Yes, not only are you making a lot of sense in your ETA, but I absolutely agree with you. Why show this now, rather than earlier or later? I read it as that inevitable BSG slap in the face: you want these characters to be happy? We'll show you happy--but only when it's clear that the happiness is also Doomed and Wrong. Oh show!
I confess I have no desire at all to see Saul broken any more. I find myself inordinately delighted that he seems to have things as together as he does right now. Which, of course, means that he's doomed, as well.
Or like she's two steps away from actually going stark raving mad. Not like emo poetry reading mad, but tearing off all her clothes, and running shrieking through the corridors losing every last shred of dignity mad and I find that absolutely fucking terrifying.
YES!!! She really is terrifying me! And I'm probably not helping myself by trying to think of the show in terms of genre and coming to the inevitable conclusion that it's in many ways a tragedy--if perhaps not in precisely the classical or Elizabethan sense, at least close enough. And if Lee is Fortinbras who is going to be the one standing at the end to put society back together again (and I think he will be), I think Laura and Bill are in various degrees the tragic heroes. And then I start thinking about how most tragic heroes have ended up--not just with the dying at the end, but with what happens before they die at the end--and it kind of makes me want to start weeping and not stop until it's over. I'm worried! I think it will probably be okay--that Laura won't actually go mad or anything--but I'm still very worried!
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Date: 2009-01-25 04:26 pm (UTC)I confess I have no desire at all to see Saul broken any more. I find myself inordinately delighted that he seems to have things as together as he does right now. Which, of course, means that he's doomed, as well.
Or like she's two steps away from actually going stark raving mad. Not like emo poetry reading mad, but tearing off all her clothes, and running shrieking through the corridors losing every last shred of dignity mad and I find that absolutely fucking terrifying.
YES!!! She really is terrifying me! And I'm probably not helping myself by trying to think of the show in terms of genre and coming to the inevitable conclusion that it's in many ways a tragedy--if perhaps not in precisely the classical or Elizabethan sense, at least close enough. And if Lee is Fortinbras who is going to be the one standing at the end to put society back together again (and I think he will be), I think Laura and Bill are in various degrees the tragic heroes. And then I start thinking about how most tragic heroes have ended up--not just with the dying at the end, but with what happens before they die at the end--and it kind of makes me want to start weeping and not stop until it's over. I'm worried! I think it will probably be okay--that Laura won't actually go mad or anything--but I'm still very worried!