Marcus is actually a little creepy where Susan is concerned
He is a bit, yes. It's sort of... I mean, we're fairly sure he means well, right? But it's still kind of like "ohhhhhhkay, there, pal, how's about you back away just a teensy bit." I mean, I love him, but I'd also love to smack him upside the head and say "you know, if you play it a bit cool for a while and give a girl a chance to get used to you and decide you're not going to pester her to death, she'd probably be a hell of a lot more likely to like you back!" And YES to the "You'll never know" line. Seriously, wtf was JMS thinking?
Anyway. Even taking into account the memory-erasing, it totally passes imagining to think that Susan wouldn't figure it out eventually, and when she did... I would not want to be anywhere nearby. If that travesty actually happened, Marcus would wake up one morning a few months into their charming little permanent vacation and discover he has a booted foot squashing his throat, as the world's angriest Ivanova leans over him, ready to whoop his ass all around the charming little lake he's no doubt chosen to settle beside. And then jury-rig the shuttle and leave him there.
Personally, I think it's best to leave it at the dying, with possible addition of a nice Day of the Dead interlude. I still cling to the hope of a revival a few years after SiL, but I'd really rather keep that a theoretical possibility so I don't have to remember how badly it would probably get screwed up if it actually happened.
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Date: 2010-06-25 11:46 pm (UTC)He is a bit, yes. It's sort of... I mean, we're fairly sure he means well, right? But it's still kind of like "ohhhhhhkay, there, pal, how's about you back away just a teensy bit." I mean, I love him, but I'd also love to smack him upside the head and say "you know, if you play it a bit cool for a while and give a girl a chance to get used to you and decide you're not going to pester her to death, she'd probably be a hell of a lot more likely to like you back!" And YES to the "You'll never know" line. Seriously, wtf was JMS thinking?
Anyway. Even taking into account the memory-erasing, it totally passes imagining to think that Susan wouldn't figure it out eventually, and when she did... I would not want to be anywhere nearby. If that travesty actually happened, Marcus would wake up one morning a few months into their charming little permanent vacation and discover he has a booted foot squashing his throat, as the world's angriest Ivanova leans over him, ready to whoop his ass all around the charming little lake he's no doubt chosen to settle beside. And then jury-rig the shuttle and leave him there.
Personally, I think it's best to leave it at the dying, with possible addition of a nice Day of the Dead interlude. I still cling to the hope of a revival a few years after SiL, but I'd really rather keep that a theoretical possibility so I don't have to remember how badly it would probably get screwed up if it actually happened.