Oh! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for the chocolates. Last week was the MOST STRESSFUL WEEK IN MY LIFE and coming home from work to find chocolate waiting for me made me so happy I almost cried. ::hugs::
I was debating with my mother all during the bit where the fed ran into Lucy, because I initially thought, "Oh, too big a coincidence for the guy looking to get Nucky to approach Nucky's former mistress accidentally, he must know who she is because of all that surveillance he's been doing." And then come to find out he didn't know her after all -- yeah, there's a plot point there waiting to happen.
Also, yes, so thrilled that Margaret realized how unfair it was to Richard to be afraid of him, and very nice that they came up with something to make the kids less scared of him.
I need to go rewatch--I couldn't tell if the meeting was planned or not.
Someone on the TWOP forums made a good point--getting the kids to like Richard is also typical Margaret pragmatism, since if someone comes to hurt them they need to run towards Richard and not from away from him.
I forget what exactly it was, but there was something in the sex scene that made it seem very clear to me that he didn't in fact know who she was and it was just the second phase of his crash-and-burn reaction to having Margaret not wanting to play along with his paladin fantasy as the damsel in need of rescue: Go out and drink and then commit adultery with the first woman to catch his eye. (Maybe it was just the fact of the sex -- if he were contacting Lucy for a Nucky-related reason, I couldn't see him fucking her as part of the negotiations or even to establish a cover. Not with his rigid probity as firmly established as it had been by the preceding episodes -- he was having a major crisis and coming completely unglued
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Okay, this post made me SQUEE so damn loud I scared my dog. :-)
I loved loved loved last night's episode, and really every episode. Margaret is AWESOME and I think Nucky should fear her just a little bit, because when she realizes how much power she could have, WATCH OUT WORLD. You're right, they are so doomed - or, in my head, they will continue to power-play each other until they realize what they could do together. A real shame Nucky's inate sexism will prevent that.
I am so squicked by Van Alden and so badly wanted Margaret to tell Richard or Nucky or the postman or SOMEONE who could DO SOMETHING about him.
Jimmy makes me so sad. I would love to have seen pre-war Jimmy/Angela. But oh, wow, Angela/Bohemian Girlfriend. WOW.
I know! When Van Alden came in all CREEP CREEP CREEPITY CREEP I wanted to scream "Margaret! You have your own personal sharpshooter! MAKE HIM SHOOT THE BAD MAN!!!"
You know, I honestly can't figure out if Nucky's not sexist and pretends to be to cater to patriarchal men, or if he is sexist and pretends not to be to cater to women voters. I wonder when we'll see the true Nucky.
That's an interesting observation about Nucky. He's obviously got conflicting opinions about the women in his life - he was flat-out using Lucy, and he may or may not be sentimentalizing his wife. And there are moments when you almost want to believe he's doing whatever he can to promote Margaret and let her shine on her own. Then there's his combative relationship with Gillian, and the fact that he took care of Angela while Jimmy appeared to have totally abandoned her.
Given the anvillicious scene in the pilot with him sadly staring in the window of the preemie-incubator -- clinic? sideshow? -- on the boardwalk, the obvious way in which he wasn't at all interested in hearing Margaret's sob story until he found out she was pregnant, and his later remark about having had a son who died (presumably as a preemie, and I wonder whether his wife died in childbirth or just fell apart in an eventually-fatal way after their son died), there are some huge issues there regarding women who are pregnant or have small children.
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Also, yes, so thrilled that Margaret realized how unfair it was to Richard to be afraid of him, and very nice that they came up with something to make the kids less scared of him.
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Someone on the TWOP forums made a good point--getting the kids to like Richard is also typical Margaret pragmatism, since if someone comes to hurt them they need to run towards Richard and not from away from him.
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I loved loved loved last night's episode, and really every episode. Margaret is AWESOME and I think Nucky should fear her just a little bit, because when she realizes how much power she could have, WATCH OUT WORLD. You're right, they are so doomed - or, in my head, they will continue to power-play each other until they realize what they could do together. A real shame Nucky's inate sexism will prevent that.
I am so squicked by Van Alden and so badly wanted Margaret to tell Richard or Nucky or the postman or SOMEONE who could DO SOMETHING about him.
Jimmy makes me so sad. I would love to have seen pre-war Jimmy/Angela. But oh, wow, Angela/Bohemian Girlfriend. WOW.
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You know, I honestly can't figure out if Nucky's not sexist and pretends to be to cater to patriarchal men, or if he is sexist and pretends not to be to cater to women voters. I wonder when we'll see the true Nucky.
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Mommy issues, for sure. I wonder what else.
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