I feel like Trish's belief in destiny and that she can will away things like hunger feed into the goddess theory around her size. And if that ends up being the cause of all this, I love the theme of the benevolent, loving, and just a tad awkward goddess learning from the early days of her growth to have confidence in herself and become the deity this world needs.

First, seeing Trish's interaction with Robert really encapsulates what makes her so special. The joy she felt at being able to give him the relief he needed in that moment, the miracle he had been hoping for but never expecting, literally brought her to tears. She didn't put out the fire to feel a sense of accomplishment or to show the world her worth, and she certainly didn't do it for praise or worship. She just wanted to make people happy, and seeing the stress leave Robert's body as he finally relaxed and left everything to her gave her a feeling she's probably never felt before.

This is what she means when she says she's a goddess. She wants to take away as many troubles being faced by individual people as she can. She wants humanity to trust her, not place her above them. This is a very different kind of goddess than the patrons of this site are used to, and that makes me love Trish that much more!

I love how awkward Trish is with the media. She's not a stateswoman nor is she trying to project herself as being worth more than the average person, so coming off as a little nervous and having a little doubt behind her words, like I feel most of us would if given that large a spotlight, helps her feel grounded, even when she's claiming a sort of divinity.

And her trying to explain to Nancy how she can do more than the firefighters and also trying to not downplay the work said firefighters do was this week's Trish moment, I think. She knows how hard this was for them and how easy it was for her, but she struggled to find the right words to convey that both things can be true, and it all came off in about as cute a way as possible as she bobbled her way through that.

Also, I feel like that whole destiny thing comes into play here as well, as Trish's awkwardness with the press caused her to call herself a legit goddess in such a way that Nancy found it a bit endearing rather than egotistical or threatening. So maybe Trish's natural nervousness defused the situation on its own, and things just worked themselves out for her.

Trish refusing to eat in order to prove Dr. Vale wrong and not "eat everything" is a tremendous sacrifice on her part, assuming it works (with the way this story is going, it most certainly will, I think). She's quite literally starving herself for humanity, simply willing her hunger away, and without any guarantees that this is going to get any easy down the road. She truly loves the "little people," even if she hasn't fully realized that this is why she's doing this yet.

Thomas's stance on Trish's destiny position is pretty interesting. He's a man of science, so it makes sense that he doesn't buy into it at all. But at the same time, he does have faith in his wife, even if he doesn't realize it and thinks that question is unfair, because he's backing down and respecting her belief by doing so. Even if he thinks she'll ultimately prove him right, he's standing by her through these choices and his concerns are coming from a good place anyway. He's just worried about her, but he wants to support her as best he can at the same time.

I've said it several times at this point, but the specific ways in which you have Trish and Thomas support one another through all these trials and tribulations serves as an excellent example of what a health relationship and marriage should look like.

That bit where Trish is internally taunting the San Diego skyline about how much larger she's going to be than it come a year or two later was pretty striking for me. As I read about her mentally teasing the little people of the city about how her foot will be bigger than their whole skyline, I couldn't help but think back to when we first met Trish, hugging her knees as she kept herself in a ball trying to shrink herself or her crying when she heard the news that she was going to reach at least 30 feet tall. Her confidence has brought her so far, and I'm not ashamed to say that I was a little proud of her embracing who she is like that.

Man, that confrontation with the military went a lot better than I thought it would, too! I love how happy Trish was at the thought of the military trusting her, but I have to wonder if that's really what happened here. It's wholly possible that she's right, but I could also see the higher ups in the chain of command not liking the optics of assaulting a pretty girl in a sundress, even if she is 150 feet tall. Or maybe they have some doubts as to how effective they can be against her. We still don't know the full extent of her regenerative abilities, either, so that could give them pause as well.

In any case, I'm glad they allowed her to save the whale, and it's great to see the people of this world fully embracing her good deeds tour like those on the beach did.