Oh, same here. I wonder whether we're supposed to empathize with Justin this much?
Possibly not - but if they don't want us to feel bad for him, they should inflict less angst on the poor man.
TThough it leaves me slightly worried for Moore is off to BSG now - I hope, despite the necessity and rightness of Cult Leader!Justin, thinking himself the Antichrist, Daniel Knauf won't abandon all shades of grey.
Fingers crossed - obviously you're now in a better position than I am to speculate.
No, seriously, what does surprise me is that they lived all this years together without ever acting on these feelings.
It is interesting, yes. You have to assume it was a factor in neither of them ending up with other people - I doubt Tommy is the first person who's made a play for Iris, although maybe having Justin around put off other potential love interests. No doubt Iris found some way to dissuade anyone who batted their eyelashes at Justin, too. And yet, neither of them did anything about it.
I mean, okay, Norman gave them a firm Methodist (it is Methodist, right? Can't tell with all these American branches of Protestantism, being a Catholic girl from Europe myself)
Yes, they're Methodists. I had to rewind the tape to check at one point myself. (We do have Methodists down here, but they're not quite the same ...)
But Iris?
That is the question. Of course, maybe she's internalized the idea tht Nice Methodist Girls don't make the first move on Nice Methodist Boys. Even if she apparently missed the bits about not lusting after your own brother and burning orphans ...
You're assuming here that Justin won't have sex with anyone but Iris. I could see him fight against his desire some more by deflecting it to another person. Partly, too, to punish Iris for the burned children.
Good point - that could certainly happen.
Well, little Irina had to get her paranoia about everyone being after them somewhere. Also, she says their father is a bad man...
Hopefully Season Two clears that (and a number of other things) up.
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Date: 2005-02-09 02:02 am (UTC)Possibly not - but if they don't want us to feel bad for him, they should inflict less angst on the poor man.
TThough it leaves me slightly worried for Moore is off to BSG now - I hope, despite the necessity and rightness of Cult Leader!Justin, thinking himself the Antichrist, Daniel Knauf won't abandon all shades of grey.
Fingers crossed - obviously you're now in a better position than I am to speculate.
No, seriously, what does surprise me is that they lived all this years together without ever acting on these feelings.
It is interesting, yes. You have to assume it was a factor in neither of them ending up with other people - I doubt Tommy is the first person who's made a play for Iris, although maybe having Justin around put off other potential love interests. No doubt Iris found some way to dissuade anyone who batted their eyelashes at Justin, too. And yet, neither of them did anything about it.
I mean, okay, Norman gave them a firm Methodist (it is Methodist, right? Can't tell with all these American branches of Protestantism, being a Catholic girl from Europe myself)
Yes, they're Methodists. I had to rewind the tape to check at one point myself. (We do have Methodists down here, but they're not quite the same ...)
But Iris?
That is the question. Of course, maybe she's internalized the idea tht Nice Methodist Girls don't make the first move on Nice Methodist Boys. Even if she apparently missed the bits about not lusting after your own brother and burning orphans ...
You're assuming here that Justin won't have sex with anyone but Iris. I could see him fight against his desire some more by deflecting it to another person. Partly, too, to punish Iris for the burned children.
Good point - that could certainly happen.
Well, little Irina had to get her paranoia about everyone being after them somewhere. Also, she says their father is a bad man...
Hopefully Season Two clears that (and a number of other things) up.