>> "Well, I would not really agree with your characterization of Miriam as 'vicious'. I think she's doing her job, and I think she takes her job seriously, and I think it's complicated and difficult to judge the performance of that job by contemporary standards."
I was mostly referring to her expulsion of that girl, in episode 3 -- sure, I can see the argument that if people know, she needs to act, but an immediate public expulsion? Sure, yeah, 'she feels maternal to the good girls and protects them from the bad' and 'the past is a foreign country', but that seemed somewhat cruel and vicious, to me.
>> "But one of the things I really enjoy about the way the show represents the Griffith is the constant reminders that the women who live at the Griffith understand that there is a gap between the rules and the enforcement of the rules, that the rules only have as much hold over them as they let them."
Well, yes, but also no. I didn't get the impression that the food smuggling was as significantly prosecuted as the man above the first floor, for example. It is true that the obedience of the rules at the Griffith is clearly more lax than, for example, a tyrannical cult where everyone actually believes in the justification. That's a high bar though, and they are all what, 20, give or take a few years? The rules have hold. The impression I got is that, at best, the show thinks that they have enough alternatives that they would be OK even if they were kicked out.
We have personalities, just not feelings. :P But yeah, seriously, I agree, she is pretty great.
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Date: 2015-02-16 04:53 am (UTC)I was mostly referring to her expulsion of that girl, in episode 3 -- sure, I can see the argument that if people know, she needs to act, but an immediate public expulsion? Sure, yeah, 'she feels maternal to the good girls and protects them from the bad' and 'the past is a foreign country', but that seemed somewhat cruel and vicious, to me.
>> "But one of the things I really enjoy about the way the show represents the Griffith is the constant reminders that the women who live at the Griffith understand that there is a gap between the rules and the enforcement of the rules, that the rules only have as much hold over them as they let them."
Well, yes, but also no. I didn't get the impression that the food smuggling was as significantly prosecuted as the man above the first floor, for example. It is true that the obedience of the rules at the Griffith is clearly more lax than, for example, a tyrannical cult where everyone actually believes in the justification. That's a high bar though, and they are all what, 20, give or take a few years? The rules have hold. The impression I got is that, at best, the show thinks that they have enough alternatives that they would be OK even if they were kicked out.
We have personalities, just not feelings. :P But yeah, seriously, I agree, she is pretty great.