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[li]Cordelia actually spends some time teaching them about their powers and how to use them (I don’t remember that really being done this season)[/li][/QUOTE]
That’s the main thing that bugged me. All these girls seemed to do was wander around this big house and try to kill each other. Show me some Hogwarts shit or something.
Wanna talk over-thinking? I figured it’s because that isn’t actually the Axeman. It’s just a manifestation of him for Fiona. Axeman’s soul is in another hell, doing whatever his hell is…
I am irritated they never explained the whole “Fiona has no soul” thing.
I interpreted it as not a literal ‘you have no soul’ but rather a ‘you’ve already lost your soul- you’re damned’ sort of thing.
I’m torn between this theory and the thought that eternity with an uber bitchy Fiona is a kind of hell. Either way, I thought it was possibly the best segment of the series.
" is this knotty pine?" indeed.
Also, though I know damned well who Balenciaga is, I couldn’t understand her last word either, which kind of wasted a great line.
Also also, I though Cordelia’s whole speech about the persecution of witches as an analogy of the persecution of homosexuals( at least that’s how I took it) was rather heavy handed, as much as I agree with the sentiment.
(TLDR)…
Just getting to the finale on my DVR…
For the record: I knew this season would end in a bitchfight. The trials to see who would become the new Supreme.
But I think I might have missed something…is there some disconnect between the last three episodes? I saw the board room scene, the one where the Dauphin makes her play, and Queenie’s triumph… but I’m not tying them all in together. Did my DVR miss a day?
Enough out of me… I think I’m going to enjoy this episode. Hope it all ties in.
I thought the continuity between the last few episodes was very discombobulating. I think the fact that there were so many different story lines going on, they were cutting between past, present and eternity and the fact that they didn’t seem to take much care with the order that the scenes were spliced together made for a lot of confusion in my poor addled brain.
LaLaurie used that powerful witch stuff on her, then threw her down the stairs -
Overall - I thought this season was pretty cohesive - I agree that some things seemed redundant - but they also fit thematically as they happened.
As for Cordellia - she always doubted her own powers thanks to Fiona - so she never explored them.
But LaLaurie didn’t have any powerful witch stuff. Here’s what happened:
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[li]Spaulding tells LaLaurie he will help her kill Laveau if LaLaurie will get him a special item[/li][li]LaLaurie gets the doll for Spaulding that he was wanting, so Spaulding gives her some Benedryl, saying that it’s a powerful potion[/li][li]LaLaurie adds some to Laveau’s drink, then after Laveau drinks it, LaLaurie stabs her, and Laveau laughs since obviously the Benedryl did nothing and Laveau is still immortal[/li][li]Spaulding hits Laveau in the head, and she falls down the stairs[/li][li]LaLaurie is shown torturing Laveau and cutting her into pieces [/ul][/li]
I can see that Laveau could be knocked out by being hit in the head and falling down the stairs. But I would have thought once she woke up in chains with LaLaurie cutting her up, she’d be able to use her magic and get out of there and not be cut up any further.
That’s true that Cordelia probably always had further powers and just doubted herself and didn’t know how powerful she was. And it might be good that they didn’t specify more stuff about what it means to be supreme and the powers and such since it would probably bring up further questions.
The “powerful witch stuff” was reffering to the benadryl - I laughed at that.
I assume that even a powerful witch can’t control her magic if in sufficeint pain/fear - this explains Madison as well as Laveau - otherwise - there would be no killing of witches other than by stealth.
That’s my fanwank, else Poptart could have just teleported herself off of the spike she was stuck on.
What confused me in this series was the “rules” surrounding just how corporeal the ghosts (Axeman and Jeeves) were capable of being.
And wow did they autotune Stevie, thought I was listening to a rap battle between Ronny James Dio and Wayne Newton.
Did anyone else notice that there seemed to be two different styles of cinematography depending on the episode this season? For instance, the penultimate epsiode and the first couple of episodes of the season where shot in a very dream-like fog with weird camera-angles and effects while the finale and a lot of the middle filler shows were more of a straightforward style. Maybe it’s just me, but I was really engrossed in the dream-like episodes and not-so-much in the straightforward episodes.