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Rewatching Power, and I honestly think Kira saying, "fat free yoghurt," to herself as she tries to get mad so her Trouble will kick in and save the town, is one of the best lines in the whole of the show.

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s04e09 - William

We pick up right where the last episode left off, Duke and the others now relieved to find that the gunshot they heard coming from Audrey's apartment was not her shooting Nathan.

This starts a hunt for the heavies who Audrey saw in the Barn, which leads them to the man who Audrey knows as William, and ends with everyone else affected by a paranoia Trouble.

Then Audrey finds William up on the hill, and realises he's much more than just a confused guy who helped her get out of the Barn.

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Currently the discord is discussing whether Garland wanted Audrey to fall for Nathan and does this constitute delivering his son up for human sacrifice, @havenfanrewatch is already popping off

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Rewatch thoughts - Just Passing Through, s05e20

“I'm going back in time” - for all Nathan's faults, never let it be said that he's afraid to come up with the big ideas

I Iove the 1980s of it all. How cool it could have been to have an ‘80s spin off series.

The actors playing the younger Garland and Dave do such a good job.

“Sure glad you finally grew into those ears son” XD Glad to see 1980s Garland still has a way with words XD

 I love these scenes between Nathan and Garland so much - you can see Nathan's perception of their whole relationship completely change.

Why does Croatoan want James Cogan dead? Does he mean to kill his grandson or does he just go for the first warm body he finds? And is the black smoke Croatoan pulls out of him a sign that James was Troubled?

Great episode, it's all so ... very Haven

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Haven - Chosen

I started writing something set in the final moments of episode 5.13, where Charlotte said Audrey would be absorbed into Mara but where she actually chose to prioritise Audrey instead.

But what if it had gone differently? What if it wasn't Audrey who resulted from that merging, and what if it wasn't Mara either? What if it was someone new ...

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Nathan and Duke ran through the sudden wind to find Charlotte, kneeling on the ground between what looked like Mara and a pile of Audrey’s clothes. The women stood and turned to face them.

“Mara,” said Nathan.

“No,” came the reply.

This was good news, but Nathan heart sank. His heart sank because he could see - in the shake of her head, in the tone of her voice, in the way she held herself - he could see that this was not Audrey.

“What happened?” he said, dimly aware of how numb he sounded.

“Mara and Audrey have been combined,” Charlotte began.

“I am both of them,” the woman beside her agreed. “I am Mara and Audrey. I’m the others too; Lexie, Lucy, Sarah, Veronica, all of them. I’m all of them and none of them.”

Nathan tried to focus on the positives; Audrey was in there somewhere and Mara was neutralised. “What do we call you?” he asked.

“I’m not sure, but we have a more immediate problem,” she said, as she walked past him to Duke. “Mara really did create a bomb.”

She stepped up to Duke, who seemed too stunned by all of this to say anything, and put a hand on his arm as she told him, “Duke, I want you to know that none of this is your fault. What’s happening now and everything that’s happened right back to the beginning of all of it; none of it is your fault. You made better choices and fought harder than anyone else would have.”

Duke watched her cautiously, waiting to see who she would be most like; Audrey or Mara.

“You should know that one of Audrey’s biggest regrets in this whole thing, is what she didn’t do in Colorado.” As she spoke she was aware of Charlotte’s and Nathan’s two very different kinds of curiosity at this, but they would have to wait. Duke was her focus for now.

Duke’s face showed its own surprise. “She was never going to …” he began, and his eyes flicked over to Nathan. She was never going to cheat on someone she wasn’t even quite yet in a relationship with, he meant.

She reached up to his jaw and turned his face back to look at her. “Yes she was in love with Nathan, but her feelings for you weren’t really so different. She didn’t know she could have both of you.”

There were a lot of other things she could have said in this moment. She could have said how sorry she was that it was as Mara (not as Audrey or even Lexie) that she’d slept with him. She could have said that she remembered all of the Crockers who had ever lived in Haven and that he had fought the expectations and pressures of its Curse harder (and more successfully) than anyone who’d come before him. She could have told him that he didn’t deserve any of the shitty stuff that had happened to him, and that he’d had a reasonable expectation of better support from his friends.

She could have said all of that and she hoped that at some future point soon she would have the chance to. But in this moment, right now, words didn’t seem enough.

She leant forwards and kissed him. She pressed her lips to his for just a moment before she pulled away. In a way, it wasn’t much different from the kind of kiss one friend might give another. But in another way, it was a world apart.

"None of it was your fault Duke."

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The Trial of Nathan Wuornos - season five, episode 16

Rewatch thoughts;

“Is this trial a stalling tactic, or the re-birth of democracy?” / “Can't it be both?” XD

This fence Hailie practices her Trouble on is disconcertingly familiar to the fence which plays such a significant role in her final episode.

Vince and Dave the DJs are hilarious, bickering over the school speaker system.

Where does Tony get all this info from? Details like Nathan running off to his cabin - who even knows about that?

I know that Emily Rose learnt some sign language at school, but I want to know how Audrey Parker knows how to sign - is this something the actual Audrey learnt, or someone Mara or Lexie knew that Audrey has remembered?

It bothers me that Hailie drops the bag of money outside the bank. I know she's been shot and Duke's incredibly scary with the black eyes and everything, but it seems like she's been so focused on getting this money for so long, that without it she'll get killed - she seems to let it go so easily. I don't know, maybe it's just the adrenaline kicking in.

Such a dramatic cliffhanger!!

I really love this episode.

I love Nathan's optimism in it. I love how it shows us the confidence he's found in himself, even as Audrey's freaking out about the whole situation, in a way much like he might have done a few seasons earlier; their roles are reversed. Like he himself says, she's taking his lines.

I also love the way the episode kind of challenges the hero narrative; any show like this, the main characters who save the day often cause as many problems as they fix. And that's kind of inevitable because it's how you have to create the story. So I think it's really nice to see this little nod to that tension; when Tony says that Nathan's been involved in every bad thing that's ever happened to Haven … well, he's not wrong. But still, we can still see Audrey and the others perspective that he's a good man, and it doesn't stop us from seeing him as a hero (well, it doesn't stop me, anyway!).

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Haven rewatch - Mortality

Kirby’s comment to Audrey is interesting, when he tells her she's going to die at the same time as her “twin sister” - is the “Audrey” we see in the later stages of season five actually Audrey at all? Given that Kirby has the same Trouble as his aunt Vanessa, it's already been proved to be accurate.

Love Duke's comment about the safe in the police station: “Nathan would stash his bronco in here if he could”. XD

Charlotte's eppur si muove line; and yet it moves. Nice use of a great quote and a reminder that even in all the craziness of Haven there are still some basic rules of physics that persist.

Never really twigged before that Duke basically leaves Dwight to die in the hospital. He carries Mara out of the oxygen-deprived zone apparently without a thought for how long Dwight's going to survive in there. (True he does ultimately save Dwight's life when he kills Pete, but he didn't know that was going to happen when he left Dwight unconscious in a room with no air.)

This episode has one of my favourite examples of Haven's messed up timeline, when Pete says he's spent his “whole life” covering up the Troubles. Troubles which have only been active for the last few years at most. He's not old enough to have been anything but a kid the last time there were active Troubles in Haven.

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Wild Card - Haven rewatch

Lots of things to like about this episode, but I absolutely LOVE the little moment Nathan and Dwight have leaning on the back of the bronco. “These women from other worlds; they aren't like other girls.” XD So nice to see Nathan crack a smile and then the two of them having this little talk about relationships. Such a wholesome little moment in the midst of all the chaos.

Gotta love Gloria and her ECG machine: “I don't even know if this thing's safe to use any more. Who wants to go first?” XD

Love the image of Audrey and Charlotte reaching their hands out towards the aether together. For a show that often minimises (or entirely forgets about) mother-daughter relationships in favour of father-son ones, this is a really nice moment.

I don't understand why Charlotte ran off and left Dwight tied up. I mean I know she's freaked out about Croatoan and she might find that hard to explain to the others… but where is she going? What's she doing?

Who is this guy who turns up next to Duke at the camp fire?