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not a victor
White Collar, I have so many feelings about you, all of them baffling.
Veiled Threat was just weird to the power of a million, because -- idk, maybe it was supposed to be a silly romp episode? And instead it punched me right where I live, and contained lots of poly conversations, and ended with Neal bearing witness to Peter and El's remarriage, and ... I am just bewildered. I don't even know if I like that episode or not.
Scott Free I like a whole lot, though. SARA, ALL THE SARA FOREVER. (Also, all the Sara/Neal/handcuffs, oh my god I was laughing with pure glee.) I am still a wee bit anxious that in the end Neal is going to stay ~for love~ and I will have to punch the screen, but despite the fact that Neal's speech to Scott included something about how running means no one to share your life with, there is too much "be a con or be a man" tension going on to really justify that fear. And I think I really like the shape they're having Sara take in the show -- she strikes this weird interesting balance between enabling and stabilizing Neal, and they are astonishingly well-suited. I also wonder what she is going to do with the information on Victor Moreau. They could go a couple of routes with that, and I like all the ones I can think of.
Peter's explicit approval of Neal/Sara is ... interesting, though. It is absolutely not appropriate for your boss/handler to comment on your love life, but I suppose Peter was doing it as a friend. I suspect Peter thought he was doing it as a friend, anyway, but since I still have this intense complicated headcanon in which Peter gently turned Neal down but neither of them are dealing with it as well as they told themselves they would, it becomes really interesting. I guess Peter just really wants Neal to be happy, and Sara seems like a fairly safe bet.
It's breaking my heart that I seem to be disliking Mozzie again. I guess it's mostly that I care about Neal's happiness and well-being so much that when Moz gets selfish about Neal I can't quite forgive him. I still totally see where Mozzie's coming from, but -- seriously. Neal doesn't want to go. This entire episode was about how Neal absolutely 100% knows that Peter was the best thing to ever happen to him, and still he can't actually say no to Mozzie's schemes.
I want to know where rock bottom is for Neal, though, if it wasn't seeing Kate get blown up in front of him. Seriously, that's kind of frightening, and now I actually really want to see it, the point where Neal actually accepts that he can't keep doing this and that Peter is the best possible lifeline. I don't actually trust the show to go there, but if it did I think it'd do it quite well.
...Damn, when is half-season break? I really need to write complicated Neal/Sara, Neal/the con lifestyle, Neal/Peter/El NOW, but I don't want to be Jossed, either. Bah.
Veiled Threat was just weird to the power of a million, because -- idk, maybe it was supposed to be a silly romp episode? And instead it punched me right where I live, and contained lots of poly conversations, and ended with Neal bearing witness to Peter and El's remarriage, and ... I am just bewildered. I don't even know if I like that episode or not.
Scott Free I like a whole lot, though. SARA, ALL THE SARA FOREVER. (Also, all the Sara/Neal/handcuffs, oh my god I was laughing with pure glee.) I am still a wee bit anxious that in the end Neal is going to stay ~for love~ and I will have to punch the screen, but despite the fact that Neal's speech to Scott included something about how running means no one to share your life with, there is too much "be a con or be a man" tension going on to really justify that fear. And I think I really like the shape they're having Sara take in the show -- she strikes this weird interesting balance between enabling and stabilizing Neal, and they are astonishingly well-suited. I also wonder what she is going to do with the information on Victor Moreau. They could go a couple of routes with that, and I like all the ones I can think of.
Peter's explicit approval of Neal/Sara is ... interesting, though. It is absolutely not appropriate for your boss/handler to comment on your love life, but I suppose Peter was doing it as a friend. I suspect Peter thought he was doing it as a friend, anyway, but since I still have this intense complicated headcanon in which Peter gently turned Neal down but neither of them are dealing with it as well as they told themselves they would, it becomes really interesting. I guess Peter just really wants Neal to be happy, and Sara seems like a fairly safe bet.
It's breaking my heart that I seem to be disliking Mozzie again. I guess it's mostly that I care about Neal's happiness and well-being so much that when Moz gets selfish about Neal I can't quite forgive him. I still totally see where Mozzie's coming from, but -- seriously. Neal doesn't want to go. This entire episode was about how Neal absolutely 100% knows that Peter was the best thing to ever happen to him, and still he can't actually say no to Mozzie's schemes.
I want to know where rock bottom is for Neal, though, if it wasn't seeing Kate get blown up in front of him. Seriously, that's kind of frightening, and now I actually really want to see it, the point where Neal actually accepts that he can't keep doing this and that Peter is the best possible lifeline. I don't actually trust the show to go there, but if it did I think it'd do it quite well.
...Damn, when is half-season break? I really need to write complicated Neal/Sara, Neal/the con lifestyle, Neal/Peter/El NOW, but I don't want to be Jossed, either. Bah.