#not that serious but this parallel (or lack thereof) was funny to me lol

[mego42]

Is it just me or do you think some people are overexaggerating the wire scene? Is it that deep...?

lol well tl;dr yes to both questions. i do think people are being a ott about it (and by people i mean me), but i also do think it was a p deep scene.

i mean, okay, think about it. you’ve got:

the siLenCe. i know a lot of people aren’t feeling the trajectory of the score and the soundtrack but personally i L O V E it and think they’re wielding their musical choices (or in this case lack thereof) with next level aplomb.

in this instance, the choice to strip this scene of a sound bed has the same effect as the choice in 209 where it really drives home how stark and loaded the moment is and how stripped and exposed both of them are

it(’s) also (one of several things that) draws a subtle line to 209 which like, makes me feEL stuFF about how that frames their former intimacy and where they’re at now and how horribly wrong it’s all gone compared to what it could’ve been

interestingly enough, i think drawing that line also underscores how not about sex th 405 scene is in a similar way to how not about sex the 209 scene was (which is bonkers consider the 209 scene was like, you know, the literal prelude to sex)

idk (to me) the 209 kiss was MUCH more about intimacy and vulnerability and the inherent tragedy of what could’ve been between them without all of the bullshit and I think this scene hits a lot of those same beats but in the inverse.

while i don’t think it’s sexual, the 405 wire scene is unarguably intimate simply due to how incredibly exposed and vulnerable they both are here

the fact that rio came to silently confront beth speaks volumes to how exposed he’s feeling with this investigation. he found a tracker on his car, his circle of trust has been breached, he has to go to beth and (wordlessly) ASK HER if it’s her vs his usual MO of presenting himself as the guy with all the cards, who knows all the secrets, often times lording over Beth how much he knows that she doesn’t

and while Beth is obviously exposed in the literal sense of her stripping down, she’s also extremely vulnerable because she IS the one behind the tracker and she has no way of knowing whether or not he knows that, only knows that he clearly suspects

(but at the same time, this is i think one of the first situations we’ve ever seen them in where she holds more cards than rio? because he doesn’t know what’s going on, this time he’s the one lacking information and it’s information that beth has and at this point in her relationship, she knows him p well too, enough to know how he reacts to things and how to play him bc she’s successfully done it twice now this season)

so what does she do? she does what she does best, tips her chin up and leans in 

(and personally i think that says a lot about her fear in that moment being of the situation vs of rio as a person which is a nuance that’s really important to me that i can’t totally articulate rn but it has something to do with the situation being something she’s an active participant in)

i am also absolutely out of my mind rabid over how like, grim and resigned rio was throughout the whole 405 scene and we have arrived at another 209 parallel of what could have been vs what is

in 405 rio’s grappling with the fact that he’s let beth in far enough that she’s in the position to betray him on a very serious level and even worse, that he’s given her every reason to do so time after time and i think he’s got some pretty severe regrets over that and how much it didn’t have to be this way (both the fact that it’s come to this and that it could’ve been something so much more)

and that makes me go a touch funny about the knees because the inherent tragedy of 209 is both of them having this moment of realization that oh shit is this something they could be? bc i don’t think either one of them had any clue they other had that kind of softness inside them in regards to the other

i don’t know where i was going with that

something about them both being dumb and fucking it up

yeah, so, i completely forgot what the point i set out to make was because i got entirely sidetracked thinking about the juxtaposition of 209 and 405 and made this gifset instead

idk what to tell you my dudes, i’m a horrible person to send this stuff to unless you’re trying to buy a ticket to the circus

#i tried to get this back on the rails and just gave up #the moral of my inbox is you get what you get and you don't get upset #beth x rio #nbc good girls #gg spoilers #gg 4x05 #gg 2x09 #shut up meg #anon