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I can’t stop thinking about that thing where the writers had to say that no sir, they absolutely Did Not get inspiration for TNG’s Sub Rosa in Anne Rice’s Witching Hour, nuh-nuh so I decided to rewatch it to see how much it actually resembles it, so here we go I guess, starting with a shot of the wannabe Lasher leaving Beverly’s grandma funeral

The set is all in this Scottish-like planet, as Picard remarks:

Scottland is where it all starts, where Suzanne Mayfair comes from, the place Deborah was born and the place Suzanne was burned at the stake

Like a certain emerald necklace, I guess?

Lasher is known for causing violent storms every time one of his favorite witches died, and Grandma Howard has just died, so…

Presenting this without comment lmao

This is literally five years before Deborah’s canon birth date like why are these dates so close

This is LITERALLY the plot of the Witching Hour. Literally.

Ned Quint was trying to stop Ronin and trying to keep him away from Beverly, an Ronin killed him. Not unlike Lasher drove Petyr van Abel to madness and to his own death when he tried to get between him and Charlotte.

Ghost sex? Sounds really familiar…

Ronin can raise the dead and use their bodies, very much like Lasher raised the dead of an entire cemetery and used their bodies to pursue and terrify Petyr van Abel

Final conclusion: if Sub Rosa isn’t a blatant rip-off of Witching Hour, i really don’t know what it is