Lmao, as WHO? Omg, anon. That’s…kind of genius???? I didn’t even draw that connection, but those are pretty specific initials for a show steeped in Christian…mythology (?) and the fact that Ava’s already been resurrected. I mean, no, I wouldn’t have gotten there on my own in a million years, and I don’t think that’s where they were going, but it would be. Hilarious.
Sister Beatrice is a lesbian !!?!!!?!!?!?! Omg ? it’s confirmed.
Haha, yessss. It isssss. Gosh, it’s so rare that we fall so in love with a character and then get an actual arc in the first season where it’s revealed they’re gay.
I just watched Warrior Nun and I really liked it. What’s funny is that Ava doesn’t even listen to what JCs saying “just keep talking pretty boy” while it seems like she would listen to every word Beatrice would say even if she’d read the whole Bible to her. I think what they’re going for here is a contrast between a nothing but sexual attraction towards JC, which Ava is mistaking for being in love and a much deeper connection with Beatrice on the other hand.
Oh, haha, yeah, I…honestly am still kind of bewildered at how they wrote the JC part of the show, and the voiceovers just made it all so much more puzzling. It seemed like this totally different juvenile show. I’m not sure they were going for that specific contrast, everything Beatrice said happened to be a lot more relevant for Ava’s life, she could hardly be tuning out. And JC was already being dismissed as lust by Mary, when they were talking about her leaving JC behind.
But yeah, again, as with all the Avatrice elements, intentional or not, they could certainly use them in the future if they so wanted.
Do you think Shannon and Mary could’ve been together romantically?
Okay, this is interesting. I also watched that recent Simon Barry interview where he answered some questions and one of those was about Shannon and Mary. Basically he was like, no, I wasn’t really intending anything romantic, but watching it back, I see it and you know, actors can change how something comes out. I get that, there’s the writing and then there’s the acting and sometimes we lean on one or the other or a mix.
Here, I think the intention behind the writing had been to kickstart Mary’s arc through losing Shannon, so their relationship had to be highlighted separately from the others, so we get the ILYs specifically between them, I think someone else, Vincent (? or Lilith?) referred to them having a special relationship, obviously Mary at the start of the show not wanting to give up on her, going to Shannon’s room and being familiar in it. And then that would drive her vengeance and protectiveness over Ava, enough to fight Lilith. So that was the writing and as always, when you get a really strong f-f friendship even on paper, it’s like, wellll, if that were a guy and a girl… >_>
BUT THEN, I think the acting TOTALLY pushed it over the edge. The nuzzle at the start? It just all came across as more romantic than intended, so yeah, to answer your question, yes, absolutely, I think so. And I think in a world without BYG tropes and without having to worry that confirming it explicitly would make people then focus on Mary’s sexuality and how that was represented, they would have probably been like, yeah, they were together.
Hi, it’s me the anon that ‘Ask’ about the story of Sister Melanie. Just WOW ( ^ 0 ^ ) you really created a GIF set about that. Seeing the comparison side by side like that is making me ship Ava and Beatrice more and more LOL
Hi, anon! It was a really great observation, I’m so happy you thought of it! And I know, I’m trying to not let myself sink too deeply into that, but it’s simply canon fact that without even knowing the halo would kick in, when Ava saw Beatrice under threat from a GUN, she RAN TOWARD IT with no intention but to interfere somehow even if that meant putting herself in harm’s way.
It was in fact the halo that surprised her (and all of them) and saved her from jumping straight into the path of the bullets. She’s hardly at the stage of (near) invincibility where she’s going to instinctively seek out that kind of damage, even if the halo HAD been able to absorb that kind of damage, she’s not nearly at that point yet, this was just her.
And the person she did that for is Beatrice. Sure, maybe it’d have been for anyone. But it wasn’t.
I definitely see Ellen P and Alicia V in Alba B from warrior nun but mostly Ellen P especially in some angles
And another anon:
Ava is a cross between short hair Charlize Theron and Ellen Page. And thank you for putting warrior nun on my radar. I did not expect to love it so much.
Yep, I’m seeing a lot of mentions of Ellen Page and Alicia Vikander, so that probably wins the non-prize.
Charlize Theron…? I don’t think I really see it, but she looks so distinctively Charlize Theron-y to me all the time. Even when people were like, wow, did you see what she did for Bombshell, she looks just like Megyn Kelly, I was like, she looks like a kind of alien Charlize Theron?? And no problem! Me neither, I think I just didn’t expect that much heart. I thought it’d be campy in this bloody, sexy, gratuitous way and then it turned out to be about faith and second chances and true sisterhood and good intentions. <3
Now I can say that it was a recommendation and a great one! I did love warrior nun. The only thing was the final scene. But love everything. Thank you
Yay! I’m glad you liked it. As a general rule, if you liked it, it was a recommendation, if you didn’t, it was just me talking about a thing I liked, you didn’t have to watch it!. 😛
Heh, that ending. They didn’t even climb to the top of the cliff to have that be a cliffhanger. Hopefully they’ll get another reason and we can see how it turns out!
DA tbh I always thought the halo reacted to Ava being truly afraid for Beatrice, and enjoyed the fact that it was the first time the halo did something to protect someone other than Ava. Yes, I have my shipping goggles on lol So… I really like how that other anon thinks! I didn’t associate Sister Melanie’s story to Ava unconsciously triggering the halo at all, I was too focused on Beatrice, but now I can’t unsee it!
Hmm, I like that interpretation too, because again, it is literally true, it IS the first time the Halo does something for someone else. And only time? Hm.
Well, both those theories work together, either way, it was reacting to Ava’s extreme feelings of fear for and protectiveness toward Beatrice, which, of course, you see a friend about to get shot, you react, it could have been anyone, but that’s the thing, it could have been anyone. Instead, they wrote it as specifically Bea. It’d have made the most sense if it was Mary, Crimson taking her own gun and turning it on her, and they’d just finished bonding in ep 6 and then reuniting in ep 7, but instead it was Bea. Well, intentional or not, for whatever reason the writers felt how well it’d work with Bea and they were right!