Kinda a continuation of my last post....
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weirdqafanI thought of a couple of the things I forgot.
~In Episode 214, Justin goes to the Sap's party, digests certain illegal substances and narrowly escapes being forced into a sling to get gang raped. The next time we see him, he's all smiley and fine and accepts Brian's offer and fucks him. In the next episode the boys are at Babylon partying the night away. Now anyone who's taken even the barest of psychology classes knows that a traumatic experience like that would have reprecussions. Especially on someone who already had one traumatic experience very recently. Even if he tried to supress what happened to him and what almost happened to him, Justin would have had issues. At the very least, he was violated by being unknowingly drugged and would have had to deal with that. But most likely someone in that situation would have regressed back to some of the phobias and psychological instability he had experienced after being bashed. What's the phrase? One step forward, two steps back? This would have happened. Going to Babylon might have been enough to trigger a panic attack. Having sex might have been enough to make him freak out over being touched. Hell, having Brian not come home, might have been enough to send him into one of his rages. Being thisclose to being raped would have had a LOT more affect on the poor boy.
~ In episode 216, Brian states in front of Justin that the only thing worth celebrating is achievement. Lindsey mentions to Brian that, "Isn't it an achievement that he's alive and well? Isn't that worth celebrating?" But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Yes, Justin survived. He alive and that's fabulous. But there was so much else that he's had to overcome that past year, hell those past 2 years or however long it's been since he met Brian. From figuring out who he is, to being disowned by his father, to losing his home, to being shuffled from caretaker to caretaker, to having to deal with high school bully torture on a daily basis, to dealing with an older emotionally insecure lover, to being bashed, to relearning the simplest of physical tasks, to all those psychological impactions, to losing his talent, to fighting tooth and nail to get it back, to having to deal with the possibility that the person who's helped him the most, is only doing it out of guilt not affection caring or love, to having to find a way to pay for school himself (even if his way didn't work out, he still tried pretty damn hard to make it), to having the person he loves most in the world horribly betray him by ruining his art and to having gone through all this shit and is still FUCKING STANDING IS A FUCKING MIRACLE. Justin's achieved and overcome so much that that should be enough to cover all of his birthdays for the rest of his life to be celebrated. But Brian thinks otherwise. So what does that leave Justin to think? That everything he's done, everything he's fought for, everything he's ACCOMPLISHED means shit? That it's not important, at least not in Brian's eyes? That it wouldn't neccessarily bother Brian if he hadn't survived, cuz if Lindsey thought of that, you know fucking well that Justin did too.
~ In Episode 210, a dead body is discovered in a dumpster behind the diner. Everyone gathers and gawks and fear is placed into the hearts of many of the Liberty Ave. habitants. Justin has a realization of that anyone they meet and pick up is capable of doing anything to them. (which leads to very hot choking sex ;) As I've already stated, Justin nearly died. Now, seeing a dead body alone could be enough to stir up a lot of shit for him, but also it being so close to a 'safe-haven' of his-the diner- that he would have had a much bigger reaction. And I'd type more but I'm going out real soon and need to get dressed.
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I've realized that most of what I've mentioned leads back to the bashing and I guess it's just pointing out how past those first initial season 2 episodes it really wasn't dealt with. Until season 4. But even there not really, since they don't show the everyday affect on Justin. They didn't tend to take it into consideration. How he would react very differently than a normal person to a lot of things. And all these things would have had so much impact on him, yet it was portrayed as being barely a blip on his radar.
~In Episode 214, Justin goes to the Sap's party, digests certain illegal substances and narrowly escapes being forced into a sling to get gang raped. The next time we see him, he's all smiley and fine and accepts Brian's offer and fucks him. In the next episode the boys are at Babylon partying the night away. Now anyone who's taken even the barest of psychology classes knows that a traumatic experience like that would have reprecussions. Especially on someone who already had one traumatic experience very recently. Even if he tried to supress what happened to him and what almost happened to him, Justin would have had issues. At the very least, he was violated by being unknowingly drugged and would have had to deal with that. But most likely someone in that situation would have regressed back to some of the phobias and psychological instability he had experienced after being bashed. What's the phrase? One step forward, two steps back? This would have happened. Going to Babylon might have been enough to trigger a panic attack. Having sex might have been enough to make him freak out over being touched. Hell, having Brian not come home, might have been enough to send him into one of his rages. Being thisclose to being raped would have had a LOT more affect on the poor boy.
~ In episode 216, Brian states in front of Justin that the only thing worth celebrating is achievement. Lindsey mentions to Brian that, "Isn't it an achievement that he's alive and well? Isn't that worth celebrating?" But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Yes, Justin survived. He alive and that's fabulous. But there was so much else that he's had to overcome that past year, hell those past 2 years or however long it's been since he met Brian. From figuring out who he is, to being disowned by his father, to losing his home, to being shuffled from caretaker to caretaker, to having to deal with high school bully torture on a daily basis, to dealing with an older emotionally insecure lover, to being bashed, to relearning the simplest of physical tasks, to all those psychological impactions, to losing his talent, to fighting tooth and nail to get it back, to having to deal with the possibility that the person who's helped him the most, is only doing it out of guilt not affection caring or love, to having to find a way to pay for school himself (even if his way didn't work out, he still tried pretty damn hard to make it), to having the person he loves most in the world horribly betray him by ruining his art and to having gone through all this shit and is still FUCKING STANDING IS A FUCKING MIRACLE. Justin's achieved and overcome so much that that should be enough to cover all of his birthdays for the rest of his life to be celebrated. But Brian thinks otherwise. So what does that leave Justin to think? That everything he's done, everything he's fought for, everything he's ACCOMPLISHED means shit? That it's not important, at least not in Brian's eyes? That it wouldn't neccessarily bother Brian if he hadn't survived, cuz if Lindsey thought of that, you know fucking well that Justin did too.
~ In Episode 210, a dead body is discovered in a dumpster behind the diner. Everyone gathers and gawks and fear is placed into the hearts of many of the Liberty Ave. habitants. Justin has a realization of that anyone they meet and pick up is capable of doing anything to them. (which leads to very hot choking sex ;) As I've already stated, Justin nearly died. Now, seeing a dead body alone could be enough to stir up a lot of shit for him, but also it being so close to a 'safe-haven' of his-the diner- that he would have had a much bigger reaction. And I'd type more but I'm going out real soon and need to get dressed.
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I've realized that most of what I've mentioned leads back to the bashing and I guess it's just pointing out how past those first initial season 2 episodes it really wasn't dealt with. Until season 4. But even there not really, since they don't show the everyday affect on Justin. They didn't tend to take it into consideration. How he would react very differently than a normal person to a lot of things. And all these things would have had so much impact on him, yet it was portrayed as being barely a blip on his radar.
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Date: 10/16/04 02:27 pm (UTC)In Episode 214 - people praise the scene at the end of this episode and I just couldn't get past the gogo!boy aspect and Justin going to the Sap's to get any joy out of the end scene. The Go Go boy storyline seemed wrong to me - let alone Justin's brushing everything off after the party. I just didn't really think that the Justin we knew from early S2 would put himself in a position where he was vulnerable on on display for all of Babylon. It doesn't matter how much money he needed - Justin was smart enough to find another way.
In episode 216 - this episode is part of the 216-220 block that I cannot watch. The introduction of Ethan felt very contrived - Justin' behavior was all wrong and Brian's behavior was inexcusable. IF I had not already known about the reunion in 308 when I watched 216 - I would have been done. This would have been the death nell for the series as far as I was concerned. I couldn't stand either Brian OR Justin in these four episodes. When you compare Brian in 216 with Brian in 202 - they are completely different characters, why?
How he would react very differently than a normal person to a lot of things. And all these things would have had so much impact on him, yet it was portrayed as being barely a blip on his radar.
I really wish they had dealt with the bashing in S2. It might have changed the dynamic of the B/J relationship. We might never have had an Ethan. Then again - who knows?