Woof. I kind of agree and disagree with you. The show was very full of subtext, so much that sometimes I had to struggle to understand (cheers for this format of tiny episodes in tiny seasons). But I did like the subtext of this one episode.
I think it’s of note to say that while she lost everyone else due to tragedies beyond anyone’s control, Caitlyn chose to walk away from Vi, in a way that must have felt like betrayal, 5 hot seconds after Vi opened up to her. Additionally, Vi couldn’t escape Caitlyn no matter how much she tried. The Kiramman banners were everywhere.
All that just augmented that Vi had no sense of self (all she ever knew to do was fight) nor self worth (she was not good for anything). As a fighter she wasn’t good enough to have kept her family safe. As a sister, she wasn’t good enough to bring Powder back to her. And she had sort of accepted both of these facts when she accepted going with the enforces to hunt down Jinx. But then… as a person, she wasn’t good enough to make Caitlyn wish to stay either.
I just always perceived this sequence as meant to show Vi the way Vi viewed herself: as no good to anyone nor anything. Not even to the new things she managed to get after all her initial traumas: not Caitlyn nor Loris (one pushes her away, the other she pushes away herself). All the other aspects of her life had already been very explicit throughout the show, but we were seeing in that sequence the aftermath of her losing even these flimsy new things. It just emphasizes how much she sees herself of worthy of nothing.
She voices that to Jinx when she asks “why did you come get me? You don’t actually need my help, you haven’t for a long time.”
Jinx is the one who might have given her a different POV by saying “he’s your father too.” It wasn’t “no, I do need you.”. It was a “you deserve to tag along and have some resemblance of the family you once had, he’s your dad too.”
It still looped back to Vi’s sense of self worth being ingrained in people needing her tbh, but the difference is that this time, she accepted she deserves help too, so she accepts it from Caitlyn.
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