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[quote=Anonymous]Was thinking about Kendall's eulogy today, and how he technically wasn't even supposed to speak. It was very artfully composed. Some people have a wonderful ability to speak off the cuff like that, but I'm not sure we've seen Kendall to be one of them -- he has often choked when faced like opportunities like that before.

Thinking specifically of lines like this: "He had a terrible force to him. And a fierce ambition that could push you to the side. But it was only that human thing, the will to be, and to be seen, and to do. And now people might want to tend and prune the memory of him to denigrate that force, that magnificent, awful force of him. But my god, I hope it's in me."

Like that is poetic. How did he come up with that on the fly? I wonder if the writer and the actor had the idea that probably Kendall had essentially written a eulogy, if only in his head, with the plan to deliver it on the fly (surprising his sibs), or even that he anticipated Roman would fall apart and he could save the day.

Or maybe, since the show so often references Shakespeare (mostly King Lear, of course), this was just a bit of artistic liberty, knowing that Kendall might not really be able to put that together so eloquently on the fly, but wanting that character to deliver a kind of ode to the character of Logan and what he stood for.

Would be interested in other's thoughts on this. It's just a very memorable, beautiful speech. Even though I don't really agree with it! I was moved by it.[/quote]

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