***Could have been that, but these two characters are going to have a really hard time talking to each other like adults though.
YES! Absolutely. They really seem locked intheir childhood roles - which is almost logical having spent no real time together as actual adults.
***She believes it would have been the good version of peasant life and I'm not saying it couldn't have been, but it comes off as a bit romanticized.
You know, the point you made about Issy romanticizing her childhood really does make a HUGE amount of sense, especially in relation to her dream with Robin. And is possibly reinforced by her repeated cries to Guy of of "you did this to me as a child" when at 13, in that era, she was NOT a child. But perhaps she likes to look back and THINK that she was, and that that is when her childhood ended...as perhaps it did. So, an excellent point.
***And in his mind, her inability to stay in a horrid situation was weakness. (It has to be... if her leaving is admirable, then Guy is faced with the fact that he should have left the Sheriff years ago.)
***Exactly, if it's impossible to make the best of a situation like theirs and one needs to break away in order to find something better then...he's been wrong all this time and everything he's done hasn't been making the best of a bad situation but only prolonging it.
You BOTH make an EXCELLENT point here. And this is why we will (possibly) never hear an "I'm sorry" from Guy UNLESS that Redemption Arc kicks in, --OR-- something so heinous about the marriage is revealed that even he is horrified and it overcomes his own self-involvement with the statement, and he says he's sorry for her - spontaneously - without acknowledging his own "guilt." Perhpas just an "I'm sorry." Period. But again only under EXTREME duress which I don't know how they could just allude to on a family show. Great points, folks! ;-)
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Date: 2009-05-26 03:36 am (UTC)YES! Absolutely. They really seem locked intheir childhood roles - which is almost logical having spent no real time together as actual adults.
***She believes it would have been the good version of peasant life and I'm not saying it couldn't have been, but it comes off as a bit romanticized.
You know, the point you made about Issy romanticizing her childhood really does make a HUGE amount of sense, especially in relation to her dream with Robin. And is possibly reinforced by her repeated cries to Guy of of "you did this to me as a child" when at 13, in that era, she was NOT a child. But perhaps she likes to look back and THINK that she was, and that that is when her childhood ended...as perhaps it did. So, an excellent point.
***And in his mind, her inability to stay in a horrid situation was weakness. (It has to be... if her leaving is admirable, then Guy is faced with the fact that he should have left the Sheriff years ago.)
***Exactly, if it's impossible to make the best of a situation like theirs and one needs to break away in order to find something better then...he's been wrong all this time and everything he's done hasn't been making the best of a bad situation but only prolonging it.
You BOTH make an EXCELLENT point here. And this is why we will (possibly) never hear an "I'm sorry" from Guy UNLESS that Redemption Arc kicks in, --OR-- something so heinous about the marriage is revealed that even he is horrified and it overcomes his own self-involvement with the statement, and he says he's sorry for her - spontaneously - without acknowledging his own "guilt." Perhpas just an "I'm sorry." Period. But again only under EXTREME duress which I don't know how they could just allude to on a family show. Great points, folks! ;-)