Ils vont me manquer !
Dec. 8th, 2016 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieComfortably seated in my Reading armchair, plaid firmly in place, looking at my Christmas tree all lit up and oh so beautiful (as well as the other ornaments in the living room)... I'm chilling and totally ready to stay here for as long as I can ;)
Listening to my Class soundtrack (which is actually just a couple of songs from the show) I realised I hadn't even mentioned the season finale!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_profiterole, spikedluv (Anyone who watched, really), what did you think of it? Did your feelings had feelings had feelings had feelings like mine did?
First, I want to say that, from the beginning I had faith in Patrick Ness and even when the trailer for the last episodes aired, I couldn't believe that he would kill Matteusz (or Charlie). Let me rephrase that, I was still worried for them but, idk, deep down I couldn't really see Patrick Ness doing thisto us. Not when he's usually so vocal about representation on tv (or in books), always so eager to play around stereotypes, to bend the rules. If we'd lost either of them, I would have been really surprised (and disappointed, I'll admit).
I suppose I should have been ready to lose Ram's father and Tanya's mother but it still hurt. Especially Varun, I really, really liked him. To imagine Tanya now being an orphan and Ram without his father is so painful! (Although now we might finally get to meet his mom?).
Speaking of death, April's really did something to me. Characters sacrificing themselves for their friends/for the greater good never fails to be so powerful and moving. And the whole "Let me know that I was brave" broke my heart. Oh, April! She was ready to sacrifice herself from the start, though, wasn't she? Brave April, who was not made of glass, who was always at war ♥ And then that last shot of "her"? After that ending, they cannot not give us a second series, right? Patrick Ness tweeted that he would give us news whenever he was being allowed to and, come on, he can'ttease us make us wait in such a fashion only to bring us bad news, can he?
Miss Quill being badass, as per usual. And her helping out Tanya. They made such an awesome team! Great royal guard for Charlie if you ask me. I mean, obviously, Tanya would need to take more than one little lesson but imagine what she could accomplish if Miss Quill kept on mentoring her in the art of warfare? With her intelligence, resourcefulness and her fighting skills?
Charlie, now. Where do I begin? Omg. He broke my heart so many times throughout the show but it was nothing compared to what he made me feel during "The Lost", especially during the fight.
First, at having to kill April. His look. Then when he opened the Cabinet to finally use it. When he didn't stop and led all the souls to the Shadow Kin world... did he even know that he didn't have to let them all go, btw? That he could just sacrifice a limited number of them? We never see Dorothea tell him, do we? We actually see her start to but Miss Quill interrupts her right away so she never finishes her sentence. Although, as soon as Charlie made the decision to stop them all, once and for all, it wouldn't have mattered much...
How do you recover from something like that? How do you cope? I actually have some difficulties wrapping my mind around the concept. Charlie committed genocide. And, yes, he did it to save Earth (plus how many other planets?) but he'd been so adamant the whole time about not going to that length, about there being another way. To see him cave in and accept that this was what he was supposed to do... it was heartbreaking. And he was so ready to die, too. Well, it was even worse, wasn't it? I thought his "I already died, just a moment ago" was chilling. And again with the heartbreaking. Oh, Charlie!
And his reaction when he realised (or accepted) that his people were now gone... damn, the acting was so good! Charlie just made me ache.
The whole episode was so sad. And it was quite daring, when you think of it. To have our characters take that road. The Shadow Kin has been depicted as this evil alien race from the start so to see them all die wasn't difficult but to have our beloved characters go against all their principles, to have them lose all hope, lose themselves like that... it was just heartbreaking. You're so used to characters being saved at the last minute, even from themselves, know what I mean? To have them being prevented from committing the worst. I wasn't expecting the Doctor to show up but he sure could have come in handy. I wouldn't have been against a little miracle...
What's going to happen next? How are they all going to deal with what happened? Is Ram going to hate Charlie for what he did? Will he ever understand? Will he be able to forgive? Tanya was so ready to kill every single Shadow Kin, no matter the cost, how is she going to deal with the aftermath and with the fact that Charlie did grant her her wish, in the end. What about Miss Quill? Her baby? Omg, what about Matteusz and Charlie? Will Matteusz be able to make his promise again tomorrow? What about April? Is there a way to put her back in her body? Don't even get me started on the Weeping Angels! I hadn't seen that one coming at all!
So many questions! We need answers! We need a second series. Dear PTB, don't be ridiculous, give it to us, ok?
Ah la la. I'm going to miss the show and the characters so much! I'm on vacation in a week (it's past midnight so it's officially one week to the day \o/) and I'm so going to binge the whole series and proceed to fall in love with all of them all over again ♥
Listening to my Class soundtrack (which is actually just a couple of songs from the show) I realised I hadn't even mentioned the season finale!
_profiterole, spikedluv (Anyone who watched, really), what did you think of it? Did your feelings had feelings had feelings had feelings like mine did? First, I want to say that, from the beginning I had faith in Patrick Ness and even when the trailer for the last episodes aired, I couldn't believe that he would kill Matteusz (or Charlie). Let me rephrase that, I was still worried for them but, idk, deep down I couldn't really see Patrick Ness doing this
I suppose I should have been ready to lose Ram's father and Tanya's mother but it still hurt. Especially Varun, I really, really liked him. To imagine Tanya now being an orphan and Ram without his father is so painful! (Although now we might finally get to meet his mom?).
Speaking of death, April's really did something to me. Characters sacrificing themselves for their friends/for the greater good never fails to be so powerful and moving. And the whole "Let me know that I was brave" broke my heart. Oh, April! She was ready to sacrifice herself from the start, though, wasn't she? Brave April, who was not made of glass, who was always at war ♥ And then that last shot of "her"? After that ending, they cannot not give us a second series, right? Patrick Ness tweeted that he would give us news whenever he was being allowed to and, come on, he can't
Miss Quill being badass, as per usual. And her helping out Tanya. They made such an awesome team! Great royal guard for Charlie if you ask me. I mean, obviously, Tanya would need to take more than one little lesson but imagine what she could accomplish if Miss Quill kept on mentoring her in the art of warfare? With her intelligence, resourcefulness and her fighting skills?
Charlie, now. Where do I begin? Omg. He broke my heart so many times throughout the show but it was nothing compared to what he made me feel during "The Lost", especially during the fight.
First, at having to kill April. His look. Then when he opened the Cabinet to finally use it. When he didn't stop and led all the souls to the Shadow Kin world... did he even know that he didn't have to let them all go, btw? That he could just sacrifice a limited number of them? We never see Dorothea tell him, do we? We actually see her start to but Miss Quill interrupts her right away so she never finishes her sentence. Although, as soon as Charlie made the decision to stop them all, once and for all, it wouldn't have mattered much...
How do you recover from something like that? How do you cope? I actually have some difficulties wrapping my mind around the concept. Charlie committed genocide. And, yes, he did it to save Earth (plus how many other planets?) but he'd been so adamant the whole time about not going to that length, about there being another way. To see him cave in and accept that this was what he was supposed to do... it was heartbreaking. And he was so ready to die, too. Well, it was even worse, wasn't it? I thought his "I already died, just a moment ago" was chilling. And again with the heartbreaking. Oh, Charlie!
And his reaction when he realised (or accepted) that his people were now gone... damn, the acting was so good! Charlie just made me ache.
The whole episode was so sad. And it was quite daring, when you think of it. To have our characters take that road. The Shadow Kin has been depicted as this evil alien race from the start so to see them all die wasn't difficult but to have our beloved characters go against all their principles, to have them lose all hope, lose themselves like that... it was just heartbreaking. You're so used to characters being saved at the last minute, even from themselves, know what I mean? To have them being prevented from committing the worst. I wasn't expecting the Doctor to show up but he sure could have come in handy. I wouldn't have been against a little miracle...
What's going to happen next? How are they all going to deal with what happened? Is Ram going to hate Charlie for what he did? Will he ever understand? Will he be able to forgive? Tanya was so ready to kill every single Shadow Kin, no matter the cost, how is she going to deal with the aftermath and with the fact that Charlie did grant her her wish, in the end. What about Miss Quill? Her baby? Omg, what about Matteusz and Charlie? Will Matteusz be able to make his promise again tomorrow? What about April? Is there a way to put her back in her body? Don't even get me started on the Weeping Angels! I hadn't seen that one coming at all!
So many questions! We need answers! We need a second series. Dear PTB, don't be ridiculous, give it to us, ok?
Ah la la. I'm going to miss the show and the characters so much! I'm on vacation in a week (it's past midnight so it's officially one week to the day \o/) and I'm so going to binge the whole series and proceed to fall in love with all of them all over again ♥
