Re: Post - "Grave Danger" Episode Discussion/Review ***Spoi
As for the hallucination...am I the only one who was annoyed with it? I felt it took something away from the quality of the ep...it felt like it was just Tarantino throwing it in just to make sure everyone knew it was a Tarantino episode. Just an observation but it just disappointed me. That said...Doc Robbins sure knows how to be melodramatic! He'd be great in a pantomime!
I didn’t like the hallucination scene that much the first time I saw it, but upon subsequent viewings I really started to like it, for several reasons.
1. I think it’s hilarious, and provides some comic relief.
2. It’s an interesting glimpse at how Nick views himself and how he believes other people view him.
3. It made a lot of people think that Nick had actually died, which I know made some people upset, but I think was a job well done.
4. It seems like Nick should have been able to hear some of the commotion going on above him, at least after they had dug almost all the way down to the top of the coffin. And even if he couldn’t hear that, he really should have heard Catherine yelling to him through the ventilation pipe, and it looked as though he did hear her. That happened just before he had the hallucination, so that gave me the impression that he was so out of it that even if he did hear something he wasn’t able to register it or wasn’t able to distinguish between his hallucination and reality. I think that hearing Catherine yell to him that they were there would have given him plenty of reason not to shoot himself, yet he was going to do it anyway.
I think this scene also did some other things that weren’t really necessary, but I felt helped to make the rescue scene more believable.
5. It helps to show how much Nick’s mental state had deteriorated. Up until that point, except for his initial, completely understandable, freak-out, he had been pretty calm, even while shooting out the light and dealing with the fire ants. When they finally uncover him, he’s completely lost it. Of course, this can also be explained by the fact that he had been just about to shoot himself and he was feeling relief and a renewed sense of panic while waiting to finally be helped out of the coffin.
6. It makes it more believable that, after holding on for so long, Nick would be willing to shoot himself. It shows that he seems to have accepted that he is going to die. Again, since he knew he was about to run out of air and probably didn’t want to suffer any more pain from the fire ants it’s understandable that he would want to end it quickly. Personally, if there were no fire ants involved I think I’d rather suffocate than shoot myself, I just don’t know if I’d be able to pull the trigger, but throw some fire ants in there and I might change my mind.
But, I’ve clearly overanalyzed.
