and a few preliminary reactions

[kindkit]

My first reactions to the end of TMA S4, .

1) Oh, fuck.

2) Elias, I don't think I like you any more.

3) How the hell can there be a fifth season???

4) Oh, fuck.

5) At least Jon and Martin got a little time together. Not a lot (a couple of weeks?), but some time. There is, indeed, life before death.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

There is, indeed, life before death.

AND. *flails*

You see why it's not THAT FUCKING STORY (previously discussed), and why it's so important and meaningful to me that it's not. It's a cosmic horror universe, and nightmarish things are going to happen, up to and including the end of the world, but: love still matters. Connection is possible, and it changes the course of events again and again. People can find moments of happiness and joy together, and the audience isn't wrong for caring deeply about that.

I like this comment from someone who knows Mechs canon well:

https://space-mouse.tumblr.com/post/189645904334/i-think-the-reason-the-tmamechanisms-tragic

[kindkit]

I was so relieved. Everything that happened between them was better than I dared hope for. (Though I confess, I didn't actually 100% love the Scottish Cabin scenes between them. The energy felt a little bit off, simultaneously too settled and not quite intimate enough. It wasn't entirely surprising when Alex said in the Q&A that he'd been having an awful day when they recorded that scene and he really struggled with his performance.) Watsonian-ly, I am attributing it to the sense they must have had that they were on borrowed time. They were probably trying to rush a lifetime's worth of relationship (not just their future, but their past as well and the whole "getting to know you" period they never had) into their two or three weeks.