Oh, no question Sian Phillips is awesome and she sold the shit out of that scene! LOL!
But - why (do the writers) go down the "women are sexual creatures oh noes!!!111!!!" path at all? And why would (the writers think) a line like that -- necessarily -- hurts either Madeline or Paul? They've been together, more or less, let's call it 15 years, at that point. It only huts them if either of them buy into victorian morality in the first place -- and I don't see the slightest evidence that they do.
I just think there *has* to be stuff that Madeline, of all people, cares about more than what Adrian thinks about who she fucks. And surely, her mentor/mother figure would know what those things are?
Certainly - my own mother would go for a much more central jugular than my sex life if her goal was to hurt me!
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Date: 2010-05-18 01:03 am (UTC)But - why (do the writers) go down the "women are sexual creatures oh noes!!!111!!!" path at all? And why would (the writers think) a line like that -- necessarily -- hurts either Madeline or Paul? They've been together, more or less, let's call it 15 years, at that point. It only huts them if either of them buy into victorian morality in the first place -- and I don't see the slightest evidence that they do.
I just think there *has* to be stuff that Madeline, of all people, cares about more than what Adrian thinks about who she fucks. And surely, her mentor/mother figure would know what those things are?
Certainly - my own mother would go for a much more central jugular than my sex life if her goal was to hurt me!