Re: Killing Eve

(Anonymous) 2018-09-01 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a lot of killer/ordinary person ships end up with the more moral one acting as the killer's handler or morality chain, but it feels like Villanelle actively resents and resists control: all her early scenes with Konstantin where she's trying to push her luck, for example.

I think the Anna thing also makes her feel more volatile: she has a pattern of falling for the same kind of woman, so what makes Eve special instead of just the latest one to catch her eye? It's also hard to trust that Villanelle won't ever lose interest or lash out violently if Eve pushes the wrong button, but that's what makes her so compelling. Her character's established as so volatile and mercurial that you never really know what they're going to do with her next.