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Yesterday Mr. JaC and I flew to Sun Valley for our annual ski trip. It's always a bit grueling getting here, and yesterday was even worse - when the weather's too bad to fly from Salt Lake City into Sun Valley, the plane lands instead in a town called Twin Falls (which isn't in the mountains), and then the airline buses us to the Sun Valley
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I tossed that sentence off (so to speak *g*), knowing in the back of my mind that it was kind of...loaded, that there was a lot under there, but without giving it a great deal of thought. I had a sense of the concept in my head that I was trying to articulate, and those were the words that came to my fingers; there was a part of me that knew that it's quite a bit more complex than that short sentence allows for. It would be very interesting to discuss, wouldn't it. I do basically believe what I said (I think): I don't believe we can dismiss canon just because we think something was "bad writing"; I don't believe we can say, CI5 agents never bumble and make mistakes - that was just the writers being sloppy. Of course, any individual writer can simply disregard parts of canon that are inconsistent; authors do that all the time, and that's fine. But an author who chose to write something based on that supposedly "sloppy writing" would, I think, also be well within canon; I would disagree with a fan who dismissed such a story as noncanonical because that particular episode was clearly writer error, or whatever.
Okay, I'm babbling a bit - haven't thought this all through. It is a complicated area - gets into things like writer intent, etc. Is Dumbledore gay if JK Rowling says he is, outside canon? But...in general I do believe that what's on the screen (not that that is always clear!!) *is* our reality.
He does look genuinely pained in the car, but then...yes...way to quick to rebound.
Yes - he starts out looking pained, but no evidence of it later on. And it's not that I want him to be too incapacitated to operate later on - just that I like seeing him forge ahead through pain and suffering; that's always so inspiring! *g*
The biggest disappointment of that episode is that we don't get to see Bodie's expression when he sees the covered body in the tub...
Oh, I totally, totally agree with you here. What a waste of an opportunity. The camera should have been on Bodie's face in the beginning, not in the tub - then the tub, then his face again. As it is, there's really no emotional impact to that scene whatsoever.
In many ways, this episode is incredibly ineptly done. It has great moments that I love, and I always enjoy watching it - and yet I have to admit, it's one of the ones that hits me hardest with its flaws; one of the ones whose shortcomings are hardest for me to ignore as I watch.
Anyway, thanks so much for commenting - so good to hear from you, and glad you enjoyed!!
And...I'm so sorry for being out of touch - will remedy that soon!!
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