Well, after Erica's revelation that she was leaving John Evie having chosen to disappear made sense and we briefly talked about it in our household, but we couldn't figure out any reason the other two girls would go. I felt pretty "ohhhhh, duh" when it was revealed.
Guilty Remnant recruitment.
Oh hey, last week Fake Patty told Kevin that story about the baby she was handed to kiss, and the father just walking away. That the baby was in an orphanage, but "everything is going to be fine" "that baby will have trouble forming attachments and with giving and receiving love" (something like that....it was a basic description of an attachment disorder....sometimes people who are abandoned have them to varying degrees),.
So that is apparently what is supposed to be wrong with Meg. She outlined that with her stepfather (gone the next year negating a promised family , the GR believes families are meaningless and wants to destroy them). But apparently it's all going to be just fine? Okay, show. All we need is love. Gotcha.
Also, the story has always made a big deal about Meg's mother dying the day before the Departure, and how she was left alone,without any societal support or acknowledgement of her loss. Ritual is part of healing, etc. so Meg felt abandoned by the world too and then searched for meaning in the last words of her mother, only to have more meaninglessness thrown in. So at least she makes sense as a GR recruit. It's just....fuck her pain. She is terrorizing children and having cyclists murdered in the most hideous ways.
I get why people from the Mapleton GR house are following her. She was one of the survivors of last season's fire and she helped enact the doll plan. She seen as a veteran, etc.
Matt similarly leaves me unmoved. He watches the dog being dumped and feels pain, but does nothing. I HATED him when he did nothing to try and help the cyclist.
Yeah, yeah the world is pain. Take some damned Prozac , GR people ( and I say that as someone who had postpartum depression 20 some years ago and took Prozac for a year, I am not unsympathetic to clinical depression ). Life requires effort and none of us really know what it is for definitively. It doesn't mean you should burn the social contract and kill terrified young men.
I get that people follow the GR because they show up and feed that feeling. Give it direction. Give it purpose. But good gravy, go for a jog and get some endorphins going. This is not the dark ages, this would be a diagnosable problem and it is also part of the cultural conversation.
I know about the entire stigma attached, but it bothers me that within the show people would rather be openly viewed as something to be scraped from the bottom of a shoe. This aggressive form of mass sadness robs so much compassion for it.
I hope they are taking this somewhere satisfying, but after the doll stunt, I have a beyond-hard-time believing that the GR could move around openly and still exist.
Edited November 30, 2015 by stillshimpyncG1vNJzZmien6fCrr%2BNqamipZWptq6x0WeaqKVfqbyxtcJoam5pZmt6tHyRnmdyZaSau27Ax6KprZ2Vo3w%3D