Director envy

[dreamer_easy]

A prose writer like me has many reasons to envy poets and directors, who can both do things we can't.

For example: the climactic scene in the first episode of LOM's second season (the box set arrived W00T). Crane taunts Sam about his obvious insane fantasy of being from the future. As Crane speaks, Sam turns around on the spot, again and again, sometimes delivering a line as he faces the other characters, and finally working out how to save the day - we see it in his expression.

Get it? It mirrors the shot that circles Sam when he first arrives in 1973 and takes in his surroundings. And he is turning Crane's taunts around - turning them into a weapon - and turning the situation around. It's a turning point!

qthewetsprocket points out Gene's abandoning his cigarette only when Sam needs his help. It occurred to me too that we hear the hospital staff saying they don't know how Sam managed to find the strength to keep going when Crane disconnected his airway - but of course, it was because Gene picked him up and half-carried him.

I suppose "Hyde" is a little joke - Sam's other self. Tee hee.

Comments

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

my first thought about 'hyde' was that he he was 'hiding' from something, ie the repressed childhood memory from s1. that's what's brilliant about that show though; so many things work on so many different levels.

re: the multiple 'turning' themes...that is completely brilliant, and something i never spotted before. *needs to go back and re-watch the entire series now, ohyes*

[jblum.livejournal.com]

It's the fact that the bus on which the victim at the opening was killed was going to Hyde (according to its route sign) which I thought was wicked. Because what happened on that bus leads directly to what's happening in Where Sam Came From.

I think the biggest "Hyde" thing, though, is just the whole "Gene as Sam's repressed shadow-self" thing that's run throughout the show so far. Though why it's painting the dark-side as being his home...?

Anyway, that's almost as cool as the way they paralleled Sam and Gene with a poster of Morecambe and Wise. :-)

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

I think the biggest "Hyde" thing, though, is just the whole "Gene as Sam's repressed shadow-self" thing that's run throughout the show so far. Though why it's painting the dark-side as being his home...?

it could possibly be that gene represents everything sam has learned to view as superficially 'bad' - racist, sexist, homophobic, overweight, alcoholic - but that subconsciously, he knows that he himself is capable of much greater evil - namely, going behind someone's back and consciously betraying a friend (ie handing over the incriminating tape to the superintendent). gene may have his flaws, but at least they're honest flaws, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, that's almost as cool as the way they paralleled Sam and Gene with a poster of Morecambe and Wise. :-)

omg, i so wish i'd seen an episode of that beforehand...i just about knew what they were getting at; ie that they were comparing them to a comedy duo, but i get the feeling it would have been so much funnier if i'd known the whole context.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Gene comes on like a boofhead, but is actually sharp as a tack and able to change his mind. Sam comes on as the honest one, but in 1.2, when he begins to act like Gene - "I'd never fit up anyone who didn't deserve it" -it's like his honesty is as shallow as Gene's boofheadedness.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

exactly. sam strikes me as someone who grew up believing that Always Following the Rules Makes You A Good Person, and gene is a direct contradiction to that theorem - thus the friction. (mmm, friction...)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

(mmm, friction...)

And no jelly!

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

I had so many ideas about Hyde and was almost entirely wrong on them all. Bugger.

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

HYDE! Oh my God! I never thought of that. Sam's Other Self. Brilliant.