Continuing through season three
Aug. 31st, 2014 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI'm glad "Holly's Choice" was the last episode I watched last night, because I had to just be quiet and think/admire for some time after it. It's definitely in my top five favorites right now. So good. So powerful. I loved the structure, too, and the way it came to a close in the same place it opened was a nice touch (circles can run backwards and forwards because they're round).
Holly had the line of the night: "KC didn't say anything. KC listened." AMEN. McMurphy has been a mite preachy of late.
Speaking of KC, is this three episodes in a row she's been a do-gooder? (Heh, I loved that the brothel madam actually called her that in "Nightfall.") Well, I suppose Holly did pay her, but certainly in the other two episodes she gave of her own heart and her own cash. I'm curious if this fits in with her recent move toward non-black market business opportunities. Maybe McMurphy's advice about forgiveness from "Ghosts" is finally sinking in too.
I...am kind of glad Dodger's gone. He was okay in very small doses, and I guess it was nice to have at least one character who actually fought out in the jungle for counterpoint to the main focus on support personnel, but once he became the focus of a plotline it just completely lost my interest.
I'm curious in what sense he "loves" McMurphy. Platonically? Romantically? Does this man even still experience emotions as non-traumatized people do, and do those words even mean anything? McMurphy, I always thought, kind of used him as a way to make herself a martyr; he was never going to quit wanting to go back out to the bush (well, not until his revelation about his kid, anyway), so she could try to convince him, secure in the knowledge that she would fail and have to be the big brave nurse watching him go back.
Finally, what the HELL is up with Richard and the ventriloquist dummy? What...just...what? I know he has the capacity to be one extremely weird dude (cf. the "black wedding" a while ago), but this is truly bizarre.
Holly had the line of the night: "KC didn't say anything. KC listened." AMEN. McMurphy has been a mite preachy of late.
Speaking of KC, is this three episodes in a row she's been a do-gooder? (Heh, I loved that the brothel madam actually called her that in "Nightfall.") Well, I suppose Holly did pay her, but certainly in the other two episodes she gave of her own heart and her own cash. I'm curious if this fits in with her recent move toward non-black market business opportunities. Maybe McMurphy's advice about forgiveness from "Ghosts" is finally sinking in too.
I...am kind of glad Dodger's gone. He was okay in very small doses, and I guess it was nice to have at least one character who actually fought out in the jungle for counterpoint to the main focus on support personnel, but once he became the focus of a plotline it just completely lost my interest.
I'm curious in what sense he "loves" McMurphy. Platonically? Romantically? Does this man even still experience emotions as non-traumatized people do, and do those words even mean anything? McMurphy, I always thought, kind of used him as a way to make herself a martyr; he was never going to quit wanting to go back out to the bush (well, not until his revelation about his kid, anyway), so she could try to convince him, secure in the knowledge that she would fail and have to be the big brave nurse watching him go back.
Finally, what the HELL is up with Richard and the ventriloquist dummy? What...just...what? I know he has the capacity to be one extremely weird dude (cf. the "black wedding" a while ago), but this is truly bizarre.