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This is one of my favorite episodes of the show, there isn't too much to this one as it's a little more of a visual adventure but is rich with deep content. This episode you can include in a psychology and philosophy class and do an analysis. However, this episode marked the first meeting and official entry of my favorite character in the show Medea.
I really like how the episode pertains a lot to Carl Jung Psychology, as the place Nowhere represents the subconscious, the place where all our deep memories and desires reside. We see the first challenge which is Medea though also J's deep desire manifested. It's both surreal and a little funny as we see both Medea and J dressed in almost stereotypical 50's, 60's grown up wear at the time. That scene you can say also foreshadows what's to come for both characters in the further seasons.
Really like the tour of the nice clean home they go into really like Medea's enthusiasm while Jay is confused and just going thought the motions making sense of everything, well as usual. Also, sidenote the realter is a young Sarah Clarke whom you know from the TV show "Scrubs" which is cool as that's one of my favorite comedies.
But I feel seeing both Medea and Jay touring the house to buy it together it goes with Jung psychology on the desire for connection for the Anima and Animus to become one. Medea represents the Anima while Jay is the Animus.
Medea is excited though she thinks it's for the materialism of the house but it's really for the connection with Jay or at least someone to love her back, but she doesn't really know that yet. Jay, we see is a little confused and scared and runs away taking off his suit which is weird as he really didn't need to do that, but that's just a way of further showing that Jay isn't ready for all that at least not yet, despite how attractive it all is along with Medea.
I won't say for sure their meant for each other, I can only give two hits in this matter, the person you love isn't who you think he or she is and most of the time that person is closer than you think.
We then see Jay go back and he comes to his challenge, really like there is this contrast in both the Nowhere's both Jay and Medea venture to, but also pertains to the truths in coming of age. With the first one we see it's all bright the house and neighborhood is all new, which in the coming-of-age sense represents the beginning of that part of one's childhood.
But then in the other realm we see it's not so bright, slightly foreboding as we see Jay's neighborhood which like any neighborhood that's been lived in a long time is all worn down. Though also looks completely abandoned as it's all dirty and there is lots of plant life overgrown. This obviously represents the end of childhood as everything that is familiar is now old and empty.
We go to Jay's house; I'll admit this scene is both touching but also sad at the same time. Jay, we see sees his mom who is looks like she's about to make and bake a cake. This I feel is a truth with all of us, how when we get far in our lives, or we leave home and then come back we all want to see and reexperience the familiar.
However deep-down Jay knows that where he is isn't home from what he doesn't know about his father (or the truth he's still blocking from himself) but simply what he doesn't know about himself. This makes Jay make a painful decision where he says he'd rather go to the tower and then we see in a haunting moment the image of his mother fades.
That moment I'll admit is sad because this is something we've all had to go through or even do at some point in our lives. From moving away to a new house and city or even simply leaving home and then to revisit that old neighborhood and house years latter to discover how different it looks and that the past is truly gone. This also gets at the theme in this episode about part of what home really is, and home isn't what's in the past but really where you go and stay in the present to build a future. But the other part of it is that it's the people in your life that make a home.
From the faded image of his mother, Jay truly sees this is no longer his home because there is nothing there in his old home and neighborhood anymore, for there is no one in his life to come home to.
Jay continues his Odyssey toward home as we continue ours.
Rating: 4 stars.
This is one of my favorite episodes of the show, there isn't too much to this one as it's a little more of a visual adventure but is rich with deep content. This episode you can include in a psychology and philosophy class and do an analysis. However, this episode marked the first meeting and official entry of my favorite character in the show Medea.
I really like how the episode pertains a lot to Carl Jung Psychology, as the place Nowhere represents the subconscious, the place where all our deep memories and desires reside. We see the first challenge which is Medea though also J's deep desire manifested. It's both surreal and a little funny as we see both Medea and J dressed in almost stereotypical 50's, 60's grown up wear at the time. That scene you can say also foreshadows what's to come for both characters in the further seasons.
Really like the tour of the nice clean home they go into really like Medea's enthusiasm while Jay is confused and just going thought the motions making sense of everything, well as usual. Also, sidenote the realter is a young Sarah Clarke whom you know from the TV show "Scrubs" which is cool as that's one of my favorite comedies.
But I feel seeing both Medea and Jay touring the house to buy it together it goes with Jung psychology on the desire for connection for the Anima and Animus to become one. Medea represents the Anima while Jay is the Animus.
Medea is excited though she thinks it's for the materialism of the house but it's really for the connection with Jay or at least someone to love her back, but she doesn't really know that yet. Jay, we see is a little confused and scared and runs away taking off his suit which is weird as he really didn't need to do that, but that's just a way of further showing that Jay isn't ready for all that at least not yet, despite how attractive it all is along with Medea.
I won't say for sure their meant for each other, I can only give two hits in this matter, the person you love isn't who you think he or she is and most of the time that person is closer than you think.
We then see Jay go back and he comes to his challenge, really like there is this contrast in both the Nowhere's both Jay and Medea venture to, but also pertains to the truths in coming of age. With the first one we see it's all bright the house and neighborhood is all new, which in the coming-of-age sense represents the beginning of that part of one's childhood.
But then in the other realm we see it's not so bright, slightly foreboding as we see Jay's neighborhood which like any neighborhood that's been lived in a long time is all worn down. Though also looks completely abandoned as it's all dirty and there is lots of plant life overgrown. This obviously represents the end of childhood as everything that is familiar is now old and empty.
We go to Jay's house; I'll admit this scene is both touching but also sad at the same time. Jay, we see sees his mom who is looks like she's about to make and bake a cake. This I feel is a truth with all of us, how when we get far in our lives, or we leave home and then come back we all want to see and reexperience the familiar.
However deep-down Jay knows that where he is isn't home from what he doesn't know about his father (or the truth he's still blocking from himself) but simply what he doesn't know about himself. This makes Jay make a painful decision where he says he'd rather go to the tower and then we see in a haunting moment the image of his mother fades.
That moment I'll admit is sad because this is something we've all had to go through or even do at some point in our lives. From moving away to a new house and city or even simply leaving home and then to revisit that old neighborhood and house years latter to discover how different it looks and that the past is truly gone. This also gets at the theme in this episode about part of what home really is, and home isn't what's in the past but really where you go and stay in the present to build a future. But the other part of it is that it's the people in your life that make a home.
From the faded image of his mother, Jay truly sees this is no longer his home because there is nothing there in his old home and neighborhood anymore, for there is no one in his life to come home to.
Jay continues his Odyssey toward home as we continue ours.
Rating: 4 stars.
