The bit in Spy Again where Curt is asking Owen for advice hurts because if there had been anything else that caused Curt's depressive spiral --- had a mission gone wrong in literally any other way --- I have no doubt that Owen would say exactly what Curt thinks he would. But it was exactly that inciting event and so the tragedy somehow intensifies 😭
The hardest part of writing Spies are Forever Fanfiction is coming up with witty banter for Curt and Owen to have. I’m not witty. I can���t banter like that. I swear I’d have fics done twice as fast if it wasn’t for that shit.
The Spy Another Day cast reacted to Torture Tango and the Staircase Scene so I cut it down to the best parts (mostly Tessa calling out how horny they are) and zoomed in on people
This is my Tinlightenment propaganda please sacrifice your soul to their higher power 👍👍
so the line “Will you live to see tomorrow or die another day” always puzzled me a bit, because the implication is that both live through the day. I chalked it up to just. Convenience on the part of the writers, until I realized that this line actually refers to Owen and Curt. They live through the event, but in markedly different ways. Contrary to what he says in One Step Ahead, Owen really didn’t “move on” from that day, or from Curt. From the time of his “death” he has just been going after curt, his only mission to destroy his life and get revenge. He has nothing to live for after the mission where his lover betrays him, so he really is just waiting to “die another day” as the line says, however, Curt’s arc throughout the show is really learning how to move forward and live in order to see tomorrow, because now he has something to look forward to in the future.
arguably both of them went through a metaphorical “death” at that point and the line is a really interesting mirror to the narrative.