Hawkeye #009

[redbrunja]

I really, really enjoyed this issue. While I am still not okay with the cheating, Jess' conversation with Clint made that make sense to me in a way it hadn't before and I liked that Jess got angry and left him.

I liked her comment to Kate and Kate's response "he hangs out with me" was another example of why Kate is THE BEST but I think that she is super-naive with regards to her relationship with Clint. Like, I think she thinks that if she and Clint Went There he'd treat her differently (bad bet, sweetie) and I think she has A LOT of loyalty towards Clint (not all of which he's earned*)

*While the specifics are different, if Jess' interpretations of Clint's motivations is correct, Clint almost leaving at Christmas and Clint cheating on Jess are very, very similar actions.

I feel like waking up to Natasha, Bobbi, and Jess would be both amazing and terrifying.

Comments

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I liked #009 a lot. So much Natasha. So many ladies. So much plot. It was lovely.

if Jess' interpretations of Clint's motivations is correct, Clint almost leaving at Christmas and Clint cheating on Jess are very, very similar actions.

I never really bought the "Jess thinks they're exclusive but Clint doesn't" explanation, but the "you run away" explanation sheds a little more light on it, and at least that makes the cheating more consistent with his character. Agreeing with you that it's still not okay, but I think that continuity was important.

I think she thinks that if she and Clint Went There he'd treat her differently (bad bet, sweetie)

Wait, do you mean you think Kate thinks that if they enter a relationship he will treat her differently than he currently treats her or he would treat her differently than the other women he's been involved with?

Also, there is a lot of Natasha on my pull list this week, I'm happy about that.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wait, do you mean you think Kate thinks that if they enter a relationship he will treat her differently than he currently treats her or he would treat her differently than the other women he's been involved with?

I was referring to the latter, that he would treat her differently than the other women he's been involved with.

Now that you mention it, though, I go back and forth on whether Kate would believe that if she added sex to her partnership with Clint it would change things. On the one hand, I think she has an instinctive grasp on how sex changes relationships (see, her fears about dating Eli; see also her general issues with intimacy) but at the same time, she IS 19. She might have some naïveté about sexual relationships yet.