This was such an annoying episode. I mean, most of it was just a mediocre episode with too much emphasis on shock value and an overreliance on cliches. But what made it really awful was the resolution.
Okay, so you've got a ballet dancer who is about to become one of the most famous and significant ballet dancers in the world, something she's worked her whole life for. And she's only going to be able to dance for a year. So rather than enjoy her LIFELONG DREAM for a year, she has someone chop off her foot so she can have this great reputation?
This doesn't even make sense in terms of the background story. That involves someone who is so desperate to be a great artist that she risks her life for it. The modern story is someone who wants to be *known* as a great artist but apparently doesn't really care much about the art.
Maybe the writer of this episode is a hack who would rather have a great reputation than actually do art, but come on. Ballet dancing is a job that doesn't last long in the best of circumstances, and ballet dancers go in knowing that.
Also, what's with the guy running and then being so desperate to escape that he takes a jump that kills him? I mean, if he's on the hook for murder, sure. But for this? He does for this nonsense? (Also, he goes *along* with this nonsense?)
It's just so, so stupid, so unrealistic, so outside the realm of human behavior, and so inexplicably holding an 8.6 rating on IMDB.
I also thought it was pretty dumb to skip the Paris trip. I think she's being a dope. But people are dopes all the time, so okay, maybe. But the ballet thing, that's insane.
Okay, so you've got a ballet dancer who is about to become one of the most famous and significant ballet dancers in the world, something she's worked her whole life for. And she's only going to be able to dance for a year. So rather than enjoy her LIFELONG DREAM for a year, she has someone chop off her foot so she can have this great reputation?
This doesn't even make sense in terms of the background story. That involves someone who is so desperate to be a great artist that she risks her life for it. The modern story is someone who wants to be *known* as a great artist but apparently doesn't really care much about the art.
Maybe the writer of this episode is a hack who would rather have a great reputation than actually do art, but come on. Ballet dancing is a job that doesn't last long in the best of circumstances, and ballet dancers go in knowing that.
Also, what's with the guy running and then being so desperate to escape that he takes a jump that kills him? I mean, if he's on the hook for murder, sure. But for this? He does for this nonsense? (Also, he goes *along* with this nonsense?)
It's just so, so stupid, so unrealistic, so outside the realm of human behavior, and so inexplicably holding an 8.6 rating on IMDB.
I also thought it was pretty dumb to skip the Paris trip. I think she's being a dope. But people are dopes all the time, so okay, maybe. But the ballet thing, that's insane.
