I can't help but wonder if things might've turned out had John said he'd never been loved instead. I think the thought crossed his mind, but in the end, such an admission was too painful.
Yes, this. That felt like one of the most suspenseful questions posed in this season to date, and it felt not only like he really had to make a choice about his answer there, but that his answer was probably the wrong one. Deliciously uncomfortable moment.
I feel like if only in her brief exchange with Maldonado that Stahl's baggage is meant to revolve around what she rejected as a chrome but you're right, they didn't really develop it properly in that direction with all this weight placed on how oh-so-perfect chromes are in every which way. Tonight more that most, I'm getting rather indignant about Stahl since there's been so few opportunities to get to know the character and tonight was the closest we've been to seeing where she comes from and the choices she made - and yet, she's still pulling chrome privilege (to kick-start the investigation, to go to the club instead of Kennex) and the writing is leaning more on that idea of perfection than the more interesting story about what happens when the seemingly "perfect" person rejects those expectations.
Yes, this. That felt like one of the most suspenseful questions posed in this season to date, and it felt not only like he really had to make a choice about his answer there, but that his answer was probably the wrong one.
I have a different take on it. John seems to be pretty close to his dad so I do believe that he has been loved. I thought he hesitated for different reasons: One might be regret, because he thought he had been loved by Anna. The other that he didn't want to get too personal with that guy.
I always understood John as someone who has been loved a lot by his friends and his family (dad) and that he knows about it. Infact, I think he pretty much had it all before the incident - friends, family, girlfriend and a striving career - and is now struggling with having lost everything.
Yes, this. That felt like one of the most suspenseful questions posed in this season to date, and it felt not only like he really had to make a choice about his answer there, but that his answer was probably the wrong one. Deliciously uncomfortable moment.
I feel like if only in her brief exchange with Maldonado that Stahl's baggage is meant to revolve around what she rejected as a chrome but you're right, they didn't really develop it properly in that direction with all this weight placed on how oh-so-perfect chromes are in every which way. Tonight more that most, I'm getting rather indignant about Stahl since there's been so few opportunities to get to know the character and tonight was the closest we've been to seeing where she comes from and the choices she made - and yet, she's still pulling chrome privilege (to kick-start the investigation, to go to the club instead of Kennex) and the writing is leaning more on that idea of perfection than the more interesting story about what happens when the seemingly "perfect" person rejects those expectations.
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Yes, this. That felt like one of the most suspenseful questions posed in this season to date, and it felt not only like he really had to make a choice about his answer there, but that his answer was probably the wrong one.
I have a different take on it. John seems to be pretty close to his dad so I do believe that he has been loved. I thought he hesitated for different reasons: One might be regret, because he thought he had been loved by Anna. The other that he didn't want to get too personal with that guy.
I always understood John as someone who has been loved a lot by his friends and his family (dad) and that he knows about it. Infact, I think he pretty much had it all before the incident - friends, family, girlfriend and a striving career - and is now struggling with having lost everything.
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