Linds

So as a follow-up to my previous post with the Great Expectations quote:

For those of you who have never read it. Great Expectations is a novel about a young boy who encounters a mysterious woman whose protegee, Estella, has been raised to be unable/unwilling to love. Pip falls in love with her, and his desperate need for her affection slowly leads to him becoming a worse and worse person. His feelings for her are written as something like a curse.

" “Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!”

 If the often repeated word had been hate instead of love—despair—revenge—dire death—it could not have sounded from her lips more like a curse."

Pip continues to go on with is desire to be with her even though she tells him again and again:

"You must know...that I have no heart...I have a heart to be stabbed or shot - but I have no softness there, no sympathy."

Estella hás been raised by Miss Havisham to be unable to love others. Havisham has made her believe she should never allow herself to care for others, because of the danger.

Pip's obsession with Estella slowly turns him into a terrible person who scorns the people who really care about him.

“Since your change of fortune and prospects, you have changed your companions,” said Estella.

“Naturally,” said I.

“And necessarily,” she added, in a haughty tone; “what was fit company for you once, would be quite unfit company for you now.”

In my conscience, I doubt very much whether I had any lingering intention left of going to see Joe; but if I had, this observation put it to flight."

Pip eventually realizes he'll never get Estella's love and makes the speech to her I quoted in the earlier post

So how this goes forward. He never does get over her, or move on. But he does find closure with his friends and family, and they have a reunion after some of her character development.

"“But you said to me,” returned Estella, very earnestly, “‘God bless you, God forgive you!’ And if you could say that to me then, you will not hesitate to say that to me now,—now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. Be as considerate and good to me as you were, and tell me we are friends.”

“We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench.

“And will continue friends apart,” said Estella.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

That’s why I don’t understand why some fans are so eager to bring the Protector stuff back. Like… y’all actually liked that? 😐

Now, the Storekeeper storyline is different. I wouldn’t mind seeing that return in a later season because I think there’s still a lot they could do with it. But if I had to choose, I’d much rather watch Sofia navigating life at Charmswell with Layla, Camila, Zane, Devin, and the rest of her classmates than spend a bunch of time back on the Mystic Isles.

I just saw a theory that Lucifer is a cockatiel and now I can’t unsee it 🥹