Mystified by the Blue mystic

[lambertoise]

OK, Girls, let’s have a look on that last chapter in Nick Fallin’s life, a meaningful but quite peculiar one, and let’s try, like my literary teachers used to ask me, to decipher what the author meant and wanted us to do with that Beautiful blue mystic!

If it was a musical piece, I’d say this episode was kind of a bridge, a part in between, used to bring us somewhere else. But I’ll stick to the literary analysis, easier for me.

The form was strange. Except for the bright sun, nothing was too much weird to immediately conclude to the hallucination. But it was weird enough to guess we were in a third zone.

A statuesque blonde and a boy with dark hair : it’s not exactly how I’ve envisioned young Nick and Mummy Ann. But maybe DH used this unexpected representation to symbolize the differences between what we remember of our childhood and the reality! Yet, I think the strangeness contributed to keep me unemotional during the whole episode. Me, who can hardly stop myself from being moved each time I see sorrow and sadness !

In the real life part, on a very cold night ( similar to the one at home where the thermometer indicated 30 ⁰ C below zero last night!), the main characters were brought together in a very strong scene, where they cornered Nick in his kitchen at 4 o’clock in the morning. This is, I guess, a tough love strategy, a step behind going to the police, but a huge move. Nobody was happy to be there, but they had to. I doubt though that they really convinced Nick : the look he had on his face, the morning after, at the rehab clinic, didn’t seem to indicate a real belief in the usefulness of the therapy.

We learned a lot about Nick’s fears, and it helps to understand the abandonment issue. But will this incredible insight in his own psyche eventually help Nick to make some major decisions about himself? I’m not so sure. But I do hope it will. DH cannot continue to force us watching his main character killing himself (sort of) slowly in front of our eyes; we need some positive input. Soon.

So, the vocabulary was peculiar, but the acting was great. Even the despicable Suzanne did what she had to do perfectly.

I’m still wondering if I liked this episode, but at least, it gave me a lot to think about.

[SaundraKane]

I liked it. Anything that gives me a better idea why this guy who appears to have everything continues with his self defeating behavior. I have always been curious about what exactly went on between him and his parents in his early life. It seemed that that subject was always avoided..by him for sure. I got a better insight into why he holds back so much.

His Dad has certainly softened over the years.

[cloud9]

Thanks for your comments lambertoise & Saundra:
I've been haunted by last night's ep all day today. Like you, lamber..., I haven't quite decided what I was being shown or told, and like you, Saundra, it did give me a bit of info about N's family situation.

My problem is that I don't know what conclusion's I should make given all that info.----Maybe time will clear up the fog, but I'm not convinced that Nick will easily overcome his problems.
---BTW. I Wonder what was said by the participants during the 'intervention scene' at 4a.m. to get N to the rehab center the next day....I wonder if he will be a cooperative client there, but I do recall that, during his hallucination, Anne said that she was a counselor and that she would help him.---so maybe he'll be receptive to counseling with that in the back of his mind....So many puzzles-----cloud9

[Maniac]

What a twist that one had! Who would have ever thought that he was in the middle of a halucination, and was somewhat re-living his own childhood. I enjoy the show more than any other on tv, but they are destroying his character terribly.
Mike

[lambertoise]

I complained, last year, that DH didn’t address sufficiently, IMO, the addiction issue. It seems that this year, there is an answer to that, maybe more that I’d like!

Living with a drug addict is a nightmare and learning that Nick has been using for about 16 years puts the problem in its proper context : it won’t disappear easily and we have to accept that relapses are part of the usual path. I don’t think I want to watch the redemption coming in slow motion though.

I’d like a rebirth soon, because it is becoming kind of depressing. I like angst and sadness, but not too long. And if the next episode is as difficult as this one, I don’t think I’ll be able to appreciate it.

Another point I’d like to make : the legal paper that Nick wrote and let in his kitchen, I suppose for his father, worried me a lot , but I didn’t want to dwell too much on it. But I thought immediately that Nick was thinking about a possible overdose. Because the program is not over, I knew it wasn’t going to happen, but nevertheless, I read in that a suicidal call.

Any thought?

[SaundraKane]

My opinion is that any suicide would be a slow one...like with drugs. I think the Blue Mystic episode he had was a call for help...and an expression of anger for having to deal with the consequences of his actions.

I think what we have to keep in mind is the premise of the show..that he is working at the children's legal aid as a sentence for prior drug use. I don't think this show will ever be a feel good happy show. He is a very attractive but very flawed character. That is what is so different about the show and many lawyer shows that have begun to be predictable.

I think we will continue to see ups and downs...maybe he has hit rock bottom and will continue to climb back up.

[Lindatheeditor]

I think we will continue to see ups and downs...maybe he has hit rock bottom and will continue to climb back up.

I hope so. There's more than enough material in a Nick-and-his-path-of-redemption premise. A lot of what's going on here is extraneousand unnecessary. I'd like to see the facts behimd those hallucinations explored. Of course, that would mean screen time largely occupied by Nick and Burton and very few other characters, so I can see why they don't go that route 100 percent of the time.

BTW, an item on Zap2It said TG is being pulled March 16 to April 27 for a midseason replacement called, I think, Century City. Several posters on the other boards have e-mailed CBS expressing their displeasure. Browse the Yahoo! Simon Baker Board for more info.:cussing:::cussing:

[cecilia]

Hi, Girls!

I love this show, but I´m pretty sure I didnt like BBM much. In fact, was sort of disappointing, considering it should be "Nick facing his addictions". As you, Lamber, I didnt see him doing that, but accepting what the most relevant people in his life wanted him to do!
I´m getting tired of the darkness of this stories. I never expected this show to be happy, but I want to see Nick stepping again in the path to redemption....the sooner the better!...
The cheating story made me sick, and almost pulled me from the tv; this last episode left me thinking if they ARE actually taking the show somewhere, or just wandering and letting it "flow".
I love the way Burton has behaved lately, I liked it a lot Alvin being Nick´s sponsor and taking his responsibilities, and doing the right thing, whether Nick liked it or not. And that meeting´s atmosphere was probably thiker than bricks: nobody was happy, the subject was dreadful and something everybody had been avoiding for a long time, and mainly, Nick was completely reluctant to both things: talking about it, facing Burton and Lulu.
As Lamber, I complaint about DH not taking the drugs seriously; after BBM I´m scratching my head wondering if this was the right way, or the way I imagined it could be.
I hope Nick will take it seriously
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but if Alvin thinks he is rushing through his recovery, he is not doing it ok. But it´s just my opinion (and a very messy one!....I arrived this afternoon and got very late of all the planes and airports!)!......
I love this show. And I love Nick. But I want to see him doing something right soon!

[Lindatheeditor]

I've said it on other boards, Cecilia, and I'll say it here: this can't be unrelieved Nick angst all the time. Yes, he has serious problems and yes, he has trouble facing them, but one reason I started watching in the first place, aside from the Nick-Burton relationship, which I think is the most important, with Alvin-Nick in second place, especially after BBM, is that there is (or was initially) the idea that Nick was on a path to redemption and recovery. I didn't expect it to be all beer and skittles (excuse me mentioning an alcoholic beverage) but I was hoping to see Nick learning to face himself and the demons that beset him and carving out for himself a more complete, more satisfying life in the process. With only 7 or 8 eps left in the season, time for this story line to turn around is running out. The way things are going now, Nick might as well OD on whatever he can find and be done with it.

[cecilia]

Agreed, Linda!

but I still have some faith in DH.
I just hope things get a little "lighter" before the end, not in all the episodes, but in some. I just CANT bare all this darkness....!
As you say, time is running short for them if they want to let us believing Nick will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel (and I´m not talking about "the white light" and Anne welcoming him...), unless they were thinking on a fourth season.
A baby being born in this situation is just too sad.

[nell]

I though this was a REALLY good episode. It was VERY interesting. I hope there are more like this one. Simon was great!

[SaundraKane]

"BTW, an item on Zap2It said TG is being pulled March 16 to April 27 for a midseason replacement called, I think, Century City."

There was also an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on tuesday referring to the Century City replacement..and some conversation about whether the Guardian will be back next season. They need a place to put CSI New York.

[Lindatheeditor]

I've got a suggestion as to where they can put CSI New York, but I can't give utterance to it on this or any other board.

CBS is really doing this CSI thing to death. If they insist on adding another CSI clone to their schedule they don't need to do it at the expense of the one original, thought-provoking, challenging show they have. As Leonie says, most other shows operate in a fantasy world of black and white. TG allows for shades of gray.

Visit the Yahoo! boards--a letter-writing and petitioning campaign is being planned.

[SaundraKane]

I absolutely agree with you...they would getting rid of a wonderful well scripted show to put a clone in that would never compare to the first CSI.

What is the link to the Yahoo board that is having the writing campaign..I want to be a part of that.

[Lindatheeditor]

The letter writing campaign is being conducted from groups.yahoo.com/group/simonbaker/

Becoming a member is simple and easy and the moderator has some excellent suggestions for writing letters and e-mails as well as addresses. Snail mail is preferred as it carries more wnames and eight than an easily erased electronic post. I think it would be well to bury CBS in correspondence about this--that'll show 'em we're serious about this show. Welcome aboard!