Please enlighten me?
QaF folks, I have a question. It's about episode 308, the first scene in Brian's office, when Brian is all "I don't want to see your face every day when I come in to work because I totally still love you" and Justin is all eyelash-batting, "I had no idea our former relationship was still a problem for you" innocence.
( Clip is here if anyone would like a refresher ;-) )
( Clip is here if anyone would like a refresher ;-) )
I think your reading is definitely a legitimate one, but the problem I have is that if he's saying this line seriously, I just don't believe it. I mean, I can buy the interpretation that he currently doesn't expect anything, but I just don't see that he never expected anything. He was certainly quite disillusioned in S2, but in S1 at least I always have the feeling that he wants certain things from Brian and he has confidence that if he tries hard enough and does/says the right things that Brian will give them to him. In other words, I think there's a certain level of not just desire but also expectation. Over time I think these expectations faded, but I really don't think it's true that Justin never expected anything from Brian, and that's why I always trip over this particular line! Maybe I'm just being too literal. But every time I hear it, I mentally think "BULL!" ;-)
Some other folks have posted other interesting interpretations, including that Justin is being a bit tongue-in-cheek here and knows perfectly well that this line is full of crap. (I am paraphrasing badly -- feel free to read the other comments to get a better sense of this argument.)
Meanwhile, I am still thinking it all over.
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