Ok I'm not hating on Celia but like?? Ma'am had some serious issues. Why be SO mad at Evelyn???? "HEY DONT ATTACK CELIA LIKE THAT, NOBODY IS PERFECT" I AGREE BUT SHE WAS EVEN IN THE SAME PROFESSIOOOON - ACTING. She surely knew that Evelyn was just ACTING?????? She could've been a little more empathetic for someone literally in the same field is all I'm saying. "But Evelyn should've asked Celia before doing the scene-" Why, may I ask? It's Evelyn's career, it's her business whatever she does for it. Yes, maybe sometimes you feel like consulting your partner for stuff and their opinion on it but in the end the final decision should be yours, they have no right to take the final decision in YOUR career. Nobody should have that but you. Poor Evelyn was so careful throughout yet ended up always feeling guilty as the partner of someone having such major trust issues, someone who would be questioning their entire relationship JUST COZ EVELYN did what she gets PAID FORRR DOING - ACTING. JUST COZ EVELYN WANTED THEM TO REMAIN SUCCESSFUL SO NOBODY WOULD DARE THREATEN OR SUSPECT THEM. JUST SO THEY COULD BE TOGETHER. And what did Celia do? She left Evelyn.
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I've been encouraged to share archie thoughts oh no
so. so. okay. been thinking this over because I have historically been more generous with archie (this is one of those things where the show doesn't show us the awful, just leaves us to fill in the blanks, and I automatically filled them in a very specific way), and these posts floating around are changing my mind a bit, BUT.
"That building's completely locked down. They're gonna catch her. And it's all at your door. She was perfect. You ruined her. If you'd left her alone--"
the context of this as a reaction to the fact that parker's risking her life by staying? the fact that she's putting her life in the hands of these people who archie doesn't know, hasn't vetted, doesn't trust - he's not trusting her judgement here, yes, there is a large element of not seeing her as an adult, yes, not seeing her as her own person, he needs to be snapped out of that and this episode is kind of doing that - and the ''she was perfect and you ruined her'' phrasing is really fucking ugly...
but.
he trained her not to take risks. he trained her to be safer than that. and he's kinda messed up but he does care about her, is glad for her at the end and does want her to be safe and happy, and it is terrifying in that moment to realise that she isn't (because of him). that she's choosing not to be and that he has to trust these strangers now and trust that they're good enough to see parker safely through it.
he hasn't seen what we've seen. what we've seen is several seasons of proof that the leverage team are exceptional and also, frankly, lucky. (OG leverage operates under very specific rules to maintain the optimism. doesn't mean the possibility of death isn't there. parker could've died there; we just knew it wasn't going to happen.)
this is just a feeling, but I think that archie didn't often work with others, and taught her to do the same. (and he did work with the team in the end, for her. both in the last dam job and, eventually, here: he relaxed enough, respected her and her choice of team enough, to do it. and he realised that she had good judgement.)
like… it's ugly, the way he talks about her in that scene. it's possessive and weird and parker deserves so much more than to just be his legacy. but that moment where he told nate you've killed her is possibly the one that reflects best on his character, to me, and that moment & this one are all muddled together. you've killed her. you've ruined her. she was perfect. she was meant to safe. I taught her as a child and she was never meant to die like this, what have you done?
and then that's the last of Him Being Weird that we see. it's very easy for me to see that - parker standing up to him, him shocked then re-evaluating then deciding to help out, him complimenting parker's choice of crew as he says goodbye - as a turning point in their relationship. after that, I think he respects her more as her own person than he did before.
(that is my reading of the episode that allows the last dam job etc to not Absolutely Suck.)
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TTS just starts with Eugene and Cassandra on the wrong foot and I’m saddened they never got a ‘first meeting / how we started’ moment like Rapunzel and Cassandra did 😔
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