#mar talks

like if they had saved the plot for the future episodes and actually let us see all characters dealing with their grief and remembering bobby in this one it would've worked better I think. bc by doing it in this order it just sidelined the most emotional parts and the goodbye to a beloved character

and yeahhhhh they can still do emotional scenes in the next episodes (and I think they will) but that doesn't change that they dropped the ball with the emotional beats on this one

narratively, i like how it works. it took suri a while to get used to adam, and she did start to like him - he is a good leader, and they had a moment of understanding/empathy. close enough that she knows how old he is, and there is a subtle yet wicked sense of him or beneath it all. but really, getting into her motivation, she sort of wanted to get closer to adam because he is nate’s oldest friend

adam being a close teammate but not a best friend of the group, maybe he does sense some of that. no doubt they are friends, teammates, and maybe even family, but not best friends. and that is okay! (meanwhile morgan is just an better teammate and thinking about m’s loyalty, it makes sense - and it’s good for suri to sort of have a best friend who SHE is close with, rather than someone else)

Minor reason: overreliance on Tales characters whose arcs go against the borderlands ethos

MAJOR reason: borderlands is a futuristic western, not a cyberpunk franchise. Neither in themes nor aesthetic.