What are your opinions on the hug?
The Malec hug?
I thought it was fine, I thought it showed just how committed they both are to making this relationship work.
I also thought it was where they need to be right now. Yes, they still have issues to resolve but right now there’s a crisis and that’s where their energy needs to be going. They have decades to deal with the rest.
While I’m sure we can all side-eye whether or not we’re going to get the follow-through we need on this issue from the showrunners, I think there’s no reason to let that skepticism detract from the good that is there in this scene. Let’s focus on what we were given–which was lovely and tender and sweet–rather than borrowing future drama.
If you’re asking what I thought about the physical presentation of the hug (since I’m the poster-girl for the physicality discourse *sigh*) I have no issues with it. Because filming a hug while also delivering dialogue that isn’t muffled and faces that aren’t obscured is tough. The only other times we’ve seen Malec hug, when they were throwing their whole bodies into it, they weren’t delivering dialogue. They also weren’t just coming off of a fight and feeling tentative with each other. So yeah they weren’t hugging as tightly as they have in the past, but there are perfectly reasonable explanations for that and I really don’t feel the need to be nitpicky about it.
