meganbmoore | Dresden Files: What About Bob (Reply)

I've still been watching and loving Dresden Files every week, I just haven't been posting on it(saving it for the DVD set, I think) but I'm making an exception for What About Bob.

How heartbreaking was it to see adult Harry in the flashbacks? So happy and free of all his guilt and angst. Sure, he's obviously still dealing with his father's death, but he has a life, he has a family(Uncle Justin and Bob) and he's about to start a new chapter in his life...and then he sees his father's ring on Justin's finger, and you can see all the light and happiness dying from his eyes as he starts remembering Bob's lessons about how all you really need to kill a person with black magic is a possession. *cuddles the woobie* And poor Bob...you can tell that he's always been hoping that Harry would never figured it out so that he'd never have to choose between them. But yeah, poor, poor Harry. Especially since he didn't MEAN to kill Justin, he just wanted to know for sure whether or not Justin killed his parents, Justin really caused his own death, not that Harry would ever be able to see it that way, because he really did love Justin-I mean, he's been the guys only family(with Bob as his tutor) since he was a kid, and, by all accounts, he WAS a good guardian and uncle and he did love Harry, he just was also secretly grooming Harry to be a mass murdering warlock. And of course, he donates all the money he inherited to charity and leaves that huge house sitting there collecting dust while he lives in a way too crowded shopfront because he can't live there and he doesn't dare to sell it.

And then there's the main plot, where you really can't tell if Bob really is going to betray Harry or not and they take it so far that all you really have is your faith that Bob would never really kill Harry if he had anything resembling a choice in the matter.

Then of course, there's the Murphy front. I think we've known that it wasn't going to be as simple as "Harry saves Murphy and erases her memories" since Boone Identity...I mean, even at the end of the episode, when Murphy visted Harry, she mentions dreams about him where things happen differently(read: the way they really did) and makes him promise to not lie to her again...and of course, they recapped that scene at the beginning of the episode, just to make sure we hadn't forgotten. Murphy's behavior really didn't bother me this episode...I mean, Harry's ALWAYS at her crime scenes and can never fully explain things, and she knows he lies to and keeps things from her, and that combined with her dreams(and, it seems, health) since Boone Identity have her wanting answers, and wanting them bad. And the final scene with them where he tells her that he NEEDS her to be good and right and just because it's the only way he can believe those things exist because he can't have them himself...sigh...Harry/Murphy in the series has always been the closest direct translation from books to series, and that was never more true than that scene, and the way Paul and Valerie played it...well, I haven't been blubbery over a TV ep since Buffy's "Mom?...Mommy?"(though nothing will ever top that in the blubbery department, I don't think...it's the one episode of a TV show I doubr I can EVER rewatch...if it hadn't been about midnight at the time, I would have been on the phone calling Mom to make sure she was alive right then...and then really embarassed because she'd think I was nuts)

They also brought up Murphy's kid again...I really hope they do something with that plotline soon, as opposed to randomly mentioning that she has a daughter every few episodes.

Hrm...also, next episode, it looks like Morgan either wants Harry to get rid of Murphy, or to involve Muprphy in things more than Harry would like...couldn't tell which, but Harry most definately won't take well to either one.

Also, new Dresden HC is out this week...need to see if Waldenbooks or Amazon has it cheaper.