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Purge 1×08 thoughts including spoilers:

Well! We kinda knew that was coming. A part of me is shrugging, given what the genre is, bolstered by another part that can see that yes, one out of two f/f characters was killed, but there’s probably a similar ratio for m/f characters for once.

But a final part of me is a little miffed at how it happened? It wasn’t good TV. Like, we didn’t see the signs before, it all happened in one episode. The line from Lila before about Rick wanting to be a part of the world, we picked up on that but it was hardly foreshadowing enough. Not when it was kinda true. Surprise, Lila’s a purge loving psycho lesbian trope after all! I would have included more scenes of her with her parents earlier in the show, or even the flashback from tonight, I would have included the first half in a previous ep and then showed the rest of it today to get some payoff and a persistant moment. They deliberately played up the romantic arc of Lila and Jenna in previous eps so this could be a more shocking and horrible twist. That Jenna, the most anti-purge person on the show, had to kill the woman that she might have loved. 

And it hasn’t escaped my notice that most of the bad guys have been just terrible people, motivated by money and being men, lol. Jane’s bad guy was David, the siblings’ was Tavis and the ex-boyfriend and the general shittiness of humans, but the Betancourts’ wasn’t actually the NFFA but Jenna’s jilted female lover? Who was a mixture of evil (enjoying her first purge in flashbacks and everything she was throwing at Rick) but mostly genuinely unbalanced?

But at least that all is done now and we can stop worrying how it was all going to shake down. 😛

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Purge 1×08 thoughts including spoilers:

Well! We kinda knew that was coming. A part of me is shrugging, given what the genre is, bolstered by another part that can see that yes, one out of two f/f characters was killed, but there’s probably a similar ratio for m/f characters for once.

But a final part of me is a little miffed at how it happened? It wasn’t good TV. Like, we didn’t see the signs before, it all happened in one episode. The line from Lila before about Rick wanting to be a part of the world, we picked up on that but it was hardly foreshadowing enough. Not when it was kinda true. Surprise, Lila’s a purge loving psycho lesbian trope after all! I would have included more scenes of her with her parents earlier in the show, or even the flashback from tonight, I would have included the first half in a previous ep and then showed the rest of it today to get some payoff and a persistant moment. They deliberately played up the romantic arc of Lila and Jenna in previous eps so this could be a more shocking and horrible twist. That Jenna, the most anti-purge person on the show, had to kill the woman that she might have loved. 

And it hasn’t escaped my notice that most of the bad guys have been just terrible people, motivated by money and being men, lol. Jane’s bad guy was David, the siblings’ was Tavis and the ex-boyfriend and the general shittiness of humans, but the Betancourts’ wasn’t actually the NFFA but Jenna’s jilted female lover? Who was a mixture of evil (enjoying her first purge in flashbacks and everything she was throwing at Rick) but mostly genuinely unbalanced?

But at least that all is done now and we can stop worrying how it was all going to shake down. 😛

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Hey! What are your thoughts regarding the new episode of the Purge :)? Still on TeamLila?

Hey back atcha! 

That’s a good question. I’m not really sure anymore? 

The flashbacks clarified a lot of things, or mostly confirmed what we’d guessed, but I could like feel the audience sympathy swing back to Rick during it, lol, and justifiably? He’s done nothing wrong in this and frankly was a lot more chill about the whole party and Lila showing up than could be expected. 

But that still doesn’t necessarily mean he should be with Jenna, if they just don’t work anymore. It’s telling how Jenna seems ready to suspect his motives and ambitions but is so open to the same ideas when they come from Lila. And I LOVED that last confrontation between the three of them, that was just good drama. I like Lila when she’s being up front and forward about everything, even if it’s “hey, be with me” and “your wife wants to be with me”. In this context, that’s fine with me, that’s basically what it is. Like, it would lead to less cheating and there’s no home to wreck if Jenna just wants to be with her. But I wonder if there’s another twist on the way, when Jenna keeps saying “it’s not that simple”. 

My biggest hmm moment with Lila came when they were sitting upstairs and she was like, yeah, you and me, we’re the exceptions, but Rick, oh Rick seems to love that money, I want to trust him but I just don’t know if I can, all innocent and on their side. That seemed manipulative and I don’t like that, especially since it implies there could be a lot more manipulation going on here, what with this whole party at her house and her gross parents throwing it.

I’m still tentatively on TeamLila simply because there’s still good f/f potential, but it’d be really easy to not be on anybody’s side here, including Jenna’s. Also, Rick hasn’t done anything bad yet, but even before Lila casting aspersions, Jenna seems to think he’s too into this NFFA deal, so if he does embrace that at any point, that’ll make me pretty anti-Rick. 

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Hey! What are your thoughts regarding the new episode of the Purge :)? Still on TeamLila?

Hey back atcha! 

That’s a good question. I’m not really sure anymore? 

The flashbacks clarified a lot of things, or mostly confirmed what we’d guessed, but I could like feel the audience sympathy swing back to Rick during it, lol, and justifiably? He’s done nothing wrong in this and frankly was a lot more chill about the whole party and Lila showing up than could be expected. 

But that still doesn’t necessarily mean he should be with Jenna, if they just don’t work anymore. It’s telling how Jenna seems ready to suspect his motives and ambitions but is so open to the same ideas when they come from Lila. And I LOVED that last confrontation between the three of them, that was just good drama. I like Lila when she’s being up front and forward about everything, even if it’s “hey, be with me” and “your wife wants to be with me”. In this context, that’s fine with me, that’s basically what it is. Like, it would lead to less cheating and there’s no home to wreck if Jenna just wants to be with her. But I wonder if there’s another twist on the way, when Jenna keeps saying “it’s not that simple”. 

My biggest hmm moment with Lila came when they were sitting upstairs and she was like, yeah, you and me, we’re the exceptions, but Rick, oh Rick seems to love that money, I want to trust him but I just don’t know if I can, all innocent and on their side. That seemed manipulative and I don’t like that, especially since it implies there could be a lot more manipulation going on here, what with this whole party at her house and her gross parents throwing it.

I’m still tentatively on TeamLila simply because there’s still good f/f potential, but it’d be really easy to not be on anybody’s side here, including Jenna’s. Also, Rick hasn’t done anything bad yet, but even before Lila casting aspersions, Jenna seems to think he’s too into this NFFA deal, so if he does embrace that at any point, that’ll make me pretty anti-Rick.