it's hard to believe that "Vick" would have the ability to establish a relationship with a human. Maintain it? Yes, badly. What do you think?
A bit like the S-11 terrorists maybe - they only had to learn to fly the plane, not take off or land. Flying is the easy part, take-off and landing are TOUGH.
Although I could speculate various reasons why Derek uses Sarah's toothbrush, I think if I'd spent 15+ years not brushing my teeth, I would do it for 20 minutes too.
A bit like the S-11 terrorists maybe - they only had to learn to fly the plane, not take off or land. Flying is the easy part, take-off and landing are TOUGH.
Yeah, exactly!
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Derek's lack of boundaries is one of my favorite consistent canon details.
I agree that Andy's death was a complicated bundle for Sarah. What I'm curious about is how this changes her relationship with Derek. I don't remember enough from the other time I watched, but season two definitely had less interaction between those two. This episode is pretty much it. And... it's sort of classic Sarah, I think: her unforgiving nature.
Ironic, because Andy's death could well be/have been an important turning point. (Better if it had been earlier, however.) Hard to know if it made a difference by this point. Sarah knows that, but was unwilling to do anything about it herself.
...as much as Sarah projects nails, she often makes connections with strangers she's lying to more easily than with those who actually know her... Yes. Oh Sarah indeed.
Rant away! Sarah/Derek was never my thing, but I'm guessing part of that was simply that I didn't start watching until after the show was off air; I was already aware that nothing happened there. (And then I turned into a post-finale Sarah/James Ellison shipper, much to my surprise.)
I agree that there was a chemistry between Sarah and Derek. I can't decide if her openness with Derek while sitting outside at the cafe is due to attraction or if it's knowing who he is. (Both in his connection to Kyle and his 'from the future' background.) He's certainly 'safer' in some ways than other men, because she doesn't have to lie to him about who she is or try to explain some horrible truth about time travel and killer robots.
What I noticed this time were the parallels between Derek, Sarah, and Vick. I mean, the ones with Cameron are obvious. But Sarah's relationship with Andy was very parallel to Vick's with Barbara. Both wanted something that would help create/destroy the future. Both used the deception of a relationship to get it. And while Sarah didn't kill Andy, she might have. Derek's relationship with Andy is less parallel, but he did kill Andy, as Vick killed Barbara.
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A bit like the S-11 terrorists maybe - they only had to learn to fly the plane, not take off or land. Flying is the easy part, take-off and landing are TOUGH.
Although I could speculate various reasons why Derek uses Sarah's toothbrush, I think if I'd spent 15+ years not brushing my teeth, I would do it for 20 minutes too.
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Yeah, exactly!
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I agree that Andy's death was a complicated bundle for Sarah. What I'm curious about is how this changes her relationship with Derek. I don't remember enough from the other time I watched, but season two definitely had less interaction between those two. This episode is pretty much it. And... it's sort of classic Sarah, I think: her unforgiving nature.
Ironic, because Andy's death could well be/have been an important turning point. (Better if it had been earlier, however.) Hard to know if it made a difference by this point. Sarah knows that, but was unwilling to do anything about it herself.
...as much as Sarah projects nails, she often makes connections with strangers she's lying to more easily than with those who actually know her...
Yes. Oh Sarah indeed.
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I agree that there was a chemistry between Sarah and Derek. I can't decide if her openness with Derek while sitting outside at the cafe is due to attraction or if it's knowing who he is. (Both in his connection to Kyle and his 'from the future' background.) He's certainly 'safer' in some ways than other men, because she doesn't have to lie to him about who she is or try to explain some horrible truth about time travel and killer robots.
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