I remember when I first got into the show, I was about 14. I started watching it and then I got to Babylon, and the ending bothered me so deeply that I almost gave up watching the show.
That final shot of her naked body being pulled back into the darkness... One of the most disturbing, unsettling things I've ever seen.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Put your lighter in the air and lead me back home.
It creeped me the hell out the first time I watched. Just rewatched it and felt a little less creeped out, probably because I knew it was coming. But it still creeped my out a little the 2nd time around too. The fact that she was nude was either a brilliant or a deeply disturbing touch by the showrunners, depending on how you look at it. It basically comes across as her being reduced to sex object/victim for all the miners for all eternity. She didn't naked, nor was she buried naked, so it was impossible not to make the leap there. It was like the most tragic possible ending to what seemed to be a rather tragic life.
Almost as creepy was the fact that Samson seemed sad but unsurprised at seeing her in the window. And it made his killing of the bartender even more chilling. He knew exactly what fate he was condemning the bartender to.
(It was basically a two parter story, so the scene wasn't in "Babylon," incidentally, but the following episode, "Pick a Number.")
I've just finished that episode with my brother, and came here to say that. Even he said at the final moments that it was "horroristic"...and he's a horror fan, not easily disturbed.
shareWhen Sampson's breath catches after Dora Mae gets pulled back from the window, my heart broke and still does to this day.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma -- Patrick Star