I shall ask a question. Favorite little detail in the Top Gun movies?
Thank you for the ask!! 🥰I love this question and I know my answer right off! my favorite little detail about both TG movies is how all the pilot/wso(or rio) relationships are portrayed, especially in the first movie. How close they are to each other and how the pairs just gravitate toward each other. The little subtle moments, whether they're sitting hip-to-hip in class, or arms thrown around the other's shoulders playing volleyball, etc. How Maverick was basically Goose and Carole's permanent third wheel, and Carole just accepted it and loved him as unconditionally as she did her husband (she didn't blame him for Goose's death and they obviously stayed close after), because she knew they were a bonded pair of kittens that couldn't be separated.
And honestly, to have that level of trust in each other, to be able to communicate instantaneously, almost telepathically, you'd pretty much have to love each other and almost live in the other's back pocket. I've never really seen those relationships as romantic, or even brotherly. That type of bond is so much deeper and more meaningful than I can put into words. Even as a young child when I first saw this movie (and fell in love with it!) it hurt me to the absolute core when Goose died just because of the realization that Maverick would have to live on without him. I think TC did an amazing job portraying that frightening, all-encompassing grief of basically losing half of himself. 😭













