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Apr. 28th, 2019 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grassangelI just... need a day or something to mourn the end of a TV series, a series that was dead before I finished the second, and last, season.
It was Counterpart. A sci-fi series about two parallel worlds and crossing between them: a Cold War era spy game playing out between them, complete with spies, sleeper agents and conspiracies that continued into the now. There was a lesbian assassin struggling to find her identity after killing her Other, a sleeper agent who wanted a life that was uniquely hers and not her Other's. A man who was hard and cruel on one side but soft and cowardly on the other, his wife - who on both sides had a job to do and did it, and the soft, cowardly, man learned to love his wife by loving the other.
There were even other little things beyond the story that endeared the series to me. While it didn't achieve a perfect 50:50 ratio of men to women for both directing and writing, it came very close. The characters & casting, while imperfect too, did have people of colour, who had little backstories and motivations of their own.
I think the creator must've known that this little, serious, confronting series would not be long lived. Even though there are only two series, twenty episodes, and space enough to continue, it is complete enough with what it got. (Even series one could've been complete enough on its own.)
But. I would have loved more of the kinder Howard, and I hoped that maybe, somehow, he could have lived happily with Emily from the other world. Maybe the other Howard could have found happiness too. I would have loved more of Peter and Claire - who had one shared goal: to make the world better for their little girl who was born of two worlds. I would have loved to see more pairs of others who love each other, who delight in the existence of one another, who could work together, and who prove Yanek wrong.
There will always be the two seasons we got, and there is always fanfic, but still: I will miss seeing what could've been.
It was Counterpart. A sci-fi series about two parallel worlds and crossing between them: a Cold War era spy game playing out between them, complete with spies, sleeper agents and conspiracies that continued into the now. There was a lesbian assassin struggling to find her identity after killing her Other, a sleeper agent who wanted a life that was uniquely hers and not her Other's. A man who was hard and cruel on one side but soft and cowardly on the other, his wife - who on both sides had a job to do and did it, and the soft, cowardly, man learned to love his wife by loving the other.
There were even other little things beyond the story that endeared the series to me. While it didn't achieve a perfect 50:50 ratio of men to women for both directing and writing, it came very close. The characters & casting, while imperfect too, did have people of colour, who had little backstories and motivations of their own.
I think the creator must've known that this little, serious, confronting series would not be long lived. Even though there are only two series, twenty episodes, and space enough to continue, it is complete enough with what it got. (Even series one could've been complete enough on its own.)
But. I would have loved more of the kinder Howard, and I hoped that maybe, somehow, he could have lived happily with Emily from the other world. Maybe the other Howard could have found happiness too. I would have loved more of Peter and Claire - who had one shared goal: to make the world better for their little girl who was born of two worlds. I would have loved to see more pairs of others who love each other, who delight in the existence of one another, who could work together, and who prove Yanek wrong.
There will always be the two seasons we got, and there is always fanfic, but still: I will miss seeing what could've been.
