I will say that, four episodes from the end, we still don't know about the opening speaker.
Are you still watching the series, then?
I should confess that I'm also reacting to this out of Sondheim's Into the Woods. Although I'm not expecting Drosselmeyer to die, er, any more than he has already, I am always suspicious of stories where the storyteller is involved.
There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why spring is born out of winter's laboring pain? Or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer, I only know it's true. I hurt them for that reason; and myself, a little bit, too. —Tom Jones, The Fantasticks (1960)
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Are you still watching the series, then?
I should confess that I'm also reacting to this out of Sondheim's Into the Woods. Although I'm not expecting Drosselmeyer to die, er, any more than he has already, I am always suspicious of stories where the storyteller is involved.
There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why spring is born out of winter's laboring pain? Or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer, I only know it's true. I hurt them for that reason; and myself, a little bit, too.
—Tom Jones, The Fantasticks (1960)