Falling Water Season 1, Episode 2 Not that it isn’t fun watch Tess, for one, operate in a group dream setting. It made a certain amount of sense that a less skilled dreamer would be shown gardening in an enclosed room while Tess headed off to the more lucid group sitting in their airplane seats, odd as that may sound. The whole “purity of the data” concept was perfectly clear from the experimental standpoint, as was Tess’ decision to ignore the rules and look for her son, even though the dream itself was slightly off-kilter. And, of course, the ensuing romantic tryst between her and Levon brought a welcome sense of happiness and comfort to a series that has thus far been brooding and a tad self-indulgent. It was easy to hope for Tess to make a personal connection with another lucid dreamer despite the fact (or perhaps because of the fact) that it was against the rules. But of course, creepy Bill was tracking the “4GEN” phone he gave her, which put an end to that. And Taka’s story, which has always been slightly different, has gone completely off the rails. What seems like a good clue at first, a drawing of the boy we presume is Tess’ son, leads the detective down the strangest path, yet he follows it unquestioningly as if it were the most by-the-book police investigation. The drawing leads to a record store where a $200 indie album prompts him to put on the green shoes from the crime scene evidence box and take a nap. Wait, what? Honestly, waking world details that are just as crazy are more compelling simply because they’re at least grounded in reality. The cover-up at the old lady’s house where the real Ann-Marie Bowen gave the command to blow the house up; Jones’ wife burning herself while admitting to Burton that she dreams about the weasel, Woody Hammond, all the time; Taka showing his mother the picture of her on the cover of the album he acquired under inscrutable circumstances. The fact that these details at least can’t be dismissed as dream symbology makes them more concrete if no less mysterious and weird.
David Ajala of Falling Water was the subject of an interview on the latest episode of Sci Fi Fidelity. Listen below or subscribe! iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud
