yeah, um… hey, i was just thinking, do you… remember? when you asked me when my dad was gonna die? uh-huh. you really couldn’t push this a week, couldn’t you, you just couldn’t like–there was no part of you that could just be like, “hey let’s reschedule and move this cause, y’know, their dad just died and y’know.” i mean my sister’s kinda–she’s fucked up about it, and my brother’s a mess, and i’m fucking, i’m GONE i’m like i’m on the fucking–i’m dead, it’s over for me, it’s okay, it’s fine. but you just drag us out here, you inhuman fucking dogman, you… crazy. you- you fucking killed him, too. you’re the one who did it. you just–and, you did. you drained the life out of him. you dragged this thing out for six! fucking months and then you bring us out here now you couldn’t wait like, a few days, you actually couldn’t do that for us… no idea, huh? …god! …yeah, shut the fuck up, man, we’re not selling to you. okay? we’re not doing that. we are gonna grind you down, man, we are sand in the gears every email’s gonna take like six months, we’re all gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and in the end, you’re gonna get fucking bored and move on it’s not… happening! okay? yeah. yeah, i fucking hate you.
i don’t like how we ended up with the most sanitized version of roman and menckens dynamic in season 4, which doesn’t fit the delirious energy they delivered in 3.06, and it’s not inconsequential to the plot because i’ve seen a lot of people complaining about not understanding Why roman would go so hard for the facist in 4.08…mencken is very deliberate about what he does and doesn’t say. he’s playing up brutal honesty and uninhibition but the man was plotting and scheming the second he saw roman sitting across the room. when he goes for roman of all people it’s not just opportunistic it’s predatory.
i wish they kept this moment in (sweet sweet psychosexual nonsense aside) it confirms how aware mencken is of the effect he has on roman and is clearly trying to dirty talk his way into presidency which makes his character a lot funnier and more terrifying at the same time.
a nice parallel to how gerri is also playing into that part of roman but she tries to use it to incentivize positive change and motivate / soothe him, while mencken is quite literally torturing roman and dangling something he knows is very precious in front of him. i feel like this little sexual innuendo alone changes a lot in how you perceive this dynamic making it a lot more cruel - it’s very fitting that the sibling Logan would pimp out every time he needed to flirt his way into someones pocket, would also be the one who ends up taken advantage of in this way. the sexual abuse metaphor of it all is really compelling.
this one im really mad about just because in the final cut roman immediately caves in and defends mencken for making fun of him which is pretty out of character. this exchange not only fits roman better but also shows that he’s well aware mencken is getting off on this not just because he has the power now but because that’s who he always was, he’s a sadist. roman knows what’s going on but he can’t help himself.
very consistent with romans reaction to the Hug. he struggles a bit, has to have the last word, the last quip. but he lets it happen. in a way he needs this to function.
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