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divinekangaroo · 10 months ago

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can't stop thinking now on how Michael couldn't shoot Hughes and couldn't/wouldn't shoot Tommy.

Whether Michael could have ever actually *directly killed* tommy really, except through second or third hand consequences to his decisions or actions. Because of that thing of how Michael cannot and will not link pleasure/fury/lust/satisfaction to killing. how Michael's 'revenge' on Tommy is actually driven by Tommy destroying (and/or failing to live up to) the way Michael perceives him.

Vengeance for Polly's death always felt like a painfully convenient excuse for Michael, a vessel for all that confusion and hurt to be placed in and carried on to the inevitable confusion. All while Tommy is vaguely aware but carries on in his way, regardless, because that's what Tommy does.

#Michael as a Frame and Mirror for one particularly distorted way of perceiving Tommy is what has interested me in Michael #but there is of course the fact Michael is an independent agent and has his own motivations too. which contribute to the distortion #will scott is absolutely this including his own distortion of his own act of thrusting the dagger to the hilt into lymond's hard body #jesus dorothy tone it down the slasher girls of the 1970s are getting delirious XD #this isn't the well thought out post just braindumping. need more thinking time on distortions and perceptions #and the way those idolised (against their will) can so fundamentally destroy the one who idolises them

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