A tangent first, if you will grant me the time...
Is anyone familiar with Trans-Syberian Orchestra's "Bethoven's Last Night?"
There is a song in there "This is Who You Are" of which some of the lyrics are:
Wandering inside this night Finding pieces of a life Never sure I'd ever know what it means
It's the strangers in your life That you'd never thought you'd meet It's the hand that picked you up When you're laying in the street
It's then hand that cut you down It's the dream that someone shared When you thought that all was lost It's the friend that wasn't there
You can run from all the memories But never get that far For in the end they'll find you For this is who you are Change one note Change one line Nothing's going to be the same Change one loss Change one cut Everything is rearranged
Every act Cruel of kind Lost inside our memory If you look There in time
You'll find it in, Find it in, Find it in, You'll find it in me
This show reminds me very much of those lyrics.
Everything that we experience - no matter how long ago it happened - is all still inside and influences how we see the world we see today.
In the case of this show, it makes for a very sweet heartwarming show. A show that I find very comforting.
I especially like that it doesn't fall into tropes - the brother is nice - not the bully from other shows, the step-father is GREAT, the blended family works together. The father and daughter get along great in the middle age segments, and I love John Larroquette's relationship with the older version of the daughter.
All in all, I really like this show and hope that it lasts a long time.
