Warrior nun season 2!
Aaaaah, I just saw! Omg, so now we no longer have to talk about s2 as a hypothetical. I’m nervous…but excited!
Is it just me or on Warrior Nun 1.08 when Lilith was looking at that picture was she sort of caressing Mary? What do you think?
Oh, let me see. Ohhh. Huh.
Well. She’s not NOT caressing Mary… I mean, presumably she’s staring at the pic to remember general memories of the friendship, including Shannon, or just, the old Lilith even, before all this weirdness and the thumb movement is either at all that or even inadvertent but. It’s a Choice, for sure.
(This can be published) The scene in Warrior Nun ep 1×04 with the chainmail veil deservedly gets a lot of love but I wish there was more appreciation for the brief scene about a minute earlier when the guard in Arq Tech approaches Sister Beatrice saying “I don’t want to hurt you…” and Beatrice responds, with /total earnestness/ “And we appreciate that!” before knocking him out with a single jab to his windpipe
Ooh, then they all just tied him up and dragged him off, lol. I DO love that too!
Honestly, that whole Arq visit revealed so much about Bea, starting from when she faced Lilith down in front of the others. You really get the feeling that she genuinely values her work and the order and the church and has true faith. She doesn’t want to hurt people if she doesn’t have to, never more than she needs to, she’ll take lead and send off the others when she can. I really help we delve more into her background aside from her sexuality (although that too).
I was re-watching Warrior Nun as one does when they’re obsessed with one particular show. And the club scene always cracks me up. Where Ava sees that couple kiss with the pill in their mouth and she decides to do that with JC but someone bumps into her and she accidentally swallows it lmao
Omg, lmao, I never caught that!
Her comedic timing…impeccable.
Do you think is important that when Bea was talking she wasn’t facing Ava until she says “something you love”?
Huh. You know…
Okay, like, she does alternate between staring down and looking up at Ava, but there’s a solid chunk of 20 seconds when she’s just speaking to the table in front of her and then she really does look up directly at that line
Like, given how Bea’s side of it all–her background AND her feelings for Ava–is maintext, it’s honestly possible it was deliberate?? The scene as a whole, the mix of looking up and down is probably KTY and the director making those choices, meant to convey at what points Beatrice is more thinking out loud and speaking to herself than to Ava, at what points she’s remembering, at what points she’s actually speaking directly to Ava, gauging her reaction, but this one, yeah, anon, maybe that is deliberate. Not even on the part of Bea the character, right, she’s just caught up in this all, but from the POV of the show, yeah, maybe, just maaaaybeeee.
The way that Ava places her face on Bea’s neck
Oh, yeah! I was so focused on Bea during that, such a rule follower but still quietly defying Mother Superion enough to offer comfort to Ava, I wasn’t even really thinking about what that must have been like for Ava.
She turned into her so instinctively! Which doesn’t stand out until you remember she hasn’t touched anyone in years. She’s been touched by the orphanage nuns a bit but that’s quite different. She did hug Diego when she returned to visit, true, but that was a greeting, not seeking comfort like this. And like, not to go all Juliantina, but pressing her face into Bea’s neck for comfort, well. >_>
But really, it does say SO much that this person who has been so, so alone, and is suddenly battling so much, the weirdness of this all, being able to move and touch again, being out with people again, trying to balance being independent with not being so alone, and she’s still able to (correctly) identify that this quiet, restrained person will offer her solace. :’)
My fav big sis/lil sis pairing in Warrior Nun is Beatrice and Camila. Beatrice telling Camila good job after her first assignment. Beatrice being the first to watch her play piano. Beatrice being proud of Camila finding Ava with the CCTV cameras. Camila referring to her as “Bea.” Beatrice being fondly exasperated with her impatience when they attack ARQ-Tech. Camila being sad about taking Bea’s weapons and asking her for advice. “It takes a special person to make everyone around them smile.” 1/2
Camila picking up on Bea’s feeling for Ava and finding the passage in the journal for her. Beatrice being the one to say “And let’s not forget Camila’s still up there.” They love and support each other so much. And Camila has some of the same bouncy happy energy Ava has so no wonder Beatrice is so fond of her. Hope we get more of them in S2! 2/2
Awwww, all these moments!. I love a lot of the dynamics but this is a favorite of mine too! And I liked how much that “it takes a special person…” line showed that Bea was paying attention and cared to make Camila feel supported and validated even as she was being shoved out of the OCS. Like, it applied to her too, in the end. 🙂 And as you said, Camila noticing a little something between Bea and Ava and giving her that entry with a smile, it’s not just one-sided Bea mentoring Camila. And I love her truly being Bea’s mentee and busting out the gun when they needed her. Definitely hoping they continue this dynamic and expand on it next season.