today's Ryan's Hope
Oct. 7th, 2009 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaHey, today's episode #1 has the scene I screencapped for this icon! (Also my "smiling Siobhan" icon.)
I've been reading The Portrait of a Lady, and I'm at the part where everybody's weighing in on Isabel's decision to marry Gilbert Osmond. During Ralph Touchett's anti-Osmond tirade, I kept thinking of Siobhan and Joe: "I had amused myself with planning out a high destiny for you. There was to be nothing of this sort in it. You were not to come down so easily or so soon. . . You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue--to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud--a missile that should never have reached you--and straight you drop to the ground." Instead of a faded rosebud, of course, Joe hired a plane to trail a banner that said "Marry me, Siobhan." Argh!
Aaaaah, the scenes where Mary #4 walks in on Jack/Siobhan hugging and, after he leaves, confronts Siobhan about her relationship with Jack!!! Great scenes, though Nicolette Goulet seems to have gotten so flustered at one point that she completely botches her lines. You can see her glance wildly at the teleprompter, and she actually mutters, "Sorry!" between the line she starts out saying and the line she was supposed to say!
The scenes are painful to watch, and not just because of Goulet's crummy acting, but because Mary #4 is desperate to know the truth and Siobhan will only half-admit to it, and because this fight is the last conversation these sisters will ever have.
Mary #4: Was Jack in love with you?
Siobhan: Um...a little bit...waffle waffle waffle...
Mary #4: Did he ever say he loved you?
Siobhan: Yes, but--
Mary #4: [recoils in pain]
Gwynnega: I don't even like Mary #4, but ouch.
Mary #4: Are you marrying Joe because you can't have Jack?
Siobhan:Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! No! I'm marrying Joe because I'm in love with him! Get out of here. I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to see you.
Mary #4: [flees]
Gwynnega: Ouch ouch ouch. Siobhan, you have no idea, but you just got your wish. And by the way, this Joe is no Roscoe Born!
I've been reading The Portrait of a Lady, and I'm at the part where everybody's weighing in on Isabel's decision to marry Gilbert Osmond. During Ralph Touchett's anti-Osmond tirade, I kept thinking of Siobhan and Joe: "I had amused myself with planning out a high destiny for you. There was to be nothing of this sort in it. You were not to come down so easily or so soon. . . You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue--to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud--a missile that should never have reached you--and straight you drop to the ground." Instead of a faded rosebud, of course, Joe hired a plane to trail a banner that said "Marry me, Siobhan." Argh!
Aaaaah, the scenes where Mary #4 walks in on Jack/Siobhan hugging and, after he leaves, confronts Siobhan about her relationship with Jack!!! Great scenes, though Nicolette Goulet seems to have gotten so flustered at one point that she completely botches her lines. You can see her glance wildly at the teleprompter, and she actually mutters, "Sorry!" between the line she starts out saying and the line she was supposed to say!
The scenes are painful to watch, and not just because of Goulet's crummy acting, but because Mary #4 is desperate to know the truth and Siobhan will only half-admit to it, and because this fight is the last conversation these sisters will ever have.
Mary #4: Was Jack in love with you?
Siobhan: Um...a little bit...waffle waffle waffle...
Mary #4: Did he ever say he loved you?
Siobhan: Yes, but--
Mary #4: [recoils in pain]
Gwynnega: I don't even like Mary #4, but ouch.
Mary #4: Are you marrying Joe because you can't have Jack?
Siobhan:
Mary #4: [flees]
Gwynnega: Ouch ouch ouch. Siobhan, you have no idea, but you just got your wish. And by the way, this Joe is no Roscoe Born!
