Like uhhhm what's his name The Thin Red Line or that Pocahontas film w Collin Ferrel (sounds amazing i know but actually really good) Terrence Malick! The Fountain! Feeling instead is given this ridiculous precedence.Īnd that's even ok to a degree, like, some film is ALL about TONE, which I think is another thing that Station 11 is going for. Station Eleven, again, wasn't so interested in actual EVENTS as they related to how ppl felt. The show opens with us seeing exactly how David has suffered due to the mental schisms he's experienced. Legion is super discursive and zooms in on ppls feelings in a really major way and gets INCREDIBLY surreal and abstract but all of that is also married to something that MATTERS. Not interested in telling a traditional narrative? That's fine! There's plenty of shit like that i can dig. Like it employs a lot of tactics that on their own aren't necessarily damning. Yea i love that ppl get where i was coming from because I was afraid i would come off as like just pooh-pooh'ing the idea of high artistic ideals mixed in w pop culture which i totally am NOT. I had no idea so many ppl had responded to this lol. It's honestly contemptuous of stories as such, and really it wants to demonstrate the grand mystery of the human soul or bla bla bla bla ugh. It bothers me because I like the cast, I like some of the performance, but I can already see that it cares so much more about establishing a vaguely-defined FEELING than telling a story. How Great is Your Damage as the Silver Moon Above Us Weepingly Peanut-Butter Oh and btw that actor was the mentor to this little girl that grew up to be an actress in teh post-apocalyptic world that by the way is receiving strange messages from the graphic novel written by the one chick which apparently is personified by the literal spaceship floating above it all? A thousand little quirky details, all of which are metaphors for something else, none of which means fucking anything. The end of the world? About as signficant as this one chicks' failed marriage to a hollywood actor. That's how Station Eleven feels to me, Ep. But like, the characters are just a collection of little details, umm like, specific details, that are tailor-made to differentiate them in a workshop, if that makes sense, and they're just vehicles for trauma, instead of like, PEOPLE. Everything is a metaphor, everything is a FEELING. Everything is shown, not told, plot is always secondary to 'theme', pathos, pathos, pathos. Here's the thing – There's a type of fiction that's become more and more popular over the years, 'Workshop fiction'.
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