@aliciakennedy In a profession setting, though? I think the core issue for me was that he was the center of so many peoples livelihoods, which - again, for me - does change the standard of acceptable behavior. But really curious to read your longform thoughts on this.
When I heard Alice’s artificial voice, the only thing I could think of was the cat in Les plages d’Agnès [The Beaches of Agnès] - here, AV says she just does it to mask the voice of a shy friend, but the robotic voice is inquisitive throughout the documentary… #tvaestheticsgc
…particularly about her late husband Jacques Demy, and I wonder if there’s a connection w an artificial voice and an inability to fully access hard/painful memories of a lost love one #tvaestheticsgc
I don’t think the show has fully thought through the politics of what it means to have a detail like this and really wish there’d been more time given to this issue of reproduction, not just as a shock factor at the end #TVaestheticsGC
So, I *really* wish #3percent had done more with this, since it feels like the key to the imagined world the show inhabits. This was my second viewing, and I’d somehow FORGOTTEN that this was a line. It’s mentioned later one other time in a flashback w Julia 1/3 #tvaestheticsgc
Attempting to augment the Inland population is critical for the Offshore, since it not only literally provides the 3% of the next generation but also effectively is encouraging overpopulation (turn your grief into children) - a way to exacerbate the Inland’s lack of resources 2/3
@GhenwaAntonios It was necessary for him to behave that way in that ep to create the conflict, but didn't logically suit the knowledge he should have had from prior episodes. #TVaestheticsGC
@GhenwaAntonios This speaks to an overall issue I had which was that each individual episode seemed to function w its own slightly altered logic, preventing a cohesiveness throughout the season. #TVaestheticsGC
I may add more examples as I work through the show, but to start I'm thinking about the scene in ep. 3 with Anja, Dijana, and Marko in the kitchen when Anja first shows her sister the papers which likely prove her husband's corruption:
This, I think, works really well - without music doing more heavy-lifting in terms of plot, and by keeping the soundtrack minimal, the viewer is emotionally left as unsure of things as the characters on the screen. 2/5 #TVaestheticsGC
Starting off my thoughts for this week by sharing this article, which I find a useful and provocative complication of 1-1 equation that Squid Game=critique of capitalism. 1/3 #TVaestheticsGC
https://t.co/3dp9KpcF9J