Did Harvey just reveal Guillermo’s season 6 ending?
Critic Choice Awards, Deadline. 2024.
S6 speculation below:
…I think the best thing I can take from playing Guillermo De la Cruz is it's never too late to find yourself. It's never too late to be reborn and to reinvent yourself. And there’s no ticking time bomb expiration date to anyone of us to what our dreams and hopes can come true…Well,we start where we left off, and sometimes dreams and aspirations don't turn out the way we want them to...but I think that that's the whole point of rebirth,right? It's like a renaissance. It's happening again. And you take a new direction, new ideas, a new approach. So I'm really excited for the audience to see a new layer to Guillermo.
These are the key words from Harvey’s interview:
1. it's never too late to find yourself
2. Reborn
3. Reinvent
4. Ticking time bomb
5. Expiration date
6. Rebirth
7. Renaissance
8. Happening again
9. New layer
There’s a lot of references to reinvention and rebirth as well as time and hopes and dreams.
We know that Guillermo’s dream of being a vampire ended in season 5 when he learned that he couldn’t go through with killing humans.
There’s a stress of new ideas and directions, which sounds like Guillermo’s ending will not be any of the things he has been already: familiar, bodyguard, slayer, vampire.There’s going to be a new direction for Guillermo that he possibly hasn’t considered.
There’s a huge focus on time and rebirth, Harvey points out this message several times in the interview. He repeats and emphasizes reinvention and renaissance. Almost like being born again.
And the show has accomplished something like what Harvey has mentioned. Something that is technically not a new idea at all. And that’s energy vampires.
Energy Vampires life expectancies are a ticking time bomb. They have an expiration date. They live only for 100 years. And on that 100th birthday, they expire.
Except, they don’t expire. They give birth to a baby version of themselves and are basically born again or undergo a rebirth.
A storyline that was hinted at by not yet fully explored is the creation of the energy vampire. We know how they die and how their life cycles begin again, but we don’t know how they are made.
And I believe this is the season we find out. And Colin will help Guillermo by helping him turn.
I revisited some parts of season 5 when I considered this. Namely:
1. Guillermo’s inability to kill
2. That he didn’t want to say goodbye to his mom
3. That he said he still wanted to be a vampire
Becoming an energy vampire solves all three.
Guillermo can still see his mom without the threat of her killing him. He also doesn’t have to feed on humans in the traditional way, namely he doesn’t need to kill. And this way he will live forever, even though he will die every 100 years.
I get how this may not be what we want or expect. I, probably like you, want to see Nandor sink his teeth into Guillermo more than anything. But I don’t think they want to give us that…at least not easily.
I do have a full theory on how we get to have Nandor turn Guillermo. But I will make that into its own separate post.
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