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DESCENDANTS_OF_THE_SUN

                                             June 28, 2018



Watching "Descendents of the Sun", I wasn't conscious of liking
it all that much-- it was clearly watchable, and engaging
enough, but if you'd talk to me about it I would've done my
usual negative complaining about plausibility and pacing--

And yet, here I find myself at the close of the series missing
my old friends on screen and describing scenes from it to my
actual friends and having some odd dreams that appear to be
influenced by it...

        The dream revolved around macho military culture
        (one of the threads of this show):

        I was trying to apply for membership to a group and
        being subjected to something like a hazing ritual where
        the group acts hostile to you, interrogating you about
        your motives, while one of them was pointing some heavy
        artillery at me-- I got the sense later that that was a
        bit of improv the rest of them didn't approve of.

        Immediately after this was over, I was considering
        pretending I didn't understand the "joke" and gunning
        them all down in "self-defense"--

        Then the leader of the group is called off the scene
        for what seems like some other weird hazing by someone
        else, and I'm left alone and ignored by everyone.

        I start poking around the office learning a little
        about what they're doing-- I haven't received any
        training at all yet-- and worrying that they're going
        to regard this as some sort of intrusive spying.  And
        wondering exactly why I want to be in this group.








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