I think Lily and Vivian really are related, because otherwise Vivian would have to be the fiance's sister.
I could swear I heard Lily say she wasn't related to Vivian...but I may be completely wrong.
The step-family thing feels like such a cop-out. There has to be something more interesting happening here.
I'll settle for "less confusing"...
It's kind of hard to lie about being Catholic if you're going into a convent.
Would it be entirely out of the question for a convent to take in someone non-Catholic until she had her baby? I honestly don't know.
(Sidenote: there's no theological problem with a nun doubting her place in heaven.)
That struck me as weird, yes.
I was glad to see the metaphysics, finally.
Indeed.
One could make the argument that heaven and hell are too remote from earthly human experience to be remembered that clearly upon re-awakening. It seems unlikely that they could parallel the mortal experience that closely. (That's what's always bugged me about reported near-death experiences: what's the point of dying if you're still trapped within mortal consciousness/perception/temporal linearity?) That's completely my opinion, not the show's, but point is, once you're getting into as murky a concept as human perception of death as a temporal construct, it's hard to find plot holes that can't be argued away.
That's something I hadn't considered. I wonder if the PTB are thinking along the same lines, or if they're just ignoring it and hoping no one asks too many questions...
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Date: 2008-10-18 12:41 am (UTC)I could swear I heard Lily say she wasn't related to Vivian...but I may be completely wrong.
The step-family thing feels like such a cop-out. There has to be something more interesting happening here.
I'll settle for "less confusing"...
It's kind of hard to lie about being Catholic if you're going into a convent.
Would it be entirely out of the question for a convent to take in someone non-Catholic until she had her baby? I honestly don't know.
(Sidenote: there's no theological problem with a nun doubting her place in heaven.)
That struck me as weird, yes.
I was glad to see the metaphysics, finally.
Indeed.
One could make the argument that heaven and hell are too remote from earthly human experience to be remembered that clearly upon re-awakening. It seems unlikely that they could parallel the mortal experience that closely. (That's what's always bugged me about reported near-death experiences: what's the point of dying if you're still trapped within mortal consciousness/perception/temporal linearity?) That's completely my opinion, not the show's, but point is, once you're getting into as murky a concept as human perception of death as a temporal construct, it's hard to find plot holes that can't be argued away.
That's something I hadn't considered. I wonder if the PTB are thinking along the same lines, or if they're just ignoring it and hoping no one asks too many questions...