Yeah, I think the dreams work much better because of that. Because they do, I think, have more obvious connection to what's going on--you can get a meaning from them. But since they're images and stories of their own they're not just the message.
The Paige dream is just as complicated. Paige walks into the cabin where she's planning to kill Pastor Tim, he's there dead. You think it's a dream about Paige finding his dead body and that being upsetting but instead he turns into TIMOSHEV and attacks her.
On one level it's very straightforward in terms of connecting what Elizabeth is thinking of doing to Paige with what was done to her, but it's not just saying one straightforward thing. It's not even totally about Paige. Timoshev being there also brings in a whole level of Paige being a stand-in for Elizabeth and her mother being the unseen mother in the dream.
I'm going to have to look back at our earlier discussion because that definitely sounds like something I would have thought. I mean, I do still agree with myself here in saying that the different styles fit the characters, but even Elizabeth can't completely control her own memories to the point where they stick to the script that closely. It makes me think she's actually remembering all of this wrong--which is possible.
Re: Two styles of flashbacks
The Paige dream is just as complicated. Paige walks into the cabin where she's planning to kill Pastor Tim, he's there dead. You think it's a dream about Paige finding his dead body and that being upsetting but instead he turns into TIMOSHEV and attacks her.
On one level it's very straightforward in terms of connecting what Elizabeth is thinking of doing to Paige with what was done to her, but it's not just saying one straightforward thing. It's not even totally about Paige. Timoshev being there also brings in a whole level of Paige being a stand-in for Elizabeth and her mother being the unseen mother in the dream.
I'm going to have to look back at our earlier discussion because that definitely sounds like something I would have thought. I mean, I do still agree with myself here in saying that the different styles fit the characters, but even Elizabeth can't completely control her own memories to the point where they stick to the script that closely. It makes me think she's actually remembering all of this wrong--which is possible.