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[proximoception]

The most admirable thing about the show is how well it makes particular moments fit both the least-resistance, initial interpretation of viewers who don't yet know what's really happening, and the "oh right, yeah" realization of what was actually happening when you rewatch or think back. The most admirable thing about this most admirable thing is how the "remainder" is handled, those little bits of occurrence that don't parsimoniously fit the strawman interpretation. These bits are presented as texture, as things that don't happen quite straight because life doesn't happen quite straight; they lend, very ironically, verisimilitude, the belief that we're not being imposed upon by some mind's dry design. Whereas in fact they're straight as hell, and we need them to be, need everything to be pertinent to a sufficiently complex final explanation. Little dialogue, few gestures can be wasted or we lose that feeling of paranoia, of the malignant organization of all happenings, that we seem to love, at least in fiction. When the most random-seeming details turn out to be consequences of a single domino fall, that's just neat, and this method neatly underlines that neat effect. We thought only some things were connected, before. But it's all of them. Is this merely the sublimity proper to plot? Because it seems related to the making of god.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Yes. All in line with Poe's idea of singleness of effect, right? It seems to work especially well in the darker gothics which no surprise was where Poe was master.