Belatedly, thank you so much for reading this essay and for sharing your thoughts about it. Very much appreciated. :D
I admit that I was from the very beginning (and still am) very obsessed with Markus -at least the way I see it - immediately fell for Jeremiah. Fell, not necessarily in love, it's hard to tell with Markus, but he is fascinated by Jeremiah more than by anyone else, it seems.
It is hard to tell with him, isn't it? Talk about a puzzle wrapped in an enigma! Usually I'm not attracted to those types of guys, but Markus has an emotional availability that doesn't usually come with someone so driven and with so many contradictions, and that ups his appeal for me tremendously. Sometimes I think that he's gotten so used to denying himself love and keeping it (Meaghan) totally separate from the rest of his life that he still operates that way. Love is locked away from him and isn't something he's allowed to think about except for in stolen moments. Put him and Jeremiah together and boy, do you have a tangled and intricate dynamic. It took me a long time (and drawing Jeremiah/Markus in the Yuletide challenge) to appreciate that, because I was blinded by the "me and thee" of J/K. *g* Endless possibilities there.
I think that in the J/K relationship, Kurdy's love for Jeremiah is much more obvious than Jeremiah's love for Kurdy.
Interesting. I think that's true in the first season, but I think that came around full circle after Kurdy told him they were finished. Jeremiah seems so fragile to me in the second season, and it isn't until Kurdy finally tells him they're all right in Rites of Passage that he seems to get back some of his old self. After that, and once Jeremiah had come to terms with the fact that finding his dad didn't solve anything, I think the love between them is a lot more balanced and open. You haven't seen it yet, but the scene at the end of Running on Empty when Jeremiah asks Kurdy if they can work together again sometime just breaks my heart. For the most part, I really loved the last half of Season 2, and a big reason for that is that I finally felt like they both understood what they meant to each other, and weren't afraid to show it. Please keep watching! :D
I agree that Jeremiah needed a wake-up call in the first season, but I also think that quest was a vital part of who he was, and that there was a kind of inevitability to what played out between the two of them in Season 1. I think Jeremiah was reluctant to team up with anyone in the pilot precisely because he couldn't let go of his search, and he knew he couldn't give himself completely to anything else until he found his answers. He only ends up with Kurdy because of his promise to Simon, and then because he sees that he and Markus each have something the other needs. But I also think Kurdy made it clear to him in many ways in the first season that he was still searching for something more, himself, and that the partnership was not enough for him, not yet. They both had to wake up and realize that their friendship was important and couldn't be taken for granted.
In season 2, we see an awful lot of evidence that Kurdy deeply cares about Jeremiah -- but Jeremiah doesn't see that. Smith does, and we do, but as far as Jeremiah knows, Kurdy hasn't forgiven him for Elizabeth's death and may never do so. Even after Kurdy makes the peace offering in Rites of Passage, he's plainly still angry in Voices in the Dark, and it's he who walks away at the end of Running on Empty.
I do think Kurdy is a lot more open about expressing his feelings verbally, but one thing I love about all the characters in this show is how 'out there' they are emotionally. Every relationship has depth. I do think you're right about their age differences being crucial, though -- Kurdy even says as much at one point.
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I admit that I was from the very beginning (and still am) very obsessed with Markus -at least the way I see it - immediately fell for Jeremiah. Fell, not necessarily in love, it's hard to tell with Markus, but he is fascinated by Jeremiah more than by anyone else, it seems.
It is hard to tell with him, isn't it? Talk about a puzzle wrapped in an enigma! Usually I'm not attracted to those types of guys, but Markus has an emotional availability that doesn't usually come with someone so driven and with so many contradictions, and that ups his appeal for me tremendously. Sometimes I think that he's gotten so used to denying himself love and keeping it (Meaghan) totally separate from the rest of his life that he still operates that way. Love is locked away from him and isn't something he's allowed to think about except for in stolen moments. Put him and Jeremiah together and boy, do you have a tangled and intricate dynamic. It took me a long time (and drawing Jeremiah/Markus in the Yuletide challenge) to appreciate that, because I was blinded by the "me and thee" of J/K. *g* Endless possibilities there.
I think that in the J/K relationship, Kurdy's love for Jeremiah is much more obvious than Jeremiah's love for Kurdy.
Interesting. I think that's true in the first season, but I think that came around full circle after Kurdy told him they were finished. Jeremiah seems so fragile to me in the second season, and it isn't until Kurdy finally tells him they're all right in Rites of Passage that he seems to get back some of his old self. After that, and once Jeremiah had come to terms with the fact that finding his dad didn't solve anything, I think the love between them is a lot more balanced and open. You haven't seen it yet, but the scene at the end of Running on Empty when Jeremiah asks Kurdy if they can work together again sometime just breaks my heart. For the most part, I really loved the last half of Season 2, and a big reason for that is that I finally felt like they both understood what they meant to each other, and weren't afraid to show it. Please keep watching! :D
I agree that Jeremiah needed a wake-up call in the first season, but I also think that quest was a vital part of who he was, and that there was a kind of inevitability to what played out between the two of them in Season 1. I think Jeremiah was reluctant to team up with anyone in the pilot precisely because he couldn't let go of his search, and he knew he couldn't give himself completely to anything else until he found his answers. He only ends up with Kurdy because of his promise to Simon, and then because he sees that he and Markus each have something the other needs. But I also think Kurdy made it clear to him in many ways in the first season that he was still searching for something more, himself, and that the partnership was not enough for him, not yet. They both had to wake up and realize that their friendship was important and couldn't be taken for granted.
In season 2, we see an awful lot of evidence that Kurdy deeply cares about Jeremiah -- but Jeremiah doesn't see that. Smith does, and we do, but as far as Jeremiah knows, Kurdy hasn't forgiven him for Elizabeth's death and may never do so. Even after Kurdy makes the peace offering in Rites of Passage, he's plainly still angry in Voices in the Dark, and it's he who walks away at the end of Running on Empty.
I do think Kurdy is a lot more open about expressing his feelings verbally, but one thing I love about all the characters in this show is how 'out there' they are emotionally. Every relationship has depth. I do think you're right about their age differences being crucial, though -- Kurdy even says as much at one point.
Unless Markus makes his move first... *g*
Heh. You said it.