читать дальшеQuinn is dead. There’s no way around that. It was made clear during the episode that his prognosis was ominous and that the chances of waking up and going back to the Quinn we knew were close, if not equal to zero. The light entering the window was meant to be a symbol of what Quinn wrote in the letter. That he wanted Carrie to see him as a beacon of light for her. That’s why Carrie smiled at that moment. We’re supposed to be touched by how she sees him now as some sort of guardian angel for her.
Well, guess what, he has been his guardian angel for the past 4 years, so no, I’m not going to feel satisfied with that bullshit consolation price.
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The reason the scene was kind of left ‘ambiguous’, and they didn’t show us an actual death is because of two reasons.
1) The most likely way in which Carrie would end Quinn’s life was by putting a pillow to his face. And they were not about to show that. No, because NOW they thought it probably would be too traumatic to see Carrie doing something like that. So they chose an ‘artistic’ and ‘evocative’ way out, that implies without actually showing. But all the elements to know what was about to happen were there.
2) They needed to leave it ambiguous to keep the hook on our mouths until season 6.That’s the truth people, the show doesn’t care about us other than to use us as tools for their gain. They simply need us to keep the buzz in the media. It’s well known that today one of the measures of popularity of a tv show is how active is in the media (twitter, tumblr, facebook, and every other big social site). How many times it gets named, how many discussions are happening respect to it, how many tags are used, etc.
I have no doubt that Gansa knew from the start of the season that they would kill Quinn off. So no wonder his storyline was basically inexistent, and mostly crap just thrown wherever it could fit. He just didn’t care about Quinn. That’s the ugly truth. If he had cared, he and the writers would’ve shown at least a little bit of respect for the character and would’ve made an effort to give him a decent storyline and a decent send off. Instead of that, what we got was Quinn being thrown repeatedly into different kinds of tortures (hey, but it worked for the angst, right?) and unconscious for half of the season. They could have had the decency of killing Quinn on 5x04 if they were to kill him all along, but no, why do that when they could keep reeling us in with fake hopes, to keep us watching the entire season.
To me it feels they just wanted to get rid of Quinn. Why? I can imagine several reasons for it, but one of the most obvious has to do with his relationship with Carrie. They knew they had written themselves into a corner. They knew the way they had developed this relationship there was no valid reason to not explore them. But here’s where the problem comes: Gansa was not about to let that happen, because OMG romance could damage the ‘elite/serious’ status of his show. And we wouldn’t want that, would we? To ruin the ‘prestige’ of the show by getting themselves into a theme as ‘silly’ and ‘highschoolish’ as romance seems to be for them.
But guess what, no content with that, with killing Quinn, they also made a clear effort to rub in our faces that Carrie was not in love with him. She probably never was, or maaaybe she thought she was for a flickering moment a long time ago. Oh no, but wait… that had just been the ‘trauma of Islamabad’, remember?
The truth is, in hindsight, those polemic 9 days weren’t about sloppy writing. Those 9 days represented exactly the same that the finale showed us with Carrie having sex with Jonas while Quinn was on the brink of death: that Quinn was never a priority in her heart. Sure, she cared about him as a friend, she loved him as a friend, and she clearly felt indebted to him, and guilty. But that was all there was.
There was never a chance for them, because the show never intended to actually give them one. The show never intended for Carrie to love Quinn the way he loved her.
Not satisfied with ALL this, they throw us the backstory of Quinn. And guess what, it was just more misery. A kid from a foster home, recruited in his teen years to become an assassin. That “I belong in the darkness” from the letter is just more crap to me. Quinn didn’t keep coming back to black ops because he felt attracted to darkness. Quinn kept coming back because it was literally ALL he knew in his entire life. The only thing that ever gave him purpose and got him out from a life on the streets. He never knew what it was to have a family, to have a normal life, and to feel loved. So in summary, what the show gave us this season of Quinn: A snippet of his hard childhood, him giving his heart and his life for a woman that never felt the same for him, being put under torture after torture, only to be killed in the most horrible way, stripping him even of his dignity, that was probably the last and only thing he had left.
читать дальшеOh sure, they gave us the letter… well, let me tell you… considering all the other crap the episode gave us, I just can’t care about the letter. The fact is, the letter was the breadcrumb thrown at us to try to keep us ‘satisfied’. “Oh look, how little sense of self worth Quinn had, but look how much he loved Carrie”. Like we didn’t know ALL that already. “Here, have this nice little thing to keep you distracted so you don’t complain about all the other real shit we’re just throwing at you. Don’t say we didn’t give you anything”.I didn’t need to be told once again how much Quinn loved Carrie. What I needed was to see Quinn feeling loved, and having a chance to some kind of peace… on this earth. And of course I didn’t get any of that.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tv character so mistreated and so little loved by their creators. Quinn never had a chance at anything: he never had a chance at happiness, at peace, at being loved the way he deserved, at knowing what that felt.
Brody had a family that loved him. He had the love of Carrie. He had a chance at the redemption his character needed, and he had an entire episode dedicated to him, and to his death, with Carrie’s focus completely set on him.
Carrie has her family who loves her inconditionally. She has her daughter. She had two years of a normal, blissful life. She knew love, and she had the chance to feel loved (even if it didn’t last permanently).
Quinn had nothing. (c)
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