But in general Henry's not really hurting for parental attention as long as the parents are both living in the house. He was annoyed about the star chart, but that wasn't necessarily a silent, unheard rebuke of Philip for not being able to make a cheap comic book purchase actually work, you know? It's possible that Henry's main response to stuff going on is that Paige is being a pain more than Mom and Dad are too distracted to be good parents.
I'm thinking back to the montage at the end of "The Walk-In," to Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood." Philip's in the laundry room, busy developing those photographs he took of the propeller and the measurements. Paige is leaving the house without asking permission to visit the friend she made on her illicit bus trip. There was an image of Elizabeth holding baby Paige that looked like the picture on the wall at "Aunt Helen's". Henry's frustrated because he couldn't find the North Star--because his star chart was a crummy one that fell apart when he tried to make it work. The final image was Elizabeth smoking a cigarette while she watches the letter her friend wrote to give to her son in case of her death turn to ash. Ashes to ashes.
Yes, the single image of Henry getting frustrated with his star chart isn't so disturbing taken out of context. But the music, the rest of the imagery, combined with the symbolism of Henry trying and failing to locate the North Star--a fixed point in the sky that you can navigate by--if you can find it, makes me think we're suppose to feel not all is well with the Jennings family, including Paige and Henry.
Since the focus this season is supposed to be on the effect of the spying mission on their family, if the majority of viewers are concluding that everything is a-okay with Henry and that Paige is just a drama queen--and that does seem to be what most people think here--then there is has to be something going wrong with the scripts. This is obviously a minority view point, but I can't believe that's what the writers intended us to conclude.
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Henry--at the end of The Walk-In
Date: 2014-03-29 11:29 pm (UTC)I'm thinking back to the montage at the end of "The Walk-In," to Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood." Philip's in the laundry room, busy developing those photographs he took of the propeller and the measurements. Paige is leaving the house without asking permission to visit the friend she made on her illicit bus trip. There was an image of Elizabeth holding baby Paige that looked like the picture on the wall at "Aunt Helen's". Henry's frustrated because he couldn't find the North Star--because his star chart was a crummy one that fell apart when he tried to make it work. The final image was Elizabeth smoking a cigarette while she watches the letter her friend wrote to give to her son in case of her death turn to ash. Ashes to ashes.
Yes, the single image of Henry getting frustrated with his star chart isn't so disturbing taken out of context. But the music, the rest of the imagery, combined with the symbolism of Henry trying and failing to locate the North Star--a fixed point in the sky that you can navigate by--if you can find it, makes me think we're suppose to feel not all is well with the Jennings family, including Paige and Henry.
Since the focus this season is supposed to be on the effect of the spying mission on their family, if the majority of viewers are concluding that everything is a-okay with Henry and that Paige is just a drama queen--and that does seem to be what most people think here--then there is has to be something going wrong with the scripts. This is obviously a minority view point, but I can't believe that's what the writers intended us to conclude.