Ewan is the principled one within the Roy clan and despises ATN, Logan’s TV community, for spewing far-right propaganda and local weather change denial. Back within the season 2 episode, “Dundee,” he mused that considering the approaching ecological devastation, Logan might need extra blood on his arms than Hitler.
This is why Logan’s kids did not need Ewan to talk at his funeral — however he overrules them. “What sort of people would stop a brother speaking for the sake of a share price?” he asks. However, Ewan would not use the possibility to checklist out Logan’s crimes; he leaves that within the arms of historical past books. Instead, the speech he delivers is mournful, but additionally not a celebration of Logan’s life.
Ewan opens with “sob stories” from their childhood: how once they first immigrated from Scotland to Canada, their ship went adrift they usually spent two days residing in worry {that a} German U-boat would discover and kill them. How their youthful sister Rose died from polio, and their aunt and uncle blamed Logan for it. Observing the response photographs of Kendall, Roman, and Shiv, you get the sense that Logan himself by no means shared these painful recollections together with his kids. Certainly Rose’s destiny has been stored a thriller up thus far.
Then Ewan stops holding again, delivering an eloquent condemnation of how Logan wielded his energy. Ewan believes that Logan thought the world was a merciless place, so that is what he made it into. He concludes:
“[Logan] fed a certain kind of meagerness in men. Perhaps he had to because he had a meagerness about him — and maybe I do about me too. I don’t know. I try. I try. I don’t know when, but sometime, he decided not to try any more and it was a terrible shame.”
After listening to these phrases, it is clearer than ever that Ewan did not hate his brother. He was disenchanted in him.