Girl, please don’t take that old typewriter, he is using as a sign for anything!! Stop fooling yourself!!! You were standing right there in flesh & blood and he couldn’t bring himself to comfort you in your mutual grief!! Using that typewriter - same or not- holds no emotional significance!!!
Last two episodes have been quite dark and although i hoped for Lizzie to leave, never thought it would look like this!!
She is out there hugging horses for comfort and best he can do is send Charlie for her to hold on to!!
Even refusing to get close since “he is busy changing the world”… it sounded so similar to s4, when he didnt visit her during her pregnancy because “he was busy with Italian business” but later we find out he didn’t want to see her even when on vacation!!!
Its time to see the truth!! It was never about them.. just the children!! He seems to have stronger personal bond with his loyal help Frances!!Not sure what else SK has in store for her in the name of “strong character arc”
PS: that is definitely not Grace’s Secret, its grey with spots..this ones white!!
let me be clear that i think linda is a grown woman who can make her own decisions, so i’m not siding here with the people who put the blame of everything on tommy, especially because this is very much about arthur’s mistakes. but it is horrible the way tommy is willing to write to linda to see if she has any interest in coming back, knowing the harm arthur dwells out, because tommy himself is not in a position to play wife right now, and ada is unwilling. someone needs to manage arthur, and linda can be the (consenting) sacrificial lamb. and it’s horrifying not only that he’s willing to do this for arthur, but the way linda has become enmeshed in this family... where’s lisa’s post with the shot where it looks like they’re going to eat her
once again, spoilers are under the cut. dont read if you haven't watched.
fuck me with a knife, what a bloody episode. so much to talk about and so much to cry about at the same time ughhhh. this one will hopefully be in order of the episode so lets start at the beginning i guess
tommy running into the hospital with ruby in his arms was absolutely heartbreaking. the pure panic on both his and lizzie's faces as they hand their little girl over to the doctors - you can almost feel the helplessness through the screen. Tommy screaming "I need to be with her! I need to be with my daughter!" Had me crying within the first minute of the episode.
I think the scene where Tommy is getting his x-ray also made me cry harder than it should've.
Also could it have been a potentially a call back to the scene in S5 EP1 where Tommy says "I'm not god. Not yet." the subtle pause in his speech while he was getting the x-ray between him saying "To see what's inside. wait until you see. God." and "God knows what's inside." almost seemed like it was referencing that??? idk maybe im over thinking.
Lizzie and Tommy on the stairs outside the hospital was just so raw and bittersweet. like the last time they were in that same spot Ruby was running around with Charlie inside, now she's bedridden and they're discussing treatment plans.
Lizzie getting Ruby medical treatment while Tommy tries to find the curse, i don't know why this struck me as so heartbreaking because it just shows how different they are from one another.
And then we had tommy sending Ada on his business errands in the meantime
the scene where ada is just conversing with diana had me going from sad to annoyed in an instant. like yes ada baby put her in her place. like no joke they somehow made diana and gina the most annoying characters in the damn show. "when the time comes for the great cleansing, i, myself, will personally argue the case that the jews must be dealt with but the gypsy's must be spared." DIANA BITCH IF YOU DONT SHUT UP I WILL BE THE ONE TO WALK IN WITH A REVOLVER AND MOLOTOV COCKTAIL AND BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF.
tommy going to the lee's to find esme OH MY GOSHHHH
i wasn't ready for all the mentions of john (them calling him a dirty didicoy made me sad) but then in comes my queen esme
"i dont have a man" she hasn't moved on from john im so :")
tommy thought the lee's put the curse on ruby, this episode is really pulling at my heartstrings. plus him telling esme that polly spoke to him in his dreams, telling him to find her. i bloody miss polly.
enter mosely, diana, jack nelson, gina and ada in the same room, and i dont know how ada didn't lose her cool. like theyre all so fucking annoying oh my god.
why tf is gina walking like she's walking on stilts? like ma'am why we swaying as if we have no control over our legs? plus the way she sat on the couch lmaoooo
the way they all keep referring to ada as "the sister" making her so annoyed HAHA i love her
mosely acting like a petulant child because tommy wasnt there made me laugh harder than it should've. someone punch him in the face for me.
"and please remember in this moment, in this room, it is the shelby family that holds the power" please she sounds just like polly im so proud of my baby ada this was HER episode. (bonus: "so when i speak, please keep your fucking mouths closed")
the looks jack kept giving ada grossed me out. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY WIFE, THANK YOU
ada held all the power in that scene and i love her for it.
cut back to tommy and esme
esme just getting in the car with the spark plug from tommy's car telling him "you used to have eyes in the back of your head" really just highlighted how stressed tommy really was, but then esme hits him with information about the curse i-
actually was lost for words, all of the esme and tommy scenes were beautiful
and then we were back to ada!!
THAT FUCKING GREY SUIT OH MY GOSHHHHHH
nah nah the way i almost lost my shit just at the sight of her, and effortless beauty i swear
the way she just owns the whole place and nobody even questions her - i love that for her
i love that they all still refer to her as "mrs thorne" i'm still not over her and freddie, they were perfect for each other my babies
ada in tommy's chair and asking for whisky, why do i feel like that's some sort of symbolism? like perhaps a power shift??
SO MUCH ISAIAH SCREENTIME
like i love isaiah with my whole heart, but why does he feel a little sus in this season?
plus where the fuck is finn?? i feel like that would've been such a good scene for finn to have been in to show who he's become, idk i get the feeling the scene was meant for finn
but arthur :"(((
arthur's storyline is the one i need to be resolved. like please steven help him!!
and then the scene between lizzie and ada :"( i just wanted to hug lizzie so badly
isaiah convincing arthur to let him bring his cousins because "ada approved it" just didn't sit right with me. plus i thought i heard him say "mikey" on the phone, which is what he called michael so i swear if isaiah teams up with michael im going to be mad
esme taking tommy to the graveyard (making him ride a horse again) had me in a trance. the scenes with tommy and esme just had this cold vibe about them, almost as if we were in the fields with them. it's hard for me to describe, but every other scene felt almost warm, whereas those felt cold
"if i find out you've been wasting my time, ill use that rope to fucking hang you." tommy, john would kill you for talking to his girl like that. probably say something aggressively with his toothpick between his teeth :")
the scene with arthur and hayden stagg had me hooked. i feel like this was the first time arthur felt truly understood by someone, everyone else seems to just brush off arthur's addiction and make him the problem, whereas hayden made him know it wasn't his fault and that recovery is possible.
hayden stagg is a potential new favourite?? stephen graham is amazing so i can't wait to see more of him
isaiah wanting to beat the shit out of hayden just gave me big michael vibes and i didnt like it
tommy truly thinks that he's the reason that ruby is sick and that hurts me emotionally :"(
the mentions of the sapphire that cursed grace and then cursed the barwell daughter, you could see how panicked that made tommy, he 100% knew that they had cursed his little girl
why do i feel like tommy ripping out the barwell girl's cross was pretty much the nail in the coffin for what was about to happen next?? like he pretty much sealed ruby's fate by doing that and esme definitely knew it as well, she just didn't say anything.
Okay now lets talk about the ending of the episode, the part i think everybody hates.
firstly, the start of the scene where tommy's car lights lit up lizzie's face and we can just see how empty her eyes are. you just get that gut wrenching feeling.
and then seeing her go from angry at tommy ("where the fuck were you?!") to that helplessness she wore the whole episode, only this time it was somehow worse because she was telling him that their little girl was gone
steven that truly wasn't okay
like i know we all kind of knew that ruby would die this season, but that still doesn't make it better
tommy just standing there in the rain, barely blinking as he watches his wife crumble in front of him - i dont think he really believed her until she said that ruby waited for him and "i gave her your kiss goodbye"
like i think that will truly be the thing that ruins tommy shelby the most. he will never forgive himself for not being there for his little girl when she wanted and needed him there
i truly get the feeling that lizzie will end up hating tommy by the end of the season. almost like ruby was the only thing keeping them together
i dont know, i dont think i'll ever forgive steven knight for this episode. truly this one hurt.
like who would've thought i'd be sitting here missing billy kimber, sabini and fucking luca changretta, eh?
What is wrong with everything? I am almost willing to re-write every episode to make better fanfiction than whatever this is. I don't normally complain on here. But wow. This. I can't even. Everything is so wrong. I was holding out hope for the series but I really don't think that there is any way back to the show I love. They keep picking up random themes and lines then casting them aside? Nothing feels continuous. Everytime they give us something slightly familiar they ruin it.
Trying to keep this spoiler free just in case - but like that part in this episode. That part. With all the purple. I'm SO FUCKING MAD. SO SO SO VERY MAD AND UPSET.
Just pretending it isn't happening. But at the same time it hurts.
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If anyone wants to be upset together feel free to add on.
