I have tried, but I can't find the connections you seem able to see.
It's the same for me, only the other way round. After having read so many comments, I tend to think it's really a case of what elements and patterns one's brain focuses on during watching.
I think with Steven's death, the fact that Jack ignores him, doesn't look at him, doesn't try to comfort him and doesn't hold him, is the worst part, but as he'd done all that in ep 4, they couldn't have a repeat of it in ep 5.
IMO, if he'd done any of that he wouldn't have been able to go through with it. It's the same with Tommy in TtLM - the Jack who was still angry after something like 90 years that they shot shell shocked soldiers for cowardice shows no emotion or compassion at all towards Tommy himself, and can hardly look at him most of the time.
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Date: 2009-08-23 07:21 pm (UTC)It's the same for me, only the other way round. After having read so many comments, I tend to think it's really a case of what elements and patterns one's brain focuses on during watching.
I think with Steven's death, the fact that Jack ignores him, doesn't look at him, doesn't try to comfort him and doesn't hold him, is the worst part, but as he'd done all that in ep 4, they couldn't have a repeat of it in ep 5.
IMO, if he'd done any of that he wouldn't have been able to go through with it. It's the same with Tommy in TtLM - the Jack who was still angry after something like 90 years that they shot shell shocked soldiers for cowardice shows no emotion or compassion at all towards Tommy himself, and can hardly look at him most of the time.