[ SECRET POST #2112 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely love playing guessing games and trying to figure out where they'll take things with friends.

Yeah, and squeeing and complaining and flailing about how beautiful everybody's soul is. And then having wank on your flist every weekend to laugh about. Ahh, good times.

started watching Breaking Bad around the same time that I did, so I have someone to flail at and a shoulder to cry on. That fucking fly episode, man. I just... how do you write something that amazing and emotionally compelling about swatting a fly?!

I forced my BFF to watch the first season with me and she, gasphorror, THOUGHT IT WAS BORING!!! Then she wouldn't agree to watch S2 for several more months. As soon as she did she got hooked, but in the gap there I was, like, dying. BB is one of those shows where you have to make everyone you know watch it because it's impossible to dislike. I think Fly might be my favorite episode in the series? I've watched a million times. Thematically elegant, stuffed full with important character development, and tense. Oh God Vince Gilligan, JUST LET ME LOVE YOU.

Alright, illegal online content, yeaaaah! I don't want to out these places as being havens for piracy in a public comment, so do you have a place I can PM links to you? It can be a sock account or whatever.

They should make it their slogan.

YES I have a shining career as a slogan writer ahead of me!

Which is why Dean's relationships with the people he's let in like that are generally so compelling to watch.

Yep. I mean, I'm a D/C girl all the way, and a classic case at that -- got into the fandom in S4, Cas is my favorite, D/C my OTP, hung out exclusively in Casfandom, etc etc -- but I still did my own fair share of crying into pillows over the beauty of Sam'n'Dean's relationship, lol. Before its unchanging nature made it boring, anyway.

Actually, you mentioned Sokka in one of the comments upthread, and I think there are also a lot of good comparisons to be made between Sokka and Stiles, too. That loyalty to friends and willingness to keep going and fighting, even when you're outgunned and it's kind of terrifying.

Yeah! They're also both the funny kid in the gang (or in Sokka's case, the Gaang), the skeptic, the investigator. If Stiles were in A:TLA, he'd also choose to spend his mini-vacation at the library. :D Like, Sokka wasn't my bb in A:TLA, but I did love him (well lbr, I loved everybody, that show was kickass), and I think part of that was because he's the -- not badass normal, but really-determined-and-brave-normal-who-will-take-risks-despite-non-badassery, which isn't catchy, but oh well. I just really love that character trait.

Derek is one of those characters that I want to hug the life out of and then smack repeatedly. His past is tragic and his life is kind of awful, but then he has to go and make TERRIBLE CHOICES and drag other people down with him and uuuuuugh.

Yeah, seriously. I love him and I have so much sympathy for him, but at the same time I spend half the time he's onscreen shaking my head at the way he fails at, like, everything he tries. Jeff Davis said at NYCC that one of his writers did research on wolf packs and found out that subordinate wolves are loyal to their alpha not out of fear, but out of love, and everyone was like "lol clearly Derek NEVER LEARNED THAT." He needs to make genuine emotional connections to his pack (which right now is... Isaac) and it would certainly help if he could get Scott to like him too, but his deep-seeded trust issues make it impossible for him to forge real human relationships with these people. They're fragile kids and they needed him to be a loving parent figure more than an army instructor.

I mean, is Derek's shitty pack managing the result of being young when his family died and never really being intended to be an alpha and not having the training and information he needs?

I think it has to be a combination of this and his emotional constipation. I mean, maybe the Hales did run their wolf kids through a physical training regime similar to Derek's, but I can't picture them being as emotionally distant -- it's possible, I suppose, but I'd be surprised. What I really want to know is what happened to Derek and Laura after the fire. Derek was what, 16? How'd they survive? Did another pack take them in, or has Derek not been part of a real pack since his family died? I feel like more knowledge about the six years Derek spent out of Beacon Hills with Laura would help explain a lot about his amazing issues.

They have this sort of pseudo-brothers dynamic, and I think that Isaac could be really good for Derek, both as just a friend and as a bit of a grounding force.

I agree. I love that moment after the fight with the kanima in the S2 finale, when Derek takes hold of Isaac's shoulder and pulls him close. It's a protective, older-brother-esque kind of moment and it encapsulates what I like about them. Derek's good for Isaac because he really does want what's best for his pack, and Isaac is good for Derek because Derek is a crap leader and he needs someone who doesn't challenge him. I'm also really looking forward to Scott and Isaac becoming closer -- actually I heard that the writers are planning to have Scott's new friendship with Isaac shut Stiles out, which I'm also looking forward to because pain.

However, I think a co-leadership role with Derek of sorts would be all kinds of awesome. They could share responsibility since Derek actually knows more of the werewolf shit, and Scott could teach him not to be a shithead.

Hmm, I could see that. They likely will have to cooperate to deal with the alpha pack, but at the same time they have so many trust issues that I can't see them just falling into an easy co-leadership kind of thing, no matter how ideal it may seem. Derek and Scott are both proud... Derek wouldn't actually want Scott's advice, I think, he wouldn't want Scott to give his pack orders, and Scott would be equally pissed off if Derek thought he could treat Scott's people as if they were Derek's people. Maybe that's a thing they'll have to work towards.