Lilah ,'Destiny'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I think, for the purposes of the aphorism, not recovering = being killed.
The aphorism needs to look up the word "kill" in the dictionary. Humph.
When it's cold enough to wean a vulture outside, and my tomato plants are stunted, they aren't being killed; but they aren't being made stronger, either. They are just ensuring that I won't have home-grown tomatoes till September.
If what he said was true, then the strength wouldn't be illusory.
Yup. That's what I'm saying.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
I wasn't talking about Rebecca's fairness, but Vortex's.
wait, I'm confused.
cold enough to wean a vulture
I need this one translated.
I am also confused that Teppy confused Bale with Owen.
I thought she was confusing Firth with Owen.
My god! It's madness around here! Cats lying down with dogs...
They said because he didn't "play nice." I interpreted that as meaning that he doesn't always respect limits - which the scene with Rebecca seemed to bear out.
I get where Steph is coming from, I think.
I like that the issue of BDSM became irrelevant because the unsub wasn't who they thought it was. However, all the indications--Rebecca's line about "what made them that way" and Paul's freaked out reactions to his ex-crush's sexual tastes--are that only fucked up people go in for BDSM. Which just isn't true. Lots of mentally healthy, unscarred people go for it and to portray it as some kind of twisted kink is sort of bothersome to me. But it didn't ruin the episode for me or anything.
The only other really closely portrayed BDSM I can recall is the CSI with Lady Heather--which I thought addressed it better than this. But I try to keep from comparing The Inside to CSI because I think they're very different shows.
Or "what doesn't kill you...doesn't kill you."
Wow, that's some kind of profound. Actually, I may have to start using it that way.
A perfect dom doesn't, no. I'm not saying I'd let him tie up my nearest and dearest, but I just don't get why he's supposed to have been playing (rather than, say, overreaching).
a dom that tries to force his/her sub to do something against their will is far from perfect. this is a basic tenet. i'm not talking out of my ass here, I know several people in the scene and have had extensive discussions about just this sort of thing. That's one thing that Brandt was right about, after they stopped speculating about the parties' motivations among themselves, they needed to ask someone who knew.