Weren't bad though, were we?

[the_royal_anna]

Yesterday morning I woke up to my radio playing The Jean Genie, which made me feel slightly like I was having an Alex moment and had woken up in Ashes to Ashes. In a lot of ways, I'm still there.

As I've said once before, this comes with a lack of restraint warning. :)

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[sea_thoughts]

Alex. Alex who lost her little girl, but became a mother to her team, Gene's other half in helping them grow up enough to let go, and helping him let them go. There's a sweet, sad parallel: they each have to help the other let their children go, this episode.

OMG, I hadn't thought of it like that, but you're so right! Alex helped Gene to let go of his team and Gene helped Alex to accept she was dead and couldn't go back to Molly (still could have done with a longer scene, though).

And somewhere out in the future I want to think there will be a DCI Drake, a little girl who grew up not, like her mother before her, wanting to prove something because she wondered if her mother loved her, but because she knew how much her mother did.

Yeah, I hope so. I don't see how Molly could doubt Alex's love for her. I wonder if Molly meets Gene, when he's on the verge of retirement, and SHE'S the replacement. That's for fanfiction, I suppose.

[the_royal_anna]

I wonder if Molly meets Gene, when he's on the verge of retirement, and SHE'S the replacement. That's for fanfiction, I suppose.

Hee, it's funny you should say that, because I've just been fanficcing that exact scenario in my head. :)

I know what you mean about wanting a longer scene. The first time I saw it I was just left gasping for air, but I think their parting would have hurt however long they'd had to say goodbye. And I felt that last week we definitely got to indulge in the scenes between them, so I knew this time round we weren't going to have that luxury. There is so much in the time that they do have though, that second time round it feels enough.

[sea_thoughts]

WRITE IT. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

I know the parting would have hurt no matter how long the scene was, but I was thinking more that it seemed like Alex gave in too quickly to the idea that she was dead and she would never see Molly again. And I know they were under time constraints, but still... :/

[the_royal_anna]

Yes, I felt that too. But I think, deep down, she'd known already.

I don't know if I can resist the capital letter encouragement. :)

[sea_thoughts]

WRITE IT. PLEASE. I need something good to distract me from the mediocrity that is Cheryl Cole live.