Do people care AT ALL about the integrity who these characters are? This is THE LAST thing I want to see.
At least it IS a confession. I suppose there’s that.
(via confessionsofafangbanger)
In other words, I really don’t care what happens in the story, I just want some girl on girl action. Deep thoughts with TB Confessors.
(via confessionsofafangbanger)
Eric TOTALLY doesn’t care. Not at all. DAMN HIM.
Yeah. Eric is such a heartless asshole. He couldn’t possibly care less.
(via tempella)
I want more1905’s Eric
Eric in a top hat and cravat, as a woman saving superhero with a sassy smile? All of my wettest dreams have come true. Seriously, do they cook this shit up on purpose to fucking SLAY US?
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AMEN!
As someone who has said that Pam is acting petulant and childish, let me say this: she did the only thing she could do here — of course she couldn’t let him die! One thing that True Blood is very, very good at is showing situations in which what is right for one person is totally wrong for another. Pam was right to interrupt Eric’s death wish (unless he had a plan of some kind we don’t know about, in that case, she should have trusted him and let it play out), and Eric is right to be angry about the fact that she calls the woman he loves a “gash in a sundress” and doesn’t care if she kills her. It’s possible for Pam to have been doing what is right for her (and even for Eric), and for him to still be justifiably angry at her for doing the one thing that is most wrong for him by endangering Sookie’s life.
So, although I do think Pam is childish and bratty, I also think she was right to stop this.
(via tempella)
Because he loves Sookie with his pure, human heart, and that goes much, much deeper than anything that can possibly have happened between him and a woman he doesn’t even share his softer feeling with.
(via confessionsofafangbanger)
I just finished watching the Eric/Pam promo…
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised with the way Eric is treating Pam there. He gave her an order and she blatantly disobeyed it. He thought he could trust her, but she defied it. There has to be consequences for that, and this isn’t the first time Pam’s tried his patience, I’m sure. Hopefully they’ll unfuck their relationship by the end of the season.
Amen. Nothing to get het up about. Also, Eric SHOULD release Pam. It’s time. She can still choose to be his right hand if he releases her, but rather than being bound to serve him, as she is now, she would have to choose him. This should, I think, mirror Sookie — who also cannot belong to him or be bound to him by blood, fear or need for protection, but will have to choose him of her own free will if their relationship is to be meaningful and satisfying.
And, taking that further, consider Eric’s offer to Sookie at the beginning of season 4, that he would protect her, and she would repay him by being “his”, which would basically make her a kind of indentured whore. He is used to relationships that operate like transactions, and doesn’t seem to realise how truly unattractive his offer is. Sookie refuses him like any self-respecting woman should, because no matter how smoking hot he is, that transaction is not a basis for a relationship.
One of the things I am most looking forward to in the next season is knowing more about the foundation of Eric and Pam’s relationship. Pam serves him because she loves him; her love for him is the deepest thing about her. However, none of that changes the fact that she is a bound and indentured servant, and until the end of season 4, it wasn’t even clear that she COULD disobey him. In fact, it was only the most dire provocation, the need to safeguard HIS survival that prompted her disobedience. Eric protects and provides for her, and she dresses like a pretty doll, and does his bidding.
I would think that Pam fans would want to see her released by him.
This is all true, but I really, really hope that Eric does not release Pam right after they had such a grave fight. It would only make things worse between them. Pam would think that Eric is releasing her because he hates her now, doesn’t trust her anymore (which is not true, since Eric is simply acting out of anger and confusion and, if he calms down and thinks about it, he will know that Pam will never betray him), and wants her gone for good. On the other hand Eric will only make a rushed decision, one that he will not be able to take back. I too think that it’s time for Eric to release Pam… but not in this situation. If Eric releases Pam at the end of the season, after they have resolved their issues, I will be ok.
Well, I think Pam DID betray him by trying to kill Sookie. I think he is right to hold her at arm’s length for that, because while her motive was protecting him, she truly does not understand why protecting him in that way would have destroyed him. That said, I don’t think he hates her at all in this scene. Why would he say “I trust no one, and you shouldn’t either” if it’s not because he fears for her safety and wants her to know what she has to know to be appropriately wary? Why is he looking at her like that as she begs him to release her? He loves her, but he can’t quite trust her for legitimate reasons.
Having a fight or a rupture in a family doesn’t mean what follows is irreparable separation and hate. Sometimes people need to be apart for a time, and the reason why is that they have lost touch with one another and/or themselves in some deep and real way. I think this is true about Eric and Pam, and the reasons why are so obvious. I don’t think this fight, followed by him releasing her is any kind of deal-breaker or irreparable rupture.
Personally, I like that Eric isn’t cool and impervious — that he is angry, confused, afraid and acting out of emotion. In my opinion, we unreasonably expect a strong man never to falter. It’s hard to watch Eric be desperate and miserable, but I love it that he has feelings and a heart that can be broken, and I want to see him suffer when suffering is the natural, human response to his circumstances. The strength to pass through his fear and desperation holding onto what he most cares about is a necessary step to his freedom from what binds him, and I think that to truly love Pam, he has to let her go.
He and Pam have lost touch because the vampire she knew, loved and served is gone forever, and what is so, so right for Eric isn’t right for her anymore. In fact, Pam’s expectations are, I think, part of what binds him. Also, Pam styles herself an independent woman, but is she really? Eric freed her to fuck, kill and laugh to her heart’s content, but she is still his servant, and not her own woman. I think that when people are so close and have forgotten how to be who they are, sometimes it takes a violent wrench to set them free.
I hope he does release her in anger — if he does, their reconciliation will be sweetened by the fact that love and real friendship won over tremendous obstacles. And, let’s face it: on True Blood, that is the only way love can win.
I just finished watching the Eric/Pam promo…
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised with the way Eric is treating Pam there. He gave her an order and she blatantly disobeyed it. He thought he could trust her, but she defied it. There has to be consequences for that, and this isn’t the first time Pam’s tried his patience, I’m sure. Hopefully they’ll unfuck their relationship by the end of the season.
Amen. Nothing to get het up about. Also, Eric SHOULD release Pam. It’s time. She can still choose to be his right hand if he releases her, but rather than being bound to serve him, as she is now, she would have to choose him. This should, I think, mirror Sookie — who also cannot belong to him or be bound to him by blood, fear or need for protection, but will have to choose him of her own free will if their relationship is to be meaningful and satisfying.
And, taking that further, consider Eric’s offer to Sookie at the beginning of season 4, that he would protect her, and she would repay him by being “his”, which would basically make her a kind of indentured whore. He is used to relationships that operate like transactions, and doesn’t seem to realise how truly unattractive his offer is. Sookie refuses him like any self-respecting woman should, because no matter how smoking hot he is, that transaction is not a basis for a relationship.
One of the things I am most looking forward to in the next season is knowing more about the foundation of Eric and Pam’s relationship. Pam serves him because she loves him; her love for him is the deepest thing about her. However, none of that changes the fact that she is a bound and indentured servant, and until the end of season 4, it wasn’t even clear that she COULD disobey him. In fact, it was only the most dire provocation, the need to safeguard HIS survival that prompted her disobedience. Eric protects and provides for her, and she dresses like a pretty doll, and does his bidding.
I would think that Pam fans would want to see her released by him.
Yeah, Bill is ridiculous, but LOOK AT ERIC’S CLOTHES. THAT is the real travesty. Eric had to get his memory back so he could put his own clothes back on.
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Season 5 : More Sookie/Pam Interaction
Kristin Bauer Van Straten, who plays Pam, told the Hollywood Reporter that based on the first couple of scripts she has received, it seems like Sookie and Pam are going to have a fun run-ins.
“Definitely going to be more forced interaction between Pam and Sookie, I feel,” she says. “That’s the impression I get. You know there are so many story lines that you only get a little tidbit each script. But, I feel like Pam and Sookie are going to have to deal with each other.”
In the books, the two seemed to have had a relatively solid friendship. Sort of like a sister and sister-in-law. They spent a lot of time together because Sookie’s relationship with Eric. But in the television series, Pam seems to hate Sookie because she’s insanely jealous that the target of Eric’s affection has dramatically shifted. I think they will have very tense interactions this season.
I’m glad to hear this… though I still think Pam’s problem with Sookie is more that she can’t understand what has happened to Eric than that she hates, or is even actually jealous of Sookie. I mean, she’s expressing jealousy because that’s what it makes sense to say about what she feels, but I think she’s really just bewildered and emotionally frayed. She thought Eric was gone forever, then she started rotting, she’s still rotting, but he’s back, and still not quite himself, and then he agreed to kill himself for Sookie and sent her (Pam) away in a rage. It’s all very confusing for her, and she doesn’t have to tools to understand because Eric has taught her to be cold and unemotional. She’s just overwhelmed. Eric loves her, she loves Eric. Sookie isn’t a threat to that. I think they can get along.
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