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Can't believe Lisa had to fight for a queer sex scene in a show in which the main storyline is revolved around a queer love story......
I couldn’t believe my ears. So sad that it‘s still a problem to show queer intimacy on screen.
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The Permanent Rain Press Interview with Lisa Ambjörn (Part 1). (Watch in HD)
Lisa Ambjörn returns for an in-depth discussion about the final season of Young Royals, including writing in intimacy and disagreement between Wilhelm and Simon, the renewed presence of Erik, the creation of "Wille's Song," and the deleted character cameo viewers didn't get to see.
#Lisa Ambjörn#Young Royals#interview#Chloe#Netflix#Netflix Nordic#young royals s3#Simon Eriksson#young royals analysis#Prince Wilhelm#Wilmon#YouTube#Edvin Ryding#Omar Rudberg#Tommy Wättring#Wille's Song#Simon's Song
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Rambly exuberant post. The Young Royal Analysis on this fandom is so smart and articulate. My thoughts and writing are so clumsy, but tumblr fans are really talented writers. I'm enjoying the fact that just one deep talk interview from one of the crew of young royals has sparked more insight.
I also love that Linnéa joined social media just to become part of the fandom and share her YR joy. The feedback loop from all of this is why I joined this fandom in July 2021 in the first place.
I hope @thepermanentrainpress get more interviews because Chloe is one of us.
I truly can't wait to see the future art (media/books/shows) created by the members of this fandom. Lisa was a tumblr girl with her friends since Drarry days, and then she got to make YR. She is transparent with the audience because she understands fandom and fanfic and its importance. Her and all the crew have given us a free Masterclass on film making through their many interviews. Young Royals and its creators left us with more than hope for the characters and the relatable themes in the audience. They gave us actual maps for the future of new artists.
#young royals analysis#young royals deep talks#young royals masterclass#young royals fandom#young royals#young royals forever#the permanent rain press have 28 YR interviews#netflix nordic have 50 YR videos
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Wilhelm & Simon. 3.04
#something something about Simon becoming someone he doesn’t want be#and Wilhelm who doesn’t have a say in anything#when it was us it was good#< prev tags#also remembering Simon telling Sara in S1 - at least I'm not trying to be someone I'm not - at that point he didn’t have a reason to
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I really enjoy how skilled Young Royals was at taking a seemingly background character and imbuing them with history and personality with just a few lines. For example:
Poppe Ehrencrona.
Before we ever meet him, we know from Madison that he is one of the richest men in Sweden and according to August the Ehrencrona's are "modern nobility.'
When we see him in person, he comes across as somewhat full of himself, holding open his arms to receive his daughter like a lord awaiting tribute. And the fact that his wife is The Worst does not reflect well on Poppe.
I dismissed him as vaguely nice but also so fully immersed in the upper class' mores that he was blind to any problems or issues, including those his daughter faced.
But then Season 3 gave us this:
To me this indicates that he was not part of the class system until he went to Hillerska. Maybe his parents were the first to get rich, or he was from a wealthy family that just immigrated to Sweden. Either way Hillerska and the society it embodied was a shock to him. And I wonder how long he held on to his own style before concluding it was futile. But even then, he didn't give up, not exactly. He goes on:
"I learnt early on that I . . . I had to be ten times better than everyone else. Then they had nothing on me. That's how you win."
And OMFG, that hit hard. Because I was told that growing up, and internalized that, and it was true that especially and sadly it remains true to this day in America. A person of color's failures are judged more harshly and result in harsher consequences and penalties, and in many environments we have to be exceptional to even be placed in the same category as an average white dude. The concept of beating them at their own game is definitely a THING.
Poppe decided to do just that, apparently, best them at their own game and make sure he outshown them all. And he succeeded! He survived Hillerska, he excelled, he became richer than every person who called him a slur or denigrated him, and he married the beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed noblewoman (who was surely a sought after prize). And I bet they hated and resented him for Symsan because that marriage opened doors that his riches alone would not have. Now his daughter is good enough to be Hillerska's Queen Bee and a strong and valid contender for marrying into the royal family. What a coup that would have been.
But in beating them at their own game, he lost something too. He recognizes the racism (unlike some) but has just accepted it as The Way Things Are and no barrier to enjoying everything else. He tells Felice "play by the rules ..." and is cut off and I can imagine several ways he could have finished that sentence. It puts a different context to Felice saying in S1 that he dad just wants her to get good grades: he expects her to follow his path by excelling and thus rising above any adversity.
Poppe has lost the ability to conceive of a world that could be different, where someone could have their own style and still succeed and be accepted. That conformity to the system is not the only choice.
I really hope that Felice will be able to tell her dad what she did and why because I really want to hope that he, above anyone, could understand and accept and even be proud. Because Felice outpaced him. She went to Hillerska in conformity but then developed her own style and flourished after doing so, ultimately fighting back in a way he gave up trying. She succeeded where he couldn't. And isn't that what every parent should want for their child?
#brilliant#incluing the op tags#this had me thinking about the micro-agressions of Smysan trying to make Felice conform to her white beauty aesthetic#and these conversations being had at home in front of her dad who just keeps quiet#because he also wants Felice to conform so she is protected#being her true self would not fit well in their class and he wants Felice to really belong#op tags>#It also makes me reflect on Symsan differently because she must have been hit with so much shit for her choice of husband#even it was explained at the time as being just for his money (which is not implied in the story)#part of her obsession with making Felice conform could be an attempt to protect her and not just an attempt to relive her past#but only part she still wants to shape Felice into her image of what she should be#Before S3 I had planned to do an examination of all of the parental figures in YR their depictions and narrative roles roles#that ain't happening#young royals#young royals analysis#yr s3#felice ehrencrona#poppe ehrencrona#the ehrencrona's#poppe young royals#young royals s3
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I heard people are mad because they feel like August should be apologizing to Simon also, and I think that’s like, a no-brainer because of course he will – – he’s changed now. He’s not the same person who did that thing so – – we saw him suffer and now he apologized to Wille whom he knows and then – – I’m sure when [August and Simon] meet, he’s going to talk to [Simon] about it too.
Linnéa Roxeheim, director of S3 eps 5& 6, PRP interview
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(– – used for legibility, the redacted phrase is 'you know')
So...this kind of seems to confirm something I've been thinking since I watched the season: the lack of apology from August to Simon feels less like an intentional, character-defining writing choice and more like a mishap overlooking or even retconning the August-Simon conflict.
Some thoughts under the cut.
That conflict was one of the central building blocks and driving forces back in S1. Simon wouldn't have ended up selling drugs if it wasn't for August looking to buy, Wille wouldn't have found out about August's finances and been able to use them against him, and Alexander would not have been framed to save Simon. And for that matter, August's eagerness to pin the blame on Simon was likely fuelled by the fact that he wasn't just a sosse sleeping with Wille, but also a constant thorn in August's side. Someone who had even physically roughed August up at one point.
Still, I do believe August's decision to post the video mainly concerned Wille. I've written about that too many times to rehash it again; let's just take his dismissive reaction when Sara says Simon is distraught in S1E6 at face value. And that made perfect sense for his character, considering his only moral code at the time was (elite) loyalty.
However. From S2 on, the history between August and Simon has been sidelined, and the focus has been on the conflict between August and Wille.
We didn't see Simon suffer any more daily consequences from the video in S2. He could already sing karaoke in Bjärstad without people giving him dirty looks, and both the rumour mill at Hillerska and the hate comments online had stopped. Not being allowed to sing his song at the Jubilee was a concrete consequence, but even that felt more like an obstacle for Wilmon and an opportunity for Wille to stand up for them. Simon and August barely even interacted over the season - but at least Simon did refer to Sara knowing everything August had done to him in the gun range scene, so that was something.
I had hoped for the August-Simon conflict to be picked up again in S3. Even if the writers wanted to focus on other relationships and tensions, to me, it felt too essential to pass up. It would have been a clear sign of August learning the accountability and empathy that he needed to grow, and it would have also provided some much-needed closure for Simon (and tied the series together as a whole). I guess the writers felt differently.
Even though the focus on Simon getting hate on social media again could have provided an easy tie-in, the vile hate messages focused on his and Wille's relationship, as well as him being a POC. Apart from Linda's comment in the settlement negotiation, I don't think the video was even mentioned once in all the hate comments we saw. There was no indication of the media or the public having dragged it back up either (or asked who filmed and leaked it, but that's another matter entirely). Nor were there any references to Simon having already received some hate after the leak - on the contrary, it seemed like he was completely blindsided by all the vitriol. I do realise that the scale was much bigger this time around, but still.
Circling back to the August-Simon conflict, there's also another aspect that is easily overlooked. Namely, that Simon himself actually seemed pretty content to just put all his dealings with August to rest after the settlement was finalised. The only time the two of them even interacted after that was all about Sara. It could have also been an opportunity to show Simon's own feelings, but that didn't materialise.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Simon could still use that apology, but I never got the impression that he needed it the way we fans needed to see it. Based on S3, you might even think their only source of conflict was Simon coincidentally being on the video, and when that was settled with money, Simon was okay just moving on with his life.
Which brings me back to the ending.
I always figured that August was portrayed as genuinely remorseful towards the end. Yes, I would have liked to see more of his growth and development (even just showing his reaction to the sale of Årnäs instead of having Simon say that Wille said it was a fitting punishment would've worked wonders)... But the authorial intent seemed to be that he had already taken enough steps. His and Wille's reconciliation was as sincere as anything could get, with Wille not forgiving him but agreeing to move on, start healing, and even wish each other well. Wille was sincere when he congratulated August upon graduation and tapped him as the next king, thinking he was well suited for the job (it's the narrative that frames it as a sort of punishment, not Wille).
Crucially, Simon doesn't seem bothered by this. If both Wille and August had truly just ignored the harm caused to Simon and reconciled amongst themselves, with Wille essentially giving August the position that everyone but August still thought was all August ever wanted...while Simon was still hurting and needing the closure of an apology...well. That would actually make Wille look like kind of a terrible partner even right at the end, which clearly wasn't the intention.
We can't be sure if Wille told Simon about the reconciliation when they talked at the lake, but Simon will still know that Wille stepping down means August stepping up, and he is happy about it. Wilmon are off to start a new chapter in their lives, and we don't get the feeling that the lack of an apology to Simon is left as an unresolved issue between them (or between them and August).
So...yeah. I guess I'm just trying to point out that this seems to be another example of a previously important plot line being dropped from S3, and to a lesser degree, also another example of execution vs. authorial intent.
#agree with most of this#also in Wille's song Simon reminds him that he told hm how he could be free and he wishes it for him#Simon has probably been thinking about how August needs to be Crown Prince to free Wille since he found out#so in ep 1 s3 when he says he wants this all to be over he is starting to come to terms with putting his animosity with August aside#for his and Wille's benefit#young royals analysis#young royals#simon eriksson#august horn of årnäs
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Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Season 3, Episode 6
Out here in the real world it's been a week since the cliffhanger ending of episode 5 where Simon broke up with Wilhelm, but in-universe it's just the next day, and Wilhelm is being comforted by Felice.
Subtext: This entire episode is incredibly meta, there are so many times characters say things that reference earlier seasons or episodes, or the entire series as a whole. This is the first time, and Felice is saying what we're all thinking. IS IT REALLY OVER?!? 😱
Blink and you miss it: Felice gives Wilhelm her sunglasses and dries his tears so he can hide the fact that he's been crying. Also, look at that gorgeous Swedish summer. It is so pretty.
Culture: The third-years are painting the banners that go on the trucks on graduation day.
Culture: They're also signing each others' student hats, which is a common tradition. You can just sign your name or write something funny or do whatever.
Culture: This car is what we in Sweden call a sossecontainer. It's an old 90's Volvo, it's square, it's ugly, and it was pretty cheap and reliable, so it was very common and popular among working class and the lower middle classes. It was never a high-status car, so it perfectly illustrates the Eriksson family.
Subtext: Oh look, another throwback to season 1 when Sara argued with Simon about their dad, and said that he should stop giving people second chances.
Culture: Oh look, another poem by Karin Boye. This time it's Eternity, a poem about cherishing your time with your loved one, and the text is about how good times feel like an endless summer, which is what it certainly looks like for the kids and their teacher in the lush landscape. But just like in the poem, their endless summer is about to end.
Culture: This is pretty much exactly the reason used when real-world Lundsberg was temporarily closed.
Culture: And Wilhelm isn't wrong, the shitty traditions are in the walls of the place, it's always been like that, and it's always been upheld by everyone involved with the school, parents, teachers, staff, and students.
Subtext: Since this is the last episode, let's prepare the viewers to say good bye to the show, and let's do it with a little montage of students crying and taking their stuff down and emptying their rooms.
Culture: This is a 100% factually true statement, Göteborg is the worst city in the world. Source: I'm a native Stockholmer, and you just have to trust me on this, ok? Look, it's just common sense, alright? Don't listen to people from Göteborg, they're just jealous they're not living in the glorious capital. Also, they talk funny. And they have no sense of humour! And everyone is named Glenn or something.
Culture: I don't think they're referencing an actual school here, and the current Norwegian royal children went to school in Norway, not Switzerland. But the current Danish crown prince went to some boarding school in Switzerland for a while, but then he went to the Danish elite boarding school Herlufsholm. However, it was rocked by a bullying scandal in 2022, so they had to pull him out of that one and deny all knowledge of the events. Feels familiar?
Culture: Solliden is the private summer palace of the real-world Swedish royal family located on Öland, an island off the south-east coast of Sweden. The show has consistently stayed away from every likeness with the real world, but I guess they couldn't be arsed making up a fictional summer palace for the YR royal family so they went with something familiar.
Subtext: Farima is talking about the problems of finding a new school for Wilhelm from an academic perspective, but he's just thinking about how this means he won't be close to Simon any longer.
Culture: Vincent and the boys are pouring one out for Hillerska. It's a way to toast a dead friend, or in this case, a place.
Blink and you miss it: August places a king chess piece on the table before telling his friends that he's Wilhelm's reserve and might be king someday.
Subtext: And he's still so blinded by the glamour of it, despite everything. Thankfully, his friends can bring him down a couple of pegs.
Blink and you miss it: While Wilhelm is returning Kris, the book from last season, the second book in the pile is a book by Kjell Westö, Den Svavelgula Himlen - Yellow Sulphur Sky. It's about a working class kid in Finland becoming friends with his upper-class neighbour family, and his struggle maintaining a relationship with the girl of the family because of their class differences. Slightly on the nose there, show.
Meta: Henry interrupting our boys at the worst possible time is just a running joke at this point. How many times has it happened now? Four times? Five? Read the fucking room, Henry!
Subtext: Last chance to have a party together, but also last chance to see Simon, "maybe ever". Oh no, we have to start preparing for a sad ending!
Culture: Red solo cups are not a thing anywhere outside the US really, but you can buy them as a gag gift in Sweden, because to us they're just a weird movie prop we've seen American movies. Every other party scene in the show has featured regular plastic cups.
Culture: Drinking with the teachers?!? Yeah, sure, why not, everyone is an adult.
Subtext: Emo outfit? ✅ Sitting on the floor? ✅ Full of self-pity? ✅ Exaggerating the catastrophic state of his world in the way only a 17yo disaster boy can do? ✅
Meta: Another throwback to how Wilhelm was referred to as the party prince back in season 1.
Blink and you miss it: Felice hides the wine bottle behind her back before Malin comes in. She knows, Felice. Malin knows everything.
Meta: Another throwback to when Wilhelm was eating the dirt at the very same football field that disaster emo boy Simon is now sitting at together with his friends, who are trying to convince him to go to the final party.
Subtext: This time, August isn't just sorry that he got caught, he is genuinely sorry for everything he did to Wilhelm. He in turn forgives August, and we're all getting closure for this plot point.
Meta: Hey, hey, hey guys, do you remember that scene in season 1 episode 1 when Sara helped hold Felice's hair while she was throwing up? We're doing a throwback here!
Meta: Hey, hey, hey guys, do you remember that scene in season 1 episode 3 when Felice told Sara that maybe you don't have to speak the truth all the time? Well, Sara still doesn't understand why you would lie, but this time she's right, Felice was right to tell the truth.
Blink and you miss it: Stella and Fredrika are making out at the party, Felice saw it, and is making a very funny face. This is also why Stella rudely rejects Rosh, because of course she's gonna choose Fredrika, Rosh was just a distraction to make her jealous.
Subtext: Vincent is talking about Nils, who just came out, but August just saw Sara, and that's the whoever he wants.
Subtext: But despite saying that he doesn't care about anyone else seeing them, he still ducked behind a stack of pallets for this conversation.
Meta: This is a brutal Fleabag reference.
Cinematography: This scene is overwhelmingly lit in that sickly greenish fluorescent hue, but there's golden light coming from somewhere, so Sara and August share one final kiss in that golden light. But there's not enough of it to go around, not enough for their love to last, so August is left standing there alone, and all the golden light is gone.
Cinematography: Wilhelm and Simon left the party sometime after midnight, this is supposed to be a very early morning summer sunrise, and our boys are just gonna be bathed in the golden light throughout the entire scene. Gods, it is pretty.
Meta: Hey, hey, remember that scene in season 1 when Simon was singing that song, and Wilhelm instantly fell for him?
Meta: Hey guys, remember that scene in season 1 when they were discussing welfare politics in class and Simon threw shade on Wilhelm? This is a throwback to that.
Cinematography: Just fucking look at this shit. What a nice view. The nature and the sunrise is pretty, too! Going naked into the water? Yeah, that's a rebirth metaphor as well. Lisa said so!
Subtext: This entire scene is basically Wilhelm trying one last time to get Simon back. They said they weren't gonna, but he's trying anyway. They're talking about that politics class where Wilhelm couldn't speak up because he was "not allowed". So he's still bound by his royal duties, which is why Simon broke up with him last episode.
Subtext: And since Wilhelm is still stuck, he's left on dry land, while Simon swims away from him, free. Guys, I'm thinking we're actually gonna get a sad ending! This does not look good! 😭
Blink and you miss it: Stella and Fredrika are sleeping in the same bed and making out the morning after, and millions of #Stedrika shippers are rejoicing! Yay, fanservice!
Blink and you miss it: Walter is helping Henry up after he passed out in the grass outside after the party, and millions of #Walty shippers are rejoicing! Yay, fanservice!
Subtext: The last photo Wilhelm takes down from his wall is the one with him and Simon, because that's the most important memory of this place.
Blink and you miss it: Wilhelm shuts off his red lightstrip in his room. Those lights have typically been a symbol of his love for Simon, but he's turning it off. Sad ending confirmed.
Meta: Listen, it's a lovely little song that Simon wrote for Wilhelm, but it's 100% fanservice, it's referencing events in the show that Simon actually didn't witness, and it's even referencing the soundtrack to the show itself! I mean, come on! And we're getting yet another sad boy Wilhelm montage of him moping around Hillerska with his earbuds.
Subtext: Remember how the frog snowglobe was a gift from Erik, who in turn got it from their grandpa, the king? It's so obviously a symbol of the monarchy, but Wilhelm is dumping it in the trash. Are we... Are we not getting a sad ending?
Cinematography: The shot of the flag being raised is cut off at half mast, which is a pretty universal symbol for mourning. Oh ok, we're back on track for a sad ending.
Subtext: This is the first time this season that Simon speaks Spanish with his mom, and the first time in the entire series that Sara does, which shows that they're fully themselves again, they've pulled themselves out of the Hillerska world.
Culture: The graduating students are having a champagne breakfast before the graduation ceremony, that's also very common in Sweden.
Subtext: Felice and the rest of the choir decided to have a little rebellion and not sing the boring old Hillerska song, and instead the new improved one that Simon made last season. No-one told him about the switch though, which is why he's so surprised.
Culture: After the ceremony, the graduating students will run out of the school to find their parents and family and friends, who are waiting for them, usually with a big sign with the most embarrassing baby picture they could find of them.
Blink and you miss it: August's mom and stepdad have also made a huge sign with an embarrassing picture of August Malte as a kid. Adorable.
Lost in translation: The queen is saying "lilla gubben", which literally means "little old man", a very common term of endearment in Swedish families. The show has been pretty consistent in that Wilhelm's family are all using normal words, just like any other family would. So it's pretty funny that despite everyone else using titles and styles all the time, to Wilhelm, his parents are simply "mamma" and "pappa", as if he was a regular kid.
Subtext: As a graduating student you get little gifts from your family, flowers, champagne, stuffed animals, all with a blue-and-yellow ribbon so you can hang them around your neck. August is family, so the Queen gives him one as well. Of a frog with a crown. Which is a symbol of the monarchy in the show. Wilhelm threw his frog in the trash, August is getting a frog from the Queen. I think there might be symbolism here! I think we're setting up August to become the next king! Do we dare hope for a happy ending?
Cinematography: Just fucking look at this shit. The composition, the contrast, the height difference, the distance between them. It's so pretty. And they're talking about how good it was while it lasted, just like how a TV show with a sad ending can still be an amazing experience. Hint hint.
Subtext: We're saying our goodbyes, Wilhelm and Simon are saying goodbye to each other, Wilhelm wishes Simon a nice summer, just like how Simon wished Wilhelm a good Christmas back in season 1, and just like back then, they both understand that they love each other, but can't be together.
Cinematography: And then Simon exits the scene, again, leaving Wilhelm standing there alone, again, having seemingly chosen his family and royal duty.
Culture: It's common to either rent a truck as a large group of students, or to be driven in a flashy car alone or with a friend. The two girls in the centre are sitting in a very nice Aston Martin, while a bunch of their classmates are on a truck. I can't make out the full text on the banner, but I think it says something like "Lock up your sons because tonight we become like animals".
Culture: Svensson is a very common Swedish last name, so to "be a Svensson" basically means that you're super average and mediocre, you're like everyone else. Whereas these elite kids are used to having everyone else bow and scrape for them, so that message is on brand.
Cinematography: We're in the car, it looks like the ending of season 1, and we're doing a close-up of Wilhelm's face. We're ready for the fourth-wall-break of him staring sadly into the camera, having been once again broken down by the system and not getting the boy. We've said goodbye to everyone, roll the credits, start your crying...
Cinematography: ...except the show isn't ending here. We're having an honest conversation between Wilhelm and his parents for the first time. Because every other time he's said that he doesn't want to be crown prince of the next king, he's been angry or upset, he's been threatening, and definitely impulsive. But he's never wanted any of it.
Cinematography: His parents let him go, they open the door to their van, Wilhelm exits, and the show turns up the volume of the soundtrack. "Energetic music" my ass, it's the Harmony theme! It's the main theme of the entire show playing as Wilhelm runs away.
Subtext: Oh, yeah, August sees him run away, and understands that he's next in line now. Sorry buddy, sucks to be you, but never mind that now. RUN, WILHELM, RUN!!! GET YOUR MAN!
Cinematography: The shows turns into the most perfect rom-com, with Wilhelm chasing down Simon's car through the incredibly lush and green Swedish summer. He catches up to them, tells Simon that he ditched the crown for his own sake, and asks if it's really over between them.
VAD FAN TROR DU?
As if the soundtrack wasn't triumphant enough, it now starts playing As Long As you Are Here as they throw themselves in each other's arms. Happy ending! They're crying, I'm crying, we're all crying! 😭
Cinematography: A montage? With all the best scenes between our boys from the entire show? With the text of the soundtrack perfectly matching the montage? I should be outraged at how cheesy this is, but it is perfect. Perfect. I love it. I swear, this fucking show.
Subtext: Finally we are at the true ending of the show. Wilhelm has managed to escape Hillerska, him and Simon and Sara and Felice have all escaped the hierarchies, the expectations, the duties, and the toxic environment of the school. He arrived in a Ferrari, and is now running away with his boyfriend and friends in a crappy Volvo station-wagon. The stiff suit jackets are gone, they're all in white, his hair is ruffled in the wind, and for the last time ever Wilhelm looks into the camera. And he smiles.
He is finally free.
#aww Henrik thank you so much for these#they're all perfect too#young royals#young royals subtext#young royals analysis#young royals season 3
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At the lake scene for closure, Wille asks Simon what happened to make him want to break up because he doesn't fully understand, but Simon doesn't want to talk about it. One, I think it hurts Simon to think about what led up to his decision, but two: talking about it explicitly might mean having to talk about the toxic pressure being Crown Prince has on Wille.
I theorise that Simon didn't want to further influence Wille's ideas about the role and duty to the monarchy. It's why he specifically asks Wille in the road scene, "Did you do it for my sake?" He does not want Wille to change his life for him. He is all about self-actualization and free choice.
I am very sure that their break-up will come up in further conversations or arguments they have down the road.
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Felice and Simon are having a conversation about their rebound relationships (Felice with August, Simon with Marcus) and what they both learned from them.
#conversations with (young royals) friends#post season 3 YR conversations#felice ehrencrona#simon eriksson#young royals
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In your opinion, what is the best and the worst decision the five main have made the whole show? Some bad decisions are pretty easy but I’m curious what you’d think their best decisions are👀
excellent question!! there's a hundred percent chance i'm forgetting stuff so these might not be THE best and worst but i'll try 💜
Wille
best: giving up the crown prince role (easy)
worst: i was about to say denying his involvement in the leaked video but you know what? no. it was almost sleeping with felice
Simon
best: going in for that second kiss at horror movie night (only because i don't want to admit it was definitively distancing himself from the royal family and breaking up with wille that last time)
worst: taking up august's offer to double the money he owed him if simon got him drugs. boyyyyyy
Felice
best: putting her foot down about not wanting to wear her mother's lucia dress (which snowballed into a beautiful avalanche of self-love and respect that collaterally took a 120yo exclusive private school down. absolute queen behavior.)
worst: kissing wille back none, she's perfect.
Sara
best: oooh this is hard. i think there is one big all-encompassing decision that sara made that led to all the good she gained and regained in her life, which was to really stand by all the lessons her mistakes taught her.
worst: listen, i'll admit i don't know what falling in love feels like, so i may be talking out of my ass here, but it didn't look to me like she fell for august hard and fast. it seems to me that august made her feel wanted for the fist time in her life, and maybe in a misguided way she projected onto him the chance to "redeem" herself for all the bad she saw in herself, by helping him redeem himself. and for these reasons i think she decided to see where it all led her, which was ultimately to fall in love with him. but i could never buy the "blinded by love" explanation for all that happened. she knew what she was doing was wrong (she said so), so i think there must have been a moment when she realized she had started developing feelings for august, the person who leaked revenge porn of her own brother, and she decided to not rein them in before they got too deep.
August
best: my petty ass really wants to say all the ass-kissing that led him to the crown prince role. hope he's happy with it <3
worst: either recording or leaking literal child pornography, can't decide.
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According to Linnéa, the director of this episode, this is the point at which he realises that this thing with Wille is not going to work and he can't do it anymore. This is when he decides they have to break up.
She talks about both the last two episodes of Season 3 that she directed in the @thepermanentrainpress interview.
#this is not the kind considerate and non-elitist Wille he knows#this is the hierarchical 'know your place' Crown Prince Wilhelm#simon and wilhelm#simon eriksson#linnéa roxeheim#young royals season 3
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one of the things i love about young royals is that the s1 tagline being “love or duty” leads you to believe this is going to be like all of the other cliche royal/commoner modern romances where the journey ends with wilhelm realizing he can have both
but then the show is actually an interrogation of how the protagonist cannot maintain his role within the monarchy and have a healthy relationship because no one can be a fully realized individual within a hierarchical colonial institution AND coming into queerness is a stepping stone to the self realization that ultimately frees him AND it is actually the antagonist who gets trapped within the monarchy (while also losing love) proving that upholding the power of the ruling class is a narrative punishment instead of a reward… perfect show
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Screenplay written by Celine Song
Past Lives (2023) dir. Celine Song
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I Wanna Be Someone Who’s Loved from Netflix “Young Royals” - By Tusse i ...
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Relatable Young Royals Moments 💜
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As Lisa Ambjörn wrote in her diary to herself when she was a teenager: remember what it feels like to be a teenager. The young actors improvised the script to sound like 16 year olds too.
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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.
It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).
Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.
One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.
*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.
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The greatest moment in the history of Twitter
#heartstopper#kit connor#joe locke#young royals#omar rudberg#edvin ryding#heartstopper x young royals
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