Honestly I suspect part of the reasonI always feel that way about him is because we never get a really true picture--we only get Elizabeth's version, and I feel like that's a very limited view, not only because she has such trouble seeing anything that's not exactly what she wants to see (like the fact that he's not going to love and embrace Moscow the way she does just gets overwritten in her head because she just can't compute anything else) and therefore never really sees or comes to know more than a narrow fraction of Gregory. Whereas, it's kind of interesting how with Philip it's the opposite and she's so attuned to and put off by all the differences that by the time they fall for each other, there's somethin much more honest in place, by no merit or skill of Elizabeth's, just the circumstances.
And with Gregory himself I picture him one of two ways, either kind of emotionally stunted like Elizabeth, which might explain why he thought she was really going to leave her kids like he wanted and run off with him, or simply that he never caught on the degree to which she'd been lying to him about what really mattered to her over the years, which had to start early on and just grow greater and greater as they grew ever further apart. Her feelings for Phil I can buy warming up that quickly, but it's not like the same would be true of Henry and Paige. The only way Gregory could make that comment in the car would be if he's a complete selfish jerk who doesn't care what it would do to Elizabeth to never see her kids again (which is hard to believe) or he honestly doesn't *get* that they're actually important to her because in many ways Elizabeth was just as much a liar with him as she was with Phil.
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Date: 2014-06-25 01:36 pm (UTC)And with Gregory himself I picture him one of two ways, either kind of emotionally stunted like Elizabeth, which might explain why he thought she was really going to leave her kids like he wanted and run off with him, or simply that he never caught on the degree to which she'd been lying to him about what really mattered to her over the years, which had to start early on and just grow greater and greater as they grew ever further apart. Her feelings for Phil I can buy warming up that quickly, but it's not like the same would be true of Henry and Paige. The only way Gregory could make that comment in the car would be if he's a complete selfish jerk who doesn't care what it would do to Elizabeth to never see her kids again (which is hard to believe) or he honestly doesn't *get* that they're actually important to her because in many ways Elizabeth was just as much a liar with him as she was with Phil.