Re: Eric & Calleigh #23 -- This Ship Is Sailing To Booty Isl
I'm all for Jake not being a stereotypical villian. If he has to to be involved, at least make him interesting. However, I think it's going to be really hard for them to make people feel for Jake, because the guy is just so damn arrogant! Take Ryan, for example. About now, we're supposed to be feeling pretty sorry for the guy, but I actually cheered when he got fired. It was his own fault. That's what you get for being so cocky. That kind of personality is hard to make sympathetic, and its not like we're just hearing stories of Jake having been an ass in the past, y'know. He's still an obnoxious nitwit and he's shown it throughout his run. I just can't see the writers being able to sucessfully alter that perception.
I was sitting around thinking of some scenarios earlier, and I thought of something I'd really like to see. I'd love to see Eric really confront Calleigh. Let me elaborate:
I think right now Eric is inside Calleigh's head in a big way. That's one of the reasons why she's running. I'm thinking those scenes where Eric has called Calleigh out on her behaviour amped up 100%. Eric knows Calleigh so well, for once I'd like to see him use that and really question her about the way she acts, the reasons why she is so closed off. Not in an angry way or anything like that, just simply asking her questions. I think it'd be really interesting, and a very telling scene for Cal. We know she's scared of losing control, and scared of feeling vulnerable. I think Eric could put her in a place where she'd have no choice but to be vulnerable, perhaps even questioning herself. I wanna know why she is they way she is.
I might do a scene like that for a fic. I'm thinking of digging out my post 'Man Down' multichapter thing and trying to use that. I might change it into a kind of one-shot series, that are all related and on the same timeline but being able a jump back and forth. Multi-chaps just don't seem to agree with me.
Sorry about the rambling, just thinking aloud (or through my digits) here.
The wait is already killing me. I'm trying to take my mind off it by catching up on my other shows, but even Scrubs is reminding me of E/C right now.