why is it, I wonder, that I respond so positively to her assuming a protective role toward Jack, yet have trouble when she does so with Will?
I was thinking about it all the way home from work (read your comment right before I left). I think it's because Will, being much younger, still has a lot to prove and, additionally, is all about the angst to some extent. Jack, on the other hand, has so much life experience that minor difficulties don't bear worrying about, and major ones are just something to trust to luck and the opportune moment. But there are things that happen when we're young that stay with us whether we want them to or not. Then there's that whole trust issue -- showing the chinks in one's armour is always a risk.
Makes me want to don a pair of steel-toed boots and kick Beckett in the shins. What a perfectly slimy, horrible villain he is.
He does make a truly poisonous little toad, doesn't he? Have you seen Tom Hollander in Pride and Prejudice as the awful Mr. Collins? He's great in that part, too. I hope they have the Kraken eat him in AWE. :D
Re: the nuns -- I was observing to outinthestorm that Jack and a gaggle of nuns is an inherently hilarious combination.
Thank you for writing such a detailed review! I appreciate it so much.
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Date: 2006-09-26 01:30 am (UTC)I was thinking about it all the way home from work (read your comment right before I left). I think it's because Will, being much younger, still has a lot to prove and, additionally, is all about the angst to some extent. Jack, on the other hand, has so much life experience that minor difficulties don't bear worrying about, and major ones are just something to trust to luck and the opportune moment. But there are things that happen when we're young that stay with us whether we want them to or not. Then there's that whole trust issue -- showing the chinks in one's armour is always a risk.
He does make a truly poisonous little toad, doesn't he? Have you seen Tom Hollander in Pride and Prejudice as the awful Mr. Collins? He's great in that part, too. I hope they have the Kraken eat him in AWE. :D
Re: the nuns -- I was observing to
Thank you for writing such a detailed review! I appreciate it so much.