Fitting the pieces together
We learn different things about Niall and Ruben as the show progresses. Sometimes it is difficult to fit all these pieces together. Which pieces do you find hard to integrate?
For instance, that line about Niall playing Hamlet was jarring. Here was Niall, bullied in high school and timid, feeling lost as a freshman and calling his big brother and then getting bullied by him, has the confidence to play Hamlet and then later on we hear he was the director of the drama club (of whatever title the Oxford don used, can’t remember exactly). It’s hard work to fit all these pieces together and then made harder by switching actors.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the younger Niall identify to some extent. But sexually timid and has his first sexual encounter overseen by Ruben and then becomes a sex addict and exhibitionist in the car. Big switch!
Then Ruben who hardly goes to school later spouting a line like “I am your muse”! lol, he does say he has been reading but I still find that hard to believe. I guess people have time to read in prison.
Perhaps these hard switchbacks in character development are what I am being asked to integrate.