#honestly the entire show is a showcase of the roy siblings' regression not character growth and that includes roman

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I love all the poetic comparisons between S1 Roman and S4 Roman, but the claim that he didn't figure out that Waystar and his family are "nothing" and "bullshit" until S4 - you guys, his very first appearance in S1 is him going LOOK AT ALL THIS BULLSHIT and laughing, like

Roman has always known that Waystar is bullshit, his family is bullshit, HE is bullshit, he is the jester that points and laughs at everyone else to be the voice that confirms just how bullshit all of their scheming and rich people behavior is, but he spends all of S1, S2, S3, and most of S4 playing the succession game anyway because HE WANTS TO BE LOVED AND TO BELONG, he thinks about becoming CEO as a way of ensuring Logan's affection for him and proving he's not weak or stupid or useless without the Roy name to guarantee him a place in the world - even though he KNOWS that the Roy name is the only reason he and all the other siblings have any place in the world at all, deep down, he KNOWS

Roman has always known, but part of the tragedy and sad irony is Roman buying into it all anyway, WHILE knowing

The fact that he can smile wryly at the end of it all, after losing it all, just makes him that much more fun of a character

#succession #roman roy #succession spoilers #succession s4 #honestly the entire show is a showcase of the roy siblings' regression not character growth and that includes roman #the only thing that's changed for him from beginning of S1 to end of S4 is the GUARANTEE that he is not Logan's successor #and yeah that is freeing because he still has the bullshit life he's always laughed at and he can still live with that #Kendall and Shiv are both better at lying to themselves and are therefore left with more disappointments #Roman lies to himself and knows he's lying to himself and I swear you can see him mocking himself for it every second he's on screen