So, I haven't watched any Fargo, and I wasn't planning on it, because I don't DO dark TV (I have tried several times to watch Spooks, because of Richard Armitage, and I just. can't. do. it.), but the timing of this post is seriously giving me chills.
Why? Because the novella-I-wrote-in-four-days turned out to be about the very things you bring up here. Only you talk about it way more concisely and clearly than I managed to do in the novella, which is one of the reasons I'm scared now to go back and revise it, because I know I NEED to make it more clear, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do it justice.
But yes. The emotional repression, the coming to terms with it, the realization that it's not so much Other People who are the problem as it is one's own ideas about Oneself and Other People, learning to stop listening to the Bad Voice ... I had no idea, when I started writing, that all of those issues (which are totally my own) were going to spill out. I thought I was writing a fun sci-fi adventure, not a journey of self-discovery.
And so, once again, you and I are on the exact same wave length, just in two different areas, without even knowing it. Like I said: UNCANNY.
And now I'm wrestling with whether or not I SHOULD watch Fargo.
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Date: 2014-06-18 02:58 pm (UTC)From:So, I haven't watched any Fargo, and I wasn't planning on it, because I don't DO dark TV (I have tried several times to watch Spooks, because of Richard Armitage, and I just. can't. do. it.), but the timing of this post is seriously giving me chills.
Why? Because the novella-I-wrote-in-four-days turned out to be about the very things you bring up here. Only you talk about it way more concisely and clearly than I managed to do in the novella, which is one of the reasons I'm scared now to go back and revise it, because I know I NEED to make it more clear, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do it justice.
But yes. The emotional repression, the coming to terms with it, the realization that it's not so much Other People who are the problem as it is one's own ideas about Oneself and Other People, learning to stop listening to the Bad Voice ... I had no idea, when I started writing, that all of those issues (which are totally my own) were going to spill out. I thought I was writing a fun sci-fi adventure, not a journey of self-discovery.
And so, once again, you and I are on the exact same wave length, just in two different areas, without even knowing it. Like I said: UNCANNY.
And now I'm wrestling with whether or not I SHOULD watch Fargo.