carmen_lj | a2a meanderings (Reply)

Am rewatching A2A for vidding purposes and it generally being a bit great and it is Even Better the second time round. Possibly because I now know who everyone is and can remember all their names. But also:

Omg, Shaz/Chris is so cute! It's not that I didn't notice it was before, but can now appreciate their earlier moments so much more as I didn't really know the characters on first watch and now they are just adorable.
Shaz generally. And her relationship with Alex. And Shaz saying she'd pay for Alex if Alex was a prostitute. And hiding Gene's keys for Alex so Alex could nick his car. And her saying "fab" when Alex tells her she's the future. OH MORE SCENES FOR THEM NEXT YEAR PLEASE.
Why is Gene cast rather explicitly as Jesus in episode seven? The camera focusses in on the 'Manc Lion' sign on his office at the very beginning. Then Alex tells Shaz about her father reading her The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and then Caroline calls Gene the lion who's been shaved. And it's just, dude, have they been doing this elsewhere and it needed something liken a hammer on the head for me to pick it up? (I suppose if Gene is Jesus/God then that's a reason for his character softening somewhat from LOM to A2A if LOM's OT and A2A's NT, heh.)
And maybe that ties in with Alex calling Gene on never letting his team have any responsibility? So she's arguing free will vs predestination with God? And in the first episode everyone's very Stick With Gene, that's where you want to be, wander away like Sam and you'll get yourself killed... in which case it would be arguing a pro-theist stance. And Gene does talk about his kingdom a bit. Um... well, it's convincing to me in episode seven, anyway. I do wonder what the writer was thinking when he wrote it.
Alex, I love. I love how she reacts to her Possible Impending Death with logic and reason and then sometimes loses it and then pulls herself together and fights on.
Gene. Because he is Gene and he is great and sometimes he looks at Alex and it is quite perfectly squeeful.
The car. Which I believe is called a Quattro. I have hardly ever liked a car before - SPN was the first time I got anywhere near caring - and this one is great and car chases! I hate car chases, I do, but I love the A2A ones quite madly. And the reversing of the car and the eyebrow quirks and Gene demanding that Alex make his car smell nice again. OH LOVELY TELLY.