"from every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart, you learned you didnt have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince" that bit gets me everytime
"Now in his castle you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him." I get chills every time.
Alex K An old folk tale about a man whose wives kept mysteriously dying from illnesses. His wife found their bodies hanging in the castle & realized he was killing them himself & almost killed her when she discovered them.
expert writing from the show because the therapist mentioned there's a side of Joe that has so much faith in love and believes in romance (Prince Charming) and there's the side the is hopeless and and carries a feeling of betrayal (Bluebeard)
i just can’t stop coming back to this ... i feel so bad for her , yeah she wasn’t a great person but she never caught a break . Her whole life was full of heartache and disappointments and she died sad , scared and alone . poor beck deserved better
I've seen this repeatedly, over and over. And I think this is just a blink, a thought of what is like to be a women. To be fragile, and to be silent, to be hurt and be wrong for the world. To be beaten and say thank you for it. It's heartbreaking.
I resonate with this so much. When she started the poem it honestly sounded like she was describing my own life thus far (minus the stalker) her relationship with girls at school, and with men, and with fairy tales and wanting Prince Charming. I cry every time I watch it
This is the actual moment when Beck realize she won't have a happy ending. Again, it's heartbreaking. (To imagine that Beck is an example of what violence/abuse against women feels like.)
"You used to wrap yourself in fairy tales like a blanket but it was the cold you loved. Sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of Bluebeard’s wives. Sweeter goose bumps as Prince Charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes, a perfect fit. But by the schoolyard, real princesses floated by you on fall winds. You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairy tales but the stories were in you, deep as poison. If Prince Charming was real, if he could save you, you needed to be saved from the unfairness of everything, when would he come? The answer was a cruel shrug in a hundred fleeting moments. The sneer on Stevie Smith’s face when he called you a fat cow. Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the Thanksgiving Kitchen. The accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened. From every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart, you learned you didn’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince. You surrounded yourself with the girls you’d always resented, hoping to share their power, and you hated yourself. And that diminished you even more. And then, right when you thought you might just disappear, he saw you. And you knew, somewhere deep, it was too good to be true. But you let yourself be swept, because he was the first strong enough to lift you. Now, in his castle, you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him. Didn’t you want this? To be loved? Didn’t you want him to crown you? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this. Say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth. What if you can't love him back"
@@dia5336 i think she kind of always knew that she didn't really love him, even when she had no clue about him and when she found everything out and his true colors were revealed she realized that she cant love him for the person that he is
I was quite surprised when I learned that the people behind this show are the same from Riverdale because the writing was so good especially Joe's narration.
caitlyn who r u nnn here for iconic lines to rival ‘we’re a ship’ ‘a serpent queen is a warrior queen’ ‘I’d recognise those abs anywhere’ ‘I am so over the toxic masculinity in this room right now’ and ‘shut the hell up imposter’
Coming to this because of all the hate Beck’s character is getting on social media. People calling her bland do not get the point of her character! She represents so many girls in their 20’s that are lost and are struggling to find an identity. People love to say that Love was a more unique and interesting character and that Beck sucked but the truth is that more of us relate to Beck than to Love. Also, we always see her from Joe’s point of view and this is the first time we really get to see HER. I’m not saying that she’s a great person or anything but people need to try and understand her character!
Love is initially better liked because she is self-sufficient and independent; Beck is co-dependent (first Peach, Joe, Nicky) and blatantly selfish. That noted, one thing sets Beck aside from Love which made Love's existence easier when developing a compelling persona: wealth. Despite their dysfunctional core, Love's family supported Love and Forty and facilitated their growth into seemingly successful and strong people. Love was able to take up her passion for cooking and help with the family business, she wasn't constantly berated with the stigma of social class like Beck was when compared to Peach and her inner-circle. All of Love's flaws were internalized, as where Beck's were transparent and made her the target of predatory individuals (her graduate advisor, Benji, Peach, and Joe), and ultimately made her victim to her own selfish and reckless instincts. In terms of us as an audience, we are, despite the social deviance to his character, constantly rooting for Joe. When we realize Love is his perfect counterpart (if not more mentally unstable than him)--we want them to be together. Love is everything Beck wasn't and perhaps the only woman that will unconditionally understand Joe.
It's not the first time we see her though. We get to see her a bit in The Captain episode. But this poem was very good...and listening to it now, knowing that she dies, is truly haunting.
Of course love is more interesting she’s literally murders anyone who will get in the way of her happiness . She’s not done killing and I’m sure she’s still going to kill in season 3
@@andrewjudeus6283 that analysis of Beck is brilliant, and I completely agree. I think people criticising her character overlook the very real hurdles that were placed right in front of her before she could even attempt running. That's not to fault anyone for simply not enjoying a character, but doing so for the reasons you listed out is almost always because they aren't thinking critically about her backstory in the first place.
Sligh Yes it’s not the same without her. Her eyes, voice, poetry, emotions, her chemistry with Joe etc all different. But I do recommend you to watch it all. It’s a good season. Just pray for her aching soul.
Beck will always be my favorite. I cried like a big baby when the first season ended and her book was finally released. I felt like I knew her! And I felt like I saw myself in her through her struggles. What broke my heart is her book becoming super successful after she died. I had a really hard time letter her go 😢
'The accusation in your father's eyes, when you told him what happened.' This line and Beck's father's face when it's said is heart-wrenching along with the music. Didn't you ask for it?
I’ve never seen a show were I’d replay the ending a bunch of times because it was beautiful, but yet tragically written, & you just have to keep watching it over and over again.
As someone who was put through emotional abuse.....this captures so perfectly how it feels to realise the person you loved doesnt exist. Because that was a facade for their true nature. Its heartbreaking to realise this
She’s innocent, pure and kind. Of course she’s more likable. She was the naive girl from next door... she was real, she was trying to find love in all the ways she could. She’s also a victim, which becomes more likable. And this scene right here shows more than what love ever did.
@@jamesonrwalker Thing is that, beside the Joe stuff, she was very shallow. When she started dating Joe she was still fucking around other guys, she cheated on Joe and shamed him for not trusting her and when Joe moved on, she bitched her way back to him. Love might be a psycho, but Beck is the kind of tv character that makes you remember all the shit you've been through in your relationships and that is why most people like her less than Love, who (in a twisted way) really cared and loved Joe. Beck is the typical girl you want to forget about, but you can't. Not because she's special, but because she fucked you up and made yourself blame for it. Then of course Joe is the worst and all that stuff, no doubt about that.
Joe Hut But you can't forget that Beck was plagued by so many issues and anxieties. Someone with Daddy issues has big problems with having a healthy relationship.
I love beck, you can tell she was born a dreamer but life showed her how cruel it could be which makes puts her in a position of conflict and makes her feel lost. she’s a beautiful spirit :’
Man, to think that after a life of disappointment, abandonment and loneliness she finally believed she had found someone who really cared about her. It makes me feel sad for Beck, she was certainly a mess and immature, but I liked her because she was very realistic, she had dreams, hopes, wanted to improve and be happy, feel loved. She discovered that Joe was obsessed with her and that fantasy of happiness collapsed. Being betrayed by the one you love and dying alone and in fear, Beck didn't deserve that.
love how most people dislike beck for what she did to joe, she cheated on him and manipulated him into thinking she loved him, however joe did much worse. In fact killed the people closest to her, what did he achieve? Why does he suddenly become glorified for what he did? This show makes me so upset in so many ways, but this scene was beautiful. I love beck, and somehow still can’t wrap my head around what happened.
Everyone is talking about how good the show was sure it was great but for me the show was special because of beck’s poems the way she writes and expresses her feelings is phenomenal
This is some beautiful writing. Just wrapped up the season so well. I don’t watch these shows much or attach myself to characters but Beck really drew me in.
This scene is the saddest scene I have seen in my entire life. I knew Beck had some problems with her father's drug abuse and her own daddy issues but never knew she was bullied at school.Her creepy ass uncle harassing her and her father not believing it. That she was always searching for prince charming and in the end she found Bluebeard. I kinda wished her character could have found "prince charming". I mean she wasn't perfect but hell you gotta admit that scene encapsulates how she feels after realizing Joe was never really prince charming. She truly loved him the morning after they made up and even before that but that was until she found the box. It must have been heartbreaking to find out that prince charming was a fraud. Imagine finding out that everything you knew wasn't real. Throughout season 1 she thought Joe was too good to be true and felt scared that something would go wrong for her because lets face it things have gone bad for her in the past. That's the reason she cheated on him. It makes it even more heartbreaking that she was right after all. She was an easy target for Joe because she believed in true love and thought Joe was the one. Can you really blame her for everything she does. She has bad friends because those friends were everything she thought she wanted. She never really fit in anywhere and was forced to accept the friends she had. Maybe if she had better friends and even a better psychologist to sort out her shit she would have been a stronger person.
Jon Snow I don't believe in prince charming tho. Perhaps Beck like to always want to find someone so perfect like a prince but no one is. Yes, so sad she died.
@@aniloucalderon1509 True but she can at least find someone who isn't a psycho or an asshole. Its hard to believe but those people do exist. I believe everyone has a soulmate they will find someday. If only Beck could have found a decent guy but that doesn't mean he won't have flaws but those flaws don't include murdering and stalking.
Jon Snow you're right. Beck thought Joe was too good to be true for her. She was afraid that she can't be the same for him. I feel sad 'bout it 'cause she seems to be a self conscious person all the time. And doesn't she deserved to be accepted for who she is? I mean Joe doesn't really see her, he only believes himself all the time.
Many people hated Beck and even showed some weird satisfaction after she was presumably killed off. I have to admit that Beck is far away from being an utterly likeable human being but at the same moment of time Joe is a million times worse than her. As soon as he laid his eyes on her she was doomed for real. That he wanted to change her according to his personally twisted vision of _Joe's Beck_ and manipulated her until she fell for him is enough to despise this guy. His type of "love" is the exact opposite of unconditional love. It's grounded in the condition that she becomes what he wants her to be and nothing else than that. Everyone intruding into his transformation of her turns into a "threat" for him and has to be put out of the picture. He is a psychopathic murderer while Beck basically offers everyday human flaws. No idea why people should glorify the one side (Joe) and vilify the other one (Beck). Both are flawed but he is literally a lunactic. This kind of victim blaming is somewhat telling and says more about the ones blaming her than about the character itself. What I especially admire is that Penn himself openly stated that he hates Joe.
Jess T. Your stupid if anything joe helped her, benji was a murder and peach was a stalker and manipulator. They made her life worse. Joe took them out for specific reasons. He doesn’t kill without a reason. Helped paco out all the time. His flaws weren’t perfect but that doesn’t mean he is a bad person
@@RetroMamba Benji was nothing, and had nothing to do with Beck. You don't help a person move on from their ex by killing said ex. As for Peach, I really can't stand her, but in the stalking regard, Joe is much worse. And he only helped Paco out because Paco reminds him of his younger self. He's not an entirely EVIL person, but he's nowhere near being a good person, for Beck or for anyone. That said, I did root for him though, because story-wise, rooting for him gave the best sense of thrill. If he failed, it would've been too boring.
Elerie benji killed an innocent person and peach was gonna kill joe, she shot him. Joe only did what he had to. If he really was a ruthless killer he would of killed the therapist. He doesn’t kill without a good and specific reason
@@RetroMamba Joe is not a mercenary, Benji's crime had nothing to do with Joe. And Peach pointed the gun at Joe because, wait for it, HE WAS IN HER REMOTE MANSION UNINVITED, which is creepy AF.
“Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this. Say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth.” That part!
Incredible writing. This whole scene literally absolves becks character, she wasn't an amazing person but rather a troubled and very human one. She truly didn't deserve what happened to her and I think that's the point the author was trying to drive home.
to me that scene is probably the most heartbreaking and powerful scene I have ever seen on american tv... and it is a in depth dive into the female psyche, in the way women are being brought up to think of themselves, especially by their male relatives...to this day...we are still being brought up to think we need to satisfy the males we meet in order to have a happy life for ourselves, we are still being brought up to think we need to satisfy someone else in order to be worthy of any kind of happiness for ourselves...the writing in this monologue is pure genious and something even more than that...it is pure art...Εlizabeth Lail was EXCELLENT !!!
Elizabeth did a great job giving life to Beck. She is the greatest character of you! She just feels so like a real human, just like a friend of yours, not only like a character. After she fell in love with Joe and endured all the hardships of the relationship between Joe, Peach's death, her ex's leaving, her dad's new marriage, her teacher sexually harassing her and not being able to find a new job all by herself. The fact that her being a victim all of this time and not being able to realize how bad everything could go for her until the last episode thanks to the end of Joe's POV is amazing. We found ourselves rooting for someone who is an abusive, toxic and serial killer boyfriend all the way through season 1 until the last episode. The poem felt heartbreaking since Beck wrote it thinking she could do anything about the only person who "loved" her truthfully. Turned out he didn't love her. Ended up being killed and forgotten thanks to Candace 4 months later. I hope she just comes back, I truly love her character. However, it just breaks my heart how she ended up.
This scene really showed the toxicity of waiting for "prince charming" for "love at first sight". Joe seemed like Prince Charming incarnate. He appeared to do and say everything right. If only that was the real him!
This is too beautiful. Watching this majorly inspired me to write my own poetry. If anyone out there has emotion to share, i advise through poetry, its a powerful medium of artistic expression
How the hell did you end up here You used to wrap yourself in fairytales like a blanket, but it was the cold you loved Sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of Bluebeard's wives Sweeter goosebumps as Prince Charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes A perfect fit But by the schoolyard real princesses floated by you on fall winds You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairytales But the stories were in you deep as poison If Prince Charming was real, if he could save you, you needed to be saved by the unfairness of everything When would he come The answer was a cruel shrug and a hundred fleeting moments The sneer on Stevie Smith’s face when he called you a fat cow Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the Thanksgiving kitchen The accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened From every boy masquerading as a man that you’ve let into your body Your heart learned you didn’t have the magic that turns a beast into a prince You surrounded yourself with the girls you’ve always resented Hoping to share their power And you hated yourself And that diminished you even more And then, right when you thought you might just disappear, He saw you And you knew somewhere deep it was too good to be true But you let yourself be swept because he was the first strong enough to lift you Now in his castle you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him Didn’t you want this? To be loved Didn’t you want him to crown you Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this Say you love him Say thank you Say anything but the truth What if you can’t love him back...
I at first hated Beck, and thought she wasn't a well fleshed out character just because she was pretty. But hearing more about her past really made me feel for her.
update. ive probably listening to this at least 60 times already. i cant stop. there’s just something about it. i think everytime i relisten to it more things make sense. i understand more.
I think that this scene speaks for so many women who have hoped and dreamed and believed for a man to love. It is such a tender and painful monologue. This is a beautiful depiction of the subtleties of being used as a woman. And the repercussions of being boxed in, fucked and used over and over again. It speaks to how we believe in the story of true love and we bend over backwards to make it work. But we should stop forcing men into true love stories as much as they put us into their boxes of pleasure.
I wrote it out for anybody that wants it How the hell did you end up here? [Your life has been better since you met me. You just didn’t know how or why. You paint me out to be this monster, someone that can hurt people, who can do terrible things] You use to wrap yourself in fairy tales like a blanket. But it was the cold you loved; sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of blue beards wives. Sweeter goosebumps as prince charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes - perfect fit. But by the school yard real princesses floated by you like fall winds. You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairy tales. But the stories were in you; deep as poison. If prince charming was real, if he could save you- you needed to be saved from the unfairness of everything. When would he come? The answer was a cool shrug and one hundred fleeting moments. The sneer on Stevey Smiths face when he called you a fat cow, Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the thanksgiving kitchen; the accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened. From every boy macerating as a man that you let into your body, your heart - you learned you didn’t have whatever magic turned a beast into a prince. You surrounded yourself with the girls you always resented, hoping to share their power and you hated yourself and that diminished you even more. And then, right when you thought you might disappear - he saw you. And you knew somewhere deep it was too good to be true but you let yourself be swept because he was the first strong enough to lift you. Now in his castle you understand prince charming and blue beard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him. Didn’t you want this? To be loved Didn’t you want him to crown you? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this, say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth. What if you can’t love him back?
I'm super inlove with this scene and just discovered a poem very similar to this. Not sure if Beck's piece was written based on this or vise versa. Hundered Fleeting Moments Nicki Clarke Fairytales run in your veins like blood. Stabbed by realizations warm red floods, Out of your body A damaged soul, Steals another part of you that can never be whole. You woke up from the daydream, When you were eighteen years old. Now there’s balance within the cold - You love The shiver down your spine when you’re not good enough. Your mind rations to let one more boy in, Because the stories are buried deep in you like poison. Surely if prince charming was real he would come, To save you from the pain and unfairness time has numbed. The number of empty lines freed from pages torn, Freeing your spirit to move as it once did before. Because a heart can’t love when it sits on a shelf, And you can’t love somebody if you can’t love yourself. Still at night questions linger. What if a needle never pricks your finger? What if your fairy godmother never comes? What if no one’s at your window on a flying rug? What if you don’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince? A cold hard shrug, And one-hundred fleeting moments.
People say they are glad the ending wasn't typical by having Joe get caught and beck surviving but as much as i hate predictable endings, I really wish that was the case. I grew in disgust with Joe ever since the beginning and I just wanted him to get caught or die. I don't get how people can sympathize with him.
aly the show literally forced us to sympathize with him. The point where he kills Beck doesnt make sense at all because he always said how much he loved her. But in this moment he decides that his life is worth more for him and kills her. Ending was not understandable for me.
@@drobdead98 because nothing he ever did was actually for Beck. That's how he justified his actions to himself. The people he killed? He did it for self-serving purposes. Think about it. He killed to be closer to her. So he didn't have to compete with anyone else. To be seen as her savior for rescuing her from all the bad people in her life. It was all so he would look good in her eyes. That's how he twisted it. And when she responded with disgust and repulsion, he knew she would tell. He knew his life would be over and, once again, chose himself. It was never about love and Beck. It was always about him.
Beck was a bad girlfriend, insecure and very easy to manipulate, but when you look back at her life, this scene is truly heart breaking, she didn't have one good men in her life, not a single one.
"...Now, in his castle, you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man." Dealing with this fact in my personal life. Realising that the person you love is also the person that can rip your heart out with no warning whatsoever, can leave a person feeling an acidic pain of humiliation and betrayal. I've never felt more lonely.
I love this moment in the series Edit: I can't stop coming back to it. I guess it's because it's the first time we actually see her. Not Joe's vision of her, but really Beck, raw and real. We get to see all the pain she had to endure, like most if not all girls.
Her death feels so real, my mind just flashes with different scenes of her in my head, like her being late with her poem and having to reschedule. She's the 1st character on a TV show that almost seemed real. Sad that was her ending. Wish Paco didn't tell her about the ceiling tile and her and Joe ended up happy. Definitely didn't deserve this ending.
this was the exact moment I realized I could never finish this show. I knew she was going to die and I absolutely could not watch it after this. I've never seen anything past this scene; it just completely broke me.
I think every girl/woman can relate with this poem.This poem describes what is like to be a little girl,innocent but suddenly realizing that the world is more cruel that you thought.
"You used to wrap yourself in fairytales, like a blanket. But it was the cold you love." The whole text is extraordinary, but as a writer myself, that moment when you're drowning and you feel like it's never going to end but then that ONE SENTENCE hits you with the waves and you decide to let it tell you the story it wants you to hear rather than the other way around, and it's the truth you listen to and it's painful and full of hate and you turn everything at YOU and you use your own voice to talk to YOU for a change instead of being someone else, and somewhere in the process the storm calms down a little bit and you didn't even notice because the words were too loud, but suddenly you find tenderness in your story that you didn't expect, that's the moment when you realize that you've created this storm by fighting it before it even came, so you write it out and you breathe out and your done. From now on you can deal with it. Writing is the strongest secret weapon you could possibly possess, and regardless of me relating to her relationship to Joe (don't freak out), I know this moment so deep, and I'm moved to tears every time I watch it because it's an emotional process that is almost impossible to share, and I think Elizabeth nailed it. She just nailed it. Hats off. Just for this moment.
After 9 episodes, THIS is the one true moment we actually get to know the REAL Beck.
It sucks because her character will always be written off as plain and basic but she had so much potential and this scene outlines it
@@GreenLight5444 that's exactly why I revisit this scene every time
Ehhh shes still a cunt, this was just the only time she was a good writer
@@crashbunks bro me too
Yes I agree
When she repeats, "didn't you ask for it?", it's so powerful
me the animal lover that part always makes me cry
So true !
You can literally feel the blame she puts on herself
New person same old mistakes. Sorry Beck.
@@jordanlevitt1638 And another layer, the repeats it's like she sees how people especially older, often treat women even in position of victimhood.
"from every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart, you learned you didnt have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince" that bit gets me everytime
same
If that wasnt the truth 😑
you're not alone
@@thefatcoolguy how so tho
thefatcoolguy how so? Some men lie and manipulate girls into getting in bed with them, and the girls are whose ones?
"Now in his castle you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him."
I get chills every time.
and how they edited this with the clips of Joe turning up with a balloon and his face kicked in/Joe on the outside of the glass room, SO good
Saaaaame, fav part for me 🤗
Who's Bluebeard?
Alex K An old folk tale about a man whose wives kept mysteriously dying from illnesses. His wife found their bodies hanging in the castle & realized he was killing them himself & almost killed her when she discovered them.
expert writing from the show because the therapist mentioned there's a side of Joe that has so much faith in love and believes in romance (Prince Charming) and there's the side the is hopeless and and carries a feeling of betrayal (Bluebeard)
"you learnt you didnt have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince" that line had me balling
IKR
It always gets me, because that's it, I don't have it😂😆LOL.
This monologue might be some of the best writing in television or film in general.
You should see midnight Mass
Midnight mass is amazing.
True, but I loved the writing in Midnight Mass so much. Good to see Midnight Mass is getting some well deserved credit here by other cinephiles.
Yeah I agree. They had to have her draft her magnus opus, and she did
i just can’t stop coming back to this ... i feel so bad for her , yeah she wasn’t a great person but she never caught a break . Her whole life was full of heartache and disappointments and she died sad , scared and alone . poor beck deserved better
It’s ya boi skinny penis . I don’t think beck died
Mr. Ripper i feel like joe faked her death and has her somewhere but someone said that her body was planted at the therapists house ? idk
It’s ya boi skinny penis . Yeah, that’s what a lot of people think
It’s ya boi skinny penis I think a lot of us could relate on some level
@@dg5175 . I thought "it's ya boy skinny pennies.." was part of ur reply, I laughed so hard . XD
The saddest part about this poem, and looking at beck as a character in general, is that every women one way or another can relate to her.
Her entire poem sounds like she’s describing my life. It’s crazy how so many women go through this
This poem is so good but her way of reading it makes it even better
When I heard this in the episode it made me so emotional that I cried. This is hands down one of the most raw and heartfelt things I’ve watched on tv.
“Didn’t you ask for it?”
“Didn’t you ask for it?”
“DIDNT you ask for it?”
Those lines really broke my heart
those lines were so powerfull..
I've seen this repeatedly, over and over. And I think this is just a blink, a thought of what is like to be a women. To be fragile, and to be silent, to be hurt and be wrong for the world. To be beaten and say thank you for it. It's heartbreaking.
Ruth Santana not at all
You’re right
I resonate with this so much. When she started the poem it honestly sounded like she was describing my own life thus far (minus the stalker) her relationship with girls at school, and with men, and with fairy tales and wanting Prince Charming. I cry every time I watch it
This is the actual moment when Beck realize she won't have a happy ending. Again, it's heartbreaking. (To imagine that Beck is an example of what violence/abuse against women feels like.)
Then don’t say thank you say fuck you and get up . You can’t rely on others for “happy endings” you have to make it yourself
"You used to wrap yourself in fairy tales like a blanket but it was the cold you loved. Sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of Bluebeard’s wives. Sweeter goose bumps as Prince Charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes, a perfect fit. But by the schoolyard, real princesses floated by you on fall winds. You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairy tales but the stories were in you, deep as poison. If Prince Charming was real, if he could save you, you needed to be saved from the unfairness of everything, when would he come? The answer was a cruel shrug in a hundred fleeting moments. The sneer on Stevie Smith’s face when he called you a fat cow. Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the Thanksgiving Kitchen. The accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened. From every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart, you learned you didn’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince. You surrounded yourself with the girls you’d always resented, hoping to share their power, and you hated yourself. And that diminished you even more. And then, right when you thought you might just disappear, he saw you. And you knew, somewhere deep, it was too good to be true. But you let yourself be swept, because he was the first strong enough to lift you. Now, in his castle, you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him. Didn’t you want this? To be loved? Didn’t you want him to crown you? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this. Say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth. What if you can't love him back"
Eman Shahid thank you
TXS!
So i dont get it, all this time she didnt love him? Like before she knew that he is a sociopath, did she love him?
Diaa Dra She means that she can’t love both - the monster and Prince Charming.
@@dia5336 i think she kind of always knew that she didn't really love him, even when she had no clue about him and when she found everything out and his true colors were revealed she realized that she cant love him for the person that he is
The writing in this show is phenomenal, I hope it doesn't become like Riverdale once season 2 starts imma riot
evelyn verdin shit u right
The author of the original book better be writing the screenplay
I was quite surprised when I learned that the people behind this show are the same from Riverdale because the writing was so good especially Joe's narration.
The dialogues in Riverdale are shallow and cringey af
caitlyn who r u nnn here for iconic lines to rival ‘we’re a ship’ ‘a serpent queen is a warrior queen’ ‘I’d recognise those abs anywhere’ ‘I am so over the toxic masculinity in this room right now’ and ‘shut the hell up imposter’
Coming to this because of all the hate Beck’s character is getting on social media. People calling her bland do not get the point of her character! She represents so many girls in their 20’s that are lost and are struggling to find an identity. People love to say that Love was a more unique and interesting character and that Beck sucked but the truth is that more of us relate to Beck than to Love. Also, we always see her from Joe’s point of view and this is the first time we really get to see HER. I’m not saying that she’s a great person or anything but people need to try and understand her character!
Love is initially better liked because she is self-sufficient and independent; Beck is co-dependent (first Peach, Joe, Nicky) and blatantly selfish. That noted, one thing sets Beck aside from Love which made Love's existence easier when developing a compelling persona: wealth. Despite their dysfunctional core, Love's family supported Love and Forty and facilitated their growth into seemingly successful and strong people. Love was able to take up her passion for cooking and help with the family business, she wasn't constantly berated with the stigma of social class like Beck was when compared to Peach and her inner-circle. All of Love's flaws were internalized, as where Beck's were transparent and made her the target of predatory individuals (her graduate advisor, Benji, Peach, and Joe), and ultimately made her victim to her own selfish and reckless instincts.
In terms of us as an audience, we are, despite the social deviance to his character, constantly rooting for Joe. When we realize Love is his perfect counterpart (if not more mentally unstable than him)--we want them to be together. Love is everything Beck wasn't and perhaps the only woman that will unconditionally understand Joe.
It's not the first time we see her though. We get to see her a bit in The Captain episode. But this poem was very good...and listening to it now, knowing that she dies, is truly haunting.
Of course love is more interesting she’s literally murders anyone who will get in the way of her happiness . She’s not done killing and I’m sure she’s still going to kill in season 3
Nothing can justify her cheating, I don’t think many girls in their 20’s cheat and lie
@@andrewjudeus6283 that analysis of Beck is brilliant, and I completely agree. I think people criticising her character overlook the very real hurdles that were placed right in front of her before she could even attempt running. That's not to fault anyone for simply not enjoying a character, but doing so for the reasons you listed out is almost always because they aren't thinking critically about her backstory in the first place.
Who’s here after finishing You season 2 and missing Beck and her poems?
Me...
Me 😭❤️
Sligh Yes it’s not the same without her. Her eyes, voice, poetry, emotions, her chemistry with Joe etc all different. But I do recommend you to watch it all. It’s a good season. Just pray for her aching soul.
Sligh i would love that. i miss beck so bad. like, so so bad. she’s amazing. and this scene really showed how powerful her writing was, and her soul.
didn’t really like beck at first but this scene made me love her. she didnt deserve the ending she got.
Beck will always be my favorite. I cried like a big baby when the first season ended and her book was finally released. I felt like I knew her! And I felt like I saw myself in her through her struggles. What broke my heart is her book becoming super successful after she died. I had a really hard time letter her go 😢
“You didn’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a Prince”…this line….I felt it to my core!
You used to wrap yourself in fairy tales like a blanket but it was the cold you loved- that hit so deep
'The accusation in your father's eyes, when you told him what happened.'
This line and Beck's father's face when it's said is heart-wrenching along with the music.
Didn't you ask for it?
I’ve never seen a show were I’d replay the ending a bunch of times because it was beautiful, but yet tragically written, & you just have to keep watching it over and over again.
As someone who was put through emotional abuse.....this captures so perfectly how it feels to realise the person you loved doesnt exist. Because that was a facade for their true nature. Its heartbreaking to realise this
I love Beck, I don't get where the dislike for her comes from, she was a really well written human character.
didn't expect to have cried at this part. can most definitely relate in that poem.
Omg, I love this poem! It’s so beautifully sad.
Hated her thoroughout the season but godamn she killed in season finale. I really want her to be back for season 2.
I can’t be the only one who thought Beck was so much more likeable than Love
Nope I agree
She’s innocent, pure and kind. Of course she’s more likable. She was the naive girl from next door... she was real, she was trying to find love in all the ways she could. She’s also a victim, which becomes more likable. And this scene right here shows more than what love ever did.
Dilly Games yeppers
@@jamesonrwalker Thing is that, beside the Joe stuff, she was very shallow. When she started dating Joe she was still fucking around other guys, she cheated on Joe and shamed him for not trusting her and when Joe moved on, she bitched her way back to him. Love might be a psycho, but Beck is the kind of tv character that makes you remember all the shit you've been through in your relationships and that is why most people like her less than Love, who (in a twisted way) really cared and loved Joe. Beck is the typical girl you want to forget about, but you can't. Not because she's special, but because she fucked you up and made yourself blame for it.
Then of course Joe is the worst and all that stuff, no doubt about that.
Joe Hut But you can't forget that Beck was plagued by so many issues and anxieties. Someone with Daddy issues has big problems with having a healthy relationship.
I love beck, you can tell she was born a dreamer but life showed her how cruel it could be which makes puts her in a position of conflict and makes her feel lost. she’s a beautiful spirit :’
whoever wrote this needs to know that writers all over the world will never be able to write something like this. this is special. this is so special.
Man, to think that after a life of disappointment, abandonment and loneliness she finally believed she had found someone who really cared about her. It makes me feel sad for Beck, she was certainly a mess and immature, but I liked her because she was very realistic, she had dreams, hopes, wanted to improve and be happy, feel loved. She discovered that Joe was obsessed with her and that fantasy of happiness collapsed. Being betrayed by the one you love and dying alone and in fear, Beck didn't deserve that.
Exactly she never even got the chance to change for the better because Joe took that away from her.
love how most people dislike beck for what she did to joe, she cheated on him and manipulated him into thinking she loved him, however joe did much worse. In fact killed the people closest to her, what did he achieve? Why does he suddenly become glorified for what he did?
This show makes me so upset in so many ways, but this scene was beautiful. I love beck, and somehow still can’t wrap my head around what happened.
Everyone is talking about how good the show was sure it was great but for me the show was special because of beck’s poems the way she writes and expresses her feelings is phenomenal
This is some beautiful writing. Just wrapped up the season so well. I don’t watch these shows much or attach myself to characters but Beck really drew me in.
Lucas Bisson Elizabeth’s performance as Beck really drew me in. So tangible. And this scene propelled her into one of my favorite all time characters.
This scene is the saddest scene I have seen in my entire life. I knew Beck had some problems with her father's drug abuse and her own daddy issues but never knew she was bullied at school.Her creepy ass uncle harassing her and her father not believing it. That she was always searching for prince charming and in the end she found Bluebeard. I kinda wished her character could have found "prince charming". I mean she wasn't perfect but hell you gotta admit that scene encapsulates how she feels after realizing Joe was never really prince charming. She truly loved him the morning after they made up and even before that but that was until she found the box. It must have been heartbreaking to find out that prince charming was a fraud. Imagine finding out that everything you knew wasn't real. Throughout season 1 she thought Joe was too good to be true and felt scared that something would go wrong for her because lets face it things have gone bad for her in the past. That's the reason she cheated on him. It makes it even more heartbreaking that she was right after all. She was an easy target for Joe because she believed in true love and thought Joe was the one. Can you really blame her for everything she does. She has bad friends because those friends were everything she thought she wanted. She never really fit in anywhere and was forced to accept the friends she had. Maybe if she had better friends and even a better psychologist to sort out her shit she would have been a stronger person.
Jon Snow if she survived this, I guess she'll be a great person
@@aniloucalderon1509 Well she kind of didn't... I'm still sad whenever I think of her. If only she could have found her prince charming
Jon Snow I don't believe in prince charming tho. Perhaps Beck like to always want to find someone so perfect like a prince but no one is. Yes, so sad she died.
@@aniloucalderon1509 True but she can at least find someone who isn't a psycho or an asshole. Its hard to believe but those people do exist. I believe everyone has a soulmate they will find someday. If only Beck could have found a decent guy but that doesn't mean he won't have flaws but those flaws don't include murdering and stalking.
Jon Snow you're right. Beck thought Joe was too good to be true for her. She was afraid that she can't be the same for him. I feel sad 'bout it 'cause she seems to be a self conscious person all the time. And doesn't she deserved to be accepted for who she is? I mean Joe doesn't really see her, he only believes himself all the time.
I always come back to THIS!!! so beautiful.
Many people hated Beck and even showed some weird satisfaction after she was presumably killed off. I have to admit that Beck is far away from being an utterly likeable human being but at the same moment of time Joe is a million times worse than her. As soon as he laid his eyes on her she was doomed for real. That he wanted to change her according to his personally twisted vision of _Joe's Beck_ and manipulated her until she fell for him is enough to despise this guy. His type of "love" is the exact opposite of unconditional love. It's grounded in the condition that she becomes what he wants her to be and nothing else than that. Everyone intruding into his transformation of her turns into a "threat" for him and has to be put out of the picture. He is a psychopathic murderer while Beck basically offers everyday human flaws. No idea why people should glorify the one side (Joe) and vilify the other one (Beck). Both are flawed but he is literally a lunactic. This kind of victim blaming is somewhat telling and says more about the ones blaming her than about the character itself. What I especially admire is that Penn himself openly stated that he hates Joe.
Louder for the people in the back
Jess T. Your stupid if anything joe helped her, benji was a murder and peach was a stalker and manipulator. They made her life worse. Joe took them out for specific reasons. He doesn’t kill without a reason. Helped paco out all the time. His flaws weren’t perfect but that doesn’t mean he is a bad person
@@RetroMamba Benji was nothing, and had nothing to do with Beck. You don't help a person move on from their ex by killing said ex. As for Peach, I really can't stand her, but in the stalking regard, Joe is much worse.
And he only helped Paco out because Paco reminds him of his younger self.
He's not an entirely EVIL person, but he's nowhere near being a good person, for Beck or for anyone.
That said, I did root for him though, because story-wise, rooting for him gave the best sense of thrill. If he failed, it would've been too boring.
Elerie benji killed an innocent person and peach was gonna kill joe, she shot him. Joe only did what he had to. If he really was a ruthless killer he would of killed the therapist. He doesn’t kill without a good and specific reason
@@RetroMamba Joe is not a mercenary, Benji's crime had nothing to do with Joe. And Peach pointed the gun at Joe because, wait for it, HE WAS IN HER REMOTE MANSION UNINVITED, which is creepy AF.
“Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? Didn’t you ask for it? So say you can live like this. Say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth.”
That part!
This was so incredible! Elizabeth Lail was so so so good here!
I'm watching this once again and it just gave me insanely deep chills!!!!
I still watch this over and over
This scene was so powerful
Incredible writing. This whole scene literally absolves becks character, she wasn't an amazing person but rather a troubled and very human one. She truly didn't deserve what happened to her and I think that's the point the author was trying to drive home.
This music...OMG...this whole scene is haunting and beautiful
Music name?
@@duygu9645 th-cam.com/video/CvX9mK55mts/w-d-xo.html
This poem always makes me cry. Rest in peace to all the beautiful women taken by domestic violence💜
to me that scene is probably the most heartbreaking and powerful scene I have ever seen on american tv... and it is a in depth dive into the female psyche, in the way women are being brought up to think of themselves, especially by their male relatives...to this day...we are still being brought up to think we need to satisfy the males we meet in order to have a happy life for ourselves, we are still being brought up to think we need to satisfy someone else in order to be worthy of any kind of happiness for ourselves...the writing in this monologue is pure genious and something even more than that...it is pure art...Εlizabeth Lail was EXCELLENT !!!
Blows me away every time. Wow. Incredible writing
Ohh beck. This poem is the story of her life.
i can’t stop coming back to this
Elizabeth did a great job giving life to Beck. She is the greatest character of you! She just feels so like a real human, just like a friend of yours, not only like a character. After she fell in love with Joe and endured all the hardships of the relationship between Joe, Peach's death, her ex's leaving, her dad's new marriage, her teacher sexually harassing her and not being able to find a new job all by herself. The fact that her being a victim all of this time and not being able to realize how bad everything could go for her until the last episode thanks to the end of Joe's POV is amazing. We found ourselves rooting for someone who is an abusive, toxic and serial killer boyfriend all the way through season 1 until the last episode. The poem felt heartbreaking since Beck wrote it thinking she could do anything about the only person who "loved" her truthfully. Turned out he didn't love her. Ended up being killed and forgotten thanks to Candace 4 months later.
I hope she just comes back, I truly love her character. However, it just breaks my heart how she ended up.
The most touching and relatable monologue I have ever come across. 👏🏽👌🏽♥️ bravo to the writers.
This scene really showed the toxicity of waiting for "prince charming" for "love at first sight". Joe seemed like Prince Charming incarnate. He appeared to do and say everything right. If only that was the real him!
This is too beautiful. Watching this majorly inspired me to write my own poetry. If anyone out there has emotion to share, i advise through poetry, its a powerful medium of artistic expression
I love becks voice so much
I always think of this every time I realise I’m not loved the same way I loved- “you didn’t have whatever magic that turns a beast into a man”.
I come back to this monologue whenever I need to think. I love it
This is really deep! I love this show!
It's so good, this moment
How the hell did you end up here
You used to wrap yourself in fairytales like a blanket, but it was the cold you loved
Sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of Bluebeard's wives
Sweeter goosebumps as Prince Charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes
A perfect fit
But by the schoolyard real princesses floated by you on fall winds
You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairytales
But the stories were in you deep as poison
If Prince Charming was real, if he could save you, you needed to be saved by the unfairness of everything
When would he come
The answer was a cruel shrug and a hundred fleeting moments
The sneer on Stevie Smith’s face when he called you a fat cow
Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the Thanksgiving kitchen
The accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened
From every boy masquerading as a man that you’ve let into your body
Your heart learned you didn’t have the magic that turns a beast into a prince
You surrounded yourself with the girls you’ve always resented
Hoping to share their power
And you hated yourself
And that diminished you even more
And then, right when you thought you might just disappear,
He saw you
And you knew somewhere deep it was too good to be true
But you let yourself be swept because he was the first strong enough to lift you
Now in his castle you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man
And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him
Didn’t you want this?
To be loved
Didn’t you want him to crown you
Didn’t you ask for it?
Didn’t you ask for it?
Didn’t you ask for it?
So say you can live like this
Say you love him
Say thank you
Say anything but the truth
What if you can’t love him back...
thanks
Thanks!!
I at first hated Beck, and thought she wasn't a well fleshed out character just because she was pretty.
But hearing more about her past really made me feel for her.
Madeleine they’re not really judging they just think that the writers thought they didn’t have to flesh her out cuz she was pretty
I cry every time I listen to this. So beautiful
i keep rewatching and re listening to this one part, this one scene. i don’t know why but i love it.
update. ive probably listening to this at least 60 times already. i cant stop. there’s just something about it. i think everytime i relisten to it more things make sense. i understand more.
Because it’s relatable
I loved this poem.
I think that this scene speaks for so many women who have hoped and dreamed and believed for a man to love. It is such a tender and painful monologue. This is a beautiful depiction of the subtleties of being used as a woman. And the repercussions of being boxed in, fucked and used over and over again. It speaks to how we believe in the story of true love and we bend over backwards to make it work. But we should stop forcing men into true love stories as much as they put us into their boxes of pleasure.
I couldn’t agree more
This was the best writing I’ve seen on tv
Epic and sad poem
Has me in tears :(
omg i replayed this part like 3 times
I wrote it out for anybody that wants it
How the hell did you end up here?
[Your life has been better since you met me. You just didn’t know how or why. You paint me out to be this monster, someone that can hurt people, who can do terrible things]
You use to wrap yourself in fairy tales like a blanket.
But it was the cold you loved; sharp shivers as you uncovered the corpses of blue beards wives.
Sweeter goosebumps as prince charming slid one glass slipper over your little toes - perfect fit.
But by the school yard real princesses floated by you like fall winds. You saw the gulf between you and the rich girls and vowed to stop believing in fairy tales. But the stories were in you; deep as poison. If prince charming was real, if he could save you- you needed to be saved from the unfairness of everything. When would he come?
The answer was a cool shrug and one hundred fleeting moments.
The sneer on Stevey Smiths face when he called you a fat cow, Uncle Jeff’s hand squeezing your ass in the thanksgiving kitchen; the accusation in your father’s eyes when you told him what happened.
From every boy macerating as a man that you let into your body, your heart - you learned you didn’t have whatever magic turned a beast into a prince. You surrounded yourself with the girls you always resented, hoping to share their power and you hated yourself and that diminished you even more.
And then, right when you thought you might disappear - he saw you. And you knew somewhere deep it was too good to be true but you let yourself be swept because he was the first strong enough to lift you.
Now in his castle you understand prince charming and blue beard are the same man. And you don’t get a happy end unless you love both of him.
Didn’t you want this? To be loved
Didn’t you want him to crown you?
Didn’t you ask for it?
Didn’t you ask for it?
Didn’t you ask for it?
So say you can live like this, say you love him, say thank you, say anything but the truth.
What if you can’t love him back?
Do u mind messaging me it so I can copy it?😃
@@fishfish2128 I don't know how to do that- can you message me ?
this is the 7th time i've watched this scene and i'm crying once again.
No doubt This poem is beautiful but her performance brought it to a whole other level! Astonishing
love each word of it... thanks for uploading
this was so raw and emotional i wasn’t ready
This poem means so much to me!!!!
I'm super inlove with this scene and just discovered a poem very similar to this. Not sure if Beck's piece was written based on this or vise versa.
Hundered Fleeting Moments
Nicki Clarke
Fairytales run in your veins like blood.
Stabbed by realizations warm red floods,
Out of your body
A damaged soul,
Steals another part of you that can never be whole.
You woke up from the daydream,
When you were eighteen years old.
Now there’s balance within the cold - You love
The shiver down your spine when you’re not good enough.
Your mind rations to let one more boy in,
Because the stories are buried deep in you like poison.
Surely if prince charming was real he would come,
To save you from the pain and unfairness time has numbed.
The number of empty lines freed from pages torn,
Freeing your spirit to move as it once did before.
Because a heart can’t love when it sits on a shelf,
And you can’t love somebody if you can’t love yourself.
Still at night questions linger.
What if a needle never pricks your finger?
What if your fairy godmother never comes?
What if no one’s at your window on a flying rug?
What if you don’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince?
A cold hard shrug,
And one-hundred fleeting moments.
Thank you so much for posting. This poem touched me too.
People say they are glad the ending wasn't typical by having Joe get caught and beck surviving but as much as i hate predictable endings, I really wish that was the case. I grew in disgust with Joe ever since the beginning and I just wanted him to get caught or die. I don't get how people can sympathize with him.
aly the show literally forced us to sympathize with him. The point where he kills Beck doesnt make sense at all because he always said how much he loved her. But in this moment he decides that his life is worth more for him and kills her. Ending was not understandable for me.
@@drobdead98 because nothing he ever did was actually for Beck. That's how he justified his actions to himself.
The people he killed? He did it for self-serving purposes. Think about it. He killed to be closer to her. So he didn't have to compete with anyone else. To be seen as her savior for rescuing her from all the bad people in her life. It was all so he would look good in her eyes.
That's how he twisted it. And when she responded with disgust and repulsion, he knew she would tell. He knew his life would be over and, once again, chose himself.
It was never about love and Beck. It was always about him.
I can’t believe some people actually root for Joe and like cheer on for him. He’s a fucking psychopathic stalker that kills people. How horrible
aly I think Beck is not dead
Honestly i thought Joe was gonna die 🤷🏽♀️ Along with Beck
This and sex education are my favourite shows right now
Rufaro Asuquo SAME
😂😂same
Fucking yess....same ❤❤❤❤
wtf same XD im waiting for both to come out with new seasons, sadly news hit, and it looks like we wont see much from sex education before early 2020
Me too plus and Kingdom, try to watch it!
Beck was a bad girlfriend, insecure and very easy to manipulate, but when you look back at her life, this scene is truly heart breaking, she didn't have one good men in her life, not a single one.
"...Now, in his castle, you understand Prince Charming and Bluebeard are the same man." Dealing with this fact in my personal life. Realising that the person you love is also the person that can rip your heart out with no warning whatsoever, can leave a person feeling an acidic pain of humiliation and betrayal. I've never felt more lonely.
Even though I didn’t care for Beck as a character her poem was truly deep and beautiful.
I love this moment in the series
Edit: I can't stop coming back to it. I guess it's because it's the first time we actually see her. Not Joe's vision of her, but really Beck, raw and real. We get to see all the pain she had to endure, like most if not all girls.
Her death feels so real, my mind just flashes with different scenes of her in my head, like her being late with her poem and having to reschedule. She's the 1st character on a TV show that almost seemed real. Sad that was her ending. Wish Paco didn't tell her about the ceiling tile and her and Joe ended up happy. Definitely didn't deserve this ending.
I swear she is the best actress in You...
i love this poem
I just can’t get over this.
This shit made me emotional. This show has fantastic writing
Very powerful, thank you for posting
this was the exact moment I realized I could never finish this show. I knew she was going to die and I absolutely could not watch it after this. I've never seen anything past this scene; it just completely broke me.
This ending ripped me apart.
Same🥺
Thank you for uploading this. This poem really touched me too. 🌹
Top 3 scene in this entire show
I think every girl/woman can relate with this poem.This poem describes what is like to be a little girl,innocent but suddenly realizing that the world is more cruel that you thought.
I loved her poem man, was bittersweet
The most powerful scene
This was the only split second I loved and appreciated beck. This poem
"You used to wrap yourself in fairytales, like a blanket. But it was the cold you love." The whole text is extraordinary, but as a writer myself, that moment when you're drowning and you feel like it's never going to end but then that ONE SENTENCE hits you with the waves and you decide to let it tell you the story it wants you to hear rather than the other way around, and it's the truth you listen to and it's painful and full of hate and you turn everything at YOU and you use your own voice to talk to YOU for a change instead of being someone else, and somewhere in the process the storm calms down a little bit and you didn't even notice because the words were too loud, but suddenly you find tenderness in your story that you didn't expect, that's the moment when you realize that you've created this storm by fighting it before it even came, so you write it out and you breathe out and your done. From now on you can deal with it. Writing is the strongest secret weapon you could possibly possess, and regardless of me relating to her relationship to Joe (don't freak out), I know this moment so deep, and I'm moved to tears every time I watch it because it's an emotional process that is almost impossible to share, and I think Elizabeth nailed it. She just nailed it. Hats off. Just for this moment.
this literally almost made me cry i swear
The scene ends with Joe thinking "What if you are not the one?" and it completes the poem in a really satisfying way.
When I watched this on Netflix I remember rewinding this scene like 3 times because it gave me chills. Honestly been scene of the whole series