Angelica's side (Take 1): We really need to not fall asleep when watching new episodes! I'd attempt to write something, but seeing as I missed what was likely the most critical parts to understanding this week's plot, I may have to wait until we watch it again. I could, however, go on about the trampoline scene at length...DM: My god, that trampoline scene was something. Convolution! The asiatic semi-futiristic trampoline-fu, the life-predicting computer, the watch-switch-leading-to unlikely causation: all of these things made me feel like i was bouncing between planes, and at times, i was drowned in counfoundation. nonetheless, that number 2 was something. i must grow my hair again to get myself a pompadour like that two's. i will say that the jammer plot-line, while loose, was engaging. i wanted to know more, worried it would all go to the wayside, got the explanation in spades, and still thought it was a cool angle to the Village. i still don't know if it was for 'real' or if it was another 'number 2 plot.' Long live the Village, but not with me in it. Back to that computer that predicts every move one will make: why not use it to greater effect? Why limit it to knowing when one can supplant one watch with another? It's like using a time machine to swipe Blackbeard's treasure chest rather than invest in IBM. But the ending was pretty sweet. i liked how there is now a No. 2 who owes No. 6. When 6 gets out, he can can that favour in. i would. Big medals are pretty cool now that i've seen them in action - ceremonies recognizing big fish in small towns tend to have these grotesque batons. PS: another traitorous woman... what's going on in this village??
Angelica's side (Take 2): Wow, did this episode ever make a lot more sense after having watched those missing scenes. And on re-watching it, I had many other oh-yeah moments, like remembering a dream from the previous night, triggered by some split second image that somehow creeped into your brain: Number 6's exercises in the woods, the machine which can predict Number 6's behaviour (why not, however, use it it to predict more interesting things than that he would buy candy and at what time he would go do his trampolining...like maybe the next time he would try to escape???) and of course, more trampoline scenes. I really liked both Number 2's from this episode. The acting "Number 2" because he was so off-beat and somehow mesmerising - I could almost feel him slithering across each scene - and the episode's real Number 2 because he was a Number 2 which I actually felt some sympathy for. I liked the change of plot as well...Number 6 wasn't trying to escape and it somehow felt like for a moment he stopped being so much of an individual and behaved as a part of society...at least just a little.
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