#mara summers

[tenebrius-excellium]

Neil being made to believe he can't change his ways by some stupid psychiatrist in 5x04 hurts so much T_T

Fascinatingly, we meet an ex-criminal who DID change his life for the better in the same episode. And on the other hand there's Dr. Mara Summers who sows this terrible doubt in Neals mind about who he is and who he can be. That he can never be anything else but a thief.

It's very untypical for Neal to listen to random strangers, and so that had me startled. However, there's a distinct difference between the woman's and the other ex-criminal's voice of influence on him...: He is just a family man, she is cunning and on his level intellectually.

When Neal meets Dr. Summers, they immediately spar a mindgame.

And I'm not sure what about that made Neal change his mind about getting clean of his criminal history, because he clearly despises himself for being a con man afterwards. He's learned to hate the manipulation which he is able to intuitively force on the people he interacts with. It becomes wildly apparent who Neal is and who he is not in Season 6 with Keller and Amy (no more spoilers but those who have already watched know what I'm talking about).

So what did Dr. Summers trigger in Neal that made him lose faith in Peter and in himself? Why does he give up on the legal life again when he - once free - could have easily found work that feeds his desire for the thrill within the FBI, within security firms or insurance companies (like Sara)? Of course the conversation with Dr. Summers may have reminded Neal of how much he missed the high life. But it shouldn't have tampered with his identity. Neal claims to not know who he is, I say he has a fairly good idea. He knows what he's good at, he knows he doesn't do violence, he knows he wants an extravagant lifestyle and he knows who his friends are. That's a lot more than can be said about just any person.

So in a way, Neal went back to old habits, but they became very purposeful. It stopped being a game to him and it became about getting out for good. He somehow went back to shady behavior yet grew as a person and lost all joy in it.

I feel that part of his arc remained unfinished at the end of Season 6. Neal was on his way to learn that he doesn't need to steal to be able to live out who he is. And it kinda stopped there halfway.

I feel like Neal was about to become a Robin Hood type of guy. In saying that he could never change, Dr. Summers solidified the fact for him that he had definitely changed, but since everything was going too slow for him, he used the old methods to speed up the terms of his release. One last con.

The con to get out. For good.

I just wish I didn't have to analyze that in a wholeass essay. I wish it had been spelled out for us in the ending of the show. I wish I didn't merely have to hope that Neal found his peace after Dr. Summers got into his mind, while deep down knowing he is haunted. I wish someone had told him that he didn't have to listen to her.

I wish him peace.

@e7y1 @kimkhimhant

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

okay fine she's a good evil therapist

[stealingpotatoes]

Imagine Luke Skywalker introducing his girlfriend Mara Jade to Ahsoka, Ezra and Cal?

i havent actually finished heir to the empire so im not very knowledgeable on mara jade!!! HOWEVER can I offer you this doodle i did Ages ago when i started reading it instead

[dinoboner]

[knightinsmilingarmor]

(aka father matthew mara, street rat, little matty mara, cricks, cricket, etc) 🦗🦗🦗

[ogenoger]

touch grass

[kit-all]

[ninyard]

i need you to know that you’re responsible for the fact that i want to create more tweets and texts but specifically for my aftg ocs and that is a terrible thing but your aftg twitter posts are hilarious and lowkey addicting

meg I have no idea what compelled me to make this so I’m sorry if it’s weird BUT i hope it inspires you to spend way too long making memes for your ocs because you should absolutely do that thank you

[invisible-pink-toast]

andrei tarkovsky

[toyastales]

Max Mara

[stargalaxy20]

I have this insatiable thirst for more farming sim games even though I own a gazillion of them someone pls send halp

[kommandokawaii]

Summer is coming! Where would you like to go on vacation?

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

mediocre evil therapist tbh. do better

[hersterical]

I wish the slayer before Buffy haunted the narrative the same way that Shannon from Warrior Nun and Mara from She-Ra haunt theirs. (Similar to how the previous avatars haunt the narrative in every atla universe story but I feel like it’s not quite the same and I can’t put into words why)

Then again though, that would mean that the previous slayer would’ve had to have a larger impact on the world which would get in the way of the show depicting how futile and thankless the job of a slayer is and how the Watchers specifically view them as disposable and interchangeable.

But we also get those same messages in the other shows as well, especially Warrior Nun, and I feel like Ava’s connection to Shannon served to make those themes have an even bigger impact

[sonicspeeddemon]

Same voice actor

[dreamyboogrem]

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