I WILL TRY TO BE ONLY A MODERATELY SIZED WET BLANKET. A wet napkin? Just a small one. :D?
You've actually given me some hope that they won't do horrible love triangle stuff? Because I find the idea that Olivia will simply put distance between herself and Peter to be...very Olivia and very likely. So it just depends on how strung-out it is during the resolution of the whole two Olivias thing, and what that resolution is? (If there's an immediate Olivia/Peter reunion, I'll HURL but I...actually don't think that will happen).
It's a painful, horrible thing for the show to say to Olivia: you are damaged, he loves you better the other way.
Because I actually could like this story quite a lot, in theory, for both Olivia *and* Peter. Though not just, you're damaged, I love you better the other way, though that's the flip side, but, I've never seen anyone who can do the things you do and you are hard to know that way, you are hard to love that way, I don't understand you that way. You are easier for me to understand in this undamaged, less complicated way, because I have not seen the things that you have seen. Like the difference between the way Charley Dixon looked at Sarah Connor, and not Sarah Reese, not with judgment necessarily, but a profound uncrossable distance because it's just that...one of them has to go save the world, and that shit is complicated. And I still love the gender reversal of that.
And I think that affirms both awesome loner superhero stuff about Olivia, but also in character things for Peter? Peter, after all, started out here for the people he loves, for Walter and then for Olivia; it's Olivia who's here to SAVE THE WORLD. I LIKED Peter fine like that; we remember this. I did not like all the increasing efforts to make him Narratively Important, and now even more so with the Peter-powered world-exploding whatever, because given how they started out, it's never not going to feel like someone went, hey give the young white guy some angst and something to do, will you, you let the girl look like the lead for a season and a half. I miss the show that wasn't afraid of having the main young white dude be the understanding support system for the complicated, quiet damaged girl with manpain who didn't broadcast her feelings and the ambiguous, terrifying, childlike broken old man. So in a lot of ways, it's only partly the fear of love triangle; like I think we talked about at the end of season 2, it's *timing*. It's that the ship is happening when they are switched Olivias and ours was locked up, that its happening when the big mytharcy story is about a Peter-powered world-exploding whatever.
But given that Peter is a main character also, and not Charley Dixon, I'm just...afraid that there's no way they go here. That precludes the story I want, unless he chooses Altlivia. Because even if Olivia justifiably puts some distance between them, obviously there's no reset button. Unless Peter chooses Altlivia--and I agree, that could be amazing, that could be the most surprising thing Fringe has ever done if they do it, though I don't expect them to either--it's always, always going to feel like the show's just biding its time with other stuff before getting them back together because they belong together. Peter will get world-savey and angsty too, and get narrative-stealing cooties all over Olivia, and then they'll be equal. And OMG right here, I want to say "I know that's an overstatement and it won't ever just be about the ship for Olivia" but then the little Laura Roslin angel pops into my head, and :( Oh BSG, RUINING ALL THE SHOWS FOREVER. And thus this ramble ends, as all rambles should, with: Fuck you, BSG.
ETA: Annnnd poking around as I haven't done really, like, ever, I now see that the theory that Peter is playing Altlivia is quite prevalent? Idk why but I...am not sure I want that. Your way is so much more interesting to me!
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You've actually given me some hope that they won't do horrible love triangle stuff? Because I find the idea that Olivia will simply put distance between herself and Peter to be...very Olivia and very likely. So it just depends on how strung-out it is during the resolution of the whole two Olivias thing, and what that resolution is? (If there's an immediate Olivia/Peter reunion, I'll HURL but I...actually don't think that will happen).
It's a painful, horrible thing for the show to say to Olivia: you are damaged, he loves you better the other way.
Because I actually could like this story quite a lot, in theory, for both Olivia *and* Peter. Though not just, you're damaged, I love you better the other way, though that's the flip side, but, I've never seen anyone who can do the things you do and you are hard to know that way, you are hard to love that way, I don't understand you that way. You are easier for me to understand in this undamaged, less complicated way, because I have not seen the things that you have seen. Like the difference between the way Charley Dixon looked at Sarah Connor, and not Sarah Reese, not with judgment necessarily, but a profound uncrossable distance because it's just that...one of them has to go save the world, and that shit is complicated. And I still love the gender reversal of that.
And I think that affirms both awesome loner superhero stuff about Olivia, but also in character things for Peter? Peter, after all, started out here for the people he loves, for Walter and then for Olivia; it's Olivia who's here to SAVE THE WORLD. I LIKED Peter fine like that; we remember this. I did not like all the increasing efforts to make him Narratively Important, and now even more so with the Peter-powered world-exploding whatever, because given how they started out, it's never not going to feel like someone went, hey give the young white guy some angst and something to do, will you, you let the girl look like the lead for a season and a half. I miss the show that wasn't afraid of having the main young white dude be the understanding support system for the complicated, quiet damaged girl with manpain who didn't broadcast her feelings and the ambiguous, terrifying, childlike broken old man. So in a lot of ways, it's only partly the fear of love triangle; like I think we talked about at the end of season 2, it's *timing*. It's that the ship is happening when they are switched Olivias and ours was locked up, that its happening when the big mytharcy story is about a Peter-powered world-exploding whatever.
But given that Peter is a main character also, and not Charley Dixon, I'm just...afraid that there's no way they go here. That precludes the story I want, unless he chooses Altlivia. Because even if Olivia justifiably puts some distance between them, obviously there's no reset button. Unless Peter chooses Altlivia--and I agree, that could be amazing, that could be the most surprising thing Fringe has ever done if they do it, though I don't expect them to either--it's always, always going to feel like the show's just biding its time with other stuff before getting them back together because they belong together. Peter will get world-savey and angsty too, and get narrative-stealing cooties all over Olivia, and then they'll be equal. And OMG right here, I want to say "I know that's an overstatement and it won't ever just be about the ship for Olivia" but then the little Laura Roslin angel pops into my head, and :( Oh BSG, RUINING ALL THE SHOWS FOREVER. And thus this ramble ends, as all rambles should, with: Fuck you, BSG.
ETA: Annnnd poking around as I haven't done really, like, ever, I now see that the theory that Peter is playing Altlivia is quite prevalent? Idk why but I...am not sure I want that. Your way is so much more interesting to me!