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Yes, two posts in one night...but other was too long to include this stuff in it.
1. Being Erica - continues to interest me. The series focus on choices and taking responsibility and owning those choices. Handling them, moving on, and not letting oneself get bogged down with regret. The format is rather innovative - Erica's in therapy with a time-traveling therapist who can send her back in time to relive a regret. In the 3rd season, they've upped the ante a bit and are revealing bits and pieces of who and what the time-traveling therapists are. I'm starting to wonder if everyone's dead and the therapy is a sort of pseudo-purgatory, a la Lost, where the characters finish what was left undone, before moving on. I'm not sure that's a spoiler or just speculation. Because the show doesn't really tell you either way.
This week's episode much like two week's previously, resonated for me. Erica is at a cross-roads.
She's trying to figure out what to do next and is afraid. Does she forage ahead with her own business or take a lucrative job offer? And watching it - I wonder if I'm risk adverse? Have I run or hidden or taken the easy path? I don't believe so. I also think so many of our choices are predetermined by our own personality, DNA, and nature. Much like a character in a book. The author to a degree knows what that character will do, isn't positive, but gut level, you know, even if you sort of wish they would go another direction.
2. Shipping. I've been pondering this week if shipping a character or even a relationship really hard can be detrimental to your appreciation and understanding of the story and theme. It's, how to explain this, a bit like listening to someone give a speech - you are hearing it fine, understanding it fine, but all of sudden they say something that either resonates strongly with you or you really hate and you just focus on that. You don't hear anything but that. It's as if everything else blurs.
And that's your focal point.
Speaking purely for myself, because I can't really speak for anyone else on this topic, can I? That would be highly presumptious of me, wouldn't it? Not that I haven't in the past, but...in this instance I will attempt to just discuss my own rather limited experience on the topic.
( The Pros and Cons of Shipping Characters and/or relationships )
1. Being Erica - continues to interest me. The series focus on choices and taking responsibility and owning those choices. Handling them, moving on, and not letting oneself get bogged down with regret. The format is rather innovative - Erica's in therapy with a time-traveling therapist who can send her back in time to relive a regret. In the 3rd season, they've upped the ante a bit and are revealing bits and pieces of who and what the time-traveling therapists are. I'm starting to wonder if everyone's dead and the therapy is a sort of pseudo-purgatory, a la Lost, where the characters finish what was left undone, before moving on. I'm not sure that's a spoiler or just speculation. Because the show doesn't really tell you either way.
This week's episode much like two week's previously, resonated for me. Erica is at a cross-roads.
She's trying to figure out what to do next and is afraid. Does she forage ahead with her own business or take a lucrative job offer? And watching it - I wonder if I'm risk adverse? Have I run or hidden or taken the easy path? I don't believe so. I also think so many of our choices are predetermined by our own personality, DNA, and nature. Much like a character in a book. The author to a degree knows what that character will do, isn't positive, but gut level, you know, even if you sort of wish they would go another direction.
2. Shipping. I've been pondering this week if shipping a character or even a relationship really hard can be detrimental to your appreciation and understanding of the story and theme. It's, how to explain this, a bit like listening to someone give a speech - you are hearing it fine, understanding it fine, but all of sudden they say something that either resonates strongly with you or you really hate and you just focus on that. You don't hear anything but that. It's as if everything else blurs.
And that's your focal point.
Speaking purely for myself, because I can't really speak for anyone else on this topic, can I? That would be highly presumptious of me, wouldn't it? Not that I haven't in the past, but...in this instance I will attempt to just discuss my own rather limited experience on the topic.
( The Pros and Cons of Shipping Characters and/or relationships )
