WHITE COLLAR and LOST love!
Just very quickly ...
It all comes down to the love between Peter and Neal - CANON! Neal can't say goodbye to Peter, doesn't even want to see him because he KNOWS Peter is the one person in his life for whom Neal will throw away a chance with Kate. And Neal also knows that Peter makes him a better man, because Peter is the one person in the world who wants better for Neal and believes in him without reservation.
If that is not love, then there is no such thing as love. It's love that saves Neal from getting blown up on the plane! Neal hesitates for Peter, starts to go back to Peter, and that saves his life.
*SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just one question - are we done with Kate now? Are we to believe we really did see her smug mug in the plane window, and that she died when it exploded? Something tells me that's too easy, unfortunately.
Still, Peter/Neal FTW!!!! Had a big honkin' smile on my face when I went to bed last night. :D
For all Sam Winchester's transgressions in season four, no one can say he ever became a villain (he was just high!), nothing even close to the kind of man Lost's Ben Linus has been portrayed up to now.
And, yet, the Supernatural writers need to watch this episode and take serious note of how they've screwed up Sam's supposed redemption arc so far, by witnessing how good writing can legitimately redeem a truly irredeemable character (and, again, Sam's not even irredeemable, like Ben Linus is/was). One hint - you don't have your character suddenly decide to sidestep everything he did wrong and childishly blame it all on his brother instead as a bad, and ultimately futile, quick fix. Sam is better than that. *fume*Julie Siege*fume*
Last night we saw a Ben Linus who owns up to it all. We see a "villain" who gets it, who understands where and how he fucked up, who recognizes his own arrogance, who truly regrets, and who is thoroughly remorseful. And in understanding all that, is surprisingly and simply rewarded with a second chance to be a member of a community, and to seemingly and finally fight on the side of Right for the rest of the story. He is forgiven in one very quiet and poetic moment.
And as a result of his epiphany, Ben, like the others who so far seem to fall on the Jacob side of the equation, manages a better and more moral life in the Sideways-verse. He makes the right choices, even though they are hard. Free Will wins over Destiny.
This is how it's done.
It all comes down to the love between Peter and Neal - CANON! Neal can't say goodbye to Peter, doesn't even want to see him because he KNOWS Peter is the one person in his life for whom Neal will throw away a chance with Kate. And Neal also knows that Peter makes him a better man, because Peter is the one person in the world who wants better for Neal and believes in him without reservation.
If that is not love, then there is no such thing as love. It's love that saves Neal from getting blown up on the plane! Neal hesitates for Peter, starts to go back to Peter, and that saves his life.
*SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just one question - are we done with Kate now? Are we to believe we really did see her smug mug in the plane window, and that she died when it exploded? Something tells me that's too easy, unfortunately.
Still, Peter/Neal FTW!!!! Had a big honkin' smile on my face when I went to bed last night. :D
For all Sam Winchester's transgressions in season four, no one can say he ever became a villain (he was just high!), nothing even close to the kind of man Lost's Ben Linus has been portrayed up to now.
And, yet, the Supernatural writers need to watch this episode and take serious note of how they've screwed up Sam's supposed redemption arc so far, by witnessing how good writing can legitimately redeem a truly irredeemable character (and, again, Sam's not even irredeemable, like Ben Linus is/was). One hint - you don't have your character suddenly decide to sidestep everything he did wrong and childishly blame it all on his brother instead as a bad, and ultimately futile, quick fix. Sam is better than that. *fume*Julie Siege*fume*
Last night we saw a Ben Linus who owns up to it all. We see a "villain" who gets it, who understands where and how he fucked up, who recognizes his own arrogance, who truly regrets, and who is thoroughly remorseful. And in understanding all that, is surprisingly and simply rewarded with a second chance to be a member of a community, and to seemingly and finally fight on the side of Right for the rest of the story. He is forgiven in one very quiet and poetic moment.
And as a result of his epiphany, Ben, like the others who so far seem to fall on the Jacob side of the equation, manages a better and more moral life in the Sideways-verse. He makes the right choices, even though they are hard. Free Will wins over Destiny.
This is how it's done.