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Current Talk '12 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0339
« on: November 09, 2012, 10:05:36 PM »
I guess that Julia's falling for Barnabas was needed to explain why she hung around and helped in all those later years. Did they have to have it happen at this point though, when Barnabas is a strangling conscience-less maniac? It seems impossible and shoehorned-in, as if they stopped for a moment and remembered "This is a soap opera", and dropped a random surprise unrequited romance into things.
Julia's attraction to a killer, who threatens her every day, is awfully twisted and self-destructive. She must have a death wish. Maybe she associates love with brutality because some earlier figure in her life claimed to love her while threatening her. Anyway, it's not the kind of thing I'd expect to last through the "nicening" of both characters. The attraction becomes something more straightforward and healthy in later years, though. I wouldn't think that the masochistic attraction could become the better kind we see later.
It always gets me, how everybody seems to think a small, light, very portable "strongbox" (a little metal box with a little metal lock on it) might actually repel theives.
Good remarks, dom...
Julia's attraction to a killer, who threatens her every day, is awfully twisted and self-destructive. She must have a death wish. Maybe she associates love with brutality because some earlier figure in her life claimed to love her while threatening her. Anyway, it's not the kind of thing I'd expect to last through the "nicening" of both characters. The attraction becomes something more straightforward and healthy in later years, though. I wouldn't think that the masochistic attraction could become the better kind we see later.
It always gets me, how everybody seems to think a small, light, very portable "strongbox" (a little metal box with a little metal lock on it) might actually repel theives.
Good remarks, dom...