TSCC 2.05 "Goodbye to all that"

[hazelk]

I thought from the preview that this was going to be a big action episode but despite all its trucks and guns the overall impression was much quieter, the pace set by a woman reading a children’s story. With hindsight it was all about stories.

The story of the movie is different than the book and every time they remake the future it changes but doesn’t. The movie is one story with a beginning, a middle and an end - in the books, if I recall correctly, Dorothy has to keep returning to Oz, there’s no Kansas ever after.

I think it’s Derek who tells the most stories. Of the deer they killed and the man they saved but mostly the story of Martin Bedell, which he paces like a pro, beginning with Martin the Military adviser but keeping the Martin who died to save his brother and his brother’s son hidden until the end. Martin himself tells the story of running and not looking back and although he ends up staying it still catches up to him eventually (but he’s running to not from).

Do all the kids on the show come from dysfunctional families? Riley stays out all night and nobody cares, Jody only comes home to break into the safe. Savanah Weaver sits playing Sudoko as if to be heard and not seen were a mortal sin and there’s something almost Edwardian about her relationship to her mother. If Savannah is a real child I wonder if she’s even noticed the change in her or whether the real Catherine was an equally rare but glamorous presence in the nursery. When the T888 finds little Martin, he’s alone in his big house watching computer-generated stories and adapts remarkably well to real guns and abductions.

This week Catherine is the snake in the garden, the eel in water and the silver-tongued seductress in the most grossly literal way possible.

No one said thank you to Sarah until now.

Comments

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

It's odd I suppose. A Bildungsroman not from the point of view of the one being bilded but of his mother. And I like the way they're so shameless with the biblical and other metaphors - like if you make a lie big enough it works.