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[the_grynne]

Watch the teaser trailer for HBO's drama pilot Luck, from writer/creator David Milch (Deadwood) and director Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat).

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender will star in Steve McQueen's (Shame, Hunger) next film, 12 Years a Slave, based on the true story of Solomon Northrup, a free black man kidnapped in Washington in 1841

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I realize that vampires get stronger as they live longer and longer...but wouldn't madness be a liability? (or is the madness a product of her living so long?)

wonder if, in-show or out-of-show, anyone will interpret Salome's character as proof of Jesus. and John, as you say.

a double agent? given how many other groups we've seen, which of those (or of a group we're going to be introduced to later) is Nora working with/for ?

[the_grynne]

is the madness a product of her living so long?

That's something consistent with a lot of modern vampire mythologies. I think sanity (staying connected and empathetic and emotionally balanced) just gets harder and harder the more powerful and older and the more isolated they become. It would be unusual if someone 2000+ years were completely "sane" as we understand it.

Godric has already confirmed that Jesus as a person existed, but I doubt that the monotheist exists in this universe.

a double agent? given how many other groups we've seen, which of those (or of a group we're going to be introduced to later) is Nora working with/for ?

It's presumably a group that opposes the Authority. The part in the casting call that says she values her goals higher than her love for Eric makes me think that Eric doesn't exactly belong to that group.

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> I think sanity (staying connected and empathetic and emotionally balanced) just gets harder and harder the more powerful and older and the more isolated they become. It would be unusual if someone 2000+ years were completely "sane" as we understand it.
Well, I kinda figured that, even if the constant "all my mortal friends die" got overbearing, Salome's vampiric friends would still be around.

(I came from the Highlander fandom, where most of the insane Immortals were those who don't interact with their fellow Immortals)

>It's presumably a group that opposes the Authority. The part in the casting call that says she values her goals higher than her love for Eric makes me think that Eric doesn't exactly belong to that group.
or if he does belong to it, then if she has to chose between them, she would go against Eric rather than go against the Authority.

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Well, the fact that they describe her as a double agent "within the Authority" rather than a double agent "for the Authority" does imply that her loyalities are not to the Authority.

Edit for muddled expression:
I guess a situation could come up where, if it comes to a decision between saving Eric's life but exposing herself as a double agent in the process (and therefore jeopardizing her real mission in infiltrating the Authority) and letting Eric die, she could go for the latter.

[rodlox]

ah.
the "within the" and "for the" tend to confuse me, particularly when combined with either double agents or triple agents. (at one point in reading Agent Zigzag, by the author of Operation Mincemeat, I had to stop who he's a double/triple agent for)

that's a good example you've given.