There's something about Sparrow being a summer baby that is deeply important to me.
Sparrow is passionate and driven and so single minded in their goals, they're unpredictable and their fame and infamy spreads rapidly. They are a wildfire in human skin, and that fire is never truly put out. People are drawn to them, even when they are incapable of truly letting them in. Their influence leads Albion into one of its most prosperous eras in recent eras.
Them starting their journey during the summer, on their birthday, just feels right considering everything.
Tamo daleko ("There, Far Away") is a Serbian folk song from WWI. The soldier sings from the island of Corfu, where he was evacuated following the retreat of the Serbian army through the Albanian mountains. He laments his destroyed village and the doomed Serbian campaign, but maintains national pride despite his exile.
Columbia Phonograph Company, 1917 // Audio Restoration by Steven Kozobarich
Lyrics
Tamo daleko, daleko od mora,
Tamo je selo moje, tamo je Srbija.
Tamo daleko, daleko od mora,
Tamo je selo moje, tamo je Srbija.
Tamo daleko, gde cveta limun žut,
Tamo je srpskoj vojsci bio jedini put.
Tamo daleko, gde cveta limun žut,
Tamo je srpskoj vojsci bio jedini put.
Bez domovine, na Krfu živim ja,
Al' opet pevam pesmu, živela Srbija!
Bez domovine, na Krfu živim ja,
Al' opet pevam c-dur, živela Srbija!
Sutra idemo svi skupa na Balkan,
Osvet'mo brzo sada naš glavni Vidovdan!
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There, far away, far from the sea,
There is my village, there is my Serbia.
There, far away, far from the sea,
There is my village, there is my Serbia.
There, far away, where the yellow lemons bloom,
There the Serbian army had only one path.
There, far away, where the yellow lemons bloom,
There the Serbian army had only one path.
Without a homeland, I live on Corfu,
But I still sing the song, "Long live Serbia!"
Without a homeland, I live on Corfu,
But I still sing in C major, "Long live Serbia!"
Tomorrow we are going to the Balkans,
We'll quickly avenge now our important Vidovdan!
To be fair, they DID explain a bit of Lovelace's... situation. In not only her episode Change of Mind, there's also in Theta Scenario, the Hiccups method, Shut up and Listen. Heck, it's even a bit of that in Variations of a Theme. It's literally everywhere now and then, sprinkled in the chaos That's is wolf 359. The thing that i love about wolf 359 is that there's very little loose ends, it wraps up nicely. With Lovelace's situation, its ALWAYS been there. The answers were always THERE, it's shown multiple times.
That's true, they do address Lovelace's situation and she comes to an answer in her own way! I guess I just find that answer to be deeply unsatisfying. Like that is SUCH an interesting concept that you could really dig into- what is personhood? what makes you, you? but wolf 359 is just not interested in discussing the like, existential horror of being in that situation, of knowing that you are a copy but also an individual, that you are real and not real, and their answer is "just kinda....forget about it and move on." I mean, I guess ultimately you would have to make your peace with that or just go crazy, but it feels less like a philosophical stance and more like a cop out. I wish w359 had actually explored that dilemma instead of just stating it and then having Lovelace reach a conclusion with minimal conflict. ESPECIALLY since this is an ongoing theme throughout the show, with Hera's whole thing and Doug getting wiped at the end. but instead feels like the writers didn't want to fully commit to engaging with that theme which i find disappointing...there is so much potential there and it is CRIMINALLY underused.