I loved this episode so much, it gave me hope.
A lot of GNs thought this episode was abusive, I don't think so.
When things got too bad, it brought a turn for the worse.
In this episode I saw a Christopher who was forced out of a hard shell.
I was grateful for the war, for the rumors, for those who tried to destroy his reputation, and for his ignorant and weak father.
Thanks also to his wife's lovers, and of course Sylvia.
She finally forced him out of the shell, using those false rumors, her false lovers, her unknown son, and of course her fierce and vicious but sharp language.
The last episode made me so depressed. Sitting by the fire, Christopher said in tears to his platonic lover, I don't get what I want, what I hold on to is shattered.
He no longer knew what his hope in life was, even though he was sitting opposite him, he couldn't say it.
But this episode was so much better. His intelligence was damaged, his reputation was ruined, but it made him really face his heart. Instead of trying to use his brain, he calmly restrains the conservative brain to control everything.
In the face of his suicidal father, he did not endure it silently like when his mother died, trying to cover it up with a reasonable explanation.
I saw his anger, his resentment, and what he said to his brother was what he really felt in his heart, not the hypocrisy of taking it all.
He responded positively to his wife's hysteria. He told Sylvia for the first time why he had married her, he had endured her debauchery and her lover's humiliating revenge, and he had his own principles, even if she couldn't understand it.
I laughed heartily when he gave up Globby, his son's religion, what he's upheld so far, and said to V, please be my lover.
The body is really nothing, they are spiritually united. He had a reason to live and hope to come back from the battlefield. From the battlefield of killing people and returning to the social world of cannibalism, only because of her existence, he found his hope.
Sylvia is really pathetic and hateful. Although I like her very much. One wrong step, one wrong step. She tried to salvage everything that was irreversible in her own way. She couldn't stop, she couldn't let go, or she would lose hope of living. She realized it the moment she decided to go back to her husband. She will live forever in the pain of her own mistakes. Then use torturing her husband as the only goal to get through the long married life in the future.
Unconsciously, there was so much ranting. A little digression.
Missing you is really, no matter in which play there is a good brother who silently pays for you. I was really moved when I saw what his brother said to V. There are always people in this world who love you silently. There is always hope worth living for.
And his short friend. I haven't read the original so I can't say much. But from the show. Although he is vain and from a low background, he wants to climb up by any means possible. But to Christopher he was the only friend who was willing to help him, trust him, and sometimes even depend on him. He is a ray of solace for his arrogant soul, and I am grateful for his existence at this moment, no matter what. We always need such a person in life.
I love that this drama is beyond the norm, whatever it is it comforts my soul during the hard days of fighting for a 40,000 word dissertation. Thanks for everything it brought me and then move on to the next episode.
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