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[twistsandturnsrp]

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[elastijubilee]

Can't wait for the second half of the season

[old-deerstalker-hat]

There is, in my circle, a monthly charitable fete. There are philanthropists, lecturers... The best families attend. Men of influence, with wives of actual influence. This afternoon, it's to be at my estate.

[aflawedfashion]

The Nevers 1x06 - True (2021)

[the-august-one]

[apodemus-sylvaticus]

The voice that said "do you think you're the only one who hitched the ride?" sounded a lot like Lavinia - does that imply that she's a time traveller too, maybe someone from FreeLife team? And what was that bit with Myrtle being revealed in an extremely dramatic way and giving off intense Time Lord vibes? Does that mean that she's somehow more than it seems, or that she has a stronger connection to the Galanthi and it choses to present itself in her form? Sure, it was talking to her in the voices of a number of people she've met, but unlike other people in flashbacks, Myrtle wore something she'd never wear in real life, making her stand out. BTW good job on making Stripe instantly recognizable as Amalia, despite having a different look and accent. I think it helped that her voice sounded very similar.

[theneversincorrect]

gilbert: allow me to be frank with you all.

lavinia: by all means.

augie: can i still be augustus?

hugo: shh, let frank speak.

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source

[ellestra]

War for the future

I think we all figured out the truth about Amalia. Or at least something pretty close. I wasn’t sure if Amalia’s mind was fully replaced after her suicide or if her and Zephyr memories were jumbled and that’s why she seemed to not know some important information about why and how she was there. Now we know that it was just Zephyr’s memories - at least until know since Galanthi shown her Amalia’s life - but she didn’t know because she just didn’t know that much about the alien to begin with. And she also didn’t even know she was coming to the past with it. She was just a grunt soldier. A very good one. But then how could she not be when she was Claudia Black?

We learn that the future people destroyed thought a nuclear war over whether to take the alien help or not. That both sides were fanatical but the  one that fought against the aliens for human purity were especially cruel. They justification of it was that the PDC were traitors to human race. The PDC had Touched who believed Galanthi want to help humans but they developed their own religion around it including the whole “names are sacred and you tell them to no one” thing.

We also know even PDC know very little about Galanthi and what are their plans and how their gifts work. Stripe is convinced every Spore knows how to communicate with the aliens but we see it’s untrue - both because it’s what Stitch tells her but also because all the Touched have Spores but only Myrtle seems to be one that can understand the alien. But it also seems like the ones who can communicate really have more understanding of the powers since future Myrtle seems to know Zephyr is seeing her from the past and tells her to forget it.

We also know that only few people react to the Spores by getting powers. This explains why not all people who were outside that day got them. Like why Lord Massen didn’t get any while his daughter did (I hope we’ll learn soon what is it and why he keeps her in the cellar). Or why Augie is Touched but Lavinia isn’t - although I keep wondering in that case as it seems like there is something off about Lavinia and I wonder if she is Touched after all and that’s why she wants a cure for it or if she’s one of those who came from the future and the was FLA and that’s why she wants to kill Galanthi and thinks it wants to destroy them all. She keeps saying it wants war and will corrupt their minds and all this seems very FLA.

Of course it depends on how choosy Galanthi was with taking people along.Was it everyone in the base who was still alive? Or anyone it could reach? Could it chose who to take? But then why would it include FLA at all? Could it tell who is who? Does it know where they all are in their new lives? I mean it knew not just Zephyr but the name she took in this new time so we should assume it has some connection to all of them still.

I assume it was limited to the base and only to those still alive. However we don’t know who else was fully dead when Galanthi left. Any of the other shot - including that FreeLife Army major and the guy who helped him - could’ve been still alive (they were shot but we didn’t see them die) and hitched a ride.

There were also the other two PDC (shot guy and the other one) so maybe Zephyr isn’t alone in the past. Maybe there aren’t just enemies who were brought along but also back up. And since bodies were doled out based on availability who knows what they look like. Maybe that woman’s voice belongs to one of those guys.

I wonder if giving Zephyr Amalia’s memories was to help her understand her powers. I mean Zephyr had her first flashback - to when she got her scar - when Galanthi first tried to use its tentacles to take the Team but that might’ve been just it trying to communicate. It  looks like she only got the flash forwards after being placed in  Amalia’s body and maybe that’s why she became receptive to Spore. She didn’t have those powers before. She thought they were proof of her being in sim at first after all.

I wonder how much of Zephyr involvement with Cousens is less love and more convenience. He was just at the right place and right time - he just happened to  be the first Touched she knew about in her new world - and she knew they  end up having sex from her vision. And she needed someone in that moment to not feel so alone in this new time so he is one who knows the truth about who she is and how she’s there so she can be herself with him.

So how much of it is just that she  has very different views on sex and commitments than 19th century  British and how much is real attachment? She still called Penance her heart and it’s Penance she told her real name. We know from some Zephyr’s memory flashes she seems to be bisexual.

Of course it seems like in general friendships are more important to Zephyr than romantic relationships (she hadn’t told her neither of those she married her name for 3 years they were married). And maybe she just learning to trust people more. Those two years in less hostile times clearly changed her. It’s clear when you compare the Zephyr who sacrificed Sarah to Hague even though she understood how creepy he is because she was there and already crazy (was being committed before becoming Touched) with one we know now. She always had it in her (we see in her flashback with Knitter) but the war taught her it was unwise to get attached. Penance and others brought her out of that. And now she’s ready to tell all the Touched where she came from and how.

Still, even though I’m not a shipper and I don’t really care who ends up with who this “my heart” and name reveal moments made me wonder if the show really has a plan for Penance and Amalia/Zephyr to get together eventually and it’s not just the shippers wishful thinking. And both Augie (he seems like a character Wheadon would kill off in a pairing) and Horatio (keeps talking about this being a sin a lot and has a wife) are just misdirection.  The first infatuations just to burn out.

[poorlittlebruno]

Ok so....here I go.

I'm willing to get actual money that on The Nevers, Lavina Bidlow or whatever her name is helping the experiments on the Touched not because she hates them, but because she wants to have what they have and somehow be able to walk again because no sir, that isn't problematic at all. And at the end of the season, upon realizing that her brother is Touched, she'll go on some childish tirade about how she was the one running the family, how "she should have been gifted, not you!" Because she is more deserving, and also she'll tell Amalia and Penance "how she did protect them" and "They really do mean something to her" but they'll just shake their heads like "You deluded entitled bitch". And Hugo will end up helping the good guys because "it's good for business" even when he is hardly better then Lavinia. And just as it seems like the good guys have won, a new out of context problem will fall out of the fucking sky.

And in all honestly, this is a Joss Whedon show. We all know what to expect at this point.

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[dream-girls-evil]

Also the other person from the future is absolutely in Lavinia, right? Cuz I was thinking in the last episode how odd it was that she seemed so sure the Galanthi was there to destroy them when it...literally has just been sitting there. So if she’s from the future, then she would actually have reason to believe it, as well as reason to be doing everything that she’s doing to stop it—a reason that isn’t just random fear and prejudice.

[reppyy]

Ok this episode was amazing but i feel like a clown cause i got EVERYTHING so wrong XD.

I wanst expecting Lucy to be working with the enemy. I can understand her motive tho. She want to be normal again because her power killed her child. That was so fucking bad. I was heartbroken.

And i dont understand... were they saying that Amalia is involved with the thing that created the touched? Did i understand well? She was left behind... why??

I loved the thing about gathering people talking different languages to understand what the girl was saying and translate Mary's song. That's why she looked troubled when she was singing.

I loves Penance and the bird guy scene.... they were so cuteeeeee... and she looked incredibly amazing.

[moonmothmama]

but does Lavinia know everything that's going on

like i wouldn't be surprised if she did. Dr. Cousens made that point about her being a benefactor but "not a friend" and.

y e a h

but what exactly is going on there? bc unless i missed something (which i may well have done bc i definitely watched some episodes of this show While Doing Other Things*), it's not really confirmed just how deep she's into it, and like. there are a lot of layers of secrets and lies**

like does she know what that doctor is doing? how Terrible is she?

but either way i'm still interested in how things play out between her and her brother

* maybe i should do a rewatch where i'm actually paying fucking complete attention

** also @ibelieveinthepowerofstuff made the point that if she does in fact not entirely know what's going on it could be that she's just turning a blind eye and yeah i could see that

[the-never-touched]

Siblings 😑👥

[end-of-the-world-optimist]

Like many of us, actress Olivia Williams has been reassessing her place in the world and the meaningfulness of her work of late. This period of introspection began before the pandemic hit, but since lockdown Williams has been rethinking her gloomy assessment.

“I was quite ill a couple of years ago, I had a really horrible cancer,” says Williams, speaking via Zoom from her North London home. “That made me think that my life and career were a waste of time and I really needed to help people and heal them, do something useful.

...

“Twice in my life Joss Whedon has rung to offer me a job and I knew I could rely on him to write me an astoundingly strong, interesting female role.”

“I’m gonna do a big old no comment,” says Williams. “The fact that when he rang up to offer me another job I said yes demonstrates what I would want to say on the subject.”

How did Whedon sell The Nevers to her?

“Victorian superheroes!” she says. “I play a rich spinster in a wheelchair for a reason we don’t yet know who runs a refuge for women with extraordinary powers. If there are superheroes now, there must have been then, right? But how would they have been treated? A century earlier people would have burned them. In Victorian times, they treat them with suspicion.”

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Olivia Williams Cast in The Crown

Olivia Williams Cast in The Crown

Olivia Williams (Dollhouse, The Nevers), has been cast as Camilla Parker Bowles for season 5 and 6 of The Crown. She will take over the role from Emerald Fennell, who played her for season three and four. Dominic West will take over the role of Prince Charles adding to the already reported cast of Imelda Stanton as The Queen, Jonathan Pryce as the late Duke of Edinburgh and Elizabeth Debicki as…