I don't get why, all of a sudden, they see Jeremiah as the bad guy. I think it was Alicia who said, "Are we on the wrong side?" As the story goes, Jeremiah or his family before him bought the ranch of the Taqa's family. Apparently the contract held up in a court of law. It was a lawful sale. Then Taqa's uncle and his friends started killing Jeremiah's cattle. So Jeremiah and his buddy camped out there and killed the trespassers. You can't say that's a perfect angle type of thing to do, but that's more of wild west justice. Then Jeremiah killed Taqa's father when his father showed up at his door looking for his brother. Who knows how that altercation went down, but you have to start looking at Jeremiah a less favorably.
But does that mean 'you're on the wrong side if you're with Jeremiah?' Fuck no. The guy owned the land fair and square and not only that, he spent his LIFE preparing for the end of the world. Then you have this asshole Taqa who decides he wants to take it for himself. 'It was stolen from my people and now, it'll stay with my people.' But he doesn't give a shit about the land. Otherwise he would've stuck it out and stayed at the ranch even after it was blown up and there was nothing left.
Lets go a step further. Fucking Troy is a psychopath. Troy fucking ethnically cleansed Mexicans crossing the border. He shot Luciana, almost executed Nick and Travis, executed innocent people for no reason, killed his best friend and their entire family, apparently skinned rabbits alive and left them there to suffer, and drew a herd of Zombies in to the ranch, because he's a psychopath. Nick forgave him for all of it while Maddy forgave him for everything except the ladder. But all of a sudden because Jeremiah killed some dudes who were trespassing and killing his cattle, you might be on the wrong side? They just wanted to kill Jeremiah so they could take over the ranch and spare any more bloodshed, which is a good enough reason. They didn't have to fabricate a reason.
Which is actually a great story arc. They fabricate a reason why Jeremiah is evil and decide to kill him in order to maintain the peace and sleep at night. Except, they also add in the needless scene where Jeremiah leaves Ofelia in the desert specifically because 'she's brown'. Great, of course, you have to virtue signal to the audience that he's a villain. It was such a political injection too. When Jeremiah says Luciana left because she wasn't a part of the same group, and Nick said, "What, cuz she's brown." I totally lost all respect for Nick. Dude, Troy shot her and killed all of her people. You were there. She's not going to ally with that group, and neither should you, Maddy, or Alicia. That's crazy. But then later on they reveal Jeremiah is a racist, and was saying it was because of her race. Which was just a bullshit political injection.
Oh and back onto Troy for a second. I hate that character so much. It's not even the character himself I hate, he was entertaining, great acting, it was how the family forgave him all the time. Why did Nick save his life and lie for him over and over again? Nick, he's a psychopath who shot your girlfriend, wanted to kill your girlfriend before she easily recovered, kill you, and kill Travis. And bro, he ethnically cleansed everyone from the colonia. You have 0 reason to be best buds with Troy and try to protect that asshole. He was so obviously evil and they gave him so many chances. They became best buds with him for seemingly no reason.
Whatever though, I guess that's enough venting.
Submitted August 27, 2019 at 02:05AM by HoodUnnies https://ift.tt/2Zoq4rm
No comments:
Post a Comment