Oh GOD. The forehead stroking. I know it's just HO being inept, but Justin really was sort of portrayed as the chief mourner, wasn't he? His reaction shots got so much more time than everyone else, and he spent more time with Ali and took the lead in talking to him and stuff, instead of Darlene, who's his blood relative. I know it's just because a) Justin's a more central character and b) the actor can actually act, but still.
He can act and all. He was just dripping so much pain and grief and horror while staying very recognisably Justin and oh. It hurt to see. His little face and how can he stand it? Oh baby. It broke him, it broke him, he is so broken. I just. Ignoring the fact that the writers will in actuality almost certainly fuck it up, how is he ever going to get over this? Even in a non-slashy interpretation? It's such a terrible, terrible thing, worse than anything else that's ever happened except maybe his dad dying, and oh god oh god. *twitches*
Yeah, I was seriously expecting Ali to recover. I thought maybe Justin'd take the blame and Ali would be seriously out of it for weeks and wake up when proceedings against Justin were already rolling nicely along and have to be brave and then say "I did it!". It would still have been fucked up though, because hello, murder.
Hollyoaks have the worst resus people ever. Talk about the postcode lottery. Sometimes resus teams go on for hours; they'd certainly give it forty minutes or so on a kid that young and healthy. I suppose it's better than the special late night episode where the paramedics came along, gave Steph about two minutes then pronounced her dead and fucked off and left her with her friends on the river bank. Oh, Hollyoaks, you don't even try, do you?
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Date: 2005-08-19 04:48 pm (UTC)He can act and all. He was just dripping so much pain and grief and horror while staying very recognisably Justin and oh. It hurt to see. His little face and how can he stand it? Oh baby. It broke him, it broke him, he is so broken. I just. Ignoring the fact that the writers will in actuality almost certainly fuck it up, how is he ever going to get over this? Even in a non-slashy interpretation? It's such a terrible, terrible thing, worse than anything else that's ever happened except maybe his dad dying, and oh god oh god. *twitches*
Yeah, I was seriously expecting Ali to recover. I thought maybe Justin'd take the blame and Ali would be seriously out of it for weeks and wake up when proceedings against Justin were already rolling nicely along and have to be brave and then say "I did it!". It would still have been fucked up though, because hello, murder.
Hollyoaks have the worst resus people ever. Talk about the postcode lottery. Sometimes resus teams go on for hours; they'd certainly give it forty minutes or so on a kid that young and healthy. I suppose it's better than the special late night episode where the paramedics came along, gave Steph about two minutes then pronounced her dead and fucked off and left her with her friends on the river bank. Oh, Hollyoaks, you don't even try, do you?