Carnivale: Ingram, TX
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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.
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Date: 2005-01-24 05:05 am (UTC)I keep wavering betwen Lodz and Appollonia being the one messing with Sofie. I'm back to Appollonia.
The card that was face up last week -- Nine of Swords -- not a happy card.
When Ben was being beaten all I could think of was The Hanged Man. It was hard to tell if he was actually hanging from a tree, though. They didn't show it, but I guess we're meant to assume it. And then when they buried him I was thinking descent into the underworld.
(And as I'm sure you know -- the hanged man is a card of transformation and acceptance of power. Not a bad card, though it sounds like one. And related to Norse mythology.)
Stumpy -- the only thing I can thinkof is did he lose a bet? Wasn't he listening to a baseball game recently?
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Date: 2005-01-24 05:07 am (UTC)Yeah, the Nine of Swords is one of the very worst you can draw.
The Hanged Man isn't what I was thinking of, though that's a good point - I was thinking of Jesus and the 39 lashes. And Hanged Man also means balance...
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Date: 2005-01-24 05:08 am (UTC)in Tarot lore, if you burn them, you release their spirits into the living world.
Interesting. You'd think Sophie would know this, yet she's the one who said to burn them.
This has to be leading somewhere, and anything that's leading somewhere on this show? Is leading somewhere BAD.
lol, that pretty much sums it up.
Monkey!
(btw, I just stumbled in here, hope you don't mind)
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Date: 2005-01-24 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-24 05:16 am (UTC)Indeed. In*deed*.
Hee! This show is great.
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Date: 2005-01-24 01:24 pm (UTC)That he brought Norman back at all is just..creepy. And why? Why risk having the one guy who knows right there. Keep your enemies close, I suppose...but at the same time he's already been discredited and it's not like the church wouldn't take care of him. Which leads me to think that either Justin needs Norman for something else (and as you say, leading somewhere means BAD), or Justin just wants an aware, but completely helpless audience because it amuses him. Or both. Neither prospect is helping me sleep nights, y'know?
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.
There would be a lovely kind of symmetry to this that fits in with the show. Brother and sister...brother and sister. But..but...what on earth was that radio broadcast for in Sophie's trailer. Specifically, the bit that whatever force turned the knob wanted her to hear in her sleep about the sheep's greatest honor being to sacrifice himself for the shepard...delivered by Justin. Since he's all about the subliminal, does this mean Justin is trying to manipulate Sophie...or that someone else is warning her?
Argh! Monkey!
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Date: 2005-01-24 04:03 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure that Stumpy is in debt due to his gambling. I wonder if this will ultimately link back to Jonesy's run-in with the Mob back during his pro-ball days.