#baghra

“know that i loved you, know that it wasn’t enough” so hey you can go ahead and stab me!

I'm still rewatching Shadow and Bone S2 (of sorts) and have just seen E6, in which Baghra dies. I don't really get what her deal was supposed to be. I also see Zoe Wannamaker as a comedy actress and I don't think she was the right choice for a high stakes fantasy series; I was surprised when I first saw her in S1. Nothing against her, she actually plays one of my fave characters--Ariadne Oliver in the Agatha Christie's Poirot, so this is not coming from any dislike towards her. But the way she delivers her lines sounds like she is barking. Which would be fine if she was a, say, sarcastic aunt or grandma. It would also fit that deep voice of hers better. But here she just comes off as rude. In that scene in the woods, when they discover that cave or whatever it was (I'm half paying attention to it, can you tell), she kept calling Mal 'boy' which seriously, I wanted to shout at the screen "he has a name!" Also, I don't remember her ever saying a kind word to anyone. Idk how these characters put up with her behaviour. In that flashback in S1, when Darkling saved her and himself from those soldiers that were after them, he puts her down and she touches his face--and it's the only time she shows any affection to her son. In the next second, she is back to telling him off. Yet, he still seems fond of her and when she dies, he shows grief.

“What is infinite?

Okay people I need to know everything about merzost and how it works.

The only right thing Mal has ever spoken:

The Baghra + Aleksander relationship is so interesting bc it has both heavy vibes of emotional incest and also intense scapegoating. Like she's obsessed w him he's her "little husband" but everything he does in her eyes is wrong.