in this terrifying world

its been so long since i’ve been done with the show, yet this episode, Fish Out of the Water, keeps up me thinking all the time.

that, closely followed by the eulogy episode

that letter.

Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make. I’m sorry I got you fired, I’m sorry I never called you after.

it’s not like the show makes it particularly sad either, given the coupled nature of the characters, that they end up coming on later.

i see things being less morose than if one were to just stumble upon the song accidentally:

then listen to it on youtube to find comments relating to the show.

THEN stumbling across the episode’s ending by itself, with no context, without watching the show.

because that’s exactly what happened with me, and man, that ached, hard.

they were just some characters you know nothing about, only pure inference. it’s funny, actually. because i did have a small notion of what the show was: some horse-man in some world. why was it filled with water? perhaps a flood took over the world. perhaps there’s some obscure yet intricate lore behind it, like some silly souls game, say, the region before the Four Kings in DS1.

and yet, the barely-a-minute-and-a-half ending sequence would cause enough ache to want to watch the show in its entirety. of course, it would soothe the ache because the context simply eases everything out, makes everything less morose.

but it, standalone?

the expressions, the letter, the ending and the music.

the episode works as a standalone short film

the show has a really nice sublime theme of “awareness isn’t cure.” sometimes less subtle, sometimes more. sometimes plain phrases of “just because you know what you’re doing is bad doesn’t make you any less bad”. sometimes episodes and actions, much of which is unfair of me to spoil.

really pretty, the show.

also Geese is pretty