*Val's ring was pure glitchy stubbornness. I'd actually severed the marriage ties, reloaded, etc., pulled out all the stops that would normally get rid of the damned thing but he insisted on wearing it. For story purposes as well, it is stubbornness rather than sentimentality that keeps it on his finger. Angel wouldn't give a damn if he took off his ring, especially not for a commercial, but Val just does not take it off, ever. And definitely not when he's annoyed with her, because if he ever did take it off it might not find its way back on again.
**This issue is not quite personal enough to Tiffany for her to follow up on of her own accord, but one day, when her newly glam future daughter-in-law has gotten Lucy settled in primary school and gone back herself for her business degree, they will form just such a company to address the cosmetic needs and opportunities for the whole spectrum of women. An ill-advised venture, as at the best of times those two only tolerate each other, but one that will ultimately succeed once 'somebody' agrees to be the silent partner.
***To be "current", he really should've referenced Prince's New Power Generation but those new folks hadn't left quite the same visual impression on him as the Prince, and Prince protégés, of the 80s. Besides which, Val is not fussed at all about keeping up with the times. You may have noticed he sounds much the same here as he does as an older man, with his same fallback phrases that were already outdated by this time; because that's just who he is and because he can get away with it.
****For the sake of random referencing, the big bully really should've been Komei Tellerman, but he's just never played that way for me. Kennedy Cox, on the other hand, is an absolute asshole. Less imposing but more insidious - abusive to his ex-wife in private while playing the upstanding good citizen in public life, and living more than the one lie. (Said ex-wife is a different Flo, Florence Delarosa, who got the hell outta dodge years ago only to finally surface in Bluewater Village and find that he'd made a new home for himself, too, the next town over). He is also future cop John's boss, but while childish antics may be forgiven they've not been forgotten...he may yet have to dust off that cape.
†Bonus: Val's ex, Naima, didn't have much direction, career-wise, as a young woman - she'd been athletic like him but the pickin's were slim for women, and she didn't necessarily want to go pro even if she could have - so she ended up making a living off her looks. It was the town. She'd gone with him to Starrywood and she had to do something. A handful of shoots done on a lark snowballed into a rather successful career, but even though the normally ruthless industry had been quite kind to her she never respected the profession and refused to glorify being a 'model', referring to herself always as a 'poser' instead.
In the above, however, Bo wasn't capitalising on the double entendre like Naima did, she was just miffed, and refused to go all phony-baloney and say poseur, even inside her head.
**This issue is not quite personal enough to Tiffany for her to follow up on of her own accord, but one day, when her newly glam future daughter-in-law has gotten Lucy settled in primary school and gone back herself for her business degree, they will form just such a company to address the cosmetic needs and opportunities for the whole spectrum of women. An ill-advised venture, as at the best of times those two only tolerate each other, but one that will ultimately succeed once 'somebody' agrees to be the silent partner.
***To be "current", he really should've referenced Prince's New Power Generation but those new folks hadn't left quite the same visual impression on him as the Prince, and Prince protégés, of the 80s. Besides which, Val is not fussed at all about keeping up with the times. You may have noticed he sounds much the same here as he does as an older man, with his same fallback phrases that were already outdated by this time; because that's just who he is and because he can get away with it.
****For the sake of random referencing, the big bully really should've been Komei Tellerman, but he's just never played that way for me. Kennedy Cox, on the other hand, is an absolute asshole. Less imposing but more insidious - abusive to his ex-wife in private while playing the upstanding good citizen in public life, and living more than the one lie. (Said ex-wife is a different Flo, Florence Delarosa, who got the hell outta dodge years ago only to finally surface in Bluewater Village and find that he'd made a new home for himself, too, the next town over). He is also future cop John's boss, but while childish antics may be forgiven they've not been forgotten...he may yet have to dust off that cape.
†Bonus: Val's ex, Naima, didn't have much direction, career-wise, as a young woman - she'd been athletic like him but the pickin's were slim for women, and she didn't necessarily want to go pro even if she could have - so she ended up making a living off her looks. It was the town. She'd gone with him to Starrywood and she had to do something. A handful of shoots done on a lark snowballed into a rather successful career, but even though the normally ruthless industry had been quite kind to her she never respected the profession and refused to glorify being a 'model', referring to herself always as a 'poser' instead.
In the above, however, Bo wasn't capitalising on the double entendre like Naima did, she was just miffed, and refused to go all phony-baloney and say poseur, even inside her head.
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