Zoe ,'War Stories'
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How best to know what is going on? I mean the captain said something like his whole family was destroyed which perhaps is ambiguous, but if someone said that to me in casual conversation, I would take that to me the whole family is dead.
Is his whole family dead?
If not, it seems like the reality with Wilmer as the partner is most likely to be the real one, but who knows? What if there is no conspiracy after all and that's another thing with his subconscious?
Awake: Do you think the fact that the show has scenes in both versions of Michael's life that do not include Michael is evidence that both are real?
I think the show is being sorely sloppy about their mechanism. Good lord. I'm losing track. So they're letting him live each day one after the other, but showing them intercut? How are we supposed to keep track of when information goes back and forth? To make sure he doesn't actually bring anything new over until the next day, even though we'll have seen him switch over during the day (presumably with no sleep).
FUCKING MAGNETS.
It's always magnets.
How do they work?!
Science!
Or Magic!
Take your pick.
it's kind of hard for me to think about how people thought about magnets before our modern understanding of them.
You mean the scene with the captain and conspiracy guy?
Does this mean that the world with his son is the real one?
I think that scene was in Wife Reality, which I'm generally thinking of as the prime reality because it's the brighter one.
Do you think the fact that the show has scenes in both versions of Michael's life that do not include Michael is evidence that both are real?
Or neither? I don't know how to interpret the scenes without Michael if we're supposed to look at each as a potential subconscious manifestation.
I've realised that the existence of a conspiracy scene without Michael makes me less interested in the mechanics of the whole thing, and I think I'm supposed to be less interested in the mechanics of the thing, and more interested in the character study of a grieving man.
So I don't know if it's the show for me. It's a good character study of a grieving man, but I don't know if it's my show. I thought I was signing on for a paranormal reality-busting mystery.
I guess. But it almost is like a good character study of his wife and son grieving. He himself is not allowing himself to grieve.