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Where did all the ducks go? ([info]maximuski) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2010-04-29 21:38:00


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Entry tags:conspiracy theories, crazy people, fan theories, fandom: true blood, i see stupid people, lost the lulz, lurk moar, mommy make it stop, not you again, oh my god sarky tags noooooooooo!, omgwtf, please mommy make it stop, rape is not funny, wankers who will not shut up, wanking inside the house, what the shit is this?

WTF, Y'ALL??!!!
[info]midnight_charm just can't stop wanking. She apparently figured her convoluted theories were too much for poor LiveJournal to handle, and she moved to a brand new blog.

But first, she left this gem at her journal:





Not questioning everything you are told will make you "susceptible to all forms of thought manipulation".

You've been had, you've been glamoured and false memories were implanted. "The plane arrived we just weren't on it".

Gullible, as scrunchy woman said.

No, things are not usually what they seem. Only children and animals deserve to be taken at face value. Even inanimate objects can be more complicated than appearances would suggest.

Fiction from the twisty mind of Alan Ball is never as simple as it seems.


DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

What makes me accuse Truebies of such heinous naïveté?

Well, In order to believe the maenad wedding ritual in the season 2 finale of True Blood


STOP, explanation time!! For the ones who don't watch True Blood, it went like this:

Maryann (maenad) was tricked into believing Dionysus (the greek God of intoxication, drunkenness, and all those divine things) had come to her in the form of a bull. She gave up her immortality so that he could kill her and her soul could join him in eternity. However, it was actually Sam in the shape of a bull, who took the opportunity to gore her, pull out her heart and crush it, killing her.

went down as you were told (you mean, as we saw), you have to believe all of the following:


There are a total of 21 items, so I'll just highlight some:

7- Jason as the god with horns foreshadowing meant nothing


Foreshadowing?? *facepalm* It was a trick!! A stupid, but surprisingly well-thought-out trick. You don't seriously believe Jason could be the God with Horns, do you?

8-Bill knew Sookie could call upon her power touch at will to topple the huge heavy meat tree as a distraction ("Can you do that again?" "I don't know! I don't even know what it was I did!")


Uh... she actually couldn't use her power at will.

12-MA[Maryann]] allowed herself to be fooled by a shape-shifter she knew to be a shape-shifter, and despite the fact she'd been dealing with "two-natured" vessels for centuries


How could she know it was Sam? He isn't the only shape-shifter in the world.

14-MA[Maryann] questioned the existence of her god because she'd been fooled by a shape-shifter, and then allowed herself to be killed by the shifter instead of the god she no longer believed in because that makes sense


O_O wtf does that even mean.

16-Bulls roar like Eric (compare "bull roar" to roar Eric emits after the redneck hit him with silver)


Eric, the God Who Comes all over your face.

21-Sam has at some point imprinted upon a rare white Brahma Bull (no, the show has not mentioned him being able to use a picture of the animal-"as long as I've imprinted on it" I take to mean the actual animal)


Sam is 30-something, right? I can assume that, being a shapeshifter, he has seen plenty of animals in his life.

And then the fascinating conclusion:

That is a lot to swallow.

So you either have to believe-

1-Alan Ball and the other writers are incompetent and have no idea what they are doing. The Academy Award winning screenwriter thinks it's perfectly fine to toss around cheap red-herrings like a drunken soap opera scribe, ignore his own foreshadowing, throw continuity out the window, and make meaningless the mythology he himself laid out.


Okay, so True Blood isn't perfect research-wise, but jeez... take a chill pill.

2-Or--What we saw was the implanted false memory of an as yet unknown character or Bill's wishful fantasy making himself into the hero, which is similar to the unreliable narrator theory I postulated in relation to the bullet sucking scene.

3-OR--Alan Ball sucked out your brain and planted all his own babies in there. The viewers themselves were glamoured or put into a trance state and false memories implanted. Diabolically clever fictional device, that, and bolstered by the non-character specific shot of the wavy yellow trance-eye view of Sookie as she is led down the steps of her house to attend Maryann's wedding.


BRB, LOLING FOREVER.




So, now with the blog. Her latest post dissects season 2 episode "Hard-Hearted Hannah", which features, among other things, Bill's wild past with Lorena (his yandere maker), human Hugo (vamp Isabel's bf) pretending to help Sookie infiltrate the FOTS Church, and Daphne (Maryann's minion) showing her true self to poor Sam.


*Did you notice how well Hugo the Traitor played his part? Almost like a professional thespian. He totally fooled Sookie, going so far as to control his thoughts. If he is one of Bill’s minor alter ego’s then we can surmise this about Bill: He will betray her somehow in the future because she won’t give him what he wants.


Wishful thinking =/= canon.

*Did you notice Sookie downright simpering in that scene with Bill, Hugo, and Isabel? Bill has turned her into a brainless child.


Do you have any idea how love works?

*Steve Newlin: “Oh my God, I didn’t even think of the parallels.” Neither did we Steve but we’re gettin’ it now!


Wth does this have to do with anything.

*Daphne, another of Bill’s alter ego’s, used sex to hush Sams questioning. And did you notice how sweet and supportive she was of him until she viciously turned on him?


So now there's two alter egos. Man, I wanna know how he does it!!

*Sookie: “Yes Yes, a thousand times YES!”. Sookie is suffering from Pride and Prejudice.


wut?

And now for the crowning moment of (unintentional) comedy:

*Eric: “We want the same things, you and I.” Lorena shoots him a look. “Ok, Bill has something I want and he’s in the way”. Did you notice how he changed tactics here? It wasn’t just that he is incapable of lying, he was accomodating Lorena’s worldview and giving her a reasoning for summoning her that she could understand and relate to. He went from magnanimously including her in his plans and turned on a dime to make himself seem as cold-bloodedly ruthless as she is. I think he does that alot. Where Bill’s delusions cause him to make himself seem more noble, Eric endeavors to come off as colder and more ruthless than he is in reality. I’m beginning to think that Eric is, at his core, the person we see in his sweetest alter ego: Hoyt.


Eric is like Hoyt

Eric is like Hoyt

Hoyt

Hoyt

Hoyt

Our very own momma's boy Hoyt Foternberry.

WHAT.

So what have we learned today, kids?

1. Alan Ball mind-rapes people and puts his own twisted soul in them. Hence, we're all Alan Ball's horcruxes.

2. Hugo and Daphne don't have a mind of their own, because they're both Bill with different apperances. Hence, Sam has been in love with Bill all this time.

3. Eric is totally like Hoyt, because he still lives with his mom and is too shy to talk to girls.

4. Seriously, if you watch every episode 800 times you will see the things [info]midnight_charm sees. DUH.

5. [info]midnight_charm is actually Lysette with a different nickname.



BONUS: You also can't miss Bill fans are like rabid Bush or Ann Coulter supporters.

ETA: The crazy takes a whole new level with Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus (thanks to [info]mariem_1 for the find!)

ETA II: Hey guys, it's me again. This is from the About page of her blog:

While I adore reading and contemplating film theory and criticism I am far from a qualified expert in the field. My admittedly amateur forte is and has been for some time in the area of conspiracy research- sussing out propaganda and official lies with it’s attendant psyops and mind control techniques which are practiced on the unsuspecting population through the corporate controlled medium of television. I QUESTION EVERYTHING I am told and I diligently apply this motto to my analysis of True Blood. My rigorous intuition tells me Alan Ball is well versed in conspiracy lore and is using it to the hilt to tell the story of True Blood.

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
-Malcolm X


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Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]mariem_1
2010-04-30 08:44 am UTC (link)
Enter Eric Norhman, the tin-foil hatted force for good, though certainly not lacking in the naughty by nature. The answer to who this God of a Vampire represents can only be answered with one word, and I will not take credit for pointing this out–it was Rygee over at The Ancient Pythoness. (not for nothing she’s in my “Credits” section. Head there and click and read if you haven’t but be prepared to be ‘awe’ struck)

EricJesus, the only one who can bring down false religion/corrupt politicians/complicit traitors and restore all that is good with the world. Of course, we’re talking on a microcosmic level but it’s still a powerful allegory. Alan Ball is from Georgia so he would have absorbed since childhood a religious context to everything, and the fact that he is using relion as more than a subtext but as a literal device right inside the storyline of True Blood allows us to feel comfortable with this idea of Eric = Jesus. All super heros represent Jesus in some way: the tender hearted lover of the common man who fights for the common good against evil religious, government, commercial forces who seek to exploit and manipulate but who isn’t afraid to whip out a sword and kick some ass. Some think Godric was the Jesus rep of True Blood, but the uncertainty with God he displayed on the rooftop shows that he places himself at a far remove from such comparison’s. Godric was simply a highly evolved being, one who took advantage of his two millenia of his existence (analagous to the ‘thousand year reign of Jesus’ after the Great Revelation) to grow, learn, and improve himself.

Bill will never reach the state of enlightenment that Godric did. Not only because he is utterly corrupt and beyond redemption (a ’white washed grave’) I am hoping Alan Ball will give us all a great catharsis and kill the evil that is Bill in the end (just as he has done with all of Bill’s alter egos, Amy, Rene, and Maryann) and give us hope for the future when Sookie turns away from the darkness of ignorance and supersticion and toward the light represented by Eric, who will help her eyes to truly be opened to the choices she has to make about her life and the kind of person she wants to be and what she will or will not allow to be perpetrated against her or in her name. May the force be with you, Sookie! (talk about mixing metaphors)

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]companioncube
2010-04-30 08:54 am UTC (link)
That... is an amazing amount of crazy. She must have her own crazy factory going by now!

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]ayala_atreides
2010-04-30 11:56 pm UTC (link)
That is a lulzy icon you have there.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]frau_eva
2010-04-30 09:02 am UTC (link)
Next Essay: "Alan Ball Sends Me Messages Through the Fillings in My Teeth About My Dog Trying to Kill Me."

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]minibalrogmum
2010-04-30 09:10 am UTC (link)
That's a whole lot of crazy tl;dr for 'I want the chick to bang that hot vampire Viking!'

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]maximuski
2010-04-30 09:25 am UTC (link)
Does this mean Bill is Judas?

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]ladybirdsleeps
2010-04-30 10:21 am UTC (link)
who isn’t afraid to whip out a sword and kick some ass

I hope I'm not the only one whose brain went: NINJA JESUS.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]yattara
2010-04-30 02:35 pm UTC (link)
I just went: "When did Jesus ever use a sword? He used a whip in the temple, people!".

And then I headdesked. Who isn't Jesus in purgatory these days?

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]sistercoyote
2010-05-02 12:39 am UTC (link)
Have you seen Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter? Although I don't think he uses a sword there, either, come to think of it.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]yattara
2010-05-02 03:10 pm UTC (link)
I haven't. I did think of it, but since I didn't know His choice of weapon there, I didn't include it.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]daisymay79
2010-04-30 11:18 am UTC (link)
I'm still completely confused as to how Eric = Jesus. Godric was the one who made a sacrificial lamb out of himself. I like the idea of of Eric as a "tender hearted lover of the common man". "Eater and manipulator" of the common man maybe.
Pretty much everything Eric does is entirely self serving, so how he's any better than Bill who actually occasionally goes out of his way to help the community is totally beyond me.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]dragonsong12
2010-04-30 03:27 pm UTC (link)
"so how he's any better than Bill [...] is totally beyond me."

Because Ms. Crazypants just lurves Eric, ergo he can do no wrong, ergo he is Jesus. Bill, not being Eric, is obviously the devil incarnate.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]mariem_1
2010-04-30 03:53 pm UTC (link)
*Points at icon* Just replace Snape with Eric and James with Bill.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]daisymay79
2010-04-30 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Why can't we have awesome evil characters who are awesome because they are self-serving, albeit really cool, assholes? *sadface*
Stop woobifying Eric! He tore a bloke to bits last season because he pissed him off and then worried about getting blood in his hair. He is not the second coming.
Actually if he was there could be a wanktastic crossover with Supernatural...
Oh that would be beautiful...

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]maximuski
2010-04-30 08:08 pm UTC (link)
I think one of the reasons for their woobifying is that they have issues with vampires' amorality. I mean I've seen posts where people literally threw tantrums about Eric's personality, saying things like "Ball totally ruined his character!" and all that.

I haven't read all the books, so if book!Eric is really a more tamed version of tv!Eric, I could sort of empathize with these girls. But on the other hand... dude, tv!Eric is awesome. There's really nothing I would change about him. Let's just remember he came in a moment Twilight was at its peak, and he practically put real vampires on the map.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]stimutacs
2010-04-30 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Let's get specific, they want book!amnesia!Eric, the kind, almost cuddly version that slept with Sookie after being royally screwed over by some witches that wanted his money, blood, and status. However, book!Eric is a bit tamer than TV!Eric, but that's only because Sookie doesn't see everything he does and the books are first person narratives. Well, that and he makes an effort to be kinder in front of Sookie because of his massive boner for her.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]maximuski
2010-04-30 10:21 pm UTC (link)
they want book!amnesia!Eric, the kind, almost cuddly version that slept with Sookie after being royally screwed over by some witches that wanted his money, blood, and status.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Why would a writer do that? It seems like the cheapest way to put two characters together. So fanfiction-y.

However, book!Eric is a bit tamer than TV!Eric, but that's only because Sookie doesn't see everything he does and the books are first person narratives. Well, that and he makes an effort to be kinder in front of Sookie because of his massive boner for her.

You know, that makes A LOT of sense, and I believe you. So why do these girls think Eric is Jesus, again?

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]stimutacs
2010-04-30 10:35 pm UTC (link)
It was rather fanfiction-y, but it was so funny. Like, she spends a night or two after hiding him in her house dithering as to whether or not it's right to fuck him in that state of mind. Then she's like "Oh, fuck it!" and they have sex in the shower. Er, slightly amusing in context, rather. Oh, and that's also the book that she finds out about her fairy godmother. Seriously.

Because they're total nutbars, lol.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]dana, 2010-05-01 12:12 pm UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]stimutacs, 2010-05-02 12:37 pm UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]innocentsmith
2010-05-01 02:00 am UTC (link)
Why would a writer do that? It seems like the cheapest way to put two characters together. So fanfiction-y.

I actually loved that plotline because of its sheer insanity and fan serviciness. The books aren't meant to be especially plausible or insightful, IMHO, they're just shameless Sexy Cracky Southern Gothic Supernatural Mystery Funtimes. With an author who does not seem to be (a) insane, or (b) a wanky asshole (a sadly rare thing in popular vampire-y fiction).

Speaking for myself, I liked the amnesia plot because it broke the Sookie/Eric dynamic out of a holding pattern of "You're incredibly hot but I don't trust you so I'm not sleeping with you"/"C'mon baby, you know you're going to give in sometime" which it had been in for several books now, turned the relationship upside down, and left Eric in a place of "Wait, wtf?" which I find pretty entertaining in him.

But then, I don't think being like fanfiction is necessarily a bad thing: it all depends on what fanfiction you're like.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]maximuski, 2010-05-01 02:20 am UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]innocentsmith, 2010-05-01 02:44 am UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]seanchaigirl, 2010-05-02 02:40 am UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]librarianmouse
2010-05-01 07:46 am UTC (link)
Because of this.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]maximuski, 2010-05-01 07:53 am UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II - [info]ayezur, 2010-05-01 05:36 pm UTC
Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]maximuski
2010-04-30 08:10 pm UTC (link)
dude, that has to be iconed.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]teaqueenie
2010-04-30 02:48 pm UTC (link)
All super heros represent Jesus in some way...

The J-man totally rocked the leotard and cape. Too bad wood was his kryptonite. At least we know she hasn't read the books or the Bible.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]cmdr_zoom
2010-04-30 06:00 pm UTC (link)
For Jor-El so loved the world, He gave us His only begotten son.

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]risha
2010-04-30 08:26 pm UTC (link)
EricJesus, the only one who can bring down false religion/corrupt politicians/complicit traitors and restore all that is good with the world.

This would be the same Eric that chained Lafayette up in his basement to torture for a few days, right? Just like Jesus!

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Re: Sookie is USA and Eric is Jesus II
[info]maximuski
2010-04-30 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Sookie and Lafayette? Ingrates. The both of them. Eric basically saved Lafayette’s leg and Sookie’s life, but because he’s Eric, he’s the big bad. WTF is up with that? Just because Eric is capable of violence, doesn’t mean that he isn’t capable of good or undeserving of credit for the good deeds he does. Sure he’s manipulative and had other intentions…but good things did come out of it, and they should remember that.

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