to the public and all of humanity would unite against the vampires.
There's a very, very slim chance Batman would not have accounted for each and every scenario and prepared accordingly. And brought Martian Manhunter or Superman with him.