I agree 100% with your first paragraph. There are times when I want to ask the writers what they're doing, but when they're on they're on.
she's sort of the protagonist and she is just way too involved in everything. And "everything" includes a lot of really stupid plotlines.
I can easily see this. She's probably a character who's way better at a distance. In the words of Cher, a Monet: better from a distance.
I might have to write it sometime!
Oh, you're right that she owed him nothing. But I do think she's selfish in that she asks him to get better for her. And I don't dislike her for that selfishness at all, and I think it's so ridiculously human, but she'd be the first to admit that that isn't exactly flattering.
I didn't really like the "We were good, weren't we?" bit because it seemed like the writers were trying to gloss over how absolutely terrible he was to her.
I see what you're saying, definitely, though I didn't read it that way. To me it felt like more of an acknowledgement of who they could have been and who they grew up to be and--mostly--who they were in their good times, because I absolutely believe they had them. You're so right about him being absolutely terrible to her, though.
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she's sort of the protagonist and she is just way too involved in everything. And "everything" includes a lot of really stupid plotlines.
I can easily see this. She's probably a character who's way better at a distance. In the words of Cher, a Monet: better from a distance.
I might have to write it sometime!
Oh, you're right that she owed him nothing. But I do think she's selfish in that she asks him to get better for her. And I don't dislike her for that selfishness at all, and I think it's so ridiculously human, but she'd be the first to admit that that isn't exactly flattering.
I didn't really like the "We were good, weren't we?" bit because it seemed like the writers were trying to gloss over how absolutely terrible he was to her.
I see what you're saying, definitely, though I didn't read it that way. To me it felt like more of an acknowledgement of who they could have been and who they grew up to be and--mostly--who they were in their good times, because I absolutely believe they had them. You're so right about him being absolutely terrible to her, though.