Eponastill
Justified & Ancient
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Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere - the search didn't seem to indicate it has been.
We've been glued to the first two series of 'Fargo' which are on Netflix at the moment. And I notice they're peppered with fortean things, and I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on the matter.
In the first series, at one point there is a fish fall. This seems quite a random thing and isn't really incorporated into the story line in any particular way.
Also there is a wolf that appears at an opportune moment in an opportune place, and acts as a mechanism by which one character spots the location of another character.
It strikes me that the whole story is about how chance happenings trigger off a series of events which lead to multiple murders and chaos, and that this is a rather fortean concept in itself. The programme starts with a chance encounter between the protagonist and the Crazy Psycho which ultimately changes the protagonist's character. Towards the end of the series, the two of them meet again, again by chance. And significantly, they have this chance meeting in Las Vegas (a place which is all about chance, where you can win or lose everything on the throw of a dice).
So I thought that was all very interesting, and I wonder if anyone else has spotted any other things in that first series.
And then the second series, this is again about how a random event (instigated by a stupid person, ignorant of what they've set off) becomes the trigger for complete massacre of various factions of criminals. Something explicitly fortean is part of the trigger - in this case a man gets run over by a car, but the reason he doesn't get out of the way is because he's staring at the lights of a ufo! And then later in the story (at the climax of all the killings) the ufo reappears. Its reality is briefly mentioned, I think. But by that time there aren't many people left to discuss it!
So I'm not sure what the directors were implying. But perhaps it could even be that the whole story was a set-up, that some intelligence behind the ufo was interested in setting the series of events in motion, and returned to see how things had panned out. That is, another twist on what controls the events of our lives - is it randomness, or destiny, and how the threads of different lives and decisions come to generate the overall picture.
I recommend them both highly. So long as you like deeply black humour and don't mind a bit of mindless bloodshed. I particularly enjoy the ridiculous awkward dialogue at some points. Anyway I'd be interested in the thoughts of fellow fortean viewers.
We've been glued to the first two series of 'Fargo' which are on Netflix at the moment. And I notice they're peppered with fortean things, and I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on the matter.
In the first series, at one point there is a fish fall. This seems quite a random thing and isn't really incorporated into the story line in any particular way.
Also there is a wolf that appears at an opportune moment in an opportune place, and acts as a mechanism by which one character spots the location of another character.
It strikes me that the whole story is about how chance happenings trigger off a series of events which lead to multiple murders and chaos, and that this is a rather fortean concept in itself. The programme starts with a chance encounter between the protagonist and the Crazy Psycho which ultimately changes the protagonist's character. Towards the end of the series, the two of them meet again, again by chance. And significantly, they have this chance meeting in Las Vegas (a place which is all about chance, where you can win or lose everything on the throw of a dice).
So I thought that was all very interesting, and I wonder if anyone else has spotted any other things in that first series.
And then the second series, this is again about how a random event (instigated by a stupid person, ignorant of what they've set off) becomes the trigger for complete massacre of various factions of criminals. Something explicitly fortean is part of the trigger - in this case a man gets run over by a car, but the reason he doesn't get out of the way is because he's staring at the lights of a ufo! And then later in the story (at the climax of all the killings) the ufo reappears. Its reality is briefly mentioned, I think. But by that time there aren't many people left to discuss it!
So I'm not sure what the directors were implying. But perhaps it could even be that the whole story was a set-up, that some intelligence behind the ufo was interested in setting the series of events in motion, and returned to see how things had panned out. That is, another twist on what controls the events of our lives - is it randomness, or destiny, and how the threads of different lives and decisions come to generate the overall picture.
I recommend them both highly. So long as you like deeply black humour and don't mind a bit of mindless bloodshed. I particularly enjoy the ridiculous awkward dialogue at some points. Anyway I'd be interested in the thoughts of fellow fortean viewers.