#jan olof

[serene-faerie]

The clone meme: Young Royals edition

[dayagold]

Roles v/s People

This is such a small scene, but I remember thinking about it ever since I first saw the episode.

S2E6, Wilhelm's parents arrive at Hillerska for the 120th anniversary jubilee. Jan-Olof, the Royal Court top advisor (I'm assuming) helps Kristina down and guides her to the school. They both leave Ludvig to follow them. Okay.

I'm just thinking, it feels really unbalanced. Not sure if I'm nitpicking, but why doesn't Jan Olof follow the Queen and the Prince? Ludvig genuinely seems like an afterthought. Shouldn't he have similar respect? The camera lingers an extra second on Ludvig, doesn't it?

Yes, the Queen has greater authority than the Prince. BUT they're not working right now. They're just getting out of a car.

(The Royal Family is ALWAYS working 24/7 - a post for another time)

So this scene sent me down a rabbit hole in my own head, wondering if Wilhelm and Erik have seen this kind of behavior from the court where they treat Kristina with all the pop and circumstance her role demands, but consider Ludvig as her lesser half.

And it makes me think how even the court and all its machinations do not see the royal family as a unit. There's the MONARCH, the HEIR, and some other people. The prince consort only becomes important if the queen passes away or is indisposed and her heir is too young (Ludvig gains authority if he becomes regent in that setting).

Kristina and Erik seem to be the only people who were treated well enough by the court. Wille has seen the negativity, the cons of royal life. His father has lived it.

Jan Olof doesn't even acknowledge Ludvig in the scene. And the show barely recognizes his involvement at all. Honestly, Ludvig could not exist and the plot and character arcs would still be the same. Maybe it's intentional. It's the meta monster eating away at Wille's indecision and pain that his family is not really respected, just figures in a dollhouse.

August is now the backup and he already has crushing pressures without clear support. Jan Olof gives him a speech to memorize with no room for notes or discussion. He tells August to not become a problem.

So... even if Wilhelm dreams of having Simon part of the royal life, Simon would just face the same treatment as Ludvig does, even worse since he isn't a noble or upper class, and is queer. Simon will never stand for that unless the court changes their attitude. And we have no proof that they ever will.

(Sara will be treated poorly as well if August's fanciful ideas of having her as queen ever came to pass. And she would not put up with it either.)

Wille leaving the royal life really was the ONLY solution to happiness all along! No partner would ever be his equal in the eyes of the court no matter how much he loves and respects them. That's because the court only sees the ROLES and not the people.

Thus I side with Simon AGAIN, when he said he gave up on the royal family, not on Wilmon. He sees the people and not the roles. That all Wille has always needed, from day one.

[frogprinsen]

How do y'all think Jan Olof is feeling, having to wait for the Crown Prince of Sweden and the love of his life to finish making out before they could start? 🤭

[young-royals-confessions]

Who would win in a fight?

Boris

Jan-Olof

Voting ended onOct 11, 2024

[the-words-we-sung]

Wilhelm + touch - [part 12: s2e6] [part 1] - [part 2] - [part 3] - [part 4] - [part 5] - [part 6] [part 7] - [part 8] - [part 9] - [part 10] - [part 11]

[raincitygirl76]

Things I want to see happen in Season 3 of Young Royals, in no particular order.

1. August’s body dysmorphia and eating disorder addressed. Not because I want any kind of redemption arc for him (I don’t!), but because he’s a human being with an undiagnosed illness. Even if he’s a louse.

2. So, Sara has stopped boarding at Hillerska and gone back home. I want to see Simon unable to even look at her without feeling betrayed. And I want Linda to pick up on the fact that her kids hate each other right now, even if they don’t tell her why. Linda was remarkably unobservant in S2. Also, it suddenly occurs to me why they had Sara turn 18 in S2. So she could make a statement about August’s actions without Linda having to be there. If Sara’s no longer a minor, she doesn’t need a parent chaperoning her to a police interview.

3. Felice to get an actual storyline of her own. Felice is glorious, but she spent all of S2 being Wille’s Emotional Support Human, with occasional breaks where she got to talk about her horse. She needs a story! Not necessarily a romance, but some kind of plot. We could bring back her mother. Smysan Ehrencrona would be livid if she found out Felice had it within her power to sex up the Crown Prince (in 2.03) and didn’t do so.

4. Micke. Not because I think he’s a good dad, he’s clearly anything but. But now Simon and Wille are public, I think someone from the tabloids will track down Mr Eriksson Sr and it’ll be a car crash of an interview.

5. Jan-Olof and Simon interacting. In any way.

I’m sure I’ll think of more later.

[springjjjj]

Everyone else:

Wille:

It'll never not be funny no matter how many times I'd watch this scene..

[domtheforestgnome]

The Royal Court keeps pushing Wilhelm to do public speeches probably bc of two reasons:

they need to gain public favorable opinion after the leaked video

they feel like Wilhelm needs to prove himself bc he wasn't Crown Prince from the beginning

And they are cruel to him. Since the second season premiere I was so mad we didn't get proper mourning after Eriks death, that it just disappeared in a love drama topic. But actually it didn't.

It was the Queen who said:

and then:

They moved on. Bc that's what institution does. We had Crown Prince Erik, now we have Crown Prince Wilhelm. We need him to work and he's a trouble for us already.

I mean - we could see it during the funeral, when Kristina pushes Wille to go first after the coffin, when he clearly needed to keep holding her hand! Then she asked him to join the Royal Court meeting to learn - A DAY AFTER! And then he had to make a speech in front of the whole school about his dead brother who died unexpectedly and who was the closest with Wille from all of their family. SERIOUSLY?!

The Royal Court is using Wilhelm's brother death to build shame inside him, to threaten him and manipulate his behaviour. They use his trauma and they feed it to grow. It's fvcking cruel.

And I hate that Wille's mom couldn't even say goodbye to end the call, just ended it without any word, even if he pissed her off. She is a parent. She is an adult one.