Comments on: Six Feet Under, Now Six Feet Under http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/ falling indelibly into the past Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:18:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: RMW http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/#comment-876 RMW Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:22:31 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=421#comment-876 <p>I’ve been watching Six Feet Under through NetFlix over the last 3 years.  Last night, I caught the final episode.  I’m a wreck.  I’m at work-- tyring to get through crying spells.  When I think of Claire’s drive through the open West-- intespersed with the futures of the characters-- it actually hurts.  It’s reminiscent of a bad break-up… when you would give anything to be with the person one last time.  Perhaps there are others-- years after the final episode’s first airing-- who wish to comiserate. </p> I’ve been watching Six Feet Under through NetFlix over the last 3 years.  Last night, I caught the final episode.  I’m a wreck.  I’m at work– tyring to get through crying spells.  When I think of Claire’s drive through the open West– intespersed with the futures of the characters– it actually hurts.  It’s reminiscent of a bad break-up… when you would give anything to be with the person one last time.  Perhaps there are others– years after the final episode’s first airing– who wish to comiserate.

]]> By: melbournegirl http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/#comment-875 melbournegirl Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:25:08 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=421#comment-875 <p>this was a lovely tribute to that last episode of six feet under, which we just had in australia this last week. </p> <p> i too sobbed. and i agree that what we saw of each character’s future and end as claire was driving to ny was absolutely the truth of the future, not some imaginings of her. </p> <p> just thinking of it now makes me sad; but in a bitter-sweet way. it was a beautiful ending. interestingly i had read somewhere, inadvertently, that in the last episode, everything, everwhere finishes. i had thought there would be some cataclysmic event, or a series of disasters or tragedies that would end everyone in the show. but the real ending was far more beautiful, and real. </p> this was a lovely tribute to that last episode of six feet under, which we just had in australia this last week.

i too sobbed. and i agree that what we saw of each character’s future and end as claire was driving to ny was absolutely the truth of the future, not some imaginings of her.

just thinking of it now makes me sad; but in a bitter-sweet way. it was a beautiful ending. interestingly i had read somewhere, inadvertently, that in the last episode, everything, everwhere finishes. i had thought there would be some cataclysmic event, or a series of disasters or tragedies that would end everyone in the show. but the real ending was far more beautiful, and real.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/#comment-874 KF Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:02:27 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=421#comment-874 <p>Something I wish had occurred to me last night, as I was writing the above:  I think the relationship between the acceleration and the too-muchness of the characters’ emotions revolves around the process of recovery from grief.  What we see throughout the episode are the moments of emotional overflow produced by the trauma Nate’s death inflicted on the family, and as time passes, the span between those moments becomes greater and greater.  And thus the sense that the episode moves more and more quickly into the future.  New traumas no doubt arise, and new emotional overflows begin, but from the standpoint of this narrative, the one we’ve been watching for five seasons, the key scenes occur less and less frequently, and thus stretch forward toward that inevitable conclusion… </p> Something I wish had occurred to me last night, as I was writing the above:  I think the relationship between the acceleration and the too-muchness of the characters’ emotions revolves around the process of recovery from grief.  What we see throughout the episode are the moments of emotional overflow produced by the trauma Nate’s death inflicted on the family, and as time passes, the span between those moments becomes greater and greater.  And thus the sense that the episode moves more and more quickly into the future.  New traumas no doubt arise, and new emotional overflows begin, but from the standpoint of this narrative, the one we’ve been watching for five seasons, the key scenes occur less and less frequently, and thus stretch forward toward that inevitable conclusion…

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