"When I want advice from a lobotomized Essex girl, I will ask for it!"
Now that we've come to the end of series two of Ashes to Ashes and Some Stuff has happened that is strange and significant in mysterious ways, I think it is high time to go back and analyse once again the complexities of the first instances of Alex being totes crazycakes episode. Because I can both do my job AND have my iPod playing episodes,
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Oh my dear sweet fluffy Buddha, I never realized that. *has teh dumb* So bloody obvious.
TV as a lesser medium than film as an intellectual argument makes me bonkers.
AHHH me too. It's not even that people are too boring to analyse stuff (okay, well, yes it is) but its that show directors fall for it too, and that's why not every show is brilliant in its use of symbols and themes and so on. When they totes should be.
Yeah, this theory is just very basic and I'm not married to it or anything. I like Supertheory because the show explains everything in it, but I think there's even MOAR going on and the rabbit hole is deeper and darker. But the whole thing with Sam, and the adult themes of the show- that all problematizes her as an eight-year-old, or with the mentality of an eight-year-old... unless she reverts, or she's an emotionally retarded adult, or... I really, really don't know. There's some huge huge construct here and maybe its almost too big for one person's brain but then I don't even know what that would mean.
This is a great post; scene analysis FTW. You really picked apart this scene and illustrated a lot of the important bits.
YAYYYYYYYY. I like being cool like that. I miss my film classes even though Dr. Tierce did hit pause like every five seconds to explain things.
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