I’ll be honest here, because it’s what I do. I mostly don’t care.

I was actually surprised his Happy Birthday was as friendly as it was, since the last two years or so, it’s been about as frigid as the arctic in winter. (And for what it’s worth, I don’t think that had anything to do with his feelings for her, but more to do with the fandom demanding it out of him.)

As for no response... Two things. A quick glance at her Twitter tells me she didn’t respond to anyone personally - just with a blanket post thanking everybody. So it’s not like she stiffed him or anything :P

And secondly, the people most invested in his birthday greetings (those demanding it in the first place and those critiquing its relative length and girth (haha - see what I did there??)) are... of a certain segment of the fandom, shall we say. And it simply isn’t in that segment’s interests to bring any kind of attention to the fact that she didn’t respond.

...which is why, I’m guessing, you brought it up in the first place. And I hate to disappoint you, but I don’t think my blog has a big readership in that segment of the fandom, as I'm pretty vocal about being on the good ship Holin and having little patience for RPF fantasy ships. I mean, they can do them all they want, but they sure as hell ain’t doing it over here.

So... The short answer is: Nobody around here gives a shit.

Oh, gosh. My crazy ass son T_T

Okay, so look... I really want to, like, re-write this movie into a fanfic where Peter’s maybe not quite so fucked up and maybe is redeemable and he finds true love and gets free of the commune and finds happiness in the post-apocalyptic nightmarescape of the world they live in...

But @hollyethecurious is kinda already doing that XD

Now, I’ll be honest: I don’t really believe that anything Peter did (especially considering his obviously diminished capacity for judging what’s right and wrong - I mean, I think ANY jury would probably let him off with an insanity defense) actually deserved death as a punishment.

But really, it’s not about whether he deserved to die. Anna HAD to kill him at that moment. Not only was he attacking her and forcing her to defend herself, but the man had zero marbles left and could not be reasoned with. I mean, there were Berserkers all around. They needed to be escaping from danger - NOT playing hide the sausage in the middle of an open field in order to repopulate a new community while the flames are still raging in the old one. Peter, at the end there, literally lost the entire fucking plot and was operating on half a cylinder and an old gum wrapper. If Anna hadn’t killed him, he would’ve absolutely gotten HER killed (if not killed her himself) with his unhinged antics.

And as far as storytelling goes... He also had to die. Unfortunately, he was too damaged by his upbringing and the world he’d been living in for the last 20 years to be able to find any kind of satisfactory ending without the promise of shitloads of professional help - something that he’s simply not going to get in the middle of a post-apocalyptic wasteland of sheer lunacy. I mean, is one of the Berserkers going to throw an arm around him and say, “Don’t worry. We’ll get him the counseling he needs.”? No. If he’d lived, he would’ve merely tried to start a new commune elsewhere and either gotten himself killed in the effort... or been successful and ultimately fucked up even more people the same ways he was fucked up. No thank you.

So... He had to die. He didn’t deserve to die (he didn’t deserve anything that happened that brought him to the sad point he ended up at), but he had to die. I really don’t think the movie could’ve ended any other way without rewriting the whole thing to make Peter a little less damaged and the point of the film Peter’s redemption instead of a showcase of how monstrous some people can become when unchecked by the better parts of our species. The whole point of the film, for me, is how Zach and Judith were monsters who, left unchecked, created a monster in Peter that could not be controlled. Or redeemed. But the Berserkers were no better, really - left to their own devices, they became just as monstrous and just as unhinged, just in an altogether different way.

If anything, this movie is a love letter to Social Services. Jesus. Evidently, it’s not the zombies and the pestilence we have to worry about in the endtimes. It’s the lack of CPS coming in and yoinking children away from people like Judith and Zach and, you know, having a sane central populace capable of pointing at literally every single character in this entire film and saying, ”Y’all, THAT is a crazy person and someone should probably do something about what's going on around here.”

I dunno... They probably thought they were so CLEVER doing it with Mr. Gold in the first curse, they thought they’d double down and do it to him AND Hook in the reboot. NOT FUNNY, GUYS.

No, I get it totally... haha, this show has kinda shot itself in the foot, continuity-wise with a lot of this season and the whole Wish Realm, haven’t they?