There's a part of me utterly stunned that I'm enjoying reading all your Obadiah/Tony fics, but there's a larger part pretty much screaming that surely all this explains the unnerving tension and touches between these two in the movie.
There's such a tension between Obadiah and Tony where one wishes to be in control (and usually is) and the other's pretty much uncontrollable. It's very much a power dynamic complicated by the fact that Obadiah watched Tony grew up lonely. It's so twisted and fascinating to watch, so to speak, how they deal with each other through the years. I mean, at what point Obadiah just gives up and decides to write off Tony Stark, who is, after all, the backbone of the company? (Though I wonder how Obadiah clashes or cooperates with Pepper...)
Anyways, gorgeous characterization of Tony's casual genius and Obadiah's deliberate..everything.
Also, at this point, I realise that I sporadically come back to this journal- first for the HH stuff, then the SW stuff, now Ironman. I love your fics. Thank you for sharing them.
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Date: 2008-06-30 08:53 am (UTC)There's such a tension between Obadiah and Tony where one wishes to be in control (and usually is) and the other's pretty much uncontrollable. It's very much a power dynamic complicated by the fact that Obadiah watched Tony grew up lonely. It's so twisted and fascinating to watch, so to speak, how they deal with each other through the years. I mean, at what point Obadiah just gives up and decides to write off Tony Stark, who is, after all, the backbone of the company? (Though I wonder how Obadiah clashes or cooperates with Pepper...)
Anyways, gorgeous characterization of Tony's casual genius and Obadiah's deliberate..everything.
Also, at this point, I realise that I sporadically come back to this journal- first for the HH stuff, then the SW stuff, now Ironman. I love your fics. Thank you for sharing them.