#confirmed: rick o'connell will rock back and forth in a hug for comfortĀ #her character development from 1 to 2 is my fave but what they did with rick is some nice workĀ #taking the character from 1 whoās the guy who says āi dunno i was about to be hanged [kissing you] seemed like a good idea at the timeāĀ #it would seem like the easy and hollywood way to make him all wise-cracking about his married lifeĀ #like āoh-ho the little womanās at it again - amirite fellas?ā eye-rolling sorts of unease with his domestic situationĀ #or chafing at not being a free agent adventurer or somethingĀ #or worse- try to create some sort of narrative from conflict between them that needs to be āresolvedāĀ #but instead theyāre like WHAT IF HEāS RIDE-OR-DIE DEVOTED TO EVIE EVERY MINUTEĀ #WHAT IF THE ONLY EYE ROLLING HE DOES IS WANTING TO HAVE FIVE GD MINUTES ALONE AND QUIET WITH HIS WIFEĀ #WHAT IF HEāS CASUALLY DECLARING HIS āIF ANYTHING EVER HAPPENED TO YOUā COMMITMENT WITH EASEĀ #WHAT IF RICK/EVIE MAINTAIN THE PUSH-PULL FRIENDLY ANTAGONISM OF MOVIE 1 BUT MAKE IT A GOOD THINGĀ #āOH ALRIGHT WEāLL DO IT YOUR WAYā āHONEY YOUāRE NOT A SUBTLE MANāĀ #LIKE IT WAS PART OF THEIR ONGOING AND SUPPORTIVE DYNAMICĀ #AND THEY BOTH TAKE JUST ABOUT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO MUTUALLY JUMP INTO EACH OTHERS ARMSĀ #AND MAKE OUT JUST FOR FUNSIESĀ #AFTER 10 YEARS AND A KIDĀ #well done chaps - good development (and one of my fave examples of the Battle Couple trope)Ā #say it with me now: relationship development =/= ānow add conflictāĀ #relationship development can also mean a myriad of other situations - like dealing with an external conflict TOGETHER



















