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peppermintyrose

True to Form

May 12, 2013 01:07

Well, the bits are still rifling around in my head, but I noticed something funny about Dead Ever After, so I figured that I'd post on it. Since I'm going to post on that, I figured I'd point out just how in character Eric was. Even from the early books. I figured I'd deal with the whole idea that Eric is OOC in this book - that we have all never ( Read more... )

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anonymous May 13 2013, 18:59:41 UTC

I mean, Club Dead: "I am your friend, and that will last as long as I can be your friend without jeopardizing my own life. Or the future of my area."

That pretty much demonstrates that DEA Eric is Eric-in-character, if you ask me.

I also had a thought that Pam's, "this is the hard time that will show what you're made of" might never have been about how hard it would be for Sookie and Eric to win against the QoO situation, but about the hurt Sookie would go through when they inevitably didn't.

-RachelW

This. A million times this. anonymous May 14 2013, 04:14:43 UTC

I'm going to steal this and post it on every forum everywhere, because this is the world's simplest explanation to the "Eric is OOC" and "what about Pam warning Sookie about the hard times" complaints.

THANK YOU!

Re: This. A million times this. peppermintyrose May 14 2013, 07:42:11 UTC

Oh, if only it were that simple. Odds are you'll get the response that this was Pam's call to arms for Sookie, and Sookie is a giant bitch for not getting that impossible message out of such a cryptic remark. There is positively *no* way they can't shit on Sookie. Even when she's doing the best with what she's got - it's still somehow her fault.

peppermintyrose May 14 2013, 07:40:28 UTC

I did debate putting that quote in. Frankly, there's quite a few, so it's a complete crapshoot. Anyone who thinks Eric is a selfless martyr is completely avoiding stuff he said out loud, or explaining it away. I'm sure that he'll be the victim in fanfic forever more.

I've been thinking about that pre-DEA (and pre-DEA spoilers) and I think Eric's night of "getting ready" was a bit of a lie to Mustapha to hide the fact that he'd seen Freyda that night. I doubt he'd ever actually tell Sookie, and so "getting ready" was his way to lie through omission. So I think Pam was totally right about that one - she'd witnessed the first meeting and it was an OSM for Sookie.

Thank you! anonymous May 13 2013, 19:27:44 UTC

Thank you for your blog and for not being one of the many people I've seen flipping out about how DEA was crap. I was stunned by the vitriol. I think part of it is too many people were choosing to ignore what Ms. Harris actually wrote and the other part is it helps to be familiar with her style of writing apparently. I fell in love with her as an author starting with the Lily Bard series and then promptly began to read everything she ever wrote and have never regretted it. I'm a huge Eric fan and I'd hoped there would be some crazy plot that let Sookie and Eric get past their differences to stay together but I wasn't blind to the massive fault lines either. So I thought the series ended the way it should have. Sookie grew up, she's known love, she found acceptance, etc. etc. It makes me sad to see the hateful comments about what I thought was marvelous writing all the way down the line. So much so that I actually wrote an Amazon review which I never do as well as commented on a Goodreads discussion and now I'm here because this is one ( ... )

Re: Thank you! peppermintyrose May 14 2013, 07:53:25 UTC

I love not flipping out. :D I'm pretty stunned by how nasty some people are being. I mean, they go so far as to delve into her personal life and try to discuss CH's rape and use *that* against her as to why she should do things differently. When you're openly contemplating such an experience, and using it to fucking condemn the victim? It's time to step the fuck off ( ... )

anonymous May 14 2013, 03:53:54 UTC

My gut frustration in DEA is that Eric acted TOO much in character. I had really hoped that he would manage to throw off the chains of vampire hierarchy and embrace the rare chance of happiness he could have with Sookie. But alas... I'm too much of a romantic fool! LOL ( ... )

anonymous May 14 2013, 03:57:23 UTC

Sorry - that was me!
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peppermintyrose May 14 2013, 08:09:09 UTC

peppermintyrose May 14 2013, 08:08:56 UTC

Lol. Man, I thought he would too. I figured that he'd be smart enough to see that going along with this stuff always means he'll be subject to the strictures of power, but he failed. At this point, I'm just hoping he never realises that, because to have had this and thrown it away for power is too cruel to realise later ( ... )

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