oh, I am SO here for goddess-worshipping vampires.

[pocochina]

I didn’t really put my finger on an overarching theme of S4, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. The possession motif occurred frequently enough that it felt like it held the season together for me. Nelson Ellis played what, three characters this season? And they were all great. He and Tatiana Maslany should hang out and talk about being awesome

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[angearia]

I find Eric fascinating exactly for the way he walks the line of respect/abuse. I think it all comes back to his mostly not viewing others as ~real~ people. That's his default. But once they demonstrate themselves to be autonomous, he becomes very respectful of their boundaries and their rights

[pocochina]

As if he requires evidence of that a person is self-aware and what's more, brave enough to voice their right to autonomy to him, stoic-faced, violent 1000 year old Viking vampire. He walks this line between chivalry with a very select few and total cold-blooded and purposeful brutality.

Yeah, exactly. His morality isn't really about morality, in the sense that I think of it: morality, to me, is about prevention of the strong preying on the weak, while Eric's code of behavior prioritizes codifying and consolidating the privileges of the strong. The fact that he's so capable of behaving well actually makes him more reprehensible to me than the Pam-type vampires who don't give a shit, but it is very interesting to me.

Hurry and catch-up! ;-)

I'M SO CLOSE.