Also, happy easter!

[schmerica]

Last night I woke up to go to the bathroom, and when I came back to bed, waiting to fall asleep again, I was struck with a sudden random thought, which was this:

The Frasers ARE complete romantics. It's just that they're really, really bad at it.

I mean, seriously! You look at Bob and Benton, and there's totally this interesting tug-of-war going through them. There's the part of Bob that wrote to his wife "every damned day of his life" and went totally off his rocker when she died. There's the part of Benton we see in Victoria's Secret (and to a lesser extent in Bounty Hunter), the loneliness and longing and yearning. Both of them do seem to be complete, head-over-heels romantics, is the thing -- it's just that that aspect of their personalities is in constant conflict with the rest of them, the parts that are fair and logical and hearty and dutiful and "buck up, little camper!"

So there's that.

Other thought I had last night: I suddenly want fanon that Fraser's mom was Francophone. CANON BASIS FOR THIS: ZERO. And it's not like Pinsent is a particularly French name. I don't care, I find it bizarrely charming anyway. Who is to say it is NOT SO, is what I say! (Plus I did not just randomly come across this article on Franco-Tenois in wikipedia. Because that would be weird.)

Yeah, I know, I'm crazy. No one else wants wee Fraser to be sung to sleep with French lullabies.

THIRD THING OF DISCUSSION. shoemaster wrote me commentfic on my last entry! See? See? See? This means that she has officially become my favorite for the day. The rest of you will just have to try harder, I guess! I need to figure out how I am going to take care of the pony I promised her.

Comments

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Fraser is totally a romantic, and not just in sense of the word that applies to romances; his idealism is also very romantic. It's one of the most interesting things about Fraser--he's so romantic, but he has that fundamental practicality that allows him to do the fussy, messy little things you need to build an ideal. Contradictory though it may be, he makes it work and is pretty successful (well, sometimes, and more so in the public service/social ideals arena than in his love life, poor man). Of course, it also plays into why the Victoria thing is so tragic, because the romantic-logical conflict created the situation in the first place and then led to his downfall in VS, as he picks the wrong aspect to follow each time. In fact, if you wanted to analyze that ep through the lens of classical tragedic structure, you could make a very strong argument for this dichotomy being the hero's tragic flaw. But I'm a giant classics nerd, so...yes, maybe it's just me. :)

Yeah, I know, I'm crazy. No one else wants wee Fraser to be sung to sleep with French lullabies.

NOT TRUE. I love this idea. You are not alone!

Also, hi. Have finally friended you back. *waves*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Tragic flaw yays! Classics nerds are some of my favorite nerds, dude.