Huh, I guess I never thought he did forget. There was more than enough hinted at in the previous episodes for me, and I really like that Eleven is...I dunno...subtle about the ways in which he is messed up, and that he's been very obviously making a real effort not to make the same mistakes in how he deals with his own pain and his companions.
I'm not sure I would have wanted to dig in deep enough to see how *much* of a struggle that was before now, because it would have lessened the impact for me. And, even here, it takes an external force to bring it out and within that, he's still doing his level best to suck it up and deal and to cause as little harm as possible in the process.
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Date: 2010-05-15 10:51 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I would have wanted to dig in deep enough to see how *much* of a struggle that was before now, because it would have lessened the impact for me. And, even here, it takes an external force to bring it out and within that, he's still doing his level best to suck it up and deal and to cause as little harm as possible in the process.