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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, tonights episode was really hard to watch. Not really even any surprises, just one miserable turn of events after another. Thoughts:

[b]- Willa is the only character I genuinely like, and Connor saying that there was only one person in that room who genuinely believes in/cares about (can't remember which) him, and he was going to listen to her? One of the smartest things anyone has ever said on the show.[/b]

- I don't think Shiv and Tom can come back from that and now very curious to see what happens with the pregnancy.

- Roman is scaring me right now so the idea of him giving the eulogy is, uh, bad.

- I hate that Kendall started to seem kind of smart by the end of the episode again. I'm not rooting for Matsson, who also sucks, but if he stumbles into some huge win (Wayco acquiring Gojo) despite himself, I'm going to be so annoyed. So now I think this is probably what happens.

- Go Gerri! She can join Willa on the "not total trash" team. I like that she put Romans balls in a vise and started turning the crank. Perfect.[/quote]

I was so pissed at Roman for insulting Willa in front of Connor and had major respect for Connor's character for his reaction. Roman sucks, Kendall sucks for being such a loser father and douche of an ex-husband, and Shiv is such a jerk to Tom (who sucks in his own way too).[/quote]

It's crazy that of the four of them, Connor is the one who is turning out to have the most maturity and good sense when it comes to relationships.

Though in retrospect it kind of makes sense, because Connor is the only one of the four who ever seemed to understand on any level that (1) Logan was never going to give him the love or approval he craves, and (2) so you might as well just enjoy the money. At the beginning of the show, he's just off living on his big ranch out West away from all the Waystar craziness. He gets drawn in a bit in the second season, but ultimately still decides to go do his own thing and run for president. I mean, it's ridiculous and he's ridiculous, but it's also perversely admirable that he's just like "I'm really rich and my family sucks -- I'm just going to please myself." So he does. Good for him.

I also loved that Willa told him to stay in the race and the reasoning she gave him because it's so sensible. He came all this way and spent all this money, might as well see what happens, plus Menken is awful ("all my friends and family hate him") so eff that guy, and who the heck wants to go live in Oman when you are rich enough to live somewhere you actually want? Like why take a 3rd rate diplomatic posting when you could just go buy a really nice apartment in London or Paris or Berlin tomorrow and just live there without having to work? Willa is smarter than any of them.[/quote]

I never understood how he ended up with her. She was an escort or something like that and everyone was embarrassed by her. He's reasonably attractive, has tons of money so he wouldn't need an escort. That never made sense to me. [/quote]
I think you give Connor too much credit. Connor has always been presented as an idiot who was so sheltered and coddled that he doesn't understand basic social etiquette. The family is embarrassed by him, and he used his money to live out the plot of Pretty Woman so he could earn a seat at the big kid's table. And I say this as someone who loves Connor. [/quote]

+1. I've been re-watching previous seasons with my daughter and it's emphasized many times that Connor is a real weirdo/fail son. And he's largely accepted that. When he brings Willa to Logan's birthday they all know she's an escort and Marcia is taken aback/dismissive - "He rents a room. He rents a girl." When they go out to his ranch the siblings learn that Connor adopted some sick old dog from someone, but could bear to put it down so he pays some rando in the bar to take it. When he tells his siblings he's engaged to Willa they are surprised, congratulate him, and then in the course of their conversation tell him he won't do better than Willa.

Roman was trying to pull the Logan flex with Connor, just like Kendall tried with Nate, and Shiv tried with Tom. And it didn't work for any of them.[/quote]

So true about the "Logan flex." Roman, Kendall, and Shiv are all realizing that they do not, and will never, have the power over others that Logan had over them. I think that's what they are struggling with. They felt powerless their whole lives (despite being rich beyond belief and having more actual power than 99.9999% of people on the planet in economic terms) because their dad always held all the power in their family, and that's all they cared about. I think that's why they all vie for control of Waystar, and why Kendall and Roman are reluctant to sell, because all they've ever known is this dynamic with one person at the top who can crush everyone else, and they just want to be the person at the top so that they can crush people instead of being crushed. And they are slowly realizing that they will never have it, and it's confusing to them because they don't know how else to exist in the world.

Connor has actually figured out a way to exist in the world without being the crusher. I mean, in a way he's still looking for that powerful position just outside of Waystar (he is running for president after all), but he doesn't seem all that put out that he knows he isn't actually going to be president. He has always had this impulse of trying to just carve out a niche for himself somewhere, where he has control over his own fate, but he's not trying to crush other people or be his dad. He just wants out from under his dad.

As much as he is a "fail son" in the sense that he's not that intellectually smart and his personality is incredibly cringey, I think he has some of the best emotional instincts of the family in that he is empathetic not only towards other people, but he has really compassion for himself in a way none of his siblings do. They are all very self-loathing and it comes out in their cruelty towards other peopel.[/quote]

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