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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 years ago

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Do you think we'll see more of Winston in this season of billions ?

well in last tuesday’s pac-man tattoo episode, during the tour of will’s dressing room there’s uhh definitely some kind of object up on the shelf? is it a box with a thank-you-alcohol? possibly? that will identifies as “a gift from my friends at billions, watch season four, i’m all over it” and he doesn’t seem to be like, sarcastic about it

plus apparently the direction the plot is going in means the random employees of taylor mason capital (which includes winston) are probably going to continue to be called upon to Do Important Things…it’s also already heartening that not only has winston continued to be around for more than one plot point, but has also been named for real instead of just being “quant kid 2.” i would truly be surprised if winston’s potential arcs here involved getting a boyfriend, but like, i can at least hope that the plot isn’t Cruel to him or anything. truly it seems like even the terrible main characters feuding with taylor and co. have some ethical scruples and so maybe nobody’s about to be murdered, but i don’t want winston to be set up as like, oh, this is a character the audience and the other characters aren’t wildly invested in so he’s expendable, maybe he’ll accidentally get in over his head thanks to naivete / inability to see the bigger picture until it’s too late, maybe he’ll be taken away from the company one way or another b/c so far he apparently really is an amazing asset to taylor and seemed to be a crucial element in taylor getting their own company in the first place. and now that that company is having further Big Complications maybe he’ll be called on again to work further wonders, but this time he’s not secreted away in the quant basement and so people might realize that he’s a Key Player and thus could be considered a weak point for a company that’s apparently already relying on a smaller staff and needs to take full advantage of every resource it has

tldr yes i do and they better not be mean to him :(

#winston billions #so far they've uhhh reminded us that he's here and now just around in the office #and other people seem to be tolerating him #but his last appearance didn't like set up anything for his character we haven't seen before #reemphasizing that he's smart but not the best communicator / kinda in his own head cuz he's v much in single player mode #so like presumably he will...continue to be a super gr8 quant who other ppl don't really take to #i mean i'd say he and mafee and sara had some bants that didn't hold any actual animosity or whatever so that's nice #but like. if he's been kept in the series and given a real name b/c he's like #gonna continue to be an ace in the hole for taylor...you have to worry that the story might like #Have The Need to take him out. cuz he's Too Powerful to keep around eternally and the solution to problems can't keep falling back on him #i mean already it's like look winston your projections haven't served us properly b/c the results were skewed by interference #so clearly winston isn't meant to be magically infallible which is encouraging #(not that winston actually necessarily made a mistake though. his projections might have been perf if axe hadn't interfered)#(but also he could've done his work perfectly and still technically been 'wrong' b/c that's how predictions vs results goes)#anyways i mean we've only had like 5 min of winston content total for real so...speaking of difficult to predict lol #it's just hand wringing over a not-long-established non-beloved character w/ no especial ties to other characters #and who basically represents algorithms and Solve It With Math And Coding and a social approach that #has not endeared him to other characters so far as we can tell tho he is dear to me #though another heartening thing is that he's v smart and quick on the uptake in ways outside coding and math and all that kind of thing too #he's not exactly meant to be like ''oh he's smart at this one thing but clueless in all other ways'' he's just p clever all around i think #i think it would be great if he and taylor got to be maybe actual kind of friends #b/c already winston seems to be actually comfortable around taylor and he's gotten to that point super quickly #when usually apparently it's difficult for the avg character #not that taylor didn't give him a case of the despressos but then they were like ''good work'' so he's fine lol #also i want winston to be friends with other people #and date ben #and not be Hurt or fucked over by the plot to ~show that the stakes are raised~ or something #or to raise the stakes for somebody else like ''oh no we weren't trying to literally murder winston but we totally did oh no'' like ugh. i'd #he's a fun character and he's already given this complexity in his Brief Appearances and he deserves a boyf #and to not be put through the shredder to serve the Drama

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