Due South, Vechio eps

[harcourt]

Nothing's loading except youtube, so I'm finally watching the earlier half of due South. I'm on episode four, and wow. It's really different, at least so far. It seems less cracky, and the Ray-Fraser relationship is almost opposite, somehow? Like with RayK, I always felt like Fraser was the one who's got his shit together, and is the stabilizing influence and RayK kind of a mess, but with RayV it feels like Fraser's out of place, a little naive, and RayV is the one who kind of gets the world. Or at least, understands the environment, and seems to be the one who's exasperatedly tolerant of Fraser's weirdness.

It's really interesting. I wish I'd been in this fandom for its meta heyday.



Also, I really like Fraser's brown uniform. I don't think we see it as much in the RayK half of the show.

Comments

Your mistake was not watching the pilot first

[(Anonymous)]

You can't understand Fraser completely unless you watch all Due South episodes in order, starting with the pilot. You learn how much of an outsider and how out of place Fraser was when he first came to Chicago, and how much RayV is the stabilizing influence on Fraser and, as you said, very tolerant and patient with him. The two have a wonderful, caring friendship. I can believe that they genuinely love each other. Then, because of what he learned from RayV, Fraser's able to give to Kowalski the same way. To me, Kowalski is very poorly written character because someone who's a Chicago native and who's been on the force as long as Kowalski has shouldn't be such a mess, even if he was recently divorced and hasn't adjusted to it. He should also have others in his life besides Stella and Fraser to give him support, like friends.

Re: Your mistake was not watching the pilot first

[harcourt]

Sorry I've behind on comments. I've been away from fandom a bit, so on the chance you're still following this somehow;

The two halves are such different shows. I started watching because of a gif set or a softer world remix or something like that, so picked up where the series looked like the fanwork, and tbh I enjoy the silly, weird second half a lot more. I agree it's ridiculous, and often cracky, but I enjoyed that and the unevenness of how some episodes were super silly and some darker and more serious. But the meta possibilities of the show taken as a whole--that's still interesting to me. So many different kinds of fic and premises you could build from it.