"I can't ever get too sad, because no matter what, I have you."
Hoooooooomg, fucking Boardwalk Empire, man. I don't even know if anyone on my flist watches it but I think I need a moment to get these feelings out.
A show where Michael Pitt's character has sex with his Mom, you guys. So unbelievably relevant to my interests I don't even know what to do with myself. Ughhh. I was always interested in their dynamic right from the moment Gillian was introduced and was clambering all over Jimmy half-naked and everyone was like "Ohhh shit! He's cheating on his wife!" and then it turned out she was his mother and we all felt super-awkward. And then I wasn't even sure if I was going to watch the second season but there was more incestuous weirdness in the first episode so I was like fine, show, you win. But I didn't really think they would go there. THANK YOU, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, FOR GOING THERE.
I don't even know why it's so good, but it IS. I love the way it's been built up so gradually and carefully. And it's so interesting because Gillian is clearly very fucked up, and she was so YOUNG when she had Jimmy, and her relationship with men is so horrible and complicated but then there's her son, loving her so completely and looking after her, and it just makes sense. And I know that the sex shouldn't be like, excused, but I love how that night was set up to show us that she doesn't really know how to be, and their behaviour is much more like that of lovers than anything. Because then it just worked.
GOD that scene where they get back to Jimmy's room, it's so perfect, because you can just FEEL the tension, and there's still like these mother/son sort of gestures like her offering to clean up his shirt, but then when he starts helping her undress there's just this shift and it's like you know something is going to happen. Like, incest aside, I loooove that kind of thing-those moments leading up to a kiss that shouldn't really happen, when both people sort of know that it might, and they're secretly wanting but neither of them want to be the one to initiate it. There were a few little moments where it could have happened and I kept expecting it, and the way it took longer was even better because it felt so real. I guess that's why I appreciate it so much, because I imagine it's difficult to do mother/son incest realistically, and yet Boardwalk Empire seems to have managed it perfectly.
I am really, really sad that Angela had to die for all of this to come together, though. I mean, I assume that Jimmy is going to still be a mess for a while and that's probably going to lead to something further happening between the two of them because he'll be too weak to resist, and in order for that to make complete sense to us we had to understand the full extent of what happened between them in the past. And it sucks because I love this storyline like a mad thing, but I was also really fond of Angela, and the idea of killing her off just so we can focus on Jimmy's pain does rub me the wrong way. Plus, now there's barely a handful of regular actresses on this show and there are too many men to count, and that's just not on, Boardwalk. :|
But yeah, aside from that, YAY? I mean, I develop a mother/son incest kink and then the universe gives me Michael Pitt in this scenario. And it's such a well-developed storyline too, with such wonderfully complex backstory and emotion and just auuuuugh thank you Boardwalk. ♥
Omg, I didn't even mention all the craziness at the end. This episode was so intense. I could ramble on about it for much, much longer, but I'm still not sure anyone I know watches this show, so instead I'll just show you some caps and then shut up. (It was so lovely visually as well; the lighting and the train and how it panned back to show everything gently rattling. Guh.)
In conclusion, Jimmy/Gillian should probably not be my OTP on this show, but it so is.
I'm gonna go back to working on that Remus/Sirius mix now, even though it keeps making me like, burst into tears at spontaneous moments.
A show where Michael Pitt's character has sex with his Mom, you guys. So unbelievably relevant to my interests I don't even know what to do with myself. Ughhh. I was always interested in their dynamic right from the moment Gillian was introduced and was clambering all over Jimmy half-naked and everyone was like "Ohhh shit! He's cheating on his wife!" and then it turned out she was his mother and we all felt super-awkward. And then I wasn't even sure if I was going to watch the second season but there was more incestuous weirdness in the first episode so I was like fine, show, you win. But I didn't really think they would go there. THANK YOU, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, FOR GOING THERE.
I don't even know why it's so good, but it IS. I love the way it's been built up so gradually and carefully. And it's so interesting because Gillian is clearly very fucked up, and she was so YOUNG when she had Jimmy, and her relationship with men is so horrible and complicated but then there's her son, loving her so completely and looking after her, and it just makes sense. And I know that the sex shouldn't be like, excused, but I love how that night was set up to show us that she doesn't really know how to be, and their behaviour is much more like that of lovers than anything. Because then it just worked.
GOD that scene where they get back to Jimmy's room, it's so perfect, because you can just FEEL the tension, and there's still like these mother/son sort of gestures like her offering to clean up his shirt, but then when he starts helping her undress there's just this shift and it's like you know something is going to happen. Like, incest aside, I loooove that kind of thing-those moments leading up to a kiss that shouldn't really happen, when both people sort of know that it might, and they're secretly wanting but neither of them want to be the one to initiate it. There were a few little moments where it could have happened and I kept expecting it, and the way it took longer was even better because it felt so real. I guess that's why I appreciate it so much, because I imagine it's difficult to do mother/son incest realistically, and yet Boardwalk Empire seems to have managed it perfectly.
I am really, really sad that Angela had to die for all of this to come together, though. I mean, I assume that Jimmy is going to still be a mess for a while and that's probably going to lead to something further happening between the two of them because he'll be too weak to resist, and in order for that to make complete sense to us we had to understand the full extent of what happened between them in the past. And it sucks because I love this storyline like a mad thing, but I was also really fond of Angela, and the idea of killing her off just so we can focus on Jimmy's pain does rub me the wrong way. Plus, now there's barely a handful of regular actresses on this show and there are too many men to count, and that's just not on, Boardwalk. :|
But yeah, aside from that, YAY? I mean, I develop a mother/son incest kink and then the universe gives me Michael Pitt in this scenario. And it's such a well-developed storyline too, with such wonderfully complex backstory and emotion and just auuuuugh thank you Boardwalk. ♥
Omg, I didn't even mention all the craziness at the end. This episode was so intense. I could ramble on about it for much, much longer, but I'm still not sure anyone I know watches this show, so instead I'll just show you some caps and then shut up. (It was so lovely visually as well; the lighting and the train and how it panned back to show everything gently rattling. Guh.)
In conclusion, Jimmy/Gillian should probably not be my OTP on this show, but it so is.
I'm gonna go back to working on that Remus/Sirius mix now, even though it keeps making me like, burst into tears at spontaneous moments.