Carnivale: Ingram, TX
Jan. 23rd, 2005 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehI see dead people. This was established last week with Ruthie's ex-beau, but now we've got Lodz back in the picture, and that's going to be verrrry interesting. If Ruthie protests that she saw Lodz, and Lilah believes her, and Ben and Samson know she couldn't have, it will make for some rather frustrating and tense moments. Also, Ruthie's snakes bit one another and died - she says they were skittish - and the replacement snaked tried to kill her... I get the feeling that this is the natural world trying to make dead what is meant to be dead. Will Lodz be leading Ruthie to clues to his murder? We shall see.
The burning of the Tarot cards. First of all, *bad idea*. I don't know if they're going to use this, but in Tarot lore, if you burn them, you release their spirits into the living world. Second of all - the card with the tree-man on it, Le Passeur, doesn't exist in the Major Arcana of Tarot (just fyi for those of you who wouldn't know). Le Passeur is litereally "the ferryman", but figuratively it is Charon, the ferryman over the river Styx to the land of the dead. NOW we're getting interesting, huh? So is the tree-man the bridge between life and death? Or is Le Passeur actually referring to "the Usher"? If Henry Scudder was the Usher before, then he was the tree-man in Sofie's rape vision, and therefore she and Ben are half-siblings. This was an early theory that I'd forgotten about, but now it seems to be coming back on itself. And the cards came *back*. Was this Apollonia's doing? Lodz? Something else?
Stumpy, Stumpy, Stumpy. This has to be leading somewhere, and anything that's leading somewhere on this show? Is leading somewhere BAD. This explains why he was stealing from the carnival kitty last week. And hey, Rita Sue has an STD! I was wondering when that was going to come into play. Jonesy was washing Libby's feet... yeah, *that's* not symbolic or anything. Again - leading somewhere (read: bad).
Me and my shadow. The recurring theme of the shadow - Sofie has Apollonia, and Justin has sent Stroud - or "Michael", as he signed his telegram (Archangel, get it?) to shadow Scudder. And *speaking* of Justin - sketches eyeballs removed from bodies? Rather reminiscent of Ben's vision from last week, with Justin saying Ave at the feet of the Eyeless Virgin, and tying nicely into the human eye chart Ben found at the Crone / Krohn place.
Also - getting a hummer in front of Norman? That wacky Brother Justin. He's just a tilt-a-whirl of fun.
Hawkins. BEN Hawkins. Ben appears to be embracing his powers a bit more - he was able to evoke deep shame and regret in the old man with the slow daughter on the road, without a single word. (And wow, that actor had such an evocative face.) But he still got trounced by the people at the Crone / Krohn place in Ingram, which mostly made me wish it were next Sunday already. Baby mannequins with spikes in their heads? packages full of pieces of something that was once alive? Is this woman related to him? Is she perhaps his real mother, and Henry Scudder shipped him off to live in Milfay for reasons unknown? And hey, by the way, *who did Ben kill to end up on a chain gang, and why?* We still don't know this, or what it has to do with the storyline.
And, finally -
OMGWTFMONKEY. The heading speaks for itself.
The burning of the Tarot cards. First of all, *bad idea*. I don't know if they're going to use this, but in Tarot lore, if you burn them, you release their spirits into the living world. Second of all - the card with the tree-man on it, Le Passeur, doesn't exist in the Major Arcana of Tarot (just fyi for those of you who wouldn't know). Le Passeur is litereally "the ferryman", but figuratively it is Charon, the ferryman over the river Styx to the land of the dead. NOW we're getting interesting, huh? So is the tree-man the bridge between life and death? Or is Le Passeur actually referring to "the Usher"? If Henry Scudder was the Usher before, then he was the tree-man in Sofie's rape vision, and therefore she and Ben are half-siblings. This was an early theory that I'd forgotten about, but now it seems to be coming back on itself. And the cards came *back*. Was this Apollonia's doing? Lodz? Something else?
Stumpy, Stumpy, Stumpy. This has to be leading somewhere, and anything that's leading somewhere on this show? Is leading somewhere BAD. This explains why he was stealing from the carnival kitty last week. And hey, Rita Sue has an STD! I was wondering when that was going to come into play. Jonesy was washing Libby's feet... yeah, *that's* not symbolic or anything. Again - leading somewhere (read: bad).
Me and my shadow. The recurring theme of the shadow - Sofie has Apollonia, and Justin has sent Stroud - or "Michael", as he signed his telegram (Archangel, get it?) to shadow Scudder. And *speaking* of Justin - sketches eyeballs removed from bodies? Rather reminiscent of Ben's vision from last week, with Justin saying Ave at the feet of the Eyeless Virgin, and tying nicely into the human eye chart Ben found at the Crone / Krohn place.
Also - getting a hummer in front of Norman? That wacky Brother Justin. He's just a tilt-a-whirl of fun.
Hawkins. BEN Hawkins. Ben appears to be embracing his powers a bit more - he was able to evoke deep shame and regret in the old man with the slow daughter on the road, without a single word. (And wow, that actor had such an evocative face.) But he still got trounced by the people at the Crone / Krohn place in Ingram, which mostly made me wish it were next Sunday already. Baby mannequins with spikes in their heads? packages full of pieces of something that was once alive? Is this woman related to him? Is she perhaps his real mother, and Henry Scudder shipped him off to live in Milfay for reasons unknown? And hey, by the way, *who did Ben kill to end up on a chain gang, and why?* We still don't know this, or what it has to do with the storyline.
And, finally -
OMGWTFMONKEY. The heading speaks for itself.
