05-22-2016, 10:43 AM
(05-22-2016, 09:39 AM)irukandji Wrote:(05-22-2016, 09:08 AM)speakeasy Wrote: Seems like most good tales involve prologue and consequences, but yours is the more hopeful interpretation of the show's intent.
Most of the commenters here believe Juliette/Eve doesn't owe atonement to herself, but instead believe that she owes Nick. Big time. After all, she betrayed and got his mother killed and she destroyed his trailer. Many believe Nick had the right to demand her life in return for what she did. Many believe that is still coming.
I am a fan of Juliette's, always have been, but I also believe she owes atonement to Nick. It would be a most compassionate act if she would do something to protect those with which she fights that would eliminate the necessity of Nick's actually having to bring down retribution to one he loved so deeply. It would do much to release the grevious burdens of her guilt of being instrumental in the killing of Kelly, and his of having to avenge her. There is no happy ending here, imo, just a sad kind of closure.
Of course, some really intelligent and imaginative scenario could be conceived to alter my pessimistic prognostication, I would really like that.
(05-22-2016, 09:39 AM)irukandji Wrote: You are right, speakeasy, most tales involve consequences. Why didn't Nick let Juliette/Eve die as consequence for his mother's death and the destruction of the trailer?
It's my belief that it was for the same reason he hasn't done so up to the present, he isn't ready. To me, it's further evidence of the torturous conflict he has about killing her to avenge Kelly, Juliette should release him from that responsibility. Btw, I don't see the destruction of the trailer as an unforgivable act.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".