#i am....so...

god okay this one little....scene with Rosa and Michael!! That they’ve finally fucking addressed “we were kids and we were scared and we were dumb and we should have known what putting you in that driver’s seat was going to do” and “i used to sit out in the desert and think about Rosa Ortecho as an adult” and “i thought that if you didn’t get to have a life then I didn’t deserve to either.”

Just!!! The way Michael has shouldered all this guilt but is now channeling it into at least...god. *trying* to make amends to Rosa. APOLOGIZING to Rosa and telling her he recognizes what they did was wrong.

Sorry but your stupid little Wyatt redemption plotline could never??? Like in 5 minutes they did more for holding someone accountable for the harm they did to a POC than Wyatt’s plotline has done in four episodes.

And that Michael is now using that guilt and sorrow to *do something* to *protect* Rosa and clean the graffiti (and also probably why he couldn’t walk away when Bert needed help?) like THAT!! IS!! WHAT!!! accountability looks like.

Anyway Michael Guerin using the things he acknowledges he did wrong in the past to try and be a better person in the future instead of just wallowing in that guilt anymore - Michael Guerin’s Character Growth In Season Three - Michael Guerin Learning Not To Let Guilt Consume Him!!

Like this was such a good scene THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD SCENE??

And letting Rosa have the final say - he wasn’t expecting Rosa to forgive him - the point of his actions wasn’t for Rosa to FORGIVE him it wasn’t something he EXPECTED from her it was *for Rosa* and how he could help her in return for how he’d hurt her?

THIS is how you center stories around POC, actually not like...whatever else the episode had going on, or Wyatt Long. Just have your white characters own up to their mistakes and fucking hold THEMSELVES accountable to POC and then commit to helping them and standing up for them in the future.