My head will explode if I try to reconcile H/A and H/B, and movieverse-bookverse. :/ They both work but I have a limited brain, clearly. @ <-- limited brain. The slash - the commitment and reliance - seem very clear, very poignant and gorgeous from what you've said about the books. I mean, man, curtains and hand-holding and all.
In some ways, I think it's more powerful an image that you know they *could* have gotten together in some way, but the most important and cherished part of their relationship was the loyalty and the trust inherent in allowing that NOT to happen. That may not make sense, I'm tired. XD But them getting together in a sexual relationship would be crossing lines, and I just have this idea of that devotion being limited by social/command structures and Horatio's issues, but at the same time transcending those things because it doesn't matter. It is the most important relationship of his life (Archie would have to be added there for movie-Horatio; can't help it, I love Archie. XD). It's such intimacy as Horatio would never have with a wife. Sex wouldn't make it moreso. And isn't it kind of amazing that Bush knows he will never be let all the way in to Horatio's life, and yet he gives so much of himself to it anyway?
Horatio's obliviousness to Pellew talking about women was kind of painful. And I really loved the exchange when Maria wanted to understand what his life was like and he got angry and said his life wasn't 'stories'. How could he feel a sense of connection or kinship with someone who hadn't lived the same life he had, been in the Navy, when the Navy is his whole (mental, emotional) existence?
And, hmm, I haven't had an email from you, but you could try sending it directly to random_alia at hotmail .com? :)
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Re: YET MORE HORATIO/BUSH. BECAUSE I NEED SOME VENT.
Date: 2005-12-28 10:54 am (UTC)In some ways, I think it's more powerful an image that you know they *could* have gotten together in some way, but the most important and cherished part of their relationship was the loyalty and the trust inherent in allowing that NOT to happen. That may not make sense, I'm tired. XD But them getting together in a sexual relationship would be crossing lines, and I just have this idea of that devotion being limited by social/command structures and Horatio's issues, but at the same time transcending those things because it doesn't matter. It is the most important relationship of his life (Archie would have to be added there for movie-Horatio; can't help it, I love Archie. XD). It's such intimacy as Horatio would never have with a wife. Sex wouldn't make it moreso. And isn't it kind of amazing that Bush knows he will never be let all the way in to Horatio's life, and yet he gives so much of himself to it anyway?
Horatio's obliviousness to Pellew talking about women was kind of painful. And I really loved the exchange when Maria wanted to understand what his life was like and he got angry and said his life wasn't 'stories'. How could he feel a sense of connection or kinship with someone who hadn't lived the same life he had, been in the Navy, when the Navy is his whole (mental, emotional) existence?
And, hmm, I haven't had an email from you, but you could try sending it directly to random_alia at hotmail .com? :)