Phyrne and Jack -- Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries. Yes, Lexsara, I ship it
So, I think there’s heaps of emotional terrain to cover. Also, I’m curious - as contraception is [EDIT possibly? based on Mac's behavior with handing out family planning at the factory?] illegal, just how would that conversation go? And I don’t know enough about the class issues with where they both respectively come from. The Abbottsford man and the Collingwood woman. Anyone? Jack is obviously educated.
Now, when you look at Phyrne’s types, there are lots of pretty, lithe men - athletes, dancers. There’s the older Latvian in Murder at Victoria Dock -- he’s the most like Jack in terms of age/experience/looks. I think Jack is a bit against type for her.
Jack was married, he was in the war, he’s not young, and he definitely changes over the course of the show. In Montparnasse, he blushes at the nude of Phyrne. By the fan dance in Season 2, he’s unabashedly enjoying himself. By series end, he’s essentially telling Collins, welp, that’s what you get with a modern woman, so get on board. I think he’s completely comfortable with himself and with Phyrne. He enjoys being physically close to her and flirting with her. I don’t see him being reluctant or shy, or even inexperienced. That’s not how he’s conducting himself at all. They are equals, in all this, and while Phyrne has surely been more experimental, Jack, I think, it totally down with or up for whatever she is. I don’t think she can shock him anymore.
I think it’s interesting to speculate whether he was faithful to Rosie during the war. My read is … eh.. probably not. Though, I could be talked out of this. He is the honorable man. On the other hand, that was a very dishonorable war and by its end he knows the marriage is over. He’s a young man, I’m guessing an officer, de-mobbed, waiting to go home, and kicking his heels in France, just as Bert was, and Phryne. Those are high and giddy times and it could have been as experimental for Jack as it was for Phryne. Thoughts?
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Now, when you look at Phyrne’s types, there are lots of pretty, lithe men - athletes, dancers. There’s the older Latvian in Murder at Victoria Dock -- he’s the most like Jack in terms of age/experience/looks. I think Jack is a bit against type for her.
Jack was married, he was in the war, he’s not young, and he definitely changes over the course of the show. In Montparnasse, he blushes at the nude of Phyrne. By the fan dance in Season 2, he’s unabashedly enjoying himself. By series end, he’s essentially telling Collins, welp, that’s what you get with a modern woman, so get on board. I think he’s completely comfortable with himself and with Phyrne. He enjoys being physically close to her and flirting with her. I don’t see him being reluctant or shy, or even inexperienced. That’s not how he’s conducting himself at all. They are equals, in all this, and while Phyrne has surely been more experimental, Jack, I think, it totally down with or up for whatever she is. I don’t think she can shock him anymore.
I think it’s interesting to speculate whether he was faithful to Rosie during the war. My read is … eh.. probably not. Though, I could be talked out of this. He is the honorable man. On the other hand, that was a very dishonorable war and by its end he knows the marriage is over. He’s a young man, I’m guessing an officer, de-mobbed, waiting to go home, and kicking his heels in France, just as Bert was, and Phryne. Those are high and giddy times and it could have been as experimental for Jack as it was for Phryne. Thoughts?
This entry was originally posted at http://rthstewart.dreamwidth.org/114305.html. .