Yup. I mean, I had that reaction in real-time--by the time the final scene rolled around I was totally over it. I mean, obviously it wasn't going to stick--she's the star! and like you said, it's not like they don't kill people in this show--I just chafe at it being all about the choices Peter makes, and some of that is holdover annoyance from the longer plot arc that kept trying to set us up for 'which Olivia will Peter choose?!?' which was a plot I found deeply uninteresting and I'm glad they didn't really go there in the end. I'm over the moon that he got disappeared and am really excited to have the Olivias together and Peter at least temporarily out of the picture for crucial decision-making.
To be honest I was most worried they'd kill off Astrid in this season, and am VERY RELIEVED they have not done that, even if I think she deserves her own plot arcs and things. Basically, I am feeling very YAY SHOW and WOW DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING and OK BUT WHAT NOW??
holdover annoyance from the longer plot arc that kept trying to set us up for 'which Olivia will Peter choose?!?
I think maybe it is because I watched it all in one big chunk, that it never felt like that to me. More, that plotline read more to me about both Olivias and Peter grappling with the meaning of self and identity and choices both made and taken away.
Though I suspect I would have had far less patience and leaned towards a less favorable reading had I been watching week to week with that long to wait on it to all play out.
OMG they better not ever kill Astrid. I will throw such a tantrum.
I just chafe at it being all about the choices Peter makes, and some of that is holdover annoyance from the longer plot arc that kept trying to set us up for 'which Olivia will Peter choose?!?' which was a plot I found deeply uninteresting and I'm glad they didn't really go there in the end.
Right -- though, honestly, I was never convinced that the show was going in that direction; perhaps because Peter has always (to my surprise and delight) been the more communicative and emotionally forthright character, I took at face value his insistence that our Olivia was the one that he wanted. I read Olivia's anxiety as being much more about her own difficulty expressing her own emotions and trusting other people (two elements of her character set up from literally the first episode of the show) than about the direction of the plot.
As for watching the two Olivias interact: SIGN ME UP. And ohhhhhhh, Astrid -- ♥! Really hoping they'll find more for her to do next season. Their progress in that direction has been steady, if slow, so I'm hopeful!
That and the next time we saw Sam Weiss the text pretty much slapped him down so that he had to admit he was making educated guesses but they were now off the track of what he thought was supposed to happen.
Which makes me why the writers ever have had him the pronouncement in the first place, but whatever.
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To be honest I was most worried they'd kill off Astrid in this season, and am VERY RELIEVED they have not done that, even if I think she deserves her own plot arcs and things. Basically, I am feeling very YAY SHOW and WOW DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING and OK BUT WHAT NOW??
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I think maybe it is because I watched it all in one big chunk, that it never felt like that to me. More, that plotline read more to me about both Olivias and Peter grappling with the meaning of self and identity and choices both made and taken away.
Though I suspect I would have had far less patience and leaned towards a less favorable reading had I been watching week to week with that long to wait on it to all play out.
OMG they better not ever kill Astrid. I will throw such a tantrum.
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Right -- though, honestly, I was never convinced that the show was going in that direction; perhaps because Peter has always (to my surprise and delight) been the more communicative and emotionally forthright character, I took at face value his insistence that our Olivia was the one that he wanted. I read Olivia's anxiety as being much more about her own difficulty expressing her own emotions and trusting other people (two elements of her character set up from literally the first episode of the show) than about the direction of the plot.
As for watching the two Olivias interact: SIGN ME UP. And ohhhhhhh, Astrid -- ♥! Really hoping they'll find more for her to do next season. Their progress in that direction has been steady, if slow, so I'm hopeful!
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Which makes me why the writers ever have had him the pronouncement in the first place, but whatever.