Curioser and curioser..
Sookie’s visit to Faeryland was an ironic satire of Saturday afternoon matinees and Sid and Marty Kroftt’s allegories for children. Land of the lost indeed, and the set pieces, dialogue, and acting were just about as credible as the fare emanating from the venerable old schlock meisters. ‘Very good. As you were’, says Sookie’s erstwhile Faery Godmother to the milling extras, sounding for all the world like a stage director and fairly screaming at us that this is a stage play, a big production, and all for Sookie’s benefit. [see my previous post for an analysis of 'Faeryland'] The suspension of disbelief required to take this hysterically ironic ‘adventure’ seriously is as vast as the chasm Sookie precipitously jumped into.
If we didn’t get it in Faeryland, Sookie’s return to Bon Temps with Grandaddy Earl sealed the deal:
Really now, are we supposed to take this make-up-with-a-trowel-job at face value? No. Only Sookie would be taken in by this overwrought sci fi melodrama, complete with the bestowing of a precious heirloom and a tear-jerking death scene.
Did Sookie get sucked into a space-time vortex or did she experience something akin to a DMT trip?
DMT produces a vivid other-worldly landscape when ingested, often including elves, aliens, insects, snakes, jaguars, etc. This is true for the majority of people who try it.
1. DMT acts primarily at the 5-HT2A receptor, which is where the hallucinogenic tryptamines work their visual magic. Without going into all the details here, let’s just assume for a moment that a molecule with the proper shape acting at 5-HT2A site can significantly disrupt and/or enhance visual sensory processing, depending on dosage. If this is the case, then dumping DMT into the perceptual wetworks is akin to messing with the logic that produces the display on the computer screen you are looking at right now.
3. The archetypal DMT “entities” are pretty well categorized, with most people seeing elves or aliens or fairies or angels or some kind of loopy little spirits that dance about and tell riddles. Sometimes it is a spirit-animal like a jaguar or a snake, sometimes it is none of the above and goes totally off the map. But getting back to the elf thing (which is what many people find to be the most curious aspect), I initially found it very surprising to be confronted by elves in my DMT experiences, and on psilocybe mushrooms as well, and did indeed perceive them as externalized, morphing, disincarnate beings. I even managed to carry on rudimentary conversations of sorts. However, the more I experimented with DMT the more I found that the “elves” were merely machinations of my own mind. While under the influence I found I could think them into existence, and then think them right out of existence simply by willing it so. Sometimes I could not produce elves, and my mind would wander through all sorts of magnificent and amazing creations, but the times that I did see elves I tried very hard to press them into giving up some non-transient feature that would confirm at least a rudimentary “autonomous existence” beyond my own imagination. Of course, I could not. Whenever I tried to pull any information out of the entities regarding themselves, the data that was given up was always relevant only to me. The elves could not give me any piece of data I did not already know, nor could their existence be sustained under any kind of prolonged scrutiny. Like a dream, once you realize you are dreaming you are actually slipping into wakefulness and the dream fades. So it is with the elves as well. When you try to shine a light of reason on them they dissolve like shadows. Link
Everybody else is trippin’ on V and Sookie is not immune. In fact, the poor girl has lost her mind.
Alice: I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
We first get an inkling that something just ain’t right when Sookie either neglected to have Gran’s birth and death dates inscribed on her tombstone, or for some odd reason the poor girl just isn’t seeing it:
Then of course she ‘wakes up’–after poor Earl has turned to dust before her eyes–in the exact same spot and position she was in when her *ahem* adventure began. As day follows night…
Under certain conditions this could be called a ‘stress position’.
Sookie has crossed the bridge into a whole new world. Her house is spanking clean and totally refurbished, if no longer her property, and her friends, family, and former lover have all moved on with their lives as if Sookie’s disappearance had caused barely a ripple in the forward trajectory of their lives. Newly deputized Jason not only sold her house out from under her, he and the sheriff apparently didn’t know that if you can call in the DEA for a minor drug raid in a junkyard, you can call in the FBI for help finding a missing pretty blonde white girl with a penchant for wearing head bands and girly sundresses. Who else is surprised the dynamic duo couldn’t interest Nancy “Bombshell” Grace in behaving like loon over Sookie on national television?
Why, her disappearance must not have garnered any concern at all at Authority Headquarters if they were content to enthrone Bill Compton as the vampire King of Louisiana amidst public accusations of murdering the pretty blonde white girl. Well, the accusations had to be public, right? If Bill is demanding a public clearing of his name in exchange for compensating the county for the search efforts, then everybody must have known. Right? It’s almost as if the Authority suddenly isn’t concerned with the reputation of vampires, not even monarchs..oh wait…
King William the Usurper sure is popular with the human population of Bon Temps, including the mayor. Did this happen overnight? In the midst of a ‘post Russell Edgington world’ with protests going on nightly in the places vampires congregate, snake-oil preachers frothing on television, and howls of ‘Fangbanger’ to be heard throughout the land, the mayor of a small Lousiana town evinces no qualms about being seen at the same podium with a vampire who was until 24 hours ago a suspect in the disappearance of a pretty blonde white girl. A girl who turned up out of the blue after being ‘missing’ for an entire year on a secret vampire mission. No further explanations needed, all is forgiven! Isn’t it cute that Bill is dating the town Belle-Deb?
The pharmaceutical companies, the liberal media, or *somebody* has poisoned the towns’ water supply with “LSD” as a mind control experiment or these good and decent flag-waving Southern-Americans are bucking the entire right-wing juggernaut of hate to sing Kumbaya with a vampire cuz they feel like it, by damn.
Now, I’m not saying *somebody* did spike the water supply–not for sure for sure anyway– but let’s just for the sake of argument assume these good people didn’t take the time to really get to know and love Bill Compton and some hanky panky has been going on down at the local resovoir. In which case we might speculate on what other types of mass psychosis would the population of Bon Temps experience besides an extreme tolerance of vampire murder suspects. Hmmm…
Of course, we can all console ourselves that everything is as it should be back at Fangtasia. Pam can’t be bothered to blow smoke up our asses and Eric doesn’t give a shit if we are stupid. His attitude is if you can’t appreciate winking irony and are soothed by false sincerity that’s your problem.
Alice: What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month, and it doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!
The Hatter: Why should it? Does your watch tell you what year it is?
Alice: Of course not, but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.
Poor Sookie. She was only gone for 15 minutes and look what happened. Her whole world is upside down and she doesn’t know where to turn. Oh wait, yes she does.
She wanted to invite him in but her pride dictated she resort to batting her eyelashes and crying prettily so that he would invite himself and she can reluctantly agree ‘for a little while’. When he doesn’t show an interest in staying and instead turns to leave her response is “I’m glad you’re ok”. Really Sookie? You’re glad HE is ok? Did you forget that just an hour or so ago you found out he let two psychos beat you to within an inch of your life so he can get his LSD..err..DMT…err..blood into you? And that he was sent by his queen to procure you as part of their Human/Faerie Hybrid Harvesting Program or ‘Faerietelpro‘? Hmmm…
This is not the face of a woman who just found out he let two psychos beat her to within an inch of her life
What’s wrong with you Sookie?? Snap out of it!
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Part 2 coming soon.
Great post!
Thanks anna!
Terrific sunny. And you are so right, she has amnesia. That girl’s brain is swiss cheese. The fact that she almost invited him back into her house speaks volumes. How in the name of all that is sane can you continue to have feelings for someone who was responsible for your near death, three times? Instead of running to the porch when Jason asked her the time she should have run for the shotgun. Curious also that she knew he was coming. Just like in S1 where she turned around and knew he was there. What is it going to take for her to come to herself and be rid of the influence of Bill?
She was extremely surprised and mournful when he didn’t stick around to make goo-goo eyes at her. She was so transparent in her coquettish effort to get him to stay without her having to break down and ask, it was literally sad. Girl is the epitomy of fuckedupNESS.
One of the aspects of this V addiction I find interesting is the differing reactions of the some of the people who have taken V.
Jason in S1 had withdrawal symptoms and had a violent reaction to Sookie.
While taking Eddie’s blood Laff didn’t exhibit any violence until he found Eddie gone. And that I put down to anxiety and fear. The same could be said when her had Eric’s blood. However, he did have a violent reaction and had to be stopped by Jesus after having one drop of the “Hotshot” stash.
Then there is Sam who had a great deal of Bill’s blood and has not been the same since.
Felton and Uncle daddy Calvin both exhibited violence after a dose of Hotshot stash. Makes me almost think that it’s Bill’s blood that QSA planted and used.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all BG. And ironically, or not, Eric’s little corner of Louisiana was the only one having a problem with V sales. How is that logical when SA’s queendom encompassed the whole state?
Great post Sunny. Every clue we have been given shows the 1 year leap is a sham. You called it when you said Sookie would be ASookie.
I have been waiting to see how this leap would be different from previous leaps. I can only conclued that the leap that ST was referring to was no leap, as we have lept every season that we have been shown so far.
It has been bothering me that Jessica is posting on her blog in real time with current dates.
If a year had gone by why wouldn’t Jess’ posts be in 2012? Simple answer, it’s still 2011.
I can only conclued that the leap that ST was referring to was no leap
I think it was a change in pov, from poor besotted Sookie to pragmatic and ironical Eric. Eps 1 & 2 feel very, very different from any other episode you could name. Now I fear that with Eric losing his memory, he’ll lose his narrative ‘voice’ as well and we’ll be back to the same ol’ same ol’.
If so, I hope it doesn’t last long, or just long enough for people to draw a sharp comparison.
The first six minutes of the Season Four premiere felt like some summer action blockbuster. Why did you come up with something that big?
It was huge. We did a lot of research about all different kinds of fairies, alien abductions, relativity…..From the time we started writing to the time that episode was locked, it was about four months. What we wanted to do was just jump ahead in time, shake things up and start fresh. The second and third seasons started directly after the season prior. So we wanted to get people to a different place.
From AB’s comcast interview. This is exactly the impression TB is spewing.
yep.
Here is what Sam T. said, which could just as easily refer to a change in narrative mode as a time jump:
I can’t say what it is, but there’s something that happened that sort of changes everything, something at the beginning changes everything in town. So it’s going to be cool, because you have the same characters and the same deal, but there’s going to be something that makes it all fresh.”
Link: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/popcornbiz/True-Bloods-Sam-Trammell-Says-New-Socks-Same-Nakedness-For-Season-Four-108220014.html
A time jump alone doesn’t make everything ‘fresh’ it’s simply takes the same ol’ deal 12 months into the future. And a time jump alone does not make the narrative crisper, smarter, more focused, more entertaining, and give the characters a ‘different/stronger energy’. Only a shifting pov can do all of this.– http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/14733/tv-review-strong-season-premiere-for-hbo-s-beloved-true-blood
Could ST’s refernece refer to the mass glamouring of an entire town?
lol..reference..sorry…getting tired tonight.
Possible, but I doubt he would refer to mass glamouring as making everything fresh. At least I hope not!
yea Sookie is out of it in epi 1 & 2 of s4 **lol**
i think though when Jason wanted to set the time on the watch he was seeking to get to the “Real” time since he isnt on “V” anymore..
That watch is significant. Along with the numerous references to units of time, it’s cluing us in that something is terribly off about the timeline.
Sorry so long winded and I might be way off because I’m not as good at seeing past the facade (as y’all are) but wasn’t Bills punk scene so out of character. Way over the top to the point it was almost ridiculous. To expect anyone to believe a man in his mid 30′s could fit in the London punk scene. Even Sookie said he looked much older than his last human age. This made me think there was much more to the scene than the obvious. No one really believes Bill Compton would just let that guy go in the alley since killing and violent sex is his thing. Okay here is what I believe.
Callum is a Sookie doppleganger
They both work in bars
They both serve alcohol
They both met Bill in a secluded place
He fed on them both
He let’s Callum go after he has glamoured/healed the wound. I believe he had fed on Sookie before S1.1 gave her blood, glamored her, let her go. Then goes in to Merlottes to officially meet her. [Insert all of Sunny's ideas about TB because I 110% with all of them.] But add that I believe Sookie only thinks she can’t be glamoured because that is what Bill told her. So far no one else has really tried because Sookie shoots her mouth off telling them she can’t be glamoured.
The name Callum stuck out as unusual so I went looking for more info and read something interesting about the collective cinematic works of Jamie Callum Ross(link to article at the bottom). It’s a short read but really makes me think AB might be saying something by using the name Callum.
…”Our thirst for the exotic and fantastic remains unquenched, humanity has created an amazing array of unseen or rarely seen creatures, forces and entities to populate the world and describe animate its mysteries. Taping into this thirst, weaving tales of myth and punk-rock absurdity, artist and writer Jamie Callum Ross presents a stream of videos that enter into our unconscious and conscious desires.”
…”Ross has a particular interest in the personal and psychological geography of land and place. The ways in which people establish connections and meaningful relationships with location, their link to landscape and topography, and to specific spirits who inhabit such landscape drive his art practice. There is a clear sense in his work of someone claiming their identity through their history and personal mythology”
http://theotherwhitehouse.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/finding-ones-place-the-retelling-of-myth-in-the-work-of-jamie-callum-ross/
Luna, this is a fantastic comment! I agree with all of it.
Of course Bill’s punk flashback was a bunch of Billshit. By now the audience knows Bill slaughters for pleasure and profit. If he didn’t kill Callum right that moment it was only because he wanted to savor the experience, ‘over four or five days’, of slowly draining him to death. I love how you’ve connected Callum with Sookie and the circumstances surrounding her supposed ‘first meeting’ with Bill. TAP is of the same mind as you, that the draining and feeding actually happened on the ‘first night’ they met, just as Eric keeps repeating and I agree. She has a post on the theory and I’ll search for it and put up a link for you.
Plain and simple, Bill’s deceitful flashback was a whitewashing of his association with Nan and The Authority. That was it’s only purpose.
I also like the connection you’ve made with the filmmaker Jamie Callum Ross. It fits perfectly with my pet theory that Senator David Finch’s name is a mash-up of David Lynch and David Fincher, two mind-fuck auteurs of the highest order.
Oh and one more thing I just have to add…I hate despise loathe the repugnant lying sack of shit that is Bill Compton. It’s his fault I hate cello and bangs! He makes me want to slap the shitola out of Sookie even though she is a poor sad codependent abused girl. I want to stage a Sookie intervention.
Gurrrrl, you are right at home here at TBU.
Sorry for being so late to the party, but this is one hellva post. I think you nailed the AIWL allusion. Sookie is even dressed like Alice down to the headband.
Every time I watched the FL landing scene, I cringed at Claudine’s ‘as you were’ comment, which is just sooo out of place. You have provided the only way I can see to make since of it, as a stage direction.
It’s interesting that Sookie was a such a bad little girl, not bowing down to the queen or allowing herself to be used for a monarch’s ambitions. Just contrast her with Katerina Pelham, who courtsied so nicely to Bill and is letting him use her as a spy, a sex partner, and food. How accomodating. Not insignificantly, the name Pelham is related to a certain kind of ham. Remember how the name ‘Sookie’ is a pig call? In Katerina we have a new doppel for Sookie, a perfect little stepford pet for the demanding vampire. She is the Sarah to Bill’s Steve, and probably the Talbot to Bill’s Russell. I bet they met when Bill hired her to redecorate his house.
Great call on Katerina. How much do you want to bet she’s a faery hybrid? (and probably doesn’t even know it?) Bill doesn’t seem much interested in ordinary human blood.
He wasn’t at all interested in what his procurer could offer, was he?
Nope, and he’s never shown any real enthusiasm about feeding on anyone but Sookie and Claudine. Makes me wonder if Callum was Fae.
Ha! Great minds think alike!
Speaking of Bill’s taste for fairy blood, I thought it was very interesting that in the flashback, he passed up everyone in the club and made a bee line for the bar tender. Callum was grade A select. I bet he was a hybrid, one that could be glamoured (like Katerina?)
If Callum was a hybrid, it would explain why Bill didn’t kill him and how he developed enough self-control to impress RE.
So it just occurred to me that if Callum was Fae and could be glamoured, this might mean Sookie can actually be glamoured.
That’s a really good point. It could be that other vampires take Bill’s word for it, or more interestingly, they can’t glamour her because she doesn’t believe they can. All Bill has to do is have some trigger word that makes Sookie remember then he could glamour her to reprogram her and then glamour her into forgetting again.
I believe this is exactly the case. We’ve always suspected it, but Callum, if he is Fae, tends to prove it.
in the flashback, he passed up everyone in the club and made a bee line for the bar tender. Callum was grade A select.
Great catch. If he was just looking for food why not grab the first person he saw rather than fighting his way through the crowd just to talk to the bartender, especially since he doesn’t actually drink beer.
If Callum was a Fae as seems likely and Nan had been following Bill all that time, then Nan knows about the Fae and she knows about Sookie. No way would Nan miss a detail like Bill honing in on particular blood bags; plus, she would be able to smell them too.
I doubt that was the first or the last time Bill fed on poor Callum, and I also doubt that his resemblance to Jason is coincidental.
If Bill knew the Stackhouses were intermixing with faeries way back when, he may have gone back to the old country to tack down a Stackhouse line that hadn’t lost it’s essential spark as the BT one appeared to–until Sookie came along.
Oh, I like that! Yes, that’s just what happened, I would bet on it.
I doubt that was the first or the last time Bill fed on poor Callumz
Right, Bill told Callum he would be back for ‘the next four or five days’ and recommended he take vitamins. (like he did Sookie) IMO, at that time Bill hadn’t quite nailed down the formula for daywalking, whatever it is, exactly.
Yes! The vitamins are the tip off that he intended to return.
Do you recall what Bill told Eric and RE? “Remember that If you drain her she will be the last faerie you ever taste”. Bill not draining Callum would fit right in with that statement.
I noticed that Bill didn’t bother healing Katerina’s bite marks. I think this is a clue that he’s sitting in the catbird seat as far as the Fae are concerned. After a successful conclusion to the experiment on Sookie, he’s got just what he wants so he can afford to simply feed on and use Katerina and not have to worry about controlling her mind or gaining access to the Fae portal.
Yes, the relationship dynamics have really changed, haven’t they? There is no more Southern gentleman intent on reclaiming his humanity. Katerina has no illusion what she is to Bill.
Poor Sookie was the guinea pig. She paid the price so other faeries wouldn’t have to?
Speaking of Bill being in the catbird seat with the faeries, there’s some interesting symbolism going on at his house. The chandeliers in TB always look like miniature UFOs, and last season we found out it was because Sookie associated them with FL.
Take a look at how Bill has ‘captured’ and ‘caged in’ his.
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/tv/TVT/albums/TrueBlood/S4/402/1/tb402_0528.jpg
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/tv/TVT/albums/TrueBlood/S4/402/1/tb402_0527.jpg
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/tv/TVT/albums/TrueBlood/S4/402/1/tb402_0522.jpg
Whoa. That is amazing symbolism and too blatant to ignore.
Even in the drawing room the lights of the chandelier are encased inside strings of crystal beads:
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/tv/TVT/displayimage.php?pid=169843&fullsize=1
He has indeed ‘stolen her light’.
And the caged floral that appeared last season is still on Sookie’s sofa.
I’ve trying to think where this fixation with fairies began and for lack of better evidence I keep remembering that book he was reading in S2 Gods and Monsters. There may be more to that book than first suspected. Convenient how it had information on maenads. It must also have contained fairy lore.
I agree with you! I think that was no mere casual read on Bill’s part. That was a clue to his ongoing research. No way such an obscure creature as a maenad showed up in Bill’s vicinity by sheer coincidence, just like it’s no coincidence that he’s talked about Fae with every supe he’s ever met. More research.
That red bound book he was reading this season looked like the book he was reading in California.
I have no doubt at all about that. It probably characterized faeries in such a way as to allow Bill to connect them to the Stackhouses.
If Earl simply disappeared 20 years ago and was presumed dead or that he had abandoned the family, there is no doubt in my mind Bill had something to do with it.
And by guess or by golly, I bet he was responsible for her parents death.
Early trauma programming on Sookie. Neither of her parents possessed the ‘spark’ so they were of no use to Bill except insofar as he could use their deaths ala ‘the shock doctrine’ just like he did with Gran.
I wouldn’t doubt at all that Michelle was a hybrid, sent by the fae or Bill, to BT to breed with Corbett…Speaking of Corbett, do we know Jason’s middle name? Could he have been given his father’s name?
Ah yes, the breeding program. There was a hint of that when Mab mentioned having ‘sown too many seeds’ among the humans. But who has the stronger motive for such a program? The Fae, who have to contend with vampires getting their blood into hybrids and accessing the portal, or vampires who need a steady supply of vampire sunscreen?
You know what? I don’t think we’ve ever been told Jason’s full name, and it’s not on any of the character lists. Does he have a middle name in the books? Not that it would necessarily matter as Book Bill’s middle name is different from TB Bill.
If he had developed such control not to drain Callum, then he must have had to practice on someone/fairy. It doesn’t seem realistic that at his supposed young age he could control himself to that extent.
Did you notice the antique red bound book Bill was reading when Katerina entered his throne room? Looked familiar.
I did notice it was an old book but I don’t recognize it. Is it the one from the mantle?
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/tv/TVT/displayimage.php?pid=168994&fullsize=1
I wish I could read the spine..
If he had developed such control not to drain Callum, then he must have had to practice on someone/fairy
Agreed, and over a long period.
You know whose flashbacks I want to see? Nan’s. I bet that would be extremely enlightening. It’s my guess that this whole Fae business is an undercover operation by the Authority to harvest hybrids and access the portal.
Where is Eric going to come into this? There is more to Bill’s hatred than rivalry for Sookie. He knows something that puts Bill’s plans in jeopardy.
He knows something that puts Bill’s plans in jeopardy.
Absolutely, which is why Sookie has amnesia. He can’t have her remembering that it was HE, and not her Fae relatives, who were harvesting hybrids. SURELY Eric has put this together but Bill has probably forbidden him to discuss it with anyone. But as I said at TAP, as Bill well knows Eric is a clever bastard and will find a way around it if he’s allowed to roam around being of sound mind.
Oh geez. The watch like Alice’s rabbit. And Bill referring to RE at the cement mixer as being mad as a hatter.
Yuuuup, and Red and White queens. Who does this sound like?::
Caterpillar
Wise, enigmatic, and unshakably mellow, the Caterpillar gives Alice some valuable advice about how to get by in Wonderland. He smokes a hookah and sits on a mushroom. He gives Alice the valuable gift of the mushroom (one side making her bigger, and the other making her small), which gives her control of her size in Wonderland.
I hope it’s Eric.
These kind of riddles make me break out in a sweat. I inevitably get them wrong. LOL
And this:
Duchess
When Alice first meets the Duchess, she is a disagreeable woman nursing a baby and arguing with her cook. Later, she is put under sentence of execution. The Duchess seems different when Alice meets her a second time, later in the book, and Alice notices that the Duchess speaks only in pat morals.
Arlene?
Smokin’ a hookah? FM connected that water pipe with Lala last season.
See what I mean. I always get these things wrong.
Mad as a hatter? The rabbit’s watch? Don’t sell yourself short. You’ve had valuable insights all the way back to the breaking wheel.
I agree with Renee, BG–don’t sell yourself short. You are my hero lady.
So Laff is going to be her ticket to controlling her “power” and hopefully help release her from her enslavement to Bill?
Sounds like it to me, but you know how far off I can be. LOL!
And you know what, Eric knows Laff is powerful. He’s tasted him. So Bill wants power over Laff and he knows that Eric will connect the dots now that the witches
have come out of the woodwork. That’s the reason he wants to get rid of him maybe.
Lala has been a prophet and wise man throughout the series, but as an experienced psychonaut, I believe he can teach Sookie how to ‘ride’ the V and distinguish the real and valuable from the imagined and destructive. “Most people use it for sex but it can take you much. much deeper than that”. Like the mushroom Caterpillar gave Alice V has two sides–one side can reduce her to nothing, the other side can make her grow large and in charge. I believe she can gain valuable insights into how to ‘get by in Wonderland’ but the ‘mushroom’ has to be pure.
I believe that you are right about Laff. Now I’m worried for him, because Bill knows. His spies at the coven will certainly confirm his suspicions.
Oh no doubt and that’s why Jesus had to get Lala back to that coven even after Marnie scared the shit out of him, so that he would be there when Bill ordered Eric to go there and shut it down.
Eric can feel him too, since he had more than a drop or two of his blood. After he Eric, Pam & Chow fed on him, suddenly Eric appears at Laff’s window, to heal him. Reason 1. Because he is of interest to Sookie and what Sookie finds…..blahblah.
Reason 2. He could taste the power in Laff and better to have him connected to himself than anyone else.
Ruby Jean- They’re coming for you..witches, vampires, cats, dogs.(paraphrasing).
Exactly. I don’t believe for a minute that Eric didn’t know Lala was a witch, or at least that he had magic in him.
Now, for reasons of my own LOL I have to figure out exactly what Eric is wearing around his neck. Do you have any ideas?
Around his neck when? I have yet to see ep. 2 so I can’t help there unless I catch some good caps. I’m watching ep. 1 On Demand tonight again and maybe I’ll catch it.
Around his neck now. It’s a disk looking thing. It might be a ring but I have my suspicions it’s something else entirely.
A talisman of some sort? Back in his human days it wouldn’t have been unusual to have something to protect him from evil. As a prince he would have been aware of a witch or holyman/shaman in the village.
A talisman of some sort?…to protect him from evil.
Exactly BG. And don’t forget, he was around during the Inquisition. He must have heard and seen it all pertaining to witches.
Sunny…
I have to say that every time I read your posts I have to order new books. I ordered the TB book mentioned in this post yesterday, should have it Thursday, and now I have to order Alice in Wonderland….I am certain that the ‘U’ in True Blood Underground’ really means True Blood University….and you are exploiting a conspiracy…..to educate the meek.
Bless your heart osterby. Thank you so much!
and you are exploiting a conspiracy…..to educate the meek
What a great way to put it! I am indeed exploiting a conspiracy, but I’m only following AB’s lead.
Actually, I have to order AIWL too. I used to have a copy and a fairly old one at that but I have no idea what happened to it.
Hell honey, I an still in the process of learning a new language, ancient heiroglyphs, on account of your blog!
That is so cool it’s downright awesome.
Isn’t that the truth osterby. You should see the pile of books on my bedside table.
It keeps getting taller.
BTW sunny- When I post a comment and it appears in the body of the blog my
post remains in the Leave a Reply. I have to delete to make it go away. ????
Mine does that too BG. I have no idea why nor how to fix it. My eternal search for the perfect theme goes on apace..:D
Well that’s just weird. The last 3 times I posted it didn’t clear, this time it did.
and hopefully Bill will someday learn that “you can get anything you want at alice’s restaurant, excepting alice～♪” ^ ^
hi, Sunnylala, i was wondering about Bill’s cliffhanger as being another billshitty video that fans will see again as a “romantic lover Bill capable of anything for the sake of the woman he loves” while i’d be more prone to think about it as a proof of Bill’s pissed off being cut his source of vampire-crack Sookie (“what i’m capable of without sookie”!?).
We have seen more than enough how caracters craving for V become quite agressive (last victim being Andy).
On the contrary, if Rattray’s beating, Lorena’s crib-hat, RE’s procurement and nightmarish teleport to faerieland arn’t trips bad enough to open her eyes and ask for rehab, what tricky twist can we hope for Sookie except meeting lalaterpillar ?
Would it be to be saved from a Red knight by a White knight “Through the Looking-Glass”,
and depending on what she finds, move from mere Pawn to Queen (the whole underlying purpose in Alice’s move in 2nd volume, hence Eric’s discussion about double-faced Sookie?) before having both Red and White Queens neutralized and checkmate Red King for the White King’s victory.
it could be intersting to tie this with “show your true colours” posters, unfortunately, “Trhough the looking glass” leaves no interpretation for parallels of symbolisms for black characters, except maybe as of being somehow the “true nature” of those dreamt as “red” by Alice .
Most excellent, Alice!
The two faces of Sookie–the small coquettish girl and the Saucy Faery.. I do believe we will be seeing a lot more exploration of that theme. Some of it positive and life affirming, some of it frightening and disturbing. But Eric is right–if she wants to live [in every sense of the word] she’s going to have to let Saucy Sookie speak for her more often.
PS : as black and white kittens respectively “shift” into red and white queens fighting together in Alice’s dream…
let’s not forget that the book suggests Alice herself might be no more than just a dream produced all along by Red King’s own imagination
this was really a very interesting parallel of yours Sunny ! as I could read, you’ve been highlighting for a while all the dreaming, eating, addicting, spelling, twisted-sexual-relationing and so on-ing stuff underlying TB behind the mirrors, and indeed, those are elements which so many have analysed for decades as crucial psychological elements also underlying Lewis Caroll’s work, accordingly for best or worst purposes on his behalf.
Voluntarily or not suggested in TB, I couldn’t and would’nt say…. everyone has a so personal interpretation of Alice in wonderland’s intricated topics and it is now such a classical engraved in our international cultural sub-conscienciousness.
As far as i’m concerned on the first stage by the imaginary associated to that tale and consequent perceptions people put on a girl named Alice (^^), I still see this tale as being above all about
- what extreme extents and strange, non-sense and even dangerous encounters an open-minded curiosity can lead you to ;
- inner-growing towards maturity through those same encouters and perils
In every way, it still seems to fit perfectly to TB, i’ll keep a sharp eye on parallels from now on ^^ thank you again for lovely theory – cheers
Thank you alice, you are too kind. I hope we hear more from you.
I’m coming down here, less crowded.
In S3 last episode I noticed that RE had some sort of dick on a chain as they were lying out in the sun, but I could never make it out. Some sort of runes on it I think.
Here’s a pretty good pic of it. I think it’s a solar cross, which seems just the thing for an ancient sunworshipping Druid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross
Oops. Here’s the screencap.
http://black-celebration.net/caps/albums/true/3×12/3x12_0063.jpg
Remember our conversations about the hexenspeigel? The magic mirror to ward off evil spells and turn it back on the bad witch? It was recommended that to be protected you should wear a mirror on your person at all times, and we speculated that what with Bill’s pasty face after he drained Sookie, he must carry a compact. Now I HAVE to get a good look at that disk around Eric’s neck. It looks too small to be a ring he could wear but perhaps it belonged to his mother. Or Rachel?
Oh my that’s right. I forgot all about the hexiswhatsis. But pasty face Bill I do remember.
There’s a new mirror in Eric’s office.
Innnnteresting.
My bad…the book Bill was reading in Release Me wasn’t red, so it’s not the same book.
http://black-celebration.net/caps/displayimage.php?pid=849310&fullsize=1
Looks like it’s one of the bllok on the mantel.
http://black-celebration.net/caps/displayimage.php?pid=959763&fullsize=1
It really does!
Has Sookie been seen eating anything yet?
X-Ray–nothing so far.
just doing a quick read through:
1) That was hellified expensive remodel Bill had done..this coming from the vamp that didn’t even have eletricity…chile please! Sookie didn’t stand a chance.
2) Just doing some math if Earl had been there 20 years and bill has been procuring for 35 then he has been doing research on Stackhouses for a while. wonder if their paths crossed.
3) Where we supposed to get an Eric/Bill flashback? I could have sworn we were.
4) what does it mean that Bill’s remodeled his house to look very simiar to RE?
Hugely expensive. HUGE. Apparently Bill has amassed quite a fortune slaughtering couples, rolling around in their blood, and stealing their houses and possessions.
I hadn’t heard about a Bill/Eric flashback. I think a lot of people were hoping the 80′s flashback would include Eric.
Bill’s interior lacks the taste and refinement of RE’s. Bill’s house looks crass and pretentious at the same time. A Bengal tiger rug? Really? Everything about it screams aggression and power.
True it doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi but it does ATTEMPT to appear classy. Even if he has Quinn on the floor.
There is a book..Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettleheim and it deals with how fairy tales help children understand things that they are too young to understand…often when reading our posts I think about this book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Enchantment
Oh, good. Jerron gives me another book I must order.
Thanks love. I can’t wait to check it out.
I can send you my copy!!!
Lmao..if I knew where it was.
Also what if Alice in Wonderland isn’t Bill’s making of an illusion but what if it’s Sookie making the illusion and putting it into terms she can understand? Like what if she was the unreliable narrator and we are given her version of reality but skewed so it doesn’t seem to bad for her.
I have a theory on why the AIWL allusions that I will explore in Part 2. I’ll have it up this afternoon.
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