heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another you been messin' around
Two reaction posts in under 24 hours, this must be some kind of record!
So, funny thing, sleeping on it only made it worse! It's like the shock is wearing off and i'm only getting sadder. WHYYYY. It seems like i never freak out this bad about tv anymore, so i don't know, i'm pretty anxious to get over it and move on with my life because i feel like a weirdo for being so emotionally traumatized. I finally saw a gif on my tumblr dash and NO, NOPE, NOOOOOOOPE, JUMPING OFF THIS TRAIN, I'M DONE
Thinking about that final scene makes me feel like i'm gonna puke. Happy flashbacks after somebody dies are probably the saddest thing ever invented. It's like "remember how hopeful everything was? and now there's no hope at all! YOU JUST GOT STABBED IN THE HEART WITH A KNIFE MADE OF JUXTAPOSITION!" The way it was framed so as to turn a temporary goodbye into a permanent one, and their formalities of "Mrs. Thompson." "Mr. Sleater." just barely masking their happiness with each other, and wowwww no big deal just making myself cry. I even like how it was done! It was very effectively heartbreaking! WHICH IS WHY MY HEART IS BROKEN AND I DON'T WANT TO FEEL FEELINGS ANYMORE.
The thing is i don't actually hate the trope of "lady is pregnant with dead dude's baby" (come on man, Terminator!) because the lady is the survivor and blah blah blah i believe that children are our future. But Margaret being pregnant after her storyline this season just seems way too obvious and cruel. Then again, Owen dying was also way too obvious and cruel, so whatever. Everything is obvious. And cruel.
The larger problem i have with how this went down overall is that Margaret and Owen didn't have enough time together and i don't think they earned the drama enough. It went way too fast from "having illicit sex and enjoying ourselves!" to "LET'S RUN AWAY TOGETHER BECAUSE WE'RE IN LOVE." I mean, obviously i buy it because their chemistry is through the roof and i hardcore ship it, but objectively i wish the relationship had had more time to grow instead of just going from one extreme to the other in only a handful of episodes.
Probably my favorite part of the season is still their five-second exchange in the season premiere, because exes and sexual tension and imagine a whole year of awkward formalities and Margaret trying not to acknowledge Owen's constant eye-fucking.
GOD I'M GONNA MISS THEM SO BAD
Maybe it's less obvious than i think it is that Owen was lying to Katy and telling the truth to Margaret, but i doubt his proposal to Katy would have been so incredibly perfunctory if he'd really meant it, and i don't see what he stood to gain -- aside from occasional sex -- by acting so convincingly devoted to Margaret if it was just an act. Way too dangerous to fuck your boss's wife if you're not really into it! But i know i'm blinded by how cute and charming he is and tend to ignore the other facet of Owen being a two-timing jackass, and i wish they hadn't reintroduced that point without really doing anything with it right before they offed him. I'm never good at morally judging characters though, especially on a show like this where almost everyone is a murderer. Who cares about the dead bodies, SO CUTE AND CHARMING!!!!!!
Last week i was telling Jenn that if Owen dies, maybe it will be what finally motivates Margaret to steal Nucky's business and run the town, since if she can't leave she can sure as hell get some sweet vengeance. But that was if Nucky murdered Owen, which he did not! I mean, it was still technically his fault, but since it was unintentional and he only found out about the affair after Owen was already dead, i think that might neutralize whatever anger he would have felt about it had he discovered it earlier. Which changes my tune and makes me think that this will actually make Nucky and Margaret more of a team -- not in a romantic sense because ugh, but now they've both lost the person they actually loved, and they both know that about each other, and if they're honest about it they can aim that anger at the people who caused it. IDK, i still want Margaret to oppose Nucky because Nucky is the worst, but this seems to make sense too.
In order to help myself feel some semblance of joy about this whole mess, today in my head i occasionally sang "it's my corpse in a box!" to the tune of "Dick in a Box" because laughter is the best medicine. Every single holiday a corpse in a box!
In conclusion, i just moved Stardust to the top of my Netflix queue because i need to see Charlie Cox being happy and alive again. >:'( Gonna photoshop Kelly’s face over Claire Danes and really throw myself a party.
Oh speaking of photoshop, i made this last week, hope you like it!!!
So, funny thing, sleeping on it only made it worse! It's like the shock is wearing off and i'm only getting sadder. WHYYYY. It seems like i never freak out this bad about tv anymore, so i don't know, i'm pretty anxious to get over it and move on with my life because i feel like a weirdo for being so emotionally traumatized. I finally saw a gif on my tumblr dash and NO, NOPE, NOOOOOOOPE, JUMPING OFF THIS TRAIN, I'M DONE
Thinking about that final scene makes me feel like i'm gonna puke. Happy flashbacks after somebody dies are probably the saddest thing ever invented. It's like "remember how hopeful everything was? and now there's no hope at all! YOU JUST GOT STABBED IN THE HEART WITH A KNIFE MADE OF JUXTAPOSITION!" The way it was framed so as to turn a temporary goodbye into a permanent one, and their formalities of "Mrs. Thompson." "Mr. Sleater." just barely masking their happiness with each other, and wowwww no big deal just making myself cry. I even like how it was done! It was very effectively heartbreaking! WHICH IS WHY MY HEART IS BROKEN AND I DON'T WANT TO FEEL FEELINGS ANYMORE.
The thing is i don't actually hate the trope of "lady is pregnant with dead dude's baby" (come on man, Terminator!) because the lady is the survivor and blah blah blah i believe that children are our future. But Margaret being pregnant after her storyline this season just seems way too obvious and cruel. Then again, Owen dying was also way too obvious and cruel, so whatever. Everything is obvious. And cruel.
The larger problem i have with how this went down overall is that Margaret and Owen didn't have enough time together and i don't think they earned the drama enough. It went way too fast from "having illicit sex and enjoying ourselves!" to "LET'S RUN AWAY TOGETHER BECAUSE WE'RE IN LOVE." I mean, obviously i buy it because their chemistry is through the roof and i hardcore ship it, but objectively i wish the relationship had had more time to grow instead of just going from one extreme to the other in only a handful of episodes.
Probably my favorite part of the season is still their five-second exchange in the season premiere, because exes and sexual tension and imagine a whole year of awkward formalities and Margaret trying not to acknowledge Owen's constant eye-fucking.
GOD I'M GONNA MISS THEM SO BAD
Maybe it's less obvious than i think it is that Owen was lying to Katy and telling the truth to Margaret, but i doubt his proposal to Katy would have been so incredibly perfunctory if he'd really meant it, and i don't see what he stood to gain -- aside from occasional sex -- by acting so convincingly devoted to Margaret if it was just an act. Way too dangerous to fuck your boss's wife if you're not really into it! But i know i'm blinded by how cute and charming he is and tend to ignore the other facet of Owen being a two-timing jackass, and i wish they hadn't reintroduced that point without really doing anything with it right before they offed him. I'm never good at morally judging characters though, especially on a show like this where almost everyone is a murderer. Who cares about the dead bodies, SO CUTE AND CHARMING!!!!!!
Last week i was telling Jenn that if Owen dies, maybe it will be what finally motivates Margaret to steal Nucky's business and run the town, since if she can't leave she can sure as hell get some sweet vengeance. But that was if Nucky murdered Owen, which he did not! I mean, it was still technically his fault, but since it was unintentional and he only found out about the affair after Owen was already dead, i think that might neutralize whatever anger he would have felt about it had he discovered it earlier. Which changes my tune and makes me think that this will actually make Nucky and Margaret more of a team -- not in a romantic sense because ugh, but now they've both lost the person they actually loved, and they both know that about each other, and if they're honest about it they can aim that anger at the people who caused it. IDK, i still want Margaret to oppose Nucky because Nucky is the worst, but this seems to make sense too.
In order to help myself feel some semblance of joy about this whole mess, today in my head i occasionally sang "it's my corpse in a box!" to the tune of "Dick in a Box" because laughter is the best medicine. Every single holiday a corpse in a box!
In conclusion, i just moved Stardust to the top of my Netflix queue because i need to see Charlie Cox being happy and alive again. >:'( Gonna photoshop Kelly’s face over Claire Danes and really throw myself a party.
Oh speaking of photoshop, i made this last week, hope you like it!!!