Peter and Natalie

[teyla]

I just rewatched Blackpool. It's still as awesome as I remember, and I know I promised someone a pimping post, which I'll probably be posting in the next couple of days. However, for now I have a question for everyone who's already seen it.

I love Peter Carlisle, and every time I watch Blackpool, I'm rooting for him to get the girl. But when I think about it, I don't think he actually deserves her. He's a creepy, messed up bastard, just the same as Ripley, only that he conceals it with big brown bambi eyes and a good way with words. I mean, I'd go for him, no questions asked, but I'm not like Natalie. I'm not a good person, not in the sense that I put other people first. Natalie always puts others first, and with Carlisle, she's stumbling into the same trap she ended up in with Ripley. I don't know if she's learned how to protect herself from people like Ripley and Carlisle, so even though I smile and clap my hands together in glee when they finally get together, I don't think it'll end well. Carlisle loves her, I've no doubt about that, but it's in his nature to walk over any- and everyone else to get what he wants, and I don't think that's something people can change about themselves.

The future I see for Carlisle and Natalie is either a stuck-in-a-rut marriage or Carlisle leaving Natalie. Natalie would not leave Carlisle, she's proved that she doesn't back out of a commitment like marriage. The third option, of course, would be Natalie dying, which is the one I usually go for in my head, because it's still the most romantic one. (Because secretly, I totally am a romantic. Oh yes.)

So, am I completely off in my assessment? What's your take on Peter's and Natalie's future?

Comments

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I agree about Carlisle. I don't know about their future together at all, but yeah-- I do see it is a bit of a disaster waiting to happen, because he is going to fuck her over. I believe he would leave her at some point down the road, his eye caught by someone else. I would allow that he loves her now but that he would love someone else just as easily and just as passionately, and clearly obsessedly, as he does her and that she'd be left in a ditch by the roadside (figuratively, I think) and would probably end up crawling back to Ripley. I don't see her as a very strong, independent person, just one of those women who will always hang on some guy's arm.

[teyla]

Idk if he would fall as hard for someone else as he did for Natalie - I do think he was honest about that - but I don't know if that would stop him from screwing her over. I don't think he's like Ripley, falling into bed with women at every opportunity, but I think that his problem is more one of not paying enough attention to the wants and needs of the person he's with. I do think it would work out for a while, and I don't think Natalie would go back to Ripley, but I can imagine that Natalie and Peter would end up in a marriage where at some point, both of them would ask themselves how the hell they managed to wind up so old and bitter.