White Collar, Sui Generis
Edit to add important link: Bad Romance (or, YA & Rape Culture)
Like usual, it’s all astolat’s fault, the moment she wrote a fic about a show about a threeway relationship I was so done. But I have fortitude of will, I downloaded the show but I waited and now the time has come, they aired a new episode today (and I still have episodes 11 & 12 to go). And you know what? I don’t care about the fanfic, the show is awesome (it’s like Merlin, only I don’t just get Merlin watching Arthur and Arthur watching fondly back.
Neal positively gazes at Peter and the way he smiles when he sees him could light up a room, and then there’s Peter’s wife Elizabeth, who knows everything about Peter and thus everything about Neal because Peter was the agent who brought him in and had to be obsessive about him to do it.
And then Neal walks their dog and barges in their breakfast and does all manner of domestic stuff with them both, including getting coddled by Elizabeth and making sure their house is bug-free). The ot3 is very much real and I find myself thinking, will they maybe take it there onscreen? Which, I know, dreaming. But I love it even as what it is, a friendship within three people with different levels of intimacy within them, I love Elizabeth and Peter’s marriage, that’s what married people should look like. I love Elizabeth’s complete acceptance of Neal, even though he’s a con-artist and thus a liar and she knows his history as well as Peter does. And how Peter can’t trust Neal completely for good reason and Neal desperately wants to earn that trust and even more, to be able to trust Peter himself (to the point he will trust Peter with his life even though he’s not sure, he’s never sure, you can’t be sure, because he’s willing to take the risk just so Peter will live up to his expectations). I love Neal’s familiarity with Elizabeth, the way he doesn’t treat her as an extension of Peter at all, even though he’s always reminding Peter of what Elizabeth will think and say when she’s not there he never brings up Peter casually to her (she does the bringing up). I have decided this show is about trust, earned and deserved and undeserved and most of all needed, trust as intimacy and ownership, trusting someone to have your back no matter what, to lie for the right reasons, to love you enough to tell you the truth. It’s very hard to trust someone else, especially when you know how easy it is to lie yourself, but that’s why it’s so rewarding, why turning your back and leaving it up to them is so freeing. Because finally you’re not alone.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
Have an hilarious not spoilerish scene between Neal (the “reformed” conman and his friend Moz, the non-reformed thief”)
NEAL: All right, Moz, I need a favor.
Break into her car.
MOZ: That's not so much a favor as a truly horrible idea.
It's 1:00 in the afternoon.
There's a reason most
crimes happen at night --
También vine para ponerles la canción de Sui Generis "Botas Locas" y a contarles cómo el cantante, Charlie Garcia, estaba destinado a un hospital militar y sacó a pasear un muerto en silla de ruedas. Cuando le preguntaron que hacía contesto "Me pareció que estaba muy pálido" y (según la leyenda!) lo mandaron para casa por estar como una cabra.
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