#peter andersson

[h0e-zi3r]

northern attitude by noah kahan and hozier is beartown’s national anthem btw

[clockworkbee]

What is a home? It’s a place that belongs to you. So can it still be your home if you’re no longer welcome there? He doesn’t know.

—Peter Andersson, from Beartown by Fredrik Backman

[genyasafinsmissingeye]

I can’t express to you how grateful I am that Amat and Maya never got together in Beartown. And how Maya didn’t get with anyone in the series.

Amat went through some serious growth, but we can’t forget that he witnessed Maya’s rape and allowed her to get cruicified by the residents of Beartown for it. Despite him knowing the truth- that Maya wasn’t lying- he didn’t say anything in favor of fitting in with the team. He did come out in defence of Maya later on, but the damage was already done. He chose to be silent. 

Maya forgave Amat and they became friends, but after what he did, having a romantic relationship would be off the table. Not only that, but because of Maya’s trauma from the assault, she probably wouldn’t be in the mental head space to date anybody. Even in the last installment of the series, she is getting there, but she isn’t ready to be with anyone romantically.

Not all female characters need romance subplots. Maya was a character that didn’t need a love interest, so she didn’t have one. She existed as her own character, and her plot focused on her, her familial relationships, and her friends. Some authors- mostly male- can’t comprehend that women can exist without a boyfriend, but Maya remained single the whole series. Another reminder that Fredrick Backman is a genius and one of- if not the only- man I trust to write female protagonists with grace and respect.

[gregor-samsung]

Kraftidioten [In Order of Disappearance] (Hans Petter Moland - 2014)

[picturefrommovies]

Män som hatar kvinnor

[thebearsfrombeartown]

Peter Andersson reblog if you agree

[genevieveetguy]

- What has happened to you? How did you turn out this way? You know everything about me. I don't know shit about you. Not a damn thing. - That's the way it is.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor), Niels Arden Oplev (2009)

[artemisofthebow]

Not really Peter

Okay, so I get that no tv-series can be exactly like the book. But with the major change of character they put Peter through during the last episode, they might has well have given him a blond whig and told him to go scream for his dragons. Sorry, know it's a phony image, but I can only compare this to my disappointment about A Song of Ice and Fire. (Especially since I'm still not done being angry about that.) I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt concerning Peter. Actually, book-Peter can be a real tiresome goody-twoshoes sometimes. Even though I do love him for that, I see no problem with them letting him be the coach and not the manager. I even like how it gives the story something more visible by letting Peter and Kevin have a more significant relationship from the start.  Then came the last episode... Peter grew up in a home full of "alcohol and bruises". Sune used to care for him as a child. As a hockey-player he was never violent (He and Kevin have that in common).Neither does he drink. Actually, there are plenty of examples of him asking for something else while people around him are drinking. He's a family-man, even though og maybe because he didn’t have a family himself growing up. He's never loved anyone but Mira, he learnt to play the drums for Maya and he constantly tries to reach out to Leo. He is stickly and uptight and clumsy at best. Especially with espresso-machines.   The Peter Andersson of the last episode of the series wasn't at all recognisable to me, though. Having him drink, go to the pub to start a fight and doubting Maya, just felt wrong. I always loved him for never douting her for a second! For giving me as a reader the feeling that in the moment Kevin was arrested, he put his daughter before his hockey-team. We know he's universally hated for that in Björnstad, but I love him for it. 

So series-Peter was just not mye Peter. I don’t know why they changed everything like that. It was awful.  Hence my last rant about the series before I put it to rest.

That being said, it was a good show. It had plenty of the same heart as the original story, but there were a couple of things missing. I wish they would have made it longer and included all the good stuff they left out. Oh well - guess I'll have to find another story to analyze until the last book comes out.