- I miss my mama. - I can imagine. - Not my daddy. He was pitiful. Does that make me bad? - No. No, it don’t.
#yes i have cried watching this scene what of it!! #yes i cry every time they’re on screen together in season 2 what of it!!! #loretta is set up from the beginning as raylan’s mirror #a kid trapped in a family surrounded by crime and violence #and raylan in a rare moment of self-awareness absolutely sees that and tries to help her #tom bergan asks him “what were you like at her age?” and the next time we see raylan he’s giving loretta the burner phone with his number #she calls him and he drops everything to go save her; he gets her out of the bennett house the way no one could get him out of his own house #she says “i miss my mama” and he tells her “i can imagine” #when winona asks him how he knows she’s going to try and get revenge on mags he says “because it’s what i would’ve done at her age” #and then he stops her from killing mags by telling her that the cycles of revenge and violence he himself is so trapped in are meaningless #he wants something better for her than what he had #and she stills winds up a criminal and raylan himself could only break the patterns of violence he’s caught up in that one time with dickie #and that doesn’t mean it was meaningless; it just means that the system (of violence of poverty of crime) doesn’t break down #for individual actions #and honestly if justified is About one thing it is about these systems and what they do to people and how people #both survive within and perpetrate them #there ain’t no salvation for people like us (via @foxlives)
