He does put his experience for complicated - and snarky - family dynamics from Alias to good use, doesn't he?
He does, he does. And I still someone who preferably isn't me but probably will end up being me anyway to write that crossover.
(Which clearly, once the mission is completed, needs to have a scene where Sydney gets drunk with Nathan and has a "you think YOUR family is bad?" talk...)
This opens up all kinds of questions: How would she have reacted if he had cheated on her while she was still able to walk, and would he have done it if that were the case? I think if her reaction here is a sign that she is scared he could leave her (at the very least emotionally, since a divorce in their situation would probably political suicide), he probably didn't cheat before.
I have a slightly different take on this. Sure, Heidi has a good poker face throughout in the scene with the reporter, but she doesn't seem surprised at the idea Nathan COULD have been with another woman in Vegas. Moreover, I think if Niki had been the first time ever, Nathan would hesitated a bit longer between "I guess my questions end right there" and moving in for a kiss. (Also, the way he inserted that he's married, happily married, early on the conversation looked like a deliberate manouevre to make it clear he's not in the market for long term affairs.) Which doesn't mean I think he cheats on her on a regular basis. Or seeks out opportunities. For example, if Niki had not been blackmailed into setting him up, I don't think he'd have spent his free time in Vegas with things other than reading articles and opinion poll analysis. But when an opportunity was there and offered itself, he did take it, and like I said, I don't think it was the first time. Now whether he cheated before the accident - that's another question. Can't make up my mind on this one, other than I think he's by and large happily married to Heidi.
Nonetheless, it makes it look as if Peter has changed his opinion about his family's connections to the mob and what they mean quite a bit since Dad died...
It does, doesn't it? I do assume that whatever explanation Nathan gave him for switching from "I'll prosecute Linderman!" to "Linderman is my main campaign sponsor" plays into that. (Considering we know Nathan didn't tell him the truth about the FBI situation and doesn't until Peter finds out in Parasite, I really want to know what that explanation was.) Or maybe given that Hiro told him saving the cheerleader will save the world, he thinks saving the world tops squeamishness about mobsters and decides to use "the family connection" to Linderman anyway.
Isn't that the best summary of their relationship I've yet read... so adorable, those two. (You guys actually make me like Peter. I can't quite believe it. Astonishing. (Not that I disliked him before, it was more ... friendly indifference.))
He. I felt benign indifference about Peter until this episode; the brunch did it. But I remember feeling nothing but benign indifference for two characters on another show, B5, and lj debate plus fanfic made me change my mind and become emotionally invested in them (Delenn and Lennier).
Re: Hours later: Part the Second
He does, he does. And I still someone who preferably isn't me but probably will end up being me anyway to write that crossover.
(Which clearly, once the mission is completed, needs to have a scene where Sydney gets drunk with Nathan and has a "you think YOUR family is bad?" talk...)
This opens up all kinds of questions: How would she have reacted if he had cheated on her while she was still able to walk, and would he have done it if that were the case? I think if her reaction here is a sign that she is scared he could leave her (at the very least emotionally, since a divorce in their situation would probably political suicide), he probably didn't cheat before.
I have a slightly different take on this. Sure, Heidi has a good poker face throughout in the scene with the reporter, but she doesn't seem surprised at the idea Nathan COULD have been with another woman in Vegas. Moreover, I think if Niki had been the first time ever, Nathan would hesitated a bit longer between "I guess my questions end right there" and moving in for a kiss. (Also, the way he inserted that he's married, happily married, early on the conversation looked like a deliberate manouevre to make it clear he's not in the market for long term affairs.) Which doesn't mean I think he cheats on her on a regular basis. Or seeks out opportunities. For example, if Niki had not been blackmailed into setting him up, I don't think he'd have spent his free time in Vegas with things other than reading articles and opinion poll analysis. But when an opportunity was there and offered itself, he did take it, and like I said, I don't think it was the first time. Now whether he cheated before the accident - that's another question. Can't make up my mind on this one, other than I think he's by and large happily married to Heidi.
Nonetheless, it makes it look as if Peter has changed his opinion about his family's connections to the mob and what they mean quite a bit since Dad died...
It does, doesn't it? I do assume that whatever explanation Nathan gave him for switching from "I'll prosecute Linderman!" to "Linderman is my main campaign sponsor" plays into that. (Considering we know Nathan didn't tell him the truth about the FBI situation and doesn't until Peter finds out in Parasite, I really want to know what that explanation was.) Or maybe given that Hiro told him saving the cheerleader will save the world, he thinks saving the world tops squeamishness about mobsters and decides to use "the family connection" to Linderman anyway.
Isn't that the best summary of their relationship I've yet read... so adorable, those two. (You guys actually make me like Peter. I can't quite believe it. Astonishing. (Not that I disliked him before, it was more ... friendly indifference.))
He. I felt benign indifference about Peter until this episode; the brunch did it. But I remember feeling nothing but benign indifference for two characters on another show, B5, and lj debate plus fanfic made me change my mind and become emotionally invested in them (Delenn and Lennier).