and escape. then, adrift in a stranger's galaxy for a long time

[generalfrings]

Station Eleven is quite good.

I'm not sure I would call it really, really good but I can say I really enjoyed it and that it's hooked me in a few different ways.

There's one thing though.

Throughout the earlier episodes, there is this story keeps getting quoted. (Well, actually, multiple stories do: Shakespeare's Hamlet, for one, and maybe other works by him, but I mean specifically this fictional comic book that arguably occupies the center stage of the story.) It's a comic book that gets shown many a time and that gets quoted in both internal and external dialogue—and its writing really had me tempted to agree with Jeevan's later ruling on it: pretentious bullshit.

But then Episode 8 came about, and the phrase finally hit me: I remember damage.

I can't remember ever seeing a more succinct and accurate description of trauma before.

I remember damage.

Yeah.

I'm watching the final episode in a bit, and if nothing else I can say that this is a post-apocalyptic TV show that actually feels different, and that is already really saying something nowadays for western TV. I do recommend checking it out.