THis is SO tedious
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cornerofmadnessWith my luck once I get all this moved from online to paper stuff done, the student will say hey we have internet now. I have no idea how much work this will really be but I'm hoping it's done tomorrow.
I think it's insane it was 80 here today. My apartment is an oven. I refuse to turn on the a/c in March. THe peepers are so singing right now. All kinds of frog sex a'happening tonight.
Since I have nothing else to talk about (other than OMG why am I sweating) I've been meaning to do this Monday. Where in I talk about Eve and this week's Prodigal Son
I'm much happier with the case part of this one that last week where much of it failed me. I have to say what's failing me, but not in the same way, is Eve and Malcolm's relationship. I know they can't jump it forward too much but really we're THIS in love in two weeks. Yes, yes I know some people will swear love at first sights exists. I've personally known people who married within a week. Maybe it's more that I just don't get it and find it very uncomfortable in general.
Let's set that aside for a minute and really just look at this from the outside. Malcolm is desperate to be loved and to be normal. He's grabbing at anything. I still maintain Malcolm is a borderline personality and they have plenty of high risk behaviors including sexual ones.
As proof, let me back up several episodes. Malcolm says about two sentences to Eve the day he meets her at Milton Manor. He's put out a bit the next time he meets her when she shows up at his place out of the blue to tell him his mother is drunk in the middle of the day and he realizes his mother gave his address to a stranger because SHE'S desperate to set him up with a girlfriend. This conversation lasts what? five minutes tops.
He runs into Eve down the road and asks her out on a weird date that ends up with him emotionally gutting her and she runs off leaving him in a bar. She comes back to him later that night and they have sex. Right there, that's high risk behavior. You are basically having sex with someone you've known for what? 3-4 hours? And he nearly kills her.
She ghosts him for months. She presumably doesn't visit him in the hospital when he's been tortured. We don't even know if she's still in contact with Jessica not until she calls her to represent her for stabbing Martin. Jessica calls her and throws Malcolm under the bus. At their reconciliation dinner you can see Eve doesn't want to be there, not really, not until he tells her about the girl in the box.
And here is where it begins to fail for me. Not just because I think there's zero chemistry between them (there isn't). But because of the implications. Later, once she's been discovered, Eve says something along the lines of "I didn't expect to have feelings for you."
Uh-uh not buying it. She approached Jessica first because she believed Jess knew more than she ever said about Martin's victims. She is in the Whitlys' lives solely because she wants to find her sister. I can understand that. She doesn't trust them, thinks they're covering for Martin so she wasn't honest about that. But now you can't escape it. She is sleeping with the son of the man she's almost certain has murdered her sister.
Who does that? She comes across as a sociopath herself. She is flat out using Malcolm to learn more. She admits to that but then tries to cover it with I didn't expect to have feelings.. nope, sorry just no. She could have accomplished what she wanted in terms of learning about her sister just as friends. She decided to get close to him to manipulate him, to find out what she needs to.
I can understand the desire to do that but Eve has to know that this will break his heart. She even says it when she tries to stop him from looking at the picture. We can't go back once you look at it which also rings false, there already IS no way back. He knows she's involved with him trying to find her sister.
Is he to kind to her at the end? Maybe but Malcolm is kind to a fault. Eve has lost a part of herself but it has made her take drastic and cruel steps. She knows Malcolm wants to find out about the girl in the box himself, knows he has nightmares about it. She knows exactly what she's going to end up doing to him.
In fact, to me it was utterly creepy to have her sitting next to his bed as he sleeps. One? was she there all night and had she slept next to Malcolm (which would have to be a huge deal to him because he's never done that) Did she let herself in and was just sitting there? (and Malcolm giving someone you've dated for two weeks your key to the house is still risky behavior dude. Maybe you should take that artwork off the wall, it's eating your brain). She knows he has nightmares and she knows its her sister he's having a nightmare about because we know even before they start sleeping together again, she's nearly 100% sure her sister was the girl in the box because she PUT herself in the trunk in Jess's basement (don't get me started on that). She's content to let him rip himself apart with these dreams rather than be honest and say I think it's my sister.
She knew this before she started the relationship and Eve let him suffer. She would have continued to let Malcolm's mind shred itself if Ainsley hadn't sniffed her out. So again, that's nudging up against sociopathic behavior as far as I'm concerned. Thoughts?
I think it's insane it was 80 here today. My apartment is an oven. I refuse to turn on the a/c in March. THe peepers are so singing right now. All kinds of frog sex a'happening tonight.
Since I have nothing else to talk about (other than OMG why am I sweating) I've been meaning to do this Monday. Where in I talk about Eve and this week's Prodigal Son
I'm much happier with the case part of this one that last week where much of it failed me. I have to say what's failing me, but not in the same way, is Eve and Malcolm's relationship. I know they can't jump it forward too much but really we're THIS in love in two weeks. Yes, yes I know some people will swear love at first sights exists. I've personally known people who married within a week. Maybe it's more that I just don't get it and find it very uncomfortable in general.
Let's set that aside for a minute and really just look at this from the outside. Malcolm is desperate to be loved and to be normal. He's grabbing at anything. I still maintain Malcolm is a borderline personality and they have plenty of high risk behaviors including sexual ones.
As proof, let me back up several episodes. Malcolm says about two sentences to Eve the day he meets her at Milton Manor. He's put out a bit the next time he meets her when she shows up at his place out of the blue to tell him his mother is drunk in the middle of the day and he realizes his mother gave his address to a stranger because SHE'S desperate to set him up with a girlfriend. This conversation lasts what? five minutes tops.
He runs into Eve down the road and asks her out on a weird date that ends up with him emotionally gutting her and she runs off leaving him in a bar. She comes back to him later that night and they have sex. Right there, that's high risk behavior. You are basically having sex with someone you've known for what? 3-4 hours? And he nearly kills her.
She ghosts him for months. She presumably doesn't visit him in the hospital when he's been tortured. We don't even know if she's still in contact with Jessica not until she calls her to represent her for stabbing Martin. Jessica calls her and throws Malcolm under the bus. At their reconciliation dinner you can see Eve doesn't want to be there, not really, not until he tells her about the girl in the box.
And here is where it begins to fail for me. Not just because I think there's zero chemistry between them (there isn't). But because of the implications. Later, once she's been discovered, Eve says something along the lines of "I didn't expect to have feelings for you."
Uh-uh not buying it. She approached Jessica first because she believed Jess knew more than she ever said about Martin's victims. She is in the Whitlys' lives solely because she wants to find her sister. I can understand that. She doesn't trust them, thinks they're covering for Martin so she wasn't honest about that. But now you can't escape it. She is sleeping with the son of the man she's almost certain has murdered her sister.
Who does that? She comes across as a sociopath herself. She is flat out using Malcolm to learn more. She admits to that but then tries to cover it with I didn't expect to have feelings.. nope, sorry just no. She could have accomplished what she wanted in terms of learning about her sister just as friends. She decided to get close to him to manipulate him, to find out what she needs to.
I can understand the desire to do that but Eve has to know that this will break his heart. She even says it when she tries to stop him from looking at the picture. We can't go back once you look at it which also rings false, there already IS no way back. He knows she's involved with him trying to find her sister.
Is he to kind to her at the end? Maybe but Malcolm is kind to a fault. Eve has lost a part of herself but it has made her take drastic and cruel steps. She knows Malcolm wants to find out about the girl in the box himself, knows he has nightmares about it. She knows exactly what she's going to end up doing to him.
In fact, to me it was utterly creepy to have her sitting next to his bed as he sleeps. One? was she there all night and had she slept next to Malcolm (which would have to be a huge deal to him because he's never done that) Did she let herself in and was just sitting there? (and Malcolm giving someone you've dated for two weeks your key to the house is still risky behavior dude. Maybe you should take that artwork off the wall, it's eating your brain). She knows he has nightmares and she knows its her sister he's having a nightmare about because we know even before they start sleeping together again, she's nearly 100% sure her sister was the girl in the box because she PUT herself in the trunk in Jess's basement (don't get me started on that). She's content to let him rip himself apart with these dreams rather than be honest and say I think it's my sister.
She knew this before she started the relationship and Eve let him suffer. She would have continued to let Malcolm's mind shred itself if Ainsley hadn't sniffed her out. So again, that's nudging up against sociopathic behavior as far as I'm concerned. Thoughts?
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