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People rag on Edward for being bad at his job but I think he fucks up the perfect amount for someone in his position it’s everyone who’s overachieving

today i'm thinking abt hickey's "sort the ranks out of this in advance" in 1x6 and tozer's continued (mis)belief that he's an equal in their relationship. and it may seem that way at first (tozer confiding in hickey abt the fairholme party, the hodgson neptune lunch, orchestrating the guns, acting as his second in command at the mutiny camp). but when tozer shows his soft belly, makes suggestions/demands abt how they should proceed and unwittingly gives hickey the last piece for the tuurngaq plan (the soul eating!) in 1x9 hickey drops him like a hot potato bc hes not useful anymore (& of course hickey NEVER thought of tozer as an equal - that's crozier! - but he obviously up to that point had an interest in making him THINK he is. bc lbr without tozer and the guns the mutiny would be DUST. but i digress). most notably hickey does not involve tozer in the crozier kidnapping At All - tozer isn't even in camp when they return! i'd die for a tozer reaction shot bc omg what are you thinking. what WAS the ranks sorting out bc he sooo underestimated and misjudged his relationship with hickey...i mean post-almost-hanging tozer very much clocked that he bet on the wrong horse (his growing passivity at mutiny camp....) but at that point obviously it's really way too late and you gotta make the best of a really bad situation. hashtag his sunk cost fallacy but also like WHAT was he gonna do at that point. guy who was an active and confident leader who got worn down thru the combination of trauma, starvation/illness, and bad decisions to someone who is sososo scared and passive... like of course he's doubting his decision-making/leadership skills bc look at what his previous ones led them to. it's 11:05 am on a friday and i'm making myself sad about tozer :(

Wednesday the 15th. What an excellent day. Middle of the week, middle of the month. Truly, we are in the middle of things.