#what the hell?#I hadn’t noticed this before#but I’d suggest it’s not exactly about the privacy#it’s the intimacy with Howard#he’s used to that by series three#but here#it’s SO personal#they connect in a very intimate way#and Vince worries that Howard will SEE him#like really see how he feels#they have to be vulnerable#that’s why Howard gets annoyed later when Vince drags him into one#it’s equivalent to giving him a big snog#only with their minds#so#yeah#they are awkward at first#but also#Howard looks so WISTFUL after?!?#like#he just shared something that he doesn’t quite understand how to contextualise#but Vince does#which is why he’s so shy#maybe he thought Howard might finally kiss him after one (via @agarlandoffreshlycuttears)
That is absolutely it; crimping is all about their intimacy with each other, something they and they alone share. And it is romantic and revealing in that intimacy. Even the subjects of the crimps; they’re about mundane, even ridiculous little memories that the two of them share together– that time they made that soup, that time Howard had to snog a llama to get it to calm down, the mornings where they make pancakes together, the time they did that jigsaw. They’re about reaffirming and celebrating the heart of their relationship, couched in their own silly little invented song genre. They’re both very warm and very vulnerable, and afterwards they both always need to take a little moment, especially early on when they are both more open as people.
And I mean, Vince’s reaction after Howard pulls out a crimp in front of Harold Boon and Lance Dior says it all. The crimps are them, theirs, an expression of their relationship, and no-one else should have access to that. In that same episode, it’s a crimp that convinces Vince not to run away to be a junior manager at Rumbelow’s, it’s Howard reminding him– this is us, this is who we are. Which is very telling in an episode specifically about a crisis of identity– and indeed that theme runs throughout S3, as they both define themselves more and more by outside things and forget to place value on themselves and their relationship. Power of the Crimp is one of the few episodes in S3 that ends with them fully in-sync and happy together, because the crimps remind them of the intimacy that’s still there, how well they jive, everything they’ve shared.
… That went kinda off-topic, but I had Thoughts.
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