Noughts and Crosses, episode 4
I actually had a dream about Noughts and Crosses last night, I can remember almost nothing about it but I do recollect a sort of crushing and depressing atmosphere. Accurate!
Jumping right in. Hey I’m impressed that just for a few seconds, they implied Sephy had died in the bombing and for one moment I did wonder (obviously that doesn’t happen in the book)
Ouch, the TV news announcing the names of the dead Cross doctors but not the dead nought cleaner.
Seeing Dorn get punched in the face was so very satisfying, man I hate him. He’s the sort of person who is interested in revolution only because it gives him an excuse to manipulate, abuse and hurt whoever gets in his way. (I hate that kind of character. And that kind of person, too, actually.)
Paterson Joseph is putting in another amazing performance as a terrible person, talking about erasing the same sort of people that his son is while still being a good father (on the surface at least) to his legitimate daughters. Ohh he’s skin-crawling. It’s amazing.
I was wondering if this series was going to go into the world beyond “noughts” and “crosses” (i.e. people who are neither African or white) because the books never really did as far as I remember. And they sort of touched on it in this episode because Ryan’s lawyer was an Indian woman, and we can see she’s in a pretty respected place in society even though Jasmine, a Cross, can’t get her name right. I wish they’d go more into it all though. What does the rest of the globe really make of or wish to do about Albion, because “we look absurd to the rest of the world?” raises all sorts of questions?
Aha, Jasmine’s character development is here.
Man, now that’s a downer ending… I remember from the books what happened to Ryan, and it’s not good. (I do sort of wish they’d done the almost-execution scene though, because that one of the scenes I wondered from the beginning how they’d do.)