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Apr 21, 2011 12:17

I have some Thoughts on the recent outcomes of Justified, that I thought I'd write up just to work them out in my head. I haven't seen all of last night's episode, but I've seen everything else.( Read more... )

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vee_fic April 22 2011, 01:27:57 UTC
One thing I like a lot is that we see Mags making mistakes. And she doesn't recognize them at the time, or ever, but it's obviously a mistake to treat Dickie in that neglectful way she does. She's obviously feeding into his pathology. But she may never realize this, because she cuts off the ends of things so cleanly.

She's got to be confident to proceed at anything, but her confidence makes her unable to reassess her own behavior.

You know what would really make this a Greek tragedy, is if in her middle-class life someday Mags runs into Loretta again for the first time. And Loretta pushes her away in terror or in anger: which is what you do, to the person who murdered your only living kin. But I can totally see Mags being gut-punched by that reaction. We didn't get to see it on the screen, which makes me feel like it's churning in the background, and would come out someday.

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