I love love love that it was so much about how their lives are so fundamentally conflicted, driving each other away and tying each other together all at the same time.
I know! I think this was my favourite montage yet--there are just so many layers there. Like, a film studies undergraduate could write a whole course paper on it. *g*
Like, maybe the friend - as an outside entity - is better able to tell Paige what about her family life is REALLY WEIRD and what isn't.
This is what I'm hoping for. Because, you know, Paige needs that--there has been so much weirdness in that home lately that she needs someone who's able to help distinguish between weirdness and WEIRDNESS. And of course it's going to freak her parents out for good reason.
I was kind of surprised that we saw NOTHING from back in the day that indicated Elizabeth was even vaguely doubtful about giving Jared the letter.
Yeah, that is surprising, and no one else has brought it up yet. It could well be that Leanne was also ideologically very rooted and Elizabeth looked up to her for that, so she didn't feel like she could turn down a request that came from a place like that? But certainly it's a major violation of the rules (and rules that in this case have a damn good reason). It's weird that neither one of them acknowledges that at any point.
This was the first episode where I kind of wondered if maybe Nina was getting feelings for Stan, but then her little smile made me go straight back to nope, she hates his guts.
See, I don't think it's either of these. I think she's very angry with him about what he did to Vlad, and that's always going to overpower any real feelings she ever has for him from this point forward. But I do think she genuinely enjoys having sex with him at the same time that it totally comes from a place that's all about the manipulation. And going through the motions on something like that can make it almost FEEL real sometimes, so she probably has to remind herself sometimes why she's doing this. But her job, Vlad, all that is still always at the forefront of her mind.
And I think that's what Philip's asking her if she's sure was about, and her pause after - a sort of acknowledgment that the whole situation is so complicated and confusing and frankly non-consensual at that point.
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Date: 2014-03-13 10:55 pm (UTC)I know! I think this was my favourite montage yet--there are just so many layers there. Like, a film studies undergraduate could write a whole course paper on it. *g*
Like, maybe the friend - as an outside entity - is better able to tell Paige what about her family life is REALLY WEIRD and what isn't.
This is what I'm hoping for. Because, you know, Paige needs that--there has been so much weirdness in that home lately that she needs someone who's able to help distinguish between weirdness and WEIRDNESS. And of course it's going to freak her parents out for good reason.
I was kind of surprised that we saw NOTHING from back in the day that indicated Elizabeth was even vaguely doubtful about giving Jared the letter.
Yeah, that is surprising, and no one else has brought it up yet. It could well be that Leanne was also ideologically very rooted and Elizabeth looked up to her for that, so she didn't feel like she could turn down a request that came from a place like that? But certainly it's a major violation of the rules (and rules that in this case have a damn good reason). It's weird that neither one of them acknowledges that at any point.
This was the first episode where I kind of wondered if maybe Nina was getting feelings for Stan, but then her little smile made me go straight back to nope, she hates his guts.
See, I don't think it's either of these. I think she's very angry with him about what he did to Vlad, and that's always going to overpower any real feelings she ever has for him from this point forward. But I do think she genuinely enjoys having sex with him at the same time that it totally comes from a place that's all about the manipulation. And going through the motions on something like that can make it almost FEEL real sometimes, so she probably has to remind herself sometimes why she's doing this. But her job, Vlad, all that is still always at the forefront of her mind.
And I think that's what Philip's asking her if she's sure was about, and her pause after - a sort of acknowledgment that the whole situation is so complicated and confusing and frankly non-consensual at that point.
I LOVE this interpretation of that.
-J