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fagulaa · 10 days ago

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Something I really love about the Silt Verses is how, in a world of gods and monsters, how grounded Faulkner's trauma [and relationship with his father] is. Especially as the season moves on, and the stakes amp up [and up] its so unexpectedly piercing to be presented with this exploration of childhood abandonment/negligence, inter-generational trauma, the indignities and stress that comes with unexpected elder care/early onset Alzheimer's. You're so locked in to these grander, more abstract concepts that your defenses are down! Mine were, anyway. TSV is so good at cutting its grand, complex plotlines with simpler [but not shallower] gutpunches, and it just grounds the whole thing.

#the silt verses #other moments on the list #[the list being small but emotionally devistating grounded moments]#include: the lights coming back on in the aftermath of the strike during hayward and carpenters conversation #and you just. intuit the devistation #after all that. after all the fighting and protest. the lights come back on. you can HEAR the screaming in the silence #Faulkner's whole elder care thing with his dad #where he has to reckon with him as a person who made mistakes #and put his own resolution aside to take care of a man he had complex feelings for #also the Faulkner's dad/trawlerman connection is crazy to me its crazy #oh you want to worship the god with the garden do you faulkner #you want to be this gods enterpriter and favorite #what did your father do again?#oh also the god rocket scene #where we are put in the place of a sacrifice #the claustrophobia! the fear! the tinned patriotic speech! the narrowing down to a needle point of the overall themes of the story #the fucking microcosm of it all!#all the sandwhich shop scenes #the whole hotel episode #charity in the pub running for her life because CARPENTER reappears #also love how interconnected everything is #both carpenter and page knowing von #running back into charity #fantastic writing all round it's all so fucking TIGHT my god #the prose is killer the pacing is killer the acting is killer the STRUCTURE is killer #its just a fucking masterclass of storytelling like its just. GREAT #top to bottom.#like the sheer skill involved in making something like TSV #on all levels #is incredible I really do admire it

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