#If Only wags had died via heart attack offscreen. we should be so lucky

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anyway i was thinking of how when, you know, billions has winston's sendoff be an expo for how it thinks some people, thanks to their being epic, deserve to Use others, & how some people, thanks to their being autistic, deserve to be used for power trips which according to their own logic will only become increasingly harmful to people b/c that is increasingly "proof" of their power to do so, like, we get wags' fun home intrusion + assault + home intrusion 2? yes we should get winston just like okay oops ""reflexively"" kneed you in the groin while you were assaulting me & all, oh no. billions can deign to have lower tier epic man dollar bill be kind of disillusioned in his "i want to be the boss" power trip (while like. omg dollar bill please come back & do whatever you want, Anyone would feel this way for any reason much less taylor & philip) like wags can get his humbling like you're not in the office even, as you assault someone where the live as they're trying to get away telling you to Stop like get a nice close up & personal Hit & get hospitalized again

but obviously wags has billions' patented Epic Armor for all your abusive needs & that was really cool & fun & with no consequences except for everything you ever wanted, that was just what Badasses do

but like trying this Again like you know, again not in anyone's actual office, closing yourself off but in a nice roomy space with the person you're back to attack in ways to coerce that person but also, again, hurt them as much as you want b/c that proves your power to yourself which is what this episode & all of existence rotates around? like this is, in fact, embarrassing for wags but it Isn't b/c the show billions doesn't think that it is. winston is the one person here who doesn't have to care about image b/c people aren't here for that in his case whereas everyone at mpc, Image Inc., are so tied up in that that it's like oh uh yeah we have to do this episode for the Image of it all. it's absurd this ep wasn't followed up with winston just uno reverse ruining that image very easily, while nobody on earth is going to give a shit about this rando who once looked up puns, or that there weren't even the negative consequences of later needing to ask winston to help some of them out personally to make use of his algorithm & At Least needing to guaranteed get him in on the fringe bennies monetary reward of that too, rather than plausibly being left out b/c "nobody cares [to] people care to expressly single him out for shittier treatment, including over spyros sometimes despite spyros truly getting in there first to be that supposed Inferior Of All Inferiors, which is mostly about being cringefail weirdos. wtf, he's not a girlboss, or doesn't look like damian lewis. if he ever actually does something, it's stuff higher ups would Never, or else would just do more epicly & so it's totally not even the same thing, funny how power makes it Different & Good, kind of like some sort of standard, maybe a doubled one"

anyway it'd be easy to just deal wags some Humbling "you don't even have to kick his ass that bad for this to be painful & just something he's not prepared for" hits to the face, below the belt, suckerpunch this mf, use that tablet they passed you. billions is sort of sparing about physical violence but it's totally fine for winners to use, especially Against losers, see: winston being physically assaulted multiple times with no consequence except Everything You Want & More. plus like who gives a shit, oh good wags brought some people who are willing to passively spectate, yet this is where i also go "how about taylor. this is their ex employee & even now billions defaults to Petty Ex Dynamics without having to Understand this, and it sure doesn't have to understand anything engaging about Dynamics period, what with its worst stale empty ones being like 'wow this is what it's all about / Obviously appealing' while the supposed worse, unimportant, weirder ones might get actually good" like have taylor be like hmm i guess i could intervene. & we can get to have another aspect of Physicality like just going to kind of pull you back, obviously up close & personal ft. touch in that alone but we can have a Moment, not even of "i'm so ready to go sicko mode on Anyone that at first i reflexively turn on you (almost)" necessarily but perhaps more so like "yeah i'm still in that Mode, not enough to take a swing at you automatically as another person in the fray, but actually like there is a distinct moment like yes i Recognize you specifically but am kinda still considering hitting you" lol but then also "moment of recognition & being close & in contact in this distinctly Physical Interaction. are my glasses off, am i noticeably disheveled & exerted" Unknowing (to the show) Tayston Sexual Tension / undercurrents of potential eroticism / sensuality lol like they really do get to have that. how about some more, amazing how much billions sidestepped that for "here's taylor in winston's apartment while he's physically in Sleepytime Mode, uncombed hair, pantsless" just b/c it finds his sexuality abject, no queer affinity / parallels there, any more than billions does treat taylor as disabled (and winston of course, too)

and then i mean what, wags sues like he kicked my ass :( like not great for your pride then, just that yknow supposedly winston will always be humiliated and never cause more trouble than billions wants to let him, because that's how the series works in wow gee carefully never allowing the idea of some people as Truly Superior & needing the Power accordingly to be disrupted

however like actually also it was the last season, breaking out special occasions, forget like "whoa XD lol" Zany winners against losers physical violence with whatever music under it to back it up, a Surprising burst into even something like wags just gets hit right in the fucking face would be a fun shakeup even without doing the other thing of overemphasizing the Gravitas of that like whoa oh my god nooo wags nooo violence never the answer, none of this was unfettered, rewarded violence before....have wags deal with that, like yeah now i have to go to miami b/c my reputation here is Bruised as well, no matter what consequences for winston like i'm supposed to be Untouchable to some loser i target. and like that would be fun, also i don't give a fuck if winston had hands to throw with rian too or killed wags or anything like is that what you thought, ha, i bet not, remember go too far there's no turning back....but mostly it'd be fun if [tayston] so