Fredward

I liked some things. Dorian's cold, lonely perfection was nice, especially contrasted with Lily's torch-that-burns-too-hot-and-too-fast-but-can't-actually-burn-out ending. Dr Jekyll/Lord Hyde was clever enough. The rest though? Meh. You're gonna have a hard time convincing me this was the planned ending and the inclusion of Hardigan (Harditagan? Hardesign?) was necessary cuz SRB had to absolutely leave right now even though there were just a few episodes left. I also didn't like that Vanessa's story was about having losing and finding god again but I'm a bit of a heathen, I was expecting a story of ownership of your own destiny on your own terms. Maybe I'm wrong but this felt a river flowing in one direction and then having it suddenly diverted in a different one. And it was a total crime not to have Eva Green play a larger role in the ending of the Vanessa Ives story, extremely lame. This series always felt a bit like it prioritized style and striking visuals over consistent characterization and coherent story but this season, and especially these last few episodes really drive that up to 11. It's just a wee bit too much to have me buy this as the intended ending. Or maybe it was the ended ending but just came about a bit... prematurely. EDIT: John Claire's ending was pretty heartbreaking and as per usual he and Vanessa had excellent chemistry. Even if she was technically just a headstone at the time.

Fair point about Will being the mistress. As to the Alicia thing, she wouldn't be unlovable or undesirable if she chose to be on her own. The idea that you can't be your own fulfilled person without having someone else there to fill out your details is weird and depressing and something the media contributes to as much as it's dictated by it. They could choose to go a different direction. And I'd argue that for Alicia especially the idea of choosing herself would be pretty thematically appropriate.

I'm still hoping for an I-choose-me from Alicia. Still four or something episodes, I can hope. I've always liked her more when she was more sharky/selfish (which does not seem like the popular opinion) and in SOME ways Jason brings this up but at the same time it's shitty that she seemingly needs a man to define herself, first the good wife, then the mistress for a bit and now the liberated middle aged strong-independent-woman-who-don't-need-a-man-but-always-winds-up-with-one-anyway. And also, Jason has been heavily implied to have anger issues (as in anger that includes violence or threats thereof), it's implied he drinks too much/is a recovering alcoholic AND he kissed that lady which was never explained. Choose someone better. But keep the sex wig. Also mildly off topic but I hope the people making comments about Jason's body don't mind it when the situation's reversed. I can tolerate people who dismiss the idea of body shaming out of hand and I can tolerate people who classify having a preference as inherently body shaming but hypocrites who object to something conditionally are skeezy.

I see to be in a slightly different boat, I don't really like notHogwarts and Quentin and LI remind me of joyless sea turtles but Julia's storyline interests me. I don't think I like her necessarily (whiny, entitled, the stupid kind of stubborn etc) but the storyline is more interesting than Chosen One Finds Friends, Love and Acceptance While Overcoming Mildly Inconvenient Circumstance <3 XOXOXOXO <3.

THANK YOU! So tired of hearing about long suffering Annalise having to deal with those 'ungrateful brats' she 'sacrificed everything for.' No Felicia. AK left a woman to bleed to death on her kitchen floor after she pressured that woman into suicide through forcing her to testify against an incredibly dangerous man who raped her, not even counting the 'threatening her with deportation' bit. And SHE was completely responsible for that decision, we see a lot of compulsion in this show via blackmail or whatever and while I do not think that clears you of what you as a person decide to do it's still a mitigating factor. Annalise didn't have that, it was pure ambition and desire/need for recognition that had her working for Daddy McBigbucks. Can you imagine a world where if any student but Wes had confessed to killing her husband that she'd have made herself complicit in covering it up? Nyet. She would've told them to confess and given them an astonishing defense (or gotten Eve to do it cuz conflict of interest but w/e) maybe but I think it's only her layers of compounded and intertwined guilt when it comes to Wes that had her react the way she did. Now ultimately I think the blame wagon goes nowhere, too many people on this show have done morally reprehensible things and at some stage you need to stop passing the buck to someone else and just own your shittiness but Annalise Keating, to my eyes, is most certainly not some well meaning/innocent bystander doing the best she can for her ungrateful murderous students out of altruism. Moving on! I feel like the Hapstall was sloppily wrapped up but w/e, just glad that grinding shit is done. So, ultimately, the Hapstall Kids were murderous incestuous types. Go figure. Does this mean Catherine was involved with both her brothers? Guuuuurl. And I like how the inbred one wound up being the least fucked up. Mostly. When they didn't show the conclusion of him attacking Annalise I knew he'd show up in a plotwisty fashion at some point. I totally feel AK's pain around her extended family. Quite aside from her the whole father thing. Oliver is a shitturtle. He has NO idea what he's getting into. Also predicting him and Laurel collectively fill Frank's shoes in S3. I wonder how it feels working in a legal circuit that has AK in it? Being outmaneuvered and shaded consistently must get pretty tiresome after a while. Wes the Bland continues to be boring despite the best efforts of the plot. \o/ EDIT: Also, nice to see Sam's throttle fetish is longstanding. And also also, I feel like we're still missing a rather large chunk of Frank's story. He clearly knows how to do some shady shit, where'd he learn? Before or after Sam picked him out of the gutter?

I want the old Eleanor back please, all this bosom heaving panic and stress-scrunched look on her face is not fun. I think we may have seen shades of it with her turning up the swearing in this episode, she did that less when she was in polite company right? I also don't like that they had Max explain the spy situation to her, Eleanor's run that place for years and she should have reached that conclusion on her own. EDIT: Also the guy who plays Silver looks like Shia LaBeouf with that beard.

I know this was Annalise's sympathy time (I especially liked how they switched between her apologising to Wes and her dead baby, it highlighted that she was sorry about both and how her relationship with Wes kinda embodies both) but I felt soooooo bad for Eve. She's always been there and she always winds up being second fiddle. And she has been a better option than both men, Sam cuz I mean obviously, Nate's fine but Eve's better. The way she had to awkwardly hover in the hospital and be dismissed by Sam as just some whoever work acquaintance offering token sympathy and THEN be slapped the fuck down by that 'Nate will make sure I'm okay' comment... ouch. At the same time she occasionally gives me vibes of potential psycho. I dunno, something about those 'I don't spend all my time waiting for you' when she clearly does triggers some red lights.

I'm really, really, really, reeeaaallllyyyyy hoping the baby is dead (check that off my list of things I never expected to say) cuz I SERIOUSLY do not want a ten year old mini-Annalise popping up in the following seasons and mucking stuff up some more. It's more compelling, to me mind, to have what she currently has with Wes. That surrogate maternal instinct but she's also not his kids so there's also occasionally these Oedipus-y flashes which is discomfiting but also interesting. An actual child would just be a wrench in the works. Plus I was toying with the idea of Annalise having smothered the kid [the way she seemed to struggle with the blanket hallucination and the initial period where she called him 'it' and seemed nervous about his wellbeing, most people read that as her being a concerned mom I was reading it as implicitly hoping that their WAS something wrong with him] or something but that's probably too dark.

Oliver, Connor and Frank. I need this.

So what're the chances Madi winds up playing the role of the other female pirate who's name escapes me? Eleanor playing Woody in my mind depends entirely on whether them screwing was a flashback or whether it literally happened right after Max's speech. I mean it looked like it happened right after Max's speech but yah never know. I like Woody. I didn't think I'd be so fond of him but he's pretty cool. He also looks good naked.

The shocking plot twist is gonna be Wes is Annalise's literal baby and he's a time traveler. #what

I feel like Woody is either going to wind up pirate or he's gonna run afoul of a [temporary] Max/Eleanor alliance. There's no way Eleanor is just gonna let herself be daintily shipped off to a hanging if his plans go belly up, like nuh-uh bruh. And Max is only loyal to whatever her idea of stability entails, currently that means supporting Woody's reclamation efforts but if that should change... I felt bad for Blackbeard. Poor Blackbeard. I've always liked Rackham, he's like a fox in a den of wolves. He's never going to be particularly intimidating or match up to any of the other wolves but he's wily.

The angle would probably be right if Wes killed his mother, a suicide neckslit would probably come in from a lower angle than someone else (adult sized) doing the stabbing/slicing, a kid going up would probably match it closer. But I doubt he did it. The first flashback never holds the real answer. Plus, it seemed pretty obvious to me that Rose was lying about her part of the story. Current pet theory: the father was the one to kill the wife, Rose knew more than she was letting on and she was killed when she didn't corroborate the story she was given, implying she might tell a different story. Or something. Who knows with this show? Wes and Laurel can't be a thing because no. And I don't think Annalise coached Wes unless this show is gonna retcon like woah, they're already doing it but really. He's not gonna totally s*** on the face of the woman that told him what to tell the police about his mother's death. Uh-uh boy, that might be my point of departure on the suspension of disbelief train. Traumatic event or no.

Jason is such a fucking muppet of a character. Just imagine his... dynamic? On any of the other major characters in this show's entire history. He smirks and leans sexily against furniture. What is this? I mean honestly. I wonder if his entire existence is a meta-joke on the writers/producers part. They do that sometimes right? I'm just going to inhabit a reality where this is the case.

I can definitely ship Silver/Flint. I haven't read Treasure Island but I think I can guess where it goes It's perfect.