#i will never ever be over this show or this character#A good soldier does both#so often narratives (lazy writers) tell the audience they have to choose#you get a character with empathy or one who can make a hard call#you get the ‘right’ choice or the ‘good’ choice#and i will eternally love the way POI forces its audience to acknowledge sometimes there are scenarios you just can’t win#and calls you have to make that might be wrong anyway#and its still good /storytelling/ so of course its (mostly) satisfying (am i still bitter about Carter yes i am)#but they also give you moments like this where Shaw has to make a choice and it hurts#and she’s allowed to hurt#but it was the right choice and she knows it and the audience knows it and damn if that isn’t something female characters just aren’t#given often enough (via @racethewind10)