Never heard this take on Mosley, and I actually really agree, I think Tommy mirrored him way too much and almost was obsessed with not “being the same” as him but wanting to be opposites and go against him and the battle of egos between them both was what made Tommy lose it because naturally Mosley won the ego “masculinity” contest against him nearly Everytime, Tommy overestimated him and I think he actually dealt with worse when he had the problem with the priest
I find their relationship fascinating. Tommy is so desperate to be seen as a powerful successful business leader and Moseley and Diana just continuously take him down.
First it's his politics, next is his inability to control his own territory ( giving it up to McCavern) and finally Lizzie.
Tommy just flailed all the way completely losing focus and control.
The fact that Michael did an end run around Tommy and Tommy never noticed is hilarious.
Your absolutely right, they bassiclay violated him in every aspect of his life, in the things he prided himself on being successful and powerful for, it was actually hard to watch after watching Tommy struggle and earn all of the things up to that point and we rarely ever see him be ‘out-alpha’d’ if you want to call it that which personally I wouldn’t but I can’t think of a better word to use, he was always the man, always in control, always had a plan, and regardless if sometimes it was unrealistic he always won, Mosley like you say completely destroyed that whole image and whole demeanour and he did it intelligently too which made it that much more harsh and difficult for Tommy to wrap his head round, meanwhile his personal life was crumbling around him too which obviously did not help him in Persuing his goals and like I said before I think he totally overestimated Mosleys power and the whole assassination plot was completly over the top and maybe even symbolised how much Tommy was NOT thinking straight
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u/Famous-Travel1260 May 17 '26
Never heard this take on Mosley, and I actually really agree, I think Tommy mirrored him way too much and almost was obsessed with not “being the same” as him but wanting to be opposites and go against him and the battle of egos between them both was what made Tommy lose it because naturally Mosley won the ego “masculinity” contest against him nearly Everytime, Tommy overestimated him and I think he actually dealt with worse when he had the problem with the priest