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proximoceptionFargo 3.1-2
Seems like Fargo 3's doing something with technology?
The telex vs. computers scene.
The different ways people have taken that gas station attendant's phone books over the years.
The instant destruction of the lawyer who tried to google when he didn't know what an "enter" key was.
The very old science fiction. Prescient warnings from a safer, blander past?
The Vargas group's being presented as an expansion of the IT dep't. A lie, but one telling a truth?
Can't tell yet if the old sportscar, the AC unit or the stamp are part of that. The hummer seemed to be - so big and powerful that it was difficult to control. Seems to fit the new Chief, who sounds like he wants to militarize the department as well as modernize it. Dubious ambitions to expand and/or consolidate seem to unite the subplots.
So is Vargas pretty much the demon released by the internet? "You'll be billionaires - well, on paper" being some kind of reference to the financial crisis?
Coon's character follows a physical trail and gets concrete results, as compared to high tech policing, which processes and inimidates people?
The Russian being continuous with the Cossacks seems like the show's trying to be topical? The return of the Cossacks in cyber form.
A stamp was originally a physical (lip-licked, hand-voided) seal. So is the lack of a paper trail, a consistently physical aspect to the communication process, being condemned? Vargas' giving Stussy a million dollars sans interest paralleling the easy enrichment online intruments promise, and then the lack of control (because lack of understanding) that accompanies this shift?
Coon's invisibility to advanced technology is weirdly similar to what her other character is presently going through on The Leftovers.
The brothers seem like they're about to become reconciled when they're not being interfered with by Sy and/or the girlfriend. No idea what that means yet. The girlfriend isn't particularly technological, is she? I guess the Bridge tournament involved a counterintuitive amount of gadgetry.
Could the brothers be the classes? Symbolizing how inequality has grown? "He'll want interest next" sounds like rich person antisocialist paranoia, like the Republicans who feared universal health care because it would make the poorer majority realize they could vote themselves whatever they want, not just prevent lots of painful and/or early deaths.
Why 2010? Because of the movie? 2001 being a promise of liberation after mastering technology, 2010 a typo on that showing that as a species we're not the mastering sort? Or just a reassessment a few years later? What else happened that year. The tea party. The iphone explosion? Or was that earlier.
Vargas is attracted to the "blandness" of Minnesota, but seems to mean by that word how everything functions well - economy, government. Peace and prosperity. Enabled by stamps and telephone books and telexes? Whereas Vargas brings holding cells and computers and locked doors?
Seems like Fargo 3's doing something with technology?
The telex vs. computers scene.
The different ways people have taken that gas station attendant's phone books over the years.
The instant destruction of the lawyer who tried to google when he didn't know what an "enter" key was.
The very old science fiction. Prescient warnings from a safer, blander past?
The Vargas group's being presented as an expansion of the IT dep't. A lie, but one telling a truth?
Can't tell yet if the old sportscar, the AC unit or the stamp are part of that. The hummer seemed to be - so big and powerful that it was difficult to control. Seems to fit the new Chief, who sounds like he wants to militarize the department as well as modernize it. Dubious ambitions to expand and/or consolidate seem to unite the subplots.
So is Vargas pretty much the demon released by the internet? "You'll be billionaires - well, on paper" being some kind of reference to the financial crisis?
Coon's character follows a physical trail and gets concrete results, as compared to high tech policing, which processes and inimidates people?
The Russian being continuous with the Cossacks seems like the show's trying to be topical? The return of the Cossacks in cyber form.
A stamp was originally a physical (lip-licked, hand-voided) seal. So is the lack of a paper trail, a consistently physical aspect to the communication process, being condemned? Vargas' giving Stussy a million dollars sans interest paralleling the easy enrichment online intruments promise, and then the lack of control (because lack of understanding) that accompanies this shift?
Coon's invisibility to advanced technology is weirdly similar to what her other character is presently going through on The Leftovers.
The brothers seem like they're about to become reconciled when they're not being interfered with by Sy and/or the girlfriend. No idea what that means yet. The girlfriend isn't particularly technological, is she? I guess the Bridge tournament involved a counterintuitive amount of gadgetry.
Could the brothers be the classes? Symbolizing how inequality has grown? "He'll want interest next" sounds like rich person antisocialist paranoia, like the Republicans who feared universal health care because it would make the poorer majority realize they could vote themselves whatever they want, not just prevent lots of painful and/or early deaths.
Why 2010? Because of the movie? 2001 being a promise of liberation after mastering technology, 2010 a typo on that showing that as a species we're not the mastering sort? Or just a reassessment a few years later? What else happened that year. The tea party. The iphone explosion? Or was that earlier.
Vargas is attracted to the "blandness" of Minnesota, but seems to mean by that word how everything functions well - economy, government. Peace and prosperity. Enabled by stamps and telephone books and telexes? Whereas Vargas brings holding cells and computers and locked doors?
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Date: 2017-04-30 02:07 pm (UTC)Yeah, this is totally weirding me out.