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Sunday Afternoon Hodgepodge for May 31, 2009.
-Yes, I'm working on my first paper, and I can tell it's going to be another whopping manifesto, because I'm still laying the groundwork for my first point. On page three. Why can I never be concise or succinct?
- And Fat Man bites the dust on the cusp of redemption. I get the feeling we were supposed to pity his weakness, but I was overjoyed whenCorey Glover Mr. Cornrow punched him in his simpering face. Too often, such cardinal sins as covering up your best friend's death and leaving his body to rot in the woods are forgiven and brushed aside once the sinner has sufficiently blubbered. It's as though the value of the deceased wronged is immediately lesser than that of the surviving, sniveling penitent. "Well, what he did was wrong, but it's all right, because there's nothing we can do for the dead anyway. Tralala. We're still BFFs because you're still breathing and he's not." I'm not saying that Fat Man should never have been forgiven had he lived, but it's nice to see the acknowledgment, however clumsy, that forgiveness doesn't and shouldn't work like a gumball machine.
That's some truly heavy-handed parallelism there, show. So Sara Mills doesn't want Abby "camping" with Jimmy because he's a wild boy, and she knows all about those. And since her wild child romance turns out to have been with John Wakefield, the loon who eventually strung her and six other hapless souls to the Tree of Woe, we're supposed to infer that Jimmy the fishmonger is also capable of murderous violence. Sorry, but as they say on The Fashion Show, I'm not buying it.
If anything, I'm beginning to wonder about Sheriff Mills. In order to protect Sara from the evil clutches of John Wakefield, he orders his men to "teach him a lesson", a phrase which presumably here means "beat the crap out of him"(an act in which he himself didn't participate, the delegating coward)and exerts the force of his provincial police officer will to send him to prison for the attempted murder of a police officer for trying to flash-fry Officer Crispy at the marina. If he's willing to order a gang beating of an ex-boyfriend, then it's not impossible to believe that he blew up the marina in order to frame Wakefield for attempted murder, or perhaps even to kill Wakefield.
It should also be noted that Henry was present at the bombing, and I'm really beginning to wonder if Henry's father wasn't actually John Wakefield returned to the island under an assumed name, the better to stalk Sara Mills.
If that's so, then that almost certainly means that Abby and Henry are half-siblings, because there's only one reason why girls flee to tinpot islands in the middle of nowhere on these shows. I'd bet my monthly stipend that Sara was pregnant with Abby when she met Sheriff Mills, and that he agreed to raise Abby as his own even though she's John Wakefield's biological daughter.
Then again, I'm wondering if Sheriff Mills isn't John Wakefield. Perhaps the killing of Wakefield by the sheriff was a metaphorical death. Maybe he suffered a psychotic break earlier in life, and his life on Harper's was an attempt to repair his fractured psyche. Maybe Mills fled to the isolation of Harper's Island in a bid to leave John Wakefield behind, only to find he had followed him there. How else to explain the uncharacteristic outburst of, "Did you ever stop to think that maybe she got what she deserved?" That wasn't grief talking; that was plain old piss off. Maybe Wakefield stole Sara from the sheriff, and Sarah came crawling back to him after John proved an abusive ass.
I still think Henry is the killer. I'm sure he and Marty tossed J.D. into the psych ward, but not because of a failed suicide attempt. I think J.D. was the one who came home from school early, and he caught Henry killing the unnamed girl. He told his parents, and Henry killed them, too, probably by tampering with their boat or their brake lines. Then when J.D. tried to tell Uncle Marty, the affable Henry convinced Uncle Marty that J.D. was crazy. I think J.D.'s suicide attempt happened after his stint in Bedlam.
It will be interesting to hear just how and when the Dunns died. It's been mentioned twice now. It must be significant.
- And Fat Man bites the dust on the cusp of redemption. I get the feeling we were supposed to pity his weakness, but I was overjoyed when
That's some truly heavy-handed parallelism there, show. So Sara Mills doesn't want Abby "camping" with Jimmy because he's a wild boy, and she knows all about those. And since her wild child romance turns out to have been with John Wakefield, the loon who eventually strung her and six other hapless souls to the Tree of Woe, we're supposed to infer that Jimmy the fishmonger is also capable of murderous violence. Sorry, but as they say on The Fashion Show, I'm not buying it.
If anything, I'm beginning to wonder about Sheriff Mills. In order to protect Sara from the evil clutches of John Wakefield, he orders his men to "teach him a lesson", a phrase which presumably here means "beat the crap out of him"(an act in which he himself didn't participate, the delegating coward)and exerts the force of his provincial police officer will to send him to prison for the attempted murder of a police officer for trying to flash-fry Officer Crispy at the marina. If he's willing to order a gang beating of an ex-boyfriend, then it's not impossible to believe that he blew up the marina in order to frame Wakefield for attempted murder, or perhaps even to kill Wakefield.
It should also be noted that Henry was present at the bombing, and I'm really beginning to wonder if Henry's father wasn't actually John Wakefield returned to the island under an assumed name, the better to stalk Sara Mills.
If that's so, then that almost certainly means that Abby and Henry are half-siblings, because there's only one reason why girls flee to tinpot islands in the middle of nowhere on these shows. I'd bet my monthly stipend that Sara was pregnant with Abby when she met Sheriff Mills, and that he agreed to raise Abby as his own even though she's John Wakefield's biological daughter.
Then again, I'm wondering if Sheriff Mills isn't John Wakefield. Perhaps the killing of Wakefield by the sheriff was a metaphorical death. Maybe he suffered a psychotic break earlier in life, and his life on Harper's was an attempt to repair his fractured psyche. Maybe Mills fled to the isolation of Harper's Island in a bid to leave John Wakefield behind, only to find he had followed him there. How else to explain the uncharacteristic outburst of, "Did you ever stop to think that maybe she got what she deserved?" That wasn't grief talking; that was plain old piss off. Maybe Wakefield stole Sara from the sheriff, and Sarah came crawling back to him after John proved an abusive ass.
I still think Henry is the killer. I'm sure he and Marty tossed J.D. into the psych ward, but not because of a failed suicide attempt. I think J.D. was the one who came home from school early, and he caught Henry killing the unnamed girl. He told his parents, and Henry killed them, too, probably by tampering with their boat or their brake lines. Then when J.D. tried to tell Uncle Marty, the affable Henry convinced Uncle Marty that J.D. was crazy. I think J.D.'s suicide attempt happened after his stint in Bedlam.
It will be interesting to hear just how and when the Dunns died. It's been mentioned twice now. It must be significant.