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hsm7:
He was so gentle.
So much was revealed about him tonight, things we’ve seen glimpses of before and things that we may have attributed to Sookie or his amnesia. The thread of who he is as a man remains consistent and, while we’ve always known it or felt it, it was great to actually see him in another time and place and find him just as we always pictured him. I’m just giddy inside.
Following that same logic, what does that say about Bill?
Everything we’ve always thought it did. It’s so obvious at this point that I’m scared.
Scared that Bill will do something to Pam?
No, scared that it can’t all be so fucking obvious. Scared that all the gloriousness of Eric being Eric and Bill being Bill can’t be as RIGHT ON as it is forever. I JUST NEED ERIC TO BE ERIC FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.
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hsm7:
He was so gentle.
So much was revealed about him tonight, things we’ve seen glimpses of before and things that we may have attributed to Sookie or his amnesia. The thread of who he is as a man remains consistent and, while we’ve always known it or felt it, it was great to actually see him in another time and place and find him just as we always pictured him. I’m just giddy inside.
Following that same logic, what does that say about Bill?
Everything we’ve always thought it did. It’s so obvious at this point that I’m scared.
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Pam’s Timely Arrival
hsm7:
This may have already been discussed, but did anyone else find Pam’s timely arrival at Sookie’s more than just a fortunate coincidence? A vampire shows up just when you need one. When does that ever happen? The more I re-watch the episode, the more questions I have. Was she really there looking for Eric, or was she nearby to protect Sookie at Eric’s behest? She had to have felt Eric’s alarm, both as it related to Sookie and his reaction to The Authority. After all, she is still dressed in her combat clothes when she storms into Sookie’s house.
Another thing I noticed is that Eric’s “F**k Sookie” comment was made before Sookie shot Debbie Pelt. And when he made that comment, he hung his head, with a sad expression on his face. His body language says he doesn’t really mean that.
There are sure as hell a lot of questions. I don’t think it’s accidental. I really don’t. A few things, maybe, but when there are literally questionable moments through out, one after another? Nope. It’s there for a reason.
Yeah, there are a lot of unanswered questions after last night…things that don’t make sense and things that seem odd.
Totally agree about the Sookie comment. His body language and his expression, in particular his eyes, tell a different story than what’s coming out of his mouth. Not sure what’s going on, but some things don’t add up and shouldn’t be taken at face value.
I totally agree, too. I mean, we know he can call her, and we know that he can do it with enough specificity that she dug him out of the cement. Also, as much as he’s saying “Fuck Sookie” in that scene, he looks stricken and miserable. I think he’s trying to keep Bill there on purpose. Because there’s something going on.
There is just WAY TOO MUCH about that episode that doesn’t add up without a longer equation.
The wig is awful, but he’s lovely. There’s something a bit droll about bored, unsmiling, season 1 Eric.
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My fav.
Echoes Of The Past - “Fangtasia”
I love this one, too. So tease-y and exciting!
when she’s having fun you know it’s gonna be good... : )
pic:hbo S4| fbk:on 1-30-2012
Well I hope you don’t mean “having fun” in the same sense of season 4, Kristin. Because you know, s4 didn’t exactly do a good job as far as Pam is concerned… ;)
Well said him-e!!
I thought season 4 was awesome for Pam! She had that brilliant line about how Eric “pulls good string”, and all the rotting and fury about Sookie, and then a huge break up with her maker. I thought she was believably in character all season, and it led to some real conflicts with Eric when the sea-change of love hit him and changed him. All in all, I’d bet it was fun playing Pam last season… plus, all Pam’s troubles last season set up so much more potential story for Pam this season. I mean, sure, it wasn’t a bed of roses for her character, but I think they did a pretty good job with her… in my opinion.
I’m glad it’s looking good to Kristen, at least… but I’d be willing to bet she thought it looked good in season 4, too. Lots of meaty drama to sink her teeth into!
True Blood Casting Call for S5_E4 | We’ll Meet Again
True Blood Casting Call for S5_E4 | We’ll Meet Again
Director: Romeo Tirone | Writer: Alexander Woo
Start Date: Approx. January 26, 2012 | Location: L.A.
[MELANIE] 20s, this female fangbanger goes with Pam to entice a young vampire to feed on her. 2 lines, 1 scene (49).
Who can this young vampire be? Hmm..
I bet is Tara.
Yep, that’s my thought, too. How else are Sookie and Pam going to bond like they do in the books? By taking care of vampire Tara, who’ll be less than happy to be drinking blood to survive. This gives Sookie a chance to learn more about Eric, too, even while he’s not there (I assume he’ll be in Authority custody or on the run at this point). It’s a nice synergy and it gives an opening for Pam to flashback to her turning—either to impart wisdom to Tara and Sookie, or because Tara’s turning reminds her of her own.
YAY!
SNIP
Brava! Yes, I don’t think I’d like it if there was a sexual component to their relationship in the show. It’s been written and acted so paternally up to this point that it would seem weird and squicky if Eric was suddenly macking on Pam. I know that they were lovers for a while in the books before Pam decided she liked women more than men. But their relationship in the books is much less protective/father-cum-daughter. They are more partners in the books.
Look at that scene above. He’s totally her “dad” there. Tender, not at all lustful or sexual.
I DO like Pam a lot. She’s painfully honest. She says whatever comes to mind, and there isn’t a speck of sentimentality in her. Her line in season one about getting chill bumps from watching Sookie and Bill’s passionate farewell thus now strikes me as a moment when the writers were still struggling to find her “voice.” True Pam might have commented that they were really in love, with a disdainful sniff, but she wouldn’t have been emotionally touched by that. Not with the thinly veiled contempt she has for Bill, or any emotional displays. She is a great “voice of reason” when Eric succumbs to emotion.
THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT PAM IS THE VOICE OF TRUTH ON THE SHOW. On other message boards I have seen people try to anoint various characters as omniscient truth-tellers, from Pam to Tara. There is no single voice of truth on this show. Which is entirely as it should be.
In real life, NO ONE has a monopoly on truth. No one is divinely blessed to always be right (thank goodness). We’re going to have to figure out what’s going on in True Blood without the crutch of some oracular character. Every character, even the most unrepentant villains, gets to tell an important truth at some point on the show. That’s part of the fun—you can’t tune out what anyone is saying, because they all might spill something important. At the same time, you can’t completely trust anyone, because even the most intelligent and well-intentioned characters are stuck in their own POVs. They can’t know everything. And their perspective may be flawed, because of emotion or bias. Sometimes people lie, too, for whatever reasons. It’s a challenging show, because of this complexity, but also FUN. And as we have seen in the True Blood fandom, this lends itself to arguments, because there’s always ambiguity.
ITA with UFG when she wrote that Pam simply doesn’t feel as deeply as Eric. I don’t think she responds to Eric’s emotional turmoil because she doesn’t grasp it. Her emotions are stunted. This makes her a great voice of reason, when everyone else around her goes crazy with emotion (like Eric and Bill’s suicide pact to save Sookie in 4x11). It doesn’t make her a great confidante or emotional anchor. That may be why amnesia Eric seemed perfectly happy with Sookie, away from Pam. His undamaged emotions (I believe he lost his memory, but not his emotional connections) told him that Sookie was reliable, that he could trust and lean on her. He knows he can trust Pam, that he cares for her, but not that he can rely on her to empathize with him. And she doesn’t. She’s pretty clueless about his reactions throughout season four. Sookie, for all her overt mistrust of Eric, is tenderhearted and sympathetic to him. Pam possesses absolutely no empathy; she’s just not tenderhearted.
Harris seems to like that toughness and lack of sentiment because it’s unusual (she mentioned this in an interview). Usually men are the stoic ones and women have emotional depth. But I think her implicit message is that isn’t this a bit sexist, really, to assume that all women are sentimental and all men insensitive? It’s fun (she said) to write a female character who is so tough and no-nonsense. Harris plays a lot with gender and sexuality in the series. Pam’s characterization, show and books, is an example of that.
Pam is extremely feminine (her designer clothes, all the makeup, the pink and girly stuff), but she’s also a stone cold bitch and a lesbian. She’s not really slottable into any stereotype of dykes or women generally. She’s a real human being (even as a vampire), with all the variation that implies.
Anyway, I think that Pam has tried to empathize with Eric, and it’s not like she is completely emotion-proof. She was shocked when she learnt about Eric’s human family, and she was hurt by the fact that Eric never shared the saddest part of his past with her. I saw her reaction to that as a genuine desire to be Eric’s confident, and a disappointment in realizing that she has never been, not for the important issues. I think part of what Pam is comes straight from her true nature, but part is also a product of Eric’s teachings that now have come to bite him in the ass. When he turned Pam, choosing her as a companion of death, he recognized in her the qualities he valued (her lack of sentiment, her cynicism, her coldness) and, I believe, he trained her to nourish only those aspects of her personality, and to systematically atone every hint of feeling, to the point that she ended up having none. Because Eric thought it was the best he could teach to Pam, to survive in the vampire world. I believe that the potential loss of Eric, combined with the newly found knowledge that her Maker has never been the piece of stone she always thought, is exactly what will trigger some emotional character growth in Pam and, ultimately, will help her reconnect with Eric.
All of this is true. I don’t mean to say that Pam can’t feel deeply, just that she doesn’t, and that Eric does not share that part of himself with her. I also completely agree that her stunted emotional life is at least partially Eric’s influence. He taught her what he thought was best, and what his very revered maker taught him. He was cold, and he taught her to be cold.
But, I also agree with Ohiogurl when she says that Pam didn’t respond to or empathise with Eric’s emotional turmoil because she does not recognise it for what it is, or understand it. She does not have tumultuous feelings. She leads her life sheltered by him, and doesn’t have to face anything that could shake her out of her comfortable feelinglessness — until now, because if there is one thing Pam feels deeply, it is her love for Eric. People get so upset about seeing these characters suffer emotionally; Eric when Sookie chose to be alone, and Pam when Eric sends her away… But this pain they feel is the only reason they have to grow and change.
Pam’s pain is the best thing for her, as Eric’s is for him. And, for us? It means SO MUCH GREAT STORY TO COME.
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hsm7:
Interesting that Sookie and Pam are, both, underestimating Eric. Pam has no understanding how much Eric actually cares about Sookie, and Sookie believes that Eric wants her so he can control and use her. What they don’t get is that Eric, to his core, does genuinely care for her, that the foundations of his ultimate love for her are well-set in his very being before he gets amnesia.
Pam doesn’t know this Eric because he’s buried his emotions so deep that she probably doesn’t even believe him capable. Sookie, on the other hand, is transferring her relationship with Bill onto Eric. When she questions why she should agree to be Eric’s, she says, “why, so he can keep me, use me, drink from me, or maybe lose control and drain me altogether”…..hmmm, deja vu, anyone?
Neither of them have a clue regarding what Eric is really capable of…but they’re both going to find out.
You’re so right. Here are the two people Eric loves most, and neither of them really knows him. When you think about it like that, at the end of season 4, they both know him a lot better, and he’s separated from both of them. Poor Eric.
I’m really looking forward to the backstory on Pam and Eric next season.
“Indisposed doing what?” is such a presumptuous question. “Indisposed” means “doing something that is none of your business”. She’s so funny here.
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