#i'm dipping back into tuatv discourse bc i love allison too much to not weigh in on the character assassination

[rappaccini]

hot take: the key to understanding what the hell happened to allison is that they writers were trying to give us what we should've gotten with allison in earlier seasons, that they were too cowardly to do at the time.

s1 allison should've been bitter, irrational, out of control and compulsively rumoring people to deal with the loss of custody of her daughter. we should've seen allison use her rumor to force herself onto someone, but that someone should've been patrick, in a flashback showing how they got together. and we should be seeing allison eat herself alive with guilt over it, not coolly breezing past it. juxtapose allison's denial over what she did to patrick with what she did to vanya. furthermore, she should've lost faith in vanya after the throat-slitting, shouldn't have advocated for her in the basement, and should've been trying to kill her with the guys in the climax. the gun was five's to point at the white violin.

s2 allison should've been hyperfocused on escaping the past and returning to claire. no centrist civil rights plot, no plotfiller fanservice marriage to raymond, no conveniently having her rumor back. she should have spent the season learning to live without her powers and the fear she lived in during the 1960s should've been shown to us when she was actually in the 1960s. she should've been cold to vanya for disabling her and killing her daughter. and like in the comics, allison should've made a deal with the devil [the commission, not reginald] to do something that makes the family take sides against her [orchestrating the jfk assassination] to secure the repair of her vocal cords/return of her power, save five and luther from obliteration, and gain her and her family's return to the present... only to realize the commission screwed her and sent her to a future where claire doesn't exist.

which would have opened the door to s3 allison grieving her daughter's loss, getting a romantic culmination with luther after two seasons of buildup, and reopening her relationship with vanya/viktor since now it's just as much allison's own fault for losing claire, she has her powers back, and she's also done some heinous shit driven by grief and desperation, she'd be open to showing vanya/viktor compassion they'd need given that 7's plotline ought to have been evaluating whether to ditch the umbrellas for the sparrows, a la the comics; since the family is capable of forgiving allison for her commission betrayal, they can do the same for the white violin ending the world.

and... great that those clowns finally realized how poorly they treated her character, but it's too late. the only way to do those things they should've done was at the cost of assassinating and regressing her character.

#tua tv #tua s3 #allison hargreeves #tua s3 spoilers #tua s2 salt #tua s3 salt #i'm dipping back into tuatv discourse bc i love allison too much to not weigh in on the character assassination #tua salt