Greetings to the Sisterhood of the Flattering Pants.
We fell woefully behind in our watching of Life in the past few weeks and have only just now finished watching the season finale. I could not wait to come here and see what Mary and you all had to say.
It's late, and I'm confused on some plot points about which I will be asking for your wisdom later, and I have some thoughts on the whole philia/agape/eros thing. But for now I just wanted to react to a few small points already made:
1. Mary on Charlie and the biker gal: Charlie gets in the car, stops at a light, and a pretty girl with breasts rides up beside him and smiles. He doesn't smile back. I loved that! Normally, he'd give her that goofy, sexy, I-love-my-new-life smile. Not this time. Excellent.
I noticed this too and it was brilliant---he's just way too focused on saving Reese to even give a second thought to her. But DL conveyed this in such an organic, non-cliched way. Small but brilliant moment, like so many in this show.
2. Mary on Bobby: But watching now, we see that he was always the same guy.
A little thing that I absolutely loved, and it echoes the bike thing above in an interesting way, was Bobby in the car with the Russian prostitute, and his total lack of any sexual interest in her. There have been a series of Bobby moments and brief snippets of dialogue that have established his character as an absolutely and completely rock solid husband and Dad, and this was another one. It was totally true to character--it's like it never even occurred to him to play the part of an interested guy in the service of his mission.
3. Misreall on Raybourn's fake death: One I FUCKING KNEW RAYBOURN WAS ALIVE! That level of awesomeness cannot die.
Me too! No body, no death--first rule of cop teevee shoes and movies and books. Blood, even lots of it, can be faked. Seemed like a big plot hole to me from the beginning, glad to have it filled up.
4. Misreall again: for just a second in the SUV I thought that we were going to swing in some odd direction and Charlie was going to take over Roman's operations.
Me too again! I had this flash of, "Oh, he's pretending to 'be' Raybourn to trick Roman--- oh my god he really IS going to become Raybourn..." Kind of cool to have both the thought of that AND what actually happened be in your brain at almost exactly the same time, and have both make sense.
I love your observation about Bobby. I agree about the husband/dad thing. I also see that as evidence of his devotion to Charlie. He's absolutely on task, part of the team. Even if he were interested, what he truly gets off on is being a soldier for Charlie.
We fell woefully behind in our watching of Life in the past few weeks and have only just now finished watching the season finale. I could not wait to come here and see what Mary and you all had to say.
It's late, and I'm confused on some plot points about which I will be asking for your wisdom later, and I have some thoughts on the whole philia/agape/eros thing. But for now I just wanted to react to a few small points already made:
1. Mary on Charlie and the biker gal: Charlie gets in the car, stops at a light, and a pretty girl with breasts rides up beside him and smiles. He doesn't smile back. I loved that! Normally, he'd give her that goofy, sexy, I-love-my-new-life smile. Not this time. Excellent.
I noticed this too and it was brilliant---he's just way too focused on saving Reese to even give a second thought to her. But DL conveyed this in such an organic, non-cliched way. Small but brilliant moment, like so many in this show.
2. Mary on Bobby: But watching now, we see that he was always the same guy.
A little thing that I absolutely loved, and it echoes the bike thing above in an interesting way, was Bobby in the car with the Russian prostitute, and his total lack of any sexual interest in her. There have been a series of Bobby moments and brief snippets of dialogue that have established his character as an absolutely and completely rock solid husband and Dad, and this was another one. It was totally true to character--it's like it never even occurred to him to play the part of an interested guy in the service of his mission.
3. Misreall on Raybourn's fake death: One I FUCKING KNEW RAYBOURN WAS ALIVE! That level of awesomeness cannot die.
Me too! No body, no death--first rule of cop teevee shoes and movies and books. Blood, even lots of it, can be faked. Seemed like a big plot hole to me from the beginning, glad to have it filled up.
4. Misreall again: for just a second in the SUV I thought that we were going to swing in some odd direction and Charlie was going to take over Roman's operations.
Me too again! I had this flash of, "Oh, he's pretending to 'be' Raybourn to trick Roman--- oh my god he really IS going to become Raybourn..." Kind of cool to have both the thought of that AND what actually happened be in your brain at almost exactly the same time, and have both make sense.
This show is brilliant. It needs to continue.
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I love your observation about Bobby. I agree about the husband/dad thing. I also see that as evidence of his devotion to Charlie. He's absolutely on task, part of the team. Even if he were interested, what he truly gets off on is being a soldier for Charlie.
the season finale.
Right on.
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