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[rozk]

As you will see from the previous post, a lot of people asked me to do the three things meme, and I have now fulfilled every single request. All I can say is, like Tinky Winky, 'Again, again.'

I strongly suspect that, with the episode guides still to do, a stack of books to read, and Emma and Caroline to get back to, this afternoon will be spent on 'Dawn in New York' because I have had the plot bunny from Hell, and it arrived with a lot of shiny friends and relations.

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[badger.livejournal.com]

If you're still willing, and because I'm actually appreciating _Big Love_ much more now than when it first aired: Barbara Dutton Henrickson. Or Roman Grant.

(I have at least one from Heroes I'd like to ask, but that can wait until later in the week.)

[rozk.livejournal.com]

1. Barb believes in a loving God who will not damn her, she hopes. She needs to be in heaven to look after her children, and Nikki will never manage by herself. ( Barb regards Marene as one of the children for these purposes). The children would cry in Heaven if she were not there, and God would not let that happen. And then she thinks that perhaps God might let her into Heaven for the sake of the children, but that Bill might be in serious trouble. Could Heaven be Heaven for her without Bill there? She cries and she prays and she cries, and she hopes that her tears are her best prayer.
2. Barb does many things for the sake of her marriage and her children, and the hardest thing is pretending that Nikki can cook. Nikki is good at a lot of things - she can mend machinery almost without looking at it - and she approaches a pot roast or breakfast pancakes the same way that she fixes things. And you can't make a cheese souffle with a socket wrench and a screwdriver.
3. If Roman Grant ever asks for one of the children, for himself or his son, Barbara wilk kill him, whatever the cost. It is one of the decisions she made back when she got better from cancer and is one of the things she thinks God let her stay in this world to do.

[rozk.livejournal.com]

1. Roman Grant hates Bill Henrickson for many reasons. It used to be just that he was a Henrickson, that damned family that will never let him forget that he wasn't always the Prophet. There are all the shenanigans about money - that's an irritation too, but not why he hates Bill. The real thing is, the thing that sits in his gut like a stone he can't pass and wakes him in pain in the night, is that Roman thought he was planting a spy in Bill's heart, and instead he lost Nikki's heart to the man. Roman never loved his daughter - she was an instrument and a stumbling block - but he surely hates to lose her loyalty.
2. Roman has always known that Albi is a sodomite and has been pretty clear that Albi derives sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain. His son is a sinner and probably damned, he thinks with a sigh. Roman is the Prophet, and he sees Albi as the sword God placed in his hand - when a sword will smite your enemies, you ask not how it was tempered. Once the sword is blunted or broken, you throw it in the fire and have done with it.
3. For a long time now, all Roman has been able to do with his young brides is listen to their recitations. There is pleasure in that, more in watching the faces of their fathers and mothers, and knowing what they think he might be doing. Roman is an old man, who will die soon, and he takes pleasure where he can.

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Sam Tyler.