[ SECRET POST #6651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6651 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Stone of Madness]



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[Justified]



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[The Crow Girl]



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Notes:

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Comments

[fscom]

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[Justified]

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't get very far when I tried to watch Justified years ago, not because of the cop thing, but because my ace ass just could NOT understand why he recognizes that he shouldn't sleep with what's-her-face, professionally, ethically, etc etc while things are going on. And then goes and does it. Like....dude, you could just not? I quit in frustration.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably for the best. I don’t think that frustration would have gone away. Whether it’s who he sleeps with or how he decides to go after people, Raylan has a habit of making bad choices, against good advice and his own better judgement.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Framing it in those terms suddenly makes it a lot clearer to me why I just could not with that plot point (and again with the ex, and so on.) Thanks anon! It’s like that time someone said, “maybe it’s because I’m ace but I really don’t get love triangles, how hard is it NOT to sleep with someone?” and it blew my mind lol

[(Anonymous)]

That's funny cuz, to me, the show makes it clear he is extrememly competent but also a loose cannon who can be kind of a dick sometimes, has quite gray-ish morals when it comes to some things, and who didn't/doesn't always makes good choices.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think you’re right. He’s not actually framed as a hero and a lot of what he does outside of the law is recognized as both ill-advised and wrong.

[ninetydegrees]

Yeah, I mean the very premise of the show is that he's sent back to his home county as some kind of unofficial "punishment" and the show keeps drawing parallels between Boyd's morals and choices and Raylan's morals and choices (and their fathers' and extended families' in general). Like they're different but not always that different.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of love this show. Between them, Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins have an unholy amount of charisma. And I mean that in both senses of “between them.” And Raylan hits a lot of my buttons for loose cannon but very competent protagonists. But the thing is, I can only watch it in small doses. It was included in some streaming service subscription I had a while back and I binged a few episodes and…. It’s just so *hard* to watch the characters keep making increasingly awful choices and making an already kind of miserable time that much *worse*.

[(Anonymous)]

oh Raylan has *all* the swagger. but then the show doesn't really frame him as a hero, but more as a troubled soul fighting to stay in the right.