Was the final death Gwyneth's? The head in the box, right? How did it not follow the pattern?
It didn't because it wasn't his established pattern. Up until then, he had been punishing the "sinners" directly, not hurting someone else to get to them. Didn't work for me. I couldn't buy that he'd kill an innocent person.
I thought both the way Rebecca was written and the way she was acted were spot on, for someone with that kind of history.
With regards to The Inside and Saw - I don't see how these differ much in terms of reality. They're both pretty similar settings in many ways. Saw (the first one) is pretty emotionally fucked up.
I really shouldn't have used Saw (or Turistas) as an example, because I've haven't seen more than a few minutes of it. I couldn't think of another example, though. Sorry. I don't know why I like The Inside. I just do.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I really liked The Inside, Zenkitty. Had it not been a Minear show (a hook, as it were) I don't think it would have been on my weekly to watch list, is all. Oddly, though - I think it would have been the kind of thing I'd pick up on DVD.
I quite liked Rebecca. That's why I found Paul so infuriating.
Paul
also
liked Rebecca! You had a common interest.
I loved Rebecca. Paul was annoying. Web was awesome. The Inside owned me.
Paul thought she was a project. Not a person.
Sadly, some of my friends married people who saw them as fixer-upper opportunities like that.
Paul's intentions didn't put her in danger as much as Web's, though. Web's either a crap boss, or a genius at his work, depending on how you look at him. Wonderful character, but a complete twat.
Anyhoo, the "(fictional) serial killer who isn't traumatized and severely fucked-up, just -- what, a well-adjusted sociopath" is kind of a staple-- I think you could arguably say it about Angelus, Tony Soprano, Omar from The Wire, and probably dozens of others from shows in the last 15 years with a season-long villain.
Angelus, for me, is the exception, and probably because when he was Angelus for an extended period of time, I still had a heroic protagonist.
I didn't like watching The Sopranos for too long, because I didn't want to root for the bad guys. I didn't watch enough of The Wire to make a judgment. I think the sociopathic lead is fine for me in a feature film. I can enjoy Hannibal for two hours, or the guys in Goodfellas, or The Godfather, or whatever, but I don't want my main character in episodic TV to be the bad guy.
In fact, I prefer it if my main character is a super-strong little woman.
(This is better than I'd imagine therapy to be. Apparently I have
subscriptions
to issues.)
