maybe if I just read the posts and say in my head "not the right person for". I won't get so agitated.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Jan 23, 2006 1:33:20 pm PST #2160 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
le nubian - Jan 23, 2006 1:33:24 pm PST #2161 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
GA: I think Cristina isn't quite ready for Burke, but I wouldn't say she doesn't deserve him. At the same time, I think she isn't ready for him because she's got some self-esteem issues.
Lee - Jan 23, 2006 1:33:24 pm PST #2162 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Both. I think Burke's mostly seeing what he's decided should be there to see, but I also don't think it has occured to him that she might fib to him. Another arrogant surgeon thing, I guess.
msbelle - Jan 23, 2006 1:41:50 pm PST #2163 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
But he already knows she has kept things from him. I guess I just see that as much as a flaw of him as her.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 1:42:21 pm PST #2164 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that he doesn't know her as well as he thinks he does, plus he's a prayerful hopeful kind of a guy. msbelle, nothing will be lost in my posts if you make that swap except the idea that she's primarily the one fronting. Which I think is non-neglible.
msbelle - Jan 23, 2006 1:47:44 pm PST #2165 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Well, I've already copped to the big giant ego of doom, so I might as well go the full step and say that I find emotional gullability and/or sappiness unattractive and I realize it is unfair and not nice and oh well.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 1:54:41 pm PST #2166 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find the stance that you really truly know what the other person is feeling and that you're invulnerable to misreads or hope unattractive myself, so it's clear we won't be going for the same guys.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 23, 2006 1:56:52 pm PST #2167 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Exactly. I mean, does this situation just never happen to men or it is just verbotten to talk about? I think at least some women are just as capable of having sex without love or emotion.
While it probably happens to men less, it does happen. I think this is one of those mass entertainment conventions like guys always being the ones to cheat in a marriage (which, happily, GA doesn't follow). Like, there have to be two people for it to be cheating, and I don't think it's just one incredibly busy woman out there wrecking thousands of homes across the nation.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 2:33:36 pm PST #2168 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it's just one incredibly busy woman out there wrecking thousands of homes across the nation.
Do you have any idea how tiring that is?
I just finished listening to Our Man In Havana. I have no idea why I was expecting something Carreish. Either way, I'm entranced by the idea of playing chequers with mini bottles of alcohol. Why didn't I read this book while I was in university?
Cass - Jan 23, 2006 2:34:02 pm PST #2169 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Do you thinkGA: I think he sees a potential in her and wants to believe it is either already realized or closer than we are being shown. Or, I should clarify, closer than I can see.
I think this is one of those mass entertainment conventionsWhich gets tiring to me. Life doesn't all follow the same plot conventions, maybe entertainment can try to mix it up a little as well.