#ignore the fact that I haven’t posted for a month 😍

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@kathyharnett​ replied to your post:

@kate-dammit-run @gypsyscarfwoman I'm guessing you two pumped out this review early, because you needed to... badly for therapy...😉....and yes we're right there with you on storing up and consuming palettes of chocolate. I'm excited for this season, missing Jane... so much,  ...but I've come to the conclusion it's important to see Remi's perspective of the torment she went through, maybe more than Roman. I think we'll appreciate her & Jane more in the end!😍

L: This show does make us need therapy, this is true!

I think this is a really good point, if not a popular opinion right now: We do need to see Remi's perspective of her life. We've only gotten brief glimpses of Remi until now, in flashbacks both from Jane and from other characters. But these tiny peeks have sometimes been a bit conflicting, and they really haven't told us all that much about her. And so I think it's been easy for us-- not to mention for Jane, and also for Kurt-- to kind of pretend that Remi didn't exist at all.

We hear Jane announce in 3.04, "I'm done with my past. All I ever find is pain." But pain is funny-- it doesn't go away just because you ignore it. It turns up when you least expect it and are least prepared to deal with it. Maybe the only way that Jane can resolve the pain in her past is by confronting it head-on, rather than dealing with random, context-free memories as they ambush her in turn. Which is, of course, going to be extremely painful in the short term, as she has to pull her whole life out and look at it. But in the long run? It gives her a chance of being able to really, truly put her past behind her and choose freely the direction she wants to travel in the future. Maybe as Jane, maybe as Remi, maybe as someone else entirely, but as a full, whole person who owns her past, her present, and her future. And that is no small thing.

Y: Yes, to everything that L said. Remi has always been a part of Jane and even though those memories and experiences had been inaccessible due to the ZIP, that does’t mean they were erased. Jane was lucky to have had a chance at a new life that was for the most part, at least in the beginning, unencumbered by her past because at first she had no memories of that past. She was given those first few months to really reinvent herself as a good person by making good choices. And after some memories started to resurface she took her new chance as an opportunity for penance. And then when new information came and shed light on who she really was, she distanced herself from that person and from that life and from the people she knew then.

She never faced it head on because she saw Remi as another person mainly due to the fact that everything she learned about her past life and about Remi was from other people. She saw Remi and herself as two separate entities. But now they’ve inevitably merged. Well, for now, they are not merged but rather just as Remi had been “erased” before, now so is Jane. We need to see Remi for who she really is, not only as fragmented memories and third person narratives because we can have both versions of her collide. We need both of them to be fully fledged before a final decision can be made.

Yes, it’s hard watching this show without Jane and with everything else that is coming along with Remi’s return, but our heroine can never truly become “complete” without going through this process of confronting all parts of herself, coming to terms with all stages of her life and all the events in her life and finally find peace— or like her brother only find turmoil and struggle and go down in a blaze of glory.