Any time you'd like to play FK, let me know how you'd like to play just then, light or heavy or whatever. I'll do my best to match. ♥
--- Yep, just so. I think that the essence of the picnic interlude at the end of "Dead Issue" is where many of us imaginatively breathe in FK. Those of us who choose to nest in first season or the hiatus, anyway.
--- I wrote a "Dead Issue" poem, once. The episode is difficult and nobody loves it (outside the picnic scene), but... I find it powerful in its difficulty?
And, yes, indeed, "Dead Issue" is that one with the flashbacks that include a painter whose canvases are those of the historical Hieronymus Bosch ... even more highly fictionalized than usual for FK's historical figures, as the real historical figure has almost no surviving mentions, just a very few contracts and the paintings, to the despair of scrupulous biographers. (I looked it up in library books, pre-Google, pre-Wikipedia.)
The flashbacks vary noteworthily across versions of the episode. There's a whole scene that's cut from most North American airings... properly so, imo, as Nick wasn't there and so couldn't have witnessed it to remember it.
But it's the present-day that matters most. The flashbacks just make the story bigger on the inside.
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Yep, just so. I think that the essence of the picnic interlude at the end of "Dead Issue" is where many of us imaginatively breathe in FK. Those of us who choose to nest in first season or the hiatus, anyway.
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I wrote a "Dead Issue" poem, once. The episode is difficult and nobody loves it (outside the picnic scene), but... I find it powerful in its difficulty?
And, yes, indeed, "Dead Issue" is that one with the flashbacks that include a painter whose canvases are those of the historical Hieronymus Bosch ... even more highly fictionalized than usual for FK's historical figures, as the real historical figure has almost no surviving mentions, just a very few contracts and the paintings, to the despair of scrupulous biographers. (I looked it up in library books, pre-Google, pre-Wikipedia.)
The flashbacks vary noteworthily across versions of the episode. There's a whole scene that's cut from most North American airings... properly so, imo, as Nick wasn't there and so couldn't have witnessed it to remember it.
But it's the present-day that matters most. The flashbacks just make the story bigger on the inside.