Amar Cinéma et Art

loving-villanelle:

Please sit down with your hot takes about how Killing Eve is not an example of BYG because we all should have expected a tragic ending due to the nature of the show. Literally everyone was prepared for and expecting the fact that one or both of these characters might die. While it’s obviously difficult to deal with the death of any character that you’ve connected with, this isn’t about Villanelle dying, it’s about the way they did it. To spend 35 minutes of this episode showing these characters finally finding their happiness, only to have it ripped away by a bullet in the span of less than 24 hours. Sound familiar? For the death to do nothing to move along the plot or further the story or serve any real purpose other than shock value. Sound familiar? I am exhausted seeing people bend over backwards trying to defend this show for killing Villanelle in the most vile and sadistic of ways and then say that we should’ve have expected it and that it doesn’t play into any pre-established tropes. Nothing about Villanelle’s death played into the the natural premise of the show. She didn’t die taking down the Twelve, she didn’t die in a high stakes situation, she didn’t die with any sort of purpose. Instead, she was shot in the arms of the woman that she loves right as she had gained her freedom and her happiness. There was no victory in her death, only victimization. There was no meaning, only shock value. If you want to argue that this isn’t BYG, fine maybe you’re right, because this is actually so much worse than BYG. This was a well established character that we spent 4 years investing in, that they spent 4 years growing and developing and while death was certainly a very real possibility for this character, not in this way. The Haunting of Bly Manor is a perfect example of a sapphic story that ended in tragedy, but is so beautiful because it actually had meaning. It served a purpose, it wasn’t wrapped up in hurried happiness, followed by unspeakable tragedy. It was a natural part of the story. This was not that. And every detail of this ending was downright cruel. Ignorance of a character’s queerness or a story’s queerness and the intricacies involved in that is not an excuse. This 2022 and I AM TIRED. Do fucking better.