Post by bungledin on May 10, 2009 17:52:52 GMT -5
Hi guys 
There has been a fair bit of talk around, about the centricity of Follow the Leader... Some say that it had no centricity, similar to 'Namaste' earlier in the season, while others claim it was a Richard Alpert centric episode, without the conventional flashback/forwardness...
I can see it both sides but I'm wondering what you guys think?
Some things supporting the Richard argument are:
Whenever we were taken to 2007, with the exeption of the last time the camera was focused on Richard and we were treated to the wooshing flash noise, suggesting a flashforward from his point of view
There were some rumors going around before the episode aired that it was going to be Richard centric
He played a fairly prominent role in both time periods
Some things against:
Although he was fairly prominent it wasn't really enough to make it obviously Richard centric
If it was a true Richard centric episode it would have been made clearer
It didn't really reveal anything new about the nature of his character, or his motivatons...
(On a side note this thread marks my 500th post! May not be much for some people but I don't post too much, and I've been a forum member since the early days, February 2006... feel rather chuffed now )
There has been a fair bit of talk around, about the centricity of Follow the Leader... Some say that it had no centricity, similar to 'Namaste' earlier in the season, while others claim it was a Richard Alpert centric episode, without the conventional flashback/forwardness...
I can see it both sides but I'm wondering what you guys think?
Some things supporting the Richard argument are:
Whenever we were taken to 2007, with the exeption of the last time the camera was focused on Richard and we were treated to the wooshing flash noise, suggesting a flashforward from his point of view
There were some rumors going around before the episode aired that it was going to be Richard centric
He played a fairly prominent role in both time periods
Some things against:
Although he was fairly prominent it wasn't really enough to make it obviously Richard centric
If it was a true Richard centric episode it would have been made clearer
It didn't really reveal anything new about the nature of his character, or his motivatons...
(On a side note this thread marks my 500th post! May not be much for some people but I don't post too much, and I've been a forum member since the early days, February 2006... feel rather chuffed now
)
