-Dating different Hugh Dancy Characters-
Bobby Bronson-
Okay, so, where do I begin 💀
His previous wife Tina, has a restraining order against him. He stalked her outside her house, drunk off his ass, IN A PATROL CAR. With his kids in the house. While neglecting the case of a deceased woman.
Where he then leveraged said case in an emotionally manipulative way towards Tina. “She (Rebecca) looked like you”.
Which, Omfg, she literally didn’t. 💀
So, how that would translate into relationship, we’ve got, control issues. The control issues would probably lead into problems with jealousy and possessiveness. Then there’s the avoidant attachment style.
There’s the issues with his father he mentions, father supposedly drank himself to death. Bobby seems determined to deal with his problems the exact same way. Cognitive dissonance on trying to..I don’t know..not follow in his dad’s foot steps?
He’d constantly be at work. I think there’d be a honeymoon phase at first, and then when you as partner B would ask for normal bare minimum things he would get defensive.
Support, reassurance, empathy. He’d be selfish. He doesn’t get that given to him day in day out. He sees the cruelty of the world, of crime scenes every day. Why should he dissuade you? Why should he lie to you? Are you not his equal?
So it might turn into a situation where he has nothing nice to say once he gets home while his partner is unfortunately stuck playing house. Which follows him pulling away, and then follows arguments. Because a marriage is a partnership. You don’t get to turn it off just because it doesn’t suit you that day.
Therefore he just removes himself and leaves to go drink.
Cause I guess that suits him. Lol
I’m surprised he was even married honestly.
Their marriage rings to me like either high school/college sweethearts where Bobby slowly became embittered or the marriage where the woman has to beg for an engagement ring.
Probably both honestly. Poor Tina :(
Bobby comes off extremely selfish, sarcastic, and overcompensating. What’s interesting is that he’s intelligent but he’s so self destructive.
He calls out Detective Durst for his “holier than thou” attitude.
Calling out that Durst happily plays into the idea that he’s saving women everyday. Solving cases and keeping everyone safer. When in practice, Bobby and Chris are both jaded, impatient, and bitter.
They play off each other in the scene where they’re supposed to be watching for cars going into the forest area they’re investigating. “Should we call it?” “I don’t know man”
Of course this is from Bobby’s pov, but in practice he doesn’t appear to be wrong about Durst.
Soooo we got a toxic man here. Certified red flag.
Doesn’t back down for a fight.
Drinks on the job.
Law enforcement officer
Won’t leave his ex wife alone
Self absorbed
Arrogant
Aggressive
Mouthy
Condescending
Misogynistic 😬😬 which is the point of his character, obvi.
The way he addresses Carole is just…
She had every right then and there to throw her coffee in his face.
Mr “2 masculine 4 u” needs two sugars and almond milk in his coffee.
The way he’s incapable of empathizing with women, he can only do it with himself in the end. He can only attribute the “nature of evil” to his father in the end. How it affects him. Not how it affected Rebecca.. given he witnessed her deceased, dehumanized body and SAW THE RESULT OF THE NATURE OF EVIL. But whatever, sure Bronson. Go off on your daddy issues.
“Chicks love that shit” referencing true crime having a female audience.
I?? What?? 😭.
Okay, I think I agree with the consensus that true crime content does have a large female audience. Let me try to break down what he’s saying here. Is he saying women are drawn to danger? In like a victim blame-y way?
That can be one way to read it.
It also could simultaneously be another hyper masculine statement. He sounds like a 1950s greaser. Calm down buddy.
I like the idea of Bronson being fussy. Like aww, this manly man doesn’t want to sleep on the ground and go camping. He doesn’t want whole milk in his coffee.
Hypocrite.
Also the line “Does it look like I wanna sleep on the fucking floor?”
Uh, well you kinda look like you just rolled outta bed man..so, yeah you do, no offense. Lmao.
In the best way. Cause it’s Hugh Dancy.
Also omg I nearly forgot it was Tina’s birthday that day. His responses were so bizarre. Why are you bringing it up if you don’t care?
“It’s complicated”
K….
I don’t know how long later it was. Maybe a couple of days where he’s seen trying to call her and she doesn’t answer.
That’s probably a grasp at control.
So…yeah. 3/10. And that’s being nice.
—Nolan Price
It’s so funny rating him after the bullshit all the other characters have going on.
Oh look at me I can be avoidant and a workaholic too because of my job.
Mfker I will marry you today in a line up of all these guys. You are not nearly as bad.
Nolan has a very strong sense of morality.
He’s very intense.
It’s Hugh Dancy playing him so he can very expressive and emotional. Which personally I adore. I really like the range. You get sick of the purely stoic and off the handle types.
Unless you’re Law and Order Reddit.
Moving on…
Okay… so looking at him in full, he has some trauma, related to his brother being an addict, and many many cases that have stuck with him I’m sure.
And then the subway mass casualty accident he was a first hand witness to.
That can result in a lot of behaviors when you refuse to get therapy for them. And I think Nolan is the type to bury himself in his work and try to find ‘closure’ through the justice system. I think?
That one friend confronts him about previously being against the Death penalty and then being asked to prosecute for it, so that’s a small glimpse into him.
Unfortunately..there’s not a lot to go off of for him.
He’s a perfectionist, a do-gooder, he can be “uptight”
He goes through relationships a lot so there’s prob something to say about that. Probably related to commitment issues.
He took care of his comatose dad until he died, he has two brothers. One of whom is alive.
I’m leaning towards a 6/10. That simultaneously feels too low and too high.
He’s very precious to me simply because he can be so cutting and hard to poke at. It makes me wanna twirl him around and ruffle his hair.
I might have more to go off of when I rewatch.
Anyway..moving on. 6/10
—Will Graham
He leaves you for Hannibal Lecter.
Lol, kidding, kind of.
He empathizes with people he identifies with in many different ways depending on what’s currently happening in the story to him.
If you as an individual could empathize with the ‘unmasked’ him and not see him as a tool, I think that’s the critical point of “seeing” Will Graham.
It would also scare the shit out of him but it’s the one thing he yearns for. So…results may vary.
Your quality of relationship would vary depending on what relationship you want.
If you’re like Molly and he’s using the relationship to try to simulate normalcy it’s doomed to fail.
A huge part of the relationship would be accepting Will and seeing him. Because intially he’s going to be very cold and abrasive.
So playing off him, as little as he gives at first, might be the best way to get through to him.
I can imagine him being very loyal. He does NOT read to me like a partner who shares. His jealousy is crazy. He wants to be special and seen.
I think reassurance means the world to him. Trust is super important. I think a deep part of Will would want no secrets. He wants to be drowning in the person he loves and he wants that in return. I believe the “in return” part is the hardest for him. In the sense that… he’s very used to providing things and not being provided for.
I wonder how relieving it would be for him to be honest because of how often he lies. He lies so much he lies to himself.
I think possibly because of his dad’s distant nature that cultivated Will to simultaneously exude and internalize those same behaviors while also being a very intense person. I believe he’d be a very a good partner to have. Because it yearns for it so badly.
I’m biased and I like projecting on him.
10/10
Kidding, again, favoritism. This is me ignoring the cons.
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