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This is another of my favorite episodes, number three to be exact.
I really like how the mirror maze sequence is done, it reminds me of the mirror maze scene in the 80's fantasy film "Something Wicked this Way Comes" though in that sequence it was mainly about Doctor Dark trying to destroy Holloway though illusions and lies. Here it's different where Jay is facing the truth. And once again gets into some of Carl Jung psychology on the venturing into the subconscious/unconscious mind where here it's a mirror maze, you can say represents the maze of the mind.
Mirrors in psychology and philosophy but also reality are meant to be representations of truth, as when you look at them you can only see yourself as you are. Here we see the mirror do more than that, but present truths hidden within the seer.
This episode stands out as it's finally cementing the bond between both Medea and Jay. Really like the scene when both discover each other which sort of gets at Freudian psychology. We see Medea closing in on Jay and Jay is in a tight spot, however we see Medea has glasses that help her see the right path in the maze but not Jay. She come very close to Jay, and he is close to her almost kissing distance, as she was still blind, he could of at that moment ran away but he choses not to. Because there really was no where left to go in the maze, but also, I feel a subconscious desire for him to be discovered by her but to also get simply close to her.
You can say this conveys a truth, on how we can see a person we desire from a distance, but they don't see us, likewise but we don't know it, we want to get close but at the same time were afraid once they do and once, they see us. These are all the common things that we naturally feel with desire, these things can also obscure us from taking the action we should make them real. However, really aren't hard to get past it only seems that way because we make it, in fact it's easy when you simply do one thing, go for it.
That's what both Medea and Jay do in the scene. With Medea it's taking off the glasses, the glasses represent illusion, Medea has mistakenly though she was after Jay for one reason, but it was really something else. Once the glasses were off the illusion was gone and she saw her desires in the flesh. Another was on Jay who didn't run, Jay throughout the show has run away from her mainly based on misunderstanding but also to keep chasing after his dad, however, was running away mainly because he was afraid of his own blossoming desires the feelings he has toward Medea which may be something else, something he has yet to understand. Despite a chance to run away, he decides not to because he already knows exactly where that easy path away leads and also, he wanted to understand these feelings and the best way to find them out was not to run.
Really like the back and forth both Medea and Jay have which is slightly conflicting but also there is warmth in it. Medea presents the truth to him as we see in one image of the mirror, when we see what really happened to Jay's father in the memory of the boat trip. And we see an ugly truth I personally suspected all along; it was no accident Jay's father abandoned him. Despite seeing this truth Jay refuses to accept it, which to me has always been Jay's Achilles heel his trouble in accepting certain truths in life, all no thanks to his father.
It makes sense as the mirror in the maze most are all fogged up, which is metaphor for denial; but as we see this is something Jay can no longer do for each of the mirrors face him giving him every opportunity to see, no matter how long he blocks it the truth still stands. But we see also his true love Medea is the one that shows him the truth, which is what good significant others should do and what they represent according to psychology and philosophy light. Yes, facing the reality of truth is scary and can hurt sometimes, but getting lost in illusion and lies hurts even more because the truth in life is no one can live in illusion.
I also feel this really gets more into what Downworld really is and it's what I've always felt about it that's it's not a dream world but an alternative world that is somehow connected with Jay's psyche. When Jay went into the coma he not just accessed that world but his alternative self, which is why that version of Jay can never come back to reality because Downworld really is his world he just hasn't accepted it yet.
It comes to a point where Jay has the make an uneasy decision but that is part of what responsibility and heroism is about making the hard choices. But this also gets into the Unitarianism philosophy on putting the needs of many over your own.
It also gets at the dynamic of love between two people. Jay has felt alone most to all of his life, but that was because he had an emptiness that needed to be filled which is the same with us all. Jay love and pursuit of his father he though could fill that emptiness, but Jay is wrong as it was only an illusion and illusions can't love. Medea is the one that is meant to fill that emptiness However, this is also about what one does and sacrifices for love, Jay went back not to save Downworld itself but to save Medea because he harbors deep feelings for her, he doesn't know entirely what those are yet but their real and so is she, which is why he had to sacrifice his own passage back home.
The final minutes at the end were sweet as we see Jay is in this room which is made to look like the universe, and we see Medea is there. Both have a warm exchange, and it looks like both are about to kiss. It's a warm and hopeful ending because here we see it's the very start of something big and beautiful, much like how the universe started with a collision of two forces to create the universe or the stars in the sky in which two forces come together to power the stars.
It's taken a long journey for both Jay and Medea to finally find each other.
Rating: 4 stars.
This is another of my favorite episodes, number three to be exact.
I really like how the mirror maze sequence is done, it reminds me of the mirror maze scene in the 80's fantasy film "Something Wicked this Way Comes" though in that sequence it was mainly about Doctor Dark trying to destroy Holloway though illusions and lies. Here it's different where Jay is facing the truth. And once again gets into some of Carl Jung psychology on the venturing into the subconscious/unconscious mind where here it's a mirror maze, you can say represents the maze of the mind.
Mirrors in psychology and philosophy but also reality are meant to be representations of truth, as when you look at them you can only see yourself as you are. Here we see the mirror do more than that, but present truths hidden within the seer.
This episode stands out as it's finally cementing the bond between both Medea and Jay. Really like the scene when both discover each other which sort of gets at Freudian psychology. We see Medea closing in on Jay and Jay is in a tight spot, however we see Medea has glasses that help her see the right path in the maze but not Jay. She come very close to Jay, and he is close to her almost kissing distance, as she was still blind, he could of at that moment ran away but he choses not to. Because there really was no where left to go in the maze, but also, I feel a subconscious desire for him to be discovered by her but to also get simply close to her.
You can say this conveys a truth, on how we can see a person we desire from a distance, but they don't see us, likewise but we don't know it, we want to get close but at the same time were afraid once they do and once, they see us. These are all the common things that we naturally feel with desire, these things can also obscure us from taking the action we should make them real. However, really aren't hard to get past it only seems that way because we make it, in fact it's easy when you simply do one thing, go for it.
That's what both Medea and Jay do in the scene. With Medea it's taking off the glasses, the glasses represent illusion, Medea has mistakenly though she was after Jay for one reason, but it was really something else. Once the glasses were off the illusion was gone and she saw her desires in the flesh. Another was on Jay who didn't run, Jay throughout the show has run away from her mainly based on misunderstanding but also to keep chasing after his dad, however, was running away mainly because he was afraid of his own blossoming desires the feelings he has toward Medea which may be something else, something he has yet to understand. Despite a chance to run away, he decides not to because he already knows exactly where that easy path away leads and also, he wanted to understand these feelings and the best way to find them out was not to run.
Really like the back and forth both Medea and Jay have which is slightly conflicting but also there is warmth in it. Medea presents the truth to him as we see in one image of the mirror, when we see what really happened to Jay's father in the memory of the boat trip. And we see an ugly truth I personally suspected all along; it was no accident Jay's father abandoned him. Despite seeing this truth Jay refuses to accept it, which to me has always been Jay's Achilles heel his trouble in accepting certain truths in life, all no thanks to his father.
It makes sense as the mirror in the maze most are all fogged up, which is metaphor for denial; but as we see this is something Jay can no longer do for each of the mirrors face him giving him every opportunity to see, no matter how long he blocks it the truth still stands. But we see also his true love Medea is the one that shows him the truth, which is what good significant others should do and what they represent according to psychology and philosophy light. Yes, facing the reality of truth is scary and can hurt sometimes, but getting lost in illusion and lies hurts even more because the truth in life is no one can live in illusion.
I also feel this really gets more into what Downworld really is and it's what I've always felt about it that's it's not a dream world but an alternative world that is somehow connected with Jay's psyche. When Jay went into the coma he not just accessed that world but his alternative self, which is why that version of Jay can never come back to reality because Downworld really is his world he just hasn't accepted it yet.
It comes to a point where Jay has the make an uneasy decision but that is part of what responsibility and heroism is about making the hard choices. But this also gets into the Unitarianism philosophy on putting the needs of many over your own.
It also gets at the dynamic of love between two people. Jay has felt alone most to all of his life, but that was because he had an emptiness that needed to be filled which is the same with us all. Jay love and pursuit of his father he though could fill that emptiness, but Jay is wrong as it was only an illusion and illusions can't love. Medea is the one that is meant to fill that emptiness However, this is also about what one does and sacrifices for love, Jay went back not to save Downworld itself but to save Medea because he harbors deep feelings for her, he doesn't know entirely what those are yet but their real and so is she, which is why he had to sacrifice his own passage back home.
The final minutes at the end were sweet as we see Jay is in this room which is made to look like the universe, and we see Medea is there. Both have a warm exchange, and it looks like both are about to kiss. It's a warm and hopeful ending because here we see it's the very start of something big and beautiful, much like how the universe started with a collision of two forces to create the universe or the stars in the sky in which two forces come together to power the stars.
It's taken a long journey for both Jay and Medea to finally find each other.
Rating: 4 stars.
