i'm going on vacation soooooooooooon
so once upon a time thecolorbetween was like "alex jw can you clone yourself but edit a gene or whatever so that that person watches haven?" and I was like wow how is it that I am such a brat that people have to wish for CLONING TECHNOLOGY because I just don't watch things?? THE WORST FRIEND!!!!
So I started watching it. Let's talk about that.
It's like, super unfortunate that you basically have to watch all of Season 1 to really understand the cool stuff in Season 2?? I mean, it's build-up, and it's important. But it's so easy to believe, in that beginning stretch, that Haven is just like this super generic (supernatural) cop show with a lot of really pretty vistas. The X-Files (lite), in Maine, with no aliens.
BUT NOPE SUDDENLY IT IS JUST WONDERFUL
Like ugh when I first started I was so lukewarm on Audrey?? She just felt like this total stock FBI-woman. And you think the building backstory about ~the woman in the picture~ is going to be like, oh, well, YOU WERE BORN HERE!! And then something happened to your mom and you went into foster care!! And that's not interesting at all. But then the show is like NOPE STOP SHE IS A STOCK FBI-WOMAN, but only because she LITERALLY ABSORBED some other Audrey Parker's memories and identity. Because it turns out she's not really a lady cop but basically this supernatural person who picks up other people's identities/memories?!?! And like the process of her PROCESSING that she's like, not even really quite a person, and that she's had god knows how many other lives IS SO COOL in part because she IS doing it as this sunny stock FBI lady, because that's the only person she knows how to be. Ugh seriously I could write like eight paragraphs on how much I love the dichotomy of Audrey, the sunny FBI girl who can't dress herself or remember people's names and Audrey, the only person (non-person?) who can help troubled people, who draws back to Haven like a magnet every time the troubles come back!!!! IT'S SO COOL!! And I can't wait to see what they do with her FBI boss, and maybe figure out if Nathan's dad knew more about her than he implied?? Because like no one really knows who or what she is but also there are all these people who apparently know way more about her than she knows about her. And that's not really fair.
also she's just really pretty, there is that.
LIKE DON'T YOU WANT THERE TO BE A SHOW/MOVIE/SOMETHING where she and Yvonne Strahovski are just like, obscenely beautiful blonde sisters?? I mean actually that sounds exceptionally boring but I might still watch it for their fces.
AND THE REVELATIONS ABOUT DUKE'S TROUBLE IN THE LAST TWO EPISODES???? O M G. Like, what a cool story to give the bad-but-good character -- the moral dilemma of being able to "cure" people by killing them. I'm super obsessed with the implications that have suddenly been thrust upon this strange tentative friendship between Duke and Audrey (and Nathan!! but not really Nathan, I just like the way the three of them fit together so I'm including him as a parenthetical aside), like -- they're close enough now that she was there when he found his Dad's journal, and there's a certain amount of trust they've built up, but at the same time... in 2x10 she completely believes that he's turned on them and gone to the Rev. So the trust is there but it's tentative, and like, what a place to be AT, in your relationship with a person, when your Dad is convinced that the only way to save an entire town from mysterious ailments is for her to die, and for you to be the one that kills her. I mean, you guys know me, I really (really) love platonic friendships, but I think what made me suddenly love theirs was the possibilty of it breaking, and this whole big STRESS CLOUD that's going to be hanging over them this season.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW DUKE AND HIS DAD LOOK NOTHING ALIKE THOUGH:
Like who would EVER look at Helo and go "yup, he should definitely play Eric Balfour's dad"! NO ONE. NO ONE. Except for the Haven casting producer. Apparently.
I find it hard to explicate my Nathan/Audrey feelings though. They were like, the first thing in season 1 that made me go "whoaaaaaah, no wait maybe I COULD actually be into this", specifically I was super into the part where it turned out he could feel her touch? Actually no, specifically I was super into the way HE reacted to that, the "Let’s say a guy like me, who can’t feel anything, meets a woman and discovers he can feel her touch. That sounds... seems like fate, doesn’t it?" And I like that the show has actually developed past that, made it such that it definitely ISN'T fate, but I also like that he was in this weird private fate spiral over that and he didn't share that with her??? I D K YOU GUYS, I can't help who I am, and who I am is super charmed by emotional ridiculousness like that. But when I was talking to Cee earlier she was like "you don't really have a lot of Nathan/Audrey feelings, do you??" and I don't know if I would say t...hat exactly. It's just that I'm not sure how I feel about the sudden developments at the end of season 2. You know?? It's strange to me that they even have time to think about that when the whole town is poised on a fault line, about to split in two, and they seem like the only two people even trying to hold it together.
BUT I'M ALSO IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA OF HER LIKE, being in love in the first place, having that added complication on top of everything. I've like, barely cracked into the fic Claire's given me but one of the ones I did read had this line where he said "you didn't disappear" as they leave Haven and drive up (or down idk) the coast??? AND I LOVE THAT. I love that one of the old reporter dudes was apparently in love with her past incarnation and how there's no way to know what she is or why she's there or how long she'll last and just like....... I DON'T KNOW
BASICALLY HAVEN IS A REALLY GOOD SHOW AND YOU SHOULD ALL THINK ABOUT WATCHING IT!!! SEASON 3 STARTS IN SEPTEMBER.
Even though she's ~the prettiest girl in the world~ I think Sulli has these moments where she could visually kind of be a convincing dude, androgynously:
But they have her ACTING so irrepressibly girlish (the high voice, the squealing) that it's ultimately just so unconvincing. Also her character's personality is currently "stalker fangirl" so that's not helping?! AT ALL!?!?
But lbr, I am probably going to end up deeply enjoying this, despite all the ridiculous factual inaccuracies.
So I started watching it. Let's talk about that.
It's like, super unfortunate that you basically have to watch all of Season 1 to really understand the cool stuff in Season 2?? I mean, it's build-up, and it's important. But it's so easy to believe, in that beginning stretch, that Haven is just like this super generic (supernatural) cop show with a lot of really pretty vistas. The X-Files (lite), in Maine, with no aliens.
BUT NOPE SUDDENLY IT IS JUST WONDERFUL
Like ugh when I first started I was so lukewarm on Audrey?? She just felt like this total stock FBI-woman. And you think the building backstory about ~the woman in the picture~ is going to be like, oh, well, YOU WERE BORN HERE!! And then something happened to your mom and you went into foster care!! And that's not interesting at all. But then the show is like NOPE STOP SHE IS A STOCK FBI-WOMAN, but only because she LITERALLY ABSORBED some other Audrey Parker's memories and identity. Because it turns out she's not really a lady cop but basically this supernatural person who picks up other people's identities/memories?!?! And like the process of her PROCESSING that she's like, not even really quite a person, and that she's had god knows how many other lives IS SO COOL in part because she IS doing it as this sunny stock FBI lady, because that's the only person she knows how to be. Ugh seriously I could write like eight paragraphs on how much I love the dichotomy of Audrey, the sunny FBI girl who can't dress herself or remember people's names and Audrey, the only person (non-person?) who can help troubled people, who draws back to Haven like a magnet every time the troubles come back!!!! IT'S SO COOL!! And I can't wait to see what they do with her FBI boss, and maybe figure out if Nathan's dad knew more about her than he implied?? Because like no one really knows who or what she is but also there are all these people who apparently know way more about her than she knows about her. And that's not really fair.
also she's just really pretty, there is that.
LIKE DON'T YOU WANT THERE TO BE A SHOW/MOVIE/SOMETHING where she and Yvonne Strahovski are just like, obscenely beautiful blonde sisters?? I mean actually that sounds exceptionally boring but I might still watch it for their fces.
AND THE REVELATIONS ABOUT DUKE'S TROUBLE IN THE LAST TWO EPISODES???? O M G. Like, what a cool story to give the bad-but-good character -- the moral dilemma of being able to "cure" people by killing them. I'm super obsessed with the implications that have suddenly been thrust upon this strange tentative friendship between Duke and Audrey (and Nathan!! but not really Nathan, I just like the way the three of them fit together so I'm including him as a parenthetical aside), like -- they're close enough now that she was there when he found his Dad's journal, and there's a certain amount of trust they've built up, but at the same time... in 2x10 she completely believes that he's turned on them and gone to the Rev. So the trust is there but it's tentative, and like, what a place to be AT, in your relationship with a person, when your Dad is convinced that the only way to save an entire town from mysterious ailments is for her to die, and for you to be the one that kills her. I mean, you guys know me, I really (really) love platonic friendships, but I think what made me suddenly love theirs was the possibilty of it breaking, and this whole big STRESS CLOUD that's going to be hanging over them this season.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW DUKE AND HIS DAD LOOK NOTHING ALIKE THOUGH:
Like who would EVER look at Helo and go "yup, he should definitely play Eric Balfour's dad"! NO ONE. NO ONE. Except for the Haven casting producer. Apparently.
I find it hard to explicate my Nathan/Audrey feelings though. They were like, the first thing in season 1 that made me go "whoaaaaaah, no wait maybe I COULD actually be into this", specifically I was super into the part where it turned out he could feel her touch? Actually no, specifically I was super into the way HE reacted to that, the "Let’s say a guy like me, who can’t feel anything, meets a woman and discovers he can feel her touch. That sounds... seems like fate, doesn’t it?" And I like that the show has actually developed past that, made it such that it definitely ISN'T fate, but I also like that he was in this weird private fate spiral over that and he didn't share that with her??? I D K YOU GUYS, I can't help who I am, and who I am is super charmed by emotional ridiculousness like that. But when I was talking to Cee earlier she was like "you don't really have a lot of Nathan/Audrey feelings, do you??" and I don't know if I would say t...hat exactly. It's just that I'm not sure how I feel about the sudden developments at the end of season 2. You know?? It's strange to me that they even have time to think about that when the whole town is poised on a fault line, about to split in two, and they seem like the only two people even trying to hold it together.
BUT I'M ALSO IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA OF HER LIKE, being in love in the first place, having that added complication on top of everything. I've like, barely cracked into the fic Claire's given me but one of the ones I did read had this line where he said "you didn't disappear" as they leave Haven and drive up (or down idk) the coast??? AND I LOVE THAT. I love that one of the old reporter dudes was apparently in love with her past incarnation and how there's no way to know what she is or why she's there or how long she'll last and just like....... I DON'T KNOW
BASICALLY HAVEN IS A REALLY GOOD SHOW AND YOU SHOULD ALL THINK ABOUT WATCHING IT!!! SEASON 3 STARTS IN SEPTEMBER.
Even though she's ~the prettiest girl in the world~ I think Sulli has these moments where she could visually kind of be a convincing dude, androgynously:
But they have her ACTING so irrepressibly girlish (the high voice, the squealing) that it's ultimately just so unconvincing. Also her character's personality is currently "stalker fangirl" so that's not helping?! AT ALL!?!?
But lbr, I am probably going to end up deeply enjoying this, despite all the ridiculous factual inaccuracies.