All My Children (3-17-10)
Mar. 17th, 2010 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceruseeI don't know what was awesomer about the Greenlee-at-the-Chandler-Mansion sequences today and yesterday:
A) Greenlee and Adam arguing! Rebecca Budig and David Canary in the same room? HOMG. Why didn't anybody think of doing this before? I literally cannot remember the last time they shared a scene, and I bet it wasn't a scene like this--one where they get to snipe and scheme and generally clash like two really willful people with overabundances of personality and a very small set of intersecting goals should. I pray for many more such scenes.
(And even if the idea was just a ruse, Greenlee and Adam as business partners would rock so hard that the structural integrity of the Chandler mansion might actually be compromised--please, please, PLEASE let Greenlee decide to actually badger Adam into investing in Fusion! Just think of how many people it would fuck up! It could put Greenlee back in Scott's orbit--I never saw any of their original interactions when Greenlee first came to the show to make Scott's life hell, but it could make for fun times now!--and in the vicinity of craaaaazy Annie,* who hated her with a literally murderous passion. Even if Adam is going to leave the show, a partnership with Greenlee now could set up some awesome shenanigans for later.)
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B) The way that David and Greenlee are gradually moving beyond "touchingly sweet familial friendship" into "surprisingly affecting romantic partnership." It totally makes sense to me that David would start to fall first (Greenlee's still got feelings for Ryan, gag, even if she's done with him), that he might kiss Greenlee in a moment of delighted inspiration, while Greenlee likes things the way they are right nor--platonic and simple and trustworthy. But Budig played the scene where Greenlee found David with such a genuine want to see him, relief at finding him, and determination not to let go of him, that it really feels like deeper, more romantic feelings could follow naturally on that foundation. Man, Irizarry and Budig are so frickin' good together! I loved that scene.
*And I must say, while even as a Greenlee fan, I WTFed over the crudeness of the writing that torpedoed Annie as a character in order to free Ryan up for Greenlee, the fallout of that was that Melissa Claire Egan got to play a hell of a lot of really interesting stuff. It was watching Annie spin out of control that made me a fan of both Egan and her loon of a character. I can't help but feel that a decent writer could give both actresses and characters some worthwhile scenes with that history, if they wanted. Assuming Ryan was left out of it. He's toxic to both of them.
Side notes:
1) It's just incredible how gorgeous Rebecca Budig is. When she was in her twenties, she was very pretty, but she's thirty-six or thirty-seven now, and she's stunningly beautiful, more beautiful than I can ever remember her being before. She's one of those lucky people who looks ten times better without the baby face of a teen.
2) And I keep meaning to mention how much I fangirl Greenlee's ridiculously enormous rings. I have rings like that, too! I can never get married, because there is no way I could work a wedding ring into my Ginormous Ring rotation. I generally totally dig her style--the wardrobe they've provided for Greenlee in this stint and during the last one has been insanely flattering (although her wedding dresses for the weddings to Ryan were so hideous it was hard to imagine anybody as stylish as Greenlee permitting anyone to put them on her body, much less actually having picked them out).
A) Greenlee and Adam arguing! Rebecca Budig and David Canary in the same room? HOMG. Why didn't anybody think of doing this before? I literally cannot remember the last time they shared a scene, and I bet it wasn't a scene like this--one where they get to snipe and scheme and generally clash like two really willful people with overabundances of personality and a very small set of intersecting goals should. I pray for many more such scenes.
(And even if the idea was just a ruse, Greenlee and Adam as business partners would rock so hard that the structural integrity of the Chandler mansion might actually be compromised--please, please, PLEASE let Greenlee decide to actually badger Adam into investing in Fusion! Just think of how many people it would fuck up! It could put Greenlee back in Scott's orbit--I never saw any of their original interactions when Greenlee first came to the show to make Scott's life hell, but it could make for fun times now!--and in the vicinity of craaaaazy Annie,* who hated her with a literally murderous passion. Even if Adam is going to leave the show, a partnership with Greenlee now could set up some awesome shenanigans for later.)
OR
B) The way that David and Greenlee are gradually moving beyond "touchingly sweet familial friendship" into "surprisingly affecting romantic partnership." It totally makes sense to me that David would start to fall first (Greenlee's still got feelings for Ryan, gag, even if she's done with him), that he might kiss Greenlee in a moment of delighted inspiration, while Greenlee likes things the way they are right nor--platonic and simple and trustworthy. But Budig played the scene where Greenlee found David with such a genuine want to see him, relief at finding him, and determination not to let go of him, that it really feels like deeper, more romantic feelings could follow naturally on that foundation. Man, Irizarry and Budig are so frickin' good together! I loved that scene.
*And I must say, while even as a Greenlee fan, I WTFed over the crudeness of the writing that torpedoed Annie as a character in order to free Ryan up for Greenlee, the fallout of that was that Melissa Claire Egan got to play a hell of a lot of really interesting stuff. It was watching Annie spin out of control that made me a fan of both Egan and her loon of a character. I can't help but feel that a decent writer could give both actresses and characters some worthwhile scenes with that history, if they wanted. Assuming Ryan was left out of it. He's toxic to both of them.
Side notes:
1) It's just incredible how gorgeous Rebecca Budig is. When she was in her twenties, she was very pretty, but she's thirty-six or thirty-seven now, and she's stunningly beautiful, more beautiful than I can ever remember her being before. She's one of those lucky people who looks ten times better without the baby face of a teen.
2) And I keep meaning to mention how much I fangirl Greenlee's ridiculously enormous rings. I have rings like that, too! I can never get married, because there is no way I could work a wedding ring into my Ginormous Ring rotation. I generally totally dig her style--the wardrobe they've provided for Greenlee in this stint and during the last one has been insanely flattering (although her wedding dresses for the weddings to Ryan were so hideous it was hard to imagine anybody as stylish as Greenlee permitting anyone to put them on her body, much less actually having picked them out).