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Current Talk '14 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0751
« on: July 23, 2014, 07:08:46 AM »
I guess we're 60% of the way through DS at this point. At the end of this storyline, though, I'll have completed a total circuit. I began the WP as Leviathans started.
Welcome Dorcas, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose she must have started during my tape gap. I suppose the only reason Dorcas hasn't been lured into some sexual thing with Greg yet is that she has, presumably, no money. He has a nice stable of pretties going, though. We get a great Trask speech about how Rachel arouses his amoral instincts. This really is a well thought-out psychological portrait, questioning and holding up to examination, on network television, a kind of personality that society too often condones and shelters. In the '60s, this was part of the questioning going on-- peering underneath the mask of previously unassailable respectability, and authority. Doing this in a period piece made it easier to get away with it, in the same way that science fiction gets away with such questioning because, after all, it's all happening in the future, not now... Applause for Violet Welles. This scene made me think of the Dr. Strangelove "Purity of Essence" insanity, an even creepier peering-into of a warped figure in a position of authority.
I think it must be a classic psychological control tactic, doing really nothing but punishing and intimidating, yet turning around and claiming to be the victim's best friend, even the person's only hope of safety or redemption in this world. That does something to the victim, and I can't put my finger on it. That's part of the effect though, a confusion in the victim's mind over everything, whom to trust, who's doing right or wrong, I guess leaving the authority figure as the only one with the power and wisdom to sort it all out. All this is in my head now, because someone who put me into a position like this is trying to regain entry into my life, and old feelings are reviving, to put it mildly. I am your only friend! Trask keeps on saying. He keeps re-arranging the world, switching heroes and villains, playing with reality. It's a sort of elaborate moral gaslighting.
"I can do anything I want."-- G Trask.
Rachel, a murderer/murderess? Well, the cops aren't after her. This is one of those plot twists I'll just have to wait to see when my tape gap's filled in. Don't tell me! Farewell, Dorcas. (Gail Strickland.) It wasn't pleasant. Rachel is left to point out to us, the viewers that, goodness, she was horribly mutilated!
Welcome Dorcas, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose she must have started during my tape gap. I suppose the only reason Dorcas hasn't been lured into some sexual thing with Greg yet is that she has, presumably, no money. He has a nice stable of pretties going, though. We get a great Trask speech about how Rachel arouses his amoral instincts. This really is a well thought-out psychological portrait, questioning and holding up to examination, on network television, a kind of personality that society too often condones and shelters. In the '60s, this was part of the questioning going on-- peering underneath the mask of previously unassailable respectability, and authority. Doing this in a period piece made it easier to get away with it, in the same way that science fiction gets away with such questioning because, after all, it's all happening in the future, not now... Applause for Violet Welles. This scene made me think of the Dr. Strangelove "Purity of Essence" insanity, an even creepier peering-into of a warped figure in a position of authority.
I think it must be a classic psychological control tactic, doing really nothing but punishing and intimidating, yet turning around and claiming to be the victim's best friend, even the person's only hope of safety or redemption in this world. That does something to the victim, and I can't put my finger on it. That's part of the effect though, a confusion in the victim's mind over everything, whom to trust, who's doing right or wrong, I guess leaving the authority figure as the only one with the power and wisdom to sort it all out. All this is in my head now, because someone who put me into a position like this is trying to regain entry into my life, and old feelings are reviving, to put it mildly. I am your only friend! Trask keeps on saying. He keeps re-arranging the world, switching heroes and villains, playing with reality. It's a sort of elaborate moral gaslighting.
"I can do anything I want."-- G Trask.
Rachel, a murderer/murderess? Well, the cops aren't after her. This is one of those plot twists I'll just have to wait to see when my tape gap's filled in. Don't tell me! Farewell, Dorcas. (Gail Strickland.) It wasn't pleasant. Rachel is left to point out to us, the viewers that, goodness, she was horribly mutilated!