Too much was happening to this woman over here to get yesterday's out! Sorry! But here we are!
Sorry for the delay.
Not too thrilled about this clip, no Todd until more than halfway through. But a few highlights that stand out to me:
The Jason Webb and Marty thing should have been more. I would really have liked to see it. The two of them played off each other well....and he was a doll. Always was one of my secret wishes while watching - hey maybe these two . . .
Peter the Not-So-Great. OMG. I watch his scenes with more close viewing than ever. "My son died the day he went to prison." I don't know, Peter, he may have died long before that. "I didn't allow my son to have any contact with his mother after she ran out on us."
Bo asks him to come with them to talk Todd down, so he won't be killed, and he refuses and hangs up. Bo definitely gets a pang of compassion when this happens. Of course, Nora, the righteous, kabashes that. I always felt that Bo had a sort of empathy/hate relationship for Todd. He did respond sensitively to the times Todd was being mistreated or unwanted by his father. I loved that part.
Todd's breathy voice when he talks of his mother, etc. Sigh.
Ut oh, Rebecca. Shamey shamey. Todd's going to be mad. Or is that Pete? That yelling is so PETE-ISH! I love when I see those little nuances. Love how it all unfolds when he figures out that she dropped a clue.
I just love our boy when he's getting unhinged! Roger's best work is like this. Todd's just so full of self-hate and betrayal that he goes bonkers. I love it. "You sold me out." He's breathy again. "It's all over now Rebecca."
"I'm just tired, I'm just, so tired." Ut oh! The gun! "so it's about time." Just when you think he's going to blow her away, he turns the gun on himself and yells "DO IT!" You have to love him! She's totally panicked, and I also love how she gets it together and tells him she could never take his life. Her speech to him after of how she knows him, is really beautiful. I adored this story then, and I still do now. Long live Todd and Rebecca!
FAIL: Who in their right mind would bring Powell to talk down Todd?????
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To this day I kind of wonder whether Rebecca's assumption about what Todd meant by "let's go to the back room" may have actually been false. Todd never denied what she assumed to be what he was implying (homicide-suicide), but when I first watched these scenes, I thought she was actually misunderstanding his intention (just like the writers intended for the audience to be duped) and he actually had one last ditch plan for getting away. Sometimes I think they purposely left things like this ambiguous...from whether he was actually going to rape Nora or not to this stuff. They wanted you to think one thing on the surface, but at the same time, realize things may not be as they appear...as we've all seen the "misleading cliffhanger" tactic a million times.
ReplyDelete@TM9394 I think I've wished I could see it another way ever since it happened. I don't think he was trying to get away, as wonderful as it would have been. I always interpreted this as him giving up completely. I felt he intended to kill himself, and probably her, but in the end, I don't think he could have done it and she would have witnessed him blow his beautiful head off. I would like to see it different, but how it's played, just does not make sense another way. :(
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