I cannot even tell you how many times I've read this chapter. IMO, it is one of the finest pieces of writing, of characterization, of everything in the DA fandom. You know I adore CP, but this...this is a highlight. :D
Situated at the middle of the story (12/23), the “Act One Finale”, Chapter Twelve had always been a focal point and planned from the beginning. Everything that came before was leading up to it and everything that followed was in consequence of it.
OMG the Act One finale!!! Of course it is -- smack dab in the middle. :) How perfect!!!
Matthew and Sybil become engaged which is the catalyst for the development of both Sybil and Mary's relationships with Branson and Sciarpa respectively.
I also love this because it is sort of a domino effect that sets all the other relationships in motion (and likewise, only when it's stopped can M/M move forward :)
If Matthew has given his hand to Sybil then the reader should easily perceive that he has also given his heart to Mary. Awwwww!!! Love the contrasting ideas of hand/heart
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LOVE THIS -- because with the literal retelling of Andromeda and Perseus andrescuing Mary from the sea monster...but I never thought of this as the lynchpin that started it all. :)LOL yep. Watched that scene in ep 3, thought "I bet this is going to foreshadow what's going to happen over the rest of the show only Matthew's going to become Perseus hur hur hur wouldn't it be cool to retell it literally with Mary on a rock in the middle of the sea and Matthew rescuing her. Hmm
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Awww, well I totally did NOT spend last night going back over favorite chapters of CP or anything, nooooo, not me... ;)
It occurs to me, randomly -- that in the whole idea of what's a dream and what isn't, the line from "Life on Mars" 2x08 (a.k.a., my favorite show finale of ALL TIME) applies here: "You know when you're alive, because you can feel it. And you know when you're not, because you can't feel anything."
That interpretation would lead to the wonderfully surreal idea that Matthew is "alive" in his dream with Mary, that his dream is (and should be) his reality and (in a more literal way) the rest of CP is about his "waking up" to realize that. :D That Matthew is passive, because he's sleepwalking -- but it takes Sybil (the all-knowing!) to wake him up to the reality of what he wants his life to be
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Situated at the middle of the story (12/23), the “Act One Finale”, Chapter Twelve had always been a focal point and planned from the beginning. Everything that came before was leading up to it and everything that followed was in consequence of it.
OMG the Act One finale!!! Of course it is -- smack dab in the middle. :) How perfect!!!
Matthew and Sybil become engaged which is the catalyst for the development of both Sybil and Mary's relationships with Branson and Sciarpa respectively.
I also love this because it is sort of a domino effect that sets all the other relationships in motion (and likewise, only when it's stopped can M/M move forward :)
If Matthew has given his hand to Sybil then the reader should easily perceive that he has also given his heart to Mary. Awwwww!!! Love the contrasting ideas of hand/heart ( ... )
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LOVE THIS -- because with the literal retelling of Andromeda and Perseus andrescuing Mary from the sea monster...but I never thought of this as the lynchpin that started it all. :)LOL yep. Watched that scene in ep 3, thought "I bet this is going to foreshadow what's going to happen over the rest of the show only Matthew's going to become Perseus hur hur hur wouldn't it be cool to retell it literally with Mary on a rock in the middle of the sea and Matthew rescuing her. Hmm ( ... )
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It occurs to me, randomly -- that in the whole idea of what's a dream and what isn't, the line from "Life on Mars" 2x08 (a.k.a., my favorite show finale of ALL TIME) applies here: "You know when you're alive, because you can feel it. And you know when you're not, because you can't feel anything."
That interpretation would lead to the wonderfully surreal idea that Matthew is "alive" in his dream with Mary, that his dream is (and should be) his reality and (in a more literal way) the rest of CP is about his "waking up" to realize that. :D That Matthew is passive, because he's sleepwalking -- but it takes Sybil (the all-knowing!) to wake him up to the reality of what he wants his life to be ( ... )
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