I just chafe at it being all about the choices Peter makes, and some of that is holdover annoyance from the longer plot arc that kept trying to set us up for 'which Olivia will Peter choose?!?' which was a plot I found deeply uninteresting and I'm glad they didn't really go there in the end.
Right -- though, honestly, I was never convinced that the show was going in that direction; perhaps because Peter has always (to my surprise and delight) been the more communicative and emotionally forthright character, I took at face value his insistence that our Olivia was the one that he wanted. I read Olivia's anxiety as being much more about her own difficulty expressing her own emotions and trusting other people (two elements of her character set up from literally the first episode of the show) than about the direction of the plot.
As for watching the two Olivias interact: SIGN ME UP. And ohhhhhhh, Astrid -- ♥! Really hoping they'll find more for her to do next season. Their progress in that direction has been steady, if slow, so I'm hopeful!
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Date: 2011-05-10 01:45 am (UTC)Right -- though, honestly, I was never convinced that the show was going in that direction; perhaps because Peter has always (to my surprise and delight) been the more communicative and emotionally forthright character, I took at face value his insistence that our Olivia was the one that he wanted. I read Olivia's anxiety as being much more about her own difficulty expressing her own emotions and trusting other people (two elements of her character set up from literally the first episode of the show) than about the direction of the plot.
As for watching the two Olivias interact: SIGN ME UP. And ohhhhhhh, Astrid -- ♥! Really hoping they'll find more for her to do next season. Their progress in that direction has been steady, if slow, so I'm hopeful!