Fucks me up to think about how Legato's legacy in-universe after his death in Trimax (and presumably Tristamp) is probably gonna be how much he sucked and nothing else....
Like, nobody will like Knives but Vash will be long-lived enough to be able to eventually talk about his good qualities from when he was a child and his quasi-redemption in his last days. But who remembers Legato? Livio and Vash are the only living people with any extended memory of him and neither of them would have anything nice to say (and rightfully so). Neither of them probably knew he was a slave, either—as far as Vash can tell this dude showed up one day and hated his guts, for all he knows he's just another survivor from July! Outside of Knives, Elendira, Legato, and maybe Conrad, I don't think any other character knows his actual life story.
And to add on to that, there's no way of looking up that past either—he had no name or personhood before he was effectively rescued, so who could investigators or reporters or archivists track down for information? The human being that was Legato only existed for as long as he knew Knives, before that he was something to be kept and abused as an object. There's presumably no surviving family they can reliably contact, nobody to really say "yes I knew him, here's what his life was like, here's how we can prevent something like this from happening again".
His entire existence will be reduced down to "a human weapon that was freakishly loyal to public enemy #1" without any reflection on the mechanisms that made him the way he was because there's just no actual knowledge of his life.
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Was it fair what happened to those kids? To uncle Deng? No of course not. But what happened to Non wasn’t fair either.
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when i first learned about how the fourth wall worked (making him view reality as a novel) the first thing i said was “…so he’s mentally ill. duh.”
because like????? “everything is awful and i am in terrible physical and mental anguish. i know how to make this better!” *enters derealization but like. magical*
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The problem is that I want to do a Midst relisten to try to piece together all of the small clues that are for sure sitting there like a black goop bread crumb trail except that what I'd actually want is to do it in two days straight locked in a white cell with my headphones, printouts of the appendices and a bucket of chalk so I could scribble it all feverishly upon the walls.
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im still baffled by the general response to ep 8 btw. sure the dialogue got a little cheesy at times, but the dialogue in this show is always like 15% cheesy? that’s why people like it lol.
i thought ep 8 was really good, plotlines were moving, drama was happening, characters and relationships were being tested. juno temple acted her ass off. i wish the whole season had been like this!
i really don’t understand why everyone disliked this ep so much. am i missing something? am i just looking for something different out of this show than everyone else is? i agree that the season as a whole has been… scattered, but i thought this past ep was really good.
am i missing something?
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Watched recent F&C episodes, listened to the Everything in You, and gotta say
I really enjoy the line "We got something to lose."
It's so uncommon to hear, in a love song of all places. Throughout the years "got nothing to lose" was/is the standard when talking about youth or love: Night of our lives and the night is young, forever young, just do it, you have nothing to lose. It's romantic and easily marketable, and it's a fantasy.
Despite how sugar sweet the bus station song chirps in your ear, it's brutally honest. Not ever in human life is there a moment where you have nothing to lose. The act of falling in love itself is the admission that you're willing to have and potentially lose.
That's why that line hits like a guitar in the face, and it's at the very start too. Betty and Simon's relationship is tragic, the writers are not letting us forget it for a second even in a scene that fr invented romance.
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