So agree with this--Daniel has always seemed Daniel to me. He's grown and he's matured, and he's come into his own on so many things, but to me this line is so much the heart of it....
"...And that this whole flirty, sexual thing that you do, that's just your way of having a laugh at my expense. So, I'm so sorry if I'm not more appreciative of that and I'm so sorry that you're bored, but don't you pretend it's anything else."</>
It's that laugh at Daniel's expense--that's what always seems to cut him deepest. He'll fight and aruge and admit he's wrong...and he'll do foolish things, but to be made a laughing stock--that's the lecture that got him booted from his career, that's the kid who doesn't have parents and doesn't fit anywhere, that's the child who is too smart to fit into any classroom and who doesn't fit with his peers.
So much of Daniel's journey seems to be non only where he belongs, but finding someone who can also fit and belong with him. That's a spot both Jack and Vala can fit in different ways for different reasons.
(And I love the Shroud, because there's this little moment with Jack and Daniel on the bridge, and Jack is muttering about Daniel looking like a mime and Daniel just looks over and gives this tiny, tiny smile--and it's so induldgent and fond.)
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heart of it
Date: 2007-06-27 04:03 am (UTC)"...And that this whole flirty, sexual thing that you do, that's just your way of having a laugh at my expense. So, I'm so sorry if I'm not more appreciative of that and I'm so sorry that you're bored, but don't you pretend it's anything else."</>
It's that laugh at Daniel's expense--that's what always seems to cut him deepest. He'll fight and aruge and admit he's wrong...and he'll do foolish things, but to be made a laughing stock--that's the lecture that got him booted from his career, that's the kid who doesn't have parents and doesn't fit anywhere, that's the child who is too smart to fit into any classroom and who doesn't fit with his peers.
So much of Daniel's journey seems to be non only where he belongs, but finding someone who can also fit and belong with him. That's a spot both Jack and Vala can fit in different ways for different reasons.
(And I love the Shroud, because there's this little moment with Jack and Daniel on the bridge, and Jack is muttering about Daniel looking like a mime and Daniel just looks over and gives this tiny, tiny smile--and it's so induldgent and fond.)
But Unending--wow. It just did so much I thought.