"That's the point, isn't it? That's what you dragged me here for?"

[amelialourdes]

Ooh. That's where we're going to go with this episode. It's a tough one all around for everyone involved! It's the start of Noah's surgery and all does not go according to plan. Dun ... dun ... DUN

Comments

[smittle]

I get what you're saying but these are all reasons that I think Reid's characterization is so marvelous. I believe that the statement that he doesn't play games is true because he doesn't behave in a controlled, deliberate, consistent way to try to manipulate Luke. He is responding very much like a human, seemingly in an unrequited love situation, so it is understandable that he would behave like a jerk to drive Luke away and yet still want him and reach for him the very next moment. I think that's terrifically realistic. We're all inconsistent or we're not human. Or we're crashing bores.

This is a really interesting discussion. I don't think anyone has come close to trashing Luke or Reid here, and we all have our likes and take sides and it's very cool when people express that frustration because we all have such different responses sometimes. What baffled me on some other sites when I was watching this real time were fans who were shipping the couple still trashing one or other of them because at one point they were not nice to the other. I love this couple together and individually so it was sometimes uncomfortable to read attacks on one or the other and I always ended up defending the one who was being attacked that day. Long story short, I think these are two fantastic characters, flawed as hell, but they are never cruel or deliberately hurtful to each other and that's part of why I love them together.

[von_questenberg]

Just to be clear- I do -love- Reid and his characterization. His being a jealous hypocrite over Noah -did- make him more complex. Like you, my major beef is that a certain segment of the fandom seems to really resent and hate Luke for not immediately dumping Noah and fucking Reid, and completely ignore the times that Reid was flat-out mean to Luke. It was a lot more complicated than, 'Luke is wishy-washy and Reid is oh-so-nice to just put up with it.'