Saint James Infirmary 330: Memory Hole, 2

[Daphne]

Thursday, September 18th.

[jmundt29]

Interesting.  Splash at the end of the sequence, however long it is?  (Although, the art to open this sequence was gorgeous in its own right).

[GodWilling]

How many holes can she have?

[mns_95125]

I see what you did there.

[GodWilling]

I'm prepared to accept that it didn't merit a "Phrasing!"

[laguna85]

Block one ok Block two next
Block Three watch?

[mns_95125]

I'm prepared to accept that it didn't merit a "Phrasing!"

Oh, are we still doing "Phrasing!"?

[GodWilling]

Well to be fair, I never was...

[jmundt29]

And on the subject of the actual ep...

What.  The.  HELL???

 

Raven does have an absolutely gorgeous rear, and we haven't seen it in quite awhile.  So, on that score--Excellent.  As far as what this actually means?  Um, I confess I'm even more lost than usual.

Is Raven a practitioner?  Is Lenore's family originally from New York?  Is this just a dreamscape construct?

Obviously, the art is fantastic.  Kudos PK and Octavia.

ETA--Augh!!  *slams head against treetrunk*.  Octavia does blue-for-black highlights recently with most of the black-haired women in these eps (and I just wasn't paying attention).  She did blue-for-black in Pearl's hair the previous ep and blue-for-black in Jacqui's the ep before that.  In "current" depictions of Pearl, she has purple-for-black highlights which...huh?  But that's another subject.  I assume the purple in Raven's hair isn't for contrast but part of her fashion sense as Raven instead of Lenore.

And hence, the second entry in this series makes a lot more sense.

[GodWilling]

I can't help feeling it's counterproductive to keep praising the art while simultaneously misidentifying the characters.

[Werdna]

Jmundt- I'm pretty sure this is still Miriam, a direct continuation from Tuesday's.  Erin is showing Miriam what really happened, not what she remembers.

I'm guessing that this will result in some thawing between Jacqui and her daughter.

[Haight]

Thawing means hot, right? I'm *hoping* that this will result in some hotness between Jacqui and her daughter.

[jmundt29]

Apologies.  There's a strip of purple in her hair, and while there is a little coloration in Pearl's hair, um I never remember it being that prominent.

And see edit above.

But another interesting question--her fake memory was taking place in New York?  or this is just Erin providing a portal in space-time from Past Kearsage Memories that never happened to Past New York Memories that did happen.

Last, and this might actually be of some use.  While the combination of Erin's eyes and the set of her face and mouth give the impression of alarm at the end of 325, the dilation of her eyes is very similar to Pearl's.  Is it possible that this is just her reaction to passing into dreamstate?  Or did she see both the fake stuff and the actual memories and it alarmed her, and now she's leading Pearl and her fantastic rump (which we have see MUCH more recently, but it's still a very nice view) to the truth.

And another question brought on by my recent debacle in observation.

Looking back, I notice that recently our attention has been called to the fact that Claudia has dark-red highlights in her black hair.  Could Dani's targeting of her have been part of a mistake by Jakob?

[GodWilling]

Thawing means hot, right? I'm *hoping* that this will result in some hotness between Jacqui and her daughter.

Perhaps a little freeze-thaw action would see some cracks opening up.

Looking back, I notice that recently our attention has been called to the fact that Claudia has dark-red highlights in her black hair.  Could Dani's targeting of her have been part of a mistake by Jakob?

It's been remarked upon a few times that dark-haired Claudia wears a collar and has purple(/violet) eyes - much like Raven. So if we're mistaking Miriam for Raven then a Miriam/Claudia mix-up looks possible. But as I see it Claudia led to Echo, and thereby led to Adrian's break-up - and I suspect that that was the aim. And after all, when Dani inducted Claudia, someone else was there to take the polaroids.

But the shift to New York here does perhaps suggest a shift to Jakob.

It would be interesting to know what Miriam's actual recollection of the events with Q and Annie was up to this point. (Annie still looks a lot like Katie when rendered by PK/OM, btw.) The implication of the previous page was that Q used Pink Clouds on her to make her think that she'd flirted with him and that they had sex and she never saw Annie. So what has she been believing happened all these years? That she had sex with Q? Would it have been wise to make her think that, rather than just to make her forget having seen Q and Annie? I mean, unless Annie is someone really important, how is it better for Q to have Pearl believing that she had sex with him? The whole scene really makes no sense to me. So is the whole thing an implanted memory?

[jmundt29]

Actually, I was thinking something more drastic.  If you remember way back in the beginning of the strip, Erin had very dark tips and dark red hair.  I was wondering if Dani had been pushed by Jakob toward someone with Dark hair and red highlights and landed on Claudia instead of Erin.

Although

A. Claudia's supposed to be significantly taller than Erin,
B. We have no evidence Erin's ever been to NYC, and
C. If this were the case, what did Jakob think when Dani brought Claudia home.

"Oops!  Oh well, WTF.  She's hot anyway.  Why not have some fun?"

Although, given what little we know about Jakob, that does sound like something he'd do if his plans brought in the wrong hot girl.

However, if targeting Claudia was a mistake, that could mean that reeling in Echo was a dumb freaky accident caused by an incompetent power-drunk oligarch.  Wouldn't that make Adrian's arrival at Wilmot at least 40% accidental (if we believe he hasn't deliberately omitted something from his story)?  Unlikely.