hey, kid. yeah, you. commere. now look, the order of the deaths in gideon the ninth isn’t an accident, okay? they all mean something. look me in the eye. listen. abigail and magnus first, right? and that causes a dramatic shift in tone from which the series never truly recovers. magnus and abigail were Kindness, you get me? capital K. they’re the lighthearted, the feel-good, the healthy relationship. they make you feel like everything’s gonna be ok. but everything’s not gonna be ok, so they die first, right, and that’s the moment when Kindness leaves the situation. then jeannemary and isaac. they’re Innocence. stop looking around, look at me. their deaths dispell the notion that anything is sacred or that anyone is safe. they’re just kids, they didn’t do anything wrong, and that’s—don’t back away, stay right here—that’s why the brutality of their deaths is so shocking. Innocence died screaming, right? it’s got to. and judith and marta are meant to be Order. this is important. their deaths represent the loss of stability and the dissapation of understandable rules, signaling the beginning of a free-for-all in which the previously understood conventions no longer operate. but here’s the thing, kid. judith fails to die. she doesn’t finish the job. she gets right up to the finish line and refuses to cross it. and the thing– the thing you’ve gotta understand is, that doesn’t mean Order isn’t dead. that means Order was never alive in the first place. the rules never actually existed. there was no stability, there was no script or formula, the whole time it was just a bunch of people dying for no reason. no fucking reason at all, and everything i just said was absolute horseshit. i’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
alright, i’m finished. run along now.