I promise I won't take advantage of him. But if I find something that I have to have and can't afford on my own, I might take him up on his offer. - Something reasonable...
It does seem odd though that he's not giving a second thought to spending money on Candace. It's really sweet of him, but he's self employed selling goods and services that have a limited customer base. Granted, that customer base tends to tap the more wealthy among us, so maybe he can get away with charging fees greater than would be generally considered fair. I don't know, it just feels off, and I'm not sure I can explain it right now.
I am reminded though of that first time I was over at her place, Sam said he had had an idea of what to look into concerning her amnesia. I forgot to ask him about it last week, will have to remember that tomorrow and see if anything turned up.
I did get a chance to rewatch that last episode of Legion. I was really starting to feel like I might have a grip on things, and then they mess with it all over again. I was thinking about why I found it so engrossing and I think I've been able to partly understand what grabs me. A lot of what is shown, what the story is about, has to do with how people perceive what is going on. By that I mean as much the other people within the story as much as the people watching the show, and I think they do an excellent job of playing with that.
Let me see if I can explain what I mean. David's sister, Amy, believes her brother is mentally ill, and she's well aware of the many things that goes into that diagnosis. Lucky, for example. Ms. Bird on the other hand believes that David is not insane, but that what people think is his insanity is actually his abilities, his powers manifesting. The easiest example is his telepathy, his ability to hear other's thoughts. Where he thinks he's hearing voices, and the people around him are judging the same, it's actually him hearing peoples thoughts. This goes a long way towards establishing the perception of David's insanity, and is by no means the only method.
But David isn't the only one with abilities. The people around him, at Ms. Bird's spa for lack of a better word, resort... I don't know. It's not the X-Mansion, but similar. Anyway, these people all have talents and abilities that can make an observer question their sanity. By which I mean the sanity of the person they are perceiving, as well as their own. For example, Cary and Kerry.
What the presenters, the directors, the producers, the people who are telling us this story... What they are doing is holding back, from the audience, an explanation of what is going on. In the X-Men movies, and in any superhero movie really, there's an explanation of what the hero can do. Without that explanation, the audience would have every right to question what is happening, just as the other's in the movie or show should be doing. People being afraid of Spider-man, or the first fearful reaction of Superman in Man of Steel, meeting him with military force. These reactions would be normal and expected. But most movies and shows relieve the audience of that ignorance by offering an explanation, generally early on. Then the story can move on with the hero being a hero.
With Legion, the explanation is held back. Not just from the other's in the story, not just from the main character, but from the audience as well. And so we are all left in ignorance of what is going on, which serves perfectly for a fearful setting. And this last episode helped set exactly that tone, taking full advantage of the ignorance. There is a need for that question to be answered: What is going on? And so, I'm hooked.
Which is strange, because there are other ways of achieving the same result. Creating that ignorance and leaving me, the viewer, asking that same question. Normally I find myself fed up with whatever show I'd be watching. Usually pretty quickly, I hate having things go on unexplained. Most especially if the show ends on that very same note. If the show doesn't answer that question by the time it ends, I'm usually pretty annoyed with the show and don't ever want to see it again. That's probably why I couldn't finish The Wheel of Time, an entire book that does not address the main characters in any way. So here I am, hooked on another show asking that same question. I find myself wondering how disappointing its going to be, because I'm fairly certain they're going to end the show without ever really explaining anything. But I keep watching, and I'm still entertained.
If I had more time, I'd binge my recordings and catch up in a day or two. Assuming I don't have to watch the episodes more than once. Having to repeat the episodes is why I'm taking it so slowly.
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