Bodkin Thoughts
Jun. 29th, 2024 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI liked it okay.
+ I really liked the journeys each of the main characters went on and how they ended the show.
Emmy was very competent and her growing in confidence was great to watch, and I loved her demading the job she wanted.
Dove ending the series having lost her beloved job but finally willing to emotionally open herself to people and face her past was lovely. I liked also that while she lost her job she hadn't given up on the career of telling stories and finding the truth that was so foundational to her life, she just was finally able to move past the pain and damage of her past.
Gilbert taking a hard look at himself and realising he'd actually lost himself at some point in his desire to be a success again and actually actively making the choice to get back to being the kind of person he wanted to be was nice.
+ Okay I asolutely do get why Gilbert chose to symbolically throw away his recorder and choose not to do the podcast, to instead to reinvent his life. But also that was a fucking great story! Yeah, yeah, be a better person but also Seamus tried to murder him so any promises are void. Be a better person after. Do the story as the final season of your podcast because it would be amazing, rake in the money, then restart your life on a high and be the person you want to be.
+ I really don't know why neither Gilbert nor Dove brought up forging a relationship with Sean going forward with Seamus as an attempt to change his mind. That seemed the obvious lever to use!
+ I really loved that little epilogue with Sean telling Mrs. O'Shea that he knows all about his real mom. It was such a lovely moment and it made me very happy for both of them.
+ Sean is absolutely an idiot but I felt for him during the confrontation with Seamus and him having his whole world turned on his head. It's clear how he made being Romanian such an foundational part of his identity and that's hard to move past. I did love that even in his confusion, anger and denial he stepped up in front of the gun to save his mom.
+ Seamus acted so overjoyed when meeting Sean as his son but it was all about him. About the happy reunion he wanted, the hug and the needed shared joy at the revelation, and no thought at all was given to Sean or what he needed. And when Sean didn't react as he needed and things went wrong he pretty much immediately lost his shit and gave up on a potential relationship with him? Uh huh, sure you love your son, pfft.
Seriously WTF. Coming in there like that and throwing this idea at him and trying to immediately hug it out and make them a loving familiar relationship? Get a grip!
+ I kind of liked Seamus for much of the show and I did feel sorry for him a bunch. When he realised that Gilbert had lied to him and was planning to do the podcasst, when he saw his brother's body and knew he died that night (and it was his fault), when his reunion with Sean was met with anger and disgust, when his loved dog died. But at the same time he really is a person he bought on so much grief in his own life and kept blaming everyone else rather then facing it.
+ I really liked the journeys each of the main characters went on and how they ended the show.
Emmy was very competent and her growing in confidence was great to watch, and I loved her demading the job she wanted.
Dove ending the series having lost her beloved job but finally willing to emotionally open herself to people and face her past was lovely. I liked also that while she lost her job she hadn't given up on the career of telling stories and finding the truth that was so foundational to her life, she just was finally able to move past the pain and damage of her past.
Gilbert taking a hard look at himself and realising he'd actually lost himself at some point in his desire to be a success again and actually actively making the choice to get back to being the kind of person he wanted to be was nice.
+ Okay I asolutely do get why Gilbert chose to symbolically throw away his recorder and choose not to do the podcast, to instead to reinvent his life. But also that was a fucking great story! Yeah, yeah, be a better person but also Seamus tried to murder him so any promises are void. Be a better person after. Do the story as the final season of your podcast because it would be amazing, rake in the money, then restart your life on a high and be the person you want to be.
+ I really don't know why neither Gilbert nor Dove brought up forging a relationship with Sean going forward with Seamus as an attempt to change his mind. That seemed the obvious lever to use!
+ I really loved that little epilogue with Sean telling Mrs. O'Shea that he knows all about his real mom. It was such a lovely moment and it made me very happy for both of them.
+ Sean is absolutely an idiot but I felt for him during the confrontation with Seamus and him having his whole world turned on his head. It's clear how he made being Romanian such an foundational part of his identity and that's hard to move past. I did love that even in his confusion, anger and denial he stepped up in front of the gun to save his mom.
+ Seamus acted so overjoyed when meeting Sean as his son but it was all about him. About the happy reunion he wanted, the hug and the needed shared joy at the revelation, and no thought at all was given to Sean or what he needed. And when Sean didn't react as he needed and things went wrong he pretty much immediately lost his shit and gave up on a potential relationship with him? Uh huh, sure you love your son, pfft.
Seriously WTF. Coming in there like that and throwing this idea at him and trying to immediately hug it out and make them a loving familiar relationship? Get a grip!
+ I kind of liked Seamus for much of the show and I did feel sorry for him a bunch. When he realised that Gilbert had lied to him and was planning to do the podcasst, when he saw his brother's body and knew he died that night (and it was his fault), when his reunion with Sean was met with anger and disgust, when his loved dog died. But at the same time he really is a person he bought on so much grief in his own life and kept blaming everyone else rather then facing it.
