just developed a string of (tentative) bone season theories everybody...i'm sure somebody's already dived into this but i don't care because i want to talk about it!!
(spoilers for the dark mirror)
this is a scene from book one that i entirely completely forgot about. i logged it when i was vlogging, assumed it was referencing something i forgot about from a future book. i don't think it is?????
then i was thinking about the first card of the tarot reading, the card which symbolizes the past and/or the root cause of the situation/challenge
and initially i think we all just brushed past it because paige was adamant it was her father and that's all there was to her past
but the more i think about the dark mirror the more i'm...skeptical
we have so many references to cade's family and heritage, the way fitzours and mahoney both reference bears, the vagueness of paige's mother (who was she? did she die? did she disappear? was she a dreamwalker?) and on top of that there's the mystery of paige's relationship with the poltergeists + the scars on her hand that read KIN
paige's relationship with the poltergeists starts when she's young, it helps awaken her gift (and the poltergeist who first touches her is a woman she sees in a poppy field), but more than that, there is that prophecy from book four that references "THE SCION" which you'd think would just the scion republic, but "scion" also means descendant (kin), which could suggest that paige is a descendent of [blank]
which brings us back to the five of cups — was the thing paige lost not her father but her mother? if he is the one whose cups of water are spilled, it's HIS GRIEF and HIS DISAPPOINTMENT and HIS LOSS that he cannot move on from - paige is standing behind him (trying to talk him out of his grief?) but he doesn't answer...
but we do know that her father left her something in his will, something that jaxon doesn't understand (because it's irish? because it's amaurotic? because it's a secret or a message between paige and her father? because it's a family heirloom?)
and all of this family stuff - with her father yes but also the hints at her mother and the absence left by her disappearance/death - suggests that if that memory of blood is from paige's past, and it doesn't have to do with the dublin incursion (which happened when she was six and did not yet understand or know about her gift), then surely it has something to do with her early childhood and/or her mother and/or her father
but if we go back to the five of cups for a second, the five of cups is associated with the element of WATER, and water is often a symbol of feelings or emotion
i haven't been able to figure out what the hell she's implying by all this talk of water (am i stupid or are we all in the dark here) but there's no way this isn't all connected!!!!
this is just someone else's interpretation of water in tarot (The Moon card it sounds like?), but it's an interesting idea that speaks a lot about ancestors and reflections and judgement and life after death...
i do wonder how much of this water / dark mirror stuff comes back to the her (first) memory of blood - especially because there's the age old adage "blood runs thicker than water" etc etc
admittedly i also wonder if any of this also has to do with the prometheus and pandora stuff (or any of the other greek myths like adonis or persephone etc) because assuming jax is right (unfortunately, he usually is, isn't he?) then if the greek myths are correct and real and true and all came from the rephs, then is each myth about a different reph or are the stories all about the same reph(s)?
because adonis's story uses blood as well and his story is the origin of the amaranth WHICH BLOOMS WHEN PAIGE AND WARDEN KISS...
i just feel like if samantha shannon is listing out myths for us to pay attention to.......this one has some serious weight to it, especially when we know that paige and warden's connection made the windflower bloom in the real world
that would imply that arcturus is adonis (NASHIRA GREW SO JEALOUS OF THE PAIR THAT SHE SLAUGHTERED HIM AND PAIGE CRIED THAT SINGLE TEAR WHEN HE WAS "DEAD"...) and i guess that means that [Zeus] allowed [Arcturus] to spend half the year in life and half the year in death, even as paige is implied by jaxon to be persephone who would spend half her time in the syndicate and half her time in the free world...
and of course, we can't forget that death is an external influence, that it works differently for paige (and arcturus) - and even now the world is changing around her (them) but ultimately that change occurs because the two of them choose to stay together as the lovers
now here's where we get a little crazy - because i still don't know if this passage was cut because sam changed her mind and the story (and it's now and always will be irrelevant) OR if this passage was cut because she had to backtrack and rewrite this or reintroduce this at a later moment. if i was smart i'd assume it's dead in the water but she didn't entirely cut the word "thaumaturge." it's mentioned in passing by jaxon in book one and then in passing during didion's interlude poem in book two.
and yes, in theory this is a comment made in jest, about a concept that is suggestedly not real, but you have to wonder...because of objectively, zeitgeist aside, paige is someone with unprecedented mastery of the aether's secrets, whether she's aware of it or not.
this is one of the opening passages of the dark mirror - when paige is still trapped by the white aster - and even though it could be about anything, especially because she gets taken to oxford against her will, i have to wonder if it's bigger than that
then there's the "old secret" that seb mentions in book one, that paige has some sort of strange connection to death (the netherworld? the aether?) - initially i assumed that the "cords" he mentioned were the silver and gold cords, that it was her connection with arcturus that occurred in oxford that joined her to flesh and sarx but now i wonder...i wonder if she had that connection the whole time, even before warden...or rather, before she met him...[in this life?]
(sorry i do also also wonder if paige has a connection to the rephs and the netherworld that she ummmm was made to forget about ...)
(are we sure her early memory of blood is from earth and not the netherworld?) ((yeah yeah that's a little crazy.....or is it.....))
i know jax said this is in passing, as a snide comment (and possibly a real warning) but fatal flaws are very important in greek mythology and to the gods themselves and i wonder......i guess i just wonder if these two have been through all this before.......if he's ALWAYS been her fatal flaw....
then again, there are frequent mentions to paige's mortality
and that last one specifically will haunt me until it gets resolved, i think!
if we're all thinking the same thing - surely prometheus would be arcturus, if paige is implied to be pandora - then what crime did arcturus commit? (he's been known to commit two - acting against the suzerain and loving paige....) if he's the one who "pilfered fire from zeus" then possibly that could mean giving clairvoyance to the humans......?
side bar, i do find it interesting that arcturus' specific gift is "wisdom in the past" and memory and looking backward - especially because that can feel like a curse...or a mountain...like wouldn't it be crazy if he was punished for [x crime here] by being given this gift?
especially when he uses it later to help paige get her memories back from the white aster
and if we look at pandora's story, she's the first human woman (jaxon calls paige EVE...) (relevance of dreamwalkers here? maybe it isn't necessarily paige herself but her kin?) but then each god gifted her with things. she supposedly brings a jar to earth with plagues and evil, and after she lets out nearly all of them on earth, the last thing that remains is hope....
and then of course there's the unspeakable transgression by the mothallath that rended the veils in the first place...
i do wonder if that transgression is either rephs partnering with humans or giving clairvoyance to humans (or it could be both in theory)..... but i feel like that goes against the golden cord in a lot of ways. because it seems like paige and arcturus' connection strengthens the veils. - if only because the amaranth bloomed when they kissed plus paige can bring arcturus back to life from latency and ALSO there's that whole crazy moment in the colosseum when she kills all the emim because of the power of the golden cord
it's almost like the golden cord (the connection, the love, the care, the partnership between rephs and humans?) is the hope that pandora saves in the end - especially when we know that rephs can safely take aura from offering humans, to seemingly no detriment
there's no end to this just as there's no real concrete theory to this, i just needed to put all my thoughts and questions in one place. i do worry that i'm just the last person to come to all these (vague) conclusions but that's what i get for putting off my read of the dark mirror, i guess!
There are many things I dislike about the Andrew as Lash plot but the Daisy of it all gets me every time. Andrew killing so many inhumans but never her. His last act being to save her, sent by May to kill the man possessing her daughter. He rips out hearts but never hers, hers he cleanses and cradles gently. Is it because Lash's instinct is telling him that this girl will be important for the future? That she must be saved instead of killed? Or is it something much simpler? Andrew, his fondness and care for Daisy and his understanding of just how much this girl means to May. The monster can have nearly all of him, can scrape him out of his own skull, but it can't have this part of his heart. His love for May was so strong that even as Lash, even operating fully on instincts he can't understand, he still grabs the girl and runs like hell. Was Daisy saved for a special purpose? Or was she saved because of Andrew's love, and everything she did afterwards was not something Lash could predict, but simply hope for. Because it's in Daisy's nature to fight back, no matter how big and powerful the evil trying to crush her. And it's in her nature to triumph every time.
And then May, in the episode where they realise it's Andrew that's been killing people. Faced with a moral decision she doesn't feel equipped to make, after telling Andrew that he was always kinder and more empathetic than her. She relies on Coulson's orders at work because she sees that same kindness in him but this isn't work, this is something so much more personal. And so she turns to Daisy, because even more than Coulson, if she needs moral decision-making guided primarily by kindness and empathy, there is no one she will trust more with that decision than the girl who represents not just the best parts of her and Coulson but the best parts of all of SHIELD. So often in the show May is the wise mentor, trying to steer Daisy so that when life hits those rough patches (as it does very frequently) she'll have the tools in place to get back up stronger. But here May is, with all her experience and trauma, and this time she just... doesn't have the tools. She doesn't know what to do. But Daisy does. Because even before she was an inhuman, before she was a shield agent, she had a never ending amount of compassion and an unbreakable sense of moral clarity.
Daisy will wonder time and time again why so many people are comfortable sacrificing themselves for her. Why is this her fate? Why is this what they choose to do? What are they seeing that she's not?
And despite all the times that she saved the world, it's never some power of future sight that makes people like Andrew sacrifice themselves for her. It's not her power, it's not her predestined role in things, the only one who died for that reason was Raina. Everyone else who died for Daisy did it for one simple reason. Because Daisy Johnson is a good person they care about, and keeping her alive is worth the cost.
every day i wake up and think about how renegade nell really gave us everything. an authentic sister trio (the rep i need). a main female lead whose story does not revolve around romance, EVEN THOUGH nell is canonically a widow. funky gender happenings that fulfill my deepest fantasies of being a queer time traveler. THE COSTUMES!!!! a sapphic kiss. comedy. men in wigs. faerie magic. louisa harland. accurate (as far as I can tell) depictions of class and what it meant in the 1700s. petty theft. a banger soundtrack. ass-kicking. witchcraft. amazing acting. emotional complexity.
Everyone's getting mad over the 'he's still trying to come to terms with himself' and 'seven seasons?' lines, but... I agree?
Hannibal, as a show, was never meant to be cancelled so early. Bryan had plans for the fifth, sixth, ninth season before season one had even began production. Will's character arc was meant to be more embellished; his embrace of Hannibal was more a halfway point than his full Becoming. He fell into the ocean, accepting Hannibal's influence, but that doesn't mean that he accepts his love for Hannibal yet (I don't actually believe they fell but that's for a whole other post) or that he would kill willingly, and not because he's trying to protect someone (all throughout the show, he's only ever killed for protection. He's still canonically a guard dog, and not the wild wolf Hannibal desperately wants him to become)
Will WAS still trying to come to terms with himself -- but he was ALSO in love with Hannibal. He just didn't know he was, and that, I think, is the entire point of Bedelia's confirmation; he had a suspicion on what that feeling was, and he needs to come to terms with how the only time he has felt this powerful, all-consuming love was when *Hannibal* was around, and how more of his 'normal' life was a lie than he thought. He needs seven seasons (although that number was actually a joke -- come on, guys) to become the happy, domestic, problem-free murder husband that fandom wants him to become because of this. He is a complex character with an exceptionally long list of internal conflicts, and Bryan undoubtedly had many, many obstacles to throw in his way before he was allowed to settle down with Hannibal.
In short, just because fandom wants it to happen, doesn't mean that it should.
I can guarantee that majority of people could have heard 'murder husbands real?????' in S1 and wanted to skip S2, S3, and however many more seasons until they could watch just the on-the-run fantasy of Hannigram. But, factually, this isn't a payoff until you overcome the challenges -- there is no sassy S2 Will without the imprisonment, there is no manipulative Will without the encephalitis, there is no relationship without Mizumono making them realise that they had one to begin with. There is none of their love until you go through the hardship they went through to earn it.
There is no powerful, consuming Murder Husbands love until they jump over the hurdles to get to it. Would you rather they settle now, or they reach whatever final stage they were meant to get to in order to become well and truly conjoined?
Thank you for coming to my TED talk; please ask me about the retconning of autistic Will Graham
(p.s. PLEASE let me know if I missed something else that he said that everybody should ideally 100% disagree with. I haven't watched any of the panels yet, just reading the complaints people have about those two lines in particular)
“Please do not make me love you more, I do not think I could bear it”
I talk a lot about Anthony being smitten (because he absolutely very much is) but I don’t think I’ve mentioned enough about how much I love the pure adoration in Kate’s eyes every time she looks at Anthony. Her entire face lights up every single time she’s looking at him, with her eyes sparkling, and a smile wide enough to make your cheeks hurt just from looking at her
THAT IS A WOMAN UTTERLY IN LOVE, YOUR HONOUR
She really said, “There will not be a day where you do not vex me” when Anthony asked her to marry him, and it turns out all she’s truly vexed by is how much she loves him
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