@triflesandparsnips made a rather spiffy observation on my post about Ed and face-touching:
It may be worthwhile, considering how much face/mouth violence Ed is sensitive to -- and when we see or hear about it -- to do a review of how much of that face sensitivity is also associated with food and eating.
And hooboy, I ended up down a rabbithole thinking about Ed and food and it got so long, it earned itself its own little post.
These are all the food/eating related moments that tie in directly to Ed having strong emotional responses. I didn't limit it to just the face-touching because there's a lot of emotional mess going on as well.
When Stede wakes him for brekkie in 1x04, he recoils immediately as he wakes, until he realises who's beside him (especially pertinent since Ed wakes in 2x03 and asks if anything was done to him while he was unconscious - he even anticipates harm while sleeping).
in 1x05, when he's being taught the intricacies of dining and the French captain slaps on his big red trauma button while he's sitting at a dining table and already feeling out of his depth with all the tablewear.
Cut to the flashback in 1x05 which has him and his mum talking quietly in one part of the room, but his father is there, slumped and drunk on the family dining table, setting the domestic sphere as a place of constant present threat.
Later in 1x05, when he's alone at the party, he's freaking out over not knowing how to deal with this kind of fancy-folk dining and then someone touches his face - double-whammy of the emotional stuff and the physical.
1x06 gives us the main flashback to his childhood and his father's violent reaction to 'slop' and 1x07 has stressed, out-of-his-comfort-zone hangry Ed, trying desperately to keep up the Blackbeard appearance ("Blackbeard can't be seen treasure hunting!") and again, something touches his body/head unexpectedly and he lashes out defensively.
There is so much going on in the brekkie scene that I can't even get into it here. Ed trying to code-switch between the way he interacts with Stede and Jack respectively, but most significantly, when Jack talks over him and ignores him trying to change the subject about violence he's done in the past, Ed shrinks down in the chair, doing the small-and-quiet thing he does when he's unhappy (one day I will yell about Ed taking refuge surrounding himself with gold/yellow things - blankets, chairs, robes, pillowforts. His version of the battle jacket).
1x10 has several moments. First is the marmalade - there's something child-like about the blanket fort and eating sweet sticky things with his fingers, taking comfort in food and hiding.
The second is something that is viscerally explained in S2 - when he forcefeeds Izzy his own toe. The contrast of the brutality and the very paternal "now don't forget to chew" like an adult talking to a child gave me chills the first time I watched it.
The last thing in 1x10 isn't necessarily food, but hooooboy there is something in the way he sets himself up at what was Stede's brekkie table, putting on the worst of personas possible, that is very much reminding me of his dad at the table in a bare, empty home, lit by a single candle, in that first flashback.
And now, into S2, and our man starts things in a totally healthy and normal way - eating the cake with his weapon. And, more importantly, "did everybody get cake?" Again, we have the juxtaposition of implicitly care-taking language against the surrounding violence and brutality.
The gravy basket tells us so much as well - he wakes up to the horror of being vulnerable, trapped by his own body and force-fed by someone who we learn had a habit of forcefeeding live crabs to people and who had threatened to flay Ed's skin off and feed it to him. He's rightfully afraid that anything Hornigold feeds him might be poisoned.
Once again, we have the parental energy of "open up for the cargo ship" tangled up with the fear of threat and violence and horror - poisoning, flaying and force-feeding.
Ed's fear has the two utterly bound up together, inescapably so. His father shaped his childhood and Hornigold stepped into that role when Ed became an outlaw.
But even in this messy and horrifying confrontation with his own psyche and layered up with the horrors he's lived through as a boy, some part of Ed still desperately wants the comfort and security of food and home, especially when the food his subconscious is gathering for him are the ingredients for Māori boil-up, something his mother would very likely have made for them.
It speaks measures that the three things he wants to live for include good food and warmth and orgasms. No fame. No glory. No reputation. Just to be loved and safe and warm and fed.
Jump forward to 2x04 and dinner with Bonny and Read. Ed is unsurprised by the degree of violence happening throughout, but does hesitate when poison comes into the equation - "I got the present you left for me in my glass" - Ed immediately sets down his glass, staring at it warily. Again, calling back to the Gravy Basket and his fear that anything given to him might be poisoned.
He's already on edge and off-balance - "not sure what's real and what's the basket" and there may or may not be poison and knives and the person he trusted may or may not betray him again and he's already spinning out when Anne - who had already declared her intention to provoke Ed and Mary - cheerfully lands the bombshell of why Stede left him.
No small wonder he storms out of the room, but it does lead to them having a much-needed conversation and he and Stede are on a much steadier footing after.
And then, of course, we have the breakfast of 2x07. This one is especially significant because Ed makes the brekkie then disposes of his leathers. He's actively trying to step from one mode of life to another, from the Blackbeard-and-Piracy into the domestic, softer life he's been quietly craving his entire life.
Only, as he says himself, "I don't think I've ever made regular breakfast for anyone before". He's trying, but it's something new and unfamiliar to him and it's "my way of saying thank you".
And lastly, we have the scene with the fisherman and his son where Ed has shoe-horned himself into what he thinks is the solution to all his problems and also includes a father-son dynamic, because our man can't do anything without his daddy issues rearing their ugly head.
Once again, Ed is out of his depth, but at the opposite end of the scale from the party ship. This is a place he thinks he should fit but he doesn't. This is the domesticity he craved, but without understanding or appreciating the real work that is needed to get there.
And once again, over a meal, he has an angry father expressing violence. "Control your pop-pop!" he tells the boy who is around the same age as he was when he killed his father. But he doesn't fight back, he doesn't strike out at Pop-pop, and the son steps between them and pulls his dad back several times.
And it's this father-figure's words that ring in Ed's ears when he realises Stede may be in danger. "If you were ever good at anything, do that". And if there's one thing Ed Teach is good at, it's fighting for the people he loves.
In conclusion our Mr. Teach wants a safe and comfortable home-life, with food and warmth (and orgasms), but he has no real experience of what that is really like or how to get it. His entire life has been a succession of threats and danger and men who would do harm to people in their charge, especially when they were unarmed, defenceless and vulnerable.
He doesn't know how to be safe yet, because he's never experienced it. All he's known until this point is a life of violence and danger and while he tried to move away from that, the violence and danger was still there - as Stede put it, there's no escaping it in their line of work.
But now, at the end of S2, for the first time in his life, he is actually able to say "No, I need to be away from piracy" because his whole journey through both seasons has been him trying and trying to step away from the life that has him by the throat.
And now, he's finally been able to do it and he's not alone. He has someone he's safe with and who is willing to do the work with him to help him figure things out. And give him good food, warmth and, of course, orgasms.
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The Originals (Klaus Mikaelson) Whumplist
Character: Klaus Mikaelson (played by Joseph Morgan)
Age Rating: TV-14
Show available on Netflix (as of September 2022)
(The styling of this whumplist is inspired by @love-me-a-lotta-whump who has an amazing blog, go check them out!)
Genre: Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy Drama, Ensemble
Synopsis: Klaus, the original vampire/werewolf hybrid, returns to New Orleans - which his family helped build - to investigate rumours of a plot against him, in this spin-off of `The Vampire Diaries'. (Via Google)
TW’s: This show contains blood, violence, gore, etc. It’s pretty much a typical level for a teen vampire/werewolf show, and for a lot of the gore it’s easy to tell it’s fake. It’s largely an emetophobe safe show, I have one warning on here that I remember seeing but there was probably some stuff I missed. None of it is very graphic/triggering imo.
Note: Prepare yourselves, folks, this is a LONG one! Lots of physical whump, but the real gem here is the emotional/psychological whump. If you’re into morally-grey sarcastic characters with a soft spot for their friends and family, this show is for you! (Also, he has the saddest eyes sometimes and it will break your heart)
List Key:
bold = most whump, best whump, or favorite whump scenes
~~ = scene break
(italicized parentheses) = personal note/additional non-whump moments i wanted to list (mostly soft moments with family)
THIS LIST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE SERIES! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Season 1:
1x01: angry ~~ angry, glowing eyes ~~ slightly drunk, angry, fought, thrown around, hit with a metal pole, talking about abusive father ~~ angry
1x02: angry ~~ angry, slammed into a wall, yelled at, shocked, teary-eyed ~~ angry
1x03: angry
1x04: magically thrown ~~ concerned, protective ~~ argued, teary-eyed
1x05: angry, worried about Hayley
1x06: worried, angry
1x07: worried, angry ~~ angry ~~ fought, angry, glowing eyes ~~ pinned to the ground, punched repeatedly ~~ argued, angry
1x08: emotional, angry ~~ very rough fight, bloody, chained up, barely conscious, grabbed by the chin, sliced in the face, punched, angry, glowing eyes, covered in blood ~~ angry, emotional, teary-eyed, crying, yelling
1x09: teary-eyed, emotional, painful memories/flashbacks (abusive father, first werewolf transformation)
1x10: teary-eyed, emotional ~~ magically thrown, painfully affected by a spell, screaming, almost forced to transform, glowing eyes, knocked unconscious
1x11: emotional ~~ comforting his friend, hugged, emotional
1x12: thrown around, grabbed by the throat, painfully affected by a cursed dagger (briefly) ~~ emotional and angry
1x13: emotional ~~ bites his own hand to drain blood into a cup ~~ stabbed in the chest with a cursed dagger, dagger goes inside him (it’s kind of gross), screaming in pain, collapsed to the ground, unconscious
1x14: barely conscious/unconscious, restrained on a table, wound on his chest, in extreme pain and sweaty ~~ still restrained, heavily lidded eyes, wound cut open, dagger forcefully pulled out of his chest, screaming in pain ~~ weak, heavy eye bags, sweaty, shaky voice, “my wound isn’t healing”, worried about his sister, fed blood and chokes on it, forced to swallow, shown memories ~~ weak and restrained (cont.), angry ~~ weak and restrained (cont.), angry ~~ weak and restrained (cont.), sees memories, yelling and crying ~~ talking about abusive father, crying, angry and yelling ~~ emotional and angry ~~ fought, stabbed again in the chest with the cursed dagger (BY HIS OWN BROTHER), screaming in pain, teary-eyed, held as he collapses, unconscious
1x15: unconscious in bed, in extreme pain, sweaty, wound on his chest ~~ wound cut open, dagger forcefully pulled out of his chest, groaning in pain, heavily lidded eyes, weak, strained/shaky voice ~~ weak, drinks blood laced with vervain (vampire poison), stumbling, talking about betrayal ~~ trying to get out of bed, “you’re still weak”, stumbling, helped back into bed, hoarse voice ~~ talking about abusive father ~~ teary-eyed ~~ angry, (flashback: threatened by his father, scared, shaky voice, stabbed, screaming, worried) ~~ angry, (flashback: worried, teary-eyed, apologizing, crying), yelling, glowing eyes
1x16: trapped in a cemetery, very angry ~~ angry, talking to brother, “you did stab me with that blade, forcing me to endure hours of unspeakable pain”, very angry, his brother compares him to abusive father, hurt and taken aback, teary-eyed and yelling, (flashback to younger self: yelled at by abusive father, slapped and fallen to the ground, kicked) ~~ emotional and angry, (flashback: beaten by abusive father, bloody face), teary-eyed, choked up voice, angry ~~ angry, yelling, teary-eyed ~~ conflicted, teary-eyed, crying ~~ teary-eyed, crying ~~ silently brooding
1x17: none
1x18: painfully affected by a spell (briefly) ~~ angry, grabbed by the throat, slammed against the wall (3x) ~~ worried ~~ worried about his friend ~~ worried about Hayley ~~ worried
1x19: angry, worried
1x20: (nightmare: stabbed by abusive father), wakes up gasping for air ~~ worried about fatherhood ~~ bites his own wrist to give blood, extremely worried about Hayley/their unborn child ~~ teary-eyed
1x21: hand sliced open for a spell ~~ fought, argued ~~ fought ~~ painfully affected by a spell, hand wound reopens, in pain, glowing eyes ~~ partial collapse, “why aren’t i healing?”, hoarse voice, chin grabbed, bloody face, weak, in pain and shaking, tried to get up and collapsed, screaming in pain, unconscious ~~ stumbling, angry and protective, screaming in anger
1x22: stumbling, angry, bloody face, thrown against the wall and magically restrained, screaming, watches Hayley die in front of him, in shock and breathing heavily, screaming, watches his baby be taken from him, broken neck, falls to the ground ~~ cradling Hayley’s body, crying, bites his own hand to heal his brother ~~ grieving, argued ~~ trapped in a maze, comforting his brother ~~ magically thrown ~~ bites his own hand to heal someone, (not whump but he meets his baby and ITS SO CUTE) ~~ (AGAIN SOFT MOMENTS WITH THE BABY) ~~ crying ~~ has to give his baby away (I SOBBED), crying, choked-up voice
2x01: angry ~~ painfully affected by a spell, ~~ on the floor in a weakened state ~~ still in a weakened state ~~ crying, guilty
2x02: shocked, told his abusive father is back
2x03: angry/emotional ~~ (flashback: stabbed into a tree, bloody mouth, crying, weak), angry/emotional, teary-eyed ~~ choked/painfully affected by a spell, collapsed unconscious
2x04: angry, shocked, sees abusive father, roughly fought, slammed to the ground (2x), grabbed by the throat, stabbed in the chest, screaming in pain, painfully pulls out the stake
2x05: (flashback: scared, bloody mouth) ~~ rough fight with his father, stabbed in the chest, screaming in pain ~~ collapsed, stake in his chest, going unconscious ~~ unconscious, grey skin/veins ~~ wakes up gasping, stumbling, pale + eye bags ~~ wound touched, winces
2x06: covered in blood (not his own but still) ~~ concerned for his brother ~~ angry ~~ backing away from his mother, angry, thrown back by magic, painfully affected by a spell, broken neck ~~ unconscious on the ground, nightmare, wakes up with a gasp, slowly sitting up, slowly standing up ~~ held at “stake-point”, in shock, sees his biological father, thinks he’s hallucinating, panicking ~~ extremely concerned, holding his unconscious brother (FOREHEAD TOUCH), shocked, choked-up voice, extremely angry, protective, painfully affected by a spell, nosebleed
2x07: painfully affected by a spell, gasping, nosebleed, heavy breathing ~~ crying, in shock ~~ concerned for his brother
2x08: worried about his daughter ~~ magically thrown, drinks poisoned blood, collapses, unconscious ~~ unconscious on the ground ~~ unconscious on the ground, wakes up gasping, propping himself up, hoarse voice
2x09: (not whump but this episode has such ADORABLE domestic moments with baby Hope, Hayley, and siblings) ~~ worried ~~ worried about his sister
2x10: (more soft moments with the baby) ~~ concerned, angry
2x11: concerned for his friend ~~ affected by a spell, collapses, unconscious ~~ wakes up in a dream world, angry, briefly affected by magic ~~ unconscious on the ground, slapped in the face, won’t wake up, concern for him ~~ teary-eyed, threatened, flinches ~~ angry ~~ wakes up gasping, slowly standing up ~~ concerned about his daughter
2x12: (soft in a threatening way?) ~~ angry, scared for his daughter ~~ angry, argued ~~ stabbed with wood, painfully pulls it out, thrown to the ground and punched repeatedly (let’s be honest, he deserved that) ~~ shocked, (soft moment with his sister)
2x13: angry ~~ reads his brother’s mind, shocked, angry ~~ painfully affected by a spell, grabs his head, forced to the ground, heavy breathing ~~ panicking, worried about his daughter, painfully affected by a spell, coughing up blood, groaning in pain, glowing eyes, forced to the ground by magic, angry, yelling, teary-eyed, reads his brother’s mind ~~ worried ~~ cut on his forehead, affected by a spell, unconscious, lowered to the ground, grey skin/veins, wound on his head ~~ helped to sit up, heavy breathing, hoarse voice, helped to stand, leaning on the wall
2x14: angry, concerned ~~ (SOFT MOMENTS WITH BABY HOPE <3) ~~ worried about his brother, watches his brother die
2x15: impaled with a metal fence, groaning in pain, painfully rips the fence out, protective over his daughter ~~ forced to see a memory, angry ~~ (soft moment with Hope)
2x16: angry ~~ angry, teary-eyed ~~ angry
2x17: protective over his daughter, painfully affected by a spell, screaming in pain, clutching his head ~~ worried about his sister, angry ~~ broken neck, collapsed to the ground, unconscious ~~ wakes up gasping, slowly standing, face held, teary-eyed
2x18: angry ~~ fought, painfully affected by a spell, groaning, forced to the ground by magic, nosebleed, thrown by magic, knocked out ~~ bloody face, painfully affected by a spell, half-collapsed, greying skin/veins ~~ struggling against the spell, crawling, groaning, unconscious ~~ grey skin/veins, held by his brother, fed blood to heal, slowly standing, rough landing ~~ bloody face ~~ angry, concerned ~~ crying, slightly choked-up voice
2x19: angry, stressed ~~ angry ~~ stabbed in the chest, stumbling back, shocked, betrayed, slowly collapsing, greying skin/veins, unconscious
2x20: in a coffin, grey skin/veins ~~ wakes up in a dream world, angry, blood on his chest ~~ in a coffin, grey skin/veins ~~ collapses in the dream world, wakes up in the coffin, painfully pulls dagger our of his chest ~~ weak, pale, hoarse voice, (idk how to describe it but he does not look okay, physically or mentally)
2x21: pale, stumbling, needs blood ~~ still pale ~~ extremely angry ~~ rough fight, slammed against a wall, kicked, angry, thrown down the stairs
2x22: stabs himself in the chest, collapses, grey skin/veins ~~ unconscious on the ground, almost stabbed with a stake, weak, pale ~~ slowly sitting up, weak ~~ leaning on someone to stand, painfully pulled forward by magic, thrown to the ground ~~ worried about his daughter, scared ~~ sad ~~ angry, forced to inhale poison (?), coughing, gasping in pain, “burning from the inside out”, red veins, spits out blood, crawling forward, weak, bloody lip ~~ (SOFT MOMENT WITH BABY HOPE <3)
3x01: emotional ~~ (SOFT MOMENTS WITH BABY HOPE <3) ~~ threatened ~~ stressed, argued (kind of yelled at), quiet, teary-eyed, (you can really tell his feelings are hurt)
3x02: angry ~~ fought, pushed, yelled at, emotional, teary-eyed, letting himself get hit, stumbling, bloody face, slapped, speechless ~~ sad/angry ~~ angry
3x03: angry, emotional
3x04: stressed ~~ drunk (comedic)
3x05: teary-eyed ~~ rough fight, angry, emotional
3x06: covered in blood
3x07: angry, teary-eyed ~~ worried
3x08: worried, angry ~~ concerned
3x09: concerned ~~ extremely worried, scared, protective ~~ shocked, crying, shaky voice, screaming
3x10: panicking, holding his head, pacing, screaming, breaking things, sliding down the wall, shaky breathing, crying, shocked ~~ angry, crying ~~ scared, argued, teary-eyed, head held, speechless ~~ teary-eyed, “don’t leave me”, worried
3x11: broken neck, unconscious on the ground ~~ teary-eyed, worried ~~ worried
3x12: painfully affected by a spell, screaming, lifted into the air, broken neck, fell to the ground unconscious
3x13: at gunpoint, shot at ~~ at gunpoint, shot in the shoulder, groaning in pain ~~ fought, shoved to the ground, at gunpoint ~~ worried about his brother, bloody hands
3x14: at gunpoint ~~ painfully affected by a spell, collapsed, wakes up in a dream world ~~ unconscious, floating in water ~~ sword to his neck, angry ~~ throat slit open, choking, half-collapsed, concern for him ~~ unconscious in the water, throat slit open, strained voice ~~ strained voice, wakes up gasping, thrown, painfully affected by a spell, screaming, unconscious in the water, grey skin/veins, cradled/held by his brother, hoarse voice, “i felt them leave” ~~ pale, weak, stumbling, propping himself up, “what’s wrong with me?”
3x15: paranoid, stressed ~~ thrown ~~ teary-eyed
3x16: (not whump, but soft + funny moments) ~~ glowing eyes
3x17: at gunpoint, fought ~~ bites wrist to give blood ~~ angry, grieving
3x18: grieving ~~ thrown, fought, painfully thrown, bloody mouth, strained voice, protective, broken wrist, stabbed with cursed dagger, in extreme pain, slowly collapses ~~ dagger forced out of his chest, screaming in pain, bloody face and chest, restrained, painfully affected by a spell, struggling, weak ~~ weak, restrained, disheveled, teary-eyed, scared ~~ weak, restrained, held at stake-point, stake shoved into his throat, choking ~~ stake pulled out of his throat, in pain, shaking, hoarse/choked up voice, scared, protective ~~ threatened, scared, protective, slumps down in chains
3x19: concerned, teary-eyed ~~ crying ~~ sobbing, half-collapsed, grieving
3x20: grieving, angry ~~ frustrated, grieving ~~ car crash ~~ car crash (cont.), bloody face, stumbling, punched, rough fight, thrown through a wall ~~ bloody face, slowly standing ~~ scared, thrown through a wall ~ pinned against a wall, choked, lifted up by the neck, rough fight, hit with a shovel and thrown through a wall ~~ slowly standing, bloody face, stumbling, weak, forced to kneel ~~ grieving ~~ yelled at, shoved away, shocked ~~ grieving, (soft moment with baby Hope)
3x21: grieving ~~ shocked ~~ teary-eyed ~~ shocked, scared ~~ yelled at, grabbed by the collar, shaken, teary-eyed, watches a loved one die, screaming, in shock, crying ~~ screaming, teary-eyed, grieving
3x22: teary-eyed, (soft moment with baby Hope), angry ~~ shocked ~~ thrown, shocked, glowing eyes ~~ stressed, worried, teary-eyed ~~ restrained, stabbed in the chest with a cursed dagger, screaming in pain ~~ barely conscious, in extreme pain, shaky breathing ~~ barely conscious, in extreme pain, shaky breathing ~~ barely conscious, in extreme pain, shaky breathing, entombed
4x01: imprisoned, in chains, collar around his neck, teary-eyed ~~ weak, hoarse voice, pale ~~ weak, shaky voice, “why not just kill me?” ~~ blood on his neck, hoarse voice ~~ shoved to the ground, kneeling, “chained, beaten, half-starved”, threatened ~~ punched, bloody mouth, grabbed by the hair, teary-eyed, angry, glowing eyes, fought, broken neck, collapsed unconscious ~~ weak, restrained, shaky voice ~~ pulling at chains, threatened, stabbed in the chest with a cursed dagger, stumbling back, shaky breathing, in extreme pain, collapsed, barely conscious
4x02: in extreme pain, shaky breathing, hallucinating, teary-eyed ~~ weak, in extreme pain, lying on the ground, shaky voice, hallucinating ~~ trying to pull the dagger out of his chest, in extreme pain, scared ~~ found, barely conscious, shaky breathing, shaking, concern for him ~~ barely conscious, shaking, hallucinating, trying to pull the dagger out of his chest, groaning in pain, straining, choked-up voice ~~ concern for him, “i can’t”, scared, screaming in pain ~~ collapses into his brother’s arms, weak, helped to run ~~ helped to walk, hugged, stumbling, bloody chest, pale ~~ pale, nervous, (soft moments with family, Hayley, and Hope <3)
4x03: angry ~~ angry, nervous ~~ (SOFT MOMENTS WITH HOPE <3) ~~ (SOFT MOMENTS WITH HOPE <3) ~~ scared, protective ~~ protective, worried about his daughter
4x04: angry, worried about his daughter ~~ worried about his daughter ~~ worried about his daughter ~~ fought, teary-eyed, painfully affected by a spell/ritual, collapsed to his knees, trapped in a ring of fire, in a dream world (?) ~~ weak, hoarse voice ~~ (in Hope’s nightmare: glowing eyes)
4x05: nightmare ~~ worried ~~ “infected”, worried ~~ hallucinating, hallucinating his abusive father ~~ hallucinating, stabbed in the chest (hallucination), screaming in pain, shocked, bloody hands, scared ~~ shaking, scared of himself, “stay back”, “i can’t trust myself”, teary-eyed, crying, hallucinating ~~ fought, thrown, shoved into a wall, holding his ears in pain, scared
4x06: worried ~~ threatened
4x07: concerned, (soft moment with Hope) ~~ worried, yelling, scared, teary-eyed, comforted, talks about his torture and imprisonment ~~ fought, stabbed in the back, screaming in pain, painfully affected by a spell, half-collapsed, grabbing his head in pain ~~ in pain, protective of his daughter, glowing eyes, angry ~~ (soft moment with Hope) ~~ worried, (soft moment with Hayley)
4x08: bites hand to give blood, painfully affected by a spell, screaming in pain, shaking, collapsed unconscious, wakes up in a dream world ~~ painfully affected by a spell, shaky voice ~~ unconscious on the floor, cut hand, slowly sitting up
4x09: angry, worried ~~ angry, teary-eyed, crying
4x10: angry ~~ slammed into a wall, held up by the collar ~~ stressed, teary-eyed
4x11: comforting his daughter, worried ~~ angry ~~ (soft moment with Hope)
4x12: unconscious on the ground, shaking, in a dream world, worried, crying
4x13: worried, (soft moment with Hope) ~~ apologizing, sad, teary-eyed ~~ sad, hugged ~~ painfully affected by a spell, sad, saying goodbye to his daughter
5x01: pinned against the wall, held by the throat ~~ worried
5x02: angry, worried, sees his daughter again ~~ angry, arguing with his daughter ~~ sad, crying, shaky voice ~~ angry, extremely concerned, comforting his daughter, protective
5x03: argued, thrown to the ground, slowly standing up, teary-eyed, yelling, shocked ~~ teary-eyed, argued, shocked ~~ unconscious on the ground, slowly sitting up, shocked, teary-eyed
5x04: worried, angry ~~ angry ~~ angry, protective ~~ thrown, painfully affected by a spell, throws up (EMETOPHOBE WARNING, it’s brief but visible) ~~ unconscious on the ground ~~ chained in a coffin
5x05: angry ~~ stressed ~~ teary-eyed
5x06: fought ~~ bloody lip, extremely worried, sees a loved one die, shocked, crying
5x07: grieving ~~ worried ~~ shocked, protective, painfully affected by a spell, forced to the ground ~~ strained voice, still on the ground ~~ yelled at, shocked, teary-eyed ~~ grieving, crying ~~ (soft moment with Hope), hugged, teary-eyed ~~ crying, painfully affected by a spell, collapsed unconscious, wakes up in a dream world, thrown back, shocked
5x08: trapped in a dream world ~~ shocked, hugged ~~ worried, stressed, angry, sees memories, angry ~~ crying ~~ upset ~~ extremely upset, yelling, teary-eyed, painfully affected by a spell, groaning in pain, strained voice ~~ unconscious on the ground, slowly standing up ~~ upset, shocked, teary-eyed, concerned ~~ grieving, teary-eyed (this episode made me cry)
5x09: stressed, worried ~~ hugged ~~ upset, teary-eyed ~~ worried, upset, stressed ~~ painfully affected by a spell, half-collapsed ~~ stressed, comforting his daughter
5x10: rough fall, bloody face, letting himself get beat up ~~ concerned
5x11: comforting his daughter ~~ teary-eyed, extremely worried ~~ teary-eyed, hugged, (soft moment with Hope) ~~ (soft moment with Elijah), hugged
5x12: concerned ~~ shot through the chest with an arrow, screams in pain, collapsed unconscious ~~ laying on the ground, weak, arrow still in his chest, heavy breathing, in pain, locked in a dungeon ~~ talking about sacrificing himself, teary-eyed ~~ protective, extremely worried about his daughter, shocked ~~ performing CPR on his daughter, crying, choked-up voice, hugged, shaky voice, relieved ~~ teary-eyed ~~ (soft moment with Hope) ~~ painfully affected by a spell, screaming, half-collapsed, teary-eyed, about to kill himself
5x13: upset, argued, teary-eyed, crying, painfully affected by a spell, collapsed unconscious ~~ chained up, unconscious ~~ hallucinating, scared, angry, teary-eyed, glowing eyes ~~ hallucinating, glowing eyes, broken neck, collapsed unconscious, held by his brother ~~ slowly waking up, teary-eyed, weak, concerned about his brother ~~ yelled at, argued, worried about his daughter, crying ~~ (soft moments with family) ~~ teary-eyed, shaky voice, saying goodbye ~~ crying ~~ teary-eyed, hugged, shaky voice ~~ emotional conversation with his brother ~~ stabbed in the chest, dies with his brother, grey skin/veins, disintegrates into ashes
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The Wilds: Season 1 Rewatch
Hey, everyone! Sorry, it’s been a hot minute. I’ve been so busy with work and I was thinking that I wouldn’t be able to get the entirety of season 1 recapped before the premiere of season 2 on Friday. So, what I’m going to do is double up the recaps and do 1x06/1x07, then 1x08/1x09 and finish it off with 1x10 by Thursday.
SPOILER WARNINGS – While it is an episode recap, there may be spoilers for the entirety of season 1 of The Wilds. Continue reading at your own risk if you haven’t seen all of it yet.
1x01 Recap
1x02 Recap
1x03 Recap
1x04 Recap
1x05 Recap
The Wilds | 1x06: Day Twelve + 1x07: Day Fifteen
Favorite Quote
"Honestly, sometimes I feel like I'm 100 years old." — Leah Rilke (1x06)
"I love a bitchy dom, but you're really not reading the room." — Fatin Jadmani (1x07)
Personal Highlights of the Episodes
(1x06)
Nora’s Santa Claus joke to Leah.
The entire sequence with the girls eating the mussels.
This look. Cuffs on cuffs and converse. Leah just speaks to my inner bisexual
Shelby taking the lead on giving Toni the pill + The Straddle
Sarah Pidgeon plays Leah’s breakdowns so well.
(1x07)
“Okay, well blame game aside, I think it’s safe to say that we could blame the dead fire on our problematic Jesus-freeea…” Look, I don’t want to admit it, but haven’t we all been in that kind of situation? It’s just 100x more funny when it’s not you being caught talking shit.
I love the conversation between Shelby and Toni about their life struggles. I am fully on board with Shelby; it’s so easy to look at someone and judge them by what they present on a surface-level. And it’s easy to hear people’s problems and try to outmatch it with your own, but that’s not how things work. You have no idea what these problems have done to an individual’s mental, emotional, or physical health whether you deem it ‘significant’ or not.
The Kiss and immediate runaway from Shelby. You can't run away from your gay forever, sweetie.
Fatin’s commentary during the fight between Nora and Rachel. You know she's probably done that during her little brothers' fights. Leah not understanding sibling dynamics, Dot fed up with everyone's shit, Fatin punching Dot over a toothbrush. All while Shelby and Toni are kissing in the woods.
Things I Didn't Catch the First Time
(1x06)
Gretchen gets the agents on board during the experiment. We see that her recruitment of Agent Faber and the girls getting sick from the mussels happens simultaneously.
It’s super quick, but if you were paying attention during the shot of the doctor’s desk while Gretchen is speaking about her overnight stay, you could have maybe been prepared for Agent Faber’s reveal by the Altoid mints container, which is what he offered Leah during their meeting in her room (also minor, but the finger tapping by Faber is very distinct and prominent when he’s interviewing/assessing)
(1x07)
Does the length of Shelby’s necklace change?
Observations / Theories / Questions
(1x06)
Bless Martha. All the girls are starving, and she was gonna feed the few berries she harvested to the goat.
We get two episodes devoted to Leah’s backstory, the only character on the show that does, right?
Ian and Leah were cute, but Ian, why you decide to make a move on your drunk best friend when you know that she’s still grieving over her previous relationship? That shit was bound to happen. Also, if not for Jeff, they probably would’ve turned into high school sweethearts or been the first love heartbreak that ruins you in that special way
Ian speaking the truth that all of us already been saying since episode 1.
“Shape and texture.” – The moment everyone began wondering about Leah's sexuality.
The girls standing up for Toni and not doing that “let’s just ignore it” bullshit after Shelby admits she’s homophobic. Yes, girls. Yes. Everyone should take lessons and be this way when people spout their bigoted bullshit.
Leah admitting to some of her thoughts about the island but not admitting to seeing a camera. She’s playing these guys, I know she is. She’s way too smart to not have pieced things together by now.
“Blame me, for fuck’s sake. I’m the reason we’re here.” Literally. Another clue towards Nora being the confederate, while they point to more obvious and ‘in-your-face’ things like Shelby finding the bags and Dot being the wilderness survivalist to distract us.
Leah’s dancing in the middle of the night on the street. I didn’t see the car crash coming, but I’m not surprised in the least. Don’t walk in the streets, kids.
“If you hadn’t let your obsessive paranoia about Shelby get the better of you, then you wouldn’t be carrying around the guilt you are not.” Why would Leah still be feeling guilty over something that happened on day twelve? I wonder if this is a clue about Martha’s state post-island.
They present Faber as someone who can really read people. It must be important how quickly he breaks down Gretchen’s deception and why he’s the one running point on the girls’ interviews. It’ll be nice to see who wins this battle. Will Faber realize they’re not being 100% truthful or will Leah and co. pull one over on the ‘experts?’
(1x07)
Rachel straight up abandoning Nora in the water to get the black box. She really gives no fucks about family or friendships when she’s on a mission. Nothing is more important to her than completing the goal(s) she set her mind to. But on the other hand, Rachel was doing so good with repairing her relationship with Nora and that progress just vanished during the tidal wave storm. She reverted back into that bossy, resentful person the second she was given a leadership role and claims it’s just her way of showing tough love. Is it or is it just behavior she’s associated with that time in her life (diving + setting/accomplishing goals)? Habits are hard to break after all.
The fact that Gretchen knew of Linh’s backstory with being sedated unwillingly and didn’t think to have a conversation with her about what would be happening with the girls is insane to me. Her self-absorbed behavior led to the death of someone who looked up to and admired her immensely.
You can’t tell me that Toni didn’t disappear with the sole purpose of finding Shelby. The wood you’re carrying, Toni? It’s a horrible cover story. She would have told the others if that was the real reason.
I’m interested in Thom’s background. Why is he so hell-bent and loyal to Gretchen?
Siblings fighting is no joke. My brother and I fought over a trash bag once and he elbowed me so hard in the jaw it swelled like I just got my wisdom teeth removed. We grew out of that quick though when he turned into a 6’3 behemoth and I stayed my little 5’4 female self.
Gretchen says the experiment last 12 weeks and season 1 only covers 3 weeks of it. Lots of content to still see folks. I do wonder if the bunker interviews are a “part” of the experiment or post-experiment.
Field Notes
(1x06)
Field Note #065 – Leah’s more of a crossword puzzle person. She judges people who do Sudoku.
Field Note #069 – According to the chore board, Rachel’s supposed to be gathering wood. She’s freediving for seafood instead because it’s more fun. The girls haven’t really talked about consequences for straying from your designated chore… but this can’t be good for Rachel’s karma.
Field Note #071 – Leah’s pre-Jeff GPA: 3.7889. Leah’s post-Jeff GPA: 2.967 and sinking. Hearts and grades suffer together.
Field Note #073 – Fatin has been to Barcelona three times: twice with her family, and once on tour with her youth orchestra. She faked jetlag to break away from the group and went out all night with a Spanish cyclist she met on the flight.
(1x07)
Field Note #080 – Martha’s mother got her that suitcase as part of a 5-piece luggage set at a Memorial Day sale in Bemidji, MN.
Field Note #081 – In research, the term “confederate” refers to someone who appears to be one of the subjects of the experiment but who is actually on the research team.
Field Note #083 – Shelby did indeed rap on the morning closed-circuit announcements. She rapped with her fellow student council members to promote the annual school-wide raffle. They rhymed “tickets” with “rickets,” an extremely rare bone disease. It was… not great.
Field Note #084 – The key Linh wears around her neck is from the diary she kept in middle school. She wears it to remind herself to always fight for her younger, more impressionable self.
Field Note #087 – Gretchen adopted her pugs on the day her divorce was finalized.
Field Note #090 – Shelby is hardly alone in terms of her missing teeth. Roughly two percent of the population are born without lateral incisors. Like Shelby said, it’s in the genes.
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Shelby Curse Count: 5 + 2 (11 total)
Shelby curses more in 1x06 (5 total) than she does in the first five episodes combined (4 total).
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