End of an era...
Nov. 12th, 2002 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyI've now seen all of the Kowalski episodes (at least)once through.
I'm thinking of doing the Vecchio ones now. Concentrate on really examining the way Fraser grows and changes. Also, looking at how his dad and Dief are parts of his psyche. Though, naturally, that's not all they are. But all characters in a series are there to illustrate the character of the main character(s). Everyone and everything in Buffy is about Buffy, ditto with Angel in Angel.
And due South is about Benton Fraser's journey to Chicago and then back home, and how he changes in the process. He develops a relationship with his father, most notably, he learns how to forgive his father for not being present. He discovers that he does have a family connection in the Great North. And he finds love. And he finds out that home is just where you left it, but maybe you need to get lost to really know that.
And as the show is about Ben's journey, every character is, at least in theory, a reflection of Ben or of something that he needs to face. This is both less and more true in the third season, where Paul Gross made it more of an ensemble show (I love Paul Gross). Because everyone we know has been changed by Fraser in a few ways. And he by them. Rather like life, but since the show focuses on Fraser (though also on Ray, especially in the third season, as I understand it), his view of life is what we see.
We see what Fraser is like with his walls down. Vecchio doesn't. He doesn't see Ben crying. In the crying Vecchio episode, is Fraser there? (I have not seen it.) Fraser is there to see Ray cry in The Ladies' Man.
Also, Vecchio is not in the livejournal dictionary, but Kowalski is.
I'm thinking of doing the Vecchio ones now. Concentrate on really examining the way Fraser grows and changes. Also, looking at how his dad and Dief are parts of his psyche. Though, naturally, that's not all they are. But all characters in a series are there to illustrate the character of the main character(s). Everyone and everything in Buffy is about Buffy, ditto with Angel in Angel.
And due South is about Benton Fraser's journey to Chicago and then back home, and how he changes in the process. He develops a relationship with his father, most notably, he learns how to forgive his father for not being present. He discovers that he does have a family connection in the Great North. And he finds love. And he finds out that home is just where you left it, but maybe you need to get lost to really know that.
And as the show is about Ben's journey, every character is, at least in theory, a reflection of Ben or of something that he needs to face. This is both less and more true in the third season, where Paul Gross made it more of an ensemble show (I love Paul Gross). Because everyone we know has been changed by Fraser in a few ways. And he by them. Rather like life, but since the show focuses on Fraser (though also on Ray, especially in the third season, as I understand it), his view of life is what we see.
We see what Fraser is like with his walls down. Vecchio doesn't. He doesn't see Ben crying. In the crying Vecchio episode, is Fraser there? (I have not seen it.) Fraser is there to see Ray cry in The Ladies' Man.
Also, Vecchio is not in the livejournal dictionary, but Kowalski is.