You - you will adore this show. I can guarantee it (and I have. I have given this television series my Official Flo Will Love it guarantee).
Is Darien ever *angry* about his situation?
Oh yeah - most of the show is built around how he is reacting to this...thing in his head and The Agency attempting to control him and the fact that he traded one prison for another. Also - there is the fear that he will permanantly go bug-shit crazy and end up permanantly in a padded cell as a lab rat. This is actually a very real and valid fear - and the show never forgets it. There is also a very consisistent character arc about Darien and the gland and just how it develops -- but to tell you more would be spoilage.
How does he deal? What does Bobby say?
Bobby! See, this is the difference between Angel and Darien -- Angel doesn't have a bobbyhobbes. We should all have a bobbyhobbes. Well, actually - no. I'd go nuts with my own. I love him but I couldn't live with him, he'd smother me to death. However, Bobby's kind of obsessive, stalking, in-your-face love is exactly what Darien needs to basically stay alive. The world our boy has entered is a treacherous one and he is ill equipped to navigate its waters - luckily there is Bobby, there to shephard him and clutch him to the protection of his bosom (Bobby says something similar to this in "Liberty and Larceny")
Another thing that Bobby says to Darien - that I just love - is:
If it's any consolation, one of my shrinks use to tell me: "You heal the past, live the present, and dream the future."
And I just think that is so.... Oh. BOBBY!
But mainly Bobby keeps Darien going -- there are times when it gets really really bad and Bobby is there with an optimistic outlook and there to distract and there to assure Darien that even if Darien gets out of control, he can count on Hobbes to bring him down if need be. And we haven't even scratched the surface of what this relationship means to Bobby - because the psychosexual development of Robert A. Hobbes is not something you can just toss off in a few picture posts -- but rest assured that this is an entirely symbiotic relationship. No one is giving anything up here - they need each other.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:51 pm (UTC)Is Darien ever *angry* about his situation?
Oh yeah - most of the show is built around how he is reacting to this...thing in his head and The Agency attempting to control him and the fact that he traded one prison for another. Also - there is the fear that he will permanantly go bug-shit crazy and end up permanantly in a padded cell as a lab rat. This is actually a very real and valid fear - and the show never forgets it. There is also a very consisistent character arc about Darien and the gland and just how it develops -- but to tell you more would be spoilage.
How does he deal? What does Bobby say?
Bobby! See, this is the difference between Angel and Darien -- Angel doesn't have a bobbyhobbes. We should all have a bobbyhobbes. Well, actually - no. I'd go nuts with my own. I love him but I couldn't live with him, he'd smother me to death. However, Bobby's kind of obsessive, stalking, in-your-face love is exactly what Darien needs to basically stay alive. The world our boy has entered is a treacherous one and he is ill equipped to navigate its waters - luckily there is Bobby, there to shephard him and clutch him to the protection of his bosom (Bobby says something similar to this in "Liberty and Larceny")
Another thing that Bobby says to Darien - that I just love - is:
If it's any consolation, one of my shrinks use to tell me: "You heal the past, live the present, and dream the future."
And I just think that is so.... Oh. BOBBY!
But mainly Bobby keeps Darien going -- there are times when it gets really really bad and Bobby is there with an optimistic outlook and there to distract and there to assure Darien that even if Darien gets out of control, he can count on Hobbes to bring him down if need be. And we haven't even scratched the surface of what this relationship means to Bobby - because the psychosexual development of Robert A. Hobbes is not something you can just toss off in a few picture posts -- but rest assured that this is an entirely symbiotic relationship. No one is giving anything up here - they need each other.