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Ep 14: So many feels
I watched episode 14 a couple of days ago - I'm slowly making my way through all the episodes because I want to participate in the rewatch with no fear of spoilers - and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it ever since.
So, in this episode, titled "Hitler on the Half Shell", we learn a bit more about Abe's biological parents and also about Adam.
We learn the Abe's parents names and how they looked, which in and of itself was enough to bring tears to my eyes. I love this storyline and I really, really like that Henry wants Abe to know who his birth parents were. He just wants his son to be happy! *bawls*
As for Adam, well I'm really impressed with the direction his story has taken. It would've been so easy to treat him as the bad guy, instead they gave him nuance! He won't hurt Abe because he can relate to him for what happened to both of them in Germany, he feels compassion for Abe!
What I mean is that he's not a black and white villain, he has a compelling backstory and he's... IDK, human? We tend to think of villains as inhuman monsters, but Adam is not. He's morally grey, he has done so many shitty things but he also suffered a lot.
Obviously that's not reason enough to murder Henry or everything else, but it does explain some things. I mean, maybe Adam wasn't a saint before, but being tortured by Nazis probably helped him become a psycopath, just saying.
And it does pose some interesting questions, such as is evil innate or are there reasons for it?
Uh, I don't really know where I'm going with this TBH, but I just needed to talk to someone about how emotional this episode was for me. Abe's storyline made me cry a lot and Adam's story gets more and compelling.




Ugh, Imzy's not letting me put this behind a spoiler cut properly, so it's not spoilered.
I can't remember where I saw this now (maybe on the show creator's twitter when the episode first aired, IDK), but IIRC, that picture of Abe's parents was a picture of Judd Hirsch's actual parents. Which gives me even more feels.
Also, yes, soooooo many feels over Abe. I love the way they handled him finding his biological parents, how it's another piece of the puzzle that is Abe instead of any kind of comment on which set of parents was/would've been better. (And now I'm thinking of how desperately his bio parents probably hoped he'd survive and end up with a family who'd love him, and he did, and my heart cannot handle that...)
And agreed about Adam. They could've made him exclusively a villain, but they gave him layers instead—and didn't let the fact he'd been through hell at the Nazis' (and who knows who else's) hands excuse his actions, either.