Man, these articles just get me so thrilled all over again about the show. Things like that Slate article are practically reminders of how they kind of made it just for me. Love the little things dropped in here and there, like MR saying how Philip and Elizabeth are essentially victims of making life choices too soon - not because they were necessarily the wrong choices for them, but because there's just no way you know whether you can do this when you're a teenager. Leading to that big conflict between them. That they both want to do this, but deal differently with the fact that it's so unsustainable. It's the conflict of the D-words: Death vs. Defection. Elizabeth can't choose defection, and if she won't Philip's going to have to choose Death as well.
Also the stuff about how the show mines how much tension comes from just passing information with no need for gunplay, sex or fighting. That was always something that sometimes struck me in listening to people talk about the show last season, the kinds of people who had Really Bad Ideas for what should happen, which usually involved bigger and bigger craziness with tons of surprise reveals rather than what the show seems to do instead, which is zero in on the true danger of every tiny second of their lives. And also that they're not afraid to look at things from different angles--they don't have to follow up on Stan almost catching them. The trail can go cold and they can go through a period where they're not dealing with the same stresses.
One other thing in that Slate article is I had to laugh at them describing a scene where most of the action was people hurling monologues at Philip while he can't say anything because LOL! Philip does that all the time anyway. Which almost makes it better because you know he's listening.
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Date: 2014-02-23 08:49 pm (UTC)Also the stuff about how the show mines how much tension comes from just passing information with no need for gunplay, sex or fighting. That was always something that sometimes struck me in listening to people talk about the show last season, the kinds of people who had Really Bad Ideas for what should happen, which usually involved bigger and bigger craziness with tons of surprise reveals rather than what the show seems to do instead, which is zero in on the true danger of every tiny second of their lives. And also that they're not afraid to look at things from different angles--they don't have to follow up on Stan almost catching them. The trail can go cold and they can go through a period where they're not dealing with the same stresses.
One other thing in that Slate article is I had to laugh at them describing a scene where most of the action was people hurling monologues at Philip while he can't say anything because LOL! Philip does that all the time anyway. Which almost makes it better because you know he's listening.