Your analysis and writing are fabulous. What do you think about the way Mick answers Beth when she asks where their chief is. He said art class and aerobics…”is that good enough for you?” The way he said it gave me the impression that Mick thought Rio was being emasculated by Beth, and that he was asking if the activities were good enough for her. I also thought he might just be asking if his level of detail in reporting Rio’s schedule to her was “good enough.” Mick seemed like a dick.
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hmm. i’m not sure i saw it that way. but i’ve just replayed that part about ten times in a row and... i’m not really sure about any of it tbh??
my initial read on it was that mick’s just tired. he’s tired of the beth-and-rio show. he is not excited or charmed or amazed by beth the way rio often is. she just makes his job harder. he’s not going to entertain her the way rio does. so he just pulled some random activity out of his ass and was like “here’s an answer for you that makes it clear that i’m not going to play that game with you and i could not care less if it that upsets you.”
but now.. it actually kind of sounds like he says “art class” genuinely and then gets annoyed by her “really?” and then gives her the bullshit answer... which i still think falls in the “UGH can you two just work your shit out so i don’t have to be in the middle of this because i don’t care at all” realm.
so i guess that’s my answer, actually. mick did not sign up for this and he would like to go home to his hot tub, please.
...but i also feel like if rio regularly took an art class, it would’ve come up when mr. fitzpatrick was detailing his schedule for beth.
that doesn’t really change anything for me though. whether or not “art class” was a genuine response, i just took the rest of it for mick not wanting to be a part of whatever the hell beth and rio are doing with each other and being grumpy that he keeps getting put in the middle. i don’t think it was about defending rio’s honor or anything.
mick would just very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that he never asked to be a part of.
