Quite possibly I am alone in this, and maybe a controversial outlook, but sometimes huge moments get people to think and move from their position. Even when they are instantly regretted and they're hurtful. Beth was harsh, it dropped like a bomb and she regretted it - and I am certainly not saying go hurt your loved one - but that doesn't mean that it might not produce a positive outcome in the end ( a good from the horrid). Randall re-evaluating their relationship and his wife's frustration.
And of course like you were saying, it could override all of her points and concerns.
And I wasn't really listing how Randall's anxiety affected his decisions. I was listing how it might have affected Beth's choices and decisions, in reality and in her mind. Two very different things. (This paragraph sounds a bit snarky - I do not mean it that way cluvdisney). I don't think Randall has had the insight, or quite possibly the want
, to see beyond his perspective on a myriad of issues.
Team together.
This thread is full of - well I am very thankful for the depth and diversity of viewpoints here. And how balanced and fair we have all remained from the beginning, to each other. Just yesterday I was thinking about This Is Us/this thread and saying in my head I am really Team Beth and Randall, to push through it all.
Well said how it usually plays out on television. Nice to see that it is not magically cleaned up or someone is bolting.
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@kimblebee
I get the previews. And I am not telling you like a complete brat, laughing. I am telling you because at first I thought that I didn't either. I regularly watch on tape even if the program still hasn't finished. This Is Us would end and the tv would go onto the next program (on a Canadian station even if I am on NBC, you know that Canadian magic act) so I thought that was that.
But then one day I fast-forwarded the tecording and realized it suddenly snaps back to NBC for the previews. And voila!
So maybe try taping on NBC and having it end five minutes after and see.
Or maybe you don't care all that much and can ignore my dissertation.