True Blood: "Cold Ground"

[the_grynne]

Comments

[ghostrunner7]

(more like something Adele would have worn, when she was young and secretly having sex with a fairy?)

I wish that someday by biographers would be able to say that about me.

"This is a prime example of her early period, channeling the energy evident in the beginning of her career when she was young and secretly having sex with a fairy.

[orange_crushed]

I will write you this biography. Including also the times when you rode on the back of a werewolf's motorcycle.

[ghostrunner7]

ILU!

[the_grynne]

A little spice never hurts in a literary biography. :)

[alethialia]

I don't think it's too far-fetched to look at it as something like ritualistic cannibalism - Sookie is taking into herself what little she has left of her grandmother.

...was there another way to read that scene? Have I become too twisted for the world?

mortuary cannibalism (eating the remains of deceased relatives) was part of funeral rites as a token of respect, and many other cultures believed the dead person's qualities could be absorbed by eating their flesh.

Psha. Stranger in a Strange Land, man. If I'm twisted, it happened early and it's probably Heinlein's fault.

[the_grynne]

I'm reading the reactions on the boards, and there's a lot of comparing it to "The Body", the episode of Buffy after Joyce died. A lot of people pick up on her grief and breaking down (and I would cry too, all that sugar she's eating), but the fact that she's EATING the damn thing, and all the lingering shots of the pie, seems to be awfully important, in a show about creatures that feed on the life of others.

Stranger in a Strange Land, man.

Still have to read that!

[the_grynne]

I haven't had a near relative die in more than 15 years (last was my great-grandmother when I was 6), so I can't really remember any funerals I've gone to. But I think consuming Adele's pie is so much more intense and graphic a metaphor of that intake than wearing the watch of a father who died, or inhaling the smell of a loved one's clothing. And I can't really think of any funeral rituals we do now that are anything like that. Funerals seem to be about letting go, surrendering. This has a strong (and parallel) aspect of holding on.

[orange_crushed]

That scene reminded me of my grandfather's wake, actually. The caterers were family friends who had catered our family picnics and reunions for the last ten years, give or take- and they were always terrible, at best so-so. My grandfather, however, had always believed in giving them the business. For that last dinner, maybe in honor of him, they cooked the best meal they had ever made in their lives.

My mom ate that meal, sometimes stopping to cry, constantly remarking that it was the meal her father always thought he'd be eating next year.

It just came to mind in a weird way during the pie thing.

[the_grynne]

GMTA. :)

[lunasky]

Among the Fore of New Guinea, mortuary cannibalism (eating the remains of deceased relatives) was part of funeral rites as a token of respect

Of course, that also lead to kuru and ultimatley lead to death for the people who came down with it--but I suppose that is in keeping with the vampire theme.

[the_grynne]

But that's like saying sex spread AIDS so let's universally condemn that.

Not that I'd eat my grandmother. :)

[boundaid]

I love how you got all of that from something that almost destroyed my squeamish stomach! :)

[the_grynne]

I felt a bit ill looking at that gooey pie. In Australia, "pies" have meat and vegetables in them. :)