Comments | ifreet: exhausted is the new awake

ifreet

exhausted is the new awake

Jan 16, 2012 18:05

Worked an overnight. And then some. I have to be up tomorrow morning at the time I finally crawled into bed today. Fun! Also, an excuse to eschew transitions.

I am excited for White Collar's return tomorrow! With two notable exceptions( * )

coal mine, fandom: due south, fandom: supernatural, fandom: white collar

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china_shop January 17 2012, 02:17:49 UTC

Ooh, I am fascinated by your White Collar analysis, especially the ways in which it's probably far more accurate than my personal take on the show. I keep trying to tame Neal (or have Neal already be tamed) so that I can write my way to a credible happy ending with Clinton or Peter/El. If Neal is amoral (which he probably canonically is), then I like him much less and don't trust him at all, and there is no happy ending. Which breaks my fannishness. So I'm basically working on the theory that ankleted!Neal is like chipped!Spike, and that both of them, through the restrictions of their situations, managed to develop (or be in the process of developing) a conscience/soul. Which is why this season has grated on me so much, I suspect.

But I suspect I'm drifting further and further from canon, and your views are yes, much more realistic. Interesting!

Oh, man, I'm considering using housework to procrastinate from writing fanfic. /o\

Hee! Isn't that normal?

ifreet January 17 2012, 04:38:23 UTC

If it helps, I do think the past couple seasons read as a redemption arc? While Neal is definitely using the FBI for his own ends during the first season, his hesitation before getting on the plane at the end would seem to indicate that he's already torn between his former life with Kate and his potential future with the FBI. But Neal doesn't need to confront the inherent conflict between those two paths until after he's resolved everything with Kate -- which takes another season to do ( ... )