Yuku free message boards

What happened to White and Alvarez reminded me of the Hill Unnatural Disasters monologue in which he said after the Hebrews reached the Promised Land they just met wave after wave of violence. These stories ended up in the TF "I can't answer the questions, you'll have to try yourself" category. Perhaps one answer is that in line with the Good Intentions monologues, the world is so complexly interconnected, determinism effectively fails, and good cannot be expected to be rewarded with good.

Some of the episode reached back to Laws of God versus Laws of Man. Guille had asked what is God's Law. It's "love." Much of the horror that befell them stemmed from lack of following God's law of Love, being influenced by personal animosity or pride, or falling back on trivial human by the book regulations. I am referring to Glynn, the parole board in which Dawkins under his influence was hardly impartial and even hateful, and McM towards White. It's easier to use a law book than to analyze things in terms of love, but not mindless love, love combined with judgment. And the hardened parole board can only judge by Alvarez' external actions, whereas only God can look into his heart. Said also tried to follow a "by the book" regulation to some extent regarding Beecher and Keller, although there are still aspects of Said's advice that are of sobering value. TF in an essay talks about how "Sr Mary Christmas" said everything we need to know is written down in a book somewhere and we need to follow those rules because it is written down there. TF said he preferred to ask "Why should we follow them?"

It was sad, and revealing, to see McM refer to the inmates in solitary as his "mistakes." That's a little like the title character in The Island of Dr Moreau and his "mistakes" and brings to mind experimentation and playing God. Very early in S1 there is an opaque McM line that has always puzzled me. He says to one of the prisoner investigators "I am not even certain Christ died." Eleanor's reference to his crucifying himself and those around him when they don't come up to his ideals might have a link to that, indicating a misunderstanding of the role of Christ. The part of that about crucifying others might also comment on things like Said's reaction to Beecher/Keller and Vern's to Robson.

Robson was unable to deal with the nature "God gave him" and in a sense did make a eunuch of himself for the sake of his weird concept of the kingdom of heaven, the Aryan Brotherhood. Keller is increasingly able to accept his nature, because of Beecher. Despite my nightmarish concerns, Keller did not make a eunuch ofhimself.

I liked the fact that Meehan, Ryan's new "father", was able to make up for the fathers that had failed him in the past, his real father and his callous RC "fathers". There was a nice cycle in his story. When he reported Caroline's death to a priest, the priest did not believe him. When he told McM the truth about Cyril, McM would not believe him. I might have seen too much in the following, but I'll risk embarrassment and mention it anyway. When Meehan is with Ryan on the floor, he first reaches for Ryan's upper leg. That might have been accidental, but it did turn my thoughts back to Ryan's joke about being groped in the confessional, and made me wonder if that was deliberate and then TF was going to show us true priestly love in contrast to Ryan's joke. Another "turning sex into a crime" vs "love" scene. Probably too much seen there.

I do not know what to make of the Rebadow story. I will be surprisingly skeptical for now. Is a point that we can make ourselves see God's hand at work in the universe when it isn't, attaching significance to random details that's not there, like jfc studying a TF script? Rebadow's connections between the power failures, his royal flush in spades and "the death watch", all might indicate that. That issue comes up again. Some of the Muslims saw Robson's fate as "Allah's punishment." Granted Robson brought his fate on himself, but did God actually punish him, or are the Muslims putting a construct on the world that is not there?

Lora, thanks for pointing out the possible symbolism of Hil's being shanked in the side. That was good to notice.