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[proximoception]

So Johnno's not being Matt's son suggests males aren't rapists by nature; Robin's being his daughter, on the other hand, prevents her from clinging to the notion there's been some good patriarchal strand one can think fondly of, and assuming only foreign bad people do such things (like the Austrian molester). I'm not sure she's supposed to understand that she too may be capable of evil? It was unclear if we were supposed to disapprove of the broken glass scene. This would be a distractingly delicate point anyway, since those agreeing with everything else in the series would fall into separate camps about it.

Johnno's name is I guess a decision to except the "love" gospel as something that can be preserved out of otherwise too-compromised religion - a neat play on its hypothesized independence from the synoptic tradition. They were pretty circumspect about the religious element in general - mostly came through in Matt's flagellant mother worship and other purity obsessions.

It goes a bit past the Red Riding/Girl Who Whatever movies with these nuances. While keeping kind of quiet about them - the word "feminist" is only mentioned in one scene.

I haven't figured out the meaning of the lake story. In fact I can't remember the details. Obviously Al's house fits the title sequence imagery - paradisaical above, dark secrets beneath.

Matt's drugs represent what, power?

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[proximoception.livejournal.com]

And I guess the lake-walking had to do with Jesus' walking on water? The women fail because of lack of faith in Nobodaddy, which it turns out is appropriate?

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

We found the series gripping but by Episode 7 we were making fun by putting all of our running commentary in that ridiculous accent. Peter Mullan is great.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it got to the point where we wondered if they were cutting her lines to minimize the damage.