Single Father, part 2 reaction post
Oct. 17th, 2010 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karenorThis was quite a different experience to last week. And also, thankfully, I watched alone... But that's not really why.
I found this part way more uncomfortable to watch. I mean, I knew that Dave and Sarah would be getting it on (I assumed in this episode, but wasn't sure), but not how exactly, and it seemed, at first a long path to get from that first kiss to that.
But... I guess I see what DT was saying in interviews... which is often pretty trite or at least mostly untrue when it comes to people talking about tv or film, but it did feel very real. The snippets of his imagination and fantasy and whatnot. The sustained anger and pain (which is what made it even more difficult to watch), and Dave taking it out on the wrong people at the wrong times.
That conversation with Lucy's Dad. Like, he was hoping it was him, but you see how devastated he is to be right. (Also, correct me if I'm wrong, here, did Rita not tell Lucy's father his daughter's correct name?) And his scheming to get everybody out of the house, because he was just giving in to what he wanted and fuck the consequences? That rang very true. That's what people do in situations like that. A lot. When you feel you deserve whatever happiness you can snag and even though intellectually you know it's probably wrong, you don't care.
Sarah's take on this was really realistic too, I thought. Where she's coming from the same place, but feels maybe like she's got less of an excuse, so resists a little more, but still comes up with excuses to see him. That moment on the eBay couches where he lets the phone ring is just... hot and sad and... squirmy for uncomfortableness. And you don't know whether to want them to comfort each other or not.
The whole teenage motherhood thing and how different people handle it differently. Dave so sure Lucy isn't sleeping with boys, her aunt so sure that she is (or will), Tanya not really being responsible. And Rita... well, I'm unclear how old she was meant to be when she had Lucy (College in UK means after school and before university, usually, right? But then it said she earned a degree... and also that she intentionally wanted to get pregnant, but she didn't have to be that old to want that, I guess). Not that it matters that much, but it's just another take on the theme.
And I found myself rewatching the last scene again, like last week. Not to perv (seriously!), but for that moment when he hauls himself at her. The same thing I wanted to rewatch last week at the start of the kiss. What's that moment when the switch is flipped, and can you see it. Though in this case, you're almost certain that's where it's going from pretty early in the episode, but there's a fair chance he'll see reason, especially when his daughter's sick at home. Though I think maybe the moment is almost actually after the kiss. When she asks if it's okay. I think he says, "yeah, yeah. Oh yeah." But that's the moment, I think, when he very much makes the decision and the kiss seconds before was more impulse. I dunno.
Although, okay, I'm not above it. Pervy me, was a little annoyed at the interruption, but I did realize that the episode was nearly over before they ever got to bed and it was going to be very abbreviated. And pervy me felt immediately guilty after seeing Evie's poor face.
God that wee actor playing her is good. All of them are! My heart broke for Ewan (i think, right? Paul's the other one?) taking a hammer to his own foot. Poor woobie kid trying to get attention in the middle of all that chaos and absent parents. Jeebus. Ow, my heart.
Which, pretty much sums up my reaction to the whole episode, I think.
I found this part way more uncomfortable to watch. I mean, I knew that Dave and Sarah would be getting it on (I assumed in this episode, but wasn't sure), but not how exactly, and it seemed, at first a long path to get from that first kiss to that.
But... I guess I see what DT was saying in interviews... which is often pretty trite or at least mostly untrue when it comes to people talking about tv or film, but it did feel very real. The snippets of his imagination and fantasy and whatnot. The sustained anger and pain (which is what made it even more difficult to watch), and Dave taking it out on the wrong people at the wrong times.
That conversation with Lucy's Dad. Like, he was hoping it was him, but you see how devastated he is to be right. (Also, correct me if I'm wrong, here, did Rita not tell Lucy's father his daughter's correct name?) And his scheming to get everybody out of the house, because he was just giving in to what he wanted and fuck the consequences? That rang very true. That's what people do in situations like that. A lot. When you feel you deserve whatever happiness you can snag and even though intellectually you know it's probably wrong, you don't care.
Sarah's take on this was really realistic too, I thought. Where she's coming from the same place, but feels maybe like she's got less of an excuse, so resists a little more, but still comes up with excuses to see him. That moment on the eBay couches where he lets the phone ring is just... hot and sad and... squirmy for uncomfortableness. And you don't know whether to want them to comfort each other or not.
The whole teenage motherhood thing and how different people handle it differently. Dave so sure Lucy isn't sleeping with boys, her aunt so sure that she is (or will), Tanya not really being responsible. And Rita... well, I'm unclear how old she was meant to be when she had Lucy (College in UK means after school and before university, usually, right? But then it said she earned a degree... and also that she intentionally wanted to get pregnant, but she didn't have to be that old to want that, I guess). Not that it matters that much, but it's just another take on the theme.
And I found myself rewatching the last scene again, like last week. Not to perv (seriously!), but for that moment when he hauls himself at her. The same thing I wanted to rewatch last week at the start of the kiss. What's that moment when the switch is flipped, and can you see it. Though in this case, you're almost certain that's where it's going from pretty early in the episode, but there's a fair chance he'll see reason, especially when his daughter's sick at home. Though I think maybe the moment is almost actually after the kiss. When she asks if it's okay. I think he says, "yeah, yeah. Oh yeah." But that's the moment, I think, when he very much makes the decision and the kiss seconds before was more impulse. I dunno.
Although, okay, I'm not above it. Pervy me, was a little annoyed at the interruption, but I did realize that the episode was nearly over before they ever got to bed and it was going to be very abbreviated. And pervy me felt immediately guilty after seeing Evie's poor face.
God that wee actor playing her is good. All of them are! My heart broke for Ewan (i think, right? Paul's the other one?) taking a hammer to his own foot. Poor woobie kid trying to get attention in the middle of all that chaos and absent parents. Jeebus. Ow, my heart.
Which, pretty much sums up my reaction to the whole episode, I think.
