Tricky relationships and their allure: links

[selenak]

Via chaila: Damages is nearly back on screen. I still have some anxiety because the season 3 finale would have been the perfect series finaly, and I've been burned by some shows who did that and then added a season which was, err, detrimental to my favourite characters (*cough* Alias *cough*), but: Patty and Ellen are back, and I can't not be glad about that. Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons and their convoluted relationship, the way it developed especially are something incredibly rare (sadly) on tv: two strong female characters, with their interaction not a side aspect, not an "also", but the key driving force of the show.

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Speaking of convoluted relationships: one of my absolute favourite things about Battlestar Galactica was the relationship between Laura Roslin and Gaius Baltar, so much so that I once wrote an essay about it. Their scenes together were always golden, and while the essay is about what it was, I also loved what it wasn't. Because this was one relationship between a woman and a man which wasn't about sex, and it was a relationship between people who were, if you look at the start of the show, the heroine and the human villain (of sorts), and yet it wasn't heroine versus villain, either, and never as clear cut. So imagine my delight when I used about ten minutes of secure internet connection and stumbled across nicole_anell having done a Twenty Days of Laura and Gaius, twenty of her favourite scenes between these two.

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X-Men fanfic rec of the day: Reinvention, which is Charles/Moira, believable Charles/Moira, managing to use some of her comicverse background (and future) while still being true to the movieverse. Moira fanfiction is sadly still rare, but this one does a great job. (But pay attention to the warnings, if you have triggers.)

Comments

[jesuswasbatman]

I was a bit worried at the end of S3 because it seemed to me that it was verging on judging Patty in a gendered way for not being a housewife and mother. This spoiler about a grand-daughter (Michael's kid?) could go either way. John Goodman as villain and a Blackwater-style mercenary company as the bad guys both sound good, though.

[selenak]

It would have to be Michael's kid (which would indicate a time jump as well?), wouldn't it? Incidentally, that re-awakens my suspicion that now that they've killed pretty much everyone else whom both/either Patty and Ellen or the viewers are invested in, this season's victim of framing narration will be Michael, and this means Patty will end up with the kid. It could go either way, yes, but then again I had horrible fears mid s3 when it looked like Ellen would turn out to be adopted, and then the show settled that plot point very much to my satisfaction, so I am cautiously trusting, you might say.

John Goodman and a Blackwater equivalent sound both terrific.

[jesuswasbatman]

Unless they retcon in an entirely new ex-boyfriend and grown-up offspring as they tried to with Daniel Purcell in S2.