Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

Exasperated? No. Sad that you’re so broken hearted? Hell yes. I HATE that a show about “hope” has the ability to do that to its fans.

I see where you are coming from, but I feel like I watched a different episode last night. Maybe it’s watching it with my more-or-less GA roommates; maybe it’s having such fresh memories of being GA myself. But like Marty said, they ARE that creative. They have the capacity to be. I remain astonished at how much richer the show was upon rewatch.

Do I trust that they WILL pull this story out? No. Do I believe that they COULD? Wholeheartedly. If Sad Town is where you need to be to cope right now – I don’t begrudge you that! But we have 120 minutes of story I have committed to, and you can do a LOT of storytelling in that time. I am willing to let them have those 120 minutes, on goodwill not from the prior half-dozen episodes, but borrowed from the 57 before that. My heart is guarded; the glimmer of hope I have for MO322 is slim and I am going in with eyes open.

In many ways, I wish I could go to Sad Town now. Oh, how I wish it!! It would make it easier to let go, to not ride the train to the depot and see which way the bison blow. But, I can’t. I have seen blind faith come through a time or two and I have to allow for the possibility it will here too.

Come 322, we will almost certainly all join you in Sad Town. And on the slimmest chance we don’t, I will send a dang bison to drag you kicking & screaming to the ranch or houseboat or wherever it is we end up. Nobody gets left behind.