End of Innocence comments
Yeah, I've said it before I suspect, but I'll say it again: "End of Innocence" makes me wonder how Joe resisted knocking Duncan and Richie's heads together. Wow. MInd, they're both traumatized, Duncan by four years of constant challenges and troubles, Rich by Duncan's on-again, off-again teaching and that Dark Quickening. But this is not an episode in which it's easy to like either of them. Joe, now, is wonderful, and Graham Ashe's love of life is glorious. And I find it very easy to understand and like both Haresh and Carter. But you guys knew all this. ::grins:: I just felt like talking about it anyway.
On a side-note, rewatching this episode, I can definitely see where the whole 'judgmental, high-handed Duncan' opinions came from. In one scene Duncan tells Joe that he and Joe can't be friends (which yeah, he can say that for himself), but also Joe and *Richie* can't be friends. He's talked to Richie once since the Dark Quickening, and Joe wasn't discussed. Duncan also tells Joe to be true to his Watcher oath. ::sighs:: Which would be fine if Joe had said he wanted help with a dilemma, but Joe'd made it clear he knew what his oath demanded, but he was doing what friendship demanded. So, um, yeah. Way to tell other people what to do, Duncan.
I still think this problem could be fixed if Fitz were still alive to drag Duncan out drinking and wenching and tell him to quit being so damn serious about everything. But then, I think Fitz kept Duncan balanced in a lot of ways, and Duncan kept Fitz out of some of his trouble.
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On a side-note, rewatching this episode, I can definitely see where the whole 'judgmental, high-handed Duncan' opinions came from. In one scene Duncan tells Joe that he and Joe can't be friends (which yeah, he can say that for himself), but also Joe and *Richie* can't be friends. He's talked to Richie once since the Dark Quickening, and Joe wasn't discussed. Duncan also tells Joe to be true to his Watcher oath. ::sighs:: Which would be fine if Joe had said he wanted help with a dilemma, but Joe'd made it clear he knew what his oath demanded, but he was doing what friendship demanded. So, um, yeah. Way to tell other people what to do, Duncan.
I still think this problem could be fixed if Fitz were still alive to drag Duncan out drinking and wenching and tell him to quit being so damn serious about everything. But then, I think Fitz kept Duncan balanced in a lot of ways, and Duncan kept Fitz out of some of his trouble.
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