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“I’ve never experienced loss because I’ve never had a loved one to lose. What is grief, if not love persevering?” the writers are opening a door to a different kind of story. All the layers there—the grieving person being intruded upon, having to make room for someone who doesn’t or can’t understand, the way grief can only really be analyzed by someone completely outside of it, the way that analysis probably isn’t welcome in that moment, but creates a bridge to a different relationship with the two of them—it’s all really nicely done.
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Vision the Red and Vision the White start discussing the Ship of Theseus problem, and expect the viewers to keep up. And what this does, without explicitly saying it, is give us another window on grief. Because, yes, it may be love persisting, but it also rewrites the person who lives through it. Vision the White is a Ship whose boards and sails have now been built, torn apart, and replaced I think six times, now? But what is Wanda, if not also a Ship, who has been destroyed by the deaths of her parents, her brother, her partner (three times so far) and her children—and had to rebuild herself in a new way each time?
✏️ Big fan of this discourse and addition to the ship of theseus thing: If you replace each plank with a new one, is the final new one still the ship? If you take the old rotted planks and recover/rehabilitate them, then build the ship using the renewed old planks, is that the ship?