#barkskins show

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and thats that on THAT

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I think it is very *chefs kiss* sexy of Barkskins to have a mysterious, new world witchy/supernatural undertone

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On Hamish Goames as the Loup-garou

I made a post before wondering if anybody else thought back to Trepagny warning Sel and Duquet about the louo-garou (werewolf) in the woods when they were watching the scene of Hamish murdering Cross, specifically when he’s just screaming in the woods at night.

Something about it just SCREAMS ‘werewolf’: it’s dark, he’s alone amongst the trees, splattered in blood, and the sound is cut so it’s just eerie music over the screaming, distorted face of an extremely upset man.

In a way, I think Hamish’s whole arc kind of mirrors sort of a dark transformation, very werewolf-esque. In the beginning, Hamish is defined by his intelligence. He’s smart and organized, with a neat black and white outfit. As he slowly gets more tied up in the company’s darker side, he is forced to do things he clearly doesn’t agree with, and on a more personal side he is forced to confront what the company did to Cross, and the man that his brother-in-law has become. 

So he does the last thing that episode Hamish would have probably done: he murders him. The whole scene has a very supernatural, creepy feeling. His iconic hat is gone, there’s blood on his hand: it’s reminiscent of his fight with Henri Marth, only worse. The audience doesn’t hear him scream, they only see it, and the effect is uncanny, almost inhuman. The next time we see him, he quietly walks back around the campfire, one hand soaked crimson, and silently goes about eating beans (lol).  It’s honestly kind of scary, and the scream especially felt very unnatural, very beastly. 

Furthermore, I distinctly remember two lines: in the beginning of the series Bouchard (I think) tells Hamish “The woods are filled with the bones of men like you.” But later on, that same sentiment is distorted into “The woods are filled with men like you.” He’s no longer the bones in the woods, but rather the one’s creating them. 

And of all the characters, he’s been involved or around the most mishaps out in the forest: finding Renardette and Clape at the creek site, Lafarge and Marth, Thom in the river, and finally his own murder of Cross.

Most of all? I hope Hamish Goames is ok.

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Cooke: Haha, thank god there’s another Englishman around here, amiright?

Hamish: Bitch i’m from Kirkwall i’m not En- 🤢Engl- 😵😵i cant even say it 🤮

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Renardette: * sees a non-Hamish man *

Renardette: Well that just won’t do.

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There’s a lot going on here. (Excellent meme format perhaps?)

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I absolutely adore the rabbit/fox imagery in Barkskins, most notably and most frequently with Renardette. A girl, carrying the mark of a fox’s head on her neck, harboring a deep fondness for rabbits that borders on an obsession? Poetic.

One of the defining characteristics of Renardette is the mark on her neck that has given her the name. At first sight, Bouchard flinches away from her, saying she carries the mark of the devil, only to be dismissed by Hamish. And it is the birthmark that inspires the name, Renardette. For me, at least, it’s pretty easy to forget that it’s not her real name, or at least not the one given by her parents. Nonetheless, she answers to it and really seems to live in it: Renardette isn’t just what Mathilde calls her, its come to really be her name.

There’s a lot going on with Renardette. She’s mysterious, intense, she says very little but her eyes hold a lot. Of course, it could all be written off as a result of the trauma she suffered, but there’s something a bit suspicious about her. It’s apparent that she wasn’t originally from the settlement, though she won’t say where she is from.

Many of the characters seem to think of her as the ‘rabbit’: helpless, small. And, in their defense, she certainly does seem like one for a long time. But her obsession with rabbits manifests in a strange way, at least before bouchard the bunny comes along. She seems fascinated by dead ones. This, combined with Cross’s absolute horror at seeing her and her strange habit of smiling in the face of violence, seems to mean that she is not the rabbit, but rather the rabbit.

And it comes up again!!! In cook’s comment that he is a hawk, and the rest of the inhabitants of wok are rabbits. Notably, he and his cronies are after Renardette: the hawks hunting the so-called rabbit.

Everybody seems hesitant to see anything more in her. After all, she’s just a traumatized girl. Im interested to see who she becomes when she’s not Renardette the rabbit, but rather Renardette the fox.

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something something Hamish Goames. anyway, he may have been having a rough time in that last episode but at least his fashion choices were excellent!!!