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proximoceptionLegion 1.5
So nothing's really made me question my 1.1 reading, still. But I'm wondering about some details.
1. Have they been deliberately making him Han Solo-y, what with the vest and hair? And are they now making him (Clockwork Orange/If era) Malcolm Macdowellesque? What with the eyelashes, the homicidal prancing? Did they in fact hire this actor for looking like something of a cross between Harrison Ford and Macdowell? Lenny's death position back in 1.1 did seem to resemble Ford's freeze pose in The Empire Strikes Back. Solo and Alex from Clockwork Orange (source of "Clockworks"?) seem fitting as "good" and "bad" '70s-nerd ego ideals, I guess.
2. What's with the extreme Kubrickness (2001 white chamber, Shining hotel room, Clockwork rape house) of David's new version of the "astral plane," which in retrospect tells us the color shift back in 1.1 (the red) was also supposed to be Kubrickian? Is this show a version of 2001 where our struggle with technology makes us into a different sort of end-state space-baby - a paradoxically vengeful solipsist? If so, is Jemaine's coffee machine voice going to come back in some more Hal-like form? Elevators were mentioned, though I haven't noticed his voice in any of the elevator scenes.
3. Lenny making out with him = him fucking himself, I guess? A short circuit. Jemaine is to Jean Smart as David is to his sister, Bill Irwin is to the "Native [inborn?] girl" as David is to the Rogue-like girlfriend. Is there some inherent gender dysphoria to nerds? I imagine Hawley's pondering Tomb Raider and Resident Evil-type leads, where some model-looking female is imbued with that Harrison Ford personality. That's always been big with X-Men type stories, e.g. Buffy - Legion's original comic book arc was presumably a sort of preemptive foil to the Phoenix character's. (EDIT: looked this up, ain't true; I'm confusing Legion with another character, named Proteus - Legion apparently was created years later.) Retreat into fantasy lets you create fantasy girls but then merges you with them, since you can't actually imagine a plausible separate person (in part because of that retreat)? Or is there more to it? What kind of fruit was that in the bowl with those bugs? Strawberries, right? Some part of David knows this is fantasy, is working against the fantasy. So the threatening Eyes becomes the threatening Yellow Eyed Demon (how he fears he really looks, I still assume) becomes a psychiatrist cajoling him into self-examination.
So nothing's really made me question my 1.1 reading, still. But I'm wondering about some details.
1. Have they been deliberately making him Han Solo-y, what with the vest and hair? And are they now making him (Clockwork Orange/If era) Malcolm Macdowellesque? What with the eyelashes, the homicidal prancing? Did they in fact hire this actor for looking like something of a cross between Harrison Ford and Macdowell? Lenny's death position back in 1.1 did seem to resemble Ford's freeze pose in The Empire Strikes Back. Solo and Alex from Clockwork Orange (source of "Clockworks"?) seem fitting as "good" and "bad" '70s-nerd ego ideals, I guess.
2. What's with the extreme Kubrickness (2001 white chamber, Shining hotel room, Clockwork rape house) of David's new version of the "astral plane," which in retrospect tells us the color shift back in 1.1 (the red) was also supposed to be Kubrickian? Is this show a version of 2001 where our struggle with technology makes us into a different sort of end-state space-baby - a paradoxically vengeful solipsist? If so, is Jemaine's coffee machine voice going to come back in some more Hal-like form? Elevators were mentioned, though I haven't noticed his voice in any of the elevator scenes.
3. Lenny making out with him = him fucking himself, I guess? A short circuit. Jemaine is to Jean Smart as David is to his sister, Bill Irwin is to the "Native [inborn?] girl" as David is to the Rogue-like girlfriend. Is there some inherent gender dysphoria to nerds? I imagine Hawley's pondering Tomb Raider and Resident Evil-type leads, where some model-looking female is imbued with that Harrison Ford personality. That's always been big with X-Men type stories, e.g. Buffy - Legion's original comic book arc was presumably a sort of preemptive foil to the Phoenix character's. (EDIT: looked this up, ain't true; I'm confusing Legion with another character, named Proteus - Legion apparently was created years later.) Retreat into fantasy lets you create fantasy girls but then merges you with them, since you can't actually imagine a plausible separate person (in part because of that retreat)? Or is there more to it? What kind of fruit was that in the bowl with those bugs? Strawberries, right? Some part of David knows this is fantasy, is working against the fantasy. So the threatening Eyes becomes the threatening Yellow Eyed Demon (how he fears he really looks, I still assume) becomes a psychiatrist cajoling him into self-examination.
