I didn't like this chapter as much as the rest of them so far. I feel like Sam's getting a raw deal. She's not Elizabeth. Both not here in the story and not on the show. And Jason can't imagine being with her in the light or imagining grandchildren with her. but I think that Sam would be a nice mother. Sure, she's slept with other guys. And I'm sure that's a problem for someone back in the 40s but Jason and Lila are doing her wrong.
Lila by the way isn't as peachy keen as she appears to be. She's trying to manipulate Jason into getting out of the life of crime with Sonny and Carly. It's a bad life. It's not on the right side of the law. And if this were anyone else, I would say yes he needs to get out and that breaking the law is bad. But it's Jason. And Lila's not respecting what Jason wants.
Lila isn't meant to be perfect. This is my conception of a young Lila as I see her in my mind. She's kind, loving and compassionate but she's also spoiled and judgemental in the way young people often are. Societal constraints were a much bigger deal back in the 1940's, particularly in a smaller city like Port Charles. She would absolutely not want her brother to end up with a woman like Sam (who in my view of her as a character in this fic is just on one side of the line from being a prostitute)and neither would she want him to be working for a mobster like Sonny. She simply wouldn't, her mother wouldn't, her father certainly wouldn't. She uses her skills as a woman of her time to try and move Jason down the path she wants him to travel. Jason also holds the same moral constructs, he has been changed by brain damage but I haven't made him as altered as he was on the show after the accident. People totally divided women into such categories back then, it was just the way it was.
Hiya, I thought the first 7 paragraphs of this part were just brilliant! Beautiful writing, really, that seems to lightly step across that wide gap back to those times and takes us readers along. Wonderfully phrased insights into these characters and their situations. My only critique so far is that Jason falling for Elizabeth to the point of imagining a wonderful future felt a tad abrubt. I'm used to seeing Jason as a character of little imagination- that's a preconceived notion that's more my problem than this story's. I know Elizabeth was there in her nurse capacity as he was recovering, but I didn't catch this background as being a really strong foundation, even though it's probably supposed to be. To me reading this it feels like these two just met. I'm sure love at first sight and destiny and such were much more common concepts in this time period, and I know the pressure of war often accelerated the pace of life, so this isn't a big deal to me. Just thought I'd share.
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Lila by the way isn't as peachy keen as she appears to be. She's trying to manipulate Jason into getting out of the life of crime with Sonny and Carly. It's a bad life. It's not on the right side of the law. And if this were anyone else, I would say yes he needs to get out and that breaking the law is bad. But it's Jason. And Lila's not respecting what Jason wants.
Is Spinelli going to be showing up in 1940s
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My only critique so far is that Jason falling for Elizabeth to the point of imagining a wonderful future felt a tad abrubt.
I'm used to seeing Jason as a character of little imagination- that's a preconceived notion that's more my problem than this story's.
I know Elizabeth was there in her nurse capacity as he was recovering, but I didn't catch this background as being a really strong foundation, even though it's probably supposed to be. To me reading this it feels like these two just met.
I'm sure love at first sight and destiny and such were much more common concepts in this time period, and I know the pressure of war often accelerated the pace of life, so this isn't a big deal to me. Just thought I'd share.
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