Score: 10
"The pace of dreams."
date: June 29, 2005
I'm rather surprised to say the least that this hasn't been more widely heralded. The intro with 'The One Who Watches' at Kam's back was a nice opener and left me admittedly with larger expectations of what was to come than I should have had (I dislike expectation, strongly).
Now whilst I first read of this series, I put it down to a large helping of religeous mumb-jumbo. Not exactly my favourite subject matter. I am however the open-minded sort so I decided to give it a look and I'm glad I did. I find the presentation of faith here to be an intriguing one.
I'm fascinated by Kam's belief in people over his Church and how he would risk all for the pain's of one man and such a thing is a noble pursuit, so in an act of nobility he realizes he's been cast aside but has he lost faith? I doubt it and yet, what temptations are held within that box? Pandora's box, indeed.
I think the moral of the story here might be; acts of kindness can often be mistaken as falling to temptation. Hence the opening quote of Luke, which says something akin to this. For if a man has great expectations on his shoulders, even the most minor stray from these expectations can be his downfall.
Whereas a lesser man, a man who has not achieved any form of greatness is by far the most free.
I personally liked the pace but even I had to stop and pause it every now and then because it's good to take the time to reflect on the subject-matter given. I see this as one of the best because it really did give me time to do that, the pace of it fell in time with the processes of my mind. In essence - I didn't have to pause this one quite as much.
There are things to be said about the slow pace of a tale being told however, akin to an old man telling tales to children by the fire. It gives the mind chance to dream - and in doing so, perhaps philosophize and understand. There's a lot of powerful stuff here and I won't skim over it.
This episode, I give a hearty recommendation to as one of my favourites.
~R
