"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Don’t let this dissuade you from revising again and again, which can really improve a piece of writing."
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Albert Camus, Creative Writing Instructor.
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‘True Blood’ Season 6: Alexander Skarsgard Reveals Eric’s ‘Evil’ Plans
Eric’s going even darker this season — premiering June 16 on HBO — and Alexander tells HollywoodLife.com to expect some ‘nasty stuff.’
With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood – and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgard told HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.
“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”
Nordic & ‘Nasty’
We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.
“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”
(source)
This makes me more nervous than any empty “Eric will die” rumors.
Yep. I have no idea how this will go down.
Me neither, and it scares me. I have no problem with Eric fighting his way in and out of whatever facilities that hold vampires, or fighting in general. But if they are making him do sadistic things a-la Bill Compton … No. Just no.
Here’s hoping that’s not the case. I can well imagine that trickery along the lines of what he did with Talbot could be employed to try to get a hand up on the humans bent on destroying vampires. Or that he may deceive and use the daughter of the governor if necessary to save Pam.
Eric can be brutal if necessary, or in retribution for crimes against vampires (Royce comes to mind). I’m inclined, for now, to think it’s more along those lines than a new “evil” that we’d see as out of character.
Crossing my fingers anyway.
I bet we’ll see things similar to what we’ve seen in the past. He certainly can do nasty things, some of which has been mentioned, but I take heart in what Alex also says — Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,”. That doesn’t sound like anything remotely similar to “sadistic Bill Compton”. He’ll be ruthless in order to protect his family and those he loves, and, I expect, he’ll do what he needs to do in order to protect against the annihilation of his race/species.
Keep talking, guys. I need off this ledge! :))
So do I! If it helps, I just remembered all those human bodies and body parts photographed on the set last week. Bloody and disgusting. But—soldiers killed in war, not innocents sadistically tortured and drained. All those guys were wearing body armor and they died together—a mass killing like a bomb, not a draining. If Eric helps plan or carry out that, that would qualify as “bad”, but not evil. This is what happens in war, and may be necessary to survive.
Eric has always had his dark side. I mean, I’m scared, but I’m keeping it together. But, let’s face it: if he and his (Pam and Tara) are threatened because they are vampires, I would fully expect him to fight back hard and be vicious. He is vicious after all. He’s also got that heartbreaking goodness. The two have never been mutually exclusive.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f4fb78f13c6a53f6db1d6d4a3052b78/tumblr_mn6egfy9tC1qg73a9o1_500.jpg)
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‘True Blood’ Season 6: Alexander Skarsgard Reveals Eric’s ‘Evil’ Plans
Eric’s going even darker this season — premiering June 16 on HBO — and Alexander tells HollywoodLife.com to expect some ‘nasty stuff.’
With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood – and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgard told HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.
“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”
Nordic & ‘Nasty’
We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.
“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”
(source)
This makes me more nervous than any empty “Eric will die” rumors.
Yep. I have no idea how this will go down.
Me neither, and it scares me. I have no problem with Eric fighting his way in and out of whatever facilities that hold vampires, or fighting in general. But if they are making him do sadistic things a-la Bill Compton … No. Just no.
Here’s hoping that’s not the case. I can well imagine that trickery along the lines of what he did with Talbot could be employed to try to get a hand up on the humans bent on destroying vampires. Or that he may deceive and use the daughter of the governor if necessary to save Pam.
Eric can be brutal if necessary, or in retribution for crimes against vampires (Royce comes to mind). I’m inclined, for now, to think it’s more along those lines than a new “evil” that we’d see as out of character.
Crossing my fingers anyway.
I bet we’ll see things similar to what we’ve seen in the past. He certainly can do nasty things, some of which has been mentioned, but I take heart in what Alex also says — Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,”. That doesn’t sound like anything remotely similar to “sadistic Bill Compton”. He’ll be ruthless in order to protect his family and those he loves, and, I expect, he’ll do what he needs to do in order to protect against the annihilation of his race/species.
Keep talking, guys. I need off this ledge! :))
So do I! If it helps, I just remembered all those human bodies and body parts photographed on the set last week. Bloody and disgusting. But—soldiers killed in war, not innocents sadistically tortured and drained. All those guys were wearing body armor and they died together—a mass killing like a bomb, not a draining. If Eric helps plan or carry out that, that would qualify as “bad”, but not evil. This is what happens in war, and may be necessary to survive.
Eric has always had his dark side. I mean, I’m scared, but I’m keeping it together. But, let’s face it: if he and his (Pam and Tara) are threatened because they are vampires, I would fully expect him to fight back hard and be vicious. He is vicious after all. He’s also got that heartbreaking goodness. The two have never been mutually exclusive.
My husband just told me that I’m as beautiful as Shakira.
LULZ
Your husband knows best! Also, he’s good people. :)
Let’s get real: my husband is clearly delusional, but I love him anyway.
My husband just told me that I’m as beautiful as Shakira.
LULZ
Not them Brian, never them.
This is a thing, for me, about Doctor Who: none of his relationships really strike me as terribly romantic. The closest it ever came was Rose, but I remember feeling, all along, that Rose loved him, and he knew he could never be hers, and that in a way, her love and his need for it weren’t fair to her. In the end, the only reason she got to be with him in SOME way is by his having a human doppelganger — a turn of events he couldn’t have predicted — but before that, there was never any chance for them. I felt sorry for Rose; there was no way that relationship was ever going to end in anything but death or heartbreak, and I think the doctor knew that, but he needed her too much to let her go. There was a real selfishness in it.
That’s not to say that I didn’t love the Rose story line, and don’t see the romance, or that I don’t think he loved her, or that it didn’t ache me and make me cry when they got separated, but for me, the bottom line is this: the doctor sent her into the other dimension to be with her family, where she belonged. He knew it wasn’t with him.
I’ve read lots of uproar about the horrible way the Doctor treats River (“like a book on a shelf…he doesn’t like goodbyes”), but I’m still not comfortable with the way he let Rose love him and then sent her away. I was relieved when he refused to let Martha believe he could ever look at her romantically, and I was consistently relieved that Donna wasn’t hung up on him. I liked it that he loved Amy like you love a baby sister. I like River, but there is something that just doesn’t work about that storyline, and it’s not at all convincing that he loves her, and now Clara is the impossible girl who is everywhere in every timeline, and whose chosen mission is to save him. I agree that it’s a bit naff, but it doesn’t infuriate me. I’m willing to wait and see where it goes from here.
The thing is, Doctor Who is about the doctor. He is the center of it, and his humanity and his inhumanity are revealed by his companions, who are usually women. In the show’s best moments, the humanity of the Doctor’s companions shines brighter than any of his heroics, and he just basks in it and is humbled. But, the fact remains, that the story is about him. He is the constant. He is all these regenerations. He is more than 900 years old, and the last of his kind. His life is sad, painful and lonely, and his companions relieve him. Those are the bones of the story.
I can’t quite jump on the feminist fury bandwagon and call his relationships abusive — they all know who and what he is. He is fundamentally unavailable, romantically speaking. It can never last. That is the nature of the story. Nor am I willing to dismiss the Doctor’s pain as “ridiculous manpain”. Firstly, I hate that expression! Aren’t men allowed to feel pain for legitimate reasons? I think the Doctor has about a gazillion reasons. Secondly, he’s not a man. He’s a Timelord. His pain is Timelord pain.
(Source: rosereturns, via amysgone)
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A very convincing argument!
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Busy.Don has never been more pathetic, man.
Don is such a mess this season. More so than usual!
Seriously! And every episode he is more and more of a train wreck, and I’m torn between sympathy and shadenfreude.
