#she cling...................................

"Why couldn't you love me?!"

"I do!"

knowing that Kris does have feelings for Susie, and that Susie's ability to feel comfortable expressing hers depends in large part on reciprocity

their respective body language makes so much sense:

Kris doesn't feel like they can/should express their feelings for Susie but they want to, so they take a step back but don't actually let go once they've gotten that close, while Susie leans forward at the same time as they lean back

Susie, mistaking Kris pulling her close for reciprocal desire (in this case, to also want to bite her hair lol like she wants to bite theirs) (because they aren't normal) tries to close the distance further

and she's actually really upset that Kris rejects that advance when she thought it was something they initiated!

Steve and Jonathan are finally not at each other throats all the time- friendly even - and then here Robin. Walking into the room, sniffling the air, and looking Jonathan in the eyes before saying, “Ew, smells like little bitch in here.”

Jonathan is confused. Steve is amused but a little baffled because like, “Robin, that’s the third time you’ve done that. What’s the deal with you and Jonathan? Did he do something?”

“Why do you think I did something?” Jonathan asks.

“You’re my best friend, Steve,” Robin explains. “My platonic with a capital P soulmate. My other half. My twin sep-“

“Okay.”

“And he beat you up and stole your girlfriend,” She adds. “It’s my goddamn given right not to forgive him on your behalf and since you’re not going to be bitch to him anymore than-“

the way she subtle ways mentally separates "people" and "prisoners", only ever referring to them as "convict". they never even record their names. they're criminals. they're bad people who've done bad things so whatever happens is their own fault. COI tells their story of what happened to the station and that the Convict was at fault for it, so she believes it without questioning his side (something to be said here about the bias perspective told by governments to further their own goals, to have more prisoners to "rehabilitate" by risking their lives for their future, but thats a whole other thing). he's proving himself to be a person, that he deserves to live by being willing to die for the sake of the COI humanity. how the idea of the potential and a better future outweighs a human life.

And she’s so deep in denial about it. She sounds genuinely confused when Simon makes her say that they won’t kill/abandon him repeatedly. She’s insisting it's not a death sentence or a punishment but they’ve left people down there to die when they became “unrecoverable”. The constant lying to Simon about the situation even when there isn’t any reason to do so. Burying herself so deep in the idea that everything they do is for the betterment of humanity that the convicts stop being people and become unfortunate but necessary casualties. whats a criminal's life when humanity is at sake?

She wants so badly to believe she’s just a captain doing what’s best for everyone but there's conditions on who counts in "everyone." she’s an executioner. A guillotine or a sub – it’s all the same outcome in the end. And as the movie goes on she starts to understand that too.

the guilt in her voice when she tells Simon they aren't coming for him, because it just proves every time he questioned her promises about his survival was right. He was right not to trust them, they’re no more reliable or noble than Eden because they still abandoned those that placed their faith in them. She sent them to die and she never even learned their names. They weren't even on record. They're nameless disposable bodies to these people and now when directly confronted with it she can't ignore it anymore.

at the end she's finally willing to push back against the COI (even then it's only with the promise of the other ship's data, but it is something). promising Simon his freedom instead of just his return. finally willing to challenge her own rigid ideas of personhood and put herself at risk for the greater good, the great discovery, the thing that could save them all.

historical trans people are going to say they were born in the wrong body sometimes

historical gay people are going to call their lovers "my friend," or their attraction a sin despite never trying not to act on it, sometimes

historical enslaved people are going to speak positively about things their enslavers did for them sometimes

historical women- even very active, independent women -are going to be anti-suffragists sometimes