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[quote=Anonymous]I thought this episode was really good and am liking this season more than the others. I think because it focuses on the aspect of the show I'm most drawn in by -- the way Logan has ensnared these kids in competition for both his love and his legacy, while also depriving them of his love and failing to prepare them in any way to take over his legacy.

I loved in Ewan's eulogy when he said that Logan had a meagerness to him. Here's this man who has so much money and power and creature comforts, but was defined by how tightly he held onto those things and wanted them all to himself. And more importantly, how little love and warmth and generosity he had, even with his own children. And then you see that meagerness and inadequacy deftly illustrated by Kendall's and Shiv's eulogies, where they have to fight the overwhelming truth about their father in order to find something warm and generous to say about him.

My parents aren't billionaires, but like Logan, they were marked by difficult, abusive, unhappy childhoods. And they were not good parents and didn't offer their children warmth or love or acceptance or safety. They always wanted more than they gave, they expected their kids to give them what they had lacked in their own childhoods, and in so doing they ruined our childhoods. It's a sadly common story. Watching the Roy kids deal with that is interesting and poignant to me. They aren't really grieving their dad's death. They are grieving the childhoods they never had, the love they never felt, the acceptance they never received from him. I think it's hard for the younger kids to let him go because they still held out hope that one day he would give them what they needed. But now he's dead and their chance of a loving father died with him.

(I think Connor, who is older, has already grieved and accepted that loss before their dad died -- he really did "pre-grieve"! And that's why he is less emotionally lost than the others, even if he is still very stunted and damaged due to his past.)[/quote]

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