In response to an anonymous question sent to dear @tommygrace:
Ugh. Anti-Grace people always end up with their final retort being, "She's Dead!" As if we Grace fans think she's going to be reanimated and be his zombie bride.
We know she's dead. But we also understand that she doesn't need to be alive to be a huge presence on Tommy's life and mindset. 10 years after her death, she was still one of the first people he thought of. She was a safe place, the heart that he called "Home."
The problem is that people get confused and think the Grace hallucination of season 5 was the real Grace, or how Tommy truly remembered her.Hologram Grace 🤪 was a personification of Tommy's inner-guilt and torment. She wore the face of Grace, but the things she said were all Tommy's own personal demons being uttered. He conjured her up her in his troubled mind because she was such a solace. He missed her so much.
But Tommy's own trauma and torment couldn't help but bubble through. Hence, her harsh words, & her telling him to kill himself. (When we all know real Grace would never want Tommy to abandon Charlie...so don't tell her what Tommy Charlie...so don't tell her what Tommy did at the end of season 6) 😏
You just have to see Tommy's face when he recounted first seeing hallucination Grace, how his eyes light up & how happy & lovestruck he still was at her presence:
She might be dead, but the way she made him feel is not. That will never fade. And it will forever be the benchmark of how he goes for future relationships. So yes, she might be dead, but her influence on Tommy, deep inside is not. Animal has never said the Grace is going to come back to life and return to the show—people might want to read it that way, but all she ever implies is that Grace's impact is not through on Peaky Blinders.
Tommy's love of her, and his sadness over the loss of her, will forever live in him.
In fact, Cillian has spoken about the importance of Grace in the series, thst in fact Tommy being in love with her was as close as Tommy ever got to again being the man he was before the war; to being a better man, and that her death permanently changed Tommy's outlook.
"I think the pre-war Tommy smiled and laughed a lot. He wanted to work with horses, he was very romantic.
"All of these things - you see scratches of them throughout the show and there are times when he feels he is getting towards some sort of healing when he's with Grace.
And then it's taken away again and he retreats back into that kind of shell emotionally."
“…during the time Tommy was married to Grace he was completely faithful. Prior to that, sex was basically a way of self-medicating, then Grace's death spun him off into something else entirely. I think that as we meet him now, he's probably shut down again emotionally, and sex is just a physical need that has to be met."
So, anonymous, Cillian has always emphasized the relevance of Grace, alive or dead, in the life of Tommy.
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