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u know what, the special edition is all well and good but this ending actually fully wrecked me in the way that I needed and didn& #39;t even realize
within the narrative, wwx and lwj working their way towards each other outside of conflict and the sense of a debt owed, a chance at finding who they can be to each other without lives at stake, and realizing they *want* to be together without any other goal to accomplish.
outside the narrative: the reality in which a show like this is made, and the book it was adapted from, and the restrictions they have to work within, and still trying to make as emotionally an honest of a work they can.
it& #39;s hard to make emotionally honest art as it is, it& #39;s harder still to make emotionally honest collaborative art, much less on a scale of a television show, and even harder still do so in the political environment they have to work within.
but they tried anyway.
but they tried anyway.
i just think that& #39;s neat.
like, you can feel on every level of the production, from writers, to producers, to directors, to actors, they *know* intrinsically, what the story is about. that clarity of vision is hard for anything, harder still for something you& #39;re not allowed to name.
they did it anyway.
they did it anyway.
sorry!!! day job is often a shade of that similar struggle between what is best for the work vs. what will get approved, and I think I respond super hard to seeing creative collaboration that succeeds despite restrictions, be it budget, political, structural.
