Date: 2015-12-15 01:58 am (UTC)
I love that you started this review with the short list of likes--I think your list is actually longer than mine. I do love your photo manip because Leo is definitely worth it. If Leo gets an ad for hair products, then Riario needs a commercial for eye makeup ... ;D Also, Riario handling his blades this season really gets my engine revving even more than usual.

I don't want to spoil you anymore than you've been accidentally spoiled, but I think that they retconned bits of the show, and after repeated viewings, I wonder if certain things are confusing and feel very off because they were reshot after Goyer decided to take his toys and go home and not let them have a fourth season. They said they reshot certain things after knowing they were canceled in order to give closure, and I really hope that's what made bits of what I HATE happen.

I totally agree about your overall thoughts on ep 4 — I was side-eyeing the few fans I follow on Twitter who were gushing that it was their favorite ep. I just...don't see that that life is what Leo would have dreamed of. Most of my confusion comes from trying to understand why he was having the vision. As far as I've seen and heard in the actual show, it's never clearly spelled out why he was seeing the alternate world. That makes all the difference to me.

If he was fantasizing the entire thing himself to escape from the reality of torture, I just can't in any way imagine him wanting the whole hetero dream of wife and kid and that alone and willingly giving up his friends who he loves.

If he was having a vision of what could be if he gave in to the The Labyrinth and didn't escape, that's even worse because the world would fall around him and he'd be shacked up living a "normal" life. The Leo we've seen and loved all this time has never shown that he would ever want what others consider a "normal" life.

I like your comparisons to that Buffy episode because that one messed me up for a long time. It was one of the few that I could only watch once because it was so real and made me wonder about the nature of reality and it left me with chills I still feel all these years later.

I have an entire rant comparing Leo's little trip down AU road with a plot point in the Wheel of Time book series, but I'm not going to go there. Basically, my problem with the episode boiled down to: what was causing the hallucination? If it was a vision provided by The Labyrinth to keep him trapped, shouldn't it show what he desired most? This didn't. It really didn't make any sense to me other than pandering to the audience who wanted some kind of Leo/Lucrezia interaction, idk.

I love that you're putting more deep thought into the mythology of the show than the writers and showrunners. There are few answers, and I think they couldn't finish up and tie together all the mythology threads because of time constraints, and I wonder if they got a bit confused and at the last minute changed the motivations of the different groups. Buffy was phenomenal because they kept their mythology straight, and DVD was excellent at that right up until this season. IDK I was left with a lot more questions.

I got through this episode every time by focusing on Riario lol. It's so interesting that he barely left Leo out of his sight. It seems like Riario was alone through all his torture, but there he is, lurking around most of the time and keeping an eye on Leo, even questioning the Architect's treatment of him. If that isn't love...well, some sort of caring, I don't know what is.

One interesting theory I saw someone mention was where is Riario during Leo's vision? If he survived the war, maybe HE became the Architect, which is actually a very chilling thought and also gives me the creeps.
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