Simply beautiful

The slow pace of the series is finally starting to pay off now that we have enough background to empathize with what the characters are going through. The expansive atmosphere gives us the space to share their sadness. The theme of this episode is the acceptance of loss: loss of friendships as we move on to new stages of life, loss of older acquaintances as they pass on, and of course the loss that Ongsa has to finally accept at the center of the story. We revisit a number of events we've seen before to linger a little longer and delve a little more deeply into the loss and resignation they represent.At the start of the series I was somewhat doubtful that the time-travel plot could work as well as reincarnation did in Dae Deng to create the exagerated emotional charge that one turns to magical realism like to acheive, but after this episode I'm convinced that it works.

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