I wish I could have spoken to you last night.....I felt like the lone ranger out here who couldn't manage to love the scenes as much as everyone was raving despite some GREAT moments in the kitchen scene and bedroom scene.[/quote]
I went to bed early so didn't get to read your comments until this morning. Didn't want to post my muddled thoughts yesterday because I was feeling too lost with LTL and would only end up ruining the high which people on the forum were experiencing. Now that today's episode has brought everyone back down to Earth, I'm sure more and more people will begin feeling this way.
[quote=nureat01]And I have to agree....when I first saw that Dutta was drunk, I sighed a little in tiredness and thought...again?....I feel like they are repeating a pattern here.....but maybe they want to show that he wouldn't have mellowed unless he went out and got crazy drunk again....yes we know it's a typical Dutta trait....but like you pointed out in that paragraph, I had started to visualize something else with this whole bullet track and the aftermath.....and I also feel that Dutta's remorse didn't necessarily need to be shown through him getting drunk....again.....but I guess if I think about it again....anytime the man feels too much, he feels like drowning his feelings in alcohol....so guess that adds up.....I can still go along with that...[/quote]
And that's the problem...why did they want to show him as so mellowed? Something less intense on the scale of vulnerability would have worked just as well...conflicted remorse in a sober state would have flowed so much more harmoniously with the events of the build-up (the hospital scene) and the aftermath (today's episode). They fluctuated too much in the graph of emotions...going steadily with his internal struggle and making all these incidents have small impacts which would eventually add up to the big change in his behaviour would have seemed much more logically and aesthetically sensible.
I wish he had been sober, I really do. The scenes were beautiful, but they could have been tweaked around to be more impactful yet just as meaningful.
Just like the influx of songs recently, I hope alcohol makes an exit from the show for at least one week 😆...there's just been an over kill of it...so much, that like I said, it's looking like a plot contrivance now, and when that happens to something, it beings coming across as an artificial and easy-way out.