#bostonray

I came into the series thinking Ray was going to be a lot more similar to Boston than he is. Still, there's an element of self-fulfilling prophecy for both of them. Ray doesn't act out with the intention of causing destruction, but he's come to expect it. Boston comes to expect it because he intends it. For Boston, I think he's starting to grapple with the question of why he intends it.

Boston is destructive but Ray is just self-destructive. I think what Boston is realizing is that his destruction is in itself a form of self-destruction. What that says about his mental health could be interesting to dive deeper into.

For Sand and Nick, their greatest similarity seems to be their capacity to form attachments. Nick's admittedly borderlines more obsessive than purely affectionate, but the fact remains that they both form bonds with people who either don't want to love them back or are too confused to love them the way they deserve. The major difference is how they react to those relationships going off the rails.

No we don’t get the exact words but his comment about fucking in the dark room is something very telling. I don’t think getting dicked down by Boston in the darkroom is a normal thing I mean that’s where there are compromising photos of his other favorites. I am going to bet that Boston has slept with Ray in there though. Boston and Ray are at least so close that Boston has been telling Ray about how much fun Nick is in bed. Other reason I think Boston likes Ray is how Boston looked like he wanted to talk to him through the intro scenes after the fight. He didn’t. But Boston doesn’t deny what he did was evil. Boston has a strong commitment to the truth and he believes what he did to Ray was wrong.