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Niggle
Mar 6, 2006 19:40:06 GMT -5
Post by bluevelvet on Mar 6, 2006 19:40:06 GMT -5
There are just a couple of things about this episode that are niggling me and I am hoping someone can help me out. When Maddie meets Max, she asks him where Blue Moon is and he says they closed down. But if she closed the agency down in the Pilot, surely the agency would be remembered as City of Angels and not Blue Moon? Or am I getting my timelines mixed up here?
Also, in her dream, her beautiful mauve outfit becomes grey. Is this some symbolic thing about the dream versus reality? The coat she is wearing remains grey throughout. So what is the purpose of making her outfit grey?
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Niggle
Mar 6, 2006 20:04:57 GMT -5
Post by queensgirl on Mar 6, 2006 20:04:57 GMT -5
This is just a guess, but she changed the name very soon after she got there, and she would have to work there a little bit to learn how crazy everybody else was, thus to be able to be frustrated enough to quit. So that could explain how there was the name change first. If she worked just a few days, or weeks, and hated it so much she wanted out, that might do it. (By the end of the pilot, she's been there a few days, hasn't she?) Either that, or she missed her old life so much, and resented what happened to her so badly because she was robbed, she just took it out on the people at the agency. Same result.
As for the dress color, grey is a symbol of neutrality; when something is grey it's blank, empty, in a state of transition from one thing to another, which would match perfectly well with the mood of a very depressed person for whom meaning had faded from life. It could also represent the in-between state of the dream world itself.
A further reason might be to show the contrast between her suicidal state in the alternate world, and the 'color,' i.e. drama and happiness, that could be part of her life in the 'real' world if only she didn't give up.
Just my take on it. ;D
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Mar 6, 2006 23:03:13 GMT -5
Post by adyjdy on Mar 6, 2006 23:03:13 GMT -5
I agree with queensgirl. I had always looked at the color change of her suit as a way to draw a contrast between dream state Maddie and real-life Maddie. It reminded me of how they changed Gwyneth Paltrow's haircut in "Sliding Doors" to draw a clear distinction between the two paths her life could have taken.
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Niggle
Mar 7, 2006 2:27:31 GMT -5
Post by bluevelvet on Mar 7, 2006 2:27:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I had an idea about the grey dress so thanks for confirming it. ;D The other one about the name of the agency makes sense now. Thanks again.
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Niggle
Sept 28, 2011 18:15:40 GMT -5
Post by mackidockie on Sept 28, 2011 18:15:40 GMT -5
There are just a couple of things about this episode that are niggling me and I am hoping someone can help me out. When Maddie meets Max, she asks him where Blue Moon is and he says they closed down. But if she closed the agency down in the Pilot, surely the agency would be remembered as City of Angels and not Blue Moon? Or am I getting my timelines mixed up here? Glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed it. She changed the name of the agency AFTER she decided to keep it, so Max and Maddie should have instead remembered City of Angels and not Blue Moon.
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