I like Neville's character, but I don't like...the structure the show seemed to be trying to build around him?
For me Neville always worked best as someone who desperately needed advancement to shore up his constructed concept of himself in this new world (his Neville Mk 2'ness). Every step up he takes - poked along from behind by Julia - making the footing more and more slippery.
He does overshadow Jason, but that's because Jason has....nothing. He is just there to want someone's approval. His Dad's, Charlie's, Miles' - that is his only motivating force. But...that's for Jason week. Compare that to Julia and Tom - they want so much in so many different ways. Tom wants his family to be safe, he needs to see himself as the warrior-monk, the gentleman-soldier because that's the only way he knows to survive. Julia wants power to protect her son, to make sure he DOESN'T have to fight as hard as Tom wants him too.
And the fact that they 'thing they love the most' ISN'T the same thing! Tom loves Julia completely and (hair-sniffing that sex-lady aside) and loyally - his love for his son is usually parsed in connection to Jason's connection to Julia. Yet for Julia, it's her son she loves the most and would do anything to protect.
I like Neville's character, but I don't like...the structure the show seemed to be trying to build around him?
Yeaaaah. I get that. Like, where is this TOM HAS BASS' ARMY s/l going to go, exactly? He didn't earn it. He didn't amass a mutiny, he played for the other team, got caught and convinced (WHO LISTENS TO A CAPTIVE'S IDEAS, OMG) them to overthrow the rules...somehow.
And now he's stuck. I don't see him running things.
...now and having watched the S2 promo, (I started writing this about 10 hours ago and then forgot about this window being open O_O) I gotta say, yeh. Tom how you like the power now XD
And I with you on the rest. I just wonder how well Julia even knows Jason. Because otherwise she could have helped him in some way, or steered him towards having goals and motivations that are deeper than impressing some girl.
Tom appears quite disgusted - of course, he knows, or suspects, that the whole bomb thing was a ploy by the 'US' government. It could have cost him is wife - the only thing he really cares about - so it could actually be interesting. He gets to actually BE a rebel, maybe?
I would be interested in working out whether this 'government' would have any legal standing. Did the President know what was going to happen in enough time to flee the country and pull a Hitler by sidestepping the voting process till the status was quo once more? Or was it simply that the people left in Guantanamo declared themselves the government on the grounds they were the last functioning cell of the US political machine? The ranking military officer there MIGHT have known about the Tower...
For me Neville always worked best as someone who desperately needed advancement to shore up his constructed concept of himself in this new world (his Neville Mk 2'ness). Every step up he takes - poked along from behind by Julia - making the footing more and more slippery.
He does overshadow Jason, but that's because Jason has....nothing. He is just there to want someone's approval. His Dad's, Charlie's, Miles' - that is his only motivating force. But...that's for Jason week. Compare that to Julia and Tom - they want so much in so many different ways. Tom wants his family to be safe, he needs to see himself as the warrior-monk, the gentleman-soldier because that's the only way he knows to survive. Julia wants power to protect her son, to make sure he DOESN'T have to fight as hard as Tom wants him too.
And the fact that they 'thing they love the most' ISN'T the same thing! Tom loves Julia completely and (hair-sniffing that sex-lady aside) and loyally - his love for his son is usually parsed in connection to Jason's connection to Julia. Yet for Julia, it's her son she loves the most and would do anything to protect.
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Yeaaaah. I get that. Like, where is this TOM HAS BASS' ARMY s/l going to go, exactly? He didn't earn it. He didn't amass a mutiny, he played for the other team, got caught and convinced (WHO LISTENS TO A CAPTIVE'S IDEAS, OMG) them to overthrow the rules...somehow.
And now he's stuck. I don't see him running things.
...now and having watched the S2 promo, (I started writing this about 10 hours ago and then forgot about this window being open O_O) I gotta say, yeh. Tom how you like the power now XD
And I with you on the rest. I just wonder how well Julia even knows Jason. Because otherwise she could have helped him in some way, or steered him towards having goals and motivations that are deeper than impressing some girl.
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I would be interested in working out whether this 'government' would have any legal standing. Did the President know what was going to happen in enough time to flee the country and pull a Hitler by sidestepping the voting process till the status was quo once more? Or was it simply that the people left in Guantanamo declared themselves the government on the grounds they were the last functioning cell of the US political machine? The ranking military officer there MIGHT have known about the Tower...
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