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On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

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Children who have been severely abused can often develop a stutter. I have seen this in my own family. This show is telling us exactly what this is right from the very start. The framing and the reveal make this clear Lestat/Gabi is meant to juxtapose Louis/Lestat. And more clearly, how bad Gabi clearly is for Lestat. And I have to assume the show will be juxtaposing this with how good Louis actually is for Lestat later on in the season...

Hi anon, I don’t know your intention but I really think you should kinda mind your tone? I’m going to try and breakdown my reply to answer all your points but in a friendly/civil way 'kay :)

We all have our different thoughts. I think it's very very clear Helen was trying to look like Raglan. Why? I don’t know for certain. I’ve seen the entire season and that scene is literally so randomly put in and never addressed. Plus, she looks uncannily like him when she does that!

I’ll summarize from this post but she makes her glasses look like his by pushing the lenses out, she smooths her hair to look more masculine, her features are hardened and made to look angular when hers are more rounded and soft and she has a warmer look. In that scene I think she looks harsher. Unlike herself. She looks very different.

(pics from the same ep) Not to be pedantic but Raglan doesn’t have a cameo, it's a guest role. He is in a huge chunk of the episode and one of the main parts of it. So it isn’t “someone who is having a cameo” plus Raglan has an entire book about what he does and Rolin has said that they are building to TOTBT so I think it makes sense we see hints of it? Not to mention we already have from IWTV S2E06. 

Raglan does have a reason to swap with Helen or anyone high up in the order. He lays out his intentions in IWTV s2. He wants to run the order. I think we’re getting a more expanded view on him from the books and that’s great, I love that!

Did we see her wear that disguise outside of that scene? No. Not in the past or future episodes. Reminder: I have seen the full season, I know :) Anyway…She could have worn a better disguise, we legit see a brown wig on a stand next to her in the mirror so if she was trying to disguise herself why wouldn’t she just put that on? Why destroy her glasses, smooth her hair down? You get the gist. She would have been more unnoticed if she wore the wig but she didn’t. She didn’t wear any disguise so that point doesn’t make sense to me. 

Nonnie, how can she be trying to see her sister? If they’re identical twins (and I think the show was trying to say they are) then she wouldn’t need to alter her appearance. Her and her sister would look identical provided they had no cosmetic surgeries. They were split up when they were children, when they had long dark brown hair and no glasses so why would putting on glasses, smoothing her grey hair down be her trying to see her sister and wondering about her appearance? She’s her twin, she knows what she will look like. Also: the dark brown wig is right there!

If she wanted to do that, wouldn’t she put someone on that would make her look like the last time she saw her sister? 

It could be a red herring. I’m fine if it is. Its just fun the theorise. 

Also its not “silly” to think anything. Its a theory, chill out. Enjoy the season. Next ep is my fave.

if you wanna know helen's real name, its under the cut. there's a tiny detail about her twin too thats won't give anything away.

Do we think Helen has been body swapped with Raglan James?

My points:

she takes glasses that looks like his, pops the frames out so they match his glasses. This is VERY purposeful and his glasses have a distinct look, the way she's looking at them before she pops out the lenses is quite interesting , looks contemplative to me.

has similar hair colour but smooths it down to (in my opinion) make it look masculine,

she's wearing neutral clothes in a very similar colour scheme to what he wears in talamasca (grey),

the mannerism are not what we've from her or what we will see in future episodes. We see her with a harsher expression when normally her facial features are quite soft while Ragaln's is quite angular and sharp and it looks like that's what she's trying to do her, even with pursing of her lips. It looks like she's trying to sharpen her features, make them more angular. More like Raglan.

She looks like she's examining her face. Even when she takes off the glasses, her face is down, she's trying out the new disguise. Her expression still remains quite harsh.

THE MIRROR, there's two reflections that we can see but its a three mirror vanity. It reminded me of Mulholland Drive the mirror scene. It's a scene about identity and memories, it is reflecting the split personality of Naomi Watt's character, and it looks visually similar and I hope they took inspo.

The mirror in Talamasca is a three mirror, there's a disguise (wig) blocking one of the three sections. Could be reflective (see what I did there?) about Helen's identity taken over and a new person (Raglan) has control.

You can't deny that Helen looks SO MUCH like Ragaln here, its so purposeful.

I think Helen has body swapped with Raglan.

Note: I've seen the entire season, there is a Helen reveal coming but its NOTHING to do with Raglan but its interesting that his episode is the next one and she is making herself look like him. She's obviously high up in Talamasca and lets remember this line from IWTV S2:

It's the mannerisms "Raglan" exudes as well as some little hints, like the heartbeat and such.

Are we doing guessing-ping-pong with @romaroy now? 😅