due South realization (BdtH; Eclipse)

[butterfly]

Now, these episodes have to occur closely together because the IRS starts looking at the station in BdtH and they're still doing it in Eclipse. In Eclipse, it's Ray Vecchio's birthday.

Fraser timed his vacation to end in time for him to be there for Ray's birthday. Ouch.

Also, a recent rewatching of Manhunt made me go all, "aww" over Fraser's watch, which is his dad's watch and... aww. He wears that in every episode.

I adore Benton Fraser so very much. I just did a quick overview of some vital S1-2 episodes (I'm dubbing) and... Benton Fraser is so strong-willed, morally-centered, and funny as hell. But so essentially lonely. He doesn't have anyone who'll... well, do exactly what Ray Kowalski does. Ray adapts to him, not only accepting his quirks but embracing them whole-heartedly. Ray trusts him and more than that, demands his trust in return. Ray Kowalski is a smart ass. So is Ben, but he hides it a lot better.

Also, I love that time is running out, the funeral is over, but Fraser now understands how important this is to Ray and completely changes his attitude, tells Ray that they have time to wait.

Stella note: Ray mentions in his Eclipse flashback that she went to private school. I thought I'd pulled that from somewhere.

There are various things that I want to keep track of when I rewatch the series -- Fraser's hat, his relationships with Dief and his father, Welsh's growing fondness toward Fraser, the growth of Frannie to Francesca to Miss Vecchio. Things like that. Fraser's moments of snark. All the little reveals of his deep inner emotional nature (the few times that he's used incomplete sentences, which seem to be a sign of him being very deeply emotionally disturbed). With due South, everything that I want to track is an emotional thing. It's about relationships and people. Mostly in relation to Fraser, because I adore him, but the world of dS is very rich.

And they start the homesick storyline as early as I Coulda Been a Defendant.
Benton: "You don't want to stay in Chicago?"
Bruce: "No. No, I don't think so."
Benton: "I understand."
Which is much more personal than his more common 'understood'. There's a depth of feeling in those words. He understands the desire not stay in Chicago.

Comments

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

I really want to get you to watch Stargate, you know.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

From what I've read about it, it sounds like an interesting show. It's out on dvd, yes? I could rent the first season from netflix... see how I like it.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

EEEK YES YES YES YES YES!
In a way, the movie is the first episode, so the pilot can move kind of bewilderingly fast at points, but everything important from the film does get recapped, so it's not a problem. I mean, I haven't seen the movie.

And look. Can you possibly resist the pretty?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I've put the first dvd from the first season at the top of my queue (so, it was like dS in having a movie that was turned into a pilot?).

*tilts head*

He is cute. Looks a bit like Crichton, but... slightly rounder... softer. Neither of those is quite the word that I'm looking for, but they'll do.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Well, ordinarily he has glasses, and omg his EYES and his delicate features and oh boy, but that man can work his eyelashes. Sometimes conversations go by and I'm positive the script looked like this:

JACK: [words]
DANIEL: *eyelash thing*
JACK: [more words]
DANIEL: *blinks furiously*

In the first season, Daniel has long hair and looks absolutely adorable. In later seasons, he has short hair and biceps and sometimes replaces the glasses with contacts, and well, still looks absolutely adorable.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Take a look at saeva's 'Oh, really?' icon for pure Daniel nonverbal sarcasm. And take a look at her other Daniel icons for, well, the pretty. And the J/D.

Daniel takes over the world in an alternate universe in one episode. I nearly dissolved from the sheer hotness.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

He does seem to have a very expressive face.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Hee. So, pretty, then?

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Yes.