I ♥ you. So much. I mean, I've been dealing pretty well with the whole ZOMG of it all because I have a fondness for epic fail and tragedy and heartbreak for the most part, but this has really helped where Marian is concerned to put her actions into context. I ♥ you.
I still have trouble making sense of his declaration that he’ll take her by force.
I think some part of Guy here, and again later on in The Scene, still clings to the hope that what he is doing is for the best, that Marian will come to understand why he's done all these things and that in time they could have a good future together. Because I think, Guy is prepared to wait however long it takes for Marian - he's waited long enough and endured enough rejection from her that to wait and endure some more is something he could do.
The difference between the scene with the Sheriff and The Scene is, I think, that here Guy believes in the idea that they could be happy one day more. He's not seen Marian running to help Robin yet (which kills things for them a tiny bit more - kills the dream and helps to cement the doubts he already had about Marian and Robin).
Later on, Guy desperately clings to the hope that once he does this, once he gains position and power to be able to properly provide for a family, that there is still a chance for him and Marian to be happy together. He's trying to convince himself here, I think, as well as trying to explain to her - as if saying it will make it come true somehow. Really, he's already lost everything he had with her because she believes now that he cannot be saved at all and he probably knows deep down that they will never be together. He just doesn't accept it then. He still doesn't really accept it when she says she would rather die than be with him and loves and will marry Robin. And I suspect he doesn't accept it even after he's stabbed her, but by then it doesn't matter - he's destroyed her and any tiny microscopic potential hope they could ever have had.
Thinking about it now, it mirrors the scene when he finds out she's the nightwatchman a bit. Only then, he had time to process it all and it wasn't quite as devastating a revelation. This time, he acts without thinking.
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Date: 2008-01-01 11:49 am (UTC)I still have trouble making sense of his declaration that he’ll take her by force.
I think some part of Guy here, and again later on in The Scene, still clings to the hope that what he is doing is for the best, that Marian will come to understand why he's done all these things and that in time they could have a good future together. Because I think, Guy is prepared to wait however long it takes for Marian - he's waited long enough and endured enough rejection from her that to wait and endure some more is something he could do.
The difference between the scene with the Sheriff and The Scene is, I think, that here Guy believes in the idea that they could be happy one day more. He's not seen Marian running to help Robin yet (which kills things for them a tiny bit more - kills the dream and helps to cement the doubts he already had about Marian and Robin).
Later on, Guy desperately clings to the hope that once he does this, once he gains position and power to be able to properly provide for a family, that there is still a chance for him and Marian to be happy together. He's trying to convince himself here, I think, as well as trying to explain to her - as if saying it will make it come true somehow. Really, he's already lost everything he had with her because she believes now that he cannot be saved at all and he probably knows deep down that they will never be together. He just doesn't accept it then. He still doesn't really accept it when she says she would rather die than be with him and loves and will marry Robin. And I suspect he doesn't accept it even after he's stabbed her, but by then it doesn't matter - he's destroyed her and any tiny microscopic potential hope they could ever have had.
Thinking about it now, it mirrors the scene when he finds out she's the nightwatchman a bit. Only then, he had time to process it all and it wasn't quite as devastating a revelation. This time, he acts without thinking.