5/29/2023 0 Comments Six feet under nate death dreamThe second time through, I noticed that David had told Nate he was thinking about smoking a joint all through his first parent-teacher conference. I was confused about why the dream had David all shaggy and smoking a joint. Completely out of her element and the focus of a family emergency that wasn't her family, unwanted and unable to leave because she might know something that would help Nate. Of course, now Brenda can name her whatever she wants. Brenda and Nate decided on Willa if it was a girl. At least they sort of got to say goodbye. It created such a sense of relief, like of course Nate was going to make it. It was so nice seeing everyone in and out of Nate's hospital room. Interesting when you contrast it with the closing death of my favorite character in the series. "Laurence Hall Matheson, 1971-2005." I think this was the first opening death that made me laugh out loud. Birds are symbolic of the spirit, aren't they? This after the bird at the wedding and the bluebird of happiness. There was a show about sea birds on the hospital television while Nate was dying. Lots of heavy and interesting phone calls in this episode. In this modern age, we usually find out someone is desperately ill or has died because of phone calls. But she still managed to successfully transmit her frustrations with men. Ruth's bus ride was with people who didn't speak English. And not coincidentally, David talked about feeling like a lioness with her cubs. We were supposed to keep thinking of the cougar while Ruth was out in the wilderness, too. You think the guy is going to drop dead from overexertion and he gets jumped by a cougar. Nate's death may have given Claire an unexpected gift in the form of a very special man. Claire and Ted may be opposites politically but they are both good people, and that's what counts, after all. No small thing for someone he barely knew. He was just there for Claire, holding her up emotionally, asking practical questions but not inserting himself. Tragedy brings out the best and the worst in people. Even though I thought the scene where she shot all of her husbands and boyfriends was very funny, I found her entire sequence so frustrating you just know that she's going to regret not being there to see Nate one more time for the rest of her life. She finally got on the Bus of Death, too (it was even a Buddhist Bus of Death), that brought her back from the wilderness to civilization. Ruth got lost, literally and figuratively, and missed the last few hours of her son's life. During this episode, Nate was sort of in limbo between life and death, in the spiritual ecotone. Like Ruth in the wilderness and Nate in the hospital. Nate told Rico about the ecotone, the area where two ecological worlds overlap. The story began when Nate and Brenda met at the airport, and Nate broke up with Brenda right before he died. In many ways, Nate's death was a repeat of the pilot episode the father becomes the son, and the son, the father. Nathaniel said, "Am I going to have to separate you boys?" and that was just what happened. That dream, whoever's it was, was so moving. The Bus of Death came in the form of the family van, with Nathaniel Senior at the wheel - the same van that Fisher & Sons always used to transport bodies. Even if I hadn't known it was coming, I would have known it was coming. I thought from the very beginning that the only logical way to end the series was with the death of the main character. This is a series about death, after all, and right from the very first episode, a specific subtheme has been Nate's relationship with death in particular. I don't think a fictional death has ever affected me as strongly as his did.Īnd yet it felt right, somehow. Losing Nate was like losing someone I knew. He loved, he made mistakes, he hurt the people in his life, he searched for happiness and struggled to find meaning, as we all do. Not because he was good or bad or funny or charming or sexy or self-centered or annoying - he was all of these things - but because he felt like such a real person to me. Or he found peace, and it ultimately led to death. It was almost like he shorted out, like his body blew up and it cleared his mind. (Was it Nate's dream, or David's? Or both?) In his final day on earth, Nate was so calm and quiet. In the end, he stopped fighting in the dream, he jumped right in the water, and found it warm and welcoming. When the series began, Nate was running from death. Nate: "You're making love with somebody and your head explodes.
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