float_on_alright | Second Chance Characters (Reply)

I need to do real writing tonight, but I’m not sure what’s going to happen tonight. It’s already after midnight and I’ve only just now managed to tear myself away from the TV. I mean technically speaking, I’m still in front of it and it’s still on, but I’m using it for music at the moment. I got sucked into a rewatch of “Second Chance.” I watched the show when it was on a few years ago, and I really liked it. I felt like it had a decent end, but I can’t remember. I wanted to get a second season, but it didn’t. I’m enjoying the rewatch. I have a lot of complicated stressful emotions about the plot. The main character is a dick, but he goes on this really great emotional, redemption story of love and family. Everyone who knows me knows this is my favorite thing in the fictional (maybe also real life) world with the possible exception of fake relationships.

Another great trope, that I absolutely weak for is the one where a casual stranger, like a waitress or a salesman, thinks your ship is already a couple when they’re not and they’re forced to awkwardly say that they aren’t together even though they both “secretly” want to be a couple. Like, “yaaaassssss” torture me with your inability to tell each other you’re in love. But there’s also the whole, “EVERYONE CAN SEE YOU ALL BELONG TO EACH OTHER, YOU IDIOTS” aspect that I’m also a real sucker for.

Second Chance has a moment of that, but like in an even more awkward way. She over hers Mary say that “Pritchard” should keep the car she’s been lending him because she can’t imagine anyone else driving it. Said real estate agent immediately assumes that they’re getting a divorce and she says something like, “Awww, I’ve never heard two people who are getting divorced be so sweet to each other!” And they’re like, “Uh… Well, see, we’re not getting divorced.” and She’s like, “Oh, I overheard about the car so I thought you were breaking up. I’m so glad you’re not splitting up since you seem to so great together.” And they’re like, “Um, so like, we’re not together.” She starts scrambling, obviously confused, and finally Mary just asks to see the apartment.

I love it. They’re both miserable thinking he’s about to move out, but don’t know how to tell each other.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Mary’s brother. He’s a dick and sort of cruel and selfish and manipulative. But a lot of it is because he’s been traumatized and he’s a genius that doesn’t understand boundaries at all. He wants it to be him and his sister as a unit forever. They’re twins and he can’t really function without her very well. But when he’s stable, he’s incredible. When she develops a type of cancer that is pretty much always fatal, he finds a way to bring someone back from the dead and adjust them so that he can use their blood to treat her. An incredible mind for all kinds of things. Mostly he’s about patterns and codes. It’s hard to explain, but on screen, he’s definitely a sympathetic character to a point. Further, there is also a villain working behind the scenes to make things worse for Otto for “reasons.”

I don’t want to speak about it too much though, because I still can’t remember how the show ends or how things end up for him. I feel like until I remember that, I can’t make a proper decision about whether or not I like him as a character.

I didn’t mean to get into all of this, but I’ve obviously gotten into my re-watch. I think Constantine is still my alpha-obsession because the show and the character are humming under a lot of my other thoughts and feelings, but Second Chance is holding its own.

Anyway, I’m exhausted. It’s been a wild day. I still haven’t finished my story, but maybe tomorrow once I get some rest.

Night y’all!