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Originally Posted by Cappy
I really like this show and feel like more discussion is needed on here. It's a powerful show which blends the nuances and subtly of the subject matter to make a very compelling and powerful hour.
I wonder what you're guys' take is on the GR. Perhaps it is because I have never suffered the sudden loss of a family member or witnessed a tragic event, but I find myself leaning towards the general public in thinking they are wack jobs. Obviously I know there is more to it but I really felt like the reasons for joining, staying, and returning are over my head.
Is it that members feel like the world is just ignoring the loss of their loved ones? Is it the sudden realization that life is ultimately meaningless, or perhaps an unsolveable mystery? Is it just strictly grief?
Would be interesting to have your guys' input. I felt like the finale would be the end of it; show the characters the absurdity of the organization, but it appears the GR continue to recruit and pull members back in.
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Well, I think it's more than just losing a loved one. I think 4% of the world population vanished? With no clue or trace. That would weigh on the mind for sure. I think the last two questions you ask are closer to the feelings or the truth. That life MAY be ultimately meaningless, or unsolveable. It's a truth we all have to face one way or another at certain points in our lives. It's just thrown in everyone's face at once in this world. There was a bit of that in the first season. People having to find meaning again. Make meaning in their lives. That's really what life is. Everyone has to make their own meaning. And sometimes, you get it taken from you. Or it changes. Does that mean it's meaningless? I guess, it's as meaningful, or meaningless as you choose to make it. Especially the further you get away from religion, or dogmas that try to TELL you what 'the meaning' is. Some people have a real problem with that, even in the real world. The GR, while supposedly being above it all, is really just a dogma, a cultish one at that, that TELLS people the meaning, so they don't have to make one for themselves.
It was also mentioned in the last episode, I forget by who, that the GR 'thinks they have already died'. And their actions do kinda convey them moving around like ghosts or spirits. A silent reminder of the tragedy and the new truth of the world. The 'real world' is an illusion, and everyone is just a spirit convincing themselves they exist. That would be their feelings anyway. To me, it just seems they are lost, searching for meaning where there isn't any. I suppose if I lived in that world, I'd be desperately looking for an answer too. There'd be fear that it might happen again for one, and a driving need to know what caused it. But I also think I'd be one of those people that would be able to move on for the larger part, and probably think those in the GR, while not completely insane, are probably just unable to cope. I'd have a bit of sympathy, but not a ton when they got up to their shenanigans. There are some people in the world making an honest go at making things better or repairing their lives, and the GR just seems to make it tougher. Purposefully.