Logan's reaction to Ewan supergluing his hand to a Starbucks counter to protest the price of plant-based milk, go!
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Succession (TV 2018) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death Characters: Rose Roy, Logan Roy, Noah | Ewan and Logan Roy's Uncle, Ewan Roy, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Suicide, Period-Typical Homophobia, Homophobic Language, Mental Health Issues, Mental Breakdown, Tragic Romance, Backstory, Implied/Referenced Abuse, 1950s
Summary:
Rose Roy's last day at home.
Even though we never get to see logan and ewan uncle Noah on screen we can judge from both of their personality and worldview that he must be a domineering and abusive man who probably passed or beaten his worldview into his nephew of life being a competion with emotion such as love or even affection as being a weakness to display which inform both of their personality and worldview which they passed down to their children.
Yeah, I totally agree, anon.
One of the things I love most about this show is the way it depicts cycles of abuse and the way it's passed from generation to generation. It never quite lets us forget that this cycle didn't start with Logan, and that he is as much victim as he is perpetrator - something masterfully balanced I think between the writing and Brian Cox's performance.
Logan's never exactly sympathetic, but I think there's always a wriggling thread of humanity in him that makes him so compelling, but also has this interesting affect of making him somehow fragile too. I talk about it a lot on this blog, but I think all the time about the scene in 3.08 with Logan and Kendall at dinner, and the absolute cruelty of Logan's actions paired with the simultaneous paranoia and possessiveness and also, I think, somewhere beneath it all, the actual love too.
He thinks Kendall wants him dead before he realises that what Kendall wants is to leave him behind, and for a character who's mother sent him to live with an abusive man when he was three and would never see him again, as we found out in the Dundee ep, I think there's something really real in that.
It feels like a scene in conversation with the dinner with Josh in 3.03 where Logan said that he loved Kendall but then was so vitriolic in his treatment of Kendall afterwards.
Caroline's right - Logan does want to kick those he loves to see if they come back, but I think Logan wants to do that because he was once the kicked dog himself, and it's given him a broken idea of love. He tests it and resents it and uses it, at the same time he holds it so tight he suffocates it because he was taught family was something that left you behind.
One of the things that fascinates me in this distinction between Logan and Ewan is that they're sort of the opposite on the one hand - like where Logan holds and keeps, Ewan seems to be the one to leave and 'abandon'. He cut off his daughter, and seemingly had no relationship with his grandson in the process of that, only to try and use Greg's inheritance to get him to play the role that he wanted him to. Logan punishes his children when they don't do what he wants, but he also keeps them close, Ewan seems to punish through abandonment - leaving like, perhaps, he feels his mother did.
It gets even more interesting when you consider the ways that both of them have seemingly externalised their trauma. Logan takes his resentments and his baggage out on the world through Waystar Royco, but I think Ewan does too through his activism. He views himself as saving a world his brother's helped destroyed, while still fighting to keep his brother in power at Waystar and reaping the financial rewards of the family business.
Ewan standing up for Logan when he did in s1 was always something I read as an indication of the fact that deep down, Ewan and Logan are trauma bonded, even if they'd never admit it or articulate it that way, and god, there's something just so interesting about watching these two men in their eighties embody the fracture that happens when children are abused, and the endless legacy it has not just on them, but those around them too.
I was showing my buddy episode 5, when I caught a very short cut from Logan to Ewan during the dinner conversation. Rava had just reported that Iverson was having some troubles and that she was going to sit in the hall with him, which Logan took objection to. He demands that the child be brought in to sit with the rest of the family, stating that he "has to do as he's told". Rava replies to this but the camera actually cuts to Ewan for a very brief period, just long enough to note his reaction to Logan's assertion.
I suspect that his attitude towards Iverson's situation was not just an example of the old man being stern but evidence of just how short a leash he and his brother had as kids themselves. In this context the cut to Ewan makes a whole lot more sense; he seems to have heard an echo of his uncle's harsh words. It's possible Logan's sentence was verbatim. (x)
So... I guess James Cromwell is more like Ewan than I thought
i got bored and decided to play hunger games simulator <3 here are some gems i got on the literal first round
and of course THIS happened:
marcia should fuck ewan in season 4 she deserves a moment to be in a bit of a silly goofy mood
Honesty Ewan is right. Greg shouldn't be siding with the Roys and he needs to take himself seriously. Also maybe Greg didn't need a quarter of a billion
the worst thing is that if Greg went in for a hug with Tom he’d get one
“Elegance is not about being noticed,
it’s about being remembered”
Giorgio Armani
“My brother’s an ex-Scot, an ex-Canadian, an ex-human being. But he’s still my brother.”
Polynices was a rebel and a traitor, and you know it. He was my brother.
SUCCESSION — I Went to Market (1.05)
ohhhh my god you’re canadian? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite ewan roy
cousin greg really went lawsuit (affectionate) to ewan
Kendall Roy reveals his TRUE identity
THE SITH LORD
obikin•tomgreg parallels vol.2
a rent free apartment at the heart of Manhattan
a fancy watch he had yearned for( promise never kept)
a wife could be resurrected from death of child birth( promise never kept)
a chance to be the hero of the day
Although, judging by the results, it looked more like he had it coming
click the link above to see more parallels I found
Rewatching 1x05 and God God God so many Ewan thoughts he's such a good character
Him being sweet with Isla because he IS a good grandfather (I can imagine him finding it admirable that Roman is being a father to a child that isn't his)
The mention of the 'begging letter' that Ewan sent. It's not clear whether this was him coming to Logan for money or to their uncle to secure his ownership of the ranch but it's clear that it's a sore point for both of them. Ewan is meticulous and oversees his world with a keen eye (see: Logans line about him not eating a blueberry until it had been marked in a ledger). He likes to know exactly what he has. And yet it's clear that a pivotal moment for him was having to ask someone else for help, and in this respect we know he's like Logan. He doesn't like to appear weak. So having a daughter who had to come begging to him and a grandson heading in that direction must be beyond disappointing too him. He didn't want to raise beggars, he wanted to raise hard workers.
But he didn't want to raise people obsessed with work either. We know this from his Bertram Russel quoting in the car. He thinks believing work is important is an early sign of a mental breakdown. That mixed messaging must have really done a number on Marianne. At least, unlike Logan, I don't think Ewan is lying when he tells people how he wants them to be
And then there's the apology. Ewan says he thought Logan was ready to apologise and to this day we still don't know for what. Rose? Money? Something completely different? But Ewan is desperate to bury the hatchet, travels all the way from Ottawa to do so. He's angry with his baby brother but wants to forgive him so bad. So Kendall coded of him
