#pinkmaned

oh no please jump in! i totally agree with your points...and also thank you for reminding me of a point i meant to include in my last answer – gerri isn't family...but isn't she? she's shiv's godmother and she's arguably logan's most trusted ally (in rewatching season 1, the pilot is meant to make you give that title to frank but then they spend the rest of season 1 showing logan's reliance on gerri specifically – she's at his right-hand position during vote of no confidence, she's his spy and then surrogate at shiv's wedding, he literally likes and values her more than the other c-suite folks). i think that alone is enough to legitimize her as folded into the family when it comes to our central story...add in her very complicated relationship with roman in s2 & s3 and we do really have a lot of ground left to cover going forward 👀

also adding in a couple of relevant replies from that last ask:

@wonderpommey said: I think the only thing I heard was Kieran saying Jessee thought it could be interesting to have to have Roman be bi. They obviously followed the actors connection and embraced Roman and Gerri but pretty sure they want to go back to their original idea. that being said they’ve attached themselves to Roman and Gerri in a big way so doubt they can fully let it go. at least I hope not!

yes! that jumped out to me from the official succession podcast (on my main pre-sideblog 💀) and even at the time i found the way they decided that they couldn't have that be part of roman's whole thing like...a little dismissive? i was actually really glad they seemed to have circled back to it in season three (the trainer jerk off sessions anecdote coming back, the homoerotic bathroom scenes) and i hope they continue to peel back the layers of that part of his characterization in season four, especially given the way logan (and shiv and everyone) was hammering home his psychosexual problems in the last two episodes of season three.

@pinkmaned said: I read in an interview with Kieran that Tabitha’s job was basically corporate mentorship, but the scenes explaining that were cut. that gives me the feeling that they had planned for some of the beats of the Gerri arc to happen with Tabs, but with the chemistry between J. and Kieran I think they ended up giving it to Gerri.

Obviously there's nuance to his storyline, but it's pretty clearly there to show how toxic the allure of wealth/power is, especially if you view it as something you innately deserve. (I also think this is why he and Tom are such a natural team, since they're both coming from a similar place of like... "Minor" wealth and trying to navigate this entirely different universe the Roys live in. I could see Tom hanging onto some kind of ~status~, but I don't think Greg is going to end up with anything at the end of it all.)

i think you're spot on with this! greg provide us with an outsider's perspective of a "regular" person thrown into their world, but at the same time a cautionary tale about blindly following power without having any real conviction. him and tom are both outsiders that found themselves inside without any real solid plan of where to go from there, which also makes me think that they'll fall back on each other this season as things continue to dissolve for them...

LOVE terrace house.... It's so nice to see people just like, solve their problems like adults lmao?

It’s the BEST god it feels stupid rare to run into others that have read the books