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4 hours ago, Dee said:
When Nova was clearly upset about Ralph Angel's will reveal, Charley saw how upset Nova was, and walked right past her. Or Charley screaming at Nova for not "defending" her when a couple of radio dj's press her for details about her sister's marital strife.
Nova can easily read Charley enough that she can tell her mood over the phone. She's repeatedly dropped things, or pushed her own issues at the time aside, to comfort Charley. She's gone above & beyond, repeatedly, to be support her sister, despite their differences. Nova has defended Charley against everyone, including at times even herself, only for Charley to largely remain self obsessed.
That's why I pointed out a few episodes ago, how bizarre it was for Charley to bypass confiding in Nova altogether, about her Landry/Boudreaux plans, to instead lean on Ralph Angel, who has been nothing but a source of drama for her since their dad's funeral.
Charley didn’t scream at Nova for not defending her to those Dj’s she was upset because Nova telling them not to victim blame Goldie could’ve been taken as Davis being guilty since it was coming from his wife’s sister someone the public would assume to know all the details.Charley at that point only believed Davis had consensual sex w/ Goldie twice and was not guilty of rape.
All three of the siblings were upset about the will reveal and none of them comforted each other only Aunt Vi did. Nova didn’t put her pain/anger aside to comfort Charley or Ralph so how is it a negative that Charley didn’t either. Nova can read everybody that’s a character trait of hers it’s not specific to her relationship w/ Charley she has read Ra & Aunt Vi moods to. Also the 4 times we’ve seen Nova comfort a distraught Charley they haven’t been times of Nova dropping anything for Charley specifically. Nova was already at the hospital when Charley ran in crying, she was already at the house because of the storm when she comforted Charley about the dead migrant workers, Charley showed up to her house after being caught kissing Remy by Micah she didn’t look busy then, and at the mill during Charley’s breakdown she was already there for the opening as a guest not having to drop anything to comfort her sister. Heck her showing up at Charley house last night wasn’t even her dropping anything she went after she did everything she had/wanted to do for the day.
The only time Nova has really defended Charley imo has been this season to Micah after she started the argument about Charley’s business plan in front of the whole family instead of pulling Charley to the side. Her defending Charley was her walking back some the shit that she said that Micah latched onto to use against his mother’s character.
I don’t see how Charley is self obsessed when she has been working to help her family and all the black farmers. She didn’t stay in run the farm for herself she uprooted herself and Micah to run the farm for a year because Ralph wanted to. She opened the mill not because she need a ego boost being the first black woman to do so but to give the black farmers a fair deal. She is only doing this takeover plan because she still wants to help the black farmers. Even though they put her in the position of almost losing her mill in the first place by listening to the Landry’s rumors. She has also been there for her family when asked she looked over Vi’s first pie contract, helped Nova (listed in previous post)and Ralph (paying him out of her pocket so he can work on the farm and meet his parole requirements)
Charley didn’t confide in Nova because the fewer people that know her plan the easier it will be for her plan to work. Remy only knows because he was working at the mill and was there when she first decided to take down the Landry’s. She only told Ralph her plan because if you remember at the end of last season she told him that she wanted him to mill with he Landry’s. Ralph probably wouldn’t have done it if she didn’t tell him the plan. Nova doesn’t own a part of the farm anymore ,doesn’t help run the day to day, and has no ownership in the mill so their wasn’t a reason for Charley to tell her the plan. Even if she wasn’t only telling the people who needed to know her plan and wanted to tell Nova to have someone to vent to she knows her sister well enough to know that Nova would have not agreed with her plan and lectured on how wrong she was to make that decision.
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3 hours ago, Dee said:
As I said before, Nova usually does most of the heavy lifting in their relationship. The fact that she was, relatively, lax about responding to Charley shouldn't be held against her imo. It's not as if if the shoe was on the other foot Charley would eagerly reciprocate the favor. Charley has seen Nova in distress several times since she's returned to St. Joe and she's been totally ok with ignoring her Nova's pain, until recently, if it doesn't suit her purposes.
Nova isn't Charley's personal handmaiden. She, like the rest of the Bordelon's, has her own life and troubles, to deal with. The fact that she was so conflicted about how to respond to Remy is a sign that she definitely cares about her sisters feelings.
It sucks that Davis is such a massive dog but it's not the rest of the family's responsibility to constantly act as Charley's paid servants. Nor is Charley much more inclined to share her innermost feelings than most of her relatives, which is why she clings to Micah so fiercely.
Why doesn't Charley have any friends? Ernest had friends, Nova has friends, Violet has friends, Hollywood has friends, Micah & Blue have friends, even perpetually surly Ralph Angel has friends.
Charley is the only Bordelon who hasn't made an attempt to widen her social circle beyond her family.
When has Nova been in distress around Charley and Charley ignored it. When Nova was struggling to find an outfit for her tv interview she called Charley and Charley showed up to help. Nova talked to Charley about her issues with her relationship with the Dr. and the pic of Nova and Charley that Nova looked at while in bed was another moment In which Charley was there for Nova it was from the scene Charley listened to Nova’s fear about writing her book and then told her “Don't lead with the fear of what might be. Lead with the strength of who you are.” So I don’t see where Nova is doing all the heavy lifting in there relationship. And Nova didn’t contact Charley outta guilt not because she has her on life and was too busy.
How does her family picking up the phone when she calls or calling to check on her after she got life changing news equate to them being paid servants?
When Ra learned Blue wasn’t his who did he call his family. Charley and Nova were there when he got the DNA results to comfort and support him. Were they being his paid servants? Charley finding out her ex husband had a secret child 3 or 4 years into their marriage imo is just about the same level of devastating.
As for Charley not having any friends when has she had the free time to make any between learning to run a farm (season 1),opening a Mill (season 2),divorcing her husband, dating Remy, and now trying to orchestrate a hostile take over she has been very busy. The only characters we’ve seen make new friends are Micah ( in school) and Ralph Angel ( new job) everyone else’s friends are the same they’ve had from living/growing there.
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S04.E03 Where My Body Stops or Begins
in Queen Sugar
Who doesn’t critique Charley or Ralph Angel though ???? I’ve seen both get called out several times, hell Charley has been getting called out consistently for something every season.