I’m done being a feral rage filled animal about episode 7 but I’m still hugely disappointed. Also, I’d like to clarify, if you enjoyed the episode im so happy for you. You are most likely the intended audience. It just…did not give the non-Jax cast members the attention I believed it would, and the peeves I had with the writing before are coming out full force.
I love TADC but I’m not sure it’s?? Going the direction I thought it would?? Everything that’s been foreshadowed that’s been concluded has been concluded with so much less meaning than I thought it would, and it just. Sucks to me. Ahh the mannequin was just an NPC. Caine and Abel symbolism? The gun? All prep for this adventure. There’s no deeper meaning. There’s no reason to any of it. Caine was planning this adventure the whole time, not…desperately clutching for control or validation, he was…planning it the whole time…he’s not going to crash out everyone, he totally loves the players so much and would grovel at. Their feet. He’s . Selfish. I don’t know. I feel like they flattened him so much.
The thesis of the show is that there’s meaning to be found in a stagnant life. I feel like the futility of this episode could’ve been delivered…so much better. There’s no rise of desperation or hope leading to the climax. There’s no real build. There’s just…them. There. Going along with it. Apprehensive but not…FEELING.
Zooble, the character consistently displayed to be the one MOST against the circus, MOST desperate for any kind of reality…doesn’t show a reaction that much different to any other upon the news. That’s Jax’s job.
when everything goes to shit, everyone freezes. Everyone has the same face. Except Jax. Because that’s Jax’s job.
TADC is turning out to be the Jax show. They haven’t gone into Pomnis issues. They haven’t really…focused on any of the other arcs cross-episode like that have with Jax. The only other person with that treatment was Caine, and that, apparently, was building up to a rug-pull of meaning where we see he’s just stupid.
there was so much more we could have done.
the reason I continue to tag these posts with the episode is because I think it’s important for everyone to see multiple viewpoints and this is mine. I think episode seven sucked.
