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THIS WEEK IN DUE SOUTH META HISTORY...

Jan 26, 2009 10:05

No-one else has recced a post yet. So here we go!

I'm linking ot a post originally done for ds_recs (and if you are looking for episode related meta posts for this reccing thing it is an excellent comm). It was written by bethbethbeth and here is the link: Before "Victoria's Secret": The VS ArcThis post is about how there an arc of episodes leading up to 'Victoria' ( Read more... )

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china_shop January 26 2009, 18:56:14 UTC

Victoria - possibly the only woman Fraser has ever loved - has been at the forefront of his mind for half of the season, and here he is, listening to Frannie talk about people who are araid to dream, to reach out for what they want. About how they "get old...get alone...and die."

Wow, I had honestly never thought about the effect of Frannie's speech on Fraser directly. I thought he was watching the interaction between them, assimilating how they felt about him and how he felt about each of them, but I never... wow! I am slooooow!

*goes back to original post to read the comments* ETA: one of which is by me, so I guess I have thought that before. Heh. Brain is not sticky. /o\

ruggerdavey January 26 2009, 22:58:43 UTC

Wow, I had honestly never thought about the effect of Frannie's speech on Fraser directly. I thought he was watching the interaction between them, assimilating how they felt about him and how he felt about each of them, but I never... wow! I am slooooow!

Dude, me too. But it really makes SO much sense. The prompt that pushed him from going with "what's right/lawful" and acknowledging "that it's easier to think you're in love than it is to accept that you're alone" to being "reckless [and] stupid [and] wild" all for his "love" for Victoria.

china_shop January 27 2009, 00:48:40 UTC

to being "reckless [and] stupid [and] wild" all for his "love" for Victoria.

I'm struck by this. Do you think his love for Victoria made him stupid, per se? I think it may have blinded him a little (to her falsehood in saying she'd turn herself in; to her ability to harm those close to him), but until the very end, I thought he was thinking hard, doing his best to minimise the damage she'd done: he searched for the locker key to save Vecchio's job, he confronted her in the peep show but she'd already out-maneuvered him by then. There was nothing before that that pinged me as stupid, particularly, unless I'm forgetting something (which is entirely likely). :-)

ruggerdavey January 27 2009, 01:26:22 UTC

No, not particularly "stupid." Blinded, willfully blind even (not wanting to believe that she was so destructive), but not moronic or what-have-you. (Some people might say being willfully blind is a kind of stupidity, though.) Likely I should have changed the "or"s in the quote to "and/or"s instead of just "and"s, i.e.
The prompt that pushed him from going with "what's right/lawful" and acknowledging "that it's easier to think you're in love than it is to accept that you're alone" to being "reckless [and/or] stupid [and/or] wild" all for his "love" for Victoria.I'd definitely say his actions were rather wild and reckless, though. Though I suppose that depends on how you define reckless. If you take "reckless" to mean headstrong, rash, inattentive to duty, indifferent to or disregardful of consequences, I would say yes to reckless. Running after her to hop on the train is a prime example of all that. As is sleeping with her in the first place - I don't care if she's reformed or not; as an officer of the law you should not be ( ... )

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