Honestly, I didn't see it as love on his part or anything - simply a need to be wanted, at all, a grasping for something real in his fabricated world. To me that is the fundamental thing separating Philip and Elizabeth. She has tamped down those feelings or ignored them in light of her ideological zeal, and Philip has not. He isn't less zealous than she is, but he doesn't have her history to complicate matters for him. And I believe their upbringing was different, and that plays into it as well. Love came later for them both, I don't disagree there at all.
Also, reading this thread and your discussion with Jae - I actually agree quite a bit with you re: their relationship and the inherent consent issue, etc. I was just blown away (weeks later, still am) by Matthew Rhys in that scene. It told me the writers and actors are fully cognizant of what we the viewers are picking up on, and it is not an elaborate ploy for viewer affection but a true striving to portray these characters as they would be.
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Date: 2014-03-25 04:43 am (UTC)Also, reading this thread and your discussion with Jae - I actually agree quite a bit with you re: their relationship and the inherent consent issue, etc. I was just blown away (weeks later, still am) by Matthew Rhys in that scene. It told me the writers and actors are fully cognizant of what we the viewers are picking up on, and it is not an elaborate ploy for viewer affection but a true striving to portray these characters as they would be.