Thank you for being the most level-headed person I've seen handle the finale so far. I feel like the whole point of this season and maybe even the show is to challenge reality, emotions, perspective. David and Syd are both a little fucky and the WHOLE POINT is putting characters into question of good and bad, but to be human is to be complex
Aw, well thanks. It’s a really difficult show to get without a lot of rewatching and thought, especially in a culture where stories are rarely presented in a surreal, cryptic, or morally complicated way. We’re used to putting characters into little boxes and if they stray out of them, we tend to disapprove. A lot of people look at the world in a very literal way, and the nuances of this show can escape them entirely. Some people can’t even get the concept that “You drugged me and then had sex with me” was an illustration of the situation that Syd was making for David and not a literal accusation.
I’m an INFP (yeah, I know just...go with me here) which means I’m always thinking about subtext and the figurative aspects of what I’m looking at in fiction. My mind takes this particular show in wild possible directions and I seem to have no control over it, but once I got a handle on the actual story arc, it seemed pretty straightforward really. The problem is that the supposed “sane man in an insane world” theme of S2 is kind of misleading of Hawley, I think. I don’t think David or any of the other characters are supposed to be “sane” or “insane”, whatever those words mean.
