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I don't think all vamps sleep in the nude.  Why would they if they aren't buried in the ground for some reason?

In ATD when Sookie goes to save Eric as bombs are going off, both he and Pam are in pyjamas, neither are shy about their bodies so being naked during daysleep wouldn't be an issue.  Yet they're wearing pjs.

It's just CH as far as I'm concerned using a contrivance. 

What's funny is the book nazis complaining about AB using Sookie as a device on TB to move the story along, but they don't see CH doing the same for whatever reason she wants to justify that horrendous episode.

As the saying goes….Money Talks.

There was really no reason for Bill to be naked, nor for him to just be sleeping on the dirt either. I still don't get why he was just laying on the ground like that, it's illogical for a number of reasons. It's not clean, it's not safe, and its uncharacteristically lazy of Bill. He built himself a cubby box at Sookie, couldn't he be arsed to do it at his own house? He couldn't lay down some blankets, so he's not laying in the dirt, being swarmed by god knows what kind of hellish insects grow in the LA heat and humidity? And it's just not safe. He's just laying there in the crawlspace beneath his house, it's not even a real basement. He only has one thin wall between him and daylight. Even if its brick, shit happens, does he really feel that secure? Not only that, he had no way to get out quickly, he was far away from the entrance, with no other exits mentioned. What if someone, like say some FOTS dudes, went into his house during the day, found his not at all well hidden cubby door, and crawled down there with a shitload of silver and stakes? How's Bill gonna get out, he's gotta go past the wall of silver and fanatics if he even wakes up.

And if Eric and Pam didn't even sleep naked, there's no way Bill would.

The other thing about that scene that always bothered me was that one of the assassins was named Hod. Hod is one of the seripha of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and it's meaning is both 'awe' and 'submission' (because of it's association with prayer). Hod's counterpart Netzach is Victory, while Hod is Submission. Netzach is a conquest through strength, Hod is when you are in awe of a powerful leader (and therefor he conquers you through the notion of his power alone).  Hod is also associated both with King David's question "Why do the wicked prosper?", and the punishment of the wicked (the wicked shall be punished, but there is a prelude of pleasantness).

But the point is, did she choose the name Hod on purpose, or was it just some random name, or the name of her mailguy or something? And if she did pick it on purpose, knowing its meanings, what way is she meaning it in her story? Is it Sookie being completely submissive to Bill, is it referring to this prelude of pleasantness before Bill (the wicked) is at last punished? Is she saying the only way for Sookie to recover from her ordeal with Bill is to completely submit before the obstacle of Bill? How is that supposed to help and what is she saying? And where is Netzach in all this? Netzach is the right leg, and Hod is the left, and you need both of to get where you're going, so when the hell is Sookie going to have complete victory? Does it mean ANYTHING? Hod's partner in crime was named Kelvin, which, aside from a unit of temperature measurement, means 'friend of ships' (?da fuck?) or 'narrow water'. Which doesn't really shed any light on this little mystery.

Isn't the bombing also on the heels of bill coming to Eric's room and he gave Sookie a quick look up down to see if her clothes were on correctly?

So this is also another example of Catliendes being present and not having the ability to read minds and certainly it would have helped after the explosions and now all of a sudden he can.  I know I'm not crazy.  This made no sense in DR.

JerronBarksdale said:

So this is also another example of Catliendes being present and not having the ability to read minds and certainly it would have helped after the explosions and now all of a sudden he can.  I know I'm not crazy.  This made no sense in DR.

I know some people say "Oh he was lying when he said he couldn't read minds!", but that doesn't make sense, really, since there were certain times where he really could have used his ability to save his ass and he didn't. If he was lying about anything, he was lying about being able to read minds and giving that gift to Sookie (although I do like the notion of her having a fairy godmother and a demon godfather). Or he wanted the bombings to happen or was responsible for them in some way.

Exit_Pursued_By_A_Sloth said:

JerronBarksdale said:

So this is also another example of Catliendes being present and not having the ability to read minds and certainly it would have helped after the explosions and now all of a sudden he can.  I know I'm not crazy.  This made no sense in DR.

I know some people say "Oh he was lying when he said he couldn't read minds!", but that doesn't make sense, really, since there were certain times where he really could have used his ability to save his ass and he didn't. If he was lying about anything, he was lying about being able to read minds and giving that gift to Sookie (although I do like the notion of her having a fairy godmother and a demon godfather). Or he wanted the bombings to happen or was responsible for them in some way.

Which also brings to mind the cluviel d'or.  why doesn't tell Sookie about this til now. 

Why is there all this supernatural lore floating around and no one ever tells her!  Especially Sam who has access to a database and won't let her look at it.  Their friendship should trump any supernatural allegenices he may have.  I mean who tells someone I have all this knowledge that may and probably would help you but I won't let you see it.

Copied from the bathroom thread:

Potential bomb in Sookie's Family Tree.

Niall and Rogan were brothers. Niall claimed the sky and Rogan claimed the sea.

Rogan had a son Breandon. Breandon would go to war with Niall.

Niall had at least one fairy wife, Branna, with whom he had at least one son, Dillon.

Dillon wed Binne, and they had the triplets Claudette, Claudine, and Claude (not their real names).

Niall took a human lover, Einin, who he had twin sons, Fintan and Dermot.

Fintan would take Adele Stackhouse as a lover, and have two children with her, Linda and Corbett.

Corbett is Sookie and Jason's father.

Dylan/Dillon means 'son of the wave'.  Which is odd, considering he was the Sky Prince's son, that he be named a water-based name. Claude made a point of telling Sookie the meaning of Faery names, like than Colman meant dove. But he didn't say what his father's name meant. Sookie asked Dillon himself, and he said (with a smirk) 'Lightning'. Looking around at the baby name sights, almost all have Dylan/Dillon name meaning something water-related (one, which gives a different origin than the others, has it as lightning).

Niall also didn't like Dillon too much, and wasn't happy in his marriage to his mother Branna, which sounds suspiciously similar to Breandon. A little bit of searching reveals Branna and Breandon have the same basic origin in the language, they both derive from 'Bran' or raven and are variants of Brandon (meaning 'prince'), and Branna can also mean 'Little drop of water'. I suspect Branna was Breandon's sister, and her marriage to Niall was an attempt to keep their families at peace. There was not mention of hostility between Niall and Rogan, and fairies have no problem marrying close relatives, so Rogan might have arranged a marriage between his daughter and his brother.

Dillon is described as having sharp pointy teeth (like Lochlan and Neave) and being a little creepy. And Niall made a point of telling Sookie "We like being out in the sun and sky" in front of Dillon (emphasis was his), implying maybe Dillon isn't wholly from Sky Clan. Sooo…were Claude and Claudine both water and sky faeries?

Niall did say that Sookie was his only living relative. And although she's mostly human, she's also his only descendent that has no potential water fairy in them, she's only human and sky.

So where were/are Claude and Claudine's loyalty? Claude was just left on the wrong side of the Faery Portal when Niall closed it. And in DR, he and the other fairies want to go back home, so was he really left behind voluntarily? Claudine also said Claude was with Niall 'making war' with Breandon when Sookie was in the hospital after the torture, but we never saw him later on when Niall made it to her room. And while Niall was always very kind to Sookie, he was kind of an asshole to everybody else. And even with Sookie, he had some questionable motives. I mean, he sent her a fairy gigolo as a Christmas present, enchanted the situation so they'd screw (presumably so she'll get pregnant), and then made Sookie forget about the whole thing. That's not cool, peepaw, that's not cool.