"Anne" is a truly great episode and it is a shame that it's twin "Graduation Day" is comparatively weak in it's metaphor. Whether Whedon meant to "propagate" communism or not - "Anne" depicts extermination through labor in frightening detail. From the name "Anne" (Frank) to identification through a tattoo on the forearm(!) to symbolism depicting the one force which destroyed the European death camp system (there were over 1000 concentration camps all over Europe with 13 to 17 million murdered to fill the bank accounts of the owners of the industry).
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Date: 2012-11-20 05:32 am (UTC)"Anne" is a truly great episode and it is a shame that it's twin "Graduation Day" is comparatively weak in it's metaphor. Whether Whedon meant to "propagate" communism or not - "Anne" depicts extermination through labor in frightening detail. From the name "Anne" (Frank) to identification through a tattoo on the forearm(!) to symbolism depicting the one force which destroyed the European death camp system (there were over 1000 concentration camps all over Europe with 13 to 17 million murdered to fill the bank accounts of the owners of the industry).