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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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So many people commented on Erik's "kicked puppy face" which I think they kept saying was panel 2, but I'm particularly fond of the crest-fallen panel 4. How he loses height and bearing!!
Oh, and I still adore Jareth's expression as he's "apologizing" to Christine.
Is that button popping off of Erik's jacket in the penultimate panel? Out of shock / horror / whatever, Erik's losing something, and that's my best guess.
ALSO, in panel 7 (?), when Sarah's yelling at Jareth, I LOVE that she uses the "old-married" technique of yelling about something else (unrelated, and not actually a real issue) first BEFORE getting to the point. The point being that Jareth needs to apologize to Christine, therefore, Sarah knows that all the previous rehash of the Laby adventure stuff isn't really the issue for herself. PLUS Erik's simple apology works for Sarah because there isn't going to be anything deeper than an unusual and non-romantic friendship. So the violation of trust is significantly less of a betrayal than anything that Jareth could / would / might ever do or not do.
And the last panel: Christine's deliberate focus on the glitter in the rug, ignoring Sarah's obvious reaction to Jareth's apology to herself (and Christine would have SEEN Sarah's face during it!) AND Erik's attempted strangulation / punjabbing of Jareth. Perhaps Christine's mindset is that of "ignore it and it will go away", which is actually similar to one way of training pets (ignore unwanted behavior and reward good behavior). Or it's a matter of handling what she knows how to handle in that moment.
I DO wonder how the girls got the boys out of their apartment, and whether or not Sarah kept the flowers or destroyed them while she was in a snit. And how long it took one of them (and which one?) to vacuum the glitter up.
Yes, he is button-popping mad.
This whole page is actually interesting in the light of their Conversation some 40 pages later - the whole "Jareth does not get apologies" thing. To quote someone else's observation: Apologizing would require admission of making a poor decision. If it was a poor decision, he wouldn't have made it. Why would he apologize?
And as a Fae monarch, he had yet to meet a situation he couldn't bully or smarm his way out of, and you can't expect Jadis bothered to make the kid say sorry for any mischief. Ergo for Jareth apologies are admissions to failure/weakness, or a mere social nicety people use in their constant playing of one another.
Besides Jareth has a wee issue what with seeing parallels to the despisèd Hoggle in Erik and Sarah's friendship. (see rooftop comment about her irrational fondness for "the pathetic ugly type"). And his "you forgave Higgle in a heartbeat for betraying you" (during the Date) is that same frustrated jealous misunderstanding of what was actually happening between friends (and completely glossing over how Hoggle takes dangerous risks in his effort to make amends saving Sarah from Humonguous), where, while distantly aware he is probably missing something, he tends to believe Sarah is getting manipulated by her emotions of pity and sympathy - again, implicit in the previous page is that he did not take Erik's threats lightly (he does have some insight into the mind of a scorned and desperate [ex]villain...) and that Sarah being nice to him and humouring his kidnapping antics was stupid and dangerously tolerant and trusting of her.
So yeah. Jealousy of Erik and Sarah's friendly rapport, and irritated frustration at how Erik playing by the social rules and acting apologetic actually seems to work and earn him a clean slate.
Kinda some E/S baiting there too, mind you.
Christine focusing on the rug was actually iirc intended as a displacement activity. Because as annoying a neighbour as he is, Jareth just turned on the full smarmy GK charm with that baise-main and "compliment" and even Christine got a wee bit hot and bothered there.
Sarah kept the flowers. And the rules of the girl's apartment are, Sarah cleans up the glitter, black chickens, Goblin messes and Ludo hairs on the couch; Christine is responsible for rose petals, candle wax in the carpet, underground lakewater stains, and explaining Punjab'd cadavers to the police. (Given the relative frequency of glitter-in-the-carpet, Christine has not quite considered that Sarah's annoyance in being responsible for cleaning up after Jareth is a bit counter-intuitive to her shipping JS.)
One of the reasons that I very much enjoy re-reading is catching old stuff in context of current stuff, and seeing how the old stuff might have lead into the current stuff. Re Jadis & apologies for mischief - true, unless said mischief interfered with whatever she had going on at the time. But then she'd have punished him rather than requiring an apology - probably.
I never (NEVER) thought I'd say this, but Jareth has an issue with self-confidence or something along those lines; if he can't see that Sarah gauges his behavior differently because she wants more from him, then he will continue to lose out. The words "jealous misunderstanding" are definitely appropriate. All that coupled with the fact that he dearly wants to protect this girl, out of all manner of mixed motives. His anger and frustration seem to come somewhat from the fact that (at this point) she won't see that he could have helped her; after she asked for help from just about every creature Underground, she still refuses to ask him.
Plus, he doesn't value Sarah's very human emotions of pity and sympathy. I could actually imagine that, given non-interference by anybody, leaving Erik on the roof with Sarah and nobody else appearing, she'd have been able to talk him out of it, as they have a friendly rapport and he does have some gentlemanly instincts and habits. It is also very true that Sarah didn't / doesn't see the true potential for danger in the situation; she seems to willfully see the best in everybody, except for Jareth, which feeds his jealousy even more.
*sigh* (I admit that I'm amused at the E/S moments, and enjoy seeing them because both Erik and Sarah play them up a little, knowing that there's no interest on either side.)
Ahhhhh! That makes sense, too. Note to self: Do not underestimate the utter smexiness of of the full smarmy GK charm.
I wonder if Sarah could train "her" goblins to keep the black chickens away... or at least to clean up glittery residue?