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[themonkeytwin]

Overdue memeses owed to tahirire. Yay!

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[themonkeytwin]

Oh no, I was pretty clear that you don't watch Glee. I don't blame you! :) I just thought that you might have picked up some more context on the clip than I had. Mine was purely an educated guess.

so I thought Bomer was an older ex-boyfriend, which seemed super-creepy

O.O YES.

Then it turned out they were supposed to be brothers, and I laughed.

Ha, yes. (Is it just me, or do we get kind of ... proprietary of tv brother relationships? Like, we have the absolute definitive incarnation, so everyone else can either damn well measure up or go home?)

He is! He's little! *pinches cheeks* He would be so good at evol.

[bitterlimetwist]

brother relationships? Like, we have the absolute definitive incarnation, so everyone else can either damn well measure up or go home?

This reminds me, have you seen Warrior? I saw quite a few review that said it was better than you'd expect considering the kind of movie it is, but clearly these people hadn't spent years watching almost exactly this type of relationship play out, because it was seriously underwhelming. It was like a Sam and Dean AU, only less interesting.

I'm spamming you. Sorry. :)

[themonkeytwin]

I've ... not even heard of Warrior. Have I? Did you mention it to me and I'm having a moment? What kind of movie is it? (Other than, obviously, one that features some kind of brother-type relationship.)

Word on the years watching this relationship. When you stop to think about it, that's a lot of sustained focus for one single relationship. We are, perhaps, justified in requiring that other works bring something genuinely new to their attempt to tell that sort of story. I just thought of something that's in the general vicinity but very different, which we both like - Boyd and Raylan. But then, they are very different. So, I don't know.

So, as per my icon, did you ever get around to watching Boondock Saints? Because that was also something I felt was genuinely distinct in brother terms.

*throws spam confetti* *ignores how gross that sounds*

[bitterlimetwist]

I don't think I mentioned it. It's just some movie from last year about these two brothers [Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton] who end up competing against each other in some MMA tournament. It's all manpain, daddy issues, and brother-abandonment-woe. I watched it this past weekend, so you know, I'm full of thoughts and feelings about it. :)

This review is perfect as a description of the movie and the critical response to it - http://www.avclub.com/articles/warrior,61433/

Ooh, Boyd and Raylan. This is interesting, especially in light of what happens with Arlo at the end of S3, because it does play sort of like a good son/bad son story.

I still have not seen Boondock Saints. I think it's the violence that's putting me off. I do like Norman Reedus though, so I should get on that.

[themonkeytwin]

Thanks for the link. It is vaguely familiar, so obviously I saw brothers slugging it out and responded with a mighty Meh. I'm not big into the violence, either, especially boxing (MMA?), so. Not worth it, especially with the oh-so-familiar daddy issues. Now that you tell me it's been there, seen that, I'm even more meh about it.

I haven't seen the last half of S3 yet! It's next on the catch-up list. I will say that I'm liking Raylan more and more - the more he gets stuck in the quagmire, the better I like it. (I also like that they were realistic about Winona leaving. At least so far. We'll see how that plays out.) And Boyd is just ... I don't even know, he's amazing. And Ava gets better and better, too. The show really seems to have found the sweetspot of what it's actually about. I just wish we could get more interaction between Raylan and Boyd, because it increasingly seems like they are not, fundamentally, that far apart. And it is by far the most fraught relationship. Brothers! They just show up everywhere!