I was so intrigued by your other ep review that now I'm dancing through the backlist. :)
I'm almost afraid it will because these characters are sliding away from me; are becoming unrecognisable though intriguing; are becoming almost upsetting in that I've bought into them and chosen to love them and now they're changing and turning and I cannot punch through my screen to save them. But this is not an effect of bad writing. This is simply the writers being braver than me.
This is such an interesting thought! Along with the corollary idea that we're all being made so uncomfortable on purpose. I've really been trying to wrap my mind around the writing so far, trying to figure out what they're intending to do, and whether they're actually effecting their intentions or something else entirely, and I still can't decide. At my most optimistic I want to think, like you do here, that it is intentional, that they're doing what they're doing very much on purpose, and all the flailing around we're doing is what we're supposed to be doing.
Actually, at my very most optimistic, I want to believe that we're reacting how we should be because it's all thematic: this is, after all, the nature of faith. Just as the characters are taking their various and partial pieces of the puzzle and trying to understand the whole picture, so too the viewers are being asked to take the interpretive journey in this way, partly on faith. My problem, of course, is that I don't know that I have faith that RDM is going to pull off a satisfactory final big picture--yet I guess the uncertainty is part of faith, as well.
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Date: 2008-05-09 05:04 pm (UTC)I'm almost afraid it will because these characters are sliding away from me; are becoming unrecognisable though intriguing; are becoming almost upsetting in that I've bought into them and chosen to love them and now they're changing and turning and I cannot punch through my screen to save them. But this is not an effect of bad writing. This is simply the writers being braver than me.
This is such an interesting thought! Along with the corollary idea that we're all being made so uncomfortable on purpose. I've really been trying to wrap my mind around the writing so far, trying to figure out what they're intending to do, and whether they're actually effecting their intentions or something else entirely, and I still can't decide. At my most optimistic I want to think, like you do here, that it is intentional, that they're doing what they're doing very much on purpose, and all the flailing around we're doing is what we're supposed to be doing.
Actually, at my very most optimistic, I want to believe that we're reacting how we should be because it's all thematic: this is, after all, the nature of faith. Just as the characters are taking their various and partial pieces of the puzzle and trying to understand the whole picture, so too the viewers are being asked to take the interpretive journey in this way, partly on faith. My problem, of course, is that I don't know that I have faith that RDM is going to pull off a satisfactory final big picture--yet I guess the uncertainty is part of faith, as well.