the lord of spoons wrote...
Nithe wrote...
beetlebailey123 wrote...
This reminds of the story of Oedipus. The king who acceidently killed his father, who was the king before him. Of course the Greek play has Oedipus marrying his mother, and birthing two children... but you get what I mean right?
This is the perfect example of the tragic hero.
I do. It makes it easier to empathize with Casey. But that's the nice thing about tragic heroes, you don't have to like them or forgive them, even if you can understand them.
That is the nice thing about Greek tragedies. The main characters generally have very clearly defined flaws that are always their downfall. Is Casey's his devotion to his corporate overlords despite the intellectual hollowness of his argument and the futility against us, the masses? Only time will tell.
All this comparison with Greek tragedies reminded me of something - Aristophanes, that great playwright, once said that comedy and tragedy are different sides of the same thing, and that is, if you make your audience empathise (not sympathy, but empathy - to feel as they feel) with the characters and something bad were to happen to them, then you have a tragedy. Use the same formula but take out empathy for the characters then you will have a comedy. I think we can all relate to the latter - the word most aptly describe it is Schadenfreude.
Following that, I believe here's part of the reason why it's hard to accept the ending as "bittersweet". Bittersweet usually suggests elements of tragedy of varying degrees in an overall sweetness, and the tragedies they were aiming for were obviously the death or harm of Shepard and Crew, as they are the characters in this story we the audience have most strongly empathised with. However the events from Shepard being hit by Harbinger's beam to the end sequence had been so surreal that empathy with the characters felt abruptly severed, and while we were left in a daze the ending sequence of explosions and crash landing played out, and we agree there is nothing "sweet" in it. So not only did we not get tragic elements due to severed empathy, we also didn't get anything sweet either, thus we got nothing, hence the feeling of emptiness.
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