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alex-thegendertheif · 7 days ago

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The TADC fandom after the Episode 6 trailer

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alex-thegendertheif · 14 days ago

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"It's a dog!"

"Yeah, he's not even a very good one. But he's out there alone, and probably scared."

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alex-thegendertheif · 18 days ago

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I wonder how many secrets Hetty still keeps to herself and which of them will be revealed in the new season. In season 2, we got Thomas murdering Alberta, and in season 3, we got to know about her death. Season 4 was about her Irish ancestry (even if she did not know, it was a Woodstone secret, it seems).

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alex-thegendertheif · 18 days ago

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i think its really sweet that jay named the restaurant after his dad. but its also narratively poetic in a way. because i keep thinking about the giant gate at the front of the property in rusting metal letters that says "WOODSTONE". and then about the bright new sign in the restaurant that says 'MAHESH'. woodstone manor was a site of hundreds of years worth of colonization and abuse and death, but then sam and jay come in with their canary yellow paint and their family recipes and their ideas and they rebuild from the ground up. they acknowledge the bones they walk upon and bury them accordingly. it may be woodstone manor but the property and the ghosts belong to the arondekars now. and the arondekars are here because of mahesh's sacrifices for his family, because in the end isn't it all about family?

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alex-thegendertheif · 18 days ago

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I’ve never seen anyone discuss this but in season 5, Mosley Lane, that episode is devastating for the after effects. (Spoiler below)

Everyone always brings up “he was alive yesterday “ and yeah that’s a gut punch but…can you imagine being Charlie’s father?

Like, your son goes missing and isn’t found in the 24 hour window. They search for his body and it’s never found. You’re devastated, obviously, but you try to move on. Your wife can’t though - and when you finally get her promise to put the horror behind you - she claims she saw your missing son as a 13 year old. That he’s still alive. Finally after 5 years of trying with and for her, it’s the final straw and you divorce her because she’s so stuck on your missing son. You remarry and then obtain full custody of your daughter to get her away from the woman you’ve now deemed as crazy for holding on to the past.

Only for her to be right. Only for her to have actually seen your son, alive and in person. Only for her to get the FBI to believe her when you never did, and her faith gives closure to 8 different families. Including your own - because your son is alive and is coming home - to her.

Imagine the conversation of having to tell your son you divorced his mother because she couldn’t move on from finding him - that he gave up on ever finding him alive. Imagine having to tell Charlie that his own father gave up on him.

I don’t know man, just thinking about the repercussions from that episode and how devastating that is.

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alex-thegendertheif · 18 days ago

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alex-thegendertheif · 24 days ago

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Yall don’t know how badly I want a Jax vs. Ragatha Rap battle

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alex-thegendertheif · 24 days ago

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Friends, I've spent the last few months unable to stop thinking about Trevor and Hetty and how basically everything in this show is connected to the two of them. Because as Asher said last week “everything you think you're seeing, you're seeing” Please join me on this journey as I explain all of this in great detail up until the end of season four.

Trevor hitting on Sam

In 102 Trevor says he didn't expect this either when Sam asks what's going on, then later in the episode when she asks what he wants Trevor asks Sam to dump her husband, kill herself, and be with him, but let's keep it casual. After the melon jokes when Hetty told him to keep hitting on Sam to make everything seem normal. His final comment being during 220 when he and Hetty announced they were dating, making a comment about this beefcake being off the market. But right after that comment he stopped hitting on her completely, whether because he was dating Hetty for a short amount of time, or because he realized it would never happen even after him and Hetty broke up. And then we find out in 404 that he's started calling Sam and Jay, mom and dad. Whatever the reason was, maybe he realized how he was coming off. He's grown, changing the way he talks to Sam, and some of his past behavior.

Their deaths and their ghost powers:

In 116 Trevor says he took off his pants because he had sex with the limo driver before arriving at Woodstone. When the reality of it is that he had given his pants to Pinkus in what he calls a hero move in order to stop him from being hazed by his coworkers. Trevor was willing to let that secret die with him [literally] until Sass said he saw everything that happened. In 308 Hetty says she died of a morphine overdose after celebrating Elias demise, when in actuality she took her own life. Two very different lies, one bigger, and with more depth than the other. But the fact that these two understand the facade, the idea that no one else can know anything about you that makes you look weak, makes you look different than the you that you want people to know. They understand each other. There's also the fact that Hetty's suicide was an attempt to give her son a good life, give him everything he would need. A hero move in itself.

Onto their ghost powers. Trevor being able to touch things in the outside world, and Hetty being seen by people in the outside world on St Patricks Day. Their powers allowing both of them to keep a connection with the living world.

Power Friends

During 412 Trevor refuses to let Hetty sit at the ghost table for the opening of Jays restaurant. Resulting in the two of them arguing, but also admitting that they each missed their friendship. And Hetty admitting she could've handled things better/apologizing for how their relationship ended after she tried to sleep with Thor after finding out his previous girlfriends had all been sucked off. This resulted in Hetty suggesting power friends, a different sort of friendship where they collude against the other ghosts, with the ultimate goal of ruling the house. And considering that in 218 Hetty says she's ashamed to be with Trevor, this is a big thing for her to realize Trevor would be a suitable person to rule the house with. Another big moment of growth is Hetty suggesting power friends not for herself but because she realized she hurt Trevor. Moving on to 418, when Trevor asks her if he's a selfish capitalist pig after Flower tells him he is, and she responds that's one of your only redeeming qualities. She clearly likes the fact that he can be selfish and capitalistic at times, the perfect person for her to rule the house with. In the same episode Hetty comes up with a scheme for Trevor to try and get back at Flower for saying he was a selfish capitalist pig. “A plan in which two rich people show a poor person the error of her ways” In past episodes [206, and 412] Hetty tells Trevor that she's better than him because she's old money and he's new money, in this episode she's seeing them both simply as rich. She also says “We were outsmarted by a half wit, which makes us not even quarter wits” That use of we and us. These two are on the same even level as each other. The final thing here being 422, when the light fixture falls and the two of them instantly grab for each others hands as they're moving back, instead of Hetty grabbing onto her Issac's hands [He's supposed to be her best friend] That desire to protect each other. We've seen them do things like this, whenever anything big happens they rush towards the other, but this is the first time we've seen them do it as power friends. Equals. In 206 Hetty tells Trevor “It's lonely at the top” I think maybe she was wrong about that this time.

Relationship

In 112 Trevor admits he's upset he died before finding love, that he misses having that connection with someone new, that hope she might be the one, and that he's worried he's never going to find that again. This is brought up in 206, and 419 when he talks about how he always wanted a family. In 303 Hetty says she was part of a land deal done by her father, that she never got a chance to experience what Nigel and Isaac had. These two people so clearly want to be loved, and want to have a chance at loving someone. This is proven further in 416 when Hetty goes on a date with Sunil, and after he finds out she's a ghost she tells him he made her feel seen. That this is the first time she's ever felt seen by another person. She knows exactly what kind of relationship she wants after that.

In 217 Hetty is basically forced into forgiving Elias, a recurring theme throughout this show. Everything regarding Hetty's past wasn't her choice. She was forced into this marriage by her father as part of a land deal, forced into seeing suicide as the only way out, forced to see her ex husband whenever he feels like it. With all of this it makes sense that she'd be forced into forgiving him.

However, the opposite of all of this is Trevor. Everything about Hetty and Trevor's relationship has been on her terms, she's been running their whole relationship this whole time. It's always been with her choices, starting in 210 when Trevor asked her if he went too far, and Hetty being the one who pulls him into her for their first kiss. It was Hetty's choice to give Nigel what he wanted because Trevor asked her what their plan was, and he just went with whatever she said. Even giving up his room because Nigel was going to tell everyone and that made Hetty uncomfortable. It was Hetty's choice to announce her and Trevor were a couple, and alls Trevor said was “are you sure?” You could also say the breakup was Hetty's choice to given it was based on her poor decision to try and sleep with Thor. And Trevor even said if you walk out that door it's over. And even Hetty admitting she could've handled things better and apologizing wasn't because Trevor forced her into it. Even after they became power friends, she was the one who suggested that. This man has always given her a choice with any moments in their relationship. Her whole relationship with Trevor is basically the antithesis to her relationship with Elias. Even being forced to talk about her suicide, and having to admit that her son killed Alberta. Everything from her past has been forced. But everything from her afterlife has been her own decision.

When she does choose Trevor, choosing someone who most people wouldn't approve of. His social class, his [lack thereof] pants, his whole entire persona. For all intents and purposes he isn't right for her, they don't make a lot of sense at first sight. But it works, they're very much the same people. Their lines are insanely parallel just at different times in their lives. So her making that choice to love him. To spend the rest of her eternity with this man. To share every part of her afterlife with him, even the parts she hasn't told anyone about, or the most uncomfortable parts. It's going to be huge. Trevor's going to be the first man she's ever chosen to love. And the first person who sees her as his equal, and not just some trophy wife. The first person who loves her unconditionally, and with his whole heart.

In 303 Hetty says she once picked money over love and in many ways she was poorer for it. With her and Trevor there wouldn't really be a choice between love and money, he's the only ghost in the house with any money, and she picked money years ago and while yes it was a horrible decision it did get her the title of lady of the house. That money, and the status, and the ruling of the house is already there. Yes she's going to choose to love Trevor, but whenever that happens it's not going to cost her anything, it's just going to be the final thing for Hetty to get everything she's wanted. To quote Asher again “He represents a kind of freedom that she never got to have”

To paraphrase Asher, Trevor and Hetty are studying and trying to copy Sam and Jay, because they seem them as a couple to emulate. Essentially, these two are the ghost version of Sam and Jay. I don't know what's next for these two, but whatever the writers have planned for them I'm going to enjoy immensely.

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alex-thegendertheif · 24 days ago

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