This is the deep shit.
excerpts from tea at ford:
What Lindsey tells Angel in effect is "you sold out". I'm not sure anyone below the age of 30 can possibly understand this speech. (Although it's possible). You have to know what it is like to go to a job you "hate", work for a company that does things you *don't* believe in, and be afraid to quit. And I'm not talking about those temp jobs you get in your teens and twenties when you're trying to figure out what to do, I'm talking about a job you've had for six years, and you're stuck and scared to leave but know you should even though going is like cutting out a chunk of your heart. And you wonder how did I get here? I didn't plan on this? How do I get off this path? I have no where else to go. What will I do? Who will support me? And I don't want to give up that benefits plan.
Evil is a weird thing. Sometimes it's the evil of the everyday that gets us - the ruts we get stuck in, our comfort zone, where we stay in a holding pattern and never do anything to jump out of it. We put up with shit (sorry sort of works in this context), because we are afraid of alternatives. This shit can be anything from sexual harrassment, bullying, random insults to people around us that we choose to ignore, hurting others to climb the ladder, intolerance by our religion or our company towards people of different sexual orientation or creed or race or what have you. It's little things. Things examined for instance in Harm's Way episode 5.9. Actually Harm's Way does a lovely job of tabulating all the little things that Angel is ignoring as he signs his checks and papers and holds his meetings and grieves for his son. We think it's the melodrama -the monsters in the street, the clearly nasty people and clearly good - but to be honest, I think the writers are actually hitting at the more mundane evils that threaten to unravel us.
Just a few initial thoughts.
- shadowkat (Thu 2004.04.15 at 01:50 pm EST)
Screening Room: AtS : A5.17 Underneath : A5.17 Underneath first showing
What Lindsey tells Angel in effect is "you sold out". I'm not sure anyone below the age of 30 can possibly understand this speech. (Although it's possible). You have to know what it is like to go to a job you "hate", work for a company that does things you *don't* believe in, and be afraid to quit. And I'm not talking about those temp jobs you get in your teens and twenties when you're trying to figure out what to do, I'm talking about a job you've had for six years, and you're stuck and scared to leave but know you should even though going is like cutting out a chunk of your heart. And you wonder how did I get here? I didn't plan on this? How do I get off this path? I have no where else to go. What will I do? Who will support me? And I don't want to give up that benefits plan.
Evil is a weird thing. Sometimes it's the evil of the everyday that gets us - the ruts we get stuck in, our comfort zone, where we stay in a holding pattern and never do anything to jump out of it. We put up with shit (sorry sort of works in this context), because we are afraid of alternatives. This shit can be anything from sexual harrassment, bullying, random insults to people around us that we choose to ignore, hurting others to climb the ladder, intolerance by our religion or our company towards people of different sexual orientation or creed or race or what have you. It's little things. Things examined for instance in Harm's Way episode 5.9. Actually Harm's Way does a lovely job of tabulating all the little things that Angel is ignoring as he signs his checks and papers and holds his meetings and grieves for his son. We think it's the melodrama -the monsters in the street, the clearly nasty people and clearly good - but to be honest, I think the writers are actually hitting at the more mundane evils that threaten to unravel us.
Just a few initial thoughts.
- shadowkat (Thu 2004.04.15 at 01:50 pm EST)
Screening Room: AtS : A5.17 Underneath : A5.17 Underneath first showing
