Thursday, February 2, 2012

Never noticed until today

I was one of the few in lecture today who had watched "Arrested Development" before seeing the episode in class. I watched the first 3 seasons (I didn't realize they had made a 4th until someone in lecture mentioned it so I'll have to get to that season eventually) and I thoroughly enjoy the show. I didn't know about Freud's concepts on sexuality until we started talking about it in class and reading about it. I actually find the topic quite interesting, like I would have never thought that sexuality developed at such a young age and its repression. It's also interesting because it gave me a different perspective to evaluate certain things by, like Arrested Development. I feel like out of all the shows I watch, this is the one where Freud is pretty evident. The clip we watched today was soaked in Freud's concepts. From the very first episode, you knew there was something very...odd about the Bluth family. You had Buster who was always with Lucile, his mother, and did everything she ordered. He was also the only Bluth child that still lived with his parents. At one point in the show, Lucille adopts a Korean child named Anyong and Buster hates him because he takes away Lucille's attention away from Buster. The satirical exaggeration of a mama's boy but really an example of the oedipal complex. Then you have George Michael who is in love with his cousin Maeby; incest. Lindsay Bluth is married to Tobias Funke, who seems to be a closeted homosexual and carries out many odd perversions like one being a "never-nude", which consists of him wearing denim shorts underneath his pants and never taking them off. Also, Lindsay craves for the attention of her father but never receives it because of her looks. She is always outshone by her brothers and is also in an unsatisfying marriage with Tobias, but whenever he receives a financial boost or, like in today's clip in class, exemplifies a strong personality like her father's, she falls in love with him again. There are many odd characters and instances that occur within this show, too many to name really, but now that I know about Freud, it makes sense.

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