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posted by [identity profile] icedteainthebag.livejournal.com at 03:28pm on 13/10/2011
I love this. It's very romantic/tragic to think of them as perpetually lonely, no matter how physically intimate they were at any moment in time. But I like that for them (maybe because I'm an angst hound)... that no matter how close they got to each other, there was a longing that didn't get met. They're not only separate here as they lie together; they're lonely for what was promised, for what they believed in and what they'll never have. What they have is this and you can tell for both of them that it isn't enough. They just deal with it in different ways. This is all expressed so well here.

You do a great job of having them engage each other using that complicated season 4.5 dynamic of his consumption by guilt and denial and her struggle to accept both the consequences of her faith in Earth and her long road toward death.

Thanks for writing. It was really lovely.
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posted by [identity profile] averita.livejournal.com at 07:10pm on 15/10/2011
Thank you!

I still go back and forth on 4.5. I think that everything you said here is exactly how I imagine them around ADFMS, which is largely why I was so uncomfortable with how that episode played out, and I'm really glad that you think it came through here. I'm ultimately torn between the angst-whore and the romantic in me, and ultimately think that they were able to come to some sort of reconciliation - I think that Laura, at least, was at peace and fully content at the end. It was very jarring, though, to go from The Hub (which I view as the pinnacle of their connectedness, so to speak) to the incredibly complicated dynamic that colored 4.5. It was really sad.

Anyway, thanks for the lovely comment!
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