Now I’m going to do a full review later but I want to point out something in episode 17 and 18 that i’ve seen no one point out yet.
I want to talk about Carlos putting on his tie and TK helping him. Notice how before TK walks up, Carlos is trying his hardest to stay composed. It isn’t until TK comes behind him that it starts to wear off and we see him slowly breaking. Then when TK starts helping him with his tie because his hands are shaking too much to do it himself, he stops trying to hide and begins crying. I love the symbolism for this because it proves that he can’t hide from TK. He can try to fake it as much as he wants and hide from himself but not from TK.
I will also like to point out how he is wearing his father’s suspenders. The ones Gabriel’s actor (Benito Martinez) posted on his instagram page of a little behind the scenes.
I will write a full commentary and review later but safe to say that this was the best finale 9-1-1: Lone Star has had so far.
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... Look.
Since all of you are having trouble piecing this together, I will bring this up:
... I REPEAT:
I doubt this is the final ending.
Maybe the new Hawk Moth won't win and we won't see Gabriel ever again - but I truly believe that this message was meant for the ending of S5, not S4.
... I hope that LB will manage to undo this cursed wish somehow, and that the ORIGINAL Hawk Moth will be back to get his butt kicked properly - but even if he doesn't....
This stays.
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Okay so about the season 4 finale. Can we just talk about the fact that after all the shit KIY put John and Arthur trough in season 2, after all the sacrifices and pain they had to endure, when John had rejoined him, he just found him useless and just like, threw him away???? Casted him into the dark world???? All of that???? Was???? For nothing???? He just threw him in a garbage like a broken toy???? John was not desired even there, where he came from, with A LITERAL VERSION OF HIMSELF, the only home left was with Arthur, and now he blew that as well with all the lying. He was cast away in literal hell and had to lie to the person he cared about to get out of it.
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Eric during the season 4 finale: a photo essay
This scene occurs at the end of the episode, after Casey’s dumped Donna in front of everyone in the Forman’s living room. Donna comes by to see Eric a few hours later.
Eric asks her how she’s doing, and she says she’s humiliated and she starts to cry. She asks him what’s wrong with her and he says nothing, that her mom left and she’s allowed to freak out. Donna laments that everybody warned her about Casey but she didn’t listen, and that he’s a jackass. Eric says he really wanted her to figure that out, just not like this. She apologizes to him, and they hug.
When Donna hugs him, you can already see the conflict building in him.
My guess? At this point, he thinks she’s here for sex/a hook-up to feel better after Casey’s dumped her. As we learn just a few moments later, Eric believes himself to be Donna’s second-choice. A rebound. And Donna’s used him similarly already this season, in episode 6 “The Relapse”.
In that episode, Donna slept with Eric after her mom left so she’d feel better. Knowing better than anyone that sex is meaningful to Donna and not something she does casually, Eric assumed (wrongly) that they were back together. But Donna told all their friends that it was just comfort sex, impersonal, and that she didn’t want to get back together.
That’s not what she tells Eric - she says she’s sorry for needing him, and Eric forgives her. But that memory has to be in the back of his mind now. I think that moment was more heartbreaking for Eric than he let on to her - and he’s on guard not to let it happen again.
But at the same time - it’s Donna.
She’s upset, crying. How can he turn her away? He loves her. He hates seeing her cry. He wants to make her feel better.
She needs him.
When she kisses him, he kisses back. He was ready for this.
He might still be undecided - but his body responds to her. Maybe automatically.
But then she surprises him.
“Eric, we should be together. Let’s just forget all this other stuff happened.”
She’s not just looking for a hook-up. She wants them to get back together. (And to ignore everything that’s happened between them all season)
Now once again, Eric is conflicted.
On one hand, this is what he wanted. It’s all he’s been talking about to his friends for the past few episodes/past few weeks - how can he get Donna to realize Casey’s bad news, to come back to him instead? Hyde even nicknamed him Daffy Duck, because he was setting up “zany schemes” to make Casey look bad and drive Donna back into his arms.
And now it’s here. This is the moment he wanted: Donna’s realized Casey’s a jack-ass, and she wants Eric back.
But it doesn’t feel the way he wanted it to feel. Because he has doubts about her true motives licking at the back of his mind.
And after the way Donna was behaving earlier this episode, who can blame him?
Eric tells Donna that he can’t be her second choice.
Donna is - and always has been - his first choice. His only choice. He’s never fallen out of love with her. And being a rebound for her again, someone she uses when she’s in pain but isn’t serious about at the end of the day... Eric knows it would break his heart. Like she’s broken it before.
So he’s being strong. He’s protecting himself. He’s saying no.
Eric doesn’t believe Donna’s serious. He thinks she’s acting impulsively in the aftermath of her break-up with Casey - the way she’s been acting all season, really.
But Donna, I believe, is genuine here.
She is vulnerable and does feel awful after being dumped, but she’s also had a realization. She’s set aside the agitation and animosity she had towards Eric earlier in the episode/season, and now seems to realize that he was looking out for her the whole time. That probably led to the realization that he’s still in love with her. And that she’s still in love with him, too.
I don’t think this conversation is going the way Donna thought it would. I don’t think she was prepared for his reaction, for having to explain herself. And I don’t think she expresses herself to him particularly well.
Her heartbreak and distress in this moment is palpable, though. She quickly turns desperate for the love of her life - she makes a strangled sob and then looks embarrassed. She definitely didn’t fight this way for Casey. Anyone who knows Donna knows that she doesn’t cry often. The only other time we’ve seen it on the show up to this point is in The Promise Ring, when Eric breaks up with her. So this vulnerability from her speaks volumes. And Eric knows it.
But she pushes through her discomfort anyway. She begs him to respond to her.
But he doesn’t.
I think he ducks his head because he can’t watch her cry, but his body language also tells her the conversation is over. He’s made up his mind. Frustrated, embarrassed - and rejected for the second time in the span of a few hours - Donna leaves instead of trying to convince him further.
And then a little while later, Eric’s parents speak to him. Kitty must’ve been spying, and saw Donna barrel out of the basement upset. That conversation is... a whole different analysis. 😅
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