Friday, February 03, 2006
In a city that's seen it all
I was just doing some hard-core procrastination (wait, what else have I been doing all morning?), and I watched a trailer clip for "Bedford Diaries," a new series that's starting on the WB this spring.Anyways. It's about a 5-minute promo of the series, and, of course, the WB's evil trailer monkey juxtaposed all kinds of scenes together, showing some of the recurring themes and making everything look warped (and nothing at all like the end result will be). One segment of the promo had about 5 clips in a row that all talked about passion (which, if you know anything about the premise of the show, isn't surprising).
What did surprise me, though, was that one of those clips took "passion" in the context of "compassion". The whole thing is going on about having passion, living life with passion, etc, etc, etc, and right in the middle of it, one clip says, "I'm realizing why I like Natalie so much. Because unlike you, she has compassion."
Now, there's no other context, but I just found it fascinating that they put that within the context of passion--it's a contrast that you rarely, if ever, see, especially in pop culture. The idea that passion and compassion go hand in hand--usually, compassion is seen as a weak, wimpy feeling, and yet this clip places it in the same breath as sentences like, "Passion is pain" and "What are you passionate about? What elevates the soul to do great things?" Heady stuff.
I don't know how the show will go, or how any of that will fit into the context of the show, but that clip elevates compassion to something gutsy and real and challenging.
I dunno, but I liked it.
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