12 Monkeys, S03E06: Nature
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annavereThis is a remarkably beautiful episode, just speaking visually, and with so many interesting things going on. I'm quite exhausted today and will just be bullet pointing them for the sake of brevity.
- Gale returns. This makes me happy. I enjoy how helpful he's allowed to be, in on the masquerade despite being essentially an ordinary man.
- Katarina being disappointed that she can't knock out a load-bearing wall is the most Katarina thing ever.
- Deacon knows his mythology as well as his Shakespeare. More please.
- Deacon now having an actual existential crisis. Neat foreshadowing. If I were him, I'd be glad not to be on the Word of the Witness. Perhaps it means he's the genuine wild card, outside of fate and time's control. He thinks it means he's unimportant and has done nothing that couldn't have been done by someone else. Poor guy. Olivia trying to leverage this is not a good sign.
- Jennifer's Primariness is undergoing some kind of vision quest power surge. Deacon is being incredibly good to her. More of that too, please.
- The main street mining disaster is so well done, the way people react and the moments it takes for the ash cloud to reach the town. Highly cinematic, as is the graveyard scene. Cassie's truthful improv is excellent. She isn't shutting down her emotions anymore, it's Cole's turn for that.
- Cassie insisting that Gale has a right to know how he dies, that maybe telling the truth will save him. Cole despairs of breaking out of the loop no matter what Cassie says.
- The tent revival scene is wonderfully eerie. The return of the Messenger, the two stone-faced boys. Again, the visuals work so well.
- Cole is the worst time traveler in the world. I say this with affection. Their proactive plan to infiltrate the tent revival, Cassie in a widow's veil, is sensible right up until Cole decides to accompany her in his usual hobo locks and perma-grizzle. He blends right in, as always, and I was counting the seconds until someone noticed him. It took longer than I expected.
- Cassie wanted to name their son Athan! Okay, this was strange enough that I went running to the internet at once and Athan is a Greek name meaning "immortal." *Files that away.*
- Also, Athan is Primary. And he has some kind of connection to Jennifer, which I am super curious about. Also, he's a creepy emotionless mass murderer. Everyone dying in the tent is sadly realistic with the tendency of crowds to panic.
- Some progress is still made in all of this, as Cole and Cassie bring down a Guardian and bring a vest back to base. Christmas for Katarina.
- Cassie takes up the nurture argument, but Cole is so broken and self-loathing he's got no interest in the idea at all. Neither of them acknowledge the factor that Ramse was so concerned with regarding Sam, but being time travelers, perhaps nothing they do can erase Athan and changing his timeline so the nurture argument wins is the only way forward. I'm looking forward to the complicated emotions being parents brings out in them both.
- Gale returns. This makes me happy. I enjoy how helpful he's allowed to be, in on the masquerade despite being essentially an ordinary man.
- Katarina being disappointed that she can't knock out a load-bearing wall is the most Katarina thing ever.
- Deacon knows his mythology as well as his Shakespeare. More please.
- Deacon now having an actual existential crisis. Neat foreshadowing. If I were him, I'd be glad not to be on the Word of the Witness. Perhaps it means he's the genuine wild card, outside of fate and time's control. He thinks it means he's unimportant and has done nothing that couldn't have been done by someone else. Poor guy. Olivia trying to leverage this is not a good sign.
- Jennifer's Primariness is undergoing some kind of vision quest power surge. Deacon is being incredibly good to her. More of that too, please.
- The main street mining disaster is so well done, the way people react and the moments it takes for the ash cloud to reach the town. Highly cinematic, as is the graveyard scene. Cassie's truthful improv is excellent. She isn't shutting down her emotions anymore, it's Cole's turn for that.
- Cassie insisting that Gale has a right to know how he dies, that maybe telling the truth will save him. Cole despairs of breaking out of the loop no matter what Cassie says.
- The tent revival scene is wonderfully eerie. The return of the Messenger, the two stone-faced boys. Again, the visuals work so well.
- Cole is the worst time traveler in the world. I say this with affection. Their proactive plan to infiltrate the tent revival, Cassie in a widow's veil, is sensible right up until Cole decides to accompany her in his usual hobo locks and perma-grizzle. He blends right in, as always, and I was counting the seconds until someone noticed him. It took longer than I expected.
- Cassie wanted to name their son Athan! Okay, this was strange enough that I went running to the internet at once and Athan is a Greek name meaning "immortal." *Files that away.*
- Also, Athan is Primary. And he has some kind of connection to Jennifer, which I am super curious about. Also, he's a creepy emotionless mass murderer. Everyone dying in the tent is sadly realistic with the tendency of crowds to panic.
- Some progress is still made in all of this, as Cole and Cassie bring down a Guardian and bring a vest back to base. Christmas for Katarina.
- Cassie takes up the nurture argument, but Cole is so broken and self-loathing he's got no interest in the idea at all. Neither of them acknowledge the factor that Ramse was so concerned with regarding Sam, but being time travelers, perhaps nothing they do can erase Athan and changing his timeline so the nurture argument wins is the only way forward. I'm looking forward to the complicated emotions being parents brings out in them both.
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Date: 2023-01-25 09:22 pm (UTC)Deacon knows his mythology as well as his Shakespeare. More please.
See, and this is why—well, there's a scene in S4 where he pretends he doesn't know Tolkein, but I absolutely don't buy it. (I don't think that counts as a spoiler?)
Christmas for Katarina
:D yes.
Edit: re, Deacon's existential crisis, remind me and we'll discuss after you finish?
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Date: 2023-01-26 07:32 pm (UTC)I seriously want someone to do a reading project along the lines of "which works of classic literature would be resonant in a post-apocalyptic society?" for insight into the Kurdys and Deacons of such worlds.
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Date: 2023-01-27 12:39 am (UTC)