#I overanalyse everything in season 1 while waiting for season 2

[simonegalitzine]

Let's talk about Erik

So something has been nagging my mind lately about Erik.

As we know Erik has so little screentime and that created an alluring character that I applaude the writers for. But despite this fact that we know so little about him, he is still popular in the YR fandom and for a good reason.

For instance, he is the only person that Wilhelm seemed to be comfortable around and could actually talk to, and he was supportive when Wilhelm tried telling him about Simon (I understood that he used gender-neutral terms). All of that makes him a good brother yeah for sure.

But on the other side, Erik is August's friend.

"Birds of a feather flock together."

And that begs the question, is Erik actually a good person?

Well we actually don't know that and we can't take it for granted either, let's see why. Here is my speculation.

August is not just a simple second cousin to Erik. Although their interactions were limited and we can't clearly tell the extent of their friendship but the fact that Erik trusted August so much and he kept telling Wilhelm that he too should trust him because he is "family", is very confusing to me.

Firstly, I don't think Erik would use this term "family" so loosely because it is not like Wilhelm felt necessarily a sense of family within the walls of the Royal Palace. But Wilhelm felt a sense of family with Erik. So basically, Erik was insinuating that August is like him. So August is like Erik?

It is hard to believe that Erik was a bully, classist, racist and straight up an asshole.

Well let's break it down further. It seemed that it was a common practice for August and for the Society (the elite club that Erik was formerly a member of) to break the rules whether by sneaking in drinks or drugs or by simply abusing their power to get what they want and enjoy their privilege in general.

And as we know also that Erik is the older than August so did he approve of these practices? These practices that resulted in August being an addict and probably Erik too (a popular theory says that Erik might have been on drugs when he had his accident, but we are not sure whether it was an attempted suicide or he was just being careless). Either way, Erik didn't seem to mind August or the activities the Society were indulged in.

Erik is -thank god- not homophobic and by the way I don't think August is either (yeah his internalised homophobia will eat him up alive but still Nils and Vincent are both in a relationship and they are both close to August but I digress), on the other hand Erik might be a classist and maybe a bully too just like like a typical Society member.

I didn't necessarily make this post to bash Erik, it is not my point. My point is Erik was as stressed, as clueless and as desperate to live a normal life just like Wilhelm. But he couldn't. And maybe his mechanism for a while is to go with the flow and live the elite life like everyone else, which unfortunately sometimes comes with a cost of classism and prejudice.

We can't know what Erik was like for sure, but we know that at least he was a good brother and we will always stan him for that. But the story of him and August being friends will be left for interpretations and will always add a layer to a character that captivated many with just 3 mins of screentime lol XD.

And that my friends is the beauty of Young Royals.

#young royals #erik young royals #wilhelm young royals #simon eriksson #november come sooner please #august young royals #fuck you august #I overanalyse everything in season 1 while waiting for season 2

[sometimesrosy]

Hello Rosy, I would like to ask you how do you actually like season 4 so far? Does it fully satisfy your expectations? This hiatus was my first one (lucky me, I only started to watch right before season 3 aired) - and i have to admit, waiting almost 1 year, I was super excited to have the show back and was like overanalysing every second of new episodes - which made me not to enjoy it the way I expected. But from episode 3 I love it again. Especially one thing -

and it is connected to what you had been saying during hiatus - this show is not primarily about Bellarke, but it is about the 100 and the survival. I was afraid, with all the spoilers, that it may turn into a small soap opera (even though I am 100% Bellarke stan!). I think until today, they manage to keep this at bay and deliver on both well - survival and Bellarke…Thank you!

I’m really liking season 4. 

This season is my second hiatus. I found the show midway through season 2. But I have to say, all the speculation and spoilers and trying to figure out what was going to happen kind of ruined my enjoyment of the actual show in season 3. I didn’t get the COL twist because we’d been given it, and so much that we were able to speculate a LOT of how it was going to end. I would’ve liked to not have known all that. It made the ending anti-climactic. 

Doing the meta was very fun. Talking to people and putting the pieces together like detectives. But I didn’t get to take the ride with the show, and I missed that. So I am working to try and maintain some distance from the spoilers and speculation, and instead stick to analysis of the narrative, characters, themes and science fiction. Sometimes speculation does creep it’s way in there. 

Fandom is a new experience for me and I’m still figuring it out. I analyze everything, and that includes fandom, I’m sorry. I’m trying to stop, but I’m also trying to find a place in fandom that makes me happy, not super stressed out. I don’t need extra manufactured drama in my life. 

 I’m finding, that while I really do ship Bellarke hard, I’m not actually “a shipper.” It’s just not where my mind goes. And I don’t like soap operas. It’s one of the reasons I stop watching some shows, because they get too soapy for me. But I think I think sometimes fandom reacts to The 100 as if it’s a soap opera, and I get wrapped up in that. 

I do better when I can separate myself from the soap opera and shipping goggles, and stay focused on the apocalypse and the delinquents. It makes the show more fun, and what it comes down to is I AM A FAN OF THE 100. And I want to be able to enjoy it.

 It’s hard going back and forth between bellarke goggles and post apocalyptic adventure show, but I’m doing better this season than I was last season. I’m still full on #teamfuckingkissalready but that’s ship goggles. And it’s separate from the narrative.

#the 100 #ship goggles #bellarke #post apocalyptic science fiction