hsm7:
Sookie’s face, nothing to say.
Her face speaks volumes. When looking at Bill, there’s a weight to her expression. She’s pensive…totally in her head. When she looks at Eric, there’s a lightness to her face. It’s open and caring, with a little bit of hope tossed in….a reflection of her heart.
The look on the men’s faces are of note, too. Bill has a darker, brooding expression, while Eric has a distant, yet sad look to him.
I think when Eric was kneeling waiting for Bill to shoot him, he was aware of what Sookie felt for Eric. She eyed Eric tragically, while crying, seemingly devastated at the prospect of him dying. Notably, we see Bill turn to look at Sookie at this moment. I think he knows just how much she loves Eric and we see that expression on his face, with this look in the aftermath of MGE a continuation of that realization.
Couldn’t have said it better.
I find the men’s expressions telling, too. Bill has is patented bitchface on. Like someone owes him money or something. And Eric’s eyes are questioning, hopeful. :)
I split them up to make it look clearer for the discussion’s sake:
Ew. This does not look very loving, or even happy. They almost look hostile towards each other. hsm7 picked the perfect word for Sookie: “pensive”. What is she thinking so hard about though? Remains to be seen. Bill looks straight up like a little brat being dragged out of a candy shop.
HUGE difference in Sookie’s whole demeanor. Her head is up higher, her eyebrows raised, her whole face is more responsive. You can tell she’s standing up straighter too. Eric looks like he physically can’t take his eyes off Sookie. There’s sadness and seriousness, yes. But there’s also curiosity, and you can almost see that spark in his eye. Nowhere near accusatory, unlike Bill.
Another scene in which Bill and Eric are juxtaposed, and Bill just isn’t “up to snuff” :)
They, all of them, have been through something tremendous together just now. Less than have an hour before the men offered to lay down their lives for hers. There are all sorts of speculations I won’t go into about whether they had a plan, or would have gone through with it, or whatever. But I don’t doubt at least one thing: Eric would have. He already sacrificed himself once (if not more) for Sookie. She knows that, she has said so herself.
With Bill there’s always doubt. If he has proven anything it’s that his most altruistic acts could be a lie and hiding an agenda. Now that the immediate danger is over, it’s something to ponder.
But I don’t think it’s what she is doing at the moment. In this instance, I think, if Sookie is pondering anything, it’s her own feelings for these two men. It’s how much she can trust those feelings, and how much of them is the blood talking. And her face kind of says it clearly how she instinctively feels in regards to both.
It’s Bill’s bitch face that’s a bit of a mystery. Like, what is he so pissed about? They got Marnie, Sookie didn’t die, they didn’t die, and he’d just recently filled Sookie up with a fresh “tank” of his blood. You’d think the guy would be jumping with joy and anticipation. Instead, he really does look like a 6-year-old brat being denied toys. :)
If I didn’t think Bill had a secret plan in motion outside of Moon Goddess before, I sure do now.
Just throwing another idea out there: It’s no secret Bill doesn’t like Eric, and if some other theories are right, he’s been gunning at Eric for over a year now. If the little suicide pact had gone down, how would normal bullets have killed him and Eric? Was Bill maybe a little to conveniently prepared with some wooden bullets, wooden bullets that Pam wouldn’t have (so Pam couldn’t kill him)? That would have to mean that Bill saw this coming…
I’m not going to go any deeper into that, I’m just going to say thank Godric Pam intervened the way she did!!
I’m pretty convinced there’s something we do not know about that scene. It just doesn’t make much sense without another layer. Bill is thinking: “Curses! Foiled again!” or something like it, and Eric is thinking “Can she love me?”
I agree with SH — Sookie is thinking about her own feelings, and they are written all over her face.
The things i miss when i sleep.
Damn!
This just confirms that I suck at interpreting people’s faces. I could tell that Sookie gave different looks to Bill and Eric, but I couldn’t really understand them. She’s clearly thinking, but the emotion was hard to read for me. I think Sookie is always giving a mixed facial expression when it comes to Bill—just like in the sex scenes, it’s always a mixture of pleasure and pain. Here it seems like she’s trying to reassure Bill, but having to do so pains her. With Eric, it’s like she’s trying not to become emotional, but she can’t quite hide the wonder and hope and sadness that she feels. Bill is giving his drama queen/I’m a tragic victim of circumstances look, while Eric looks open and hopeful. That’s the best I could do.
That’s not a bad interpretation. :)
Sookie usually looks conflicted with Bill, because she is conflicted about him. A lot of her feelings for him are manipulated by his blood, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t feel them as if they were real. And knowing what she knows, yet feeling what she feels, it’s hardly a wonder she can’t figure it out once and for all. It will take time. With Eric, there’s no such conflict. She knows exactly how she feels, and she admits that she felt that way for a long time. But she also cannot simply go with it, because of all the rest of the inner conflict. It’s a tough emotional place for her, and it’s clear, looking at this, that the seeds of that need to walk away from both and figure out what it is that she truly wants were forming right here.
