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[redbrunja]

I had a very successful if exhausting shopping trip ...technically yesterday. It involved a lot of driving and very little sleep but I got an awesome new phone and the Apple store managed to fix my computer in under a day AND compted the repair because I had a long wait while at the store to pick it up.

And then I came home to a new episode of Justified!

–I am giddy over the way Boyd/Ava played out. I love how straight Ava is with Boyd. She calls him on his actions and comes across as really adult. 

"You give me a reason to wake up in the morning. For that I'll be eternally grateful."
"Get out."

And then in the end of the episode she calls him Mr Crowder! That just delighted me. And I'll be frank, I expected Boyd to take the lead in this romance more than he did; in the end of the episode he's being very verbally emotionally honest but it's clearly Ava who lays one on him first. And then hugging at the end? To me, that so clearly showed how much they care about each other. (And if/when they have a sex scene, I am going to be VERY curious about how it's filmed. Watching the first season the show clearly showed the difference between Raylan's emotional investment in Ava versus Winona simply by how they filmed the love scenes, and I'm very curious about how they'd handle a Boyd/Ava sex scene. So show, get right on that, plz.) And also, I would ADORE the instrumental music that was playing as they kissed.
A hell of a lot of other stuff happened this episode but I'm tired and it's late so I'm just going to mention how much I loved the Mags and Helen scene. It reminded me of Winter's Bone in the level and respect it showed for the social power women in this society wield and the way in which they use it.

Comments

[spirited-lizard.livejournal.com]

I loved the hug at the end, too! <3 And like you said, it really shows the differences between her and Raylan, too. I would expect that the Ava/Boyd relationship will be very sensitive.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

And like you said, it really shows the differences between her and Raylan, too. I would expect that the Ava/Boyd relationship will be very sensitive.

*nods* I agree. And I think that the show has already illustrated how attuned and attentive Boyd and Ava are to each other.

[spirited-lizard.livejournal.com]

I remember that in the beginning of season 1 when Raylan had just come back to Kentucky and he and Ava started seeing each other, I was thinking, oh, she seems like a, well, wild thing. ;) And although she was hurt when Raylan got back with Winona, I didn't think that it had been that serious with them anyway, just a sex thing maybe.

But now with Boyd, at least to me as a viewer, it seems very different. They share something that she didn't have with Raylan. Also, I think that Boyd changed much, which I really like. It seemed that he was still involved in bad things, but it didn't look like that to me. He seems... kinder.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ava is definitely a wild thing but while I think both she and Raylan had a lot of illusions about their relationship, I think they cared about either other a good deal. Ava was really hurt by their breakup and I think Raylan was a bit too, so I wouldn't label it just a sex thing. That said, Ava's relationship with Boyd feels a LOT different and lot more real.