Something something about Buck and learning and or teaching.
Something something about Buck teaching when he really needed to be learning.
I just keep thinking about how the show has increasingly - especially last season - put Buck into the role of 'teacher' - including his coma dream. (i'm using teacher for the lack of a better term!) and how in the aftermath of the coma dream - he's been trying to teach but it hasn't worked - instead he's been learning.
I've been musing on the fact that even back in season 1 Buck has been in a teacher role -
Abby learning to chose herself and go for her happiness,
Bobby learning to let people in and Buck being a major part of that because of their developing father-son type relationship
'teaching' Eddie that he could rely on other people for help
Maddie learning at Bucks hand that she didn't need to keep running, that she could lean on him for support and build a new life for herself
Ravi being tutored by Buck in the fire house
even Lucy being given advice by Buck - teaching her through his own experiences in dumb luck
Buck making himself into a teacher in his coma dream and the idea that all these people he has helped teach teaching him that he has a place with them and that he is important
and so many more examples through the seasons that I won't list or I'd be here forever!
Because there has been a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning since Buck woke up from his coma - he learnt he was good at maths, but then wasn't allowed to help Chris with his maths homework because it would be cheating.
used his maths skills to win at Poker - but got taught lessons even in victory - rather than teaching others lessons (whatever they might have been)
Natalia being interested in him because he could teach her about death and things going south pretty quickly when it became evident that Buck needed to learn how to live again rather than be stuck in death
And now we've had several mentions by Tommy of him teaching Buck things - teaching him to fly, teaching him Mauy Thai, all the way to him being his bi awakening is teaching him about a part of himself he didn't know. Things are turned on their head - Buck is the student not the master now
Even with Eddie this season, we've seen him teaching Buck things - rather than Eddie learning from him - Eddie handing over this really important thing going on with Chris - Eddie knowing that Buck would be a better option - that Chris would open up to him more - is teaching Buck about his importance in the Diaz family - re-enforcing that he is part of their life. Its also Eddie who has had the good advice for Buck this time rather than the other way round.
Something something about 'you like to be the guy with the answers' to Buck becoming the guy with the (maths) answers - only for it to fade away and now he's having to learn
Something something about the tie to Buck and death and the resurrection and how Christ was the teacher up to and immediately after his death and resurrection when he left others on earth to spread his teachings and he ascended to learn at the right hand of god
Something something about how that is the key to happiness and that is what Buck has figured out and that is why his journey to figuring that out has had him wearing the bright blue - because in Christianity - that shade of blue is the colour of the kingdom of heaven (because it is the colour of the sky!) so putting Buck in it at all these key markers of his journey is showing him as being on the road to ascension.
This post is a mess - I don't even know what it is any more! I started with one idea about teaching and Tommy and then more kept coming and we ended up here!!!!
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Playful Land— Theories and Rambling.
I'm ab to sound so insane but I genuinely believe that Fellow Honest and Giddell's relationship is meant to parallel Leona Kingscholar and his relationship with Cheka (as well as general siblingisms with the Tweels, Ace's brother possibly making an appearance)
I'm just saying, it makes sense that the first translation of Honest's first name is Pharaoh (from what I'd seen before they corrected but still...) not only that but the themes of Pleasure island being about how the Amusement park encouraged young boys to indulge in misbehaving with the caveat being they'd be turned into donkeys (jackasses) and thus were forced into labor. Making him a Pharoah in that sense.
But I also notice that since his name is actually Fellow, it would mean that he's playing the role of a fellow man who simply wants to "help" others.
I wonder if Fellow Honest is possibly doing the same by funneling misbehaving people as a means to teach them a lesson? Or possibly controlling people as a means to elevate himself? (A combo of Ruggie and Leona mayhap?)
I also want to get into the parting words of "Don't lose your conscience." Conscience being a determiner for your morals and inner voice—something Lampwick and the other boys lose by indulging in rough housing, smoking and other bad behaviours.
Going off the crew being controlled and thus having their villainous traits amplified so that they'd become "donkeys" (Or whatever happens to those who succumb in this event). I'm assuming Giddell or Fellow Honest have a Unique Magic that works like a combo of Ruggie and Jamil—being able to alter one's mind long enough to permanently change them while the other has a Unique Magic to transform/bless someone by turning them into an animals/puppets.
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