Oh, that scene with Ashley in the tunnel is great. I saw the actual rough footage of that, just Emilie smushing herself against a wall as the special effects guys wheel this huge industrial fan past her and you still believe she's trying not to get smushed. Then you throw the CGI in and it's like 0.0
Oh, Magnus/Ashley is ftw. Very subtle for the most part in terms of "mothering" versus being the boss, but it's the little sweet moments that tell you how much love there is there. The little kisses and, of course
Ashley: "Everything went great." Magnus: *sighs* "I'll change your bandages when you get home, dear..."
I get sick of the parent/child interactions in most shows, too. That's one of the things that drew me to "Castle" (granted, I only saw two eps, but I am eagerly awaiting more). Castle not only has a great, loving, respectful relationship with his teenaged daughter, he's got a great, loving, respectful relationship with his mother. too. You don't see enough of that out there. In the real world, people don't treat their own families half as bad as they do on TV, nor do they let their families get away with half as much shit.
Ashley's fun. Magnus is intruiging. I know which one I like more, but everyone's different.
Magnus/Will is completely untenable in the here and now. Period. Maybe in season 2 if things play out right but, for the time being, there's too much of a disparity in life-experience and knowledge/power for a relationship to be anything but exploitative (and very little turns me off to a ship faster than exploitation which is why i wanted to scream every time I saw Angel with 16 year old Buffy). But, given how steep Will's Learning Curve is, he'll become her equal in very short order and, at that point, given the mutual love and respect already present, there's little to keep a romantic relationship from occuring.
But Will's got to grow first and Magnus needs to let her heart thaw a little more. Will starts her thawing in the first place; before him, it was only Henry and Ashley and her memories of Druitt. Being loved by someone new is good for her, reminds her a bit of what it means to be a member of the human race again. To me, knowing you're loved lets you love yourself and loving yourself lets you love others. (I use love in a completely non-romantic sense here, even though I acknowledge that platonic/familial love can morph into something else entirely as time paasses.) No matter how you feel about them as a couple, their interactions are always very satisfying to watch.
In my fics, I tend to assume that Will's got a mile hero-worshipping/Oedipal thing towards Magnus and that Magnus loves him dearly as a friend and a student and that more is possible but hardly necessary to the relationship, which I think is a very nice change from shows and movies that assume you must be in a romantic relationship to be complete as a human being. That shit drives me nuts and I see Will/Magnus as a gorgeous alternative to that because, sure the possibility's there, but it's not foregone or even necessarily likely -- it would just be icing on what's already a great relationship.
She's generally maternal(ish) to Will (i tend to think of her more as "nurturing" than "maternal", but that's just me) and he's generally deferential towards her, but there are hints of more at times. It's never serious, but it's not lost on either that the other is gorgeous, so you get the occassional look. Or Will teasing Magnus when she mentions a painter from the 1400s
And all bets are off in ep 9 so we won't even go there. But, for the most part, it's like neither of them even registers the gender of the other 99% of the time and it's been my experience that relationships that start in that fashion do FAR better when they morph into romances than romances that start with mutual attraction do.
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Date: 2009-06-19 03:48 am (UTC)Oh, Magnus/Ashley is ftw. Very subtle for the most part in terms of "mothering" versus being the boss, but it's the little sweet moments that tell you how much love there is there. The little kisses and, of course
Ashley: "Everything went great."
Magnus: *sighs* "I'll change your bandages when you get home, dear..."
I get sick of the parent/child interactions in most shows, too. That's one of the things that drew me to "Castle" (granted, I only saw two eps, but I am eagerly awaiting more). Castle not only has a great, loving, respectful relationship with his teenaged daughter, he's got a great, loving, respectful relationship with his mother. too. You don't see enough of that out there. In the real world, people don't treat their own families half as bad as they do on TV, nor do they let their families get away with half as much shit.
Ashley's fun. Magnus is intruiging. I know which one I like more, but everyone's different.
Magnus/Will is completely untenable in the here and now. Period. Maybe in season 2 if things play out right but, for the time being, there's too much of a disparity in life-experience and knowledge/power for a relationship to be anything but exploitative (and very little turns me off to a ship faster than exploitation which is why i wanted to scream every time I saw Angel with 16 year old Buffy). But, given how steep Will's Learning Curve is, he'll become her equal in very short order and, at that point, given the mutual love and respect already present, there's little to keep a romantic relationship from occuring.
But Will's got to grow first and Magnus needs to let her heart thaw a little more. Will starts her thawing in the first place; before him, it was only Henry and Ashley and her memories of Druitt. Being loved by someone new is good for her, reminds her a bit of what it means to be a member of the human race again. To me, knowing you're loved lets you love yourself and loving yourself lets you love others. (I use love in a completely non-romantic sense here, even though I acknowledge that platonic/familial love can morph into something else entirely as time paasses.) No matter how you feel about them as a couple, their interactions are always very satisfying to watch.
In my fics, I tend to assume that Will's got a mile hero-worshipping/Oedipal thing towards Magnus and that Magnus loves him dearly as a friend and a student and that more is possible but hardly necessary to the relationship, which I think is a very nice change from shows and movies that assume you must be in a romantic relationship to be complete as a human being. That shit drives me nuts and I see Will/Magnus as a gorgeous alternative to that because, sure the possibility's there, but it's not foregone or even necessarily likely -- it would just be icing on what's already a great relationship.
She's generally maternal(ish) to Will (i tend to think of her more as "nurturing" than "maternal", but that's just me) and he's generally deferential towards her, but there are hints of more at times. It's never serious, but it's not lost on either that the other is gorgeous, so you get the occassional look. Or Will teasing Magnus when she mentions a painter from the 1400s
Will: "Highschool sweetheart of yours?"
Magnus: "There is such a thing as before my time."
Will: "Really?" http://sanctuary-caps.com/displayimage.php?pid=15381&fullsize=1
Magnus: *smirks* "Cheeky monkey." http://sanctuary-caps.com/displayimage.php?pid=15382&fullsize=1
And all bets are off in ep 9 so we won't even go there. But, for the most part, it's like neither of them even registers the gender of the other 99% of the time and it's been my experience that relationships that start in that fashion do FAR better when they morph into romances than romances that start with mutual attraction do.