For me, the problem is that we don't get to see what happens after the episode. Exactly - and that's why it feels like it's the story's point and not just the character's. If there was moving on, if there was seeing her start to reconnect, or if someone even said she would, then I'd think the story didn't agree with her. Leaving it there it's like it does.
But with the being locked up in a drippy dark place and ignored - and having to ask if he was really home! - the way they treated him wasn't, well, treatment. And add to that the thing where she wanted to not know... urgh.
I object to character being used as object, as scary thing that could happen to someone, as mad = The End rather than as illness/cureable.
And why, if he saw something that messed him up, don't they retcon him so he didn't see? Wouldn't that make their point about why using retcon is good in the first place? He'd still have burn scars, and he'd have to deal with a lot, but it would be a different lot.
I just... it seemed to be working from a positively medaeval model and it was not good at all.
I might have other opinions later or on rewatch. I don't know. I'd like to think they're being more complicated than that. It isn't the first time this season that there's been mental health issues in play. But... those other characters ended up dead or in institutions, so... urgh.
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Date: 2008-03-20 05:54 pm (UTC)Exactly - and that's why it feels like it's the story's point and not just the character's. If there was moving on, if there was seeing her start to reconnect, or if someone even said she would, then I'd think the story didn't agree with her. Leaving it there it's like it does.
But with the being locked up in a drippy dark place and ignored - and having to ask if he was really home! - the way they treated him wasn't, well, treatment. And add to that the thing where she wanted to not know... urgh.
I object to character being used as object, as scary thing that could happen to someone, as mad = The End rather than as illness/cureable.
And why, if he saw something that messed him up, don't they retcon him so he didn't see? Wouldn't that make their point about why using retcon is good in the first place? He'd still have burn scars, and he'd have to deal with a lot, but it would be a different lot.
I just... it seemed to be working from a positively medaeval model and it was not good at all.
I might have other opinions later or on rewatch. I don't know. I'd like to think they're being more complicated than that. It isn't the first time this season that there's been mental health issues in play. But... those other characters ended up dead or in institutions, so... urgh.