The Exorcist 2x10, "Unworthy"
Dec. 15th, 2017 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitAlmost none of that went the way I was expecting, except for Tomas being (briefly and partially) possessed. I didn't think they would fail to save Andy, and I didn't expect Marcus to shoot him. I certainly didn't expect the bad guys to target Father Bennett (and it seems unfair that someone can become possessed without some degree of conscious acceptance).
I think this episode in some ways deliberately reversed the happy ending of S1. The possessed parent is killed rather than saved, the family breaks up. (It re-forms later, of course, and while I'm glad for the kids' sake I can't help wishing a bit that the show had had the courage to make the ending fully downbeat. Also I could have done without Verity's semi-conversion scene on the ferry.)
Marcus's closing vision seems to suggest that Tomas is in danger. (But is it the voice of god he's hearing, or is he undergoing demonic attack while he's traumatized and alone?) If Tomas is in danger, and probably he is because we know that the demons have been after him, that puts Mouse's role into question. Whose side is she on? And even if she has good intentions, she may be of the devil's party without knowing it, because (a) she brought the gun and put the idea of killing Andy into Marcus's head, (b) her presence and her offer of help may have stopped Tomas from going after Marcus, so in that sense she's contributed to separating them, (c) she thinks of Tomas as a useful weapon, an atom bomb against demons. That makes her a pragmatist, and normally I think that's a good quality, but within the moral world of the show, her instrumental thinking, her lack of love for Tomas as a human being, is worrisome.
I guess the good news is, there seems no danger of Marcus/Mouse romance anytime soon? At the end, I actually thought Marcus was going to seek out Peter, though in his self-flagellating mood I guess he wouldn't really have done that.
Also, show, if you don't want us to ship Marcus/Tomas, you ought to stop showing us how they love each other more than they've ever loved anybody else and how much it hurts them to separate. A few whispers of hermano do not a brotherly relationship make, not with all that face-touching and neck-holding and gazing deeply into each other's eyes.
Overall I am pleased. If the show gets cancelled, this ending leaves a lot of room for fannish invention. (It also, word-of-producer aside, leaves me room to think of Marcus as basically gay, and I'm not going to deny that I'm glad of that.) If it continues, we're well set up for next season, and I look forward to Marcus's desperate efforts to find and save Tomas.
I think this episode in some ways deliberately reversed the happy ending of S1. The possessed parent is killed rather than saved, the family breaks up. (It re-forms later, of course, and while I'm glad for the kids' sake I can't help wishing a bit that the show had had the courage to make the ending fully downbeat. Also I could have done without Verity's semi-conversion scene on the ferry.)
Marcus's closing vision seems to suggest that Tomas is in danger. (But is it the voice of god he's hearing, or is he undergoing demonic attack while he's traumatized and alone?) If Tomas is in danger, and probably he is because we know that the demons have been after him, that puts Mouse's role into question. Whose side is she on? And even if she has good intentions, she may be of the devil's party without knowing it, because (a) she brought the gun and put the idea of killing Andy into Marcus's head, (b) her presence and her offer of help may have stopped Tomas from going after Marcus, so in that sense she's contributed to separating them, (c) she thinks of Tomas as a useful weapon, an atom bomb against demons. That makes her a pragmatist, and normally I think that's a good quality, but within the moral world of the show, her instrumental thinking, her lack of love for Tomas as a human being, is worrisome.
I guess the good news is, there seems no danger of Marcus/Mouse romance anytime soon? At the end, I actually thought Marcus was going to seek out Peter, though in his self-flagellating mood I guess he wouldn't really have done that.
Also, show, if you don't want us to ship Marcus/Tomas, you ought to stop showing us how they love each other more than they've ever loved anybody else and how much it hurts them to separate. A few whispers of hermano do not a brotherly relationship make, not with all that face-touching and neck-holding and gazing deeply into each other's eyes.
Overall I am pleased. If the show gets cancelled, this ending leaves a lot of room for fannish invention. (It also, word-of-producer aside, leaves me room to think of Marcus as basically gay, and I'm not going to deny that I'm glad of that.) If it continues, we're well set up for next season, and I look forward to Marcus's desperate efforts to find and save Tomas.
