#no she used posh English accent because that’s fancy. this yikes me out so much! I know this show had a commentary on class and on how | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ichabodcranemills · 9 months ago

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Reader, two years later, she was not okay with it

I’m trying to describe how the Jonahlias reveal and the Amalia-Zephyr reveal were both very similar, but I hate one and like the other but I can’t put that into words

#I actually hate it even more #see Jonah Magnus. knowing he would die. chose a perfect vessel killed him and stole his life #we met him several years later and that’s who he is #Jonah Magnus with the experience of living Elias Bouchard’s life hiding the truth from his employees #Zephyr was randomly thrown into an innocent woman’s body due to no actions of her own #Molly btw also has no agency apart from her suicide. her only character trait is ‘life sucks and then you die’#Zephyr in Molly’s body then proceeds to create a character. Amalia isn’t Zephyr pretending to be Molly #Molly’s life sucked. she wasn’t chosen. why would Zephyr live her life?#and of course. Zephyr’s hands were washed by the narrative. she didn’t need to kill anyone #a body was given to her. a younger prettier one. and look! it’s not even like Molly was making a good use of it!#then for this character Zephyr didn’t use her own American accent. that’s not fancy enough #she also didn’t use Molly’s accent (I don’t remember it but I think it’s irish? because Laura Donnely is irish)#no she used posh English accent because that’s fancy. this yikes me out so much! I know this show had a commentary on class and on how #irish people were treated by English society but why?? just make Zephyr english #just make Zephyr Laura Donnelly and throw her body and soul into the past and scrap Molly’s story entirely!#Molly’s story left such a bad taste in my mouth #anyway the point is: when we meet Amalia this isn’t Zephyr in a disguise it’s a whole new person she made up #and that’s what makes the reveal even more frustrating #Jonah as Elias is a real person. Amalie True isn’t and I LOVED Amalia #Zephyr didn’t change into Amalia. the monologue is made in Amalia’s voice because it wouldn’t have emotional punch otherwise #because we don’t know Zephyr. they fumbled so much with this character construction #that at an emotional peak they had to sort of pretend Zephyr didn’t exist #and that was so easy to fix #just make Zephyr Laura Donnelly. same body same accent just have her made up the name and backstory #make one feel like a continuation of the other #okay end of rambling I don’t want to talk about The Nevers ever again

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