True Blood Lightning Round: Alan Ball on Bill-Sookie-Eric Triangle, Season 4 Finale

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer As True Blood starts charging towards the Season 4 finale, executive producer Alan Ball was on hand at HBO's summer TV session to dish out a few spoilers — and when we say few, we mean very few. Here is the transcript of our rapid-fire lightning round with the very cagey Ball: True Blood: Eric and Sookie shower! Twin faeries! And 5 other spoilers from Comic-Con What will we see in the war between witches and vampires? Ball: It will go places that surprise you. It's not linear. What can you say of the Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle? Ball: It's complicated. Will Sookie (Anna Paquin) be able to forgive Bill (Stephen Moyer)? Ball: I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody for everything, but I'm a Buddist, so... Were you careful with the relationship between Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Sookie because of Team Bill? Ball: I don't worry about Team Bill or Team Eric. I love [the fourth book] because I thought it was a great story, but I'm Team Sookie. Because Jason (Ryan Kwanten) drank Jessica's (Deborah Ann Woll) blood, will his sex dreams continue? Ball: He's had her blood and he's already a very sexual person, but he's going to be attracted to her. True Blood's Marshall Allman: "Team Tommy is on the rise" What is the season building up to? Ball: The fate of vampires as a whole. What's the big, bad villain for next season? Ball: We are just in the beginning of Season 5, so it's too early to say, but we're basing it on the books. Do you feel pressure to top each villain? Ball: I don't think that way because that's only a recipe for trouble. I love my job, I enjoy doing it. I'm not going to put pressure on myself to top. I just want to tell the best story and the most fun story. Why did the show really jump one year in the future this year? Ball: The root of that was how we get Jason to be a cop. True Blood: 10 big Season 4 spoilers Bonus non-True Blood question: Having created ABC's Oh, Grow Up and co-executive produced CBS' Cybill, would you ever consider doing another sitcom? Ball: No, no, no. I would rather drive rusty railroad spikes into my eyes. True Blood airs Sundays at 9/8c on HBO.