Stop. Trauma time!
Sep. 16th, 2006 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo, the DVD of Trauma showed up today from Netflix.
Yeah, I noticed that people were featured coming in and out of the Cellar of Doom for the two episodes prior to the really important one. And obviously, the trouble with the Fusebox of Death that started in the previous episode wasn't meant to be foreshadowing at all. Noooo, never.
But at least there was pretty before the trauma. Pretty I'd seen before thanks to YouTube, but this was bigger and brighter and on my TV, so that was excellent. That lake Peter and Assumpta go walking by is simply amazing. And they're so cute and happy together, even if Peter's also sad about having to leave the priesthood to pursue the relationship and Assumpta's still kind of shy and...eeeee. *squishes*
Loved the bit by the river, where they're kind of snarking at each other while they have this big talk about how they're finally taking steps to actually be together. Of course, I'm also over here shouting, "Kiss her at least, you fool! Don't just hold her hand! You have less than six hours left before she DIES HORRIBLY!"
Sometimes I wish it were possible to remain unspoiled for TV shows that have been off the air for years.
Anyway, I got to the forty-third minute, and they've just had that adorable exchange where Peter says, "I love you" and Assumpta tells him to take the collar off before he says things like that, and they're grinning like fools at each other, and then the lights go off. And of course Assumpta insists on fixing the fusebox herself, despite the numerous moments of foreshadowing that It Will Kill You.
And just as she's heading down, I press pause and desperately wish I drank, because I'm not sure that I can actually watch it without something to dull the pain. Tea is not helping at this point.
(...Shut UP, I am not overinvolved in this show.)
Anyway, after a moment, I buck myself up with the idea that I'll kick myself if I don't go ahead and watch it. So I do. And Kieran Prendiville, the writer, has used every trick in the book to emphasize the horrible pain of it all: he's got Peter holding Assumpta's cold, dead hand and telling her not to leave him, Father Mac insisting that Peter perform the last rites, despite Assumpta's insistence earlier in the series that she didn't want them, Peter finally acquiescing, through, like, a flood of tears and a really shaky voice; then it gets all pathetic fallacy by raining like cats and dogs outside, including lightning, as they load her into the ambulance, and Peter wanders down to the bridge over the River Angel and throws his collar in the river before collapsing on the stone railing, crying his little heart out. And they've got The Peter and Assumpta Theme, Sad Variation, playing in the background, taking the place of the regular bouncy theme music as they go to credits.
And I fell for it hook, line, and sinker, because I am that much of a sucker. I currently hate everyone involved in this show for making me cry like a little girl.
"Amongst Friends," which might more properly be called "The Aftermath," picks up immediately after, and by immediately I mean Peter's still slouched against the bridge railing in the opening shot. Wah.
As good as the rest of this episode was, particularly the wake, I have to say that what Ambrose and several of the other townsfolk say to poor Peter was a misstep. It's the morning after Assumpta's death. You all knew he was in love with her. You can't give him twenty-four hours on his own to pick up the pieces before lambasting him for not being at the church to dispense platitudes? Sure, that's his job, but come on. I know even Ambrose is more sensitive than that.
Leo officially creeped me out in this episode. I'd never liked him, but of course we weren't supposed to. He's an Obstacle. But while he undoubtedly had an aura of slime around him, in other circumstances, I would've thought he was okay. But no...this time he was creepy and scary and needed to get out of town. Without the dog, if you please. (Dude, don't try to drive off with your dead so-close-to-ex-it-might-as-well-be-true-wife's dog. The kid who actually loves the dog will catch you, and rightly so.)
The wake, while weirdly waaaaaay up on some mountainside next to that lough where P&A had their talk, was gorgeous. And it made me cry again. Grar. Brendan quoted Yeats's "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" ("But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"--yes, I recognized it right off), and everyone was looking at Peter, and ow, ow, ow. Your secret was sooo not a secret, buddy.
Y'know, I read somewhere that while part of the reason Assumpta was killed off was that Dervla Kirwan wanted a clean break and didn't want to be tempted back to reprise the role--which, okay, whatever, I see her point--the other part was that Prendiville thought the show had been getting "too cosy" and needed to be "shaken up."
Um.
Did he not watch his own series during the last season? There was all the trauma with P&A, with their little "breakup" and her marrying Leo and everything, which is enough pain for any show, plus Brian going bankrupt, plus Peter's mother dying. Please to be understanding the meaning of "cosy," mister writer-man. Oy.
Anyway. I think I need to go read some AUs now...
Yeah, I noticed that people were featured coming in and out of the Cellar of Doom for the two episodes prior to the really important one. And obviously, the trouble with the Fusebox of Death that started in the previous episode wasn't meant to be foreshadowing at all. Noooo, never.
But at least there was pretty before the trauma. Pretty I'd seen before thanks to YouTube, but this was bigger and brighter and on my TV, so that was excellent. That lake Peter and Assumpta go walking by is simply amazing. And they're so cute and happy together, even if Peter's also sad about having to leave the priesthood to pursue the relationship and Assumpta's still kind of shy and...eeeee. *squishes*
Loved the bit by the river, where they're kind of snarking at each other while they have this big talk about how they're finally taking steps to actually be together. Of course, I'm also over here shouting, "Kiss her at least, you fool! Don't just hold her hand! You have less than six hours left before she DIES HORRIBLY!"
Sometimes I wish it were possible to remain unspoiled for TV shows that have been off the air for years.
Anyway, I got to the forty-third minute, and they've just had that adorable exchange where Peter says, "I love you" and Assumpta tells him to take the collar off before he says things like that, and they're grinning like fools at each other, and then the lights go off. And of course Assumpta insists on fixing the fusebox herself, despite the numerous moments of foreshadowing that It Will Kill You.
And just as she's heading down, I press pause and desperately wish I drank, because I'm not sure that I can actually watch it without something to dull the pain. Tea is not helping at this point.
(...Shut UP, I am not overinvolved in this show.)
Anyway, after a moment, I buck myself up with the idea that I'll kick myself if I don't go ahead and watch it. So I do. And Kieran Prendiville, the writer, has used every trick in the book to emphasize the horrible pain of it all: he's got Peter holding Assumpta's cold, dead hand and telling her not to leave him, Father Mac insisting that Peter perform the last rites, despite Assumpta's insistence earlier in the series that she didn't want them, Peter finally acquiescing, through, like, a flood of tears and a really shaky voice; then it gets all pathetic fallacy by raining like cats and dogs outside, including lightning, as they load her into the ambulance, and Peter wanders down to the bridge over the River Angel and throws his collar in the river before collapsing on the stone railing, crying his little heart out. And they've got The Peter and Assumpta Theme, Sad Variation, playing in the background, taking the place of the regular bouncy theme music as they go to credits.
And I fell for it hook, line, and sinker, because I am that much of a sucker. I currently hate everyone involved in this show for making me cry like a little girl.
"Amongst Friends," which might more properly be called "The Aftermath," picks up immediately after, and by immediately I mean Peter's still slouched against the bridge railing in the opening shot. Wah.
As good as the rest of this episode was, particularly the wake, I have to say that what Ambrose and several of the other townsfolk say to poor Peter was a misstep. It's the morning after Assumpta's death. You all knew he was in love with her. You can't give him twenty-four hours on his own to pick up the pieces before lambasting him for not being at the church to dispense platitudes? Sure, that's his job, but come on. I know even Ambrose is more sensitive than that.
Leo officially creeped me out in this episode. I'd never liked him, but of course we weren't supposed to. He's an Obstacle. But while he undoubtedly had an aura of slime around him, in other circumstances, I would've thought he was okay. But no...this time he was creepy and scary and needed to get out of town. Without the dog, if you please. (Dude, don't try to drive off with your dead so-close-to-ex-it-might-as-well-be-true-wife's dog. The kid who actually loves the dog will catch you, and rightly so.)
The wake, while weirdly waaaaaay up on some mountainside next to that lough where P&A had their talk, was gorgeous. And it made me cry again. Grar. Brendan quoted Yeats's "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" ("But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"--yes, I recognized it right off), and everyone was looking at Peter, and ow, ow, ow. Your secret was sooo not a secret, buddy.
Y'know, I read somewhere that while part of the reason Assumpta was killed off was that Dervla Kirwan wanted a clean break and didn't want to be tempted back to reprise the role--which, okay, whatever, I see her point--the other part was that Prendiville thought the show had been getting "too cosy" and needed to be "shaken up."
Um.
Did he not watch his own series during the last season? There was all the trauma with P&A, with their little "breakup" and her marrying Leo and everything, which is enough pain for any show, plus Brian going bankrupt, plus Peter's mother dying. Please to be understanding the meaning of "cosy," mister writer-man. Oy.
Anyway. I think I need to go read some AUs now...
