12 True Blood Season 3 Spoilers from SciFiWire

True Blood‘s Alan Ball, Raelle Tucker and Alexander Woo sat down with SciFiWire.com and revealed 12 spoilers for True Blood season 3. Some of it we already know from the writers panel and the casting call, but there are a few new tidbits. Here’s an excerpt:

• Bill won’t be back for a while. Ball confirmed that the arc of Bill’s kidnapping will last “about six episodes.” That sounds like just enough time to put Sookie (Anna Paquin) through the wringer, but not enough to try viewers’ patience. Plus, we’ll probably still get to see Bill deal with his captors in episodes 1-5.
• Meet the Merlottes. Shape-shifter Sam (Sam Trammell) will find his family this year, and Tucker gets to write their characters a lot in episode two. “I’m getting to write Sam’s family, which is a lot of fun, and, really, I feel really satisfying as a character arc,” she said. “I really am glad that he’s taking this journey and he’s learning about himself. I find that interesting. They aren’t the brightest people, maybe. At least they appear that way. They’re fairly dysfunctional, but like anybody else, they have their good things about them and not-so-good things. They’re still getting to know each other. Sam’s still getting to know them, and so are we.”
• Werewolves sink their teeth into Louisiana. Werewolves are coming to True Blood, and Ball offered a preview of what his wolf-people will look like. “They’re just wolves,” Ball said. “It’s just people who can turn into wolves, but they’re slightly bigger and much stronger. Their eyes glow orange a little bit.”

The werewolves sound spooky and awesome! (Spookily awesome? Awesomely spooky?) For the rest of the spoilers, check out SciFiWire.com.