10/9/13
View Logs: Low Winter Sun S1 Episode 7
Episode Title: There Was A GirlI have to thank Low Winter Sun for making my predicament of being in another shell even worse. So, good thing about being a cablebox that's... well... alive is that I'm a fricking cablebox! TV literally comes into my processor! Oh joy I now have access to almost every TV show out there! So... the bad thing about being a cablebox... I now really easily forget shows that are bad in a boring mediocre way.
So with that kind of intro you can guess how Low Winter Sun panned out for me: forgettable. Especially this episode where I'm having a hard time remembering what even occurred. See... fiction being memorable can be a very weird duality. On one end you have shows that are just so amazing they literally change your lives and you will remember it fairly vividly. Even if you can't recount every single plot point in the script, you have a very solid idea of what happened point by point. Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Firefly, Band of Brothers/The Pacific, The Tudors. All great examples of shows that really carve a place in your memory (assuming you've been open to receiving it that is.) On the other end of the extreme are shows that are so bad they just can't help but occupy your mind anytime you need a laugh. As the World Turns, Sleepy Hollow, Dads...
Low Winter Sun falls squarely in the middle. I think it says a lot that I've had to binge on a lot of TV that I fell behind on only to forget what happened in this episode of Low Winter Sun... so yes... this view log is a little bit rambling and off topic to episode 7 because I'm kinda out of things to say about the show and it's only 10 episodes for season 1! This episode was more of the same. The only thing that was probably a little better than the boring norm was Geddes and Agnew's confrontation on Geddes' boat. Let me just say that I'm growing to understand Geddes less and less as the show goes on... which is pretty sloppy writing. Geddes keeps saying he's this "weak man" who succumbs to corruption because it's just easy. Well... actually accepting and even going along with corruption doesn't necessarily have to mean that the person is weak. It could be a great number of character flaws that makes a person accepting of institutional corruption. Geddes never really seemed like a character to engage in corruption just because "he's weak".
Let's recap:
- Geddes was the one who decided to kill Brendan and roped in Frank.
- Geddes was the one who decided to let Katja go against Brendan's orders.
- Geddes was the one who was first hesitant on pinning the crime on Callis.
I don't know... actually Geddes seems like he does believe in a right and wrong. Misguided sure. But he actually seems like he believes in his own sense of justice. So how come all of a sudden he's this character that's "given into" corruption because it's easier? Honestly vigilante justice is a poor form of justice because it's often too easy of a solution for the actual problem. But the type of corruption that Geddes is talking about isn't the same type that would spawn rash vigilante justice. So why did this character cross that boundary? Did Chris Mundy just assumed that all forms of corruption are the same? Because they are not... they are totally not...
Actually the more I think about this show the more this show becomes bad than mediocre. Chris Mundy's confusing his characters and that's not acceptable anywhere in fiction. Plot lines have a little more leeway to be convoluted or maybe contrived. Characters? No. Absolutely not. At this point, the UK version is better because atleast the characters are clear.
