Ok so I have to go off. John Shelby caused his own downfall. Don’t get me wrong, he was my fave, that was hus. BUT he was always doing something out of control. Why did Luca Changretta come to Britain in the first place? To avenge Vincente and Angel. Why did Vincente and Angel need avenging? Because they were murdered by the Peaky Blinders. Why were they murdered by the Peaky Blinders? Because Vincente ordered a hit on Tommy and the bullet meant for him hit Grace (I was glad tbh) and killed her instead. Why was there a hit ordered on Tommy? Because JOHN decided to brutalize Angel Changretta for NO REASON. Now, let’s backtrack even further. Lizzie is dating Angel Changretta and the fam doesn’t like it. They don’t live in a time where women can date whoever tf they want. So instead of talking things out like normal people, the PB decide to BLOW UP one of the Changretta’s pubs to make sure Angel doesn’t go to Tommy’s wedding with Lizzie. Wild, right? Vincente Changretta asks for a meeting and he is met by John and Arthur. They blatantly disrespect him and laugh in his face while he tries to reason with them about his son. John takes it a step too far when he threatens shoot Angel in both knees. You can’t just threaten to shoot people’s sons in their kneecaps. Even Arthur realizes John has gone too far. He wants John to apologize while Polly wants him to compromise (Lizzie will apologize FOR John and say it was all her fault even though it wasn’t and they’ll all drop it.) John throws a temper tantrum like a 4yr. old and decides to disregard everything said to him and instead goes to maim Angel Changretta and cut his (I do not support violence against eyeballs.) Tommy has a sit down with the fam and literally cosigns ALL of John’s actions even going as far as telling him that he did the right thing. ??? Tommy, the saint he is, even has the bright idea to blow up even MORE of the Changretta’s pubs. When confronted, he tells Polly that they will because they simply can. After Grace’s accidental murder because of said actions, John and Arthur were instructed to kill Mrs. Changretta and to deliver Vincente to Thomas (Angel had already been murdered) but instead they decide to let Mrs. Changretta go since she was a former teacher of theirs. Giving her her freedom is how she was able to snitch to Luca. By this point, it was too late for kindness and acts of mercy. The Shelbys, namely John, were already fucked. These events inevitably lead to John’s death and he was definitely the catalyst of them all (as well as Thomas.) At the end of the day, John played too much, Thomas is a literal tyrant, and everyone should have listened to Arthur and Polly. I’m sorry but I can’t just sit here and listen to everyone babying John and blaming his death on anyone other than himself. I am the first to admit when my fave is problematic and this one definitely was. Did I want John to die? Of course not. I’m struggling to be excited for season 5 now that he’s gone. In fact, it took me forever to even watch the scene where he died. Like I said, that was hus and no one wants to see their hus die. But just because I loved him does not mean that he was not an actual psych patient. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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