Annie/Eyal
I am no shipper although I think they look great together but Annie looked hurt when Eyal told her he is back with his wife.
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She looked confused to me. Her heart is torn between Auggie and the new guy (I can't spell his name. McQuaid or something?) and this episode seemed to intentionally make that obvious, so I don't think she was hurt (in the jealous or disappointed way) in the slightest.
shareYup, this is it. Annie wasn't sad to hear about Eyal and his wife, it was just unexpected to see a fellow field operative, one she deeply cares for, have another chance at romance. Eyal presented in earlier seasons his love life as hopeless (at least that was the vibe; remember in S3 the scene where he's watching his kid play football) so Annie was both surprised to hear the good news and a bit sad, probably, thinking whether she could be as lucky as him. Eyal now has it all - the Mossad career and the family. This is one of the big questions of this season for Annie, as hinted by the writers.
shareif i were annie, i would have kicked him in the nuts for killing that turkish guy... the turk was just about to tell annie everything and then eyal comes along and shoots him EVEN THOUGH he hears annie say "no"... that bugged me so much. what an idiot. but i guess the writers needed to prolong things a bit.
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I agree! I wonder, if Eyal took those three canvass bags - Annie saw them out the window, going into that SUV/trunk. By the time she is downstairs, she jumped on the motorcycle and Eyal followed in the car, they catch the SUV? - then the bags were not there. Eyal was outside, waiting for her. She came down, and the chase started. At some point, I thought she asked him what he saw, or what happened to the bags. Did he get them somehow, into his trunk? Is he really working with her? He has snowed her before - but they do have a chemistry. I think he looks after her safety, but is also using her. She trusts, and digs him more than she should.
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If that was their intention, then they failed horribly. Now, more than ever, the fans who love Annie and Eyal want them together. They've now pissed off a lot of fans because of it, which shows how little respect they have for fans and viewers who have supported the show from the beginning.
shareEyal lied about being back together with his wife. You could see it in his face and his eyes he was lying. There are a lot of things I could say about that conversation between them, but it was out of character for Eyal to get back together with the woman who apparently disagreed with what he did for a living. I didn't buy that he was back with his ex, and I can't believe Annie did either. He was on the verge of telling Annie how he feels about her, but he caught himself because he knew it wasn't the right time. Really, he just spun a lie so she could make her own decisions about her happiness, at the expense of his happiness with her.
shareFirst, I didn't buy for a minute that Eyal was back with his ex. You could see in his face and his eyes that he was lying. He said he was "off the market" because it's quite clear how he feels about Annie, but he didn't want to burden her by telling her how he feels (especially since he knows she's currently involved with someone) and have her walk away feeling guilty, knowing that he loves her, but she can't be with him yet. So he spun a lie, sacrificing his happiness for hers.
Second, Annie has shown she has feelings for Eyal for their entire relationship. Some fans speculate she can't admit those feelings for a number of reasons. But it's quite obvious there's something there between them that could absolutely be developed further, the writers just don't want to do it - they'd rather have Annie be torn between Auggie and McQuaid - a guy she's known for what, two weeks? Ugh. So childish.
Anyway, I too thought Annie looked hurt and upset when Eyal was telling her about being with his ex. She kept interrupting him because she was confused, and her face, at least up to the very end of the conversation, looked like she wasn't buying it. So yes, to me, she did look upset to know he was "taken." I think that Annie believes Eyal will always be there waiting for her - he'd be her "fall-back" guy. But to know he's apparently "unavailable" DID upset her, even if it was for a moment, because she knows she can't have him - for now. And truthfully, I wonder if Eyal saying he was unavailable would (to him) wake her up so she knows how he feels about her, and how she really feels about him, but once again, it went right over her head. When he told her to tell "this guy" how she feels about him, to me, it looked like she was going to say she didn't have feelings for McQuaid (and really, she doesn't - there's no chemistry between those two at all. It feels forced and awkward), and that she could have admitted she felt something for Eyal, but it wasn't the right time to do so. But because Eyal's "taken" now, she ran home to continue her fling with McQuaid - something we've seen her do once already.
Eyal has shown time and again how he feels about Annie, but she's completely clueless about it. I think Eyal knows that and he tried to tell her before he took the conversation in a different direction. At this stage, I think he needs to tell Annie to her face how he feels, because she clearly doesn't get it otherwise. But with the show spiraling since last season, I'm really upset and disappointed to think that Annie and Eyal will never have a chance together; and I know I'm not alone in thinking that fans feel they've been cheated (even if it's temporarily) out of something happening between Annie and Eyal. They've had the best chemistry since the beginning of this show, and the writers were developing a legitimate slow burn between them, but I really don't know what they're thinking anymore. Annie and Eyal were connecting and bantering like old times before the conversation took a complete 360. As someone else said here, it was a blatant attempt to quiet the Annie/Eyal fans, but really, it's had the opposite effect: those fans want, even more now, for Annie and Eyal to be together, especially as end game. But with the show spiraling, who knows how anything is going to end up?
wow. just...wow. I'm speechless after reading all that. just...wow.
shareWow! Amazingly great posts.
I totally missed the other possibilities being presented in that scene. So after these good posts, I watched it again and yes, there IS room for some ambivalence in the way that whole scene is played out.
They are two really good actors, him especially, and they are capable of giving hinting signals in their acting that everything wasn't on the up and up with that 'truth' session.
The reason I dismissed it so readily as being what it appeared to be was, I was distracted by thinking, "Oh that was a handy way to finally close the book on Eyal and let Annie go to McQuaid and be happy without the viewers always wondering what happened with her feelings about Eyal that were always kind of nascent but there."
So presuming they were just providing us 100 percent closure on any romance with Eyal in order to free Annie to go 100% McQuaid, it was easy to miss the subtext of that conversation.
Besides, how many of us have had to listen to THAT dialogue from a man!? Ha I'm going back to the ex-wife, et-bloody-cetara. ha
I did once and guess I was having a PTSD moment of horror there and missed Eyal's hints that MAY, just MAY have kept that door slightly ajar.
Maybe the writers were just trying to lend a teeny weeny little possibility by having them act the scene with a lot of non-verbal hints.
Hope so! It's more interesting, especially if they continue with another season.
Oh well, Piper's married now and may want to do other things. Who knows.
Just the writer's effect to push fans to like the darn Walkerson stuff.
shareUgh. The "Walkerson" (sounds like a disease) pairing was the worst decision these show runners made. It killed this show - the viewership has been in steady decline since that kiss at the end of S3; and even though they put them back as friends this year, they haven't been able to recover from that fling last season.
I don't know if the writers and show runners are so keen on putting them back together as they are pushing this Annie/McQuaid thing. It's also very forced and there's no chemistry between them. McQuaid was only brought on the show to keep Annie and Auggie as friends and to permanently slam the door on Annie and Eyal EVER having a chance of being together. SO disappointing and a deliberate attempt to slam the Eyal fans.
It is the usual case in TV series. JAG: Harm/Mac (which was yucky) NCIS: TIVA (which never was the case) NCIS LA: Densi....
shareMost shows attempt to pair their male and female leads - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. On this show, it absolutely did NOT work. Annie and Auggie were always best as friends, and pushing them to be more has cost them not just the show, but millions of fans and viewers. But the sad part about it, is they don't care. They stopped caring about their fans and what the fans want since the end of S3 - it's all about the show runners and what THEY want.
So, to cover the mistake of putting Annie and Auggie together, and to prevent Annie and Eyal ever having a CHANCE together, they bring on some random schmuck that she clearly has no chemistry with, and has no feelings for, but of course, she loves him because she slept with him. Honestly, she's said "I love you" to so many guys, I don't even think she knows what it means and it's hard to actually take her seriously. And she said that to McQuaid with no amount of affection or emotion, and his face was like a brick wall when he replied - that alone shows the complete lack of chemistry between these two, and the desperate attempt to push another relationship that doesn't work, just to prevent another one, the one that actually WORKS, from happening.
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Some of these comments are a mixture of scary, delusional, and hilarious all at the same time.
Maybe they should just cancel the show and put certain people out of their misery.