#i also think blanc's presence in this episode highlights some interesting themes about power

[davey-in-a-minivan]

EPISODE 10 PROPAGANDA!!! listen the pasithea powder scholarly convention debated this one for hours last night but i personally have to pick 10 bc of the way it revels in the sheer breadth of drama of the show's premise and also it makes me feel like the top of my head's going to lift off

>really love that we see the other as anna alegros first so we can see how EFFECTIVELY it zeroes in on the chinks in david alegros' armor and sends him running, and jane is much calmer but immediately there's the question of how will she fare once subject theta's attention is on her?

>also jane insisting on treating it like a patient and not a test subject without knowing if that's right but erring on the side of a little dignity!! and in defiance of blanc who doesn't treat HER with dignity!! jane's also a prisoner of the queensguard!!

>i think my heart STOPPED the first time i heard this it's so fluid it's so fucking fuck fuck fuck i need to relisten again right now

>othersophie's appearance is brief but so so mighty. this is the first instinctive thing the other thinks will give jane pause!!! this is who she's afraid of hurting!!! and othersophie pulled from jane's mind is so much more disgusted and betrayed by jane than real sophie ever is..... delicious fucking angst

>THE WAY JANE SAYS THAT LAST OH!!! less a word and more an exhale punched out of her!!!! yeah!!!!!!!!! god!!!!! me too!!!!!!!

>bc look ive never predicted a plot twist in my life but i didn't predict the other turning into evelyn!!! it turned into sophie and i was like of course, sophie's turned into jane, the soulmateism and then oh

>the way the reveal is done in an AUDIO MEDIUM is fantastically cool, the transformation- shock- recognition in the next few lines land as hard as any visual reveal could have like it is just enthralling sorry it's almost embarrassing gushing this much in a public forum but this scene is just SOMETHING ELSE

>also blanc follows this up with "you knew it was going to do this" which makes me think of sophie's "mm. that makes sense" when jane later says who the other turned into where, like, yeah, this makes a lot of sense but that doesn't soften the blow. i don't know if anything could!

>fascinating to see how theta's strategy changes over the course of the conversation. at first it says things like "you're seriously going to do this to everyone you love??" which are clearly meant to wound by being delivered in evelyn's voice but isn't something he would say--he never knew she dosed sophie with pasithea!! for obvious cause effect reasons!! but at the twelve hour mark (once the memory of the other as anna and sophie is more distant and they've both calmed down some) it starts talking like it really might convince her it's evelyn. and jane starts to slip. references arguments "we've had before." says "that's something you--he--would do"

>LET'S FUCKING GO.

>YOU HEAR THIS AND FEAR FOR JANE FOR BEING FOOLED. WRONG FEAR!!!

>and then she says. be evelyn. 🧨🧨🧨

>theta starting to get scared, jane becoming almost flippant! theta referring to evelyn in the third person and jane saying "you"!! the mundane fucking tragedy of no last goodbye!!!!!

>SORRY JANE BUT THIS IS SO SEXY

>this followed up by "I do know you. I know you died trying to help other people. You wanted to--protect Medean kids, and--Cassandran soldiers, and--your death didn’t mean anything. You didn’t end the war, Evelyn. I ended the war." IS CRAZY

>jane deserves a god complex!!!!

>it's so so gripping to see jane -- who tries to be moral! who cares deeply about other people and doesn't want to do harm! -- justify something horrifying to herself because she has been pushed to such an extreme of grief and she has the power in her hands!!!

>absolutely haunting

>that stage direction KILLS ME!!!!!!! she thinks it worked!!! she thinks she managed the impossible and undid the worst thing that ever happened to her!!!! with raw hope!!!!!

>does it make it better or worse that he lives for a minute?? that for a minute it's just evelyn?? that he has a chance to hug her before blanc shoots him dead??

>it's just so brutal. i feel like i need to go stare at the wall for a few hours

>she did get swept up in a fantasy but can you blame her? grabs blanc by the shoulders and shakes him like a rag doll. can you blame her??? YOU ALL MADE HER DO THIS. SHE'S TWENTY FOUR AND ALONE

>the compactness of this episode is so satisfying. one recording, beginning to end. it feels like a play!!!

in conclusion. what in the holy fuck of an episode. theta is not the only one getting his brain chemistry irreversibly changed by this conversation!!!!!!!!!

Onwards and upwards with Pasithea Pandemonium! I expect this matchup, like the Sophie matchup, will be pure carnage. It's Episode 10, "Evelyn," vs. Episode 23, "Fix It."