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It's in the way that they look at each other, the way Holmes wraps his fingers around Watson's wrist or leans in to whisper softly in his ear.

So I honestly can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone talking about the art direction of this scene. If I’m repeating something, Ah,well. But I’ve honestly never seen it pointed out that this is the very first time we see Mary, and there are three important things here:

Mary reaches for John’s hand. John takes it, of course—he is used to being offered comfort for his loss, by now—but he is not reaching out to her for comfort in his sadness. She is inserting herself into his grief. Reflexively, he lets her.

We only see the back of her. It’s unusual to introduce a major protagonist any other way than by showing their face pretty much immediately. A major antagonist, however…a baddie…well, they often are introduced in a cloud of cigarette smoke, from a distance, in the shadows, as a mysterious voice on a phone, or in some other way that doesn’t tell us right away who they are. Our first glimpse of Mary gives us only the most vague information about her. Obviously a woman, obviously someone John is close to, as he holds her hand. Other than that…who is she? We don’t know.

is how

the show

introduces

literally

every

single

villain

and antagonist

Buttercup falls into the Lightning Sand. She’s heard legends about it. Sand so fine it gets into every pore, suffocates before it picks your bones clean. And there Are bones in the pit. She tries to float, to slow herself because Westley will rescue her. She never has any doubt. Westley ALWAYS rescues her. And he does. Chops off a vine and dives in after her. That vine is their lifeline. That thing they cling to that lets them get back to the surface.

«Ascolta. Non sarò mai capace di dirti cose tipo ’ti amo’. Di mandarti fiori, di comprarti anelli. Non so se riuscirò a essere fedele – ti prometto che mi impegnerò –, forse non vorrò un figlio e certamente non ti porterò mai all’Ikea la domenica o in qualsiasi altro giorno. Ma un ’per sempre’ c’è. C’è una cosa che è sicura ed è che io e te siamo connessi indissolubilmente.» 

Devo avere un’espressione quanto meno inebetita. 

«Sì, lo so, sembra impossibile che io l’abbia detto, però ormai l’ho detto.»