Halt and Catch Fire Season 4 Episode 7 Review
Halt and Catch Fire: Season 4 Episode 7 "Who Needs A Guy"
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This week was most investing and new ideas, re-launching friendships and connections and facing the often unexpected profound sadness of life.
It kind of pisses me off that the episode started off with one of my peak 10 favorite songs of all-time and ended….well, nosotros will get to that in a second.
As usual, if y'all haven't seen Halt and Catch Fire Season 4 Episode 5 *Spoiler Alert*
Goodbye Old Friend
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Without a incertitude the saddest ever episode of Halt and Catch Fire.
Concluding flavour, when Ryan Ray committed suicide it was devastating. However, as I have said for several years at present, Halt and Grab Fire is a show about a non-nuclear family unit of five people (Gordon, Donna, Cameron, Joe, and Bos) and this is the first time we have lost a member of that family.
Gordon was a sweetheart of a person. Fifty-fifty when he had bad moments, it was incommunicable to stay mad at him (even every bit a fan).
Hither is what I wrote last week:
"I started to suggest in several discussions after concluding week'due south episode, that Gordon called-for his books might be a tip-off that he knows that he is dying.
If you lot look carefully at his face throughout "A Connexion Is Fabricated" you lot tin come across subtle makeup that suggests deterioration. I could be wrong, merely I suspect this was what the El Gordo reference (it means "Handsome" - it actually means fat) was about.
This likewise explains his tense reaction to Haley when she fights dorsum against him on catching up on her schoolwork before coming back to work and his vicious response to Joe's beautifully tender attempt to let him know nearly Haley's sexual orientation struggles ("you don't give a shit nigh her <Haley>"...'"That'due south why you are not a parent and never will exist.'"
I can't fully express how much I wish I had been wrong
Gordon made Joe a meliorate person (and arguably saved him after Ryan died), he made Cameron a amend person, and he loved Donna enough to let her go (despite still deeply loving her).
Anybody on Halt and Catch Fire "needed a guy" like Gordon and everyone on Halt and Catch Burn will never be the same without Gordon around to continually expect the best from them.
Chris Cantwell and Christopher Rogers could non accept possibly demonstrated how much Gordon loved Donna better than how they handled it in Gordon's dying dream.
The absolute BEST thing nearly this happening was that he reconciled with Haley earlier he passed. I am so glad that they did non leave her with that unresolved anger between them.
Kudos to Scoot McNairy for building, and to Cantwell and Rogers for writing, such a complex but decent and wonderful character. I guess nosotros will lose all of these wonderful characters in just a few weeks but, I suspect, we tin imagine that the rest of them will still exist alive and exist enjoying their lives somewhere in the Halt and Take hold of Burn parallel universe.
Believe it or not, I exercise have a few more things to say about "Who Needs A Guy" (some of them might even prove to be meaningful).
Virtual vs. Real Families
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1 of the actually depression-key subplots of this season has been the one almost Joe trying to come to grips with his belief that Cameron doesn't want to have children.
At first, he dealt with it by being withholding and frustration but now he is just trying to beloved her no matter what (mature Joe is turning out to be pretty amazing as a human existence).
I am now fully convinced that the counterpoint to Gordon's passing will be Joe and Cameron becoming parents.
Why convinced?
ane. Donna truly solved Cameron'south Atari game and the very last scene of the game is the main character reuniting with their child before going home.
2. Cameron's intelligent AI characters were ii parents and a kid.
There were several other tips earlier in the season, but these ii hints were very overt.
And so, the trouble isn't that Cameron doesn't desire kids, her subconscious is dreaming up kids everywhere. The problem is that Cameron has massive trust issues. Joe is finally really trying to be agreement and empathetic in ways that he has never even approached before. Joe and Cameron are going to figure this out.
And Joe actually has matured. When he confronted Donna he was standing upward to her for all of the right reasons. One time the drama concluded he was able to open his eye to her and be a good friend to her besides.
It was also dandy to see Bos and Diane get married (and invite Cameron to attend). Seeing Bos then proud to have Cameron as his witness at the ceremony was pretty amazing likewise.
I could probably say a few other modest things, like virtually Cam's new game or Donna's possible promotion, but I am going to leave that for adjacent week.
Adios Gordon Clark (everyone's favorite human paintbrush ham radio and laser tag enthusiast) thanks for all the not bad memories!
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