Why are so many of you mad about Alastor demanding Rosie pay him for work for the first time in ninety years instead of just doing everything she says for free like guys I thought we were woke enough for this
Seriously, y'all—this scene was amazing.
For the first time in his life—alive or dead—Alastor can truly stand face-to-face with another society member and demand, “We are equals, and you will treat me as such.” Rosie yanked him around for nearly a century, but now, in this moment, he is no longer a puppet on a string.
Yes- part of me wishes Alastor had acted to help Charlie out of his own fondness for her/the hotel. But that disappointment doesn’t mean we should ignore the power behind this scene.
Alastor—a mixed-race Black man from the brutal, segregated South of the 1920s—looks his white-presenting former owner in the eye and tells her, in no uncertain terms, to fuck off. She is no longer his master.
Not today. Not ever again.
And if she wants something from him? Then she will have to pay the fee just like everybody else.
And the price?
Not her soul, her power, or her cannibal army.
Just the staff that she should have fixed several episodes ago.
delicious.
