Yes, and fear leads to anger, and anger leads to hate and hate leads to DVD sales and on and on
Seriously though, "Slaughter" is way pushing it, especially for what it is we've seen. Again, I asked earlier--why didn't any of this come up before. We knew how that scene started. We knew how it ended. We knew that they almost kissed. This is stuff that showed up online about 6 months ago at the LATEST.
How did we think it was going to get to that point? Why NOW is this such a sticking point for the character and the story? We've even had a novel thread that details their conversation and even then it wasn't a cause of worry and felt like Superman--now it's something as simplistic and stereotypical as "homewrecking?" What's the alternative from going point a to point b on this WITHOUT getting what we have?
The argument seems to suffer from a sort of sly reductionist angle, yunno? Reduce what you see to a simple one sentence stereotype, and then hammer on the stereotype as opposed to what we saw (Which, to be fair, was a scene out of context without the benefit of a lead-in or exit from the sequence)
I still dont' see SEDUCTION. He knows what's up. He just met everybody at the office, he knows what's happened, he's read her article, and again, he's just SAD. Confused. Lost, on shaky footing. Trying to reconcile SOME of that with the person most important in his life isn't seduction, I don't think. He's trying to get some sense of closure--even if he doesn't know it yet.
That characterization seems to fit better than Hunter's "Dude with a porsche" comparison.
And I sorta feel I gotta tack this on, but Hunter and I have gone round before, but I hope he knows I'm not attacking him or crapping on his opinion. I think he's looking at it wrong, but I'm not gonna give him hell for it
(and i mean that in a good way)
