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Yesterday C informed me that my grandmother regularly reads this journal. *facepalm* Maybe to be flocking the porn now? But I don't want to! Oh, the problems of self-presentation in the digital age. Oh well, I'm sure she knows the proper use of the back arrow (though she has apparently not been informed of the etiquette rule of "if your read,
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YES! Thank you! I agree with you 110% here. I love that they actually acomplish making Fraser a real person, not just an outline or a sketch, by the end of season 1.
I ache for Fraser at the end there and I ache for Ray, because he finally puts all of his money down (quite literally) on one horse and he loses. Fraser was going to go with her and who would have ever guessed that?
The hospital stuff worked for me on so many levels. There's the evidence that Ray feels guilty for shooting him but so very, very angry that Benny was going to leave him in the lurch. Fraser mad that he was stopped from going but greatful at the same time.
I've always been intrigued by the argument regarding Fraser's dad. Is he really a ghost and is it really his spirit OR is it something from Fraser's own mind. The differences between those two options in enormous because if it is a ghost, then the situation is giving Fraser the opportunity to have the conversations or connection that he never had in life. if it is just a figment of his imagination, what does it say about how Fraser sees himself, esp. in relation to his father.
The fact that he gets angry with OFDM (Our Favorite Dead Mountie), can be snotty and mouthy and at time rude, is something that I know Fraser never did when his father was alive and so I find those moments so intriguing. Ditto for his conversations with Dief.
I'll get season 2 together for you for tonight, if you want.
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I don't use ghost literally, no. The main reason I think Slings&Arrows is the best TV show I've ever watched was their ghost dynamic, and the way, right up until the end of the third season, it could be read just as fruitfully (but with such different conclusions!) as Geoffrey's insanity or Oliver's actual, you know, ghost. I always prefer the figment interpretation, because of the insights it gives us into the character doing the hallucinating (in the case of Frasier, how DIFFERENTLY he treats his father from how one would expect!). But even though I prefer the figment, I LOVE the double possibilities of interpretation (and was so sad when they tried to difinitively answer the question in Slings&Arrows- I hope they don't here). The ghost isn't used as well here as in Slings- mostly because they don't have the parallels with Shakespearean ghosts to work off, I guess, but it hits some story-kinks of mine hard. I'm a SUCKER for it.
I'm not going to put Frasier on any list of "best TV characters ever" quite yet, but he certainly gets the big huge trophy for coming the farthest in one season, as far as development from the slapstick start, of any character I've ever seen.
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