the daisy jones and the six series changing the interviews to be 20 years later instead of closer to 40 years feels like such a weird, superficially aesthetic choice, where they get to keep the young, attractive actors (how did none of them age a day except graham??) instead of committing to the fact that these people are only able to reflect on these events because there's so much distance from them and they have perspective now (though it also means that memories are contradictory, contributing to the lack of reliability). it also does a massive disservice to camila, who instead of getting to live a long, happy life with her husband who stated that he always loved her and would always choose her, is basically turned into the second coming of the mother from how i met your mother – a pit stop to give the main, important man some kids to tell a story to before dying so he can be with his real soulmate before they're too old for it to be sexy
i feel like too many people (mainly daisybilly shippers) are conflating the "unreliable narrator" aspect of the book with "oh, no one told the truth about anything so we can make up our own completely different story and have it be canon!" instead of understanding that while there were probably times that the interviewees lied, a lot of what jumbles up their memories is the time that has passed, the weed that was smoked, and their personal feelings toward certain events (why you get daisy and billy gushing over the aurora cover that highlights only them while everyone else talks about how much the shoot sucked) (oh and the fact that reviews are mentioning that the rest of the band rarely appears in scenes w/o daisy or billy?? meaning that the series did what the characters in the book were constantly complaining about and relegated them to backup?? i must laugh to keep from crying) (also if they weren't even going to focus on everyone, why the fuck didn't they keep pete?)
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i can’t stop thinking about karen sirko loving graham as hard as it was so clear she did and having to say she didn’t, to break his heart and her own heart because she knew he wanted a family she couldn’t give to him. and he never found out what she gave up in order to make sure he’d be happy someday, with someone else.
she was young and talented and in love and she took on the role of the ‘bad guy’ because she knew it would break him so much worse to give up the future he wanted as clearly as she wanted to be a rock star. and she did so with his voice in her head on loop telling her she’d be alone forever. she did so with the temptation of the boy she loved looking into her eyes and promising that love would be enough.
but she knew he’d always been the idealist between them. she knew he’d been the dreamer, the romantic. she knew he’d never walk away (she knew he’d never be happy with just her, not like she was with just him). so she walked away for him, and she never spoke of it again for twenty years. i am unwell
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at this point when everyone's busy taking daisy's or camila's side, just want to say that i don't care about anyone other than karen and graham. i don't care if they are endgame or not in the series, but when they are in the shot together, im happy.
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