You know, since you'd disappeared, I prayed everyday that I would see you again. I didn't want you to come back, but I wanted a chance to apologize to you. For everything that I'd done. Joe, I'm really sorry. I'm sorry about everything. I'm sorry. Ming, you know, being in this body, it's not only your fault. It's because I chose to take that job.
Obsessed with that scene in the brick when Montparnasse makes the mistake of trying to attack Valjean. Not only is it a little funny because imagine attacking a guy and he just lectures you about it, but it’s also kind of intense and sad because Valjean got real specific during that lecture. This isn’t just a slap on the wrist, this is pages and pages of Valjean backstory. Whenever I read this scene it makes me so nervous because he has been so so careful all this time and now he’s just telling nearly everything to this fucking teenager.
Love Me, Love My Voice 很想很想你 · 2023, dir. Sha Wei Qi
— What did you just ask me? Didn't you say you knew? I knew? You mean the bus? There is no direct bus around here. We can only take the subway. Then why did you say you knew? I wasn't paying attention to what you were saying.
"So what do they give you this Order for?" said Austin Grey. "Fornication?" And hooking his fingers beneath it, he ripped the sash from Lymond's shoulder. The little glove also pinned there fell with it.
"With my wife?" said Francis Crawford.
Checkmate, oh Checkmate...
(the glove falls off before their brief fight, but Austin is the enemy, isn't he? "Do you keep it, M. Crawford. For someone truly dangerous.")
This entire scene got tears in my eyes. It's the way she tells them all--so matter-of-fact, but with an unmistakable love beyond every word. Like she's completely made her peace with it. Suletta's still trying to move forward, but now she's not as desperate for her mother's affection, because she knows why it won't come? Maybe just knowing is enough. She still loves her mother. But she knows her mother's feelings towards her are much more complicated.
do you think Korn did not expect that Fasai knew about Tonkla?
Anon, that is a very good question and one I've pondered on myself.
As much as I'd like to think of Korn as *this* naive, I can't really do that. In my opinion, he knew Fasai knew about Tonkla, or at least, he knew about the possibility of her knowing.
We've only gotten two scenes with them, but their silent communication both times makes me think that they've known each other for years - and I still believe what the fandom believed at the beginning of the series; Fasai and Korn have some sort of relationship, otherwise I don't think she'd mention marriage so casually.
And Korn's reaction to her saying it supports the argument: I just rewatched the scene and he remains neutral once she tells him to marry her, but his expression changes the moment she tells him to "stop seeing that boy". His gaze literally loses focus, it drifts off - it's a bit spine-chilling to witness.
This, to me, reads as Korn thinking that he could be whatever Fasai wanted him to (her boyfriend, her business partner, heck even her husband) without losing Tonkla.
Fasai shattered that illusion.