Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Although I get Tep's reservations.
Oh, completely. Joss and co. have taken on a lot to chew, here, and I'm still not completely sold on it. But ultimately, it's what happens with Echo that proves whether the artistic risk of the show's premise was worthwhile, and the jury's still out on that one. Way too early to tell.
At least the main characters weren't the worst people on the show this week, which is kind of how I felt last time.
At least the main characters weren't the worst people on the show this week, which is kind of how I felt last time.
Yeah, although the only one I actively like so far is Langton. Which is an improvement over last week.
Like I said, I'm a Lehane fan, so really hard to gross out. And then, there was the season of "The Wire" where nobody cared about the cans of dead hookers...I'm not your mama's women's studies alum and I'm aware of that.
Yeah, erika. I don't really mind if everyone is terrible, as long as there's something compelling about the main characters. Which can still be terrible -- Bubba Rogowski, anyone?
Reed Diamond's character strikes me as very much not a good guy. He was abusing Echo, knowing she couldn't defend herself or remember it later.
I'll be tuning in next week. I was fascinated by the way Echo turned the call and response with Boyd around on him, the "do you trust me" coming from her instead of him. It starts opening the same can of worms that seem to have resulted in Alpha going amok. Is it part of Caroline emerging, is it failure of the mindwipe or is it a new identity being built spontaneously around the absence of Caroline and Echo that is emerging? Is it the physical brain structure holding on to little bits of each imprint and trying to build something new? At what point will a completely different and self-aware conscious emerge? Will it be aware that it ever was Caroline/Echo? Is it murder to destroy that emerging conscious to wipe it back to Echo or even to put the original Caroline back in?
It's sci fi, Joss can really play with this from the technical aspect and from the philisophical. There's still so much we don't understand about the working of the human brain and about what makes us--us. Cogito ergo sum. But what are the beginnings of cogito and who is the sum?
Reed Diamond's character strikes me as very much not a good guy. He was abusing Echo, knowing she couldn't defend herself or remember it later.
Ah, but how much more satisfying was Echo's shoulder thump following on the heels of his smug dickery? I think that may have been my AHA! moment for this series, like the kick into the engine turbine or Darla showing her game face.
"Are you sorry? Really?"
Too much sexing. I hope she doesn't have to be sold for sex every week. The framework I don't mind. But if she keeps being literally whored out, I lose interest.
I really liked Langton in this episode. I liked his arc a lot. And Reed Diamond's character is appropriately nasty--I can get behind that too. Eliza and Helo are the weak points for me.