"How do we know Della’s girlfriend is not involved in the main plot? I have this lingering suspicion she is playing Della and is in cohorts with that father of the dead guy/gangster/corrupt guy."
Well put Where!!!
We definitely share the same suspicion. Remember what she said to Della when she took her to PALM SPRINGS ... where she told her if she picked up anything she'd find MGM written on the bottom of it ... cas everything there was a MOVIE PROP???
I'm thinking after Della moves her things into the place where this other character claims to live, one day she'll wake up to find the woman's clothes are missing. And then Della will also pick up something and find MGM written upon the bottom of everything else in the place.
In other words, Della will have been DUPED, just like PERRY was by the other guy who broke into his place and his office, and then told the cops that Perry had the murder weapon inside of his safe.
Plus the other guy got played before coming back to work for Perry again where he may have also been FORCED to murder the other guy who wore the CANVAS SHOES.
In other words,
the ONGOING THEME of the ENTIRE 2ND SEASON has basically been about "BETRAYAL," which also makes the DELLA PLOT "INTEGRAL" to the MAIN PLOT.
in·te·gral
ADJECTIVE
necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental:
Which would also mean "Della being gay has absolutely EVERYTHING to do with the main plot" due to the way in which the woman who seduced her was most likely also HIRED to do so (the same way as the other GAY DA character was also BLACKMAILED by someone who took pictures of him with his lover).
And the lack of imagination on the part of certain posters here who fail to see that kind of a possibility is also quite astounding. Either they've never studied LITERATURE before or maybe they were sleeping or otherwise preoccupied during the time when they were supposed to be paying attention???
What's clear enough is The problem isn't with the WRITERS, but with the "NARROW MINDED OPINIONS" of certain posters who view the show.
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letess (1020)
a year ago
I am so happy you wrote this incredible post and also Where’s very insightful theory on Della and her love. In the spirt of the noir thriller and the femme fatale, wouldn’t it be perfect that the major love story be that of a true betrayal. I did call it with the Hope Davis character - so that is something we will see later. I wanted to wait until I saw the last episode to answer this guy’s original post (but seeing yours - decided to say something). His topic and reasoning are so thoughtless and narrow-minded and sabotages any artistic writing not to mention perpetuates as to why Raymond Burr was in the closet. Somehow even if this love story is relevant to the plot, and technically it doesn’t have to be, as all the other relationships are not - but even it it is, this poster will alternatively say - do we have to see two women in a lesbian naked love scene. That’s where his mind is. To your point, “They never studied literature before” and more.
This series seems slow bc of the once a week thing but it is layered. I had to view again from the first episode to this last one - the 7th - to realize how good this series is. To try and compare it to Gardner’s books or to the ‘50s tV show doesn’t do it justice. The comparison to Chinatown is strong - where you have LA bringing water to the valley and making a fortune - this one is about exporting oily fruit shipments to Japan which spells treason. I can’t wait for this finale.
Thank you for your great post.
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joi2049 (5488)
a year ago
And Thank you for your very insightful post letess. It's such a pleasure to find others like yourself who aren't constantly posting the same kind of BORING MONOTOUS messages here claiming that something is "WOKE" when it's obvious how the person who posts them has NO CLUE whatsoever what GOOD WRITING involves or how to tell a good story.
Since ON DEMAND isn't working again, and the DVR is full, I also spent yesterday watching the MARATHON session of the show, and that also made it VERY EASY to see the ongoing THEME of BETRAYAL (whereas that's also not as clear to see whenever one watches an episode each week).
And since I'd also already seen the next to last episode, where they discover the smuggled OIL is being sent to JAPAN (who's busy attacking Korea and other countries), that knowledge also made the rest of the show make more sense than if one didn't already realize what's going on.
In other words, like the case is with you, I'm also looking forward to watching the SEASON FINALE.
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Stratego (29287)
4 months ago
"It's such a pleasure to find others like yourself who aren't constantly posting the same kind of BORING MONOTOUS messages here claiming that something is "WOKE" when it's obvious how the person who posts them has NO CLUE whatsoever what GOOD WRITING involves or how to tell a good story."
Hypocrite much, you pretentious fnck? If anything is BORING MONOTOUS, it's folks like you dismissing any criticism as people just being too stupid to understand.
This show was woke shit and that's why it was canceled. Period.
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