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Ah! I see what you mean, like that, but the end result is the same thing, right, Maya making an effort?
Do agree that she needs to talk to Carina, I think we’re ALL agreed that there needs to be way more digging deep into their issues. Hopefully we’ll get more after the hiatus like they promised.
Yeah, it feels like it’s getting a lot better on average, for a lot of reasons, but these two are among the especially supportive and enthusiastic (although another pair of the best actresses at handling this, Lucy Lawless and ROC, were also from an earlier era). They’re from a big enough show where they don’t really don’t need to do this but have been giving content for a whole summer and seem to be continuing that.
And I absolutely do love and praise actresses every time they’re so open in embracing these ships and fandoms especially because, as you said, it could be so awkward and, well, insulting before. Some people act like it’s pandering or bad for some other so and so reason and it’s like, unless they’re completely insincere about it, what’s the problem? It’s a win-win for everyone.
You know, I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if that’s exactly how it worked out. What irritated me and presumably others wasn’t even that he was acting so self-righteous and horrible but that the narrative was reinforcing it. The other siblings called it out but in the mildest of ways, they still went along with his plans. And that’s what really annoys me about oafish white men leads, where everything they think and feel is centered, even when they’re horrible, their growth and development is still central, at the expense of other characters’.
But the second season really did seem to pull back on that. It worked in two ways, by making him less intolerable and then by elevating the other siblings to a more equal level, especially Vanya. Like, I’ll usually go along with the narrative, but something really rebels in me at this kind of character getting such unearned narrative power, but this second season, when the narrative was inviting you to gently mock and sympathize with him, I was like, I guess. Heh, I mean, I’ll never love him, but I really left the first season loathing him to a point where I was unsure if I’d enjoy this season, but luckily it didn’t work out that way.
Lol, it is dramatic, isn’t it. Glad my tag essays addressed most of what you wanted to know!
Oh, I just hate Jack in general. Not for any lofty reasons, not because he’s Offensive or Problematic in any particular way, I just don’t like him. I mean, I could give you reasons but it’d be subjective, and as I’ve said, who in S19 (or Grey’s or PP) hasn’t made themselves unlikable at one point or another (except Carina, lol).
I didn’t want him with Andy either but when the show suddenly threw him and Maya into the same scenes, I was rolling my eyes at the soapy predictability of it all, since it seemed as much to cause drama with Andy as it was to pair off a couple of mains as a m/f couple. I stopped watching when that happened so I didn’t really see how different he was with her, but when I started watching again after they broke up, he was being all snippy and catty so I was like, good riddance.
Netflix would be great, we’d get full proper subtitles and be able to support it officially.
Mateo confronted Eva about the affair and asked about the baby’s parentage and Eva tried to explain how it’d all started. It was just long angsty scene after scene.
Jacobo took Lucia to the theater where he’d originally proposed as Leon and then revealed it was him.
Aww, same. Christina Moses was so great, she gave Keelin such life and played her so naturally.
Aww, same. Christina Moses was so great, she gave Keelin such life and played her so naturally.