“For the record I was trying to save you. I thought that…”
I really feel for Jackie here. When Jackie saw that the plane was about to explode she made the decision to save her best friend over Van. Once she woke up after the crash, her priority was to get Shauna off that plane. She actually went with Shauna to help Van but once it got too dangerous, she wasn’t willing to lose Shauna, so she made the decision - a decision that was never going to be easy. If she was selfish or a coward she would have left them both for dead but she literally dragged Shauna off that plane, ahead of herself.
It’s also worth noting that she was willing to risk her life and push Van out of the way when that abandoned plane started up. She was willing to risk her own life for Van but was not willing to let Shauna do the same.
There’s a lot Jackie needs to work on in terms of being more of a team player but she should NOT be judged for this particular incident. This is why I find the Jackie/Shauna dynamic so intriguing because we see such a softer side of her when she’s with Shauna. The show is definitely setting us up for the major fallout in their relationship, further alienation of Jackie from the group and like Ella said, it’s all going to push her over the edge.
Susan’s enactment of simple ritual for profound utterance is perhaps best displayed in the simple flannel robe she designed and in which she dressed Emily for death, laying her out in a white casket, cypripedium and violets (symbolizing faithfulness) at her neck, two heliotropes (symbolizing devotion) in her hand. This final act over Emily’s body underscores “their shared life, their deep and complex intimacy” and that they both anticipated a “postmortem resurrection” of that intimacy. Susan concludes the obituary pointing readers’ attentions to Emily as writer, and to the fact that her words would live on.
like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other.
which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.
