Looking forward to the meta! And I know that lovely feeling when stuff finally begins to gel - it's amazing.
but on a Watsonian level the whole trip is something of a Freudian slip, as if he's determined to make her experience at least on some level what he himself went through. Oh totally. (Look, I even have an icon that fits!) Mostly, then it beautifully defines the whole thing - it's a test, I suppose, his way of seeing whether she can understand, whether she can cope. And then, miraculously (when he confesses what happened to *his* home), she is just human and starts talking about chips. (That I think he derides in the first episode?) And that's it. She becomes his kite string, the thing that tethers him to the world.
It's the sensible choice, and I can't afford dreams any longer, even if I still had any, but it all feels so wrong. Wrongish. Hmmmmm. That doesn't sound good. Not to put you off, because it might be a good thing, and lead somewhere, but try to work out what your dreams might be. Not just from a romantic standpoint, but because I dealt with Darcy being progressively more and more ill as he worked jobs he wasn't suited for. Now we're risking money and all kinds of things, but he's happier and healthier. So if you find the right thing - go for it!
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Date: 2013-01-21 09:35 pm (UTC)but on a Watsonian level the whole trip is something of a Freudian slip, as if he's determined to make her experience at least on some level what he himself went through.
Oh totally. (Look, I even have an icon that fits!) Mostly, then it beautifully defines the whole thing - it's a test, I suppose, his way of seeing whether she can understand, whether she can cope. And then, miraculously (when he confesses what happened to *his* home), she is just human and starts talking about chips. (That I think he derides in the first episode?) And that's it. She becomes his kite string, the thing that tethers him to the world.
It's the sensible choice, and I can't afford dreams any longer, even if I still had any, but it all feels so wrong. Wrongish.
Hmmmmm. That doesn't sound good. Not to put you off, because it might be a good thing, and lead somewhere, but try to work out what your dreams might be. Not just from a romantic standpoint, but because I dealt with Darcy being progressively more and more ill as he worked jobs he wasn't suited for. Now we're risking money and all kinds of things, but he's happier and healthier. So if you find the right thing - go for it!