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Fargo Season 5: The Rashomon Effect

This post will contain spoilers for episodes beyond 5.3.

"The Rashomon effect is a storytelling and writing method in cinema in which an event is given contradictory interpretations or descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident. The term, derived from the 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, is used to describe the phenomenon of the unreliability of eyewitnesses."

There has been some contradictory weirdness already in season 5.

As noted in a previous post, the Halloween decoration outside Dot's house changes in several ways between 10/29 and 10/31, without any notice being taken by the characters.

It also seems like Roy hired Munch to kidnap Dot, and Munch then selected Donald Ireland as his accomplice, based on the expected simplicity of the job. But in 5.3, Gator implies that he found Donald Ireland himself, who then must have contacted Munch.

Gator seems oblivious to the fact that Revere Gas 'n Go was the scene of the previous night's showdown when he stops there to "drain the snake" in episode 2. But when talking to Roy in episode 3, he mentions Munch returning to the scene of the crime. It also appears that he must have asked to see the security tape, which doesn't make sense if he was covering up Nugent's murder. And he notes that law enforcement already took the tapes because of the previous night's incident.

Then there is the wedding photo of Dot and Roy, on the wall at the ranch house. It's a different pose than we've seen in a teaser, in which Lorraine is looking at a wedding photo where Dot and Roy look somber and are posed like the couple in "American Gothic." Certainly there could be more than one photo, but it's interesting that the one Roy looks at shows the couple happier and interacting with each other in a positive way. Are we seeing Roy's version of their marriage, and is that different from objective reality?

IS there any objective reality in season 5, or are we seeing various versions of events from the perspective of different characters?

ETA: "The phone's saying one thing, sign's saying something else. Turn right, circle back. We'll find them."

I think this season may end by circling back.

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'Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind,' I said, '20 had to come from you.' You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.

Chris Kraus, from I Love Dick

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6x20 / 5x18 / 6x20

I was thinking about these scenes and it hit me that we might’ve had an offscreen Sterek kiss.

As a disclaimer, there’s no solid proof that it happened and no proof that it didn’t happen either but a valid argument can be made in favor of the theory. Canon supports this as something that could have happened given that it fits with what we’ve been shown (eg past Sterek bits, Stiles’s bisexuality) and neatly resolves Stiles and Derek’s conflicting stories from 6x20 (something I know @asagimeta will be interested in).

We start off with Stiles’s story where he’s hauling an injured Derek away from the fighting. He’s stronger than he was the last time he had to support Derek but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It would be a lot better if they could both move under their own power to get away as quickly as possible.

Stiles flashes back to carrying an injured Liam into school with Hayden who was able to take Liam’s pain and aid the healing process by kissing him. So Stiles follows through on his “next time I’ll kiss him” comment by kissing Derek. And it works!*

But stopping to kiss/heal Derek meant Stiles was vulnerable and got shot. Which leads into Derek’s version of events where he’s carrying Stiles out of there. Shaking his head while (fondly, incredulously) thinking about his idiotic savior who now needs saving himself.

*(Stiles may not have Hayden’s ability to take pain but he has his own powers that have been detailed in several meta posts over the years. Namely that he might have healing abilities like the Darach did and that the nogitsune may have been unlocking/using Stiles’s powers instead of having powers of its own. This also means Stiles’s own injuries may heal faster/more completely than would be expected otherwise).

It fits pretty well, doesn’t it? Both Stiles and Derek’s stories were true; they just left out what happened in between.

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I’m going to need the Legends to do a Rashomon style episode next season. Mostly because I want to see how Mick views everyone. Curious to see if he would see everyone through the mind of a romance writer or hardened criminal. Or both.

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We had both been living in our own subjective reality, with our own subjective truth. Maybe all those years when I thought we were thinking the same thing, we weren't at all.

Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You

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It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

Gillian Flynn, from Gone Girl

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