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Did not expect that to happen on station 19. If you havent already seen the episode, it’s actually worse than we could have imagined.

I’m pretty annoyed with the writers, heh. I was liking the episode so much, including their fight, and I laughed out loud when Andy came into the firehouse where Maya was working out and they got into a projection competition about their dads. But as soon as Jack came into the office, before the door even closed, I was like, why is this super pointless convo even happening, the mood Maya’s in, this is going to lead somewhere, please don’t, please don’t, please don–okay.

We knew it’d be bad, we thought Maya would snap at Carina some more, maybe something really reminiscent of her dad with her mom and it’d shake her into realizing. The way Danielle was talking about her hopes for them in the future during last week’s live made me go hmmm about where they’d be when the season ended, since it seemed open-ended, but this wasn’t even on my radar. 

Like, even Maya trying to start something with him, I thought maybe that’d be enough for her part of the plot, self-sabotage, but he would stop it, since Dean’d JUST brought up how he’d forgiven Jack FOR SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S WIFE because he could see him trying to be a good person. Pfft, where. 

I mean, what can I say, right? It’s just the same old totally plot-contrived OOC nonsense this franchise will pull all the time, all over the place, not just with this ship I like. And maybe that makes it easier to compartmentalize and still ship, like you move on from it and ignore it as an aberration, but at the same time, it makes it hard to get invested as deeply. Although in this case, it’s not as if there was ever particularly deep writing behind this ship, it was mostly cute scenes between two gorgeous, cool women with a ton of chemistry. I dunno how I feel about them now, tbh. Cheating is usually a dealbreaker for me but like I said, the ship is kind of shallow in some ways, and as soon as it went deeper, this happened. Which is super frustrating!!! But it’s still so imbalanced, as much as it ever was, Carina’s brother’s storyline was finally brought up between them IN THE CONTEXT OF MAYA”S STORY. That is just ridiculous. 

And another anon?:

I’m starting to get really annoyed with S19. Either let maya come to realization about the abuse and move on or move onto another plot. It was enlightening when the story line first came out ( because abuse isn’t always physical) but they are ruining her character with the wishy washy shit and one of the best things going for her character was carina helping her learn how to deal with her emotions more healthily. Bah it’s an annoying to see the potential of a character be shit on by writers.

I expressed most of what I felt about this above already, but I will say, Maya being wishy washy is also just as enlightening as the idea that abuse isn’t physical. It CAN be this difficult to admit, it’s only been a few days or let’s say weeks in their world, but in real life this would take years, including with therapy. That is not at all my issue. It’s this soap opera cheating bullshit out of nowhere that I’m annoyed by.

And another anon?:

I feel like it’s a character assassination the way the writers are treating Maya.

Not to defend the show but they’ve never particularly favored Maya, over Andy or even Jack, and writing characters as cheaters is second nature to them, I don’t think they’re singling her out to make her look bad. This is her about to hit rock bottom and then come back and be fine and likable. Do they not do this for like…all their characters, all the time? But for fans, especially those invested in a ship, this does make it tough to see her in the same way. I’m gonna assume a lot of people are pivoting over to being more Carina fans right now while being mad at Maya. Which, understandable. Maya better freaking get therapy and go back and beg Carina for forgiveness on bended knee. 

Also, I wish they’d just give Carina more to do. Do we not get to see her side of this? If Grey’s had continued, would we have seen her be upset about this? Who would she talk to? All this while Andrew’s possibly deteriorating? This character is just there to prop up other storylines while being a saint.

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Well…you don’t need to worry about where the relationship on Tommy is going because the show just got cancelled.

Awwww. I mean, I do feel like the show hit a kind of wall in the latter…half? Third? It wasn’t ever super amazing but I felt like at least there was some kind of plan earlier on, like it was building to something, and then it kind of fizzled out on the payoff. 

But still, Edie Falco playing a lesbian lead, I was here for that! Especially if it was with Katrina Lenk. I don’t know if they planned on that always being temporary, since Katrina was gonna go on Broadway, or if they’d shoot their half season orders around that, but I guess it’s a moot point now. I don’t think she was even supposed to be in the finale, she doesn’t seem to be in the cast list.

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Hey, I was wondering, have you ever seen Stephanie/Abigail from Goodwitch? They have so much chemistry I’m gonna throw a chair.

I don’t think I’ve ever checked out this show or even really knew it existed? For a second I was like, oh, I think I’ve seen something about this but that turned out to be The Worst Witch? 

But anyway, I can well believe it, anon.

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I’m sure they do have a fun, interesting dynamic that works great on screen. But given it’s on Hallmark, of all networks, and it’s in its 6th season, I don’t know that I’ll try it just for them.

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Hi! I hope you’re doing well! If you’re caught up on For Life, would you mind sharing your opinions about Safiya and Anya?

Hey! I am, how about you? 

Um, frankly, I’m puzzled, heh. I literally was thinking to myself after yesterday’s ep, I don’t get what they’re doing with these two. I want to gif and post about them, they’re a gorgeous married couple older than 40 with plot-relevant professional lives but after the admittedly bland introductory eps, I don’t know what to make of them.

The last time I talked at any length about them, I was unhappy how Anya was treating Safiya and I don’t think they really addressed that on screen? The issue is that Anya can seem a decent human and wife, concerned about both what Safiya wants to do and Safiya herself, and then sometimes she seems super cold and ruthless and it’s not really done in a way that makes it two of many layers of a complex person but two different characters entirely, whatever the plot needs. 

Some eps back, the one with the townhall, it was pretty soon after the big fight, possibly the next ep, and they seemed to at least address the friction through other characters and imply that even if we didn’t see it, they talked it over and came to terms with whatever, and I was like, okay, I can work with this. But that last scene on the sofa, where Anya was essentially saying, oh, this thing I was holding you back from is now politically expedient for me so go ahead, totally not reading how Safiya didn’t like that, it just seemed like they were back where they started but now with it not even being an issue on screen anymore.

In yesterday’s ep, again, that weird contrast, Anya going against her advisers to talk to Marie, but not really with any consequence, so did it matter? And later on she seemed very nice and supportive of Safiya, but I just…I’m fine with her being pragmatic, ambitious, I understand her point of view where, even if it sucks to not do this small good thing now, if you strengthen your position, you can get more done later, just as much as I understand the opposite point, like, when is it time to actually use your influence, what if you just always wait for a later, what’s the use of good later when people are suffering now, sure, these are interesting, realistic conflicts. But they just make her like cartoonishly bad to Safiya at times and then go back to normal. It’s hard to get any real picture of them. 

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Answering a few Killing Eve asks as a text post so that Read More actually works because y’all are including possible future spoilers:

Anonymous asked:

Who do you think kills Villanelle’s family?

Hmm, I wasn’t aware that was happening in such a confirmed way, but I have seen people speculating that Villanelle does it. But if not, it could be Dasha or other people from the 12. If it happens. We think it happens so it’s another door closed for her? (Even if she closes it herself…)

And another anon:

The fact we have a full V centered episode coming up has me so excited. Also really curious to see if she’ll receive word of Niko’s death somewhere in it. That would be something.

Tbh, as much as I love Villanelle’s antics, I feel like the best part of the show is her and Eve bouncing off each other, even if just mentally, so I’ll miss Eve for a whole ep. I’m hoping that at some point we get an Eve ep too because as various people have pointed out, her background and journey to here are also actually really mysterious and interesting? Aside from what she told Carolyn back in the second ep, we don’t really know she ended here. And if Villanelle is the (supposed) orphan all alone, as the contrasted “normal” person, Eve sure doesn’t seem to have anyone either.

But I guess the difference is that the bulk of the journey to this…openness with killing is what this whole show has been about, while for Villanelle it’ll be shrunk into this next ep. I hope we actually do get a lot of young Villanelle tidbits and oh, for sure, I hope she thinks of and brings up Eve a lot, including the news of Niko’s death. Although, we already saw “the mustache is gone?” so I dunno if we’ll get a repeat. If she finds out, maybe she’ll be sad for Eve and it’ll show “progress” or more likely, she’ll be gleeful.

And another anon:

Hi:) I have some ideas about what can happen in the second part of this season of Killing Eve. If you could tell me what you think, I would be grateful. In my opinion, Villanelle will be angry with Dasha because killing Niko could affect her relationship with Eve (Eve probably knows it was someone else but still). Also, I have a feeling that Eve and Villanelle’ll be in danger and that’s why they’ ll have to run away together (It could be the last scene of the season). Thank you in advance 🙂

First, this was so politely worded, anon! Awwww. It made me smile.

But hmm, I don’t know, Villanelle might laugh at Dasha killing NIko and think she did her a favor, especially if Eve doesn’t blame Villanelle. On the other hand, you’re right, she’s deliberately interfering with her relationship with Eve and Villanelle hates people doing that and not being in control. But she forgives betrayal weirdly easily, so she might still be like, hah, your plan didn’t work.

About the second theory, I think you’re absolutely right. From the various reviews and speculation I’ve been seeing, it seems more and more they realize who they can’t trust and everything starts closing off to them and each is the only person the other has left. Well, I hope, anyway, heh. 

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Question, it’s also a HUGE spoiler for KE just in case your follower hasn’t seen the latest episode lol but anywayssss do you think Niko deserved to die? I mean I know the character kind of served his purpose and majority of the fans don’t like him but I kind of wished they just let him drop off bread in Poland and that’s the last we saw of him. I wonder which character will die next, I’m thinking Dasha? Who knows no death is shocking to me on this show anymore

To me this isn’t really a show where there’s any kind of moral consequence. People don’t win or die because they deserve it, it’s just their part in the plot, which is to be a dark comedy. Bill certainly didn’t deserve it, most of Villanelle’s kills don’t. That poor teacher who liked Niko didn’t. 

This is why I place so much importance on which characters get screentime and story, the audience will sympathize and care most about the characters who actually get narrative focus. This show uses that to create a very deliberate distance between us and the actual victims to focus instead on Eve and Villanelle. Show a death, move on, now show one of them being cute or sad for much longer, of course we’re going to care more about them. It’s just what it trained us to do. No doubt we’ll be sadder for Eve grieving for Niko than actually Niko.

Did Niko as a person deserve to die? Of course not. But as a character, did he deserve to give up his life so we can progress to the next stage in Eve’s development? About time, heh. For a second there in 3×03 I genuinely thought Carolyn had died and WAS shocked, but aside from her and maybe Konstantin (and obviously Eve and Villanelle), I think anyone’s open, especially someone we only met this season.