Back online for now

[itsallovernow]

I now it's probably still temporary since apparently the DSL was done due to the phone company, but I'm trying to squeeze everything into these two posts.

Weekend was good. I had to unexpected dancing jobs which netted me some cash, which was excellent and then I got to go home on Saturday night and watch MI-5 with ASH (he really is yummier scruffy and heavily accented).

Had a lovely Sunday of sun and drink a crisp dry rose at the Farmer's Market while eating brie and tapas and talking to a good friend.

Stayed up way too late to watch Promises, but it was worth it. Yes, I'm a sucker, and my heart breaks everytime when John exits Lo'La, lean and rangy and reckless and then sees Aeryn and you want so badly to hope everything will be all right, and it just won't. There's so much good here - the Res. Dogs refs, killing Harvey which still makes me gasp, the new alliance between Scorpy and Sikozu, the fact that we still don't know who sent Aeryn to kill the Prime Hokothian (which makes no sense as a spelling based on pronunciation, but whatever, and she actually starts to say she wasn't sent there to kill him. I hadn't caught that before). The scenes between John and Aeryn, so beautifully creepy in the Scorpy suit, in a room of ice and misunderstandings and them both longing for a fantasy, and not exactly the person in front of them.

For me, the scene that kills me is John's reaction after Harvey is gone. It's the same reaction as TJohn exhibited, but instead of having Aeryn there to wrap him up, comfort and rejoice, he's on his knees in a room with his enemy and someone he doesn't trust, and I just want to hug him.

The shield actually working:) That's a first in a plan. And just getting Aeryn back. And finally there at the end. She comes to him thinking that he'll receive her with open arms, but he's not the man she left, and now she's broken his trust (in his mind) twice. And there's really no going back from that. They're living with an enemy in their midst, everyone's a little broken, and so now what?

I hope everyone who was without power is up and running and didn't suffer unduly over the weekend, and that ya'll had a good time while I was gone.

Now I'm off to post the next chapter of Blue Eyes and read all the farscapefriday challenge responses.

Comments

[kernezelda]

The Harvey-death scene is my favorite moment in Promises - that and the initital confrontation between John and Aeryn and Scorpius (although the staging for that with her literally hand to hand with both of them was a bit strong).

The look on John's face when he sees her just breaks my heart, and I feel sympathy for Harvey (the parasite, the leech, the invader in John's head) when Scorpius offers John the opportunity to get rid of him.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I always gasp when Harvey gets whacked, even knowing he's a manipulative little leech. It leaves John so vulnerable, because at least with Harvey hanging out, there's someone invested in John's continual survival, and unfortunately right now, it ain't John.

[scapersuse.livejournal.com]

To everything you guys said about Promises - yeah. Oh yeah. The "he's gone" moment is a heartbreaker because we all saw it happen another way and ache for John. And Scorpy!Aeryn is creepycool. John and Aeryn discover they definitely have a long way to go to be on the same page.

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

For me, the scene that kills me is John's reaction after Harvey is gone. It's the same reaction as TJohn exhibited, but instead of having Aeryn there to wrap him up, comfort and rejoice, he's on his knees in a room with his enemy and someone he doesn't trust, and I just want to hug him.

Now here's where personal interpretation comes in, because I was struck with how different John's reaction was to TJohn's. TJohn had a big exuberant smile on his face, he was unambiguously happy - "Scorpius is gone!" Whereas with John I got a sense of flattened affect - hardly any reaction at all - "Harvey's gone".

... Not surprisingly if you play HarveyM and HarveyT's death scenes back-to-back and see how they contrast - not just in Harvey's reaction (sad acquiescence vs. terrified defiance) but in John's emotional state too. JohnT was angry and triumphant, JohnM was just ... cold. Cold.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Part of the similarities (for me) were in the placement and the look on John's face. On his knees, red eyed and uncertain, and then saying, "He's gone."

That moment of similarity makes the differences so much more painful.

And Harvey's exit, that is interesting. HarveyM didn't put up nearly as much of a fight ( maybe because he knew something the other one didn't, or because he knew that John was strong enough to get rid of him). Interesting, hmm.

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

... Or could it simply be, Harvey was sincerely attached to John by that point? Remember this Harvey had far more chance to interact with John and absorb his views on life.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Could be. But I think Harvey was ultimately out for himself. He was beginning to like being a part of John, but I think he wanted to stay for his own sake.