Oh, whew. It is nice to see them all back on the same page. Or on pages in the same book, at least. Even Keller was being selfishly selfless, everything maneuvering nicely to get to that endpoint *wonders about the chess metaphor again* where Neal has the chance of freedom. And what will he do with it, if he gets it? Will this become a "two FBI agents" show? I somehow doubt it, but equally I doubt he's going back to criminality or Europe.
(I am amusingly reminded of the show I haven't checked on updates for in a while, "Once Upon a Time," in which the characters are magically restricted from leaving the town of Storybrook. I was getting the impression that New York had the same magical barrier around it. Or at least you can't go farther than pigeon-distance.)
And, be still my heart. "You." That was a moment, that was. Nicely undercut, too. "Oh, and everybody else too. And the elevator."
I admit to being somewhat bemused by the tendency in fandom toward the P/E/N threesome (don't get me wrong,
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sahiya, you write it very well!). The way I see it, Neal is obviously in love with Peter, and Peter and Elizabeth obviously want to be Neal's parents, even if they're not old enough, and any sexual tension derives from the incompatibility of that situation, though most of the tension on the show is not sexual. Neal is not exclusively in love with Peter, of course; his fatal flaw is his need to fall in love, so he's also crazy about El and Mozzie and Sara and Raphaels and elevators and... but Peter is special.I would actually like to get Peter and El in a room with Amy and Rory to talk about relationships. Well... perhaps I could take a brief fic-writing break at some point...?
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Date: 2012-01-19 05:27 pm (UTC)From:his fatal flaw is his need to fall in love, so he's also crazy about El and Mozzie and Sara and Raphaels and elevators and... but Peter is special.
I would agree with that.
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Date: 2012-01-19 06:02 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 10:31 pm (UTC)From:*takes deep breath*
Anyway, I like the view you have of Neal, although I tend to fall more into the threesome of 'Neal loves Peter, but cares too much about PeterAndEl to even think of doing anything to risk their marriage', 'Peter's been insanely obsessed with Neal for *years*, but don't want to risk his marriage to El for anything' and 'El's looking at the men in her life and shaking her head slightly in fond exasperation'. I can do Peter/Neal and Peter/El simultaneously, but I find a real threesome difficult to picture. (Now, El/Mozzie, for some reason... but let's not go into that)
I think, perhaps, I see Neal with a craving for belonging somewhere, but at the same time I see him needing to be challenged constantly. He's like a kid from an abusive home who constantly tests the boundaries and where every time he's called on it, it means that someone cares enough about him. With the added sexual component that, really? Neal gets off on people outsmarting him.
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Date: 2012-01-20 11:16 pm (UTC)From:Huh - yeah, I like that. And it ties in with Peter's obsession, which I think started as an intellectual puzzle - the lawman's turn-on - but then became a love affair of whatever variety we as viewers want to make it.
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