Saint James Infirmary 233: All My Sins Remembered.

[Daphne]

Friday, October 18th!

[Werdna]

And now Hamlet.  Hmmmm.  Too many theories, not enough to go on.  As if that's new.  Given the continuing Shakespeare quotes, I'll go out on a limb and guess that the figure in the shadows is someone - or something - from Erin's past.

[laguna85]

Please look at top of page and see SJI episode 232 All My Sins Remembered

Is it Episode 233 ?

[Haight]

Is that Rain?

[Werdna]

I think Rain is supposed to be with Adrian right now.  Also, we've been given zero indication that Erin would react that way to seeing Rain walk towards her.  Also, the hair doesn't seem like Rain's.

[GodWilling]

Yeah, but do you think it's Rain...?


The pop-up quote is to do with gifts you've received from someone being devalued when you realize you don't like that person much. Or something like that.

Perhaps this is the person Erin owes her magical abilities to. Erin doesn't seem pleased to see her at any rate.

If we've seen her before at all then the only candidate I could put forward would be the buxom wench from g2. But the hair's all wrong.

Erin's mother? Grandmother? If this is the mysterious figure from 232 then we already know what big eyes she's got.

Anyway, here we go 2-3-4...

[Haight]

Isn't it kind of implied that Erin's the sole survivor of some horrible magical accident, possibly involving that satyr thing we saw in the other guest page?  If this is the blond from g2, then of course Erin would be surprised to see her... but we don't know enough details to tell.

[GodWilling]

More thinking aloud, but vaguely in response to that:-

My rough assumption has been that g10 is the result of "that Dianic thing on Wednesday" mentioned in g2. Certainly what's left of Erin's attire in g10 is more consistent with her Wiccan garb in 198 than with her clothes in g2. So the exact implications of "sole survivor" are hard to assess, as we don't know who else was there.

g10 could show Erin fleeing the scene and leaving another trapped woman to her fate. Or it could show someone else fleeing the scene and leaving Erin trapped. Or it could show Erin fleeing but becoming trapped.

The title may suggest that Erin has a guilty secret. But then the full quote really means remember me in your prayers - i.e. pray for me.

It seems that maybe Erin gave up on the Wicca thing following g10. But she returned from her rehearsal on Friday night in the mood for a quick kiss with Réka and with a sudden urge to don her pentacle. And the very next day she's called upon to save Dani's life and to produce a blood monster (that's the correct name; there's no need for anyone to check that). In SJI it doesn't seem right to assume that people are acting of their own volition. It feels to me like Erin is under an influence that isn't Rain and isn't the watch.

[jmundt29]

And that third influence is somehow tied to Pink Ponytail or Angry Goth Man?  I think her comfort wearing the pentacle, might indicate a level of contentment and spiritual healing that has allowed her to release some of her anger and embrace the entirety of herself and her gifts again.

There are multiple ways to read the Mauling in Missouri.  My take was always that Erin's friends did something (particularly the smirker) that set the beast after her on her way home, and she barely escaped.  That it was not only the physical trauma, panic and stress from fleeing from the...whatever it was...but the emotional trauma of being betrayed by one or more of the people in her close circle of friends just before she left for college that caused her to build those defensive walls of rage and cynicism that the harem experience has begun to break down.

[GodWilling]

My suspicion has been that the third influence is coming from within the theatre group. Daphne has indicated that this ties in with her own interests - and maybe that's the only reason we're being introduced to these people. Or maybe not. I don't know.

I simply can't see a massive difference between the Erin in g2 and the Erin we first met. Or the Erin in g3 comforting Dani after her nightmare. She's defensive with people she doesn't know, and we first met her the first time she met Adrian. I can see that the watch could perhaps have given her the confidence to pursue her interest in Raven. And maybe that had something to do with the kiss with Réka, whom we know little about. And maybe the pentacle has some kind of association with that side of her sexuality. But I don't know.

I assume Pink Ponytail is a face from her past. Maybe Erin has her own Rain. Maybe she's about to be warned about the consequences of her actions.

[jmundt29]

The Erin we first meet has turned belligerence and snark into a defense mechanism.  She also drinks to the edge of consciousness to prevent connecting with people (even her roommates).  It's almost like she's learning how to build a Jacqui blackwall of intimidation (though hers has more snark than punches).  Adrian begins to win her trust by degrees, it's unclear what would have happened if the Watch hadn't intervened.

My point about this is that the current Erin is a lot more like g2 Erin (but more experienced and confident, and secure).  She uses snark, but it's an endearment.  She has fun, enjoys flirtation and connection.  g2 Erin had a circle of friends she thought she trusted, but something about the Attack of the Thing traced back to those friends, so she feels not only traumatized but betrayed.  Just my read on it, and of course, I'm mostly likely a minimum of 90% wrong.

[GodWilling]

All I'd offer up to counter that is that we're seeing Erin amongst a bunch of friends here in the theatre group and we have no evidence that anyone has noticed a change in her character. And I got the impression that they were all drinking to excess in the earliest episodes.

I don't disagree with the general idea that Erin is happier. Her issues with trust have been lifted from her. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that her freedom to be jealous regarding Adrian and other women has been forcibly removed from her. How positive a spin you want to place on that is up to you. But there's no reason to think she's a significantly better judge of character now than she was in g2.

[jmundt29]

I'm not claiming she's a better judge of character, I'm just claiming that this circle should be more secure (as far as relationships go).  With the theatre group, I suppose we'll both have to wait for more information.

[jmundt29]

My search for Sawyer (I completely forgot where we last saw him, led me to Cait's adventure at his club and the immediate aftermath).  I noticed a delicious detail in this episode for the very first time.  Erin is wearing what I assume is a T-Shirt reading "The Earl's Women."  Is that the name of the Theater group at Wilmot?  Since presumably they HAD a drama or theater department before the college went co-ed?  Also, given that we have some background hints that Cavanaughs are the distant heirs of the Earl whose legacy founded the school, this could have a very interesting double meaning.

[GodWilling]

Shakespeare belonged to a company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, and subsequently The King's Men. I assume it's an appropriation of that, possibly for comedic effect.