Luxe de Luxe wrote:I agree with both Grace and Red. Beth hasn't fully confronted her feelings yet and thought about all the implications of those. That she still has some feelings for Josh at this point and wants to smooth things over is totally believable and let's face it, Josh is Mr Bird in the Hand and Mick is Mr Two Birds Waaay Back in the Bush Baby. Sometimes partnership choices do come down to pragmatics. If someone you're crazy about is not going to meet your needs you have to make a pragmatic decision at some point.
Re: creepy door guy.... I had another look at GA's screencap and to me the look he gives her is one of recognition ... and I don't mean just from at the club. I think he's a human and the look of recognition he gives her is a "you're one of us" looks ... you're a human who knows about vamps, and colludes with vamps. I think his look is one of "I know your dirty secret" or "we share a secret." Its a slimy wrong sort of look.
335 posts into the episode discussion and now I show up -- so I offer my apologies in advance and ask for your indulgence as I jump in here. I'm with Luxe on the guy. I never thought about it until now...of course he had to know that Lola was a vamp, and I always thought it was a creepy smug look but couldn't figure out why. Of course, it was because he knew that Beth knew...thanks
Luxe!
On the Josh/Beth/Mick triangle -- I think sometimes that people give Beth too much credit in terms of her ability to figure things out and do what's right. Generally speaking, we seem to be far more forgiving of Mick and Josef for their moral failings than of Beth. I agree with
Grace and Red that as of Episode 6, we weren't that far down the road on this issue. And I've always seen Beth as someone who is emotionally shut down as a result of her childhood abduction. How else could she compartmentalize the trauma? She always struck me as a person who acts in the relationship the way she thinks people should act, not the way she feels or what comes naturally to her. As a result, I've always questioned the depth of Beth/Josh's relationship. As Marissa (an obvious paragon of emotional depth) said "only sleepovers after a year?" If anything, it seemed "polite" for lack of a better word, not some grand passion, and up until she met Mick, it seemed to work for both of them. IMO, the desert was the death knell for Josh and Beth, although never really having experienced anything like it before (over and above the vampire aspect of it-Mick's almost death), Beth wasn't quite sure of what to do with it. Up until desert, as Mick says at the beginning of Fever "whenever I see it's Beth calling, I always pick up" -- so his obvious withdrawal had to play havoc with the willfulness of Beth's personality -- she obviously is used to doing/getting what she wants, and it had to make Mick even more intriguing.
Sure, she shows up at Mick's loft hopped up on BC, and I think
Guardian Angel said she wasn't in her right mind, and I would agree -- rather than expressing her feelings I think whatever inhibitions she may have had were momentarily gone, and it just seemed to me to be an extension of her testing Mick which started on the parking deck. I think she may had started to have feelings for Mick, but I think it was far more impetuous, to see what kind of response she would get from him. One thing that struck me was the morning after...which I think spoke volumes about Beth. She wasn't embarrassed, or remorseful, one more indication of her emotional disconnect. If anything, she should have been totally mortified.
I also like how she left the dress hanging there in the living room while she went up the stairs....Turn me, part 2?...I'm kidding...an obvious goof...but....
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