There are many layers to this episode. Don't you have the sneaking feeling there are many others still to be discovered? I know I do! (I didn't include absolutely everything in this essay, BTW. There was a ramble about the motif of water that just didn't fit... and it was probably just my imagination anyway ;-)
One thing I love about 2x04 is how richly cinematographic it is. There are so many running leitmotifs and synchronicities and thematic echoes, it's hard sometimes to believe that it's merely a series episode. Sometimes it feels like a miniature film.
And OK, maybe I'm reading some things into 2x04 that aren't 'really' there, but the choice of the name Beauvoir? I swear, that can't have been coincidental. I really think Ashley was trying to tell a feminist tale — at least, as much as he was able, given the constraint that the show's two main characters are male and that everything must be shown through, and revolve around, Sam's POV.
I ADORE her vulnerabilities in this episode as much as her strengths.
I do too. She's sympathetic, and amazingly resilient, but Ashley still writes her as a human being with thoroughly human foibles. (Can you tell, I fangirl AP almost as much as you do MG ;-)
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There are many layers to this episode. Don't you have the sneaking feeling there are many others still to be discovered? I know I do! (I didn't include absolutely everything in this essay, BTW. There was a ramble about the motif of water that just didn't fit... and it was probably just my imagination anyway ;-)
One thing I love about 2x04 is how richly cinematographic it is. There are so many running leitmotifs and synchronicities and thematic echoes, it's hard sometimes to believe that it's merely a series episode. Sometimes it feels like a miniature film.
And OK, maybe I'm reading some things into 2x04 that aren't 'really' there, but the choice of the name Beauvoir? I swear, that can't have been coincidental. I really think Ashley was trying to tell a feminist tale — at least, as much as he was able, given the constraint that the show's two main characters are male and that everything must be shown through, and revolve around, Sam's POV.
I ADORE her vulnerabilities in this episode as much as her strengths.
I do too. She's sympathetic, and amazingly resilient, but Ashley still writes her as a human being with thoroughly human foibles. (Can you tell, I fangirl AP almost as much as you do MG ;-)
Thank you for the lovely comment!