Diavolo Is Away

I'm calling it now: Gwen is a mix of Olivia's mom and an android.

"Bring her back." "Bring her back."

The treament we got in the narration to now is such a drastic difference, that with age Olivia didnt cope well in the slightest.

From:

"Are you hurt, I can make you better."

To

"I can fix her again."

It's an incessant child. A child who clings to becoming the provider and caretaker so young, with such foolish ideals and notions, that are not typical.

Especially considering these shots. It's a pilot, so there is a purpose to each shot, angle, and coloring. From the design of Olivia's handmaidens to the light leaving her eyes.

To Gwen's organs spilling out, a now barren and bloody womb.

It’s interesting how Olivia originally had black hair like Orville before becoming a platinum blonde as early as her little childhood. Was this the color of her mother’s hair?

There’s some Loss of Innocence vibes I’m feeling with this pilot as a whole. Not just LoI for our protagonists disillusioned by Park Planet but also with Gwen as well. It’s clear Gwen was created as… some sort of replacement for Olivia’s mother.

But how can you be a mother to the one who made you? That’s not how it works. Perhaps some commentary on adultification. Gwen’s entrails almost resemble an umbilical cord here and the way she clutches her abdomen as the cord trails all the way to her “child” at the end. Blood leaking. It almost feels like a metaphor for childbirth? For breaking the water?

She was just made and already she’s being made to bear children and be a mother. It’s implied Sparky’s plan was to sell Gwen as a sex doll. Something something the way young girls are thrust into womanhood immediately. Sexualized at a young age. Olivia becoming a mother to her own machine at a young age.

And now she’s an elderly lady raving on about Gwen like she’s her daughter who’s run from home, who will be exposed to the dangers of the outside world! The loss of innocence for her daughter! The daughter fleeing from the isolated tower where she was meant to be a mother. I’m thinking of how early Disney had Snow White as a teenager and yet she was almost like an adult in her portrayal and being all but set up to marry Florian at the end.

I dunno just this like. Sense of perversion of childhood innocence and the transition to adulthood. Gwen has escaped Olivia yet Frankie and Andi are still seen by her as these two girls to take care of. But they’re adults now. Frankie protecting Gwen because she represents her childhood innocence which makes the refusal to hand her over as an implied sex doll. But Gwen has already been “tainted” and she’s already lost that innocence and Frankie and Olivia don’t recognize it? Frankie’s fondness involved fixing Gwen as a kid, she’s supposed to repair and fix her to be happy again!!!