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Let's frame this shall we?
Succubi, Incubi, Hags. Supernatural/Metaphorical personifications of unexplained, ill understood phenomena. Old wives tales. Simply, things that are made up.
Then. Coyote, the trickster.
That was our clue right there and from that point forward we are on guard.
I almost saw this one coming a mile away. I thought that the entire episode would be a dream. I wasn't expecting the bait and switch. I liked it, though. In retrospect, of course Sarah would dream normalcy (or some sort of semblance of normalcy). Nightmares are what she lives day to day. The setting for what is actually the dream should have been my tip-off, but wasn't. At least not in the way that it should have. I questioned Sarah's willingness to be in an institution. A) because it would place her on the grid - even with a fake name and B) she's got a very negative history with institutions. I didn't connect the dots to their final and natural conclusion. Sarah really wouldn't willingly, sleep deprived or not, enter that sort of environment.
Then there's that set-up. The frame that really was the frame and not the dream. Funneled through Sarah's flawed, delusional, paranoid, sleep deprived gaze everything is confused and suspect. Dream and reality meld to a tremendous degree and because she is exhausted (physically, mentally and emotionally) her longing for "normal" is so strong and so immediate that it gets completely confused with real life. The sleep clinic represents Sarah's chance to rest, to recuperate, but she's never going to rest. She's no longer built for that so even in her dream everything gets twisted and corrupted by the nightmare that she is living. And isn't that always the way of these things.
The previous episode undoubtedly affects her ability to understand her reality and the place of that reality in the world at large. The seemingly cookie cutter, Stepford community with rotten, wormy secrets. That appearance of hunky-dory, Pollyanna that represents what every one wants but that also represents the way that the things we want blind us to truth. How the have's are able to turn their heads from the have not's. To ignore, for their benefit, the things that they don't want to see.
I was really expecting Sarah to wake up from both versions of realities, so the reveal that the nurse was actually metal wasn't a surprise. It plays into all of Sarah's fears about Infiltrators who really can pass for humans.
Nothing is what it's expected to be. Coyote, the Trickster ... because my girlfriend thinks its sexy. Sarah who finds meaning in everything because everything has become like a code. Nothing is simple, everything is complex. Sarah chasing ghosts.
Succubi, Incubi, Hags. Supernatural/Metaphorical personifications of unexplained, ill understood phenomena. Old wives tales. Simply, things that are made up.
Then. Coyote, the trickster.
That was our clue right there and from that point forward we are on guard.
I almost saw this one coming a mile away. I thought that the entire episode would be a dream. I wasn't expecting the bait and switch. I liked it, though. In retrospect, of course Sarah would dream normalcy (or some sort of semblance of normalcy). Nightmares are what she lives day to day. The setting for what is actually the dream should have been my tip-off, but wasn't. At least not in the way that it should have. I questioned Sarah's willingness to be in an institution. A) because it would place her on the grid - even with a fake name and B) she's got a very negative history with institutions. I didn't connect the dots to their final and natural conclusion. Sarah really wouldn't willingly, sleep deprived or not, enter that sort of environment.
Then there's that set-up. The frame that really was the frame and not the dream. Funneled through Sarah's flawed, delusional, paranoid, sleep deprived gaze everything is confused and suspect. Dream and reality meld to a tremendous degree and because she is exhausted (physically, mentally and emotionally) her longing for "normal" is so strong and so immediate that it gets completely confused with real life. The sleep clinic represents Sarah's chance to rest, to recuperate, but she's never going to rest. She's no longer built for that so even in her dream everything gets twisted and corrupted by the nightmare that she is living. And isn't that always the way of these things.
The previous episode undoubtedly affects her ability to understand her reality and the place of that reality in the world at large. The seemingly cookie cutter, Stepford community with rotten, wormy secrets. That appearance of hunky-dory, Pollyanna that represents what every one wants but that also represents the way that the things we want blind us to truth. How the have's are able to turn their heads from the have not's. To ignore, for their benefit, the things that they don't want to see.
I was really expecting Sarah to wake up from both versions of realities, so the reveal that the nurse was actually metal wasn't a surprise. It plays into all of Sarah's fears about Infiltrators who really can pass for humans.
Nothing is what it's expected to be. Coyote, the Trickster ... because my girlfriend thinks its sexy. Sarah who finds meaning in everything because everything has become like a code. Nothing is simple, everything is complex. Sarah chasing ghosts.
