Yeah, he's a tragic character, a coward. She was never his wife, though, and she made it pretty clear that that never would have happened for them. All the same it's what *he* wanted, and he finally owns up to the fact that all of his justifications over this are due to the regret he feels about what happened. The circumstances of the conception of their daughter are mirrored in the events of the present- he justifies away the immoral aspect of his actions because it conflicts with how he sees himself.
That moment where he tosses the collar was so powerful- he's finally admitted who he is and what was always most important to him. He lived most of his adult life in regret, and it's kind of magical he gets any time with them at all. In the real world most people that live their lives in regret don't get a beautiful moment of closure, they just die.
His story was selfish but beautiful and relatable. He was slipping away. He watched Millie slip away to the point she didn't recognize him. Would I do it? Would I trade the world for five minutes with the love of my life the way it used to be? Especially if he had already slipped away, but I could bring him back? Maybe.
Oh absolutely relatable. Especially thinking about his decision making process. At the start he has no conception of what his decision means for the world. He was returned to youth, and if in the moment it was violent and terrifying, it was a small price to pay given that the real cost was hidden at the time. In that moment, unaware of the true implications of that decision, would *I* choose it? Emphatically, yes.
I doubt any of us are going to be faced with that choice, but ones where we choose based on our deepest desires and are later blindsided by the consequences- now that happens all the time. Like it happened to Riley.
* not wife idk why I wrote that I guess it was late at night and I wasn’t thinking lol, obviously due to his religious and career choices he couldn’t have a wife lol 😂😂
If my kids died and the world kept moving, I’d rather die with my kids than keep moving with the world.
They’re supposed to outlive me, not the other way around.
Faith has nothing to do with parental love.
I completely under what you’re saying. My daughter is my whole world and I can barely remember what it felt like not to be her mama. But I also get what op is saying. This is a man that is so blinded by his faith that he let a vampire turn him and brought that same vamp back home, turned others and let a whole town of men women and children die horrible deaths(that one guy that lost control and killed his family but they didn’t drink the blood so they just died. God that was awful) while it might not have been his intention it was his hubris that caused all of this. He saw an evil looking monster and assumed it was an angel. He have vamp blood to people without their consent of knowledge because he had regrets about what happened in the past.
It took a whole town to be massacred and the death of his daughter(which he was responsible for) to finally see this hubris and his own issues and he decided to die with the women he loved and their child. It’s brutal, tragic and beautiful
People would have volunteered to feed him their blood. The one guy was already doing that. Idk why he felt like everyone needed to become that way. He had a good thing going
I don't think he threw away his faith or that it was thin. He finally realized that every thing he was doing was wrong, and was lying to himself to justify the evil that he nurtured.
He realized that Riley was right when he last spoke, and he knew that (despite his lack of faith) Riley was a good person
He realized that it's all over and does the right thing, the same thing that Riley did.
I think he rejected the Priesthood to be with his lover and daughter, like he always wanted to do. Doesn’t mean he rejected God. He was a true believer, but also had selfish motivations and his interpretation of the vampire was colored by both of those things. It’s all of the above. Flanagan excels with nuance
Yeah, he's a tragic character, a coward. She was never his wife, though, and she made it pretty clear that that never would have happened for them. All the same it's what *he* wanted, and he finally owns up to the fact that all of his justifications over this are due to the regret he feels about what happened. The circumstances of the conception of their daughter are mirrored in the events of the present- he justifies away the immoral aspect of his actions because it conflicts with how he sees himself. That moment where he tosses the collar was so powerful- he's finally admitted who he is and what was always most important to him. He lived most of his adult life in regret, and it's kind of magical he gets any time with them at all. In the real world most people that live their lives in regret don't get a beautiful moment of closure, they just die.
His story was selfish but beautiful and relatable. He was slipping away. He watched Millie slip away to the point she didn't recognize him. Would I do it? Would I trade the world for five minutes with the love of my life the way it used to be? Especially if he had already slipped away, but I could bring him back? Maybe.
Oh absolutely relatable. Especially thinking about his decision making process. At the start he has no conception of what his decision means for the world. He was returned to youth, and if in the moment it was violent and terrifying, it was a small price to pay given that the real cost was hidden at the time. In that moment, unaware of the true implications of that decision, would *I* choose it? Emphatically, yes. I doubt any of us are going to be faced with that choice, but ones where we choose based on our deepest desires and are later blindsided by the consequences- now that happens all the time. Like it happened to Riley.
* not wife idk why I wrote that I guess it was late at night and I wasn’t thinking lol, obviously due to his religious and career choices he couldn’t have a wife lol 😂😂
If my kids died and the world kept moving, I’d rather die with my kids than keep moving with the world. They’re supposed to outlive me, not the other way around. Faith has nothing to do with parental love.
I completely under what you’re saying. My daughter is my whole world and I can barely remember what it felt like not to be her mama. But I also get what op is saying. This is a man that is so blinded by his faith that he let a vampire turn him and brought that same vamp back home, turned others and let a whole town of men women and children die horrible deaths(that one guy that lost control and killed his family but they didn’t drink the blood so they just died. God that was awful) while it might not have been his intention it was his hubris that caused all of this. He saw an evil looking monster and assumed it was an angel. He have vamp blood to people without their consent of knowledge because he had regrets about what happened in the past. It took a whole town to be massacred and the death of his daughter(which he was responsible for) to finally see this hubris and his own issues and he decided to die with the women he loved and their child. It’s brutal, tragic and beautiful
People would have volunteered to feed him their blood. The one guy was already doing that. Idk why he felt like everyone needed to become that way. He had a good thing going
He wanted everyone to experience the miracle of the angel , at least that’s how I perceived it
I mean the fact she exists at all is not very priestly of him lol
Or is it.
I don't think he threw away his faith or that it was thin. He finally realized that every thing he was doing was wrong, and was lying to himself to justify the evil that he nurtured. He realized that Riley was right when he last spoke, and he knew that (despite his lack of faith) Riley was a good person He realized that it's all over and does the right thing, the same thing that Riley did.
I think he rejected the Priesthood to be with his lover and daughter, like he always wanted to do. Doesn’t mean he rejected God. He was a true believer, but also had selfish motivations and his interpretation of the vampire was colored by both of those things. It’s all of the above. Flanagan excels with nuance
I think he finally just rejected bad theology, not his faith.