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http://leigh57.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] leigh57.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dealan311 2009-06-01 10:58 pm (UTC)

So you're really going to put it up? I feel so accomplished:-P Whining sometimes works! Don't tell my kids, okay?

Actually I think I lied. What felt like a coherent response in there was only teasing me and has vanished like a puff of smoke in the mess that is this crazy fic in my brain.

So. I will say only a few things that as you observed, nobody will read anyway, so coherence is irrelevant. You know I never worry about it that much anyway;) First, insane love for the Triangle That Wasn't. Honestly when we went through and did the Jack/Renee mainline, one of my favorite things about that experience was watching all of it with my insane Larry love intact this time. Of course that was offset by knowing he was going to die at Bastard!Tony's hands (sorry I'm having a really angry at Tony moment today), but still that scene in 7x16? Holy fuck. I mean you know that I ship beyond all belief, but you still definitively sold me on my very first OT3. Which is now gone thanks to Tony. AUGH SHOW. But that scene will never stop killing me because of everything Annie and Jeffrey packed into it and how it was just this indescribable turning point for them that I don't even think they understood at the time. Finally on that note, Renee's sudden switch at the end of that scene to "So when are we moving on Starkwood?" is one of the things that just encapsulated her fucking fantabulous character for me. She's so sad, angry, and broken, but the way she deals with that is with action, and she's so Girl!Jack in that sense. Oh Renee. *tries to control bubbling love. No success*

I've also thought a lot about what you said regarding the absence of people like Larry and Bill to counterbalance Jack and Renee. Given that Renee clearly chose Jack's path at the end of the season, it's gonna be interesting to see if anybody in the casting reboot can fill those shoes. I'm thinking no, but I'm a big pessimist in this regard. Plus I will never ever in life stop missing Larry. Whatever.

Finally, I agree with your observations about how it was such a bad move to sideline Cherry Jones, but I don't think it was just that. I respected her so much more at the beginning of the season than I did in the middle, when all of the sudden she was mom over president. Now I'm a mom so this probably should make more sense to me, and maybe it's just because I hate Holivia. But who makes their idiot daughter acting chief of staff? idk. I love Allison a lot and Cherry more, but I hope Taylor is a touch smarter and more in charge in S8.

Shutting up now. *taps fingers awaiting Monday night present*

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