Kind of an strange first post, but Kiba Rika: last week's promo was "This season, on The Inside", rather than "next week."

Thankee. It all makes sense now. Brain is still hurty, but now it's all headache and no confusion. Yay!

Yeah, last week I thought all the stuff in the promo was going to be in this week's episode, and boy did it look action-packed!

I'm remembering something I was curious about. What did people see as Locke's motivation in that last bit where she takes off the cuffs and says, "You'll feel better" (or whatever the line is)? Was that sincere, or... I'm having trouble thinking of the word (note to self: next time you go dancing, make sure you don't spend all your money on booze; save some for water). Ah! A Bristowesque wisecrack? Because I was having trouble figuring that out.

My problem tends to be that it's played so blatantly to titillate (not this time, I'm saying usually) and wavers between glamorizing and moralizing, so the people involved are all gorgeous and wearing fantastic clothing and in opulent surroundings -

Yes, exactly.

(Tho' I will say that the kinky 'social' club was the nicest one I've ever seen, and filled with far prettier people than usual in the background. I can hand-wave this by going "It's set in L.A., it's set in L.A.")

Very nice job, Tim. I'm going to be kinda cranky about having to watch episodes on tape delay on the Wed. nights I manage to go out dancing.

"You'll feel better" (or whatever the line is)?

She said, "You'll feel stronger." Because Cole had said something to her about why women are into that scene, and I don't remember the whole conversation, even though I've had no booze. I'm just exhausted. But they were talking about coming out the other side of something, and how it made you stronger.

Or was that a conversation with Paul? Shit. Must go to bed. I know she said, "You'll feel stronger," though.

I'm all Insidealicious so I'll take a crack at that question too, Emily.

Locke's giving him the same line he handed out earlier about how being dominated and getting through it makes you stronger. At first I thought she was being vindictive and/or annoyed at being handcuffed by him earlier, but in the process of answering this I'm coming around to the other side of it. Perhaps she's telling him from personal experience that surviving that experience will make him stronger, no matter how much it sucks now. It's a toss-up.

How great is it to not really know anybody's motivations? Ahhh, complicated and interesting characters. Without The Inside, what in the world would I watch this summer?

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No, you're remembering it right. Thank you. So do you think it was a sincere comment, or a snappy wisecrack, when she said it at the end?

And lilserf explains it much better than me.

Welcome, lilserf!

Sincere. Definitely.

I don't think Locke does snappy wisecracks often.

Thank you, lilserf. Because it did sound like kind of a Lennyesque crack (along the lines of Mel's "I wonder how warm she is now" or whatever it was), but for God's sake, the man was raped, so kind of a bad time for getting petty revenge for his (admittedly stupid) actions. So then I thought maybe she actually meant it sincerely. I was wondering what other people's take on it were. Was. Takes. Um, I was looking for other people's takes.

(ETA: And if it was sincere, it was a really good line, up there with "People are complicated" which may be my new tagline, and boosts my liking of her character by a lot. So maybe I should just go ahead and assume that regardless.)

Thanks, AmyLiz. I find my real-life associates to be less than interested in extended micro-specific analysis of popular TV so inevitably I ended up here.

And for once I'm actually on the rising edge of a new show -- I managed to not get into Buffy, Angel, or Firefly until they were on DVD (hangs head in shame). I watched the majority of aired Firefly eps, but due to the wonky order and lack of Serenity, didn't really get invested until I got the DVDs on a whim.

Hooray, I caught it early this time.