Can't you just hear the conversation? Post two-years-in-the-St. Moritz-desert, for that stupid cover shoot, Tony shows up with the 'Stache. Obediah passes out laughing. Tony makes a crack about how shaving his head is where he draws the line, and they have a great bonding moment. EXCEPT OBEDIAH IS SECRETLY PLOTTING TO KILL TONY TWENTY YEARS DOWN THE LINE and Tony thinks about that conversation every. fucking. morning. when he looks in the mirror.
I mean, talk about betrayal and loss. Your parents die on the same day, and Father Figure #1 dies in a cave in Afghanistan to buy you time to get back to Father Figure #2, who rips your heart out of your chest. I'd start my mornings gargling with twenty-year old Scotch (and twenty year olds), too.
And yeah. I was thinking about the press glare thing last night: I seriously have to question the parenting skills of Daddy Stark. He has his boy on the cover of Popular Mechanics when Tony when he's six. Good thing he was an honest-to-God once in a century genius, Dad, and not just a really precocious kid with a mechanical bent.
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second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 06:11 pm (UTC)Can't you just hear the conversation? Post two-years-in-the-St. Moritz-desert, for that stupid cover shoot, Tony shows up with the 'Stache. Obediah passes out laughing. Tony makes a crack about how shaving his head is where he draws the line, and they have a great bonding moment. EXCEPT OBEDIAH IS SECRETLY PLOTTING TO KILL TONY TWENTY YEARS DOWN THE LINE and Tony thinks about that conversation every. fucking. morning. when he looks in the mirror.
I mean, talk about betrayal and loss. Your parents die on the same day, and Father Figure #1 dies in a cave in Afghanistan to buy you time to get back to Father Figure #2, who rips your heart out of your chest. I'd start my mornings gargling with twenty-year old Scotch (and twenty year olds), too.
And yeah. I was thinking about the press glare thing last night: I seriously have to question the parenting skills of Daddy Stark. He has his boy on the cover of Popular Mechanics when Tony when he's six. Good thing he was an honest-to-God once in a century genius, Dad, and not just a really precocious kid with a mechanical bent.