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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 spaz 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.

Christophe should've finished icing that ho, seriously. "Everything about this started when they murdered my husband!" Er... no, deary. You don't get to do that. You don't get to play hot potato with personal responsibility. And in that case it was precious Wes' fault anyway. Or no, wait. Maybe it was Rebecca's fault for breaking in? Or no wait maybe it was dead husband's fault for attacking her? Or maybe yours for facilitating it? Or maybe it was Frank's fault for killing Lila for him? Or maybe it was Lila's fault for existing? See what I mean? It's lazy morality. Not that I think she buys it mind, she already said her real motivation was 'protecting' Nate. And we all know that by 'protect' AK means sucking anyone in the general vicinity into the vortex that is she through blackmail, emotional and actual.

I can't decide if whatshisface, Jason? Jason is supposed to dangerous or a love interest. Which I am sure is the point. He'll probably be both. Poor Diane, she keeps trying to form these mentoring relationships and no one's interested.

I sure do hope so! There are a few comments he makes that kinda, sorta, might if you squint really hard be interpreted as a potential attraction to males. 1. 'I caught Nate and Wes together' 'Screwing?' It seems like a weird place for a hetero dude's brain to go. 2. The 'he's not my type' comment to Connor about Oliver. 3. Saying that despite Oliver not being his type he'd still spank him before Connor. 4. Apparently there was an interview somewhere where the cast was asked about who they'd ship or their crack ship or least likely ship or something, I dunno and someone said they'd ship Oliver and Frank because of their background before being shushed. Now none of this actually means anything ofc but a boy can dream.

Do Frank and Oliver know each other? They seemed quite chummy for people who only interacted in an official capacity.

I think what AK did with revealing that is take away her control. Bonnie's vulnerable and it looks like her self-worth is irredeemably compromised (which is probably a big part of why she stays with Annalise and says nonsensical things like 'Sam would never have done that') but that makes it all the more important to her to not appear weak and vulnerable. Hence the cold, dismissive attitude most of the time contrasted with the violent outbursts of self loathing. To Bonnie's mind AK removed any chance of her achieving that illusion of invulnerability with Asher ever again which is what made her so mad.

Wes can't be Anna's kid, she's soooooo pervy on him. Unless that's like some weird subliminal thing Viola Davis does and everyone's too uncomfortable to mention it or something. I think she lied, frankly. Cuz that's the answer that will get Eve to stop digging and a suitable lure for future favours. Not sure he's not somehow connected to her at all though but I don't think he's her son. I keep getting S1 flashbacks where Doucheface says something like 'maybe he's her secret love child' and Michaela bite's back with "Yeah just cuz they're both black they must be related." Now, who shoots Annalise? The show is clearly setting up a situation where ANYONE could be a suspect but I'm cancelling out Nate and Bonnie for being too obvious. Also Nate comes to pick the gang up so it couldn't have been him, he also sounds like he has some inkling of what's going on. Who does that leave? Phillip, Wes and Eve. Why Eve? Dunno. Something strikes me just as ever so slightly psycho-girlfriend about her. Philip is an obvious choice, maybe too obvious and I'm not sure Wes is at that point. I'm also don't think Laurel would be backing him up if he shot her. Who shoves Saint off the balcony? Bonnie? Probably. Likely even. Alternatively it could be Asher, he looks pretty shaken up in the car. Then again why wouldn't he be if he just saw his Bon-Bon shove someone off a roof? She was also covered in blood. Annalise's blood? Saint's blood? Unless Saint was bleeding before she went splat that would mean she was either beaten or tortured or shot or something. Dunno, probably Annalise's blood. Maybe Saint went crazy from being constantly one-upped, shot Analise, Bonnie went all ride or die on her and shoved her off the roof? But that has nothing to do with the Hapstalls so nah. Speaking of the Hapstalls. What happens to Olly-Wolly-Poo? I don't think he dies. Connor isn't busted up enough in the flashforwards. Which means! Either 1) they haven't found him yet or 2) they have found him and he's relatively okay. I'm going with 2. Why? Because he's trying to stop Annalise's bleeding. I don't think he would have done that if he was still actively mad at her. So I think she does something (or, more likely: send Frank to do something) and gets Oliver back. But yeah. No real clue what happens in the mansion or why everybody's there. Though I suppose if Phillip is involved it might explain why. But mostly clueless. There are a lot of wiggly, wiggly threads. Like why Catherine was covered in blood. And why Caleb was taken out or was never in his home. Or how Nate's involved. IT SHALL BE A GLORIOUS CLUSTERFUCK.

So is it next week where we find out who shoots Annalise?

"You're not a member of a protected class Carry, Howard is." OR IS HE?! #shippingCarryandthatotherguysinceS07E01

SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO OLIVER. Gird your loins and fortify your hearts brethren (and sisterin).

"Frank would never do that!" Oh, Laurel. Please. We all know half the reason he makes you percolate like he does is exactly because he's the kind of person who would do that. I'm thinking Asher killed that girl at Trotter Lake. Maybe not with the intent of killing her but I think he hit her or pushed her or something. I also think he killed the yippy-dog-lady attorney. Why do I think this? ALMOST NO REASON! Except I think he might have a temper. Which is based almost entirely off of the way he snapped at yippy-dog-lady attorney an episode or two back. Also possibly the way he said he'd break Frank's face in (wouldn't mind seeing how THAT would turn out for him). It says something about my opinion of Analise when one of the first things I thought when she showed that tape to Asher was 'yeeaaah, that's just some random girl.' I'd still put it at 50/50. One of Wes' major problems (if not THE major problem) is that he consistently completely misjudges people and what they're capable of shown very well this ep by him underestimating Frank DESPITE the fact that he knows enough about the man to know he shouldn't. Of the students everyone is getting something to work with: Connor has Olliver, Asher has Trotter Lake and everything else, Michaela has her complicated relationship with men and potential bayou past, Wes has Rebecca on the brain. Everyone except Laurel. The show keeps hinting at this hard core for her, this steeliness in her character (as well as a streak that likes to rebel and/or look for trouble like the way she smiled when her dad chased her away from the dinner table) but it doesn't show it. And that annoys me. I like the political message the show broadcasts, it isn't as heavy handed as Grey's (and, frankly, that's not a bad thing) but it still gets its point across. I wanna know what has Frank indebted to Analise because he needs to be working at international espionage levels.