![]() Utopia moves you from one side of the fence to another and tells you there’s no clear cut right and wrong. You highlighted moral ambiguities in series one. We live in a world where people are constantly saying to you, ‘I’m telling you the truth’, whether they’re doing it through documentaries or reality TV or journalism or whatever, and ‘I wouldn’t lie to you’, and the more that someone does that to us, the less we believe, because instinctively if someone says ‘I’m telling you the truth’ you think ‘Why are you saying that?’ There’s this weird thing with reality and fiction where they’re sort of blending in strange ways. There has been this massive rise in conspiracy theories though. I couldn’t get my head round it at all and it just seemed too ridiculous. At one stage writing Utopia, I did want to put in that the rise in conspiracy theories was a result of The Network trying to hide their own conspiracy, but then I thought it was just too much of a headfuck. There’s been a rise in conspiracy theories in the last thirty years. I met a writer yesterday who I really respect who told me she genuinely believed that Kate Middleton’s baby and the pregnancy wasn’t real and with that amount of belief, maybe she’s right? A lot of the conspiracy theories, like Diana’s death or people not walking on the moon, or the Twin Towers, there’s such a simpler answer which is that those things probably happened. It’s hard to say I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. You said that you don’t believe in conspiracy theories, so what made you zone in on this? If you can’t be bothered to find a way to like or love someone, then why are you writing them? If you despise your characters, you’re despising people. I think the only real sin in writing is despising your characters. I can do bad, terrible things to them – and I probably should do because it’s my job, that’s how drama arises really – but I’ve got to care about them. I feel like what I need to do is care about my characters. ![]() I never think that I particularly write dark stuff or that I try and write dark stuff but it seems to come out that way and I have to accept that it probably is, because other people have said that. Maybe if they would’ve listened to me their show wouldn’t have gotten cancelled.I do like very, very ordinary people, but I do like to put them in extreme circumstances. Hyde, and I heart you also, as well! So we can “bury that body” now, what with the thorough explanation I’ve just given you, aka FOR REALSIES THE TRUTH!” ![]() ![]() Hyde: “oh, she was ACTUALLY - are you sitting down, team? - she was team bad guys, I de-mapped her accordingly/sorry to you all, my good guy team, for lying, but we weren’t so tight then, I perceived a lack of grip-having amongst y’all, but we are real now, don’t you find? I’ll call it though, that’s a “my bad” - I could’ve just “let it lie” harhar, as you all seem to feel almost entirely positive towards me, J. TL DR ~ I finished the season, 40% CERTAIN AF that it’d wind up like I guess not really all that good? Stuff like that? Now that I’ve given the show/books WAY too much time, his and Brienne’s chapters take the proverbial cake…īut here, in this Utopia-verse which we are talking about, have been talking about it’s like…. Well played, my fairest Railroad! But on the for real, Jaime’s storyline was originally just, to me, bad guy soup. Truly don’t judge him by his past mistakes, nobody’s perfect, and stuff like that! But all this from the quintessential ruggedly handsome scandinavian? Jaime’s ‘character arc’ - so this selfish, slimy, oozing with elitist-ness, preternaturally adept NOT ONLY at the defenestration of children but also at making lazily self-worshipy quips throughout said kiddie-defenny… and he’s human after all, so the ensuing and really-quite-rapey pound-sesh with his twin sister is telegraphed/beyond routine. I “hear you,” but just… I can’t allow that, sir.
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