@Sam993 wrote:
@Surayya wrote:
@Sam993 wrote:
Great Emma’s characterization in this episode. We finally see a bit of her we hadn’t seen before, which is her being a coward essentially. Yet, I think most people in her situation would have done the same thing.
So in the Stranger, August points out that Emma doesn’t want to believe. It’s not like Emma doesn’t think it couldn’t be real, that SB could be FTL, but that she really, really, really doesn’t want that to be so. Emma doesn’t want to take up the responsibility of being the savior. So her magic is preventing her from seeing the truth. It’s granting her wish. Shows how powerful she is. Her magic is sooo subtle that she doesn’t even know that its affecting her.
All I can say to this is ‘I’ll show you a book about Aliens & then YOU have to totally believe they are real & to boot it’s also your job to save everyone on the planet’
how would you react to this info? 🙄
Because if someone rocked up to me with the evidence Emma has & was serious about me believing in something so totally ludicrous- Id be freaked out (I mean EVERYONES well being becoming my own responsibility 😯 & OMG- this person REALLY believes what they are saying) & probably pissed off to boot (I mean how would you feel if someone wanted you to believe in something insane/ socially unacceptable)- it’d be like an insane person REALLY wanting you to believe in their delusion- which ONLY they can see – that’s a big ask for anyone 🙄But then how come she didn’t see the wooden leg? That wooden leg is apart of reality, if she simply didn’t believe it, then she would have seen it. No magic needed. Regular, human eyes should have revealed August’s leg. August says her denial is so deep it’s affecting her to see the truth. She doesn’t want to believe it. She’s telling herself not to believe it. She’s asking herself not to believe it and she’s granting her own wish. Some part of her knows it’s true. It’s a difference of opinion, I believe she knows it and doesn’t want to face it. She’s running away from it!
I agree. You never answered the question about the book and Aliens and saving the planet.
I know my reaction and answer to that which would be the same as Emma get my kid and run. I’d do that and I do not have a kid or wife or both. She is human. Just like everyone beating down on David for doing the things he does, he’s human. You are asking someone to believe that people you are meeting are characters in stories you read as a child and are here. Tell you the truth I would not have gotten as far as she did. I’d just drop him off and say see ya kid call me, email me and hey you know where to find me.