I have to agree with the idea that Maybelle appears to have had a better life than Gillian prior of course to Maybelle's murder. So I guess I'm saying there's really no black woman featured on the show who started out with a tougher life but ended up more of a law-abiding citizen than Gillian did. But I don't think anyone could argue that Maybelle, who lived in a big, nice home with both parents and her siblings, and had beautiful clothes and an advanced education, had a tougher youth than the orphaned and raped Gillian.Īnd two of the other black women on this show, like Gillian, were capable of murder: Louanne tried to kill Louis with poison, and Daughter killed Dunn Purnsley, and was complicit in what was supposed to be Chalky's murder. On paper, Maybelle White would seem to have more disadvantages than Gillian because she was black and female, whereas Gillian was "just" female. In all the other "Inside the Episode" interviews I've seen, I never heard him express any such need for punishment with respect to the dozens of men in this series who have done worse.īy the way, I thought your post from yesterday was quite interesting with respect to the black women on this show, and I held off responding to it until now because I really wanted to give some thought to the black women who had prominent roles on Boardwalk Empire. Although I agree with you that, generally, being part of more than one disadvantaged group can make it harder than being a member of one, I think it's a lot more complicated than that on this show, as it is in life. When Gillian was caught last season, one of the producers said that GIllian needs to be punished because she has done terrible things. And my opinion is based on what one of the producers said. Although I didn't explicitly state this in my above post, I do agree with them. I think that they were saying that men are getting passes for doing worse things than Gillian because they are men. Neurochick, I don't think posters above were saying that Gilllian should get a pass because she's a woman. I think that it would be fitting for Nucky and Gillian to be each other's end game. Even if she killed Nucky, I think that would be a satisfying enough end to the series for me. I want the series to end with her in a good place, even though I doubt it will. We started the series with strong, interesting female characters like Margaret, Angela, and Gillian.and Gillian is all we have left. By the end of last season, I wanted her the hell away from Tommy but I also wanted her to end up in a relationship with a nice man (who ended up being the investigator). With Angela dead, that kind of only left Gillian as the only female character left for me to root for. Kelly MacDonald still gets second billing on the intro, but Margaret really hasn't been a central character for a long time and I was annoyed that the writers didn't quite seem to know what to do with her after she married Nucky and what storyline she had (IMO) got tedious & somewhat ridiculous at times (in all honesty Margaret has annoyed the crap out of me ever since she got all religious when Emily had polio). Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm currently rooting for her for any other reason than besides the fact that I miss having an important female character or protagonist on this show. I've vascillated between despising Gillian and rooting for her throughout this series.
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