InsaneJournal

Current mood:	good
Current music:	Babyshambles - French Dog Blues
Entry tags:	gtst, rather impressed

Mea culpa, GTST.
Okay, I know I've been bitching like mad about the gay-bashing plot on GTST beforehand. And now having seen it, I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't have. I'm still not crazy about including the incident, I stand by that. But maybe I should've had more faith in the writers.

Because I've seen it and... Boy, did they pull it off. Yes, the bashing was difficult to watch but I think IF you decide to show a story like that, you should go all the way. Don't sugarcoat it, because it is brutal and cruel and there's nothing to euphemise about that fact. I probably won't be able to rewatch those scenes very often, seen them twice by now and it's gut-wrenching. But like I said, it should be, it's supposed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable.

But what really got to me was the way they've handled the aftermath so far. I think it was amazing. All scenes focused on creating a certain atmosphere that felt like the minutes after a fatal storm is gone. Everyone being slightly numb, not having yet fully realized what had happened, consciousness only slowly leaking in. No one really panicked, it was more like people were paralyzed by the shock. The dialogue was rather matter of factly, yet the actors conveyed the terror really well.
All filmic techniques were reduced to a minimum, slow camera work, less editing than usual. Light dimmed down, discreet music.
It was less about what was being said and done than about conveying the raw emotions.

Actually it was one of the best episodes of GTST I've seen yet. Really feel like I should've given everyone more credit. That's a talented bunch of people working there.

Of course, we'll still have to see, where this is going from here. How will Noud and Lucas deal with what happened? Who were those bashers? I had the feeling that Dex might have known the one, who looked up at him, before he went away. That could even be connected to that story about the soccer coach, he got abused by? IDK. I sure hope they'll deal with Dex's issues in a good way, because that character is on his way to being nothing but sinister. But he has a lot of issues, that's for sure and if he learns to deal with them, who knows what could happen?
So many questions, so few answers but still I'm now confident that they'll handle it quite well. That's rather scary, actually.




(LOL, I'm curious if embedding videos works. :o)


Also on Monday we'll get a sexy male nurse, I've seen the preview clip. Not that I care about such shallow things.