2x02, "Sugar"

[jeffy]

It's taking me forever to get through this episode due to personal life busyness, and inability to take too much of it at a stretch. It's really good, but I can only take small doses...

[makito]

Late to the party for about the same reasons as jeffy.



It was deeply interesting reading this as a teenager, myself. Especially getting the Mommy's view on things.

I've also never had the...er...pleasure to witness the bad, cruel-teenager side of facebook. At least with the people I know, if you don't like someone, they're not in your friend network. Or the cruelty and insults are much more subtle.


Aaaanyhoo.


This episode was certainly a slug in the gut. I always fall more in love with Faulkner the more I read her POV. And having Hafs narrate for us was also nice, since we never hear too much from her.

I was going to say more, but I'm dead sleepy. I haven't even read the eggs yet for lack of being able to keep my eyes open long enough. Night! Thanks!

[nebula]

I loved Faulkner in this - even more than I loved her before.

It gave me shudders to remember being a teenage girl and then made me worried about being the parent of a teenage girl someday soon.

Some nice insights into Hafs too.

[greywalker]

Aaaaand I'm joining the sore-gut crowd.  Whew!

Brava, Ms. Bobet.

[Joe Sherry]

I wouldn't want a bunch of gammas to think too closely about Halloween. I assume the staff of Idlewood wouldn't either.

Oooh...I like it!

[jeffy]

Finally finished today. Really an excellent episode.  I was impressed with how much knowing that Susannah ended up in Idlewood rather than in the ground did not decrease the suspense of the hunt. It was also great at showing just how much this job wears down every member of the team. The responsibility, the secrecy, the uncertainty, the danger all take their toll and never let up. I thought it especially highlighted how much it sucks to be Mom or Hafs. And of course made me love them all the more for keeping at it. And how much it sucks being a teenaged girl. I'm hoping I'll get a block of time soon where I can buzz through the whole thing again after my piecemeal first read. Bravo.

[Felicia1066]

I knew I'd seen something about Hafs and cancer somewhere before. Like here, when discussing the effects of flu-induced nausea with Chaz.

Yeouch. Not fun to have that awareness at the back of her mind that if the Hodgkins should come back, it may not kill her, but the treatment could.

[saoba]

Something caught my attention on the first read and I didn't remark on it at the time.

Rr-read it today, and this thread.

Robert and Virginia. Bob and Ginny. Names to conjure with if you are of my generation of fandom. Very nicely tucked into the story, BTW. Made me smile.

[MadGastronomer]

Robert and Virginia. Bob and Ginny. Names to conjure with if you are of my generation of fandom. Very nicely tucked into the story, BTW. Made me smile.

I missed that.  That's awesome.

[jennythe_reader]

Robert and Virginia. Bob and Ginny. Names to conjure with if you are of my generation of fandom. Very nicely tucked into the story, BTW. Made me smile.

Oh, yeah...   Nice little reference.

[Alena]

Explanation for the younglings?  >.>

[Mattador]

A reference to the late, great Robert Heinlein and his wife Virginia.

[jennygadget]

I read Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson yesterday, - Spoilers ahead! - and it kept reminding me of Sugar.  Not just because they are both about girls wanting to be thin, but because of how the friendships play out in  them.  How the girls in both stories are not only each other's greatest support, but also how the main characters end up hurting their friends out of fear and just plain inability to handle their own problems, much less their friends' as well.

I thought it was really neat how Sugar/Leah managed to use the anomaly to say the same thing that Wintergirls/LHA said by portraying anorexia and the delusions that can come with it.

I think the mythology part of the anomaly would be an easy thing to use as a shortcut, as a way to skip over explanations rather than a way to dive deeper into them.  Part of why Shadow Unit impresses me so much is that all the writers do a great job of using the the mythologies as a tool rather than as a crutch.

[Leah Bobet]

I read Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson yesterday, - Spoilers ahead! - and it kept reminding me of Sugar.  Not just because they are both about girls wanting to be thin, but because of how the friendships play out in  them.  How the girls in both stories are not only each other's greatest support, but also how the main characters end up hurting their friends out of fear and just plain inability to handle their own problems, much less their friends' as well.

Huh -- that sounds really interesting.  I think I'll look that one up.  Thanks! 

[Clarentine]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this - on re-read, I found the following tyop:

There was a key, of course. Falkner made a good effort to distract them from it, but both Robert and Virginia Greenwood's were fixed upon that door