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Topic subjectI did like how they handled the end of his relationship with that guy.
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12869832, I did like how they handled the end of his relationship with that guy.
Posted by Nodima, Mon Aug-03-15 03:03 AM
guy was just as cold to him as he'd been to guy, but you could tell it was the only truly passionate relationship in either of their lives. they didn't make a big deal out of it, but I could feel his pain not necessarily at the betrayal, but basically using the one person he truly had feelings for's head as a bullet sponge.

the last time they embraced was on the field of battle, and in a sense one taking a bullet for the other.

I think it was also a little poetic that he was told to just be himself and everything would be fine, and I bought him more in his moment of betraying Ray and Ani than I did when he tried to escape. if he'd have sold them out, he'd have been fine and got to go on faking his life with his fiancé. but in another sense, being himself meant entering a combat scenario and finding his self worth the only way he knew how.

overall it was a hamfisted character, as has been much of this show, but given that's been this season's (and some would say show's) entire M.O. I'm willing to look past that and I found a lot to appreciate about that character, especially his final moments, he was a conflicted character, but his disdain for and passion for conflict was ultimately what made him watchable, and I think Kitsch wore it well (it was similar to his role as Riggins, a guy who seemed built for only football but tried to dream of bigger things).

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