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So, those of you who have zero interest in The Pretender, I hope you've noticed how I am strictly restraining myself - I only post once a day about the Pretender, no matter how much I have to say or how excited I am!


Today, I would like to talk about Jarod and Miss Parker (yes, I know you're surprised).

I was just watching this vid by StuckHereWithNoTV over on youtube. It's a Miss Parker vid to Alanis Morissette's 'Everything,' and as it started I thought, what a terrible song choice, so slow and sappy and it's Alanis. I was so wrong - this vid is surprisingly perfect, and I was amazed at how much I enjoyed it.

I think the funny thing about Jarod and Miss Parker's relationship is that it isn't the sort of thing you can see; there are no hugs or kisses on the forehead, and there are no light touches or anything like that. Through everything, even though Miss Parker is driven to recapture Jarod; even though he hates the people that she works for and even though she's really mean, he still loves her, in his way. And their love is in the silence on the phone when she answers late at night, in the distance between them when they meet, in the things he leaves behind when he runs and the way he always comes back.

Sometimes I consider that their relationship is unequal. Jarod is always the one feeding her information; he's the one with the power to infiltrate the Centre and the one who could disappear at any moment. However, she has exactly the same power, she just chooses not to use it. She loves her father too much, and she fears what the Centre will do to her if she leaves, whereas Jarod fears what the Centre will do to him if he stays.

In my head, sometimes they meet where the Centre can't see them; footsteps echoing through a dark alley; nonsensical messages left on voicemail; hotels on the other side of the world. And of course, as the director told us, Jarod clearly had a key to the back door of her house. In my head there are scratches on his back and bite marks on her shoulder; he handcuffs her to the bed and she never, ever calls in sick. And one day he'll disappear and there'll be nothing left of him but a thousand stories with happy endings and her, bitchy and bitter and fighting with her brother, and it's then that she'll show them what she can do, because she'll disappear, too, and it'll be for her, and not for him.

And then she'll find him and they'll have wild monkey sex.


On a related topic, I think that Gar (the albino Sweeper) totally suspects that Miss P and Jarod are conspiring together.


Finally, remember that awesome BSG vid Breathe Me? I love it so much when I can watch vids using the same song in different fandoms, and this morning I watched this vid, also by StuckHere, using 'Breathe Me' for the Pretender and it's cool. Not as awesome as some of her other vids, but still good.



&hearts

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Date: 2006-10-29 05:49 am (UTC)
ext_6749: (Pastel Parker)
From: [identity profile] kirbyfest.livejournal.com
Agreed-- I think he was all over the world. (We only saw him outside the US once, yes? In the ep where he took whatsisname to see the Pope?) No way did he stay in the US.

I think they definitely hit their sexual awakening together, but in the bottom of my brain I think there was something more. Not sure what, and I probably never will be. I'm too busy writing and rewriting them getting together after Scotland because apparently that's ALL I'm capable of writing with them any more. It's so sad.

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Date: 2006-10-29 07:01 am (UTC)
ext_150242: (it's very good)
From: [identity profile] hjsnapepm.livejournal.com
Maybe she brought pistachios to the Centre once, like Cracker Jack's, and Jarod ate some and nearly died. And then Mr Parker freaked out on Miss Parker and sent her away.

I'm only half joking. Parker had to find out he was allergic somehow...

I need sleep, I think.

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Date: 2006-10-29 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritch-flame.livejournal.com
We only saw him outside the US once, yes? In the ep where he took whatshisname to see the Pope?

And he went to Venezuela in the ep where he was pretending to sell missiles to that arms dealer who'd kidnapped his kids.

ps I love your icon.

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Date: 2006-10-30 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkrefuge.livejournal.com
He took Argyle and his "Pop" to see the Pope. However, I believe that we also saw him in Canada as a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman at the end of one episode. There was also the episode where he played a Naval officer, and at the end of that episode he supposedly was riding a camel in the desert, giving one the impression he was a long distance from the ocean... most likely in Arabia somewhere...
Oh, all the "untold stories" we could tell!
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