When Irene said Cheese's relatives were there, I was wondering who that was and why he was avoiding them. I'm not usually looking for suspense, but I love how this show can have low key suspense like that and make me care about it. You don't need adrenaline to have suspense!
The sound of wind in the trees is one of my favorite things in life.
Bear has already been trying to tell folks about his experiences, and they keep shutting him down and not believing. Maybe after this, Cheese will think about that and get him to open up and be heard.
Cheese is a natural at the "counselor/social worker/caring professional/low key group leader" role, and he may be younger than the others, but he's also on of those kids who's kind of an adult even when young. You can see how each of the kids is forming into the next generation of adults, and what role they'll play in the community, what kind of elders they will be, and which of the current adults they are following in the footsteps of.
I like it because it also undercuts the tendency to see characters only as they are now. When you look at the adults, you don't see where they came from, how they got to be that way, what their deep down motives really are, who they are inside. I think this happens in real life, too. When you see someone of one generation or another, do you see their history, who they were, who they will be? Or do you make assumptions based on the limited data you have in the present moment? When you see Big or Irene or Bucky or Fixico or Brownie or Maximus, you wouldn't necessarily think about Willie Jack or Cheese or Elora or Bear, let alone Daniel----- but with the backward and forward motion from episode to episode, they are starting to flesh out the ways each of them echoes the others.
I like that they are not doing this in a heavy handed way, where you only care about one of them because of how they advance the other's story. Each one stands on its own, but there is also a web they're weaving for us.
Also, it never occurred to me that Big's Big Foot sightings were so significant for him because of how they echoed Maximus's seeing of the aliens. And the show giving us the button of the Big Feet (Foots?) "swordplaying" is just the kind of humor this show loves to give us-- but also, it shows the echoing between "ordinary dudes" and "supernatural dudes". Everybody is connected! LOL.
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