Republic of Doyle S2
Apr. 17th, 2015 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatI've been watching season 2 of Republic of Doyle these last few days. The cases are nothing special, I'm in it for the Doyle family running the Doyle & Doyle detective agency: Jake Doyle, the main character, his father Malachy, Mal's wife Rose, their hapless helper Des and Jake's niece and Mal's grand-daughter, Tinny. They're hilarious and their crazy adventures are, well, crazy.
But in S2, there's this one episode, ep 207, that deals with murderous psychiatrists and also with Jake's older brother, Mal's eldest son, Christian. And the whole episode long, you just feel sorry for Jake. Because Christian is a screw-up, drugs, criminals, the whole shebang - and yet, Mal loves Christian best, always gives him the benefit of the doubt unlike to Jake and everything's Jake's fault - and Jake, knowing for a fact that his father loves Christian better, just takes it, all the blame, every accusation, because he doesn't want to see his father's heart broken.
This scene just killed me:
And he isn't angry or sad or disappointed. He just sees it as a fact. He knows his father does love him - but he also knows that he will never be able to measure up to Christian, even though all Christian does is fuck up, he's simply his father's darling.
And that's incredibly heartbreaking. Because Jake does everything, literally, to protect the people around him. He ends up in hospital or in jail time and time again, trying to keep his loved ones safe. And his father does realize that in the end, that it's Jake who is really worthy of his love, and he apologizes to him but... all the years and years of this treatment conditioned Jake to simply not expect anything, from anybody. Sad.
But in S2, there's this one episode, ep 207, that deals with murderous psychiatrists and also with Jake's older brother, Mal's eldest son, Christian. And the whole episode long, you just feel sorry for Jake. Because Christian is a screw-up, drugs, criminals, the whole shebang - and yet, Mal loves Christian best, always gives him the benefit of the doubt unlike to Jake and everything's Jake's fault - and Jake, knowing for a fact that his father loves Christian better, just takes it, all the blame, every accusation, because he doesn't want to see his father's heart broken.
This scene just killed me:
Psychiatrist: Does it bother you that you don't have your father's approval? That he loves your brother more?
Jake: God no, it's easier. That way I have less distance to fall. And we all fall, eventually.
And he isn't angry or sad or disappointed. He just sees it as a fact. He knows his father does love him - but he also knows that he will never be able to measure up to Christian, even though all Christian does is fuck up, he's simply his father's darling.
And that's incredibly heartbreaking. Because Jake does everything, literally, to protect the people around him. He ends up in hospital or in jail time and time again, trying to keep his loved ones safe. And his father does realize that in the end, that it's Jake who is really worthy of his love, and he apologizes to him but... all the years and years of this treatment conditioned Jake to simply not expect anything, from anybody. Sad.
