So that was a surprise. But as I said in my previous post, he was going to die either by someone’s hand or death’s, and that the conflict was between Logan and Kendall. I would go further to say that the main character is Kendall, not Logon. Logon is a “force of nature,” as they say, but he is not on a particularly journey, except to his final one.
It is still true, in my reading of it, that Kendall has the hardest journey and is the main character of the series. This is based on an archetype that still exists psychologically: that the son must kill the father and take his place. It’s in the animal kingdom all over, as males fight for dominance and older males eventually get driven from their top spot when they are weaker physically from age or just constant fighting. This is what happens with the animals closest to humans genetically, and people who study this sort of thing says it has to do with mating rights (control over women). But in humans I don’t think it’s necessarily about DNA or mating. With humans it seems to always be about power, including the power over women’s sexuality, and although there are some people who will give up power for a younger generation to take over, this is an extremely rare phenomenon. For most of human history, people with power have to be fought physically, by those who have less or none at all. Slavery, and what followed after the civil war and Lincoln’s assassination, was about the power of West European people over other skin tones. What’s happening now, all these years later, is still the follow-up to the emancipation as well as women’s suffrage. The forces of power, and power’s effect on people, is intense but also predictable.
From this point on, the show will probably go through many conflicts of people trying to take some of that power. In fact it’s been that way all along. The money and the ventures and the stocks and all that hooey is not the point. The point is the power. But now that Logan is out of the way, the scrambling that was so well depicted in The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, is going to take place and the person who finally wins that power could either be Kendall or any of his other siblings. My money’s on Kendall because he seemed like the heir apparent. But like any succession, abdication is possible, as well as assassination, and Shiv might end up as queen.
Brian Cox said in an interview that it will be hard to watch the show after the loss of its main protagonist, but I think that’s because he’s an actor and not a literary analyst, or a psychology student. Bombastic behavior, back stabbing, attention seeking and telling everyone to “fuck off” may make him interesting to watch, but it doesn’t make him the main protagonist. Kendall is the main protagonist, and now that he has vanquished his opponent with the help of the grim reaper, it’ll be interesting to see if he can keep what arguably should be his.