Comments by "Viktor\x27 vonthe Rhaefnhyrst, I" (@Viktor_vonthe_Rhaefnhyrst) on "The Vile Eye"
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Just rewatched Infinity Pool and noticed that after his second reincarnation, when James is shot and taken in by a Li Tolqan family, the 13 year old culturally charged with preserving his family's honor by killing his father's murder, James, spies on and smiles at him. I suspect the Li Tolqan faith is very different from Christianity and forgiveness-based religions; that they put a great deal of emphasis on revenge and the satiation of their vindictiveness. When that boy observed the double of his father's killer, his faith was rewarded as was his delight that said outsider, as promised by here-unseen religious functionaries, was now trapped in an unending cycle of deprivation, depravity, and despair as his soul was torn and degraded with every successive incarnation.
"Holy shit! It's worked! The gods have favored me and this bastard is getting what he deserves." That's basically what his face conveyed. I cannot even begin to imagine the dark hatred that it must take to wish that upon another human being but, it's present in Li Tolqans and quite possibly a source of sustenance to one or more of their deities. Hell, maybe they worship Nyarlathotep or some Lovecraftian fiend from beyond space and time whose reverence among other tribes survives in the umbral and accursed corners of earth and was once more widespread before more civilized peoples with more compassionate gods extinguished them like the cankerous-hearted cultists they are.
Little wonder we see but a fraction of their culture; the world would be forced to shun and perhaps even dismember their society were such a eldritch revelation to come to light...their Christian and Muslim neighbors in the Mediterranean would certainly not tolerate the existence of such pagan traditions.
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I enjoy your analyses but damn, the fact that you can't comprehend the traditional enormity of the Pharaoh's role in Egyptian society (ergo, the manifestation of divinity on earth) that'd make such a flagrant regicide and deicide so cruelty-worthy; that you'd pedestalize the breeding impulse masked by a romantic conception of love that's only existed since the middle ages as an inherent "good" and condemn any restriction thereon as "evil"; and that you'd put the majority of the responsibility on Imhotep for continuing a love-affair CONTRARY to the customs of the time and IN CONTRADICTION WITH your own apparent enthrallment to modernist, liberal egalitarianism INSTEAD OF admitting an equal responsibility shared by Anck-su-namun ('cause women are agents, not objects, and she could've put an end to their relationship at ANY time) tells me a lot about your character and presentist outlook.
The Pharaoh's a controlling d'ck, what his successors did to Imhotep was unfair, love is the most important thing ever, and it's all the dude's fault even though it takes two to tango. Anubis' ass, man; what short-sighted, biased take...
I thank you for taking the time to examine this antagonist and his story but, holy sh't do you have some historical myopia and pervasive, mind-consuming sociopolitics... 😦
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I can see the appeal but, I'm preferential to India Eisley; she's got that neotenous overflow from her youth in her childish cheeks and Burtonian eyes but, the simultaneous sharp jaw angle, defined nose and orbits, and overall behavior lend a certain dark and elf-like mischief that sort of puts you on edge. Whereas Mia Goth embodies "psycho imbred", Eisley captures "sinister child mentally beyond her years". I recommend The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, Adolescence, Look Away and, if you want to see her real debut, Underworld: Awakening though, the lattermost is more B-movie guilty pleasure than anything else if you enjoyed the prior entries in that series.
[EDIT] Nevermind The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, I recommended it without having seen it and, other than a few scenes, it's a god-awful film written by an idiot intent on throwing in a bunch of occult ideas without making anything of them. I wasted two hours of my life.
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