scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again
The natural order of things has been disrupted. Instead of watching this (drunk) then vaguely handwaving at it and going, "Next week! Next week, I promise, I'll talk," I... watched it live? Sober? Then again, just now (after a brief drunk-and-it's-understandable 12-hour interlude) (this reads like I drink a lot. I mean, I do, but I don't? Timing? haters to the left)? All while waiting for Hipster Who to download? What is GOING ON.
Anyway.
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So... basically, I flipped my shit over this episode. It wasn't enough that Ray heard "Life on Mars" just like Shaz did last week (!) because Gene essentially gave him what wanted (Shaz: a promotion; Ray: acknowledgement that he's not crap from his de facto father figure). THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH. But no. THERE HAD TO BE NELSON IN THEIR MOMENT, TOO, SAYING "YEAH MATE, ALWAYS OPEN." NELSON. DELIGHTFUL JAMAICAN BARTENDER NELSON. (Life on Mars!!!! Stop making me want to seriously rewatch you before this finale!) LIKE OH MY GOD.
If it wasn't for Shaz, I could see how you could spin this to just be that they all feel guilty about WHATEVER happened to Sam Tyler, but nope, it's not that at all. Worlds are SPINNING and ZOOMING (literally!).
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6 6 20?
At first I figured it had to be a date - June 6, 1920 - except I Googled that, and no go on relevancy, so. But then I remembered 3x01, the bit about codes sometimes being BIBLE VERSES (book, chapter, verse)? Um.
6 = Romans
Romans 6.20: Where you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
(Romans 5.12-14: Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.)
...
askfhkajsfhkasjhfkashfkashfkahsfjafhaskjfa?!?!?!
"That's the thing about this place. Always full of nails." At this point, I would like to tip my cap at ohvienna, because yeah, there is way more Jesus up in this house than Zeus. Oh... boy. Jim Keats and Gene Hunt are locked in some sort of weird metaphysical death match! Actually! Literally! I'm still not sure if Keats is out for revenge for himself or ~the metaphysical world writ large~! I'm beginning to find myself absolutely batshit insane that I just tried Googling how strange and/or possibly out of the ordinary it was to hear Gene call it "shell shock" (so hardcore WWI/WWII) rather than PTSD! I can't talk without exclamation points!
scales fell from their eyes: the description in Acts of Paul (then Saul) regaining his sight via the prophet Ananais, thereby being baptized by the Holy Spirit. UM. UM. WHO SAYS TV ISN'T EDUCATIONAL, FOLKS? I JUST BUSTED OUT MY BIBLE FOR THIS POST.
In conclusion, Jim Keats scares me. He quotes (admittedly cliched) John Donne (oh, you could write a whole post on that fact alone), but he scares me well and truly. He is so sinister, and on one level, I love how much they're not trying to pull punches and make him MAYBE sympathetic (like SuperMac in Series 2). Nope, just actually batshit and threatening. REALLY.
IN REAL CONCLUSION, I LOVE HOW THE CRAZY NOTION OF GHOST!SAM TYLER IS NOW AN ACTUAL POSSIBILITY. I... AM JUST SAYING. WHAT IS THAT EVEN? (I love that everything about that wee fic is, um, sort of real.)
edit: I lied.
HA HA LIKE I WAS EVER GOING TO MISS THAT YOU DID THAT, SHOW. Okay.
Anyway.
[1]
So... basically, I flipped my shit over this episode. It wasn't enough that Ray heard "Life on Mars" just like Shaz did last week (!) because Gene essentially gave him what wanted (Shaz: a promotion; Ray: acknowledgement that he's not crap from his de facto father figure). THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH. But no. THERE HAD TO BE NELSON IN THEIR MOMENT, TOO, SAYING "YEAH MATE, ALWAYS OPEN." NELSON. DELIGHTFUL JAMAICAN BARTENDER NELSON. (Life on Mars!!!! Stop making me want to seriously rewatch you before this finale!) LIKE OH MY GOD.
If it wasn't for Shaz, I could see how you could spin this to just be that they all feel guilty about WHATEVER happened to Sam Tyler, but nope, it's not that at all. Worlds are SPINNING and ZOOMING (literally!).
-
[2]
6 6 20?
At first I figured it had to be a date - June 6, 1920 - except I Googled that, and no go on relevancy, so. But then I remembered 3x01, the bit about codes sometimes being BIBLE VERSES (book, chapter, verse)? Um.
6 = Romans
Romans 6.20: Where you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
(Romans 5.12-14: Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.)
...
askfhkajsfhkasjhfkashfkashfkahsfjafhaskjfa?!?!?!
"That's the thing about this place. Always full of nails." At this point, I would like to tip my cap at ohvienna, because yeah, there is way more Jesus up in this house than Zeus. Oh... boy. Jim Keats and Gene Hunt are locked in some sort of weird metaphysical death match! Actually! Literally! I'm still not sure if Keats is out for revenge for himself or ~the metaphysical world writ large~! I'm beginning to find myself absolutely batshit insane that I just tried Googling how strange and/or possibly out of the ordinary it was to hear Gene call it "shell shock" (so hardcore WWI/WWII) rather than PTSD! I can't talk without exclamation points!
scales fell from their eyes: the description in Acts of Paul (then Saul) regaining his sight via the prophet Ananais, thereby being baptized by the Holy Spirit. UM. UM. WHO SAYS TV ISN'T EDUCATIONAL, FOLKS? I JUST BUSTED OUT MY BIBLE FOR THIS POST.
In conclusion, Jim Keats scares me. He quotes (admittedly cliched) John Donne (oh, you could write a whole post on that fact alone), but he scares me well and truly. He is so sinister, and on one level, I love how much they're not trying to pull punches and make him MAYBE sympathetic (like SuperMac in Series 2). Nope, just actually batshit and threatening. REALLY.
IN REAL CONCLUSION, I LOVE HOW THE CRAZY NOTION OF GHOST!SAM TYLER IS NOW AN ACTUAL POSSIBILITY. I... AM JUST SAYING. WHAT IS THAT EVEN? (I love that everything about that wee fic is, um, sort of real.)
edit: I lied.
HA HA LIKE I WAS EVER GOING TO MISS THAT YOU DID THAT, SHOW. Okay.