kaydeefalls | Jan. 18th, 2006

Just rewatched all of QAF UK series 1. Ahhhh. My Stuart/Vince(or Brian/Michael) need has been nicely assuaged. It's very nice to have the UK version there to support my OTP, no matter how scandalously it is denied in the US version.

Also, I am in love with what I now call the 'Vince's Declaration of Independence Theme', because it plays whenever Vince actually takes control over his own life. Three times in series 1 -- at the end of ep 4, when he chooses to walk away from Stuart after Stuart and Nathan screwed around in Vince's old bedroom; at the end of his party in ep 7, when he (again) chooses to leave Stuart because Stuart is the asshole to top all assholes; and at the end of ep 8, when he chooses to dump Cameron and go back to Stuart. Three of my favorite moments in the show, those are. Which is why I can't understand why people think Vince (or his US counterpart, Michael) is weak or clingy or follows Stuart around like a trained dog. Sure, at the very beginning of the series, he is and does, but he finds his own damn strength over the course of the show, and when he goes back to Stuart in the end, HE'S the one in control of their relationship, and he knows it. It's FANTASTIC. Stuart self-destructs when Vince isn't around, but Vince could do just fine without Stuart -- he just doesn't choose to. My love for this pairing, it knows no bounds.

I quite like this sort of pairing, actually. Always have. Those two personality types bouncing off each other -- one who is outwardly always in control but in reality needs the other desperately, and one who may appear weaker but actually is completely self-sufficient and when he/she chooses to love, hot damn. It's kinda Mulder/Scullyish, even, or my interpretation of Sirius/Remus...