noplaceforemotion (and anaxed for good measure).
What I see Morgan’s game in Superheros as being
Morgan is the short term, by the seat of her pants planner. Jed is the meticulous chess master. When they try to switch tactics they fuck up. Morgan CLEARLY shows this in this episode, but Jed does too, when he goes after Luca. He’s frantic and out of his element and he’s not good at that.
Anyway, when she goes to John at the beginning of the episode, her how posture is false.
Look at her. Her shoulders are rolled forward, she fidgety, not making eye contact as she normally does, and appears stressed. It’s just false. Bluntly? She was playing John. The only time she was being honest was when John said ‘If he catches you, you aren’t coming back.’ - she agreed. But she wasn’t planning on Jed catching her (but I do think she was planning on no coming back and everyone assuming she had been caught and that Jed had killed her).
Then before Jed even gets there, she’s fretting.
Calming herself. Fretting and freaking out. And yet when Jed shows up, she’s nervous - and I think Jed picked up on it, that’s why he was gruff with her when he got there.
The forced smile. The rolled shoulders. She’s not comfortable EITHER.
Well. She brings up the “possibility” of children. She’s supposed to be trying to get him to relax. How could she make a misstep like that, knowing about John, that family and fatherhood is something which is wounded him?
Because she believed he’d answer more positively. That he’d reassure her that once the war was over, they wouldn’t have to do what they have been doing. Instead he says something that wounds her deeply (“no place for a child of our making” - it’s not what he meant, but what she HEARD was that he didn’t want children with her, not that he didn’t want them right now).
She played her hand, gambled, and lost. She had been counting on him being open to the idea, so she could tell him. And had she told him that, she believed there was no way he’d allow her to go back to the Lair. Not with what he’d had to do with Julian. Not with Cara having threatened her before and now she’s carrying his child. But he didn’t respond how she thought and now if she goes back with nothing, then she's completely fucked.
She backed herself into a corner. And it’s very clear she does NOT want to go through with it.
So what does she do? She PURPOSEFULLY fucks up.
See that there? LOOK AT JED’S EAR. It’s bright red - she's hurting him, however slightly. He’s still awake and she knows that. She's trying to get caught, she knows him too well for that to be a misstep.
She just didn’t expect his level of anger, never once thought he had it in him to put his hands on her violence and panicked.
And Jed’s in a rage - panicking. Look how hard he’s breathing in that scene - he’s probably fighting back something like a panic attack. (Mark has even stated Jed had PTSD.) And she didn’t know what to do.
She misstepped badly. But she never, I don’t think, meant to to through with the offer she had John.
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