As angevine (or Emmie) put it so well above - it's hard to tell when people are bashing the comic and merely critiquing a portion of it that makes them nuts.
But my disappointment would be not so much that their aren't themes, but rather that they are entirely pedestrian and uninteresting. Who doesn't think that you should keep on trying even when things look bleak? Seriously. It's not a theme that tells me *anything* that I don't already know.
That's a bit subjective. While I'd agree the themes are simple and to me at least rather obvious. I wouldn't say pedesterian or uninteresting. I'd say that Lynch just isn't interested in social-political themes or philosophical ones. He's not into philosophy. His interest is more on plot and psychological arcs and his themes tend to be more emotional or psychological.
I could do an in depth psychological analysis of the themes I see in the issue, I'm not that interested. And well, I can analyze or find philosophical things in just about anything. Frusted psychologist/philosopher here.
Yes, you can read it [NFA] as you (and obviously Lynch) do where the heroes fight the good fight and "go to work" even though they are against insurmountable odds.
Actually, I didn't read NFA as simply as you think. But there's no way you could have known that one way or the other from my post above. Apologise for not being clearer. At the time it aired I wrote an essay about NFA, in which I compared it to a Dylan Thomas Poem - Go into that Good Night, and another essay - in which I compared it to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch - which Whedon based it on. Whedon is huge Western fanatic and studied those films in film school - as did I.
Here's the links, in case you are interested in reading it:
1. The Wild Bunch Rides Again - essay on Powerplay. I also posted it at Tea At the Ford and a few other sites, but voy didn't archive at the time. (circa. May 2004)
2.Do not Go Gently into that Good Night - my analysis of Not Fade Away, which in some respects - I actually preferred to Chosen, which felt a tad less ambiguous and more simple in comparison, but then I admittedly like noir themes.
(Also should probably share with you that I analyzed Buffy and Angel pretty heavily back when they were on. Mostly psychological analysis and a philosophical, not so much socio-political, which I try to stay away from. And a lot of literary analysis. Here's the link to a site containing most of the essays - http://www.geocities.com/shadowkatbtvs/. It hasn't been updated since 2004, when I more or less stopped.)
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As angevine (or Emmie) put it so well above - it's hard to tell when people are bashing the comic and merely critiquing a portion of it that makes them nuts.
But my disappointment would be not so much that their aren't themes, but rather that they are entirely pedestrian and uninteresting. Who doesn't think that you should keep on trying even when things look bleak? Seriously. It's not a theme that tells me *anything* that I don't already know.
That's a bit subjective. While I'd agree the themes are simple and to me at least rather obvious. I wouldn't say pedesterian or uninteresting. I'd say that Lynch just isn't interested in social-political themes or philosophical ones. He's not into philosophy.
His interest is more on plot and psychological arcs and his themes tend to be more emotional or psychological.
I could do an in depth psychological analysis of the themes I see in the issue, I'm not that interested. And well, I can analyze or find philosophical things in just about anything. Frusted psychologist/philosopher here.
Yes, you can read it [NFA] as you (and obviously Lynch) do where the heroes fight the good fight and "go to work" even though they are against insurmountable odds.
Actually, I didn't read NFA as simply as you think. But there's no way you could have known that one way or the other from my post above. Apologise for not being clearer. At the time it aired I wrote an essay about NFA, in which I compared it to a Dylan Thomas Poem - Go into that Good Night, and another essay - in which I compared it to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch - which Whedon based it on. Whedon is huge Western fanatic and studied those films in film school - as did I.
Here's the links, in case you are interested in reading it:
1. The Wild Bunch Rides Again - essay on Powerplay. I also posted it at Tea At the Ford and a few other sites, but voy didn't archive at the time. (circa. May 2004)
2.Do not Go Gently into that Good Night - my analysis of Not Fade Away, which in some respects - I actually preferred to Chosen, which felt a tad less ambiguous and more simple in comparison, but then I admittedly like noir themes.
(Also should probably share with you that I analyzed Buffy and Angel pretty heavily back when they were on. Mostly psychological analysis and a philosophical, not so much socio-political, which I try to stay away from.
And a lot of literary analysis. Here's the link to a site containing most of the essays - http://www.geocities.com/shadowkatbtvs/. It hasn't been updated since 2004, when I more or less stopped.)