#Linnéa Roxeheim

[thatsmybook]

At the lake scene for closure, Wille asks Simon what happened to make him want to break up because he doesn't fully understand, but Simon doesn't want to talk about it. One, I think it hurts Simon to think about what led up to his decision, but two: talking about it explicitly might mean having to talk about the toxic pressure being Crown Prince has on Wille.

I theorise that Simon didn't want to further influence Wille's ideas about the role and duty to the monarchy. It's why he specifically asks Wille in the road scene, "Did you do it for my sake?" He does not want Wille to change his life for him. He is all about self-actualization and free choice.

I am very sure that their break-up will come up in further conversations or arguments they have down the road.

[purplehoodiesandclementines]

No words can do justice to how EXCITED I am about this. 💜

Lisa! The Permanent Rain Press!! TWO parts!!! This is what I silently, secretly wished for after Lisa's Instagram post, but I didn't believe we would really get it. THANK YOU, Lisa. 😭💜

And only one day after the interview with Linnéa Roxeheim will come out, whaaaat?! What a weekend.

Will definitely devour both of these and cherish them for a long time to come, as I have done with all the other fantastic interviews with the YR cast and crew that The PR Press has gifted us over the past 3 years.

@thepermanentrainpress THANK YOU for continually feeding the fandom with all this wonderful material, you really are the best!!! 💜

[thepermanentrainpress]

The Permanent Rain Press Interview with Linnéa Roxeheim. (Watch in HD)

Linnéa Roxeheim discusses her work directing episodes 5 and 6 of Young Royals Season 3, including her approach to specific scenes, character motivations, and collaboration with actors and the creative team, capturing behind the scenes content, film studies, and past projects as a writer and director on Portkod and Sanningen.

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Young Royals (Final season)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Young Royals (Final season, 2024, Sweden)

Creators: Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung & Camilla Holter

Directors: Julia Lindström, Jerry Carlsson & Linnéa Roxeheim

Mini-review:

We've finally reached the end of Young Royals, which has remained as enjoyable as always until its very last second. I must admit I felt like the show kept going in circles during these final episodes, and like maybe they took the angst a bit too far this time round. On top of that, sometimes subtlety went out the window when it came to handling certain social issues. But still, the finale itself was so f**king perfect and cathartic that it more than made up for any problems. I will definitely miss this show, cause these characters are so well-written and brilliantly-acted that you can't help but immerse yourself in their world.

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YOUNG ROYALS (2024) Season Three dir. Julia Lindström, Jerry Carlson and Linnéa Roxeheim.

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I heard people are mad because they feel like August should be apologizing to Simon also, and I think that’s like, a no-brainer because of course he will – – he’s changed now. He’s not the same person who did that thing so – – we saw him suffer and now he apologized to Wille whom he knows and then – – I’m sure when [August and Simon] meet, he’s going to talk to [Simon] about it too. Linnéa Roxeheim, director of S3 eps 5& 6, PRP interview 59:00-59:22 (– – used for legibility, the redacted phrase is 'you know')

So...this kind of seems to confirm something I've been thinking since I watched the season: the lack of apology from August to Simon feels less like an intentional, character-defining writing choice and more like a mishap overlooking or even retconning the August-Simon conflict.

Some thoughts under the cut.

That conflict was one of the central building blocks and driving forces back in S1. Simon wouldn't have ended up selling drugs if it wasn't for August looking to buy, Wille wouldn't have found out about August's finances and been able to use them against him, and Alexander would not have been framed to save Simon. And for that matter, August's eagerness to pin the blame on Simon was likely fuelled by the fact that he wasn't just a sosse sleeping with Wille, but also a constant thorn in August's side. Someone who had even physically roughed August up at one point.

Still, I do believe August's decision to post the video mainly concerned Wille. I've written about that too many times to rehash it again; let's just take his dismissive reaction when Sara says Simon is distraught in S1E6 at face value. And that made perfect sense for his character, considering his only moral code at the time was (elite) loyalty.

However. From S2 on, the history between August and Simon has been sidelined, and the focus has been on the conflict between August and Wille.

We didn't see Simon suffer any more daily consequences from the video in S2. He could already sing karaoke in Bjärstad without people giving him dirty looks, and both the rumour mill at Hillerska and the hate comments online had stopped. Not being allowed to sing his song at the Jubilee was a concrete consequence, but even that felt more like an obstacle for Wilmon and an opportunity for Wille to stand up for them. Simon and August barely even interacted over the season - but at least Simon did refer to Sara knowing everything August had done to him in the gun range scene, so that was something.

I had hoped for the August-Simon conflict to be picked up again in S3. Even if the writers wanted to focus on other relationships and tensions, to me, it felt too essential to pass up. It would have been a clear sign of August learning the accountability and empathy that he needed to grow, and it would have also provided some much-needed closure for Simon (and tied the series together as a whole). I guess the writers felt differently.

Even though the focus on Simon getting hate on social media again could have provided an easy tie-in, the vile hate messages focused on his and Wille's relationship, as well as him being a POC. Apart from Linda's comment in the settlement negotiation, I don't think the video was even mentioned once in all the hate comments we saw. There was no indication of the media or the public having dragged it back up either (or asked who filmed and leaked it, but that's another matter entirely). Nor were there any references to Simon having already received some hate after the leak - on the contrary, it seemed like he was completely blindsided by all the vitriol. I do realise that the scale was much bigger this time around, but still.

Circling back to the August-Simon conflict, there's also another aspect that is easily overlooked. Namely, that Simon himself actually seemed pretty content to just put all his dealings with August to rest after the settlement was finalised. The only time the two of them even interacted after that was all about Sara. It could have also been an opportunity to show Simon's own feelings, but that didn't materialise.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Simon could still use that apology, but I never got the impression that he needed it the way we fans needed to see it. Based on S3, you might even think their only source of conflict was Simon coincidentally being on the video, and when that was settled, Simon was okay just moving on with his life.

Which brings me back to the ending.

I always figured that August was portrayed as genuinely remorseful towards the end. Yes, I would have liked to see more of his growth and development (even just showing his reaction to the sale of Årnäs instead of having Simon say that Wille said it was a fitting punishment would've worked wonders)... But the authorial intent seemed to be that he had already taken enough steps. His and Wille's reconciliation was as sincere as anything could get, with Wille not forgiving him as such but agreeing to move on, start healing, and even wish each other well. Wille was sincere when he congratulated August upon graduation and tapped him as the next king, thinking he was well suited for the job (it's the narrative that frames it as a sort of punishment, not Wille).

Crucially, Simon doesn't seem bothered by this. If both Wille and August had truly just ignored the harm caused to Simon and reconciled amongst themselves, with Wille essentially giving August the position that everyone but August still thought was all August ever wanted...while Simon was still hurting and needing the closure of an apology...well. That would actually make Wille look like kind of a terrible partner even right at the end, which clearly wasn't the intention.

We can't be sure if Wille told Simon about the reconciliation when they talked at the lake, but Simon will still know that Wille stepping down means August stepping up, and he is happy about it. Wilmon are off to start a new chapter in their lives, and we don't get the feeling that the lack of an apology to Simon is left as an unresolved issue between them (or between them and August).

So...yeah. I guess I'm just trying to point out that this seems to be another example of a previously important plot line being dropped from S3, and to a lesser degree, also another example of execution vs. authorial intent.

[young-royals-confessions]

Directors season 3

episodes 1 and 2 Julia Lindström

episodes 3 and 4 Jerry Carlson

episodes 5 and 6 Linnéa Roxeheim

Thank you!

[justfriendsbestthings]

When Linnéa Roxeheim confirmed that Wille's birthday was 28th May, she also said that they imagined that Simon’s birthday was in August and that he's a Leo, but she didn't specify a date xx

Oh I wasn’t aware. Thanks for letting me know!

I am voting August 1st.

1.8.2004 looks nice? This is on the accounts of nothing I just like the first day of a month more than the other days ahdjdkkfkfkf

[thatsmybook]

Linnéa said that she told Lisa before they made season 3 that, as they were sending these characters off into the rest of their lives, she was interested in who they were going to become as people. They both wanted to delve deeper into who they were.

So it would seem that by putting all five of them through the conflicts and consequences of all their secrets being out in the open, their true characters and how they problem solve would come to the fore. This would then give us an idea of how they would manage and choose to respond to adversity in the future. Their strength of character was tested in the last season, and I would say that all five of them rose to the challenge.

August's I find interesting. He is having to reckon with who he is viewed as by the outside world, and he does not like the legacy he is leaving behind. It's interesting that the first people whose opinions of him he cares about are Wille and Simon. I guess no one likes to be viewed as a shitty person, and hearing Simon's mum shouting that he ruined her son's life must make him realise that he did a really awful thing, even if he doesn't care about Simon as a person. He cares about what that says about him as a person IN FRONT of the Royal Family.

Though Nils and Vincent laugh at his loss of agency and ability to party hard and live a life of Riley, August has never been a 'party prince'. He often sits in the society room at parties and has to put on a smirking mask to be amongst his partying peers. He takes the Society and brotherhood very seriously and doesn't like Wille belittling it and everyone's status at the drinking and drugs party.

But he is eager for his life to mean something. He's an overachiever at school, a natural leader. He remembers important people's names and is good at networking at public events. He is completely at ease in a public role. He is eager to please authority figures and is good at liasing conflict and seeing the bigger picture.

Whether Sara has helped him view his elitism in a different way is maybe still a question. He is more aware when side-eying the class import signifier that Vincent asks him to vote on. He has been made aware and has fully sat in the consequences of his actions. He's been lucky to get away with them, and I think he is taking his second chance seriously. I get the sense that he would take the Crown Prince role very seriously and be one that the Royal Court would love. He would totally uphold the nobility and be duty bound. He has become aware of his eating disorder, been validated that what was done to him in the first year was not okay, and he is more open to talking with a therapist. His future seems quite hopeful. He has, however, lost someone who he truly loved and who loved him for himself. I picture him thinking about Sara whenever he takes Rousseau out for a ride and treats that horse impeccably, the way Sara would have.

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Okay so... time for some thoughts of my own.

Had this poll been conducted before S3, my vote would have actually been "strictly platonic (non-shipper)". I may write fic about them, but in canon, their portrayal has never crossed the line from platonic to romantic. I also feel that it isn't really possible to tell a happy background love story with them in a satisfactory way considering what we know about them (especially Henry's background), and I seriously doubted the makers of YR would want to tell an unhappy one.

That last point still holds true, but as of the finale, I feel like their portrayal has shifted to "open to interpretation" after all. Here is why.

The meadow scene is a blatant parallel to Wilmon on the football field in S1E4. See this post by @waltybrainrot for screenshots. Basically, we have Wille/Henry passed out or on the verge of it, lying with his face to the side. Then we have Simon/Walter hauling him up and looking after him. All of this takes place in a field of green grass - the plastic turf of the football field for Wilmon, a lush meadow for Walty. There is no reason whatsoever for the scene to be set and filmed like this except as a wink to the Walty shippers.

The order of scenes in YR is not random but often used to connect things for the viewer. Sometimes the connection is relevant to the current narrative (e.g. the cuts between Sara&Micke in the car and August leaving the dorm in S3E3 or the S1 scenes that cut between dinner at Hillerska and the Eriksson house) but it can also be a more obscure connection that will only make sense later on. For example the camera work in S1E2, which cuts from August working out before rowing practice to Sara riding Rousseau before class. Feels like seemingly non-sequitur scene-setting imagery but also serves to connect these characters in your mind and foreshadow some similarities and an upcoming relationship between them. So why does Walty's meadow scene follow Stedrika's friends-to-lovers makeout session, and why are they the only other glimpse we get of background characters waking up that day (instead of, say, Nils and Vincent who are more central to the narrative)...?

The outtake that could be seen on director Linnéa Roxeheim's IG (first posted here by @youngroyalsnshameless) is not canon, but the fact that she posted it may tell us something about the writers' initial intentions:

I mean... It sure would be easy to read a Heartstopper reference into this, what with the obvious bi flag lighting. Or a SKAM S3 reference, what with the red cups and stripes of neon face paint. Which by the way almost resemble a Pride flag here, and their placement on the cheek almost looks like a "this character is queer" meme.

(And if you really want to go off the deep end, you can also note that the stripes look bright green - a colour that used to be associated with gay men, as popularised by Oscar Wilde, who also popularised the idea of wearing a green carnation on the lapel, which may have been referenced by Wille's crochet flower in S3E5. But that's already quite far down so let's swim back up now. I mostly just wrote this bit to demonstrate the kinds of leaps we fans can take so don't take it too seriously.)

Anyway, when you put all this together, it sure starts to look like the makers knew exactly what they were doing with Walty at and after the party. They knew this fandom always liked to analyse and find hidden meanings and parallels, and they knew Walty shippers would be on the lookout for any clues. So they delivered, in a way that would not feel too obvious (cutting out the HS/SKAM parallel) or unrealistic (letting us infer that something might happen between them without making us wonder how and whether it would work out).

So yeah, I would say "open to interpretation" now. And although I still don't consider myself a shipper, I do feel more like a fan than a non-shipper trying to trace the parallels.

Time for a little Walty (Henry/Walter)* poll!

*Or Valty (Henry/Valter) if you prefer. I'm sticking with the W.

It's safe to say that S3 and the meadow scene in particular have made many people more aware of this background ship and may have even shifted some viewers' perceptions of them. I figured it might be fun to see if thoughts on their status at the end of canon differ between shippers/fans and non-shippers.

So, hcs and fanon aside...

Feel free to justify your choice in the tags/replies! Please be respectful though - I don't want to see any ship wars or hate for these characters, people who enjoy them or even people who dislike them!

Reblogs for larger sample size are much appreciated! Will reblog with my own thoughts later.

[youngroyalsedition]

The three directors for S3 are Linnéa Roxeheim, Julia Lindström, and Jerry Carlsson.

Please, could anyone tell me who the directors of S3 are?

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