"i'll miss you, tony."

For the last five years I’ve been trying to do one thing: Get to right here. That’s all it’s been about. Bringing everybody back.

Tony Stark’s skepticism is born out of his life experiences.

Tony ‘isn’t a team player’ and ‘doesn’t stick to plans’ not because of his ego or ‘narcissism’; rather because his hero (Yinsen) abandoned the plan & sacrificed himself thereby ensuring the safety of Tony’s own life. Tony is just following in Yinsen’s footsteps. He is trying to emulate his hero, and he is justifiably wary of people (even well-intentioned heroes) who emulate his antagonists.

In Tony’s personal experience, words have no weight. Promises change. There are already people who made promises of trust & being a team, only to misuse that trust and back-stab him. Ideals and ideas (even that of Avengers itself) can be corrupted. Hence, he doesn’t blindly accept slogans and platitudes offered. 

Because Tony knows the reality: An assertion does not a truth make.

I just love all his complexities and inner turmoil. Which is a horrible thing to say but those episodes where he completely losing it are some of my favorite moments.

I kinda love how he takes people apart he’s so insecure and unsure about himself. Which I guess is why he plays people off all the time, so they feel a bit of what he is.
I mean he’s not doing that so much now (all because of Oliver naaaawwww) but I really liked that about him in season one.

He really just wants someone to love and appreciate him despite what horrific things he does. Typical troubled puppy syndrome I’m drawn to. His lack of empathy also strikes me. He is takes everything so logically that he doesn’t at all take into consideration the feelings of others around him and also makes alot of things about himself. His egocentricity is just a sign of how he’s so emotionally stunted. We know nothing much about his life (which I would like to see more of) so I can’t tell if it’s because he never had the opportunity to develop emotionally or if he deliberately chooses to switch it off because he feels like he has to in order to survive the profession.

I think I’m really going to have to go through the scenes with Annalise and Connor to really get into that. I like how they are so alike, I hope he doesn’t end up like her though.

He’s a fighter, despite all his “deficiencies” and “inadequacies” and I love that so much. He works with what he has to get the job done. Might not be the cleanest or morally ethical way but he does it.

Also I love a lot of the subtle things Jack does with Connor. There is just so much subtext with his character. There’s a whole story in Connor’s body language. He doesn’t have to have a lot of lines to say what Connor is feeling. He shows it. I just love that because it just shows what a quality actor Jack Falahee is.

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