I disagree that Elizabeth didn’t ask for help for fear of appearing to be vulnerable. She flat out admitted that Chicago is going to be a disaster and she expects to fail. She chose to go this solitary route to spare him from doing any more bloody field work. She still wants to spare him from that. These two hit their absolute lowest emotional point in this episode but what they’re facing has shocked them both into remembering that they love each other deeply. Even Philip’s flippant answer to her ‘who are you?’ question was a sly admission of love. ‘I’m the same idiotic asshole who's loved you all along, and I’m coming to save you.’ That was his way of burying all the emotional hatchets they’ve been throwing at each other all season.
Also disagree that Elizabeth’s call to Henry was meant to be a proxy for Philip. I take that scene at face value. Elizabeth thinks that she is about to die. In her own awkward way, she wanted to tell her son that she loves him. Her fumbling around talking about trivial things was her way of showing Henry that she did care about every tiny aspect of his life, even if she never showed it. It was so much all at once that even Henry was surprised because she’s never shown that much open interest in him before.
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Re: Henry and Walden
Date: 2018-05-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Also disagree that Elizabeth’s call to Henry was meant to be a proxy for Philip. I take that scene at face value. Elizabeth thinks that she is about to die. In her own awkward way, she wanted to tell her son that she loves him. Her fumbling around talking about trivial things was her way of showing Henry that she did care about every tiny aspect of his life, even if she never showed it. It was so much all at once that even Henry was surprised because she’s never shown that much open interest in him before.