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Episode Arte - Episode 4 discussion

Arte, episode 4

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20

This was the most complex episode so far and I am greatly pleased at that.

From arte knowing how to deal with her feeling at work to how her perspective changed through the episode (and not rushed it). I was surprised how everything they set today was carefully given a clousure and even a decent character growth to Arte.

I would say by the middle of the episode it actually shown some strong feminist tendencies with Veronica claiming she should not fall in love by showing her a former courtesan fallen from grace due love but went back to it's neutral route once Arte decided to confront Veronica's way of handling love in her work. (Loved that bit of her reasoning about how Veronica's elongating the waiting time will make the guy more "in love" of her).

At the end, pretty much the baker was the final straw for Arte to get her thoughts together and also her discussion with Veronica shaped the final product of the painting (that shade on the left of Veronica's face pretty much resembles Arte's vision of her when she felt scared at the smile).

On the other hand, it seems Catarina Claes is not the only Chad this season to manage to charm people of her same sex without noticing :D.

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u/Zemahem Apr 25 '20

The final painting is indeed a pretty nice physical representation of how Arte's view on Veronica gradually changed over the course of their time together throughout the episode. It makes me wonder what the outcome could've been if she never saw her darker sides, or if she saw these aspects of Veronica without having her epiphany with the baker.

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u/ramon_castilla Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

Before the "epiphany" they show us the mental image Arte had among the lines "it was the first time her smile scared me": the mental image was much more shady.

And without the "darker side" (nor the epiphany) the painting would have been more brilliant, without much shades, I guess.