One plus one does not equal two.
Apr. 10th, 2009 03:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
okelayI was just watching Life. I love this show. it's so good. It's very different from...well,everything else on TV. Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi are fantastic.
Finally this episode they were reunited.She'd barely appeared on the show, she'd been temporally transferred to the FBI. and is then kidnapped by some evil guy but Charlie gets her back.
I was a bit disappointed at getting no reunion hug,I must admit.
and they said this thin, the zen voice over. it said
"One plus one does not equal two. one plus one equals one. we even have a word for when you plus another equals one. and that word is love"
I'm paraphrasing of course.
That is a very accurate description of Charlie Crews and Dani Reese
through this two seasons, we have seen them work together and truly become partners and friends.
I do ship them, but I like that their relationship isn't about mutual attraction or waiting for them to hook up or forbidden love. it, it's more than that. They really complement each other, it's about two people who simply belong together. who make a good team. who are awesome separately and a million times more when combined.
In some relationships, you can't wait for the day they (finally) hook up. they have some UST sometimes it seems like it'll burst. like Brennan and Booth. whom I love, they are so adorable but yet I get the feeling their current relationship is like foreplay to something bigger.
Crews and Reese are different. I like them just the way they are. if something were to happen, that'd certainly be very fun to see, but it's not necessary. and relationshops like theirs are very strange. true companionship where physical attraction isn't the most important thing,when they aren't just waiting to be able to take the next step, that is rare. and wonderful.
Mulder and Scully actually started in a similar way.
Like Crews and Reese, they were quite different. Like Charlie, Mulder was a pariah in the FBI.Scully was assigned to him as an attempt to weaken him. it backfired. and though they didn't trust each other as first they learned to work together up to the point where they couldn't work without the other.
I think it's very strange these days to see a relationship that isn't focused on sex,present,past or future.
I like how different Crews and Reese are and how well they work together because of their differences. being one doesn't mean being the same and
they show it quite clearly.
And this episode, the season finale, portrays it perfectly.
Crews is willing to do pretty much anything to save Reese.
He trades himself for her with a rusian crimelord.
He rescues her. she needs him and he's there.
They are there for each other. always. They have from the beginning.
And later, just before the end, Crews is standing on a dirt road, waiting, and Reese is coming to get him.
As we hear the final words of the proverb, about 1 plus 1 being 1, being love, we see Crews look up to the sun and the sky, with an expression of absolute peace because in that moment he knows all is well.
Well, there is a essay up at ship_manifesto that explains this better than I ever could.
I really,really hope this show is picked up for a third season.
There's a million procedural shows on TV but there's nothing like Life.
And I'm already running low on TV shows that I like that still air.
However, if it is cancelled, I won't be left with a million questions.
One of the many things I like about Life is that it knows how to do finales.
s1 was great and so was this one.
they answer questions. they close arcs.
This one was pretty much perfect. It was so incredibly well done.
and it can be interpreted in many ways.
It certainly can be interpreted as a shippy finale. the show in general has a lot of subtext and there's this particular moment in the show that is wonderful, when Crews and FBI guy are on the car and Crews asks FBI guy how long he's been married he says some long time and how he still loves her a lot. and then Crews asks how they met and he says she was his partner.
it's not at all subtle and it's funny and brilliant and Charlie's look is fantastic.
and a small commentary about the ep,remembering that was more than Charlie and Dani, about the russian bad guy, Roman, we finally find out more about him and his motivation. and it plays great as them being parallels, light and dark. Charlie could've been Roman,but he chose a different path.
and good triumphs over evil as Charlie stops Roman once and for all.
it's a shame they didn't built more on this over the course of the season. it was a great reveal but I wish we'd learned more.
Finally, a tiny picspam. I made a collage of the last scenes.
When Crews is trading himself for Reese and Reese asks this FBI agent that Crews brought along what what his plan, getting into the van with the bad guy. and the FBI guy answers "his plan was getting you out of that van".
Finally this episode they were reunited.She'd barely appeared on the show, she'd been temporally transferred to the FBI. and is then kidnapped by some evil guy but Charlie gets her back.
I was a bit disappointed at getting no reunion hug,I must admit.
and they said this thin, the zen voice over. it said
"One plus one does not equal two. one plus one equals one. we even have a word for when you plus another equals one. and that word is love"
I'm paraphrasing of course.
That is a very accurate description of Charlie Crews and Dani Reese
through this two seasons, we have seen them work together and truly become partners and friends.
I do ship them, but I like that their relationship isn't about mutual attraction or waiting for them to hook up or forbidden love. it, it's more than that. They really complement each other, it's about two people who simply belong together. who make a good team. who are awesome separately and a million times more when combined.
In some relationships, you can't wait for the day they (finally) hook up. they have some UST sometimes it seems like it'll burst. like Brennan and Booth. whom I love, they are so adorable but yet I get the feeling their current relationship is like foreplay to something bigger.
Crews and Reese are different. I like them just the way they are. if something were to happen, that'd certainly be very fun to see, but it's not necessary. and relationshops like theirs are very strange. true companionship where physical attraction isn't the most important thing,when they aren't just waiting to be able to take the next step, that is rare. and wonderful.
Mulder and Scully actually started in a similar way.
Like Crews and Reese, they were quite different. Like Charlie, Mulder was a pariah in the FBI.Scully was assigned to him as an attempt to weaken him. it backfired. and though they didn't trust each other as first they learned to work together up to the point where they couldn't work without the other.
I think it's very strange these days to see a relationship that isn't focused on sex,present,past or future.
I like how different Crews and Reese are and how well they work together because of their differences. being one doesn't mean being the same and
they show it quite clearly.
And this episode, the season finale, portrays it perfectly.
Crews is willing to do pretty much anything to save Reese.
He trades himself for her with a rusian crimelord.
He rescues her. she needs him and he's there.
They are there for each other. always. They have from the beginning.
And later, just before the end, Crews is standing on a dirt road, waiting, and Reese is coming to get him.
As we hear the final words of the proverb, about 1 plus 1 being 1, being love, we see Crews look up to the sun and the sky, with an expression of absolute peace because in that moment he knows all is well.
Well, there is a essay up at ship_manifesto that explains this better than I ever could.
I really,really hope this show is picked up for a third season.
There's a million procedural shows on TV but there's nothing like Life.
And I'm already running low on TV shows that I like that still air.
However, if it is cancelled, I won't be left with a million questions.
One of the many things I like about Life is that it knows how to do finales.
s1 was great and so was this one.
they answer questions. they close arcs.
This one was pretty much perfect. It was so incredibly well done.
and it can be interpreted in many ways.
It certainly can be interpreted as a shippy finale. the show in general has a lot of subtext and there's this particular moment in the show that is wonderful, when Crews and FBI guy are on the car and Crews asks FBI guy how long he's been married he says some long time and how he still loves her a lot. and then Crews asks how they met and he says she was his partner.
it's not at all subtle and it's funny and brilliant and Charlie's look is fantastic.
and a small commentary about the ep,remembering that was more than Charlie and Dani, about the russian bad guy, Roman, we finally find out more about him and his motivation. and it plays great as them being parallels, light and dark. Charlie could've been Roman,but he chose a different path.
and good triumphs over evil as Charlie stops Roman once and for all.
it's a shame they didn't built more on this over the course of the season. it was a great reveal but I wish we'd learned more.
Finally, a tiny picspam. I made a collage of the last scenes.
When Crews is trading himself for Reese and Reese asks this FBI agent that Crews brought along what what his plan, getting into the van with the bad guy. and the FBI guy answers "his plan was getting you out of that van".
