Fandom 50: Revenge
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meridian_rose"Revenge" starring Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Nick Wechsler, Madeline Stowe, Henry Czerny, and Josh Bowman, Revenge aired between 2011 and 2015.
I admit the show lost its way in the final season(s) but had a fantastic first two seasons. Loosely based on "The Count of Monte Cristo" has Emily Thorne (actually Amanda) move to the Hamptons to secretly take revenge on those who wronged her father, David Clarke, framed for causing a plane crash.
Nolan Ross owes his fortune to Clarke who co-funded the software company Nolcorp, and when his own father turned on him when Nolan was outed as bisexual, Clarke became a father figure to him. He is a tech genius and wants to help Emily though she initially rebuffs him. Somewhat socially awkward, Nolan has a large amount of character development due to his desire to help Emily, making friends with Jack and risking himself for Emily, earning her respect and trust.
Emily seduces Daniel Grayson as she believes his parents were involved in father's death, while childhood crush and current bar owner Jack Porter dprovides romantic tension, and Aiden (Barry Sloane), who trained with Emily's mentor as she prepared to exact her scheme, developed a romantic relationship with Emily for a time.
However while I appreciated Aiden/Emily, it was always Nolan/Emily (ship name Nemily) that had my heart - and still does. Whenever I have/do make icons or write fic, it's almost always heavily Nolan and/or "Nemily" focussed. Also I'm not much for fashion but I always appreciated and admired Emily's style and most of the time, Nolan's.
Red is a key colour for this show, from Emily's red dress to the red sharpie she uses to cross out photos of the people she's exacted revenge on. The double infinity symbol which her father carved into the railing at their summerhouse, and which adorns the box of photos and research for her revenge, is another recurring motif.
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Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" is especially fitting, from Emily forced to play a role, got harder (learning to fight), has a list "I got a list of names, and yours is in red, underlined; I check it once, then I check it twice" and the fact that her future was taken from her and her father "your kingdom keys; They once belonged to me", and Emily's refusal to forgive and forget: The world moves on, another day another drama, drama But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours So this vid has to be a rec:
Nolan-centric fun vid to the song "Party Rock"
Nolan & Emily - What Makes You Beautiful (highlighting the friendship but given the lyrics, arguably a ship vid)
A more action focused Nolan + Emily vid (again, arguably shippy due to the lyrics) to the song "Here Comes Trouble"
And because I love the song, Call Me Maybe {Emily & Nolan)
Other vids: Nolan & Emily || A Thousand Years - cleverly edited ship vid.
Aiden & Emily | We Found Love (Revenge) - an Aiden/Emily ship vid
We're going down | Revenge - scenes from throughout the show featuring many of the characters.
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Date: 2024-04-23 02:02 pm (UTC)I love platonic relationships but somehow this became one of my OTPs. I think anything from friendship to found family to romantic pairing is valid here, canon shows they care for each other, whatever form that takes :)
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