#THEY LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH

[aquitainequeen]

Here I am, hours later, still crying about Furiosa and Praetorian Jack. George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are geniuses. They completely sold me on just how much these characters loved each other.

Furiosa coming out of a nightmare, wielding a knife, to be caught by Jack. He doesn’t say it’s all right or that she’s safe, she doesn’t say it was just a bad dream. They don’t say anything. Jack eases her back down to her cot and they settle down, aware of each other.

Jack stitching up Furiosa’s shoulder in a hidden spot in the Citadel, Furiosa showing Jack the peach seed that she’s kept hidden in her hair for so long, proving that the Green Place is out there, asking him to come with her, pressing her forehead to his while cupping the back of his head, showing him her love in the manner of her people, and him returning the gesture. After fifteen years, she’s finally going home, and he’s coming with her.

And then...

Spoilers beyond here!!!

And then:

The battle of the Bullet Farm, which is where the strength and force of their love really started to batter me. Furiosa manages to avoid the ambush and get out of the Farm before the gate closes, and Jack could easily have slipped through the gate to join her, but he sees the enemy forces mustering and knows they’ll quickly be hunted down if there's nothing to stop their pursuers. He shoots off a green flare that clearly tells Furiosa to abandon him and get the hell out of there, intending to sacrifice himself so that she has a chance to escape and set off for the Green Place. Furiosa does drive off, but gets maybe five metres before she decides ‘fuck this’ and goes back in to try and save him. And she saves him from his pursuers and she saves him from falling to his death, and they get to their escape vehicle and drive off, with nary a word spoken or exchanged until they’re on the flat and heading for freedom. And even then, all that’s mentioned is what direction they should take to reach the Green Place. That's it. They don’t need anything else. They survived, they got out, they're together, they’re going to be all right.

And they almost make it. They almost get away.

When they’re captured by Dementus and forced onto their knees, there’s no special close up on them; mostly they’re on the edge of the shot while Dementus is ranting centre stage or screaming into their faces. They pay no heed to him. That love infuriates Dementus. He shrieks, he tears at them, but he can’t break them. He doesn’t matter. What matters is that they spend their last moments touching each other, leaning into each other, pressing their foreheads together, breathing deep, loving each other.

There are no parting words between Furiosa and Jack, no declarations or promises or screams of despair, but it hit me so hard and cut so deep that the second to last time we see Jack’s face, he’s craning desperately to see what’s happening to Furiosa, trying to get one final precious glimpse of her, before he’s quite literally dragged to his awful death.

We don’t see Furiosa’s reaction to her torture on multiple fronts, as she is strung up by her maimed arm and forced to watch Jack die. We’ve seen her scream and weep for her mother, but this moment is hers alone. It’s not for us.

How fitting it is that Jack saves Furiosa one last time, as his execution distracts Dementus and his crew from noticing that Furiosa has cut off her own arm to escape.

The last time we see Jack’s face is in Furiosa’s last nightmare.

Furiosa doesn’t mention Jack in her final showdown with Dementus, when she screams about her mother and her stolen childhood. But from what’s shown to us, I think that the spot in the Citadel when she imprisons Dementus and grows the peach tree in the midst of his emaciated, maggot-ridden body…is the same place where Jack stitched up her wounded shoulder, where she showed him the peach seed, where she asked him to come with her to the Green Place and he accepted, where she showed him her love in the manner of her people, where they embraced. Where she avenged herself and Jack, upon the man who destroyed their lives.

Where Furiosa now plucks the first fruit of the tree to bring to the Five Wives, whom she will bring with her to the Green Place.   

[queen-morgana91]

Katara had no idea that Iroh would have saved them and she was ready to die with Aang here

[anyataylordelrey]

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.” -an actual quote said by Cynthia Powell.

[needanaccount2readarcaneposts]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Ty to dar_cie5 on twitter for the family photo one

[fiasvsesvit]

wesper this, kanej that.

WHAT ABOUT HELNIK.

anytime I think about them I burst into tears.

[eatprayworm]

the gladiator ii screenplay adds some really tragic lore to the scene where caracalla kills geta. they're so sad, my heart breaks for them

[slothxio]

in all timelines, in all possibilities, only you

[radcaduceus]

it's hard to see but I think Yasha got Molly's peacock tattoo ;_;

[itsme-tori]

I think a lot about how Tara was the first to accept Isabel and even tell her she's special. How that part of their relationship was still alive even when they were "Maddy" and "Owen". The dress scene.....

[louissviolin]

“That’s my girl.”

[fredandginger64]

Another great radio show. I've heard Dean sing , "Ill String Along With You" many times but I've never heard him put his heart in it like he did on this particular show. And when Jerry came out singing in his high pitched Jerry voice, "Ill Rope Along With You", and Dean corrected him, saying it was string and not rope, Jerry replies, 'strings break and I don't wanna lose you, bubbe'. Omg these two will kill you! And I love when Jerry calls him bubbe which he does quite often on the radio shows,and Dean slipped up and called him 'jerm' a couple times. God, I love these two together, they were absolutely beautiful!

[scarlct-vvitch]

alas. i am thinking about camilla and palamedes again and making myself upset

[ssahotchnerr]

i’m an aaron and haley defender until the end of time

[misedejem]

The start of the Elpis arc really is just the WoL third-wheeling a couple who spend half the time flirting in a way that only the two of them can truly comprehend, followed by Hyth talking about Emet and Azem with so much genuine affection and adoration that, after it all, you know exactly why separating them for 12000 years ended up having the terrible impact that it did, because it’s so clear how much love there was between them

[frommybookbook]

I keep thinking about this moment from Perry Mason Returns. Della has been accused of murder and Perry has just gotten the real killer to confess on the stand. And we pan back to the defendant's table and see Paul Jr. be the first to react and to reach out and grab Della's hand in relief, almost before she's even processed it herself.

I know so much of this is just the mother/son relationship between Barbara Hale and William Katt, but I love how it comes across for Della and Paul Jr.

As much as this movie is about Della and Perry, it's also about Della and Paul Jr. They clearly have such a close bond. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Paul Jr. essentially tells Perry to f-off, he'll be working Della's case whether Perry approves or not. And then we get this moment, between these two and not Perry and Della, in this ultimate moment of release, and it's just beautiful.

[hijinks-n-lowjinks]

You know what the gov is right to ban tiktok after it put an asheiji compilation edit in my fyp because now I feel suicidal