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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Don't agree with that at all. Another way of putting this is that he just repressed everything. Whenever Amelia would try to get him to open up to her, he'd get super defensive and nasty, and he point-blank refused to let her in to the dark places of his life. "I'd be a son of a ***** if I did that to you" I think was one of the lines. As far as we saw, he never talked about his time in Vietnam, he just buried all that too.
The last scene doesn't have any narrative or character point as far as I'm aware, it's just an echo of the central theme of the season, which is how hard it is to run away from the past and how it tends to haunt people. Figurative haunting in the case of Roland, Julie, Lucy, Tom and others, and both literal and figurative haunting in the case of Wayne. It's like the tonic cadence at the end of a piece of music that wraps things up and gives a sense of finality. That's how I took it, anyway.
ppl snap back at their SO´s for daddyissues, being in ****ing nam as a lone ranger killing tons of ppl in the silence of the night is gonna **** you up he was literally John Rambo but he was a functional human being on a very high level. Good at his job, maintained a relationship with a v beautiful woman who on top of it wasnt what i would say a needy woman that cant manage life without a man.
That said, I see your point but I am really thinking your underplaying the psychological mess 95%+ of all ppl returning from 'nam doing what he did would be in and you also try to make him a man of our decade. hes not. Him not being supercool with talking about his feelings and **** in the 80ths as a uneducated man with a upbringing in a VERY poor household isnt a stretch to me. He had to learn from a very young age not to be weak(yaya talking about feelings isnt weakness but in his time of era and surroundings it is).