i hate that this is what brought me back to the app but i hope all of you are doing ok despite everything
I finished. Huzzah!
what do you think!! i hope you enjoyed it!
24 hours later still thinking about that finale...........
Anonymous asked:
Watching the first episode Again for giffing and all the times Catherine is like "when I thought he was dead, i felt my heart and soul ripping" and I'm crying because now he is. I still can't believe it. UGHHHHHH. Or how Peter says in the hypothetical letter how he was terrified at the thought of never seeing Paul and Catherine again and now he CAN'T! AAAAHHHHH!
oh i can't believe they played with us from episode 1..... i am so sad paul cannot grow up with his dad by his side :( i just hope if there is a season 4 they still continue to honor and remember him in some ways especially for paul
I am doing good! I am slowly and surely working through The Great and best believe I will share thoughts when done
i am replying to both of your asks btw. i hope i didn't spoil the show for you but yea😭 i really hope you're enjoying the show tho it is so underrated and more ppl should watch it!
Anonymous asked:
I just finished the show. This is such a good fucking show!
Even though i am HEARTBROKEN, through Elisabeth, Grigor and Catherine the show really gave the room to sort of process it and by giving that last kick, really got us out of the pain and invested in how she will keep her reign. Truly smart writing. Like with just 10 episodes, they wrote a love story, a heartbreak and a riveting political play, like only The Great can.
I am still definitely broken about Peter's death. I don't know how the show will do whole seasons without him, and very very selfishly wish they don't make another love for Catherine.
When Elisabeth said basically fuck off to Peter the Great, i was in pain, wishing Peter had also said the same. And elisabeths fate of losing two children to water, my god.
Paul will never know how much Peter loved him. Catherine always humming Their Song. Wearing his clothes. Grigor, the true himbo. So Torn by grief he thinks a box is a good place to keep a child. Immersing himself in bath fully clothed? He is i think the most affected because i don't he truly knows how to live without Peter. Also what's up with Marial? I understand but also dude!!!
Charit Wakefield is so good. Her actual pain in losing Peter, sewn with George's intrinsic manipulation, she is good. Amazing. So is Phoebe Fox as Marial and every single person in this cast because otherwise the insanity of this show could never deliver the emotional impact.
I always liked Nicholas Hoult, but after this show i am completely and Fully obsessed with him. I only hope he'll be back as a ghost next season. (But i like that they didn't bring him back this season, it would've hurt too much). Because as you said his and elles chemistry needs to shine more.
Okay as of now, this is all i have for thoughts. Might have more once I start giffing, but until then you are released from the grips of my 1k words long asks.
i agree with you wholeheartedly!! despite the great loss (lol), the show has proven its ability to still excel w/o peter. the last episode is riveting and freeing. it shows precisely why peter needs to be gone for catherine to be great (of course the show will be great focusing on catherine and peter's love story but the great is never about that) people who are mad that they get rid of peter or say that catherine x peter is the whole point of the show don't understand the show at all. i feel like all of the characters (not just catherine) have a chance to develop in a new direction due to peter's death and that gives the show a fresh air/start🫶 and please do keep sending me your thoughts haha <3
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Hi. Elle Fanning deserves an Emmy for this performance. I'm actually more heartbroken this episode than last. The flashback killed me. I'm usually not a fan of the flashback because we're all watching together etc, but this was so well timed, and Elle',s performance, the way she was shaking, Grigor in the background wailing.
Also the way she was watching the play. Just after losing her husband, her face was broken. I couldn't bear it. I wanted to smash George's face in multiple times then. Fucking Marial. I knew she'd be happy but it still made me so fucking angry. It's funny how George thinks her plan is useful to her when actually the one who actually won is Marial. She got her love and best friend back.
A thought that's been swirling around about this season in my head (i am still only on e7, so might be wrong), but truly this season has been the trauma of it all you know? The obvious trauma of your husband fucking and killing your mother and your wife stabbing you give times, but also about Simitz or Peter's trauma from his father that ultimately lead him to his death or even George slapping Catherine when she was mining humping her. Or Marial's anger because of how she was treated by Peter. It really feels like a season where the trauma of it all was leading the relationships. And the writing's so sublime! But I still wish they didn't kill Peter. What am I to do without PeterCatherine scenes?
I am only half joking when I say you are responsible for this heartbreak. I was fine before i watched you watch this amazing show and your impeccable taste in TV is the reason I'm truly bummed out this friday
ugh that last scene is my favorite scene of the season for sure. the drama of it all, grigor agonizingly announcing peter's death and catherine having to face the truth and trying and failing to contain her heartbreak..... they really earn their emmy nom for the scene (i hope elle will take one home this year she deserves it)
and hahaha i am so very sorry to have made you watch the show (though i have no idea the show will come to this) but at the same time i am so happy you are here <3
seeing taylor and phoebe tomorrow <3
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Never going to get over Catherine playing badminton from both sides. She literally could not compute. My baby. She lost her mother and then her fate, her love. The only person who saw her. And Grigor. My Grigor. His love too. The fact that he died in front of the two people who lived him and who he loved most. Oh God Paul! I cannot believe he's actually dead. Grigor saying he looked bewildered like of course he did. I'm sure he never death was thing for him. I hope Catherine gives him a legacy. Also my god Elisabeth. I don't even know how she's going to react. I'm gonna break down when I see that. I'm gonna miss Nicholas Hoult as Peter so much. His charm is unparalleled. I don't think any other actor could have pulled off that arc.
I know the writing of this show is good enough that it's still gonna be amazing but i will miss that PeterCatherine chemistry
(this is what happens when you give me permission to write as long as I want to)
i love how they decide to portray catherine's grief this way.... that she is just in complete denial and it hurts so good. grigor too, the two people who love him the most in this world..... way to put a knife in my heart
and i completely agree that killing peter off is a great lost. nicholas hoult embodies that character in a way that no one can and he was quite literally the best part of the show. i still enjoy the show without him (at least the rest of the season) but you definitely feel his absence </3 and knowing the cast miss him as much makes me feel worse :( elle literally said in one of the interviews that she cried thinking about never getting do a scene with nick in the show anymore....... i know we have to move on but just let me wallow a bit
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AAAHHHHAAAHHHHAAAHBHHB. TONY MCNAMARA I AM COMING FOR YOU
(halfway through ep6)
I love you with my whole fucking heart and body and whatever ineffable spirit that animates me???
I am the only one who sees every version of you and love all of them even the parts i find baffling and idiotic ???
How is it that the man who literally punched his wife in the first episode then also be the man who says to the same wife that she's grow bigger and bigger and he's afraid he'll remain small? And also be the greatest fucking dad? Nicholas Hoult and Tony Macnamara your brains ....
I haven't completed the episode, but i just had to let my thoughts out here
dude you don't know how happy i am now you have got to the episode (now you know why i basically forgot what happened at the beginning of the season🥲) their whole interaction beforehand killed me....... his death is inevitable but tony mcnamara certainly knows how to put salt on wounds (haha salt........iykyk 😭)
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Okay okay just finished the ordination episode and AAAHHHHH Peter and Catherine are everything!! Hugo/Grigor rivalry is so so so fun. Also the boys together exude such a boys will be boys energy with running into bags and trying to get horses hard. And the practice for the duel? I love the madness of those scenes. I also terribly terribly love how this show has the most insane anecdotes and then still end in the most emotional way. Esp with Peter. Nicholas Hoult your range!
Speaking of range, To Paul! His first word was pussy and second book! Truly an icon. Huzzah!
Also Elisabeth and Archie together is definitely such a power duo? Love. Also love? Vinodel asking in increasingly bizzare ways to have sex with Elisabeth.
(Also, sorry this is getting long, but the way Peter says to Catherine the Great huzzah and then throws the knife when he was trying to kill simitz, 🥵🥵)
I haven't even talked about Marial and Catherine, but I won't take too much time!
I love this show so much
omg thank you for this recap! this show is so crazy i forgot half of the things that happened 10 episodes later💀 paul is just like his parents...... i'm not crying you're crying (and i am lowkey shipping elisabeth and vinodel :D) can't wait to see what you think of the next episode <3 <3
Anonymous asked:
I haven't finished it (savouring a bit, but knowing me the dam will burst soon), but the fact that Catherine just killed orlo... In the first ep... And she doesn't even know...
This is such an insane showww
(also obsessed with the fact that Catherine becomes a petulant child around Peter. Also Grigor my beloved. I love him so much. The ultimate bestie)
my mouth is sealed then! come back whenever you watched a new episode <3
and yes the orlo storyline...... did not see that coming and i do wonder if there is any external reason that causes this development. also i am happy to let you know that this is as much a grigor's season as catherine's
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also taylor swift and matty healy........ thoughts🧍♀️
Anonymous asked:
hulloooooo my favourite person on tumblr, 'tis I, coming to enquire as to your well-being these last months
i feel bad that i am replying to this two months later but i hope you are doing well my favorite anon 🥺! i think my absence shows how hard i have been working for the past few months in my graduate school but it paid off cause i got a. 4.0 gpa still lol (honestly thank god) and tbh it's been a while that i am not sure anymore that i know how to use this website lol its so weird being back here but at the same time i feel like a part of me is lost for not being here </3
Been a while. How ya been? The Great is back soon!
i miss you all! sorry that i haven't been checking my messages/notifs and ty for not abandoning me even though i was gone for months... 🥺
some update: i have just finished the first year of my masters so i finally have the time to relax and rest for a bit so i am doing quite well currently! and i'm going to the eras tour on friday (!!!!!!!) and going back to taiwan the day after so life is pretty great haha (i am coming back to the states soon for a summer internship though but i also look forward to that) how are you doing :)