Jane the Virgin
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And now, some clarity.
Jane and Michael go to Montana to explore whatever connection they might have now.
Eventually she comes to understand that what shes feeling isnt guilt, because she still loves Rafael.
Jane accepts that while she and Michael had something great, their time has passed.
Jane returns to Miami alone, galvanized by her newfound self-knowledge and determined to win Rafael back.
Theresslightlymore to it, of course.
She is still drawn to him, which that fantastic bucket-shower situation isextremelygood at conveying.
Jane does not love Montana, but shes notbadat Michaels ranch lifestyle.
Even then, itd be relatively easy forJane the Virginto chalk up their farewell to irreconcilable distance.
She cannot move to Montana and take Mateo away from his father.
But Chapter Eighty-Eight doesnt give Jane that way out, either.
It wouldnt be ideal, but it puts the onus of decision-making squarely back on Jane.
She cannot claim that the problem is Michael, or Montana.
Jane also cant claim that the problem is that Rafael would be lost without her.
She just wants to check that hes okay.
But for Jane, the real moment of clarity comes when she finds out that, actually, Rafisokay.
He has not fallen apart.
All of the uncertainty and shock and babbling self-doubt thats defined Jane since Jason/Michael first returned?
Rafael is my destiny, she tells them, and she is going to win him back.
The visual language, the tropes, the conflicts everything about it is not theJanewe know.
Well, thats debatable, he throws in.
#Rogelio
An episode sadly impoverished on the Rogelio front, but we did get onegreatscene.
Leave it to Rogelio to be fully prepared to outfit Jane in FRINGE!
[Shakes fringe on chest.]
